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Junior School News 10 August 2018

Pre-prep to Year 12

Co-Ed Day & Boarding 30 Dr George Ellis Drive,

PO Box 235, Charters Towers Qld 4820

Phone: 4788 2242 Email: [email protected]

Welcome to our new GAP Staff

This semester we welcome Henrik, Simon and Alex to the

School. These young men will be supporting the teaching

and learning in the Junior School classes, assisting Mrs

Dunn with German lessons, helping out on the sports field

and joining in many extra-curricular activities. We are

looking forward to helping make their stay in Charters

Towers an enjoyable and memorable one.

CHARTERS TOWERS SHOW

Congratulations to the Junior School students whose

creative and written work was showcased at the Charters

Towers Show. Our display looked awesome!

Thanks Mrs Polsen, Mr Roughley, Henrick, Simon and Alex

for putting together a fantastic exhibition demonstrating the

great learning that occurs at All Souls. Thanks also to

Casten for taking the time from his grounds and

maintenance work to transport all the students’ exhibits to

the showgrounds. We have received lots of positive

feedback congratulating us on an amazing display.

Our congratulations are extended to all students who had

their work on display and competed in the many events.

Well done to the following students who received a place in

the Poster and Handwriting Competitions:

Henrik Riester Simon Kampert Alex Huegel

Handwriting Competition

Year 2 Matilda Twine 1st Place Show Champion

Rebecca Galvin 2nd Place

Year 3 Archer Reardon 1st Place

Taj Koch 2nd Place

Year 4 Joshua Philip 1st Place

Keziah Koglkia 2nd Place

Year 5 Shelden West 1st Place

Lucy North 2nd Place

Year 6 Anna Milton 1st Place

Tammazin Chong 2nd Place

Poster Competition

Year 3 Clayne Musk 1st Place

Emmerson Heuir 2nd Place

Grace Turner 2nd Place

Year 4 Clancy Twine 1st Place

Show Champion

Annie-May Johnson 2nd Place

Year 5 Jennifer Lavery 1st Place

Rory Clark 2nd Place

Year 6 Lauren Atwell 1st Place

Xander Nunns 2nd Place


CHARTERS TOWERS PRIMARY INTER-SCHOOL CARNIVAL

Last Friday, Junior School students competed at the Primary

Inter-School Athletics Carnival. Once again the team

brought home the Average Shield and finished second

overall. Congratulations to our Age Champions and Runners

-Up:

9 Years Boys Age Champion Henry Jesberg

10 Years Girl Runner-up Della Walsh

11 Years Girl Runner-up Charlotte Jesberg

We are also very proud of Jett Moore, Annie-May Johnson,

Henry Jesberg, Sophie Gordon, Yasmin Musk, Anna Milton

and Mac Sharp-Callaghan who were selected to represent

Charters Towers at the North Queensland Athletic trials later

this term. We will need to wait until the completion of the

Secondary Inter-School Carnival to see if any of the 12 year

old students in the Junior School were successful in making

the team.

The success of any carnival is a combination of factors –

weather, people, students, attitude, organisation and a

touch of good luck. The support and encouragement of

everyone who contributed to making this event a great

success is greatly appreciated. Thank you to:

Miss Browne and Mrs West from Blackheath and

Thornburgh College, for the planning and preparation

that went into organising a successful carnival.

The staff from all the Charters Towers Primary Schools

for their energy, enthusiasm and assistance throughout

the day.

BTC and ASSG Senior Students for their assistance at

the various field events.

The P & F and everyone who volunteered their time to

run the food van.

Everyone who donated the delicious baked goods for

sale at the canteen.

The Grounds and Maintenance staff for their efforts in

preparing the ovals for the track and field events.

The parents and friends who came along to the carnival

to cheer and celebrate the success and personal

achievements of our students.

All competitors were a credit to our School and their

families. I was delighted to see how well all our students

conducted themselves throughout the day and congratulate

all competitors on their efforts and great sportsmanship. It

was wonderful to see their commitment to doing their

personal best. We are very proud they wear the ASSG

uniform.

