Goulburn North Public School Newsletter

The school is currently in the process of employing a 10 teacher. This teacher will be involved in establishing our 'Northern Lights' Program.

This program will be shaped around the needs of learners and will look different to a regular mainstream classroom. The program will shape the learning to the specific needs of the learners within the program. Students that participate in this program, will access the program on an individual and needs basis. This might mean full-time daily access, or it could be part-time daily or portions of the week. 

This is an exciting opportunity to really cater learning to the needs of each learner. We will inform our community of the milestones of this program. At this point in time, we need to identify and employ the right person for the job. Stay tuned for more information in early term 2.

Goulburn North PS is hoping to complete its Reconciliation Action Plan this year. Part of this journey we would like to involve some members of the school community. If you would be keen to come along this journey and be part of the planning team, please come and see Mr Marshall. We would ideally like some representation from staff, students and the community.

The new English K-10 syllabus shows the role and connection that understanding texts and creating texts have across all areas of English. The outcomes and content reflect the essential knowledge, understanding and skills that students are expected to learn. Focus areas include, but are not limited to: oral language and communication, vocabulary, reading fluency, reading comprehension, creating written texts, spelling, handwriting, and understanding and responding to literature. Please refer to the infograph on 'Oral language and communication' for ways you can support your child in this focus area.

• We Keep our hands and feet to self.
  

Our current focus is on keeping our hands and feet to self. When we keep our hands and feet to our self we are ensuring that we are happy and safe and those around us are happy and safe.

• 2C and 5/6F are the current custodians of our RESPECT, RESPONSIBILITY and COOPERATION trophies. Class tokens will be counted again on the 24th March and winning classes announced at the Week 10 Monday morning muster.
• Thank you to the community members, staff and students that gave their input into the review of our current award system. Stay tuned...

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Thursday 6 April - Last Day of Term 1

Our hall has been cleaned up and we are planning for our first whole school assembly to be held on Thursday 6 April at midday. This will celebrate the successes of our students this year to date.

All are invited to come along and share in the fun.

REMINDER:

Please bring in all bundles of 10 conduct awards by Friday March 31st so we can have all Honour Ribbons and Certificates of Conduct ready. 

Students in 2C have been taking part in a STEM unit called Sounds and Music. We have been listening to and interacting with different types of music to learn about how sound is produced through vibrations of objects. We are learning that volume, pitch, and types of sounds can be changed based on the actions we use to create them.

So far, we have used recycled plastic bottles, rice, blue sand, buttons, and stickers to create our own shakers which have been used for both our STEM unit and our mathematics lessons on patterns. We copied and then created our own patterns using our own instruments. We have also used decorated, handmade matchboxes and rubber bands to create our own guitars. We used our hand made guitar to create sound in different ways and then discussed how cutting a hole in one side of the matchbox would create a better sound. Our final instrument we are making is our own pop stick harmonica made of pop sticks, paper, and rubber bands.

The students have thoroughly enjoyed making these instruments and creating their own music with them. This has been a very loud but rewarding process and the students are looking forward to taking all their instruments home to show what they have learned. 

3/4L have been eagerly awaiting the start of our Acrylic Paint Pouring art unit. Supplies arrived and we finally got the opportunity to practice some different blending techniques. Students chose two colours and used blowing through a straw and also using a paddle pop stick to smudge or swirl the colour together. It was lovely to see the end results. This coming week we will be trialing 3-4 colour combinations and some more techniques. We are very much looking forward to completing our final canvas once we have trialed all our techniques.