The Senior Unit

Here is the plan for the day, do what you can as best you can. If you decide to not do things in this order, that is fine. This timetable is our way to help provide structure and balance to the day. All the best. 9:00 Check in by going into the Teams app and answering the question that is there. 9:05 UOI 1901 is a year of great importance to Australia. Write in 100 words why this is so. In responding to this question, we will be looking for some key words. The words we want to see in your writing are Federation and Constitution . (You will need to do some research for this) Post your 100-word response on Teams. 10:00 Quick Break 10:05 Maths Go onto Seesaw and work through the problem-solving question. Remember to post your response and show or talk through your working out. Then smash out another 300 points on Mathletics. 11:00 Recess 11:40 Literacy

Here is the plan for the day, do what you can as best you can. If you decide to not do things in this order, that is fine. This timetable is our way to help provide structure and balance to the day. Good luck. 9:00 Check in by going into the Teams app and answering the question that is there. 9:05 Gardening time. If at home, what gardening can you do? Could you weed? Could you mow the lawn? Could you prune or take some cuttings? Maybe even begin making a Bee BnB? Or just explore the garden or indoor plants you have through photos or research? Choice is yours. Take a photo an action shot or photo of what you have done and post it to Seesaw. Place the photo in the Gardening Folder. 10:00 Maths Go onto Seesaw and work through the problem solving question. Remember to post your response and show or talk through your working out. Then smash out another 300 points on Mathletics. 11:00 Recess 11:40 Literacy We will be looking at some Grammar and Persuasive Language Techniques - Go to Seesa

Here or not here this week, we are moving to online learning. The daily task outline will be sent each day via email and posted here on the blog.  Students will be working through Seesaw and Microsoft Teams as their main platforms for their learning activities. They can also use their email to correspond with the teachers. This blog will have regular information, tips and ideas.  Seesaw - each day a selection of activities will be posted for students to complete and work on. Some of these activities may take several days to complete.  Microsoft Teams - on Teams, we are providing a quick real-time option for students to post messages and questions to the teachers and have learning discussions across the Senior Unit. We will be looking for students to make check in comments throughout the day to help keep track and support their learning. One of these may include an online version of a roll call (yet to be decided). Just note that teachers will only be active on Teams at certain t

Well, as we head deeper into uncharted waters, we hope that you all find ways to stay healthy both physically and mentally. Here are the key points we have for you from Year 6.  Please keep an eye on the blog as we may at times post different ideas and thoughts to help out over this tricky period as well as try to keep students and parents updated with the learning activities we set. Canberra Camp   -  While our planned trip to Canberra is looking more and more unlikely to go ahead, at this stage we will make a firm decision at the end of term, Thursday the 9th of April and we will communicate with families soon after that. Should it not go ahead at the planned time, we will consider all of the possible alternatives and make some decisions as things unfold. Spelling -  Working on ‘ei’ and ‘ie’ to make the ‘ee’ sound. Seesaw - As Senior Unit students have their own iPads, they should already have access to their Seesaw accounts from home. If they are having di

Well here we go ladies and gentlemen, we are off and running again into a new week with more nuts and bolts to attend to. Spelling: This week we look at ‘ ei ’ or ‘ eigh ’ to make the ‘ ai ’ sound. This includes cracking words like inveigle. In a sentence this word may appear like this... ’We cannot inveigle this student to do their work.’ So what does this word actually mean? Kitchen Garden: Due to a special exploration lesson this week to kick start our future food event, we will be having a theory based lesson for SAKG and therefore will not need the support of our wonderful cooking volunteers.  The following week however will see our ovens lit and our range hoods hot and ready again for some cooking of cultural cuisines. Extravaganza: A big thank you to all the student and parent volunteers that helped out on Saturday and made the event a success. It was wonderful to see so many out and about. Mrs Eckermann was an apology for the day due to a tennis grand final. While p

Long weekend is over and we press on to the next challenge or calendar landmark. For many that is Sports Day. For us in the Senior Unit it’s the final task in Unit of Inquiry task in our Well-being Unit. UOI Task: Think about your well-being and choose a way you could improve an aspect of it. Keep the choice simple and realistic as something you could actually do.  Students will create and detail a goal/way to improve their wellbeing. They will need to give a few paragraphs of evidence as to the well-being benefits of the choice. Provide a list of ways the community helps or encourages people in this pursuit/goal/well-being choice. Lastly, they will need to provide a short plan on how they could carry out the goal or well-being choice. Spelling: Prefix for 10 and others. Gardening Volunteers: Please, if you are able to help out, even just once, come along and help out. It’s pretty good for ones well-being! Pride: If you get a chance, it would be good to have a di