PREPARING FOR THE CHARTERS TOWERS EISTEDDFOD

Our students and staff are working extremely hard to

ensure everyone is well prepared for this year’s Charters

Towers Eisteddfod. The experience of performing in front of

an audience at the World Theatre is a great opportunity. I

would like to applaud the students for the extra practice

and preparation they are doing after school and at lunch

times.

In addition to individual students performing set pieces and

musical theatre, our three JS Choirs and the Year 1/2 and

Year 3/4 Verse Speaking choirs will perform at the World

Theatre. I am sure with the energy and endeavour that is

going into preparing for this year’s Eisteddfod, our students

will do very well.

YEAR 6 CANBERRA TRIP

Our Year 6 students are on the countdown to their trip to

Canberra. This trip is linked to the Australian Curriculum and

is an amazing opportunity for the students. It will provide

them with a stimulating, real-life experience that will

reinforce the content that is taught in the Year 6 Civics and

Citizenship, History, Science and the Arts curriculum. This

educational excursion has been planned to also incorporate

many cultural and fun activities in the national capital.

The Australian Government recognises the importance of all

young Australians being able to visit the national capital as

part of their Civics and Citizenship education. To assist

families in meeting the cost of the excursion, the Australian

Government will contribute funding of $120 per student

under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate program

towards those costs. We are grateful for the government

contribution which helps reduce the overall cost per

student.

POSITIVE ENERGY

Our School forms a vibrant and integral part of the wider

Charters Towers community. This term we have already

celebrated success at the Charters Towers Show, the Inter-

School Athletics Carnival and are looking forward to

showcasing our talents at the Charters Towers Eisteddfod.

The mix of students, schedules, assessments, curriculum

standards and extra-curricular events means we all have to

put in our very best. At times, I am sure both staff and

students feel like we are running a marathon.

At All Souls, we are

encouraged by the

positive energy

generated by the support

and collaboration we

receive from our students,

our colleagues and the

wider School community.


International Competitions and Assessment for Schools (ICAS)

Science Award Recipients

Class and Reading Awards 27 July,


Grace Turner entered the RACQ

Storybook Competition on behalf

of the Year 3 class.

Congratulations Grace, your

story has been randomly

selected as one of the runner-up

prize winners and you will soon

receive a pack of 24 books

to share with your class.

Nate Taylor Rory Barr Caleb Kadiko Hannah Brown

Well done: Nate, Rory, Caleb and Hannah for completing a number of the Academicus courses at James Cook University during the July holidays.


Read The Great Rescue by Grace Turner

You can read this story on the RACQ Website

https://www.racq.com.au/readingchallenge


News from Pre-prep

Margaret Riddle, Colleen Limkin, Jenelle Cragg

Sometimes one wonders whether the children are

happy at School, how attached they are to this group

of peers called Pre-prep and how strong their feeling

is of belonging to the School. The first day of

Semester 2 gave us a glimpse. It was special to watch

them give each other hugs, chatter excitedly and

begin playing. We were all glad to be back!

Our fish and chip and fishing

supply shop returned as a

home corner again. Before its

transformation, the children

had discussions about money,

cooked up some real fish and

chips and sold it for a plastic $1

a plate. They have begun

talking about vets again, so we

think that next up will be a

doctor’s surgery.

Recent reports in the newspaper have highlighted

children’s need for play with a special focus on

building the physical skills needed for sitting at desks,

focusing on instructions and writing. Colleen, Jenelle

and I were able to participate in a webinar on such

matters, were impressed with the speaker, bought the

book and now are doing the activities with the

children. They are building up wrist, finger and

shoulder strength to catchy songs and walking like a

crab most days. Ask them to walk like a crab around

the house … it’s quite impressive! The crab walk

strengthens their inner core, a crucial area for

managing their classroom learning and it was the

focus of the article in today’s paper.

