Newsletter 6 November
Invitation from the Principal
Prep Jardine
This term in Prep we have been focusing on Geography, specifically places in and around our community. As part of this we went on an excursion to the Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery. There is an exhibition there called "mapiya lumi", which means "Around Here" in palawa kani. Here the students saw birds, fish, native animals and local geographical features from in and around Tasmania. We also popped up to the Antarctic exhibition, where there are penguins and a giant Lego version of "Nuyina", the Antarctic icebreaker ship that sometimes lives down at the waterfront.
Looking closer at our local community, the students identified a place in our school that was the most special to them and why, and how they can care for these places. Some of these places are the Art room, our classroom, the Smily shop and the Adventure playground. Most popular by far is the Big Kids Playground, where we go each Friday afternoon to run, climb, swing and play basketball.
1/2 Poke
1/2P has started term four with great enthusiasm. We’re using newly learnt spelling rules when attempting new words, identifying and describing shape attributes, learning about our place in the world and how to care for it in geography, we’re learning about space in science, and in social and emotional wellbeing we’re growing a positive self-image.
We’ve begun to learn about 2D shapes. We discussed what makes a shape, identified shapes in the environment, the mathematical terms for four sided shapes (quadrilaterals), investigated geoboards and described attributes to categorise shape.
In social and emotional wellbeing, we’ve read books describing how people feel when they speak kindly and unkindly, discussed examples, we watched a video about The Ugly Duckling, describing how the ‘duckling’ felt when other animals were unkind to him. We drew self-portraits and identified positive qualities. We’re learning and remembering to use kind words with a kind tone when speaking with all people in our school. We’re learning strategies to use when someone is unkind to us and the importance of telling a trusted adult as soon as possible when we need to.
3/4 Pears
This term in science, 3/4P have been investigating soil, rocks and minerals. We’ve been learning about the different layers of soil, types of soil and how they each affect plant growth.
To bring our learning directly into the classroom, we each received a type of herb to plant into a cup. In groups, we each received a different type of soil (loamy, sandy, and silt) and we will be tracking the growth of our plants over the next couple of weeks to see if this influences whether our plants will thrive!
It’s been so amazing to see students taking care of their plants!
3/4 Balhatchet
Grade 3/4B had fun last week creating some haunted houses for the disco that also reinforced their learning about area and perimeter.
Upcoming Dates
Nov 7- Grades 3-6 Sharing Assembly at 11.30am
Nov 11 - Interschool Swimming Carnival (selected students)
Nov 12 - Hobart City High Transition Visits
Nov 17 - No School Lunch Program Grades 3-6 (Swap to Friday Nov 21)
Nov 19 - Hobart City High Transition Visits
Nov 21 - LiL Out & About - Excursion to Hobart Zoo and Aquarium.
Dec 5 - Grade 6 Big Day Out (more info to come)
Dec 10 - K-2 Botanical Gardens Excursion
- Grade 3-6 Park & Pool Day
Dec 16 - Grade 6 Presentation and Leavers Assembly (Time TBA)
Dec 17 - Christmas Assembly (Time TBA)
Dec 18 - Last Day of Term 4
HER Court
We are fortunate to have the HER court program come to Springfield Gardens Primary School this term. We had our first session on Wednesday 28 with an amazing turn out with the girls having great fun learning basketball skills with Lara and Chloe from Basketball TAS. Every Wednesday girls in grades 3-6 have the opportunity to join our HER ambassador Chloe in the gym at lunch time, to practice the skills and learn the game of basketball. This is such a great opportunity for our students to be part of.
K-2 Athletics Carnival
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