RC. Your child loving learning! No Images? Click here Dear families Welcome to this November edition of the Regent Digest. College Administration AFTERNOON OF MUSIC. Congratulations to the Regent College instrumental students who performed during last Saturday's, Afternoon of Music, at the College. Many thanks to the 2019 tutors in attendance, several of whom performed during the event. With over 50 performers and items, it was a relaxing and well-attended occasion, celebrating student musical progress across the year. Thank you to families for supporting the instrumental program and attending the special event. Thank you to Regent College Music teacher, Miss Joey Wong, for her oversight of the 2019 Instrumental Program and Afternoon of Music. 2020 TERM DATES. Visit HERE ICAS Earlier this year a number of students (Years 2-6) were registered by families to participate in the 2019 International Competitions and Assessments for Schools (ICAS). Congratulations to all participants, with the names of select students listed below, for achieving either a High Distinction or Distinction result. A special mention of student Terence Zhao, who achieved High Distinction in each of the assessments that Regent College students participated - Mathematics, Science and English. HIGH DISTINCTION - the top 1% of participants for each year level in Western Australia HIGH DISTINCTION - Mathematics
HIGH DISTINCTION - Science
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Distinction - next 10% of participants for each year level in Western Australia DISTINCTION - Mathematics
DISTINCTION - Science
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KG1 LearningSpring has arrived in Kindergarten 1. The children have planted seeds and taken care of their seedlings that have appeared, and identified the needs of a plant: sun, water and soil. We had a discussion about how plants can have too much water, we needed to plan how much water we will give them! The children listened to the Parable of the Sower (The Bible), so we placed some seeds in rocky soil and on a shelf to see what would happen to them. A seedling grew in the rocky soil, then it died, the seeds on the shelf have not changed so far! Our art activities, fingerplays, dramatic play, music and movement, books and prayers have reflected our topic this term, 'The Environment & Sustainability'. The children have demonstrated amazing knowledge during shared thinking time, explaining what 'recycling' means, why we shouldn't litter, and being grateful for the wonderful world God has created for us to enjoy. Some of the statements from the children are: the environment means the whole earth that God has made; my body is an environment; we need to look after the sea creatures; the turtles think the plastic bags are jellyfish; They've also been busy at Bunnings buying tools and plants, as well as doing all those Spring time jobs around the place! A sausage sizzle gives them energy to carry on! The children are becoming authors! They look at illustrations in a textless book, create a sentence relating to the illustration, then predict what is going to happen next. Ros Greaves. Teacher KG2Over the past few weeks, the children have continued to care for our seedlings by giving them water, sunlight and air each day. Unfortunately some of our seedlings didn’t survive which sparked many interesting conversations about why some of the seeds have lived and others have not? With the warm spring weather, the children have enjoyed playing outside and we have participated in many sensory play experiences. We created our own beach area where the children could pretend they were swimming in the cool water. The children loved painting and using their toes to practise pre-writing patterns, as well as enjoying a sensory walk feeling different textures under our feet. The children’s creativity shined through during some blue block play outside. We have enjoyed creating lots of different inventions including marble runs and even cubby houses! In Health we have been discussing our body and how to care for ourselves, including healthy eating, bathing and privacy. Courtney Stein. Teacher KG3Kindergarten 3 students have enjoyed exploring the reasons why 'sustainability' is important. In particular, students took on a natural passion attending to their surroundings. Our new class members, 6 monarch caterpillars, concretely reinforced each stage of the life cycle. The children also acquired new words such as chrysalis and metamorphosis. It was an absolute delight to see the caterpillars munch on the milk weed all day and then tuck themselves up ready to form their cocoon. After a period of a few weeks, students came to school to witness beautiful monarch butterflies drying off their wings, ready to be released. Margaret Gokavi. Teacher PP1In Pre-primary 1 for Mathematics, we have examined addition and subtraction, using many materials to help solve different problems. We have also started learning about positional language to describe location. To do this, students have engaged in stories, retelling these stories and playing barrier games with their friends. Students also created their own treasure maps, painting them with tea to make them look authentic and then describing the path to the treasure. So much fun, so much learning! Melanie Baker. Teacher PP2The fun continues in PP2. We have used many different materials to model and solve mathematics problems. Mrs Short brought us a big bag of lemons. After using them in our mathematics lessons on addition and sharing, we made delicious lemonade! In Science we have been learning about how things move. Many of the children had questions about how people and animals move. We did some research and asked Eliza’s mum, Dr Thum, to come and help us understand. We discovered that animals and people have skeletal, muscular and nervous systems that help them move. Last term we began a pen friend relationship with the Pre-Primary girls at Penrhos College. The PP2 students wrote to invite their pen friends to come to Regent College to experience our awesome playground and slide. We had a wonderful morning of fun with our new friends! They love the slide! Jo Coffey. Teacher PP3This term in Art we are focusing on the elements of art. We