RC. Your child loving learning! No Images? Click here Dear Families It was a privilege to join the Year 4.1 class as they attended their camp, last Wednesday through Friday, north of Toodyay. There is no doubt that overnight temperatures were 'chilly' as we slept in our glamping tents, but the fun and fellowship certainly distracted us from the icy elements. Many thanks to parents for supporting the adventure; thanks to Mrs Innes (Class 4.1 teacher), Mrs Johnston (Class 3.1 teacher), Mr Wickham (College Chaplain) and Mrs Cowper (College Administration), for coordinating such a super experience for students. We are thankful to God for the opportunity and safety across the trip. Have a wonderful week. Derek Nicholls. Principal Early morning on Yr4 camp. Edge of a large fresh water lake. IMPORTANT DATES. Next Week. Student Free Days. Thursday 30th May & Friday 31st May Public Holiday. Monday 3rd June COLLEGE BUSH DANCE. Save the Date. Saturday 22nd June 5.30pm Full details in the next few days. Organised by the College PC Nationally Consistent Collection of Data. Each year, schools around Australia are required to submit data to the Australian Government regarding students with a disability. What is the NCCD? Who is included and why is it being collected? To find out more, please click HERE for a NCCD Fact Sheet for Parents, Guardians and Carers available in 'Resources for Parents' on our website. Superhero Play Our plants have grown so much taller KG1Occupying our brand new classroom, along with using our wonderful extra facilities has been an exciting start to Term 2 for our class! The children and staff are enjoying the spacious, light room and our beautiful functional and flexible furniture. We have been utilising our verandah area both during outdoor learning and as an indoor/outdoor program at other times, where the children have agency (choice) in deciding where they would like to go and for how long. We have been able to use this extra space to accomodate 'superhero' play which requires a lot of space! We have, however, discouraged our superheroes from climbing the walls! The children were very excited to see that over the holidays their plants had grown much taller and are displaying an array of colourful flowers. They also spotted some strawberries in the Pre-primary planter box! Our school chaplain, Mr Wickham, has been coming in once a week to get to know the children. He joins in with whatever is happening in our classroom at the time, giving the children an opportunity to feel comfortable with a new person in our class. Ros Grieves. Teacher KG2In anticipation for this term's focus topic of community helpers, on Friday the 3rd of May the kindergarten 2 class came dressed up as a community worker. The children had such a wonderful day dressing up and engaging in many different conversations about the importance of community workers in and around our local community. We have all settled in well and are enjoying our new classroom. It has been so great to see the children explore all the new play spaces. The new ELC playground invites many new play opportunities and the children have been enjoying all the new areas, including the new water play space. We are looking forward to learning more about community workers and their role in supporting our community. Courtney Stein. Teacher
Dress-up day as community workers Enjoying our new water play space and playground KG3What an exciting time to be at Regent College. Kindergarten has moved into the new learning spaces. After a tour around the class rooms and the new nature based playground, students settled their excitement ready for term 2. Students have been looking at the importance Community Helpers contribute to help us everyday. Students put on their hard hats and tool belts and constructed bridges, towers and homes. We are grateful for the vital builders in our community. Margaret Gokavi. Teacher PP1What a super start to our new topic of study, this term. In our 'travels around the world', Pre-primary 1 has already had two mums come and share about their cultural background. The class has enjoyed both visits and can hardly wait for the next one! It has been wonderful to learn more about our families and develop our skills for our HASS unit using our 'home-grown' Regent College community members. Melanie Baker. Teacher PP2The PP2 students are thoroughly enjoying their new classroom and the extended ELC playground. The new water play area invites extensive investigation. The students are working together to find out how to channel the water in the desired direction. In HASS this term we are exploring our cultural heritages and finding out why some places are important to people. We began our journey in Australia, baking ANZAC cookies to enjoy on the trip. Where will our imaginary aeroplane take us next? Jo Coffey. Teacher PP3This term in Pre-Primary, we are learning about different cultures from around the world as part of our integrated HASS and English program. We started our journey in Western Australia and focused on where Western Australia, Perth and Victoria Park are located in a book of maps and Google Maps. We learnt about different cities and the native animals that live in Australia. We then moved on to Indonesia and learnt about the country and culture. We thought it was interesting that Indonesia is not just one big country like Australia, but it is made up of many different islands! We learnt about some native animals in Indonesia including the Komodo dragon, Sumatran tiger and the Javanese rhino! Miss Beath also taught us how to count to 10, to say different greetings and colours in the Bahasa language. We are excited to embark on our next part of our world journey when we explore the countries of China and Korea. We are looking forward to hearing from some of our peers in teaching about the Chinese and Korean culture and maybe teach us how to speak some Mandarin and Korean. Hayley Beath. Teacher Enjoying Baby Cino's at Dome! 1.1We have thoroughly enjoyed the changes that this term has brought, including the move to our brand new classroom. We are feeling very settled and ‘at home’ in the new space. The students have enjoyed