The Learning Hub needs Library Leaders!

Do you love books?

Would you be willing to review books?

Do you love libraries?

Are you happy to give up some time to assist and be a leader?

Do you like to be neat and tidy?

Are you willing to assist the return of books?

Do you display the Restoration dispositions of Justice, Compassion, Grace and Humility?

Are you kind and patient?

Do you have ICT skills?

Are you able to search for books, and develop Learning Hub communication with the school community?

Do you have suggestions for improving the Learning Hub as a quality learning environment?



If you answered 'yes' to most of these questions then please write a short note to Mrs Duffy explaining why you think you'd make a good Learning Hub Leader. Drop it into the Hub by Friday 16 February.

Thanks, Mrs D 

Premiers Reading Challenge coming soon!

Welcome back to Term 1 from the Learning Hub!

There are lots of exciting events and initiatives planned for 2018 and we can't wait to share them!

Starting with a Scholastic Book Fair to coincide with the launch of the Premiers Reading Challenge the week beginning 5 March.

The Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. 

It is not a competition but a challenge to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.

Reading logs data entry, book suggestions and details of listed books coming soon.

Science

Thursday Science

Last week we began our Science unit for the term by discussing what we knew about "desert survival." From here, we brainstormed all the things we thought were interesting and would like to know more about. 

This week we began by trying to answer one of our questions: "How have plants adapted to live in desert environments?"

The children knew that where there is heat, water will evaporate however weren't quite sure HOW plants lose their water.

Today we began an experiment to find out - tomorrow we will observe what has happened!

Thinking hard during Maths

Lunch with our Cottage Buddies

CHRISTIAN STUDIES: Who is Jesus?

Year 5 had an excellent discussion today about Jesus. We investigated history and discovered he was a true historical figure - not just an image of faith.

I am looking forward to a wonderful year of discussion and discovery about who Jesus really is.

Welcome to 2018 from Learning Support

Welcome Back 2018

Dear Parents, 

Welcome to 2018 and another wonderful year of learning.

As the Learning Support Teacher I have the enjoyable job of meeting all the students who are new to the school.  We have a chat and talk about where they've come from, the things they love to do and then a bit about school:  what their strengths are and areas where they'd like to improve skills.  

We do some spelling, reading, comprehension and maths.  This gives the class teachers some added information when working with the new students as other systems and countries have different approaches.

We want the transition to St Luke's to be as smooth and welcoming for all new students. If you're new ask your child if they've been for a visit! If I haven't seen them yet, then I'll have the pleasure next week.

Darine Groch