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Dear Parents, A note from our guide, James (Cape to Cape Explorers)....... "J ust wanted to pass on my thanks to your incredible teachers and parent helpers. The team feel you have a wonderful group of students who have been a real pleasure to work with. A fantastic few days!" And here are some photos from my Bobtail Group ......  Day 1 - Prevelley Loop and Ellensbrook House          Day 2 Photos - Cape to Cape track and Calgardup Cave     What a rich learning experience it was for everyone. Not only the incidental skills of perseverance, collaboration, being present in the moment, appreciation for our environment, mindfulness...... but goodness me, I can't put into words how happy, rejuvenating and grounding the two days were. My sincere thanks to Cape to Cape Explorers, the parent helpers and most of all your beautiful kiddos. It was a pleasure to share this extraordinary experience with you all. Open Class - Learning Journey:    SAVE THE DATE!!  On Wednesday 13th Septe

  Hello all and welcome to Culture, Nature, Challenge week!  The students and I are super excited for Thursday and Friday. It looks like we should be greeted with good weather. Maybe a little sprinkle of rain here and there? But all in all, it should be