exploring new furniture, spaces and resources upstairs and have also spent time working in the common area. Through all of this, the learning has continued. In Mathematics, we have been learning to skip count by 2s, 5s and 10s. Students have had the opportunity to explore this in a range of ways. It was very fun writing on our new whiteboard table, it even felt a bit naughty! We also tipped our smart board over and had a go at writing on it (don’t worry, it’s allowed to tip sideways like a table!). We enjoyed a fabulous excursion last week, venturing through our local Victoria Park community. The most popular part seemed to be drinking babycinos at Dome. We ordered them ourselves and paid with $1 coins! Now we’re excited for our next 2 community excursions which are coming up in the next couple weeks. Lauren Shaw. Teacher 1.2Year 1.2 are loving our new, open learning space and enjoying exploring the different opportunities it presents. One of our new favourite spaces is the wooden blocks in the common area. We have been building some amazing creations! To learn about ANZAC Day, we read ANZAC Ted by Belinda Landsberry. Everyone felt a little sad for ANZAC Ted when reading about the war he had to go to, but we also felt proud of the good job he did protecting our country. Using ‘Lest we forget’ paper, we each drew ANZAC Ted at a different stage of his journey. We also used a medium of our choice (paint, watercolour or edicole dye) to create a red or purple poppy to represent the sacrifice the soldiers and animals made in the war. Vanessa Jongeling. Teacher We love our wooden blocks Creating red and purple poppies for ANZAC Day We love our new classroom Science Investigating Mathematics fun 2.1It has been an exciting time working and settling into our new classroom. We are finally here. On day one, to capture the students’ interest and to find out how toys move in the air, water and on the ground, we played with a variety of toys. We utilised the new deck and played with pinwheels. It so happened to be a very windy day and the students were thrilled to observe how fast their pinwheels were spinning. Next, we went on the oval with foam rockets and vortexes, throwing and trying to catch them. In the classroom we played with Japanese wooden spinning tops and a cup in a ball. After our investigation, we described some of the different ways toys move and discussed push and pull forces. Our next Science investigation involved pushing a basketball and small ball into a container of water and felt the difference when lifting a heavy object suspended in air and in water. The students completed diagrams to show the push and pull forces and wrote their observations. In Mathematics we have been learning numerous 2D shapes and have completed an assortment of activities. We have made movable parallelograms, 2D graphs, used geo-boards and pattern blocks to make pictures and painted kites. All very hands on! Tracey Jenkins. Teacher 2.2Term 2 started with so much excitement for our new room, new building, new resources and finally, an interactive whiteboard! We are thoroughly enjoying the variety of flexible learning areas including the wobble seats and the common area with comfy furniture. The common area has been a fabulous space for group activities and playing with blocks. Class 2.2 will feature more with the blocks in the coming weeks. In Mathematics, we started the term with measurement of mass, area and 2D shapes. Measuring different objects on scales was so fun and engaging, that we wanted to measure everything in the class that could fit on the scales. We are also learning about 2D shapes and soon will move onto 3D shapes, which is also when we will be learning with blocks. We also have been experimenting on push and pull with gravity in Science and all the experiments completed so far inspired the students to wonder how objects around us move? We will continue with this topic throughout this term. Finally, the Year 2.1 and Year 2.2 classes had a visit from an optometrist, Mrs Walkom, who educated us about how our eyes work and how we can look after our eyes. She kindly gave each student a story book that can be used for three eye screenings for distance vision, colour vision and depth perception. Hopefully the students are encouraged to have “less screen time and more green time”. Min Chi. Teacher We love our new space and blocks Maths measurements Learning how to care for our eyes Can you spot the hermit crabs? Our 6 very blue yabbies Enjoying edible Maths! Mmmm Cheerios & Pizza Shapes. Camp Quality Puppet Show 3.1Year 3’s are one of the few classes at Regent who didn’t move rooms this term so we have had the luxury of settling straight into Term 2 with only some minor changes. Such as, the arrival of several classroom visitors of the crustacean variety – 6 blue yabbies and 2 hermit crabs. Along with three of the carnivorous type. See if you can guess what they are… They can move, but they do not have limbs. They consume insects, but they don’t have stomachs. And they respire, but they don’t have lungs. Mmm, say what!? We hear you ask. Maybe you’ll just have to come into Year 3 and discover the answer for yourselves. We have also been enjoying some edible Maths. We started with an entree of Cheerios to build place value abacus and moved on to an appetizer of Tetrius Candy arrays for area and the four times tables. Next, for main course, we dined on fractions of Pizza Shapes. How’s that, educational and delicious! As if that hasn’t been enough, we performed a choral speaking item of a funny story with rhythm and rhyme at our assembly this week. We also started Edudance, measured our pulse in Fitness and were fortunate enough to be able to watch a puppet show presented by Camp Quality. At the puppet show we learned more about what life is like for people who have cancer and about the treatment for it. It was fun to watch and very informative. We are now more equipped to care for and communicate with people with cancer or with our friends whose family member has cancer. Our current big adventure is the NAPLAN tests and the upcoming poetry (Rhythm and Rhyme) recitals. So, we have been looking at some past