No Images? Click here Dear Regent families, It was a privilege to meet with some Regent dads and children on Saturday evening for games and pizza; all part of The Fathering Project, here at Regent College. Well done to those who managed to come along. A special thanks to Ben Harper (Regent dad) for coordinating the most recent Fathering Project events. I would like to thank the group of mums who faithfully meet each Friday fortnight morning (in the Library) to pray for the College. My hope is that I can better support this group in 2017, with regularly advertised times. Have a wonderful week and I trust you'll enjoy this edition of the Regent Digest. God bless, Derek Nicholls. Principal SIGNIFICANT DATES
LET US KNOW. Kindergarten 2018. The College will shortly commence enrolment interviews for Kindergarten 2018. Current families with children due to begin Kindergarten in 2018, you are encouraged to inform the College Administration as soon as possible. Children born between 1st July 2013 and 30th June 2014 are scheduled to commence Kindergarten in 2018. STAFF LEARNING CONTINUES On Friday 23rd October, all staff participated in a full day of professional learning, with a focus in Mathematics. It was a day of serious (and fun) engagement, with staff designing resources and participating in discussion with a focus on creating deep learning opportunities for students. The day was first of three such sessions, with Kristin Humphreys, Mathematics Consultant at AISWA (Association of Independent Schools Western Australia), running the session. Overall, a very valuable day! Thank you to parents for accommodating the student free day. KINDERGARTEN 1. Summer Days are coming. With the warmer weather starting to show up, our class has been loving the outdoors. Last week there were babies to bathe, a rock pool to play in, experiments to conduct and lots of time for creative expression. The Pre- primary children helped us to find lots of bark from the giant gum trees on the oval and we enjoyed painting on it for our outdoor gallery. It is fair to say that if you leave anything lying around for long enough, we will find some way to use it in our play. Mrs Huxley. KINDERGARTEN 2. The children in Kindergarten 2 have been spending time looking at what messages are and practising their writing skills. They enjoyed a special activity called 'A secret message' where they had to write a message or draw a picture to their friend, who then had to use a coloured ice block to reveal the message. They have also been making 2D or 3D shapes with popsticks and plasticine where maximum communication, thinking and cooperation occur. Mrs Balakrishnan PRE-PRIMARY We have been continuing our topic this term of bugs! We have enjoyed learning all about different bugs and insects. Last week we were fortunate enough to visit the year 2 classroom and observe their mealworms using our brand new iPad iScopes. It was so interesting to see the different stages and discuss how they are similar to the other bugs we have been learning about. In Science we have been learning safe ways to observe the weather and the sky. We have also been discussing the different types of weather and what the clouds and sky looks like at different stages. Next week we will be making our own wind meters to measure the wind. Miss Baker and Mrs Stein. YEAR 1 have been learning about weather in Perth and how it is different in other parts of the world. We learnt that Australia is in the Southern Hemisphere, where the equator is located and what countries are in the Northern Hemisphere. Where a country is located impacts the type of weather climate they have. We each chose a country in the Northern Hemisphere and compared the weather there to here in Perth. Inspired by the snow in some countries, we challenged ourselves to create a symmetrical snowflake using our Geoboards during Mathematics. CLASS 2.1 In History, students dressed in 'heritage' clothes and visited the historical Woodloes Homestead. We had a guided tour of the house and could see the impact of changing technology on peoples' lives at home and in ways they worked, travelled, communicated, and played in the past. The students went inside the Woodloes Church and were excited to learn that it was the church where Mrs Marshall was married. After morning tea the students enjoyed playing hidey and chasy in Woodloes beautiful gardens. Thank you to the parents who helped on the day! Mrs Jenkins. Continued. Mrs Walkom (College parent) recently visited the Year 2.1 class and spoke to the students about the different parts of the eye, how we see and how to look after our eyes. She gave a brief history lesson on Benjamin Franklin, a Scientist who invented bi-focal lenses. The students each received a 'Penny the Pirate' instructions and test kit booklet. Thank you, Mrs Walkom! CLASS 2/3 We have been learning how to tell the time in Mathematics. Students engaged in a variety of activities including telling the time on a giant clock drawn on the classroom floor. To remember some important time concepts, students made "anchor charts" which will remind them every day. Each student created their own analogue clock to practice telling the time with. We all know it just takes time to learn how to tell the time. Keep practising everyone! Mrs Wilkinson & Mrs Ellis CLASS 3.1 In HASS (History and Social Sciences), we have been learning about why people immigrate to other countries, and have been blessed with visits from many parents who have been willing to share their experiences with us. Riddhi's dad and Summer's mum came and chatted to us and encouraged us to be kind and sensitive to new comers, and to work hard to achieve our potential. In