The Regent Digest: Week 3, Term 4 2018 No Images? Click here 26 October 2018 Dear Regent Families Earlier this week College Staff enjoyed a special morning of celebration and recognition, as students presented cards and parents coordinated a lovely THANK YOU STAFF morning tea. It was a generous gesture and greatly appreciated by all staff. In addition to the event, it was encouraging to witness students participating in an act of thankfulness, one of the many practices we value as a school, as we are invited in the Bible to daily give thanks to God. "Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good; his love endures forever." Psalm 118:29 This term we welcome Mrs Lynn Cowper, who has joined the administration team as Administration Manager. Lynn has a wealth of experience working in school environments and we appreciate her addition to the team; we are truly thankful to God for his provision. Blessings Derek Nicholls
2019 Term dates for next year are accessible via the following link. It is worth noting that there is an extra long weekend scheduled (as in 2018) for the long weekend in June (2 student free days before the long weekend in June 2019). Amazing Results. Worth reading... ICAS Assessments are designed to assess students' ability to use classroom and curriculum learning in new contexts, requiring the use of higher-order thinking and problem-solving skills (ICAS). Each year, students from Regent College opt-in to participate in ICAS Assessments. The College is please to announce the following achievements for English and Mathematics for 2018: MATHEMATICS
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Awards for High Distinctions and Distinctions will be presented at this week's assembly. Families have already been notified. All other ICAS Certificates will be sent home via the classroom following the assembly date. Congratulations to all students who participated in ICAS, this year. SPECIAL RECOGNITION. Regent College has just recently had it confirmed that our High Distinction recipients for this year, have in fact, achieved the highest scores in English and Mathematics for their year group, across the entire State of Western Australia. They have been invited to a special Medal presentation at Perth Town Hall in December.
Switch on your imagination. After several months of transportation by sea from the USA, our fabulous new Blue Blocks, developed by Imagination Playground, have recently arrived! You can observe (pictured) some students having an initial free-play, before we see these wonderful new resources incorporated into the learning program here at Regent College. The blocks can be used both inside and outside, and in combination with other loose parts and materials, including water. Thank you to the Parent Collective for supporting the purchase of this fabulous resource!
Kindergarten 1&2Term 4 has arrived along with some warmer weather. We have put on our Akubras, pulled up our camping chairs alongside the billabong and listened to stories of our amazing country we call home. After locating Australia on our class globe, students have travelled to the middle of Australia to explore Uluru. The various textures and colours were discussed, as this iconic landmark was re-created by the students. A masterpiece fit for any world art gallery. A favourite class story, Wombat Stew, about a cheeky dingo concocting a brew, saw the students recreate their own “sticky gooey chewy wombat stew”. Students went hunting for leaves, sticks and nuts to put in their stew. Students also made Anzac Biscuits and though “chewy” were much more delish then the “crunchy munchy” wombat stew. Week 3 saw a different class. Our campsite changed to a “backyard barbie”. Students enjoyed recreating, through play, an iconic leisure activity marking us an “Aussie”. No family picnic is complete without lamingtons. A sticky cooking lesson making chocolate lamingtons were enjoyed by all. Students creativity was also encouraged through drawing. Using fine motor skills students drew koalas and their young in gum trees. Our learning journey thus far has been adventure packed. The kindergarten students have ventured out on nature walks to witness God's Creation with the unfolding of spring. With just a few more weeks left before Christmas will begin we look forward to exploring more of this sun blessed country. Feel free to join our travels at anytime. Miss Gokavi Kindergarten 3Australia Kindergarten 3 have been engaged in many different learning experiences all about Australia. As an introduction to our topic, children enjoyed researching and exploring Australia and some of our famous landmarks using books, maps and google earth. We created our very own maps of Australia and they look amazing! We have enjoyed cooking together and so far, we have made ANZAC biscuits and lamingtons. As a part of our oral narrative and literacy programs we have explored some famous Australian books including ‘Edward and Edwina the Emu’, ‘Wombat Stew’ and ‘Possum Magic’. The children have enjoyed acting out and retelling the stories. We have also been continuing to expand our single sound knowledge and are getting very good at identifying the initial and end sounds in words. In numeracy we have been continuing to build on our number knowledge and have started partitioning numbers and locating numbers on the number line. Mrs Stein Pre-Primary 1In the first few weeks of term 4, PP1 worked on an integrated English/art project called “The best part of me”. As a class we read a story called “The best part of me” the story was created by a group of children who wrote poetry about their bodies and why different parts of their bodies are special. As a class we discussed the favourite parts of us and he reasons to why we thought our eyes, legs, hands, hearts and hair were special to us. Some of us loved our legs because they help us run fast! Some of us like our hands because we can touch toys, books and our parents and a few thought their hearts were their best part because they can love people and love God. The children