We are back to learning about shapes; now

recognising them in objects that they make or paint.

We have four shape books that the children are

building up with pictures and findings about each

shape. Also in Mathematics, is our focus on the

concepts “more and less”. Less is proving to be tricky,

so we have lots of practice in as many different ways

that we can think of.

We have learnt some new letters and sounds: Mm and Ii.

The children are increasingly connected with the

gardens and trees in the outdoor area. Coming back

from the break, we found some vigorous growth in a

couple of vines. We are using these to source

information, make predictions and record our data.

Looks to us like we will be getting some pumpkins

eventually, but the children have checked out leaves

and flowers and their three possibilities are

watermelon, rockmelon and pumpkin. This week they

have cut a few of the herb varieties and nasturtium

flowers to add to the morning tea platters.

It is a special feature of the School that chains of

stories build year by year. We have had one story that

has leapt between classes. There was “An Incident” in

the Pre-prep book corner with one of the books and it

reminded us of a similar (but far worse!) occasion with

the current Year 5 class when they were in Pre-prep.

Their teacher at the time was Katherine Crane (nee

Limkin). We invited Mrs Dickson and Year 5 back to

hear the story retold by Mrs Crane. The two classes

sat together, bonded by wrong done and riveted in its

retelling. Year 5 remembered. They added to the

telling and giggled their way through it, secure in the

caring and unconditional forgiveness that they felt

then and now. It was a precious moment. And there

have been no more Wrongs!


News From Prep:

Mrs Marshall, Mrs Fittock & the Mad Hatters

Mad Hatters have started the new term with a blast. They

have learnt so many sounds and sight words that they are

reading at a fantastic level. We have recently invited Henrik

and Simon (German Gap Staff) in to help us with reading

groups. The children love being able to show them how to

read. As the term moves along the children will be learning

new reading skills and strategies. We will do this using the

CAFÉ and Daily 5 program. This involves the children in

writing, word work, reading independently and listening to

others read. The children get to choose which activities they

would like to complete. Giving them the choice motivates

the children to complete the task. Good in theory… we’ll

soon find out in practice.

In Mathematics, the children have been discovering teen

numbers. Making and writing teen numbers has been a

challenge but the children have handled it well. The Mad

Hatters have also been looking at 2D shapes. They have

been identifying the shapes in the classroom and creating

drawings using these shapes.

As part of our Phonics program the children have been

excited about the cooking component. Last week as part of

learning the ‘f’ sound the children made fudge and ate

Freddo Frogs and Fish Fingers. This week we are learning

the ‘b’ sound. We made blackberry biscuits and ate a

Bounty. YUM!

Science has started with us looking at the sky and feeling

the weather. The children have had great discussions

around the water cycle with some amusing contributions.

We will be recording our daily weather and also the changes

in temperature throughout the day.

Show and Tell has started this term. The children love

bringing something in to share. This gives others the

opportunity to ask questions to gather more information. So

far we have seen a special shell, a Charters Towers Show

prize and some small insects.

In class, I am finding the children are reading more and

more environmental print and picking out words from

stories that they have learnt during the year. I love the look

on their faces when they realise they are good readers. I’m

so proud of their effort in learning their sight words and

sounds.

Until next time……


News from Year 1: Mrs Reardon

Reardon’s Robots

I would like to introduce you to Cubetto.

Not only is Cubetto our new favourite

classmate, he is a robot and the board is his

remote. We add different blocks to the board

to tell him how to move.

Our Year 5 Buddy Class have been teaching us

how to use Cubetto as part of their unit work.

Cubetto comes with different maps and we

have learnt that you start Cubetto at the

Compass Rose. We decide his route on the

map by adding different blocks onto the board. Then we press the start button and he is off!

Now that we have had a go at coding with Cubetto, we are going to use him to help us revise and evaluate our

language of direction. Over the next coming week, we will write our own algorithms to get Cubetto to certain

squares on the map. We will trial the algorithms and decide whether they need to be adjusted.

