It was an absolute joy to welcome learners back this week. I so hope you all enjoyed a really restful break with your children and are looking forward to everything that a new term brings.
New beginnings are a wonderful opportunity to build on past successes and this was certainly the focus of discussion when teaching staff gathered this week.
On Monday the 24th of April, we held our ANZAC Day ceremony. This is an extremely important event in our community with all of our learners demonstrating great respect towards their student leaders and taking time to remember our service men and women. Thank you to the parents and community who were able to join us for the service too.
We were very proud of all the students who represented our school both at the ANZAC march on Tuesday 25th April, but who also listened patiently and respectfully to the special guests and speakers during the service.
At the Dawn Service, Sophie and Violet laid a wreath in our name, taking the time with a full field of people who heard heroic stories of early morning wakeups and battle missions.
Later in the day, at the Main Service, Violet and Sophie shared the reading of a poem and Sports House Captains Tynisha and Sevennah joined them in laying a wreath on our behalf.
Prep and Year 1 News
The Prep students were very excited to receive their home reading bags this term. They have done a great job of reading every day and remembering to bring their reading bags back daily.
This term the Preps will continue to practise their sounds and use these to sound out words in their reading books. We are very excited to see the progress they are making with their decoding skills. The Preps are also taking home their word box words. These are little words that can be sounded out, practising with these helps them to develop the skills of blending sounds to read new words.
Our Year 1 students are also doing a great job of home reading and we are so pleased with the progress they are making. It is very exciting to watch their growing confidence when reading new texts.
Keep up the great work Peachester Families!
What a busy 2 weeks it is been.
Grade 1’s are learning to write character descriptions and have done a great job writing two so far.
Meanwhile the grade 2’s are learning to write a comparison between two characters which is quite a tricky thing to do. They have been learning about writing more interesting sentences by using a ‘joining word’ like; and, but, so, or, because. Do you know how to remember how to spell because? Well, if you remember Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants, then all the first letters spell BECAUSE!
Everyone made a beautiful flower for our ANZAC DAY wreath which Myles and Ellis respectfully laid at the special Anzac Day Parade.
A great start to Term 2 everyone.
We have had a great start to Term 2 in the 2/3 class.
In English we will be comparing characters from different versions of a story and expressing a preference. This week we are comparing the traditional Cinderella with the rock star version, Cinders Rox. Ask your child which character they prefer and why?
We have been learning about odd and even numbers and investigating number sequences in Maths. Students had fun creating odd and even monsters to display in class.
Welcome to Term 2 families😊
In the classroom.
We have dived head first into our units for the term. In English, we are studying persuasive texts. For our assessment toward the middle of the term, we will be writing a persuasive letter. If you would like to support this topic at home, students have been working on brainstorming ideas to support a point of view. For example Dogs versus Cats. Ask your child to come up with as many reasons for one side of the debate and you could take the other side. Who can come up with the most?
Environment News.
We are very lucky to have a bowerbird nesting right outside our classroom. Please feel free to come and have a look. He is proving elusive, but the number of blue items in his nest is increasing. So we know he is there!
5/6 News – Our Anzac Day Reflections.
Our School Service
On the 24th of April Peachester State School and the Community got together to commemorate Anzac Day, each class laid a wreath that they made in their spare time. School Captains Sophie Holznagel and Violet Walters ran the ceremony by introducing each guest and speaker to address the ceremony. Coochin Captain Sevennah Hogno read the poem “The Lord’s Prayer.” Stanley House Captain Tynisha McLean read “The Ode” and student leader Amelia Higgins read the poem “SIR”.
A group of 8 students from the 5/6 class were chosen to lay poppies in remembrance of the locals that passed away in World War 1, such as (John Jackson, Harry Web, Norman Robert Simpson, Stoker John Malony, William Miner, William Hume, Fredrick Baker and Fredrick John Winkle)
We will always remember them as brave soldiers.
Lest we forget
Isabelle, Jack, Makenzie, K-diss, Carys, Josh, Ryder and Liam
We got to lay the wreaths down. When we started to walk up to the stage we felt sad but when we got there we felt respectful and payed our respect by bowing our heads. We think about those people that fought for our country. For the minute silence we thought of our family members.
Peytonn and Celine
Anzac Day 2023
Dawn service: On the 25th of April (Anzac Day) School Captains Sophie Holznagel and Violet Walters got up at 3:30am to represent Peachester State School at the Beerwah Dawn Service at Turner Park. They got to lay a wreath and pay their respects to the people who fought in World War 1 and all the other wars.
March: Our school (Peachester State School) held the Beerwah Marching Ceremony, we marched from the Beerwah Co-op to Turner Park. School Captains Sophie Holznagel and Violet Walters read the poem “The longest day.” They also laid a wreath together and so did House Captains Sevennah Hogno and Tynisha McLean.
On the 25th of April 2023 the Beerwah Bulldogs did the Anzac Ceremony. We marched down the street and payed our respects to the Veterans and the men and woman that fought for our freedom and fought for our country,
Lest we forget.
Beau and K-diss
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