really enjoyed creating a writing piece explaining what the best part of them was and taking simple, close up pictures of their featured body part. In art this term we are focusing on the basic principles of art; texture, shape, line and colour. We have created some fantastic sunset art by using warm colours for the sunset and cool colours for the grass & ocean beneath the suns rays. This week we will be focusing on shape and abstract art! We love expressing our artistic abilities creating and artwork in PP1! Miss Beath Pre-Primary 2What a great start to our last term of pre-primary before we head up to year one! As a class we have been investigating some amazing things in Science, looking at how things move. We have a movement museum in our class with lots of toys and random objects for use and to sort based on how they move. We have worked as a class to build an amazing marble run, unfortunately it was accidentally knocked over just before Miss Baker could take a photo 😔. We have also started building a class artwork focusing on learning to work with shape and texture. We are recreating Kandinsky’s Color Study, Squares with Concentric Circles using felt. This has been working our fingure muscles and developing our fine motor skills as well as our art knowledge! Miss Baker Pre-Primary 3In the first part of term 4 the Pre-Primary children will be learning about the science of movement. We investigated the movement of the toys in our classroom. We discovered that the toys can move in a variety of ways depending on their size, shape and the surface they are placed on. We even created some impressive art by rolling marbles in paint. Then we headed outdoors on an excursion to Raphael Park. Our objective was to collect data about the things that we saw move in the environment. We discovered ways to spin, slide, swing and climb and had a great time experimenting with and describing movement in the playground! Next, we will use the information we have gathered to design and create a model of playground equipment or a show ride we enjoy. Mrs Coffey Year 1.1Assembly Last week Year 1.1 presented our 2nd assembly for the year. We worked out our speaking parts in class and took them home to practise. Miss Shaw was blown away by how quickly we all memorised our parts! Our first item was a video of us reading our holiday writing. We did all the videoing ourselves. Maybe next time we can do the editing too! Our second item was a song called the Wombat Wobble. Miss Shaw normally plays this on guitar with us, but we found another version of the song that we could use for our performance. It’s a really funny song with lots of cute animals and actions. We hope you enjoyed it! Health In health, we have been learning about ways to be kind to others. We brainstormed some ways and drew pictures to help us remember. It was interesting to learn about the difference between compliments and encouraging others. Mrs Shaw Year 1.2This term, during investigations, we are looking at shiny and slimy things. To begin our new topic, Miss Jongeling put shiny things all around the classroom for us to explore. There were glitter trays, bead trays, the iScope set up to look at gemstones, tinsel and lots of other shiny things. Recently, we brainstormed questions about slime such as, “How is slime made?”, “Is slime always green?”, and, “Who invented slime?”. During investigations this week, we will be making slime and documenting the process. Miss Jongeling Year 2.1 Beetle Races To conclude our Science topic of the life cycle of a mealworm, the students enjoyed constructing lanes for their chosen beetles to race. We measured the distance travelled, and compared our measurements to determine the winner. Time Treasure Hunt In Mathematics, the students have been completing numerous tasks relating to reading and writing digital and analogue time. We had a class competition to find as many clocks hidden inside the classroom, undercover area and piazza within the given timeframe. This was an enjoyable way for the students to identify and record the time to the quarter hour. Regent Artefacts In History, we have been learning about the past in the present. It was a delight to discover that the builders had unearthed artefacts from the college grounds in preparation for the new buildings, and had given them to the school. In visual arts, we decided to draw the items discovered using charcoal sticks. The items found included bottles, a vase/teapot, a very old medicine bottle and an ink jar. In the following weeks the students are going to bring artefacts from their families’ histories and share with the class. Mrs Jenkins Year 3Q. What do a pizza shop, personal safety and a partridge in a pear tree have in common? They all reside in Year 3.1! The Regent Pizza shop us sprung up this term to help us learn about fractions and practise making them as well as making an amount of money with different notes and coins and giving change. We also built a personal safety web last week and drew some of our own webs to list all the people we know, the actions we take and the decisions we make to help keep us safe. With Christmas around the corner, we are looking at the history of the song The Twelve Days of Christmas. It has quite an interesting beginning starting with Jesus being represented by the partridge in the pear tree. Ask one of the Year 3 students to explain and I'm sure they'd enjoy telling you all about it. Mrs Johnston Year 4.1In English, the year 4.1 class has been learning about homonyms. We used the computer to find some pictures for our homonyms and then followed the instructions to make cards, so we now have a set of homonym cards for any class to use! We have also written some poetry. We tried a format of poetry writing, called a Kenning poem, where you use descriptive words to give clues as to what you are writing about. Here are some for you to work out! (answers at the end of this segment...) Bird chaser Head pecker Playful runner High flyer Face licker Egg layer Dirt roller Food snatcher Shoe chewer Feathered friend? by Jasmine