Well, Term 3 is up and running! We have some information for you:
Puberty
Education Sessions
Puberty Education sessions (run by Family Life) begin this week, August 6th, for students in years five and
six. These sessions will take place each Thursday for one hour for a total of three weeks.
As well, on Thursday evening, August 6th,
there will be sessions run by a Family Life facilitator to support dialogue
between students and their parents/carers about puberty. Parents/carers
accompany their children to these sessions.
The first session at 5:45pm – 6:45pm is for
parents/carers and students in years three and four. Following this session
will be a session for parents/carers and students in year five and six at 7pm –
8pm.
Sessions will be held upstairs in the Su
Nei Cieli (4/5/6) Learning Community.
AMC
Students who signed up sat the Australian Maths Competition last Thursday! We were very pleased with the number of students keen to give it a go, and they gave it their best shot. Results will take a little while to process, and we will present result certificates when they arrive.
Humanities Inquiry
Students are busy refining their
information in preparation for their group’s documentary. Each inquiry group has used a BTN (Behind the News) documentary, to facilitate
a discussion about the way information is presented in a documentary format and
how links are made between topics. We
will share our LC final documentaries when they completed.
Heads
Up! Calling all Scientists!
Our next focus is a science one. In the
last part of this term, students will be exposed to simple experiments, making
hypotheses and recording the results. As well we are planning to expose the
students to a variety of science knowledge and this is where you may be able to
help. If you work in a science field, our teaching team is hoping you would be
prepared to give up an hour or so to share your knowledge with a group of
students. We are pleased to announce that Janet, who has a long history of
teaching science at secondary school, is our first volunteer.
When:
We would like to offer a variety of workshops for
our students to elect to participate in, during week seven and eight of this
term.
Please email us if you can help out. We will endeavor
to work around the times and day of the week that best works for you. Please note that on
Mondays, students are at Curiosita for most of the day, and Friday morning is
sport.
First week back, in term four, students
will participate in a science incursion with ‘Hands on Science.’ Students have
chosen between Forensic Science and Reactive Chemistry and by far we have lots of
curiosity about forensic science. Notices will come home about this at the end
of term three. We will end the year with some Science challenge projects,
Thanks team
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