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CAPABILITIES.

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Issue 51 26th July 2019

NEWSLETTER

KEY DATES AT BARTON

DATE EVENT TIME WHO

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE:

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22nd July Turn the Tide Incursion 9am – 11am Grade 6 Students

30th July – 2nd August

Phillip Island Camp All Day Grade 5 & 6

Students

6th August Curriculum Day All Day All Students

7th August Senior Hoop Time 9am – 2pm Grade 5 & 6 Students

7th August Open Morning – Preps 9am – 11am Preps

8th August Open Morning – Grade 2 and 5/6 9am – 11am Grade 2. 5 & 6 Students

9th August Open Morning – Grade 1 and 3/4s 9am – 11am Grade 1, 3 & 4 Students

14th August Brown Bandicoot Incursion 9am – 11am Grade 2 Students

19th – 23rd August Book Week All Week All Students

22nd August Book Week Parade 9am – 10.30am All Students

28th August Junior Hoop Time 9am – 2pm Junior Students

30th August Father’s Day Breakfast 8am – 8.45am All Students

4th - 6th September Camp Rumbug All Day Grade 4 Students

9th September Turn the Tide Excursion All Day Grade 6 Students

23rd - 4th October School Holidays 2 Weeks All Students

17th October Citizens of the World Incursion 11.30am – 12.30am

Grade 5 & 6 Students

17th October Barton Day 9am – 10.30am All Students

6th – 8th November Swimming 9am - 11am Grade 6 Students

11th - 12th November The Briars Camp All Day Grade 3 Students

22nd November Swimming – Mount Martha Life Saving Club All Day Grade 6 Students

3rd December Curriculum Day All Day All Students

10th December End of Year Concert 6.15pm All Students

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT – Andrew Felsinger

WELCOME TO TERM 3

Welcome back to all our Barton families, I hope everyone enjoyed their break over the school holidays. It is great to see our students refreshed and straight into their learning for Term 3. Assistant Principal Mark Copper and Leading Teacher Mel Seal did a fantastic job of leading the school whilst I was away last week on long service leave and I thank them for their efforts.

CURRICULUM DAY

A reminder that Tuesday 6th August is a Curriculum Day. This is a pupil free day and parents are reminded that they must make alternate arrangements for the care of their children on this day. The YMCA will be open on this date — please contact them directly if you need to register your child. The curriculum day provides our teachers with the opportunity to further plan for the Term. On this occasion our teachers will be visiting surrounding schools to observe their programs and various practices.

CAMP

The Grade 5/6 Students will be heading off to Phillip Island Adventure Camp next Tuesday 30th July on a 4 day Camp. This will be a fantastic opportunity for the students and they are all very excited. If your child is attending Camp, please ensure they arrive at School prior to 8.45am on Tuesday. If your child requires medication on Camp this MUST be provided to the office by 8.30am.

OPEN MORNINGS—7th, 8th & 9th August

Our Open Mornings are coming up in a couple of weeks. This is a great opportunity for parents to see their child learning in their school environment. Refer to the Key Dates page in the Newslet-ter to see which day your child's classroom is open to parents. There will be a sign in process at the office, once you have dropped your child off in the morning, please make your way to the of-fice to sign in before making your way down to the classroom.

Be sure to look at our Key Dates page in the Newsletter as we have a lot happening at Barton in Term 3!

PRINCIPAL

Dear Parents,

Welcome back to Term 3. Term 3 is an important time in the year to reflect on all that we have archive and implemented thus far. This is particularly important in preparation for Term 4, where we begin to plan and implement for next year. With that said, I would like to thank all of the par-ents and students for commencing Term 3 with great enthusiasm.

As the Preps would be aware, last Tuesday 16th July we started The Prima-ry School Nursing Program. This is a free program offered by the Depart-ment of Education and Training to all children attending government schools. It is part of a range of health and support services for students and their families. The aim of the program is to promote child health and wellbe-ing and to assist in the early identification of all children with potential health related difficulties. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the Prep parents for returning well over 90% of their School Entrant Health Questionnaires prior to the collection date on Thursday 25th July. Your dili-gence is much appreciated by our Admin Team and Visiting Primary School Nurse, Cassie Cameron. If you have any questions regarding The Primary School Nursing Program, please follow the link below or call Barton Admin-istration Ph. 8766 4000.

Link; https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/school/teachers/health/psnbrochure.pdf

Next week our grade 5/6 students will be attending the Phillip Island Camp. This is a great oppor-tunity for all those attending to engage in learning outside the classroom. The students will partic-ipate in a rage of different activities aimed to excite, challenge and encourage individual growth. We wish all those attending well and look forward to hearing about their experiences upon their return.

Mark Cooper

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL

ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL – Mark Cooper

PREP NEWS

Maths

In our math sessions we have started learning about time and place value. We are also continuing to practice addition within our lessons and are finding this very fun to incorporate into our sessions.

Literacy

To start Term 3, our Prep students have been looking at informative texts and their features. Everyone is working hard to use reading strategies that they have learned in class.

Please ensure that you are entering the titles of books read at home on the Premier’s Reading Challenge website.

