Our Hot Chocolate Fundraiser at the end of Term 2 was a great success raising a total of $125.00 for the RSPCA!

A big thank you to the wonderful Annie, Charlotte, Nora, Stella, Tori and Willa who organised the event, such a great idea girls and what a perfect day to have it, wrapped up in pajamas with a lovely warm hot chocolate.

We are also very grateful to Coles Greenacres, Woolworths Walkerville and Drakes Newton for their donations of drinking chocolate, marshmallows and cookies.

In art this term we are so grateful to have resident artists Jay & Bethany from Carclew AAIS (Aboriginals Artist in Schools) joining us in the Primary classes.

Every Tuesday we will be learning about First Nations Art through Creation Stories and how First Nations People use the natural land to make art and what it represents to them, stay tuned to see all the beautiful pieces we create!

This term we are learning how to write a Biography; bio - meaning life, graph - meaning to write, record or draw. 

So far we have learnt the structure of a biography, what sort of information does or does not get included and how it is different from other types of texts.

Our learning goal is for students to work in partners (one from Laura's class and one from Lauren's class) to write a biography about a First Nations Person of their choosing. 

Both Primary classes are learning about time in Maths. Laurens class were given the task to sort time words from shortest amount of time to the largest amount of time. We had an interesting discussion about what a ‘moment’ means.

"A moment is not a specific amount of time and is often said but not known how long" – Aaron

"I enjoyed learning about what a lunar month and a galaxy year is. A lunar month is equal to 29.5 days and this is the time it takes the moon to complete is phases. A galaxy year is equal to 230 million earth years" – Jaxon

This term our central idea for our Inquiry learning is: We are connected through people, place and culture. The focus will be on learning about the special connection First Nation's Peoples have to their country and culture and reflecting on our own connections. The school has a fantastic new resource called Our Land, Our Stories that is guiding our exploration of this topic. The children have been very excited to start this topic as we learn about contemporary First Nations children and their lives. We are learning language through a Torres Strait Island's song 'Taba Naba' which is about going to the reef.

Here are some pictures of Josie's family from the Torres Strait Islands and our families, biographies of Josie, our interpretation of a painting and our first ideas about the meaning of the central idea.