Principal Talk with Mrs. Lowe
TERM THREE
| WEEK 3 | |
| Monday 1 August |
Madelyn Burns School Counsellor Tuckshop - Danielle, Cassandra, Rachael |
| Tuesday 2 August |
Year 6 Youth Ministry Mini-Retreat 9.15 - 11.15 School Board Meeting, 6pm in the St Mary's staff room Year 1 Art Focus Day |
| Wednesday 3 August |
Confirmation Sacrament Preparation Class 3.30pm |
| Friday 5 August |
Peer Support School Explorers Session #4, 2pm-3pm Tuckshop - Pip, Jackie, Maureen |
| WEEK 4 | |
| Monday 8 August |
Madelyn Burns School Counsellor Tuckshop - Marguerite, Tania, Tash |
| Tuesday 9 August |
St Mary's P & F Association Meeting 7pm in the staff room |
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Wednesday 10 August |
Confirmation Sacrament Preparation Class 3.30pm |
| Friday 12 August |
Peer Support School Explorers Session #5, 2pm-3pm Tuckshop - Jane, Carina, Claire |
Teaching and Learning
The students learn to respond to instructional words as they relate to oral and written directions, by decoding words, or by learning new vocabulary that appears in their daily reading selections.
Students engage in activities and discussions that support the use of inferential language. These conversations occur during teacher and student read-alouds of various text types, including narrative, poetry, and informational. Students learn speaking and listening rules to help them learn classroom routines. In addition, they participate in language exercises to learn homonyms, opposites, classification, and problem-solving skills and are asked to recall the events of a story.
Students develop awareness through carefully sequenced activities of increasing difficulty that include:
- Recognise and manipulate syllables, onsets and rimes, and phonemes
- Identify letter-sound relationships, including letter names
- Blending and segmentation of phonemes
Decode Words and Analyse Word Parts
Students engage in daily word-reading activities to practice sounding out sound-spelling patterns. Gradually, instruction focuses on word parts including prefixes and suffixes. Ample opportunities to practice these patterns occur in every lesson through word lists and connected text.
Read Connected Text to Increase Fluency and Comprehension
Students read connected text every day with teacher feedback. Specific correction procedures ensure students are accurate and learn to self-monitor. They read a variety of text, including decodable narrative and informational text using words based on recently taught sound-spelling patterns. Opportunities to build fluent and accurate reading occur through repeated story readings and daily partner readings.
Term Three Clubs
This week the students have been enthusiastically participating in our Term Three interest clubs. Due to popularity, the clubs are scheduled on a rotating roster. If your child has put their name down for a club but has not had their turn yet please assure them their turn is still coming. Students are notified each morning if they have a club to attend that day.
Enrolling Now
Enrolments can now be placed online. Go to https://enrolments.stmarysc.nsw.edu.au/enrol/ to enrol now.
Enrolments packs are available from our School Office or can be downloaded from our website http://www.stmarysc.nsw.edu.au/enrolment.html
