Term 4 is well underway with many interesting and varied activities and events taking place! This included our recent Book Week Parade which saw many fascinating book characters come to life!

In Religious Education this term, the students are exploring the significance of community for sharing and strengthening the faith of believers, past and present. As they develop their understanding of informed moral choice, they will investigate experiences of both individuals and communities. The students will broaden their appreciation of the significance of prayer and worship and the wisdom of the Saints, including St Mary of the Cross MacKillop, to communities of believers.

This term, in English, the students have been busy exploring how to construct an effective persuasive text. They have been identifying and exploring the structure of persuasive texts, persuasive devices and use of correct paragraph structure. The students will also improve a persuasive text by applying knowledge of persuasive language features and devices, before writing their own persuasive texts using the appropriate text structure, language features and devices. The Year 5/6 students also took on the opportunity to offer some advice to K/1 on persuasive writing.

In Mathematics thus far, the students are concentrating on the different ways of expressing the same part of a whole as a fraction, a decimal and a percentage. They have worked with the most common fractions of halves, quarters, fifths, and tenths, expressing them as decimals and percentages. The students have also looked at the use of percentages in everyday life situations. They will learn about conversions of decimal amounts, multiplying, adding, subtracting, and dividing decimals, as well as rounding them. They will also handle the multiplication of fractions as adding the same fraction several times, equating the process to multiplying the numerator to get a total.

This term, in Japanese, the students are focusing on greetings and appropriate manners in Japan. They are also learning about significant places in and around Japan and the features of their culture.

In Science and Technology this term, the students have been continuing their Kreative Koalas journey through their exploration of ways to reduce water wastage. As such, the students are working to present their ideas as artwork on a giant fibreglass koala. The Kreative Koala will then be entered in a regional art competition. This provides the opportunity for students to be part of a team to share their ideas and solutions and empower them to act on global sustainability challenges at a local level. Marlee Langfield (local Young Farming Champion) also visited the students to encourage collaboration, knowledge sharing and communication to achieve outcomes related to water sustainability. The culminating product of this unit will be the development and distribution of water sustainability pamphlets. Towards the end of the term, the students will also complete a computer science basics course to develop their problem-solving and computational thinking skills.

This term is sure to disappear quickly, with all the excitement and hustle and bustle that typically comes with the final term of the school year. In the meantime, keep a look out for further updates!