There has been a strong feeling of respect, acceptance, friendship and understanding of each other’s differences in our classroom which is what we have been striving to achieve. Well done each and every student!

 It has been great to hear all about the kids holidays and what they got up to.  Many happy times for most. However it has been also rewarding to settle back into a routine this week. 

In English, we are well into learning about Persuasive writing and the devices (tools) we need to incorporate into our writing to make an argument clear or convince our reader about our point of view. This week everyone wrote about “Should children do more or less homework.”  This led to good discussions facts and having your opinion heard with sensible, logical reasons.  The students typed this on their laptops in preparation for Naplan in Week 4.

In Maths, we have revised the 4 operations (addition, subtraction, multiplication and division) and what strategies to use to work out problems. Every day we are spending some time doing some Naplan questions and working in pairs to encourage each other to work out how to solve the questions.  This has been very rewarding and as a class we have built up a bank of strategies to use. 

We explored the qualities of St Joseph and how this has made a difference in our school and the qualities we strive to achieve.  Last week we celebrated Easter and made some beautiful stained glass window crosses, as well as recognising the importance of ANZAC day.  The poppy mosaics created are a credit to each student and listening to each other’s stories and memories was really interesting. We will be working hard next week, introducing lots of new concepts in our Learning areas and preparing for our Naplan week.