Term 1, Week 5


Hi Parents,

I hope you had a fantastic long weekend.

Quote of the Week:



ASH WEDNESDAY
There will be a Mass in the hall tomorrow at 09:00am to mark the beginning of Lent. If you wanted to join in, we would love to see you there.

LEADERSHIP DAY
Please check the latest edition of the school newsletter to view some photos and comments from our leadership day last Friday. It was a great day and enjoyable for all involved.

HARMONY DAY
Below is a message from Julie Birch regarding Harmony Day:

Harmony Day.  March 29th 2019.

Dear Parents,
We need you…..
On the 29th of March the students of Our Lady of the Cape Primary School will celebrate Harmony Day. 
It is our aim to support the development of respect and appreciation for cultures other than their own in the students. To do this we would like to immerse the children in a rich variety of experiences that include food, music, visual arts and the development of a knowledge base of the cultural traditions of others.
Information is always best coming from those who have experienced the learning first hand so we are asking parents help out on the day.
We would love parents to lead an activity as part of a rotation between 9am and 11am on the day.  There would be no more than 20 children in each group. Each session would last 15 minutes and you would repeat this activity up to 6 six times.
If you were born in another country you may wish to present some photographs, samples of traditional foods, clothing, games etc. and tell the children about how you grew up. How is was different to here… and the same as here.
If you can play a musical instrument you may like to share your skills.  The children would love to listen. 
Perhaps you can write some great haiku… or fold some tricky origami. 
Those of you who teach dance, karate or craft may like to come and share your talents.
Children always love to cook.  We would love to have someone making pasta, pizza or some other cultural delight (remembering that you only have 15 minutes).

HOME LEARNING / DIARIES
Please take the time to sit down with your child and discuss their planning for the next two weeks of home learning.

Literacy:
Under this section you will find the literacy learning intentions for the week.

CAFÉ-R (Traits of good readers)
This week, we will be focusing on Inferring. Inferring is when readers combine what is read with relevant prior knowledge. Readers infer when they ‘read between the lines’ and create a meaning that is not necessarily stated explicitly in the text.

Voices (Traits of good writers)
The students will continue to explore poetry this week.

Numeracy
Under this section you will find the Numeracy learning intentions for the week.

We will be investigating the mental strategies we could use when solving multiplication problems.

Have a great remainder of the week!

Mr Jones



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