Book Week is coming 

Theme: Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds.

When: Thursday 26 August 

Please join us for our Book Parade and Book Fair.  More information to come early next term.

Book Week Poster Competition

Thank you to all of the students who entered our Book Week Poster Competition.  The winner and highly recommended prizes will be awarded at our first Assembly next term.

A big thank you to Eadie, Year 2 who designed our Book Week Colouring Competition for Kinder and Year 1.  Please find attached to this newsletter.  All Kindergarten and Year 1 who wish to enter, please bring your entries to school by Thursday 15 July for judging. Prizes to be awarded at our first Friday Assembly on 16 July.

Premier’s Reading Challenge 2021

We encourage all our students to continue to read over the holidays. The Premier’s Reading Challenge finishes in August and we are hoping a number of our Year 6 students might receive their platinum award and our Year 3-5 students who may be eligible for their gold award.

When you enter the Kindergarten classrooms each morning you will see the children happily engaged in lots of fun activities.

These fun activities are known as their OT rotations. The aim of these rotations is to improve hand strength, core strength and the child’s proprioception. The OT rotations help the students develop their fine motor skills and get their hands and fingers ready for writing. 

Fine motor skills are necessary for every task that a child completes. From play, to handwriting, to managing buttons on clothing, and colouring. Motor skills like the pincer grasp and hand strength are essential for a child’s development and the ability to use their hands in small motor movements. Fine motor skills, involving small muscle movements in the hand, are an essential component of writing. 

On Friday, Kindergarten and Year 1 had a visit from representatives of Athlete's Foot and Ascent footwear. The children had lots of fun learning how to tie shoelaces.

In English, Kindergarten students have also been learning to write sentences using their High Frequency Words and other known words. The children have been practicing using a capital letter at the beginning of each sentence and a full stop at the end of each sentence.