by Rainie This week we had a teacher from the Constitution Centre come and talk to us about local government. We learnt about the different shires or councils and the services that they provide for us. We played a fishing game which was like a memory game and wrote a letter requesting some new facilities in our local councils, such as obstacle courses, paintball courses,bmx tracks,art competitions and a dodge ball centre, to name a few!!! In Mathematics we have been consolidating our knowledge on fractions and had fun playing games with our fraction walls and a die. (answers: dog and magpie) Mrs Innes Year 5.15.1 have had a busy start to the term! In Week 1, we completed our classroom designs by drawing scaled diagrams of what we thought our new layout should be. We decided to include teepees in our classroom. Once we had drawn our designs, we presented them and voted on our favourite. Well done to Sophie, whose design was chosen by her peers! In Mathematics, we have learnt about decimals, and explored them in many different ways. We now know how to compare decimals, order them and find them on number lines. In Science, we have been investigating light, and have enjoyed the many experiments we have done to find out how light works. It was interesting to work out how we could create a space that was as dark as possible so that the torches would work effectively! We also made periscopes and enjoyed using them around the school. Mrs Masters Year 6.1Last week the Year Sixes went on a camp to Busselton. The students spent the week getting to know each other more and doing activities with Scripture Union leaders. The students went head to head in a series of high energy, teambuilding beach games and challenges. They went on a walk along the Cape to Cape path and saw whales out in the ocean breaching. Many wildflowers and frogs were found on our walk and a slide down the sand dunes. The students went to Ngilgi Cave where they were met by a local Indigenous man who talked about traditional plants and medicines, the Aboriginal six seasons, tool making and how to start a traditional fire. He then made lunch for the students and they had kangaroo meatballs, potato salad with lemon myrtle and wild tomatoes. The students then went into the caves and crawled along the path of the ancient river bed. It was a fantastic camp and many memories were created. Mrs Lotsos Information TechnologyIn Pre-Primary, the students have spent much of last term learning to code online on code.org. This has given them a solid foundation of basic skills and a new understanding of coding. Term 4 sees them return to the physical application of those skills, again with the Beebots. Students were given some free reign in designing their “course” and exploring with some great results! Mrs Saxton MusicTone Colour… is that all about blue, red, and yellow? Yes….and also no! In music, ‘colour’ means if the sounds being produced are ‘bright’ or ‘dark’. Tone colour is basically to describe of sound qualities being made from the instruments. For example, ukulele makes a warm, mellow and bright tones depending on how you play them, or the pitches you play from the ukulele; glockenspiels make bright, sharp sounds. But how does tone colour relate to us? This term, our students get to explore different tone colours and sound sources through learning different instruments. We explore the anatomy of our instruments, such as what materials they are made out of, how they make sounds and which instrument families our instruments belong to. Our Year 1s are happy that our instruments have finally found an instrument family that they belong to. Our Year 5 and Year 6 students are enthusiastic about discovering new instruments and new things about our classroom instruments. We are also creating lots of different soundscapes using sound sources. In our Year 3 music lesson, we have decided to create a thunderstorm soundscape due to the stormy weather we've had in the past few days. Working in groups, our students have collaboratively and creatively worked with peers and the classroom instruments to create their own unique thunderstorm soundscapes. Creating soundscapes have helped us to be aware of the environment that God created, and be more appreciative of the sounds we could hear around us! Miss Wong The Year 3's playing Passa la Bomba (Pass the bomb) while they have to say a greeting in Italian before the bomb explodes. The Year 4's are practising how to order in Italian with pretend gelato ready for their gelato excursion soon. ItalianSome fun themes are to be had in Languages this term. The years 1 are doing 'Grazie Api, based on the picture book Thank You Bees by Toni July and children will create their own Grazie book. The Year 2's are exploring Il Pappagallo book about a parrot getting into mischief and the children will dramatise this story using their Italian. The year 3's are exploring La Macchinetta Rossa a book about a little red car travelling through Italy. The Year 4's have the most exciting theme of Andiamo alla Gelateria with the theme culminating with an excursion to a gelato shop to buy gelato. Year 5's and year 6's are both exploring travelling in Italy, learning how to say they saw a famous place etc. in Italian. Mrs Kerrigan 2018 National Table Tennis ChampionshipsSidney Win Shwe represented WA in the Australian National Junior Table Tennis Championship in Under 11 and Under 13 categories in 2017. Having won the Championship titles in the Western Australian Open for 2017 & 2018, Sidney always wanted to get a medal in the National Championships and be a seeded player. This year Sidney brought home a silver medal for U11 team (team of 2), and another Silver for U13 (team of 3). He also received order of merit for both categories and became a seeded player nationally. As a seeded player, he will be invited to play in top 10 national competition and international table tennis federation events during the year. Congratulations Sidney for your achievements, we are proud to call you a Regent College student! REGENT COLLEGE |