RC. Your child loving learning! No Images? Click here Dear Families Welcome to this final term for 2019; thank you for contributing to such a smooth start. It's truly a joy to witness the smiles and joyful tones of students arriving to school following the break. Greeting and warmly receiving students into their school day as they arrive through Kiss and Drive is always a priority and privilege. As a College we subscribe to the notion that a happy start to the school day is a invaluable contributor to good learning and relationships. We hope and trust that, as parents, your experience is a child or children looking forward and happy to attend school, on most days. If your experience is different, please take time to take with your child's teacher, in the first instance. Thank you Derek Nicholls. Principal
TERM FOUR CALENDAR Afternoon of Music Families are encouraged to take a close look at the term calendar; there are some wonderful opportunities to be involved, including the 'Afternoon of Music' for instrumental students and their families. Playgroup 2020 This coming Wednesday offers an introduction 'taster' to playgroup at Regent College, ahead of a likely program commencing 2020. Playgroup is for children aged 0-Pre-Kindy and their caregiver(s). Follow the link HERE.
2020 TERM DATES. Visit HERE UPCOMING EVENTS:
KG1Kindergarten 1 children returned to school eagerly greeting their peers, and confidently settling back into the classroom routine. It is wonderful to reflect with the children, as well as the parents, how far they have developed over their Kindergarten journey since the beginning of the year. The children have become a very cohesive group, who are able to independently go about their daily routines and they kindly look after their classmates when they need assistance. I am able to stand back at fruit time, for instance, while the children set out the mats, wash their hands, get their lunchboxes and organise their seating arrangements! No one is allowed to take a 'bite' before they sing a thank you song to God, of course. The children also work together in creating their self initiated projects, such as building a big farm out of logs, cylinders, reels, fabric, styrofoam, foam padding etc. Some of them have discovered they can construct spinning creations, which are fun to test out on our verandah area! Performing together in a show has become one of the favourite things to do, the audience members grab their chairs and encourage the performers with a round of applause! The warmer weather has allowed the children to enjoy the water play area without their shoes and socks on. Ros Greaves. Teacher KG2The kindergarten 2 class has enjoyed a bustling start to Term 4! With the warmer spring weather, our class has loved taking our learning outdoors. We planted seedlings as part of our ‘Environment’ topic. The children have been caring for the seedlings each day by feeding them water, sunlight and air. We were super excited to see that some of the seeds have already sprouted! The children have enjoyed experimenting with water play. We made our own boats using different materials, the children had to measure, cut and create their boat. We then tested them in the water to see if they would float or sink. We had so much fun! The children have also enjoyed using the water pump to measure different sized containers and compare their capacity. We have continued to build on our beginning sound knowledge as part of our literacy program. The children have been eager to brainstorm and find objects beginning with the sounds we have learnt so far! We have even had a go at writing the letters using correct letter formations. Courtney Stein. Teacher KG3Term 4 has arrived and with it the warmer weather. Students have been very interested with all the “spring activity” in the outdoor learning space from, caterpillars to budding flowers. To encapsulate their interest this term we will be looking at sustainability and the environment. Students put on a pair of gardening gloves and got busy planting either radish, lettuce or bean seeds. Students knew that though it appeared that not much was happening the first few days, there in fact was! After germination the students discovered that roots had to grow. A few students spotted the roots from the bottom of their pots. It was around day 7 that life emerged from the soil, much to the student’s excitement. Each pot revealed different types of stems and leaves. Watering our plants and providing enough shade was the students responsibility for the days that followed. Margaret Gokavi. Teacher PP1In Pre-primary 1 this term we have started learning about movement in Science. To commence this topic, we made a ramp as a class and then searched the room to find different objects to place on the ramp. Next, we made predictions on how we thought each object would travel down the ramp; maybe sliding, rolling or even bouncing. We all took turns placing our object on the ramp and then described how it moved. We have also observed movement using dominoes and marble runs; we even made our own marble maze! We have been fascinated leaning about movement. Mel Baker. Teacher PP2In Science this term PP2 have begun investigating how things move. Experimenting with a variety of toys and objects found in the classroom, the students are discovering that the way an object moves depends on a variety of factors, including size and shape. When creating art, we observed that spheres and cylinders roll through the paint more effectively than other shapes. Building and creating with the blue blocks during outdoor learning, some students noticed that the ball rolls faster if we raise the ramp up. Using the blue blocks, students have created objects that spin, roll, slide and swing. We are learning that the objects we are experimenting with cannot move without some kind of force to