Glen Innes School
Welcome to Term 3…
We do hope that despite the cold weather you had a wonderful time over the term break and enjoyed the company of your children; we are pleased to welcome them back to their learning journey at school.
Our inquiry topic focus this term is “Inventors and Simple Machines” and by incorporating last term’s topic inquiry we will be looking specifically at technology, housing, clothing, transport and entertainment with a whole school celebration expo on Friday 1st September. In health, we will be teaching the children “How to keep my snot safe” (Safe Sneezing) and asking the children to explain why…
Our maths focus in term 3 will continue be the consolidation of addition/subtraction, personalised basic facts as well the incorporation of measurement (non-standard units (hand span/number of steps/quantity of counters) and calendar maths (days/months/seasons and basic time) into our number knowledge. In literacy we will continue with our recount writing genre and in our syndicate phonics programme we will encourage the children to listen to the sounds that the letter/s make as well as supplementing this with either personalised Keyrings and/or Essential Spelling Words . In reading the daily programme will continue Monday -Thursday which we ask you to continue to support at home by reading and talking about the story every night with your child and returning the signed reading log in your child’s book bag the next day.
As the temperature has dropped, please adhere to the school uniform policy and send your child appropriately dressed for their whole day of learning…school uniform, socks, shoes and jumpers.
Finally, I must encourage you to partnership with us to ensure that your child is at school every day, on time, and set up to succeed. It is so important that your child attends school … we simply cannot teach them if they are not here, and you cannot support them if you don’t know what they need to do in their home learning.
The school attendance expectation is 91% +. It was most disappointing that some children only attended 49% of last term; 23 days of missed learning!
Thank you.
Heather Collins
(Assistant Principal)
…on behalf of Catherine Ringwood, Penny Webster, Sandhya Goundar, Victor du Toit,
Ed Beel & Rebecca Kirby – Junior Syndicate.
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