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Dear Families,
You may be aware that it has been a difficult week for us with the passing of one of our highly valued and dearly loved staff members, our wonderful Teacher Assistant Mrs Debra (Deb) Bellette. Our Deb was the epitome of what we value at Herdsmans Cove - compassion, kindness, care and commitment. We are so grateful that we had the opportunity to work with Deb. As a tribute to the work undertaken by Deb at Herdsmans Cove Primary our library will be named the Debra Bellette Memorial Library to honour her memory.
I would also like to take the opportunity to acknowledge the important role of all the Teacher Assistants in our school, whose hard work and dedication make a difference to students, teachers and the school community. Thank you so much for the amazing work you do!
It has been so wonderful that our students have at last been able to get out and about over the past few weeks. Recently our Grade 3-5 students thoroughly enjoyed participating in the Swimming and Water Safety Program and yesterday Grade 1/2 delighted in the opportunity to learn about sea creatures at the Marine Discovery Centre at Woodbridge. Our students made us very proud on both occasions by demonstrating exemplary behaviour.
Thank you to all our wonderful parents who have supported us with upholding or school dress code. It has been great to see everyone wearing navy blue and orange demonstrating pride in our school. Go team Herdy!
Carolyn Brown, Principal
In 2/3/4 Rizzolo, we have been busy researching Australian animals and learning to write varying types of sentences. After choosing an animal and doing some research, we made our animal out of plasticine as inspired by the author and illustrator Barbara Reid. First we mixed the colours together, then we had to warm the plasticine in our hands before we spread it onto card. Our fingers were very tired! We then wrote some sentences about our animal, learning to join two ideas together by using and, but, or, so, for.
The Herdy Way
Our Herdy Way focus for weeks 7 and 8 is Choose better, not bigger! Students have been working on conflict resolution and strategies to empower them to navigate conflict. Students have been meeting with their buddy class to develop ideas on how to keep their problems small and what they can do if they have a problem. Lessons are revolving around the importance of ‘I’ messages, not being a messenger and playground scenarios with role playing on how to respond to different issues. When do I need help? When can I solve a problem on my own?
“Do the 5” is a common tool used in our school community:
- Talk Friendly
- Walk away
- Ignore
- Talk firmly – NO
- Report – to an adult
Talking to your child and reminding them about “Do the 5” and to go to an adult for help will consolidate our Herdy way focus.
Hi Everyone,
Welcome to the Herdsmans Cove Primary School’s Literacy update. This year in Literacy we continue to have a focus on Writing. Writing is one of the building blocks for Literacy alongside Reading and if you are concerned about your child's learning please feel free to make a time to see their teacher or myself.
Herdsmans Cove will continue to share student’s learning in Literacy through our Facebook page, an achievement wall, newsletter articles and in our assemblies. Simply by following our page or reading our articles you can pick up some great tips on how to further your child’s learning at home.
When children write at school we focus on their handwriting, their grammar and their punctuation. So far this term we have had a strong focus on the question what is a sentence and how do we write different sentences? We have seen some fantastic work in the early years looking at simple sentences and noun groups, which will support the work our older students are completing on complex sentences and having purpose in their writing.
Reading is always a huge part of our Literacy program and our annual Book Week is coming up from the 16 - 18 September. As part of this event we are having our amazing book week parade where your child can dress up as their favourite character from their favourite book. Our staff here are looking forward to the challenge of dressing up and winning the best dressed prize.
If you have any questions or would like more information with any of the things mentioned above, please feel free to make a time to come and see me for a chat.
James Milne