propel them into motion. Jo Coffey. Teacher PP3This term our science topic is force and movement! We have learnt about gravity and how objects can move when force is applied. Objects can move by spinning, rolling, sliding and swinging to name a few! We spent an afternoon walking around the school looking for objects that move which then gave us ideas of how we could design and build our own objects that move! In partners, we designed an array of objects such as trucks, swings, airplanes, video games, trains and a book! We chose specific materials we thought would be suitable for the object to be able to move when a force such as a push or a pull is applied. The magnet table was a hit. Being able to feel the repel force of 2 magnets that do not magnetise together was very exciting! We are now moving onto learning about ramps and experimenting with different speeds that occur when ramps have steep slopes. I wonder what we will create and discover! Hayley Beath. Teacher 1.1Year 1.1 started the term exploring measurement in Mathematics. We measured the length of tables, windows, doors, books, rulers and more. We soon realised a few important rules, such as “don’t leave a gap and don’t overlap” the objects we’re using to measure. We also realised we have to use the same unit when measuring. After some time spent exploring, we were given a building task: build a swimming pool that is 3 pop sticks long, 2 pop sticks wide and has 4 lanes for swimmers. This task lead in to our capacity unit as we tried to work out how much “water” we needed for our pools. Lauren Shaw. Teacher 1.2Year 1.2 started this term learning about 3D objects. We discovered 2D shapes make 3D objects and they are all around us in nature and among man-made objects. In Year 1 we need to know the names of common 3D objects and be able to describe them. To learn this, we made 3D objects out of playdough, kinetic sand and even the big blue blocks. In groups, we chose a 3D object to make out of the blue blocks. This wasn’t an easy task because the blocks had to be shared between the groups and sometimes the block a group needed was already taken – with perseverance and creative thinking, most groups created a 3D object. Then, as a class everyone worked together to make a giant rectangular prism. We then drew the blue blocks used to make the rectangular prism and labelled them with arrows or using a coloured key. Vanessa Jongeling. Teacher 2.1In Mathematics, the students have been learning to tell the time to the quarter hour and identify o’clock and half past times. They have completed numerous tasks including making their own 2D or 3D analogue clocks, choosing suitable materials. Some of the students made grandfather clocks and everyone’s clock had moveable hands. We have commenced our new topic Chemical Science and are exploring different types of mixtures. We mixed simple ingredients together, observed and recorded what happened. As part of our on-going History theme, the students designed, painted, filled and sewed their own soft toys. They have written narratives involving their characters and peers and enjoyed sharing their stories with the class. We constructed a puppet theatre using the boxes left over from the time machine. The students will be able to create their own puppet shows using their soft toys and perform in front of an audience. We welcome Melanie Strother from ECU who has commenced her teaching practice and look forward to her teaching the students. Tracey Jenkins. Teacher 2.2Term 4 started with excitement and delight as we welcomed our new student Matthew to the class. Matthew came from Indonesia and has quickly found many new friends. As a continuation from learning about the history of toys last term, the students are making their own soft toys as a Design and Technology project. They created a design based on the fantasy characters which they made up. From these designs, they made soft toys following a number of steps. I would like to take this opportunity to thank Mrs. Bartlett-Day and Mrs. Radford (Wesley’s grandma) for sewing up the toys for us in such a short time. We have given each of our soft toys their own names and characteristics and look forward to writing fantasy stories about them. In Mathematics, we started the term by exploring money. The students practise to add, subtract, count and multiply coins and notes and they are all thoroughly enjoying various hands-on activities and games. Our favourite part was when we set up the Year 2.2 supermarket with the Coles Little Shop Mini Collectables that many families have kindly donated to the class. The students set up the shop, found out appropriate prices on the Coles website and will be playing shop for the rest of the term. We have also started working on finding and making arrays of objects as a part of learning multiplication. Min Chi. Teacher 3.1The Year 3.1 term started with a SPLASH! Our swimming lessons started on the first of Term 4 so we were not only excited to be back at school with our friends, but we were super excited because we travelled in a bus to Belmont Oasis to swim. We also came back from holidays to find our yabbies had babies! They are so tiny. One female yabby can carry 30-450 eggs. Unfortunately, only 6-8 have lived long enough for us to see them, but we’re excited to have the chance anyway. It’s amazing to see how they look exactly like a fully-grown yabby, but so tiny. At one-week old baby yabbies are about 2-3mm long. This term we are continuing our research into life in Antarctica as we research and create a product of our choice to display our understanding. Some of us are doing a short play while others have built dioramas and written information texts in the form of a booklet or poster. Still others have written poems and created amazing artwork. In Maths we have explored what makes a number odd or even and