PREP NEWS

Inquiry and Science

In Inquiry, we have been learning about living, non-living, natural and man-made items. The students enjoyed their introduction to movement last week in science.

Reminders

Please bring any ‘Little Shop’ products to school as they will be helpful for our unit on money.

All children must return their school nurse forms with a yes or no response.

Please do not forget to return library books on a Monday or a Friday. Books must be returned to Barton Primary School.

GRADE 1 NEWS

Maths — Measurement

The Grade 1 students have been busy learning all about length and height in Applied Maths. This week students measured their height using ‘unifix’ and made a prediction about how many unifix taller they will grow by the end of the year. Students also compared the height of their teddies and ordered them from shortest to tallest.

From the Grade 1 Team

GRADE 2 NEWS

This week in Grade 2 we have been learning all about Multiplication!

We have been using many strategies such as:

Make an array

Make equal groups

Write a repeated addition equation

GRADE 3 - 6 NEWS

Grade 3-6 Persuasive Writing

Over the last 2 weeks the Grade 3–6 students have been learning about persuasive writing. The students have looked at the persuasive text structure in advertisements and point of view articles.

The Grade 3/4s had the opportunity to create an advertisement for either a Big Mac, a new shoe design or a dream car.

The 5/6s have been looking at persuasive format and how to persuade someone to agree to their point of view using specific language.

GRADE 3 - 6 NEWS

Learning in the 3—6 Hub

This week in maths we have been learning about patterns and algebra. We have used lots of materials to practice making different colour, shape and number patterns.

Dates for your diary

Lightening Premiership—Monday 29th July

Grade 5 & 6 Phillip Island Camp

Tuesday 30th July – Friday 2nd August.

Hoop Time—Wednesday 7th August

Grade 4 Camp

4th of September – 6th of September

Notices have been handed out with payment details. A reminder to please return these, along with the enclosed documents as soon as possible

Grade 3 Camp

11th of November – 12th of November

Online Programs Please remember to use Mathletics at home to assist the students with learning maths topics.

Students are also now being recognised for their efforts on Reading Eggs & Reading Eggspress with certificates at assembly. They get a certificate for 1000 points on Reading Express (similar to Mathletics)

All students have their usernames and passwords and should be using these programs at home to consolidate their learning. If students have lost their password, please let their homeroom teacher know.

Home Reading Logs

Grades 3 & 4 – Reading logs are checked on a THURS-DAY. Students are expected to read for 45 minutes a week.

Grades 5 & 6 – Reading logs are checked on a FRIDAY. Students are expected to read for 60 minutes a week.

PLEASE NOTE

Attendance at school is extremely important for students to be able to consolidate their learning

and build meaningful connections with their peers. If your child needs to be absent please

ensure you have logged this on Sentral.

Thanks 3-6 Team

VISUAL ART

Welcome back to Term 3! We have already been so busy getting stuck back into our work!

Grade Prep– We have been learning about directed drawing, improving on our work and developing our colouring in skills. We have watched a clip from the original Lion King movie, in anticipation for the release of the new movie and have followed a directed drawing of our own lion. We initially did a ‘draft’ version then we turned it over and had another go to see if we could improve our work by making it bigger or more detailed. We were very proud of our work!

Grade 1– We have also been focusing on further developing our colour-ing skills this week as we reflected on our fantastic holidays. We have been discussing what ‘happy colouring’ looks like where we take our time, make sure there are no white spaces, follow the same direction and do not scribble all over. Our patience is definitely paying off as our colouring is improving!

Grade 2– In Grade 2 we have been learning about weaving! We have been practicing simple weaving techniques by making a gods eye from two icy pole sticks and then practicing going around and over with our weaves. These skills will help prepare us for more textiles work in mid-dle and senior school. This was pretty tricky to begin with but we were all very successful!

Grade 3/4– We have began to learn about sewing and have been practising a running stitch and threading a needle! We are very excited to continue to work on these in the upcoming weeks!

Grade 5/6- Grade 5 and 6 have been exploring traditional Indonesian Batik painting and learning about the traditional process of this fabric design. We are creating our own Batik inspired by tradi-tional Indonesian designs using a slightly different process. Students have been working on their designs and are very excited to begin the process of using wax to create their designs on their fabric!

Miss Medwin

VISUAL ARTS TEACHER

PERFORMING ART

Welcome back to Term 3!

I am very excited to be teaching our whole school Music for the remainder of 2019, and we have jumped straight back into learning, listening to and playing music!

Students in Prep showed off what they have previously learned about meter, and whether music has beats grouped in 2, 3 or 4. We marched to music in a meter of 2, waltzed/swayed to music in a me-ter of 3, and danced and tapped our knees to music in a meter of 4. We also had a lot of fun playing Name Rhythm, and turning our names into different patterns and sounds!

Students in Year 1 & 2 have learnt about basic notation in music, including notes and rests. They worked in small groups to write their own 4 beat rhythms, rehearsed clapping them, and then play-ing them using instruments like rhythm sticks, djembes, tone blocks, and egg shakers. We had such a fantastic time listening to each group perform their rhythms for their classmates.