Please enjoy the photos of Year 1s working with the Year 5s.


News from Year 2:

Mrs Heuir’s Excellent Emojis

English Highlights

This term the students have been immersed in information texts and have learnt to identify and find the many

features that make these texts unique. Some of these features include photographs, captions, glossary,

diagrams, labels, index, tables, maps and many more! In reading groups, the students have carefully studied

different features to gather information and are quickly learning the importance of reading ALL of the text

features, not just the words. This week they have been busy examining the structure of a report and learning

how to gather their own information to help them write their information report on a chosen animal. We have

played a game, which was very popular and required them to classify facts under the correct headings. They all

seem to be enjoying reading about the wonders of the world and enjoying learning new skills in reading.

Science Highlights

Our Science Unit has been a hive of activity! The unit began with a quick field trip into the playground to search

for living things. Our classroom then became an exciting place to be! One filled with different living things that

the students use to observe for their work on life cycles. Not only do they have a pet gosling (which is growing

very quickly), but they now have a praying mantis, mealworms and their own seedlings. It has been rewarding

to watch the students become so excited when completing their observation sessions to document the changes

that they notice daily. These observation sessions are helping them to develop their investigation skills by using

their senses to gather information about different life cycles. We have also been preparing for our Reef HQ

excursion by reading about the Green Sea Turtle and the Leopard Shark. To top it all off, our little scientists

have been learning about how animals are classified into different groups depending on their characteristics.

The Emoji’s have thought themselves to be very intelligent when being able to pronounce words like

vertebrates, oviparous (egg laying), viviparous (live young) and omnivore (plant and animal eating).

Mathematics Highlights

In Mathematics, the students have investigated the properties of 3D shapes. They have constructed them out

of straws and playdough and turned shape nets into the solid shapes that they represent. This week we have

also begun early investigations into the concept of multiplication. The students have made equal groups out of

concrete materials, shown the connection to repeated addition and have begun using the multiplication sign.

The equal groups relay was a huge hit! Many students did not even realise that they were doing ‘real work’.


News from Year 3: Mr Roughley’s Remarkable Rascals

With Charters Towers Eisteddfod on almost everyone’s

mind, Year 3 and 4 have teamed up to make sure we

represent our classes and our School in this year’s

verse speaking section. Since the beginning of Term 3

we have worked extremely hard to make sure Nick

Bland’s story, ‘The Very Cranky Bear’ is brought to life

with some great cranky bears, fantastic zebras,

marvelous moose, loud lions and of course, a handful

of worrisome sheep. We can’t wait for eisteddfod

night so we can show everyone how wonderful we

are.

Talking of teaming up, Year 3 have also teamed up

with Year 5 for a mammoth Drama/Art project. To

start with, this project has seen us wandering around

trying our hands at being overly dramatic. Between

the two classes we have some heroic heroes,

villainous villains and way, way, way too many

heroines in distress. We are so excited by our joint

venture as, with any luck, it will result in a marvelous

melodrama that will be filmed and entered into a

competition. With 39 students between the two

classes it is a shame we can’t give everyone a leading

role.

We have also had a big focus on measurement in

mathematics. We have revised what we know about

different units of measurement and have gone on to

use our estimation skills to determine differences in

length. While we have some incredibly long ideas of

what 2 metres looks like and rather short looking 5

metres, we have had a lot of fun along the way. Over

the next week or so, we will be making and flying

some paper planes out on the oval to help us in

understanding what larger distances look like.

Year 3 were also very excited this week to learn they

were selected as part of a national computer trial for

the 2019 NAPLAN testing. It was an incredible

opportunity for us to showcase our reading and

language skills to an official, while demonstrating how

awesome we were in following directions and

reporting the problems we experienced with their

system. I think the biggest disappointment for Year 3

was that the testing wasn’t followed by another Pizza,

Popper and Popcorn Party.