bundled popsticks to investigate place value. We used every popstick in the classroom to make huge bundles of 1000 and discovered our total was an odd number, 2189. We think we need a lot more popsticks, like 10 000 maybe! Deanne Johnston. Teacher 4.1Our class had an incursion with Louis from the Electoral Education Centre who taught us about voting in Australia. We learnt that we can vote in local, state and federal elections when we are 18 years old. We saw an example of a ballot paper and ballot box. We had an opportunity to vote for our favourite treat to eat and learnt about preferential voting and how votes can be invalid if the form is not filled out correctly. Ask your child about a ‘donkey’ vote... Wendy Innes. Teacher 5.1The Year 5’s have begun the term learning about how the government works in Australia. We have learnt about how and why we vote, and what the role of politicians is. We really enjoyed our trip to Parliament House in Perth, where we learnt more about the two houses of Parliament and what they do. Here are some of our thoughts about the excursion: “I thought that it was interesting to be able to set foot on where lots of important people have stepped, and learning lots of stuff that I’ve never learnt before- especially the unicorn in the coat of arms!” – Hannah “I liked how we got to learn about what happens in the chamber, how they decide to make new laws. I also liked how we got the little badge and got to learn about the first time people discussed a new law.” – Charlie “I liked when we learnt a story of how the Aboriginals made a painting of how they felt when the Europeans came to Australia. The rainbow serpent was breathing out smoke that had angry faces in it, which was representing how the Aboriginals felt, and there was a huge amount of white bunnies representing the white settlers who were like pests.” – Imogen We look forward to continuing our learning in this area! Sarah Wills. Teacher 6.1Last week Year Six went on a camp to Busselton. The students spent 5 full days together, participating in activities with Scripture Union leaders. The students went head to head in a series of high energy, team-building beach games and challenges. They went on a walk along the Cape to Cape path and saw many beautiful wildflowers. We even encountered a Tiger snake on the footpath, but it quickly slithered away when it heard the noise of 27 students! Students visited a Maze and had to work through a series of challenges to make their way out. A visit was made to the 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 enjoyed 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. Janice Lotsos. Teacher MUSICTerm 4 is always a busy term in music, with many classes preparing for assembly performances and special calendar events including the Year 6 Graduation and the Christmas Assembly. The Year 2s are preparing some folk dances for Heritage Day, The Year 5&6 Classes are preparing a musical item for Italian Day and our Year 3s have begun working on a special item as part of the Christmas Assembly. The Year 1.2 class are continuing to practice their ukulele skills with Mrs Marshall every Thursday and we are now beginning to include other classroom instruments into the musical arrangements of our simple pentatonic songs. Students rotate through the instruments so they get to develop a variety of skills and techniques specific to the different instruments. Rebekah Marshall. Music Teacher. LANGUAGES - ITALIAN Let Me Tell You a Story in My Language Competition We were very fortunate to have five students as finalists in the Let Me Tell You a Story Competition run by the Modern Languages Teachers of WA. On Monday 28th October a ceremony was held at Rossmoyne Senior High School for the winners to be announced. Parents, Mr Nicholls and I were very proud to see how Regent College dominated the list of finalists. The following students received places:
Congratulations to the above students and their parents for their support. Mirella Kerrigan. Italian Teacher SPORT In Sport this term we have been learning some cricket skills such as how to bowl the ball, fielding skills and batting. We have also had a basketball development coach from Perth Redbacks coming to teach the year 5 students some basketball skills; these include, dribbling passing and shooting skills. Lauren French. Sport Teacher ICTThe Year 6’s have long been awesome at typing and are really encouraging the Year 5’s to improve. At the end of Term 3, the Year 5’s achieved 3rd place in Australia in the Under 12 division, for the most amount of words typed! Persistence will surely lead to improved speed! The Year 4’s have begun to build their knowledge of the Edison robot, with an expander kit. Very reminiscent of regular lego, the kit allows the Edison to be converted into multiple different types of robot. This group is beginning to create a crane that will be operated using a regular tv remote control. Families, if you have any old remote controls at home that you no longer need, the ICT Lab will gladly re-purpose them for you! The Year 3’s have taken their knowledge of Scratch programming to a new level. They are able to create output to a tiny circuit board called the BBC:Microbit. This connects via Bluetooth technology and can be powered by battery or USB. The output is shown by lighting the 25 LED lights on the Microbit, and is demonstrated here as “Wearable Technology” or a badge. The Year 2’s combined mathematic measurement and coding to get their Probot to draw the largest rectangle that they could fit on a sheet of paper, without going onto the table. This then leads to using more complex coding functions to draw a square and a triangle. Coding and maths are often intrinsically linked. Jay Saxton. ICT Teacher Year 5 Typing Tournament Year 4 Edison Robots Year 3 BBC:Microbits Year 2 Probots REGENT COLLEGE |