Primary eNews. Friday 19 October 2018
Spirit Week in the Primary School
Please see the dress up themes for Spirit Week in the Primary School below.
Monday 29 October. Pyjama Day. Come dressed in your comfiest pyjamas
Tuesday 30 October. Crazy Hair Day. Frizz it, colour it and make it crazy!
Wednesday 31 October. Book Character Dress Up. Come dressed as favourite book character and bring the book along too (or borrow it from the library)
Thursday 1 November. Wacky Wednesday on a Thursday. Wear some crazy socks, wear some wacky clothes that clash and be proud!
Friday 2 November. House Colours. Wear as many house coloured clothes as you own – shoes, socks, shorts, shirts & caps if you have them.
Students will earn House Points for participation in the theme days during Spirit Week. Details of this will be posted in the playground and classrooms net week.
Spirit Week Events in the Primary School
Wednesday 31 October 1:45 – 2:45 Halloween Party. No scary costumes as all students will be dressed as Book Characters.
Friday 2 November 12:40 – 1:05 Dance Off. All students invited to get their groove on after eating on lunch.
School House Teams
All new students were informed of their School House Teams during the week and all House Teams got together during today’s Primary Assembly.
Saraswati (yellow colour) House is named after the Hindu goddess of knowledge, music, art, wisdom and learning
Dewi Sri (green colour) House is named after the Javanese, Sundanese, and Balinese goddess of rice and fertility.
Ganesha (red colour) House is named after the Hindu god of wisdom, success and good luck .
Baruna (blue colour) House is named after the the Balinese god of the sea
Order forms for House t-shirts will be sent home early next week so that parents can order shirts for new students and the returning students who have grown out of their old shirts. If your child has grow out of their old house shirt, or any uniform, please drop it in the donation box near the Administration Building and our PTA will sell it at the Second Hand Uniform Sales held each month.
Primary Playground Equipment
Our Primary Playground Equipment was repainted by our hard working maintenance team during the school holidays. In other great news, the PTA has agreed to pay for new shade sails to be erected above the Primary Playground Equipment. We hope to have this construction begin in the next week or two. We also had the Multi Purpose Room re-floored during the break.
Call for Indonesian Language Children’s Books
Ms Alborn, our High School Drama teacher has put a call out for Indonesian Language Children’s Books. If you can help out, please drop the books into the Primary Office.
As you may know, my partner Graeme runs his own charity Worldwide Action, supporting underprivileged children in Asia and Africa specifically. Whilst much of the work has been focused on rebuilding classrooms the charity also provides essential school equipment and stationery to support the education of children in need.
He is working with the Lombok Relief Team here in the secondary school who will be pushing forward to encourage our students to donate any spare pens/pencils or Indonesian reading books they have that can be sent to Lombok and distributed to children still traumatised by the earthquakes there.
As such, I just wanted to reach out to ask if any of you have any old unwanted children’s reading books (pref Indonesian) at home that you would like to donate then please drop them at the Primary Office.
Graeme and a volunteer from the UK will be going to Lombok personally in approximately 7 days time and so will be able to hand deliver the donations to a Yayasan specialising in child trauma, ensuring they find their way to children who need them the most.
Primary Math
I have seen some great inquiry and stand alone Math happening in the classroom over the past month so thought I would ask the teachers to share a few pictures. More specific information to your child’s class can be see on their class blog, but it is always nice to see what’s happening in other grade levels.
Kindergarten Math
Grade 2 Math
Grade 2 students are exploring different strategies to add and subtract numbers.
We reinforce concepts through games such as Make 10 Go Fish and 8 Plus.
Students also use tools to explore efficient ways to organize numbers greater
than 10.
Grade 3 Maths
Students in Grade 3 have been inquiring into place value by hunting for numbers related to our UOI about the solar system. They worked collaboratively to find the best way to write numbers, making good use of a comma to chunk the numbers out into thousands, millions and even billions! Every morning in Grade 3, the students spend about 5 minutes working on a fun and personalised online app that helps them to speed up their basic facts recall. They love watching their progress and mastery charts get fuller and fuller each day!
Grade 5 Math
Grade 5 students using a variety of tools to create and measure the flight of their O wings during an experiment this week.