As we are getting back into the swing of homework,

our class have had a big chat about the importance of

completing all tasks. Although the homework sheet

covers a fortnight, nightly reading, Reflex, Literacy

Planet and Homework Sheet - all activities should be

completed.

This week your child was sent home information

inviting you to join the class Dojo. Dojo is an incentive

chart we are using in Year 3 this term. When you login

to the program you will be able to view why your child

has had points added or taken away and you can see

any samples of work we upload. If you have not

received this invitation please let me know.


News from Year 4:

Mrs Turner’s Travellers!

It’s been such a busy start to the term! It’s only Week

3 and the students have already competed in the

Inter-School Athletics Carnival, submitted entries in

the Charters Towers Show for handwriting and

posters as well as some personal entries from home

and competed in other show events. Some of our girls

participated in the Charters Towers Netball carnival.

Congratulations to all those involved in these events

and well done to those who are going to represent

Charters Towers at the next stage for Athletics.

The students have also been very busy in our

classroom. We have been reading and analysing some

traditional Asian tales. One of these involved a

mathematical challenge requiring some calculator and

team work. We also experienced a Reader’s Theatre

which involves playing characters and narrator roles

without props or movement. We discussed how this

would be like reading a script for a television show or

play when learning lines and how to read each part.

This is when they realised that the saying verbs used

for direct speech are so important.

Some hands on work in Mathematics has been

occurring with our study of fractions and money,

giving change and shopping tasks. We are also

working in the area of data collection and graphing

and have been learning new skills in Digital

Technology to match this unit. Students are excited

about the new skills they are learning in the Excel

program and there’s more to come.

To match our mapping in Geography, I’ve brought in

a puzzle with a map of the world. Some children enjoy

working on it quietly in their own time and others

have enjoyed tackling it in small groups. We started it

in the first week of the term and they have now

completed it. I may have to find another puzzle to

challenge them! The children have also improved their

skills when using an atlas, describing locations and

using co-ordinates.

Finally, our joint poem with the Year 3 class, ‘The

Very Cranky Bear’ is coming along very well for our

Eisteddfod entry. I can’t wait to see them perform on

stage.


News from Mrs Dickson & Year 5

From little things BIG things grow.

An exciting Term 3 has gotten underway with students working efficiently to cover lessons while negotiating

interruptions to our regular routines.

We have been busy with Softball and Cricket Trials. It was great to see all the students trialing and giving

their all.

Many of the class attended the Inter-School Athletics Carnival. Those who I was able to see compete were

great ambassadors for our School.

In the classroom, we have been enjoying a variety of different poems with the students starting to use more

metalanguage in their poetry analysis. They are able to comprehend poems and explain how they are making

them feel. We finished reading our class novel “Fish in a Tree” and have starting reading poems and short

stories. We will compare the poems and stories to their film version next term in English.

In Mathematics, we have been looking at income and expenditure with students able to determine if savings

are being made or if the person is living beyond their means. It has been great to see all of the students

working through these word problems as they have multiple steps and calculations in order to answer the

question. We have also covered our alphanumeric mapping mini unit; working with the Year 1 class to

effectively use visual programming to move Cubetto to landmarks on a map. Year 5 students were give the

project of teaching the Year 1 to use Cubetto and to create detailed instructions for them to follow and have

success in visually programming Cubetto to reach particular landmarks on different maps.

In Science, we have been looking at light and students

have been completing hands on investigations to see

how light is transmitted. The students are learning

scientific vocabulary associated with this topic including

terms like refraction, opaque and reflection. They are all

keen to start their big project of directing light from one

side of a box to another using mirrors and walls.

Next week students will have completed our “Genie in

the Board” film created by Mr Roughley. This film is a

collaborative effort with Year 3. We hope it will be

successful in winning our School a Promethean board.

Students have auditioned for main roles and have

worked together to create the melodrama. We have had

great sessions on the oval practising our melodramatic

skills.


