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S3 Newsletter – Term 3, Week 5
It’s been great start to Term 3 in S3, with lots of fun learning and community experiences! Students have enjoyed building their skills at soccer with Coach Tim. They’ve engaged in drills and finished off with variations of a soccer game. These sessions have been a great way to practise resilience (especially when the other team takes the ball!), confidence in trying new things, and social skills like passing, sharing, and congratulating others.
A huge congratulations to Maddie A for placing 3rd in the Mary Valley Art Festival, and to Arley, whose artwork was also selected for display—what an achievement!
S3 also had a blast at the Community Connections Expo. It was a fantastic opportunity to meet local service providers and community members—and of course, the goody bags were a big hit! Thank you to the parents who came along and joined us.
Book Week Dress-Up Day is coming up on Thursday, 28 August. We’re looking forward to seeing all the creative costumes and class door displays!
Our new science unit is all about Earth and Space. It involves inquiry-based learning and begins with the question ‘How does the Earth cause day and night? So far, the students have been measuring the amount of daylight hours. We experienced the Winter Solstice with 11 hours and 20 minutes of daytime on the 26th of June and as of this Friday, we will have 11 hours and 58 minutes of daytime. The students have learned how to observe and record changes. They observed an ice cube melting to reveal hidden objects and watched capillary action moving water through a piece of string, from one container to the next. This led to the students learning how to annotate a diagram or photograph. The sky has been our focus, and we are building two dioramas – one representing the sky and the other the Solar System. This has been lots of fun. The students also recreated their own moon surface by making moon craters and discovered that the Sun is a star! Science is FUN!
Thanks for keeping up with all that’s happening in S3.
From all of us: Baxter, Leni, Maddee, Maddie, Arley, Sabana, Gaelle and Andy
