Good Samaritan Catholic Primary School Fairy Meadow eNewsletter

School News:

Good Samaritan Catholic Primary School will be providing students in Years 3-6 the opportunity to participate in the ICAS external curriculum assessments.

ICAS Assessments are now online, a move that reflects a sector-wide transition to online assessments. This allows greater accessibility for students and faster delivery of results.

Learn more about ICAS here: https://www.icasassessments.com/products-icas

2021 Participation

This year our school has signed up for the ICAS Assessments parent payment system (PPS) for English, Mathematics and Writing. Through this system parents can pay for ICAS directly online while tests will still be held at our school. Please use the following details to register your child no later than 21 June, 2021. Students will require iPad devices and headphones on the day of the tests.

Please be aware that these assessments are external assessments and not mandatory assessments. They are targeted at students who demonstrate a particular strength in the given area outlined above. As these assessments are up to parent discretion, teachers will not be able to work through results with your child.

As per the ICAS requirements each assessment needs to be sat during a particular test window. Therefore, the following are scheduled for the administration of assessments at Good Samaritan:

Subject/Paper	Official Sitting Date
Writing Years 3-6 only	Thursday, 12 August 2021
English Years 3-6 only	Thursday, 19 August 2021
Mathematics Year 3-6 only	Wednesday 1 September 2021

Year 1

Year One has continued to develop their Love of Learning in Term Two.

We had a great time at our first athletics carnival, running in our races, participating in a variety of activities and cheering on our friends and team.

We have been very busy in Mathematics learning about Chance and Probability, Patterns and Algebra, Length, and 2D shapes.

In English and Science and Technology, we continue to learn a lot about a variety of animals including their life cycles, classifying them into groups, labeling diagrams and writing information reports about them. We plan and edit our information reports.

On the PB4L day some of the things that the students in Year One thought were going well were:

that the teachers and the students listen to each other
that we are compassionate, kind, respectful and helpful
that everyone are friends

Somethings Year One found frustrastrating were:

some children not packing up the games they played with at the end of lunch
some children not using the buddy bench properly
people talking in class when it wasn’t their turn
not being able to play with Year 5 buddies at recess and lunch.

Year 2 Blue

On Friday the 14th of May, Year 2 went on an excursion to the Science Space in Wollongong. It was a fantastic experience, learning about many different things including STEM, the science of bubbles and exploration through space!

When we went to the Science Space we had munch and crunch. We were introduced to the people that were going to tour us for the rest of the day. Then we went to the Making and Testing Room, they had actual scientists in there. We made towers out of what we had. It was so fun! Our tower held up for 140 seconds and it was still standing when we took the weights off. Then we played upstairs. After that we watched a bubble show and the instructor made really big bubbles. Then we played downstairs and watched a planetarium show. It was like we were moving. Then we went back to school.

Madeleine Salvatico

It happened on Friday the 14th of May. The year 2 Grade and teachers went to the Science Space. We played games and we saw space. We went there to learn new stuff. All of Grade 2 had an excellent day.

Aderyn Paul

On Friday the 14th of May, me and the whole of year 2 went to the… Science Space for an excursion!! It was really fun. We went to the planetarium and the upstairs and downstairs part of the centre. The planetarium was where you look up and see planets. We had recess and lunch outside and we played. Upstairs there was a room called the STEM Room where we made things. We made a tower that had to stand up when we put weight on it. We then had to see which tower could stay up for 30 seconds. Our tower didn’t win but ours was the tallest. I get it because we only had newspaper, a tin, some cardboard, pencils, scissors and textas.

Aaliah Gaudiosi

On the 14th of May, 2 Blue went on an excursion. We went on a bus. When we got there we ate munch and crunch. When we got inside we did our first activity. It was really fun. After that we ate our recess. Then when we finished we put our bags in the locker. We did two activities. Then we ate lunch. Then we got back on the bus and went back to school.

Liam Sweeny

Science and Technology in

2Gold

In Science and Technology we have also been focusing on learning about the phases of the moon. We explored the moon's phases doing a fun experiment with Oreos.

This lesson was fun as we got to experiment with Oreos! I also liked how we got to do it in little groups. I learnt that anything can make phases of the moon and it was so fun!

Indie Martin

It was fun because we learnt that if you take a certain shape away from a circle, it can look like the phase of the moon. It was fun because we got to use Oreos to experiment. I learnt that waxing means getting bigger and waning means getting smaller until there is a new and full moon.

Flynn Courtney

I learnt how to be cooperative and I liked it because we got to make all different types of phases and it was lots of fun! My favourite was the full moon and the new moon. They were my favourite because for the new moon we had to scrape off all the white and for the full moon we didn't have to scrape any way.

Amelie Best

I liked doing the Oreo phases experiment because when we did it we had partners and everyone was sensible in our group. My favourite part was eating the Oreo at the end, after our learning. I learnt that waxing means getting bigger and waning means getting smaller.

Jacob Dowler