News from Mrs Toohey & Year 6M

Welcome back to an action packed term as we commence

our lead-up to the Canberra trip!

Already the class have been learning about the reasons that

Canberra was chosen as a location for the nation’s capital,

the design competition that was won by Walter Burley

Griffin, the history of Old Parliament House and some of the

facts and figures relating to the new Parliament House.

They have had the opportunity to study a map of Australia

showing the 150 federal electorates and have discussed

some of the issues that face Members of Parliament who

represent people from a huge area.

As we progress through this unit, the students will conduct

research in order to be able to answer two key questions of

the Civics and Citizenship Curriculum:

What are the roles and responsibilities of the different

levels of government in Australia?

How are laws developed in Australia?

The students will also pose some research questions of

their own and conduct some research on one of our 29

Prime Ministers. They will present this information to the

rest of the Year 6 cohort so that, by the time we leave for

Canberra, all the students will have some background

knowledge on our PMs. More in-depth research will be

needed to formulate an understanding of the issues faced

by two of our wartime Prime Ministers – Billy Hughes and

John Curtin.

Our Science, unit for this term is Chemical Science. We

have investigated what happens when various liquids or

solids are mixed together. The children have learnt that

sometimes the 2 items mix together well, sometimes one

will dissolve in the other, sometimes there is a chemical

reaction. They have also discovered that there are several

processes which may be used to reverse the combination

so that the two original items are back in their previous

form.

Some important scientific vocabulary aligns with these

experiments including reversible, irreversible, miscible,

immiscible, soluble, insoluble, solution, solute, solvent,

distillation, evaporation, siphoning, filtration, sieving,

particles.

I am looking forward to the rest of this unit which includes

‘why do metals rust?’ and ‘how is reversible change used in

recycling?’ We will also investigate a very yummy chemical

reaction – the bread making process!

In Mathematics this term, we will only have time for one

investigation so the children will be choosing between

‘Pyramids and Pharoahs’, where they will make an accurate

3D scale model of the pyramids at Giza or ‘Practice Makes

Perfect’, where they will see how quickly they can master a

new physical skill.

It is really pleasing to witness the huge improvement of

most students in number fact recall since the beginning of

the year. Most of the children have realised that speedy

recall is essential as they gradually encounter more complex

mathematical problems.

Our English unit involves exploring news reports in the

media and identifying and analysing bias in media reports.

This will be done in the context of a news report about a

shark-culling program. It will be interesting to compare the

way ideas and events are portrayed, depending on the

hidden

agenda

of

various

groups

of

people.


News from Mr Turner & Year 6P

Welcome back to Term 3. This is an exciting term,

as we are off to Canberra in Week 8.

In Humanities and Social Sciences, we are looking

at Democracy and how our Federal Government

works. We have set up our classroom to simulate

the House of Representatives in Canberra. So far,

we have had a No Homework in Week 7 Bill read out and voted on in favour of the affirmative by 9

votes to 5. The students have been writing their

own Bills to introduce to Parliament and looking at

how the voting process happens in a democracy.

In Science, we are looking at reversible and

irreversible changes. We have investigated the

properties of solids, liquids and gases. We will be

conducting some experiments to test our

predictions on how various liquids affect certain

solids. Also identifying which substances can be

reversed back to their original state and which ones

cannot.

In English, we are investigating news reports in the

media concerning different points of view on

introducing shark culling to a tourist destination in

Australia. We will read and investigate the points of

view of a conservationist, a tourism operator and a

radio announcer. Using objective, evaluative and

subjective language features along with complex

sentence structure, the students will write their

response on the topic.

JS HPE & SPORT NEWS:

Miss Browne

Last week All Souls St Gabriels School hosted the Charters

Towers District Primary School Sport Athletics Carnival. It

was fantastic to see so many of our students competing

and trying their best. One of the most pleasing things to

see was students who were not competing in an event,

step up and have a go when they were called upon to

substitute an ill or injured competitor. This helped us earn

more points for our School and was a contributing factor

to winning the Average Trophy for the day. We also

followed closely behind Richmond Hill State School who

won the Aggregate Trophy. Overall it was a successful day

for Souls as we saw many of our students selected in the

Charters Towers District Athletics Team.