Students in Year 3/4 did their own mini research task into either the Classical or Romantic music period—we learnt about when each music period was, and some interesting facts about music and composers from each period:

“The Romantic Period was very dramatic, passionate and emotion-al” - Cassie B, 34A

“The Classical Period was 1750-1820, and it sounds like a question and an answer that was balanced” - Manny, 3/4A, on the im-portance of balance in classical music.

“When Beethoven grew older he became deaf” - Amber, 3/4D; in-teresting fact about a composer from the Classical music period.

“Order, balance, simplicity” - Hadya, 3/4B; three features of classi-cal music.

We have now started learning the recorder in years 3 & 4—we hope to be able to perform some-thing at assembly later in the term!

Year 5/6 students have started a new project for the first half of term 3—they are creating their own commercial for a made up product! There are a number of components that they need to complete with their groups, including recording music made up of simple ostinatos, a spoken advertisement, and writing and recording a simple jingle! We learnt a lot about what a jingle is, and why they are catchy, by listening to some well known jingles, such as the Roof Seal jingle, the Cottee’s ad, and the “Make Those Bodies Sing!” campaign for eating bananas!

Mrs Wallwork

Performing Arts Teacher

BOOK WEEK 2019!

Book Week at Barton Primary School

We are so excited to let everybody know that Book Week this year is in Week 6 of this term, from the 19th—23rd of August. We will have a day during Book Week where students will be invited to dress up as a character from a story or book of their choice.

Book Week is run and organised by the Children’s Book Council of Australia (CBCA) and it is a fun and exciting opportunity for our students (and other students across Australia) to celebrate books, and Australian authors and illustrators. The CBCA is a volunteer run organisation which presents annual awards to books for outstanding contribution to Australian children’s literature, all with the aim of engaging our community with literature for young Australians. You might have seen books in book stores or libraries with bronze, silver or gold stickers on the front cover—this means they have won an award or honours from the CBCA!

At Barton Primary School this year, our students will participate in a range of activities in their classes and workshops, related to this year’s Book Week theme: reading is my secret power.

As part of our Book Week tradition at Barton, we are kindly asking that each family donates one book (picture or chapter) to our growing school library, for all of our students, current and future, to enjoy.

For more information about Book Week, or to see books that are shortlisted for this year’s awards, jump onto the CBCA website: www.cbca.org.au

Happy Reading!

ENVIROMENTAL STUDIES

In prep and Grade 1 we have begun learning about biodiversity. We have discussed what makes something alive and how we classify living things.

In Grade 2 we have been learning about ecosystems which are communities of living and non living things. Students have

been categorising things into abiotic (non living) and biotic (living) things within an ecosystem.

Grade 3-6 students have begun research projects on endan-gered or extinct animals. Over the next 2 weeks students will prepare a report on the features of their animal to present to

their class, including threats or cause to the animal becoming endangered or extinct.

Students in Grade 5/6 have begun planting in our vegetable gardens. Stu-dents have been researching how to plant the vegetable seeds and will be

responsible for maintaining the gardens. Miss Dunstan is hoping the vegeta-bles grow as well as her own broccoli which is almost ready to eat!

Miss Dunstan’s Question Corner

While learning about ecosystems Krishna wondered why micro –organisms are so small.

Micro is short for microscopic meaning very small, organism meaning life form. These micro organisms, also known as microbes, are very important in main-taining life on earth. Microbes help our bodies digest food and fight viruses. They also help break down dead plants and animals.

The reason micro organisms are so small is because they have to exist, and fit, into tiny spaces like inside the human body, where they work closely with our body systems to keep us fit and healthy.

I am looking forward to exploring micro organisms this term.

ENVIROMENTAL STUDIES

Turn the tide - Grade 6 incursion

On Monday the Grade 6 students were involved in an incursion with Ranger Sue from the Philip Island Nature Park. Ranger Sue spoke to the students about the importance of marine biodiversity, how we impact our oceans and the marine animals that inhabit Philip Island.

Students were asked to draw the current wetland area of our school as well as what they hoped it would look like. Students were also joined by string to demonstrate the importance of keeping each part of the life cycle alive.

Over the next few weeks the students will be working on an action plan to make a positive differ-ence for biodiversity at Barton.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

WHAT LEARNING HAS BEEN HAPPENING IN PHYSICAL EDUCATION?

PREP, GRADE 1 & 2

STUDENTS HAVE BEEN LEARNING TO:

Explore the different shapes they can make with their bod-ies, such as: rocket, star, lunge, motor bike landing, angry cat & lunge

Listen and move freely to music

Practice using a skipping rope

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

GRADE 3 & 4

GRADE 5 & 6

STUDENTS HAVE BEEN LEARNING TO:

Dribble the soccer ball with control

Dribble the soccer ball using both feet

Partner passing and trapping

Goal keeping

STUDENTS HAVE BEEN LEARNING TO:

Work together to practice the skills needed for Hockey as they begin their SEPEP program

How to plan, manage and run their own sports ‘season’

Take on different roles and responsibilities

Incorporate a game we already know like “snakes and ladders” and turn it into a warm up game.