Mathematics, we have been looking at pyramids, prisms and cylinders. We each raided the recycling bins at home to bring in some examples to class, so that we could see their attributes, and open them up to investigate their nets. Mrs Innes. CLASS 4.1 On 7 November 2016, we visited SERCUL (South East Regional Centre for Urban Land Care), which is a place where we learnt about plants, water run-off, a lake or creek food chain and the life cycle of Long Neck Turtles. I firstly want to tell you something important: When you find a Long Neck Turtle crossing the road what do you do? You pick it up, hold it away from you and take it across the road in the direction it was heading. You have to hold it away from you because they have very sharp nails and will try to scratch you or bite you. Also, when they feel distressed they release a lot of sticky, smelly liquid (not urine) - so you won’t want to get it on you! The first activity we did was plant sedges and ground cover with Daniel (SERCUL staff) near Yule Brook at the back of the SERCUL property. Sedges are important because they help clean the waterways from pollution. Many water birds will pull out the new plants so we had to push the soil in hard to make sure they were “bird proof”. Daniel said they remind him of velociraptors from the way they stalk around. Afterwards we checked the plants by pulling on them gently to make sure they didn’t come out. Daniel said we were amazing because we planted 650 plants in one hour. The only problem was the mud. We got covered in it, especially our shoes. We were so glad we were wearing gloves. We saw worms, beetles and tiny Squelching Froglets – they were only 1cm long! Afterwards we ate our recess. Then some of us played soccer and one of the girls read a Goosebumps story out loud for people who wanted to listen. Next, Amy told us about rivers, where the water goes when it rains and also how we can stop it from getting polluted. She said water gets from the catchment area to lakes and rivers through the soil, down drains and pipes and from run-off into creeks. We poured water from a bucket onto a model catchment area so we could see it soak into the soil or run off into the river. We could pour it onto a farm, buildings, carpark and a toilet or into a dam and a river. Then we made a huge food chain on a blue mat (the river) to see how all the plants and creatures are connected to each other. We learned that too much algae is caused by too much nutrients being washed into the rivers and lakes. These are some of the ways that the waterways get too much nutrients washed into them.
After lunch and more playing, we learnt about the life cycle of a Long Neck Turtle. Did you know that females turtles walk a long way from the river to lay their eggs in sand where they can did a hole? Erin told us that the female can lay 2 -16 eggs. She is old enough to lay eggs when her shell is 15-21cm long but when the babies hatch their shell is only the size of a 20c coin. Then they have to walk all the way back to the river or lake before a bird or a fox eats them. Today was a really fun day. We had loads of fun and it was good to help the environment. Mrs Johnston. GELATERIA EXCURSION In Italian lessons, the year 4's have been practising how to order gelato in Italian. The class were fortunate to visit Gusto at Elisabeth Quay last week and use their Italian skills to order gelato from Giuseppe a native Italian who worked there. They were rewarded with an amazing tasting gelato. Signora Kerrigan CLASS 5/6 In week 3 Regent College sent 2 Numero teams to compete in the inter school mathematics competition. Both teams performed well and placed 1st and 3rd out of the 18 teams in the heat. Our winning team was then invited to the grand final where they placed 8th. To come 8th overall out of 216 participating teams from 81 different schools is an outstanding result. Well done to Isaac, Charlotte, Ken and Josh I from the year 5/6 class for your 8th out of 216 teams result. Last Friday the River Rangers tested their flying abilities on the trees adventure course in Dwellingup. There they were challenged to climb and zip line from tree to tree at heights up to 5 meters. All students had a great time and many of them overcame their personal fear of heights. It was great to see all students participating and encouraging each other throughout the day. Mr Tracy AFTER SCHOOL CARE (ASC) This term our theme is "Our Favourite Things" and ASC students have enjoyed making pizza, fruit kebabs and learning about healthy eating. We created constructions from spaghetti and marshmallows and also learnt how to make puffy paint which we modelled into cup cake sculptures! What Fun! Mrs Wyatt. During Term 4 ASC will be collecting donations for Manna, a local charity that feeds the homeless. They are currently conducting a drive for Christmas Hampers and Regent College families are invited to donate items for these. Boxes will be available at reception and in the ASC room to collect these items and all donations must be received by Wednesday, 7th December. Some suggested items that can be donated are:
Thank you in anticipation! AFTER SCHOOL CARE (Survey) Feedback is really appreciated in reviewing, improving and refining programs at Regent College. If your child occasionally or regularly attends the After School Care program, please take a minute or so to complete the following survey. Thank you.
CONGRATULATIONS The College would like to congratulate Year 3 student, Ishaan Barbare for receiving a Certificate of Distinction in a recent Australian Mathematics Competition. Well done, Ishaan! COLLEGE CALENDAR The Regent College calendar is available via the following link: |