Reminder to parents :
At 5pm this Wednesday 30th May, CNPS will be holding an info session for parents needing assistance to login to Compass. Eldest students were sent home with a green letter containing their family username and temporary password a couple of weeks ago. If you haven’t yet logged into Compass for the first time, feel free to attend. Wednesday 30th May, 5pm in Room 1 in the cream building. Bring your green letter (with login details) and your mobile device. There’ll be laptops for you to use if you don’t have your mobile with you.
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Hello Everyone, Reconciliation Week is 27 May to 3 June. This years theme is ‘Don’t Keep History a Mystery: Learn. Share. Grow.' Below is a list of recommended reading for different ages. It includes books and research focused on Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories and cultures. Regards, Tim Hello Everyone, Today we carried on with some coding work. Students developed their own simple offline programs for other students to follow. Please see some pictures attached below. Regards, Tim Hello Everyone, On Tuesday and Thursday this week the grade 6 students participated in some coding activities using the school’s Ozobots. Students were asked to draw a variety of shapes and maps which had different measurements and coding requirements. At the completion of each session, students shared their strategies and different problem solving approaches. Please find some pictures of these activities attached. Regards, Tim Hello Everyone,
During the week students participate in a measurement activity out in the little area and the amphitheatre. Their task required them to measure a four square court in the little area and replicate their court in the amphitheatre using tape. Students identify that this task required estimation, measuring using informal and formal units, angles and intersecting lines. Since the activity these new four square courts have been used by numerous students. Please find some pictures of this activity attached. Regards, Tim Hello Everyone,
Our Passion Projects are well and truly underway. We’re seeing lots of great research being done on some interesting topics. These projects are a direct response to the student opinion survey data that showed students wanted a greater say over what they are learning about. Each student has individually selected the topic/question for their project and developed their own questions to investigate and research. Students are given one session a week for their Passion Projects within the classroom. This time is used to plan and/or develop questions to investigate, seek assistance and receive some feedback from the teacher and work further on their project. Students set themselves some goals for what they want to achieve each week in regards to their Passion Project. So, some weeks your child may need to complete 20 minutes each night on the project, while other weeks it may be 30 minutes for 3 nights. Passion Projects do not have a set due date, as each student has their own unique question that they need to answer. One student’s Passion Project may take 4 weeks, while another may take 8. It just depends on the topic. Once they feel they have answered their question (or multiple questions on their topic) and have presented their information in a chosen form, they will present to the class what they have found. Passion Projects are ongoing, so once a student finishes their first Passion Project, they will put forward a new idea for their next one. It will continue to progress that way. Students have been encouraged to use different ways to research information such as interviews, surveys or visiting different locations. Students have also been encouraged to break their project into manageable parts and use the calendar on their computer’s desktop to identify the best times in their week to complete tasks. Something they will need to be able to manage moving towards secondary school. These projects are a way for students to develop their goal setting, time management, questioning skills, presentation skills and challenge themselves. However, if you would like encourage your child’s line of questioning or challenge them to investigate an element of their project in greater detail, teachers are happy for this to occur. Further to this, if students want to build upon their learning this is also encouraged. For example, after researching about different endangered animals a student might decide to set up a fundraiser to help protect a certain species or their environment. If you have any further questions regarding this please contact your child’s teacher. Regards, Tim Hello Everyone,
Please join us for this year’s first Family Gardening Day on Saturday 19 May from 10 am – 12 noon. Enter the school via the Farmers Market gate and touch base with one of our volunteer parents before either: 1. Heading off to help water, weed and mulch your child/children’s biodiversity or playground garden area their class has been allocated 2. Or join in another group undertaking these activities within the school. For those of you that aren’t fans of putting the gardening gloves on, other contributions like, baking, free therapy, cups of tea, songs etc are more than welcome. If you do want to contribute some baking to keep the workers happy you can either bring it on the day or drop it off to the school kitchen the Friday before, clearly marked ‘Family Gardening Day’. We look forward to seeing you on Saturday the 19th of May! For those coming to garden please bring gloves and any tools you like working with for weeding and mulching. Regards, Tim Hello Everyone, Today was very exciting as the students were filmed opening the new Mover Kits that have been donated by Telstra. Students were filmed building the kits and using some of the pre-coded programs. This builds on other activities we have been doing around coding within the classroom. Regards, Tim |
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