have explored line, shape and colour. The children have loved designing and creating their art pieces and have produced some amazing work! With line, we explored the various types of lines that are used in art and created a vibrant array of line patterns! With colour, we explored cool and warm colours and designed our own cool cats and hot dogs that incorporated the two groups of colours! With shape, we looked at the different types of shapes we see in art, not just geometric but also irregular and organic shapes are used in art. With this focus, the children brought in their prior knowledge of line and colour into their shape work and the results are fantastic! Next week we will explore the element of texture! I wonder what we’ll create! Hayley Beath. Teacher Year 1.1 & 1.2Over the last few weeks year 1.1 have been learning about time. We learnt to read hour and half hour times on analogue and digital clocks. We loved exploring and making clocks, it was fun to be so creative! Here are some of the clocks we made. We also learnt about time duration and events that take different amounts of time. Our year 1 combined new science topic is Light and Sound. Last week we started exploring sound. We went on a sound hunt around the school, played a ‘guess the sound’ game, made listening ears, and tried to do an experiment about sound vibrations. Take a look at our giant listening ears which help us listen carefully to different sounds! The first group who tried the experiment were in for a bit of a laugh, it didn’t work! We poured water into a glass, put glad wrap over the top, spooned a tiny bit of salt on, tapped the glass with a knife, and the salt didn’t move! Miss Jongeling tried to look up how to “fix” our experiment but we just couldn’t figure it out. What a laugh! We have also been enjoying playing musical instruments with Miss Wong, listening to the different pitch and working out how we make noises on different instruments. In Mathematics, Year 1.2 have been learning about measuring and ordering the length of objects. To help us remember how to measure we came up with a saying, the measuring unit (e.g. counters) must “touch, have no gaps and don’t overlap”. Lauren Shaw & Vanessa Jongeling. Teachers 2.1In History, we have been identifying sites and parts of the natural environment in our local community that reveal information about the past. We went on our heritage walk, Heirisson Island and celebrated Heritage Day. For our heritage walk, we visited the Victoria Park Windmill and Wishing Well and drew the structures. The windmill was built in 1939-1940. Next, we walked past Victoria Park Primary School which was built in 1895. The students used their mathematical skills and attempted to solve the age of each structure. For Heritage Day, we came to school dressed in heritage clothing. At assembly, we performed The Brown Jug Polka an Australian Heritage Dance. We made butter, scones, whipped cream and some students brought home made jam. We played quoits, Tiddlywinks, Chess or Scrabble. For sewing, we used wool to sew the first letter of our name on a piece of hessian. Mrs Pereira shared interesting facts and played her gramophone. We were able to draw it using charcoal sticks. We posed a question and collected data on our favourite activity, which was creating gumnut characters, and represented the information in a graph. Thank you to all of the parent helpers who assisted us, it was a productive and enjoyable week! We were able to develop our understanding and application of numerous historical, mathematical, english and visual art’s skills! Tracey Jenkins. Teacher 2.2The last few weeks have been full of excitement and fun at Year 2.2! Although we had to cancel our first excursion to Heirisson Island due to poor weather, the students instead spent the day making maps which included Regent College, Raphael Park, Causeway, Swan River and Heirisson Island. We started with a 2D map and then made a 3D version using blocks, carboard boxes, clothes and other materials available in the class. It was wonderful to see the entire class participating in the planning, drawing, making and evaluation process. Heritage Week started with a walk to the Windmill & Wishing Well, a Heritage Dance at the assembly with Year 2.1, a Heritage Day incursion and finished with our walk to Herission Island. The students thoroughly enjoyed Heritage Day and especially enjoyed being all dressed up in old-style clothes, making scones and butter, sewing, drawing and playing old-style games. One of our favourite moments was when Mrs Pereira brought in her old gramophone for us to look at and draw. She also played some old music with it, which particularly fascinated the students. We feel so blessed to have been able to experience these glimpses into our heritage and to learn more about what life was like in times before us. As a class, we all learned together that it is important to know the past to understand the present. Min Chi. Teacher 3.1The Year 3’s were fortunate enough to have a visit from some firefighters from the Kensington Fire Brigade. They taught us some fire safety information, how to be safe at home, what to do in an emergency and what career firefighters do. We would like to remind families to have a fire safety plan in case of a fire and make sure everyone in the house knows the plan. The best place to meet in the case of a fire in your home is at the letter box or in the driveway at the front of the house. We would also like to remind you to replace the batteries in your smoke detectors on the 1st of April every year and to check if they are working. In Health, we have continued to look at our Keeping Safe program by talking about the idea of trust and deciding who the people are in our trust network. We took our classmates on a ‘trust walk’ around the oval to explore our feelings when we trust someone and they lead us the wrong way. During Maths we often have opportunities to work in groups. We really needed teamwork to play this game! The Year 3's have several opportunities throughout the year to serve their school community. Last week we were able to help our again by pulling weeds from the garden. We had our last swimming lesson last fortnight. Some of us have mixed feelings about our trips to the pool coming to an end, but we are all happy about our progress. Deanne Johnston. Teacher 4.1In Maths we have been learning about fractions and decimal fractions. We played a game using a hundred grid and cards and the aim was to see who could fill in the grid first! After Italian Day assembly we surveyed our class and divided our costumes for the day into different categories. This tied in well with our current Maths theme. This is the group we called the Cultural group as they were representing iconic Italian figures. We also had the sports group,the food group, the Italian colours group and the fashionable Gucci label! Our netball season finished off on a high note with Stella Walton being chosen by the umpires from our netball league as being the best player in the league! Well done Stella for a ‘stellar’performance at every game😀 On completion of our Sustainability theme we each chose a topic related to looking after our world that God has created for us. There were many wonderful projects and we learned so much from one another. Here we have Zoe explaining how to play her game which teaches us about deforestation in the Amazon Forest. Wendy Innes. Teacher 5.1We have been having so much fun in Year 5 this term! We are investigating the properties of solids, liquids and gases in Science, and have completed many experiments involving the states of matter. These included making oobleck (a Non-Newtonian fluid!), melting ice, comparing the weight of an empty balloon and an inflated balloon, trying to see if we could pour a biscuit, and stacking liquids on top of each other! We have found this area of science to be fascinating and have learnt so many interesting things. In Maths, we have been learning about probability. We have experimented with dice to work out if the theoretical probability (of rolling each number one sixth of the time) actually worked out in real life. In our experiment, the results weren’t quite even, but they were close! In Week 4, we went on an excursion to the zoo. It was a warm day, but thankfully we got to cool down with some icecreams and drinks from the café! We all had a great time (and were really tired by the end of it)! Sarah Wills. Teacher 6.1For HASS this semester the year sixes have been learning about refugees and our rights and duties as an Australian citizen. We had the Australian Red Cross come to the class and deliver an interactive and informative incursion about refugees and people seeking asylum around the world and in Australia. During the In Search of Safety program students had the chance to imagine what it would be like to flee their homes quickly through an engaging simulation, and to hear from children their age about their experiences of seeking safety. It was a great opportunity for the students to learn about human rights, why people need protection and they have all been given an activity to practice humanitarianism at home! Last week the Year Fives and Sixes as part of River Rangers went to the Perth Zoo. They learnt about the many unique and well-adapted Australian animals that call the bush their home. They also learnt how humans and other factors have affected each animal and how scientific discoveries are helping to ensure their long-term survival. The students were very excited to see the animals at the zoo and it was a fantastic day out. Janice Lotsos. Teacher MUSICOur Year 4 students have learnt so much from our previous ‘Soundscape’ unit, which they were able to compose and perform their own compositions as a group, as well as to listen and critique others’ soundscape composition. This term, we are aiming to sharpen our listening and musicianship skills by playing in tune and in sync with the whole class. Listening and musicianship skills have been a big part of our Year 1 classroom music program too. Students are learning to multitask in listening and playing with others, while being able to maintain their own parts. We are also learning song stories, which we explore sound effects and use different instruments to create a descriptive music to tell a story. Our Pre-primary students are also learning to collaborate well with each other through singing games and creating different rhythm patterns. Joey Wong. Music Teacher. LANGUAGESRecently, a lot has been happening with the Italian program! Last fortnight the year 4’s went to Pietro Gelateria at the Park Centre for an excursion to use their Italian speaking skills to order gelato. The Italian speaking server was so impressed with the students that they could order without assistance and the students certainly enjoyed the gelato. This week, we had Italian Day at Regent where students could dress in Italian themes or colours. We had an Italian assembly with a very funny play performed all in Italian by a group of year 6’s. The Year 5 and 6 class impressed us all as they sang and performed with instruments an Italian song which was taught by Mrs Marshall. The best part of Italian day was buying gelato from Pietro Gelateria who came with a cart at recess. Matthew the proprietor is an ex-student from Regent, so it was nice for him to be back. Mirella Kerrigan. Italian Teacher SPORT Division 2 Christian Schools Athletics carnivals, field and track events where held week 4 Monday the 4th of November and week 5 Monday 11th. The students participated very well and gave 100% effort in all of their events. There were some students who were awarded for their exceptional performance and received champion and runner up medals for their achievement.
Thank you to the parents who came and cheered and supported the students through the day. Well done to all students involved. Lauren French. Sport Teacher ICTThe Year 2’s concluded their Probot stem segment by competing in a Group Challenge. The students learned about some different real life uses for driverless vehicles. One such example was a bin-truck which moved around a set route. Our idea was to create a vehicle which moved around the school collecting the classroom rubbish. The challenge was for students to create the tallest bin-truck which used the least amount of K’Nex, which could hold a heavy bin. The winning team won a chance card. The tallest vehicle was 58.5cm high! Jay Saxton. ICT Teacher REGENT COLLEGE |