School News
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'Loose Change' transforming others
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With IPads, laptops and interactive whiteboards dominating our student classroom learning environments these days, it can often force us to take the more simplistic, yet necessary physical requirements such as a building, a desk and chairs for granted.
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St Joey's Day by the beach
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Under a warm sun and blessed with a beautiful blue sky and rolling waves, St Joey's School community celebrated our Patron Saint - Joseph, with a liturgy by the beach at Brooms Head.
Following the liturgy led by our school leaders, all staff, students and parents enjoyed time...
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Going Green and Getting the Gloves On
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Many thanks to all the parents, teachers and students who joined in our Green Thumb initiative on Friday afternoon and really transformed our gardens with lots of weeding and much needed pruning. It was a great afternoon....
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OUR LEARNING INTENTIONS
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This weeks Learning Goals in.. .
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Kindergarten
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Year 1
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Literacy
-reading and writing 3 letter words
-learning about 'descriptions'
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Literacy
- Punctuation: Use a capital letter to start a sentence and a full stop at the end.
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Numeracy
- adding two groups using counting materials
- naming regular 2 dimensional shapes
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Numeracy
- to recognise & name 2D shapes shown in different orientations
- identify horizontal, vertical & diagonal lines
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| Year 2
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Year 3
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Literacy
- Grammar: Articles- use of a and an. Use an when the word it is in front of starts with a vowel eg an owl, an orange, an egg etc.
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Literacy
-Checking Capitals and full stops in Writing.
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Numeracy
- Identify a line of symmetry in a 2D shape
- Make tessellating designs using flips, sides & turns
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Numeracy
- Counting Backwards by 2's 5's, 10's, & 3's Starting from different numbers.
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| Year 4
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Year 5 / 6
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Literacy
- Biographies Famous Australians.
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Literacy
Improving our oral fluency (reading out aloud) and understanding the author's message and purpose.
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Numeracy
-Identify & name pentagons,
octagons, and parallelograms presented in different orientations
- Compare & describe different groups of quadrilaterals
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Numeracy
-find the missing number in a number sentence
-figure out the beginning number by working backwards through the problem
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