Celebration of Learning and Literacy Week

Literacy Week

We have had a wonderful and busy week with a great many activities and actions taking place. Well done to all the children for increasing their reading habits and smashing our Reading Challenge of 5000 pages (we actually managed 8700 pages - not counting all those who did not bring in their challenge sheet for the final count).
It was lovely to see all the children dressed up as a favorite book character on Thursday - they looked great!
The children also enjoyed buddy reading with Kindergarten - they were incredibly helpful and supportive towards their schoolmates.
Thank you to our parents for coming in and reading with the children in their own languages.
In addition to the whole school activities, we have completed our work on our first central idea for the year with the children writing a short autobiography about their own successes and challenges in life so far.

Celebration of Learning

Thank you to all the children and parents for attending our first celebration of learning for the academic year. The children's music performances were fabulous and the parade was costume-tastic. It was great to have so many parents in class to help with our inquiry by answering a survey on their own mindsets and attitudes towards success, challenge and failure. 

Activity Center

On Friday, Grades 4 -6 went to a nearby activity center to take part in bouldering and archery. It was challenging, but great fun. The children really pushed themselves to try the hardest courses and get to the top. Well done students!

Next Term

We will be starting our new theme after the break - Where we are in place and time, with our focus being explorers. As part of the children's homework, we have asked that they each research their own explorer - from any  place and any time. We look forward to their presentations when they come back.