tests to familiarise ourselves with the processes involved and reading lots of poetry on the hunt for a favourite to recite in front of our class. Deanne Johnston. Teacher The Old Court House Law Museum At Elizabeth Quay Supreme Court Gardens In Perth City 5.1In Year 5 this term we are focussing on HASS - in particular, the history of the Swan River Colony (Perth). At the beginning of the term, we knew a lot about the colonisation of Australia, but not so much about Perth, so we had lots of questions to pose as a class. We have investigated the reasons why Australia was colonised, and why Perth was colonised. We have also learnt about what the land was like when the Indigenous people managed it, the changes they made to the environment, and then the ways it has changed since European settlement. We thoroughly enjoyed our recent trip into Perth city, which allowed us to see some of the historical buildings in Perth. It really brought history to life! We visited WA’s oldest building, and considered some of the reasons behind the changes in Perth over time. We look forward to continuing our learning in this area! Sarah Wills. Teacher 6.1In Mathematics this term we have been learning all about fractions, percentages and decimals. We have played lots of games to learn how to add and subtract fractions with related denominators. The students also had to write a shopping budget spending $100, to show how to add decimals and keep within a budget. The year six class along with year fives caught the bus into the city, where they went to various historical sites around Perth and learnt about the history of them. The students went to Saint Georges Cathedral, the Town Hall, The Barrack Street Arch and the Supreme Court gardens. The students went into the Old Court House Museum and learnt that it is the oldest building in Perth, built in 1836. We wandered around the gardens and looked at all the flora and fauna, and sketched pictures of them. The students also went to Elizabeth Quay and talked about the changing landscape of the Perth foreshore, and how it looks compared to 100 years ago. At the end of the excursion they enjoyed eating gelato and catching the ferry back to the South Perth foreshore. Janice Lotsos. Teacher ICT Algorithms are a part of everyday life, they are the step-by-step procedures taken to solve a problem. The instructions needed to bake a cake, the steps taken to tie your shoelaces or the way that you mix ingredients together to make a milkshake. These instructions are called algorithms, when used to describe computer coding. The year 3’s are learning how to write very specific instructions for their partner to interpret, so that they could accurately draw a spaceship. Learning to write an algorithm is helpful in many ways, including applications in the classroom. For example understanding how to write a story in English; you also need to be specific and follow step by step, to ensure your story makes sense. Jay Saxton. Teacher Writing instructions to draw a spaceship Year 5's playing the Sentence Stealer game Year 3's playing a game with saying the time in Italian LANGUAGES - ITALIAN As with many classes this term, Italian also has a new venue. The old pre-primary room has now become the place for students to listen, speak, write and read Italian. This term, Year 1's, are focusing on a text based on Eat Your Peas with an Italian version 'Mangia I Piselli' and soon the students will be creating their own booklets. Year 2's are learning how to say the weather in Italian and revise the days of the week. The Year 3's are completing a theme on Families and learning how to describe them. Year 4's are looking at the day routine and will also make a booklet describing their day with accompanying times. Year 5's are doing the theme of where they live and describing their home and Year 6's the focus is free time; what they do, when they do it and with whom. I am super excited with the new venue and it gives the students so many more opportunities to use all the resources on hand. Signora Kerrigan MUSICA lot of ‘musicking’ has been happening in our class! Our students are exploring a variety of musical instruments we are so privileged to have in our school. Year 2 and 3 students are learning to play some of our familiar songs on the xylophones. We’ve learnt how important it is to listen to each other while playing instruments as a group. We are also super pleased at ourselves that we have managed to play our songs in time with everyone. Our Year 1s are starting to learn songs on the ukulele. We’ve learnt that ukuleles only have a body, neck and a head, and it’s not scary at all that they don’t have arms and legs! Kindy and Pre-primary students have had a ball recognising and sorting classroom instruments. One major takeaway from our lesson was - egg shakers are not made out of the eggs we eat for breakfast, and the eggs we eat for breakfast are definitely not playing! Joey Wong. Teacher We placed 2nd overall in the WACSSA Carnival SPORT On Wednesday the 3rd of April Regent College competed in the WACSSA Div 2 swim carnival. The swimmers swam exceptionally well and placed 2nd overall. We had some outstanding individual performances and team efforts. Mikaela Dodosz was awarded runner up year 6 girl, Copper Heather received champion boy for year 5 and Jasmine Wild Runner up girl in year 5. A fantastic result and all swimmers should be proud of their efforts. Thanks to the parents for their loud cheering and teachers who came along and assisted on the day. Lauren French. Sports Specialist Thank you to the many mums who attended the recent Kindergarten and Pre-primary Mother's Day event. Thanks to Staff for preparing such a lovely afternoon. WOOLWORTHS EARN & LEARN PROGRAM Not every school can collect earn & learn stickers because they do not have a local Woolworths store. This year Regent College is helping a remote school receive new equipment by collecting earn & learn stickers on their behalf. If you would like to help Wongutha CAPS school which is a member of Christian Schools Australia, please send your earn & learn stickers to administration. 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