Congratulations to the following students who were

selected in the Charters Towers Team or were awarded

Age Champion or Runner-Up on the day:

Annie-May Johnson (CT Team) Henry Jesberg (CT Team and 9 Years Boy Age

Champion) Jett Moore (CT Team) Sophie Gordon (CT Team) Anna Milton (CT Team) Yasmin Musk (CT Team) Mac Sharp-Callaghan (CT Team) Della Walsh (10 Years Girl Runner Up) Charlotte Jesberg (12 Years Girl Runner Up) We are waiting anxiously to hear about which of our

amazing 12 Year olds will be selected once the Secondary

School Carnival is completed.

The students have also been extremely busy skipping and

raising money for the Jump Rope for Heart Foundation.

Did you know that heart disease affects 2 out of 3

families? Help your child to have fun and support the

Heart Foundation at the same time. You can register your

child online and if you choose, send

to all your family and friends asking if

they would like to sponsor your child.

It’s easy, safe and secure

(jumprope.org.au). Some of our

students have already been working

hard. Remember, every little bit

counts!


German (LOTE) Mrs Melita Dunn

Willkommen unsere neuen

Lehrerassistenten

Alex, Henrick and Simon

Wir genießen es, mit Ihrer Hilfe

Deutsch zu lernen.

MUSIC Mrs Alison McGuire

Ukuleles are the instrument of the

term. Most of us are having trouble

with our fingers in that we know

where they are supposed to go,

but we just can’t get them to stay

in the right spots!!! Practise, prac-

tise, practise. Even Mr Fleming

dropped in to have a ukulele lesson

with the Pre-preps. He was very

impressed with their technique.

Actually there have been lots of

smiles as well as lots of trying-very

-hard. I’m very proud of the way

Years 3 to 6 have been applying

themselves to the task. We’re using

a lot of musical language as well.

Prep to Year 2 are also learning

terms such as solfa and rhythm.

Keep up the good work everyone.

Additionally students from all year levels are concentrating on pitch with their voices. They are striving for

excellence as they practise canon work in their singing. The harmonies produced in the canon work are

very pleasing to hear.


Junior School Schedule Term 3, Weeks 4, 5, 6 & 7

Week 4

Monday, 13 August

**School Photo Day # 2** BEST DAY UNIFORM

After School Supervisions 3pm—5:15pm

Week 4

Tuesday, 14 August


JSSG Meeting 5:00 pm Room 3

Week 4

Wednesday, 15 August

Year 2 Reef HQ Townsville


Week 4

Thursday, 16 August


Week 4

Friday, 17 August

JS Assembly 8:35 am—Class Presentation

Little Souls 9 am —11:30 am

Round 2 Inter-School Sport (Year 5 & 6)


Week 5

Monday, 20 August


Week 5

Tuesday, 21 August

Braveheart “Ditto Show” Pre-Prep—Year 3 11:30—12:00


**Year 6 Canberra Trip Information Night 5:30—6:30 pm **

Week 5



**Charters Towers Eisteddfod Verse Speaking Choirs—World Theatre 6:30 **

Week 5

Thursday, 23 August


Week 5

Friday, 24 August

JS Assembly 8:35 am



Week 6

Monday, 27 August


Week 6

Tuesday, 28 August


** Charters Towers Eisteddfod JS Choirs—World Theatre 6:30 **

Week 6



Week 6

Thursday, 30 August


Week 6

Friday, 31 August

JS Assembly 8:35 am




Week 7

Monday, 3 September


Week 7

Tuesday, 4 September


Week 7

Wednesday, 5 September


Week 7

Thursday, 6 September


Week 7

Friday, 7 September

Jump Rope for Heart (MPC 8:45—9:15)




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