bongongo public school newsletter

■ 2020 ■ Term 3 ■ Week 2 ■ Principal: Bradley Gorman

Bongongo Public School

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■ Phone: (02) 6946 6214 Learn and Grow

■ Fax: (02) 6946 6207 Bongongo Public School

■ Email: [email protected] Adjungbilly Road via Coolac

■ Website: www.bongongo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Adjungbilly NSW 2727

All staff and students returning from Victoria must have a permit to enter NSW and are re-quired to self-isolate for a period of 14 days.

With the exception of staff and students who reside in a border town, all other staff and students who have been in Victoria in the 14 days before the commencement of school should not attend school until they complete the 14 days self-isolation period since they left Victoria. Please inform the school if you fit into this category.

Bongongo Public School ■ Principal: Bradley Gorman Learn and Grow ■ Phone: (02) 6946 6214 ■ Fax: (02) 6946 6207 Bongongo Public School ■ Email: [email protected] Adjungbilly Road via Coolac ■ Website: www.bongongo-p.schools.nsw.edu.au Adjungbilly NSW 2727

■ 2020 ■ Term 3 ■ Week 2

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A message from Rachel

Hi everyone,

We’ve had a very busy first week back at school,

getting straight into our learning. Students are

to be commended on their dedication in

reading rotations. They’re now challenging

themselves everyday to get all their ‘must do’s’

done and try and get up to some ‘can do’

activities done each day. Its been fantastic being

at Bongongo 5 days now, I feel like we get so

much more time together for quality learning.

This week our whole school sound focus is ou &

ow.

Yr 1 & 2 focus– ou, ow

Kindergarten focus– Oo

We are continuing with our letter formation and

forming our letters correctly. Its important that

we correct the way students form letters early

on in their schooling.

In Numeracy this week we will be focusing on

Addition and Volume and Capacity.

Lastly I would like to thank Mr Gorman and the

wider BPS community for their well wishes with

Robbie and my exciting news! We’re over the

moon and cant wait to welcome Peanut Harris

Jan 2021.

Kind Regards

Rachel

A message from Brad

Welcome to week 2!

What about the frosts! It looked like snow at school last Friday!

A quick staffing update at the school, for the remainder of the year, we will have Mrs Harris full time as she takes up Wednesday’s position on K-2. Mrs Lott will remain Monday through to Thursday and Mrs Luke will continue working 3 days Monday, Tuesday and Friday in the office.

Last week, our year 3-6 students began guitar lessons as part of our creative arts program. Students will begin by learning basic guitar chords before moving on to playing songs. We had a little practice of Bad moon arising last week to get us started.

This Friday, our students will begin a course on 3D printing. Students will learn about how to design and make an object, using a 3D printer through a video conference with our Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics support, Kelly Burke. I will also be very intrigued to see how this machine works! Stay tuned to see what our clever students will create!

I will be in a virtual meeting via zoom at school on Friday from 10:00am until 2:30pm. Mrs Harris will be on class.

Stay safe everyone, maintain your social distance and hygiene practices and thank you for keeping your children home if they are feeling sick.

That’s about all this week. Enjoy the week everyone!

Brad


Student of the week

Olivia Graham receives ‘Student of the

Week’, for improvement in her

reading and writing.

Well done Olivia !


SUPER SPELLERS FOCUS ON READING

Focus on Reading focus: Questioning.

“GOOD READERS ASK QUESTIONS”

This week we have been learning about posing questions before we read, during and after we read a text. We now have a grater understanding of why questioning plays an im-portant part in our self monitoring process as students read and wonder...

“does this

Today we read the text ‘The Stone Lion’.

We came up with questions to ask before we read the text, during and after. This really supported students to have a greater understanding of the text.

Did the lion pay a big role in

someone's life? -Finn Is it a real life story? -Scout

Is it really a stone Lion?

-George

Is the girl praying for the lion

to come alive? -Jack

Why does the girl need to be

there? -Archie

BEFORE

DURING

What happened to the girls

parents? -K-6

Why was his heart flickering?

-Scout

AFTER

How come the girl left the

baby? -Harry

Where was the lion living?- Max

Why did the lion not want to

move ever again? -Isobel

Why did girl grow her hair so

long? -Harry

How did the lion come alive? -

Olivia


PDHPE

During PDHPE we have been practicing our catching, throwing and batting skills. As well as

‘team work’. This week we formed teams fairly and each team came up with a team name and

really enjoyed supporting each other in developing their T-ball skills no matter their age.

Numeracy Learning focus

K-2– Addition, Volume and Capacity

3-6-Volume and Capacity (continued)

Literacy Learning focus

K-2- Reading, Nouns, Verbs,

Questioning & Letter formation.

3-6-Proper Nouns, Factual recounts,

past tense

Team Warm Up’s


K-6 have been learning about Vol-

ume and Capacity. This week we be-

gan a mathematics STEM challenge.

Students were put into teams of 2

and had to create a 3D container

that would hold 293 pieces of pop-

corn.

These were our students creations.

Stay tuned... in next weeks news-

letter to see who’s structure held

the 293 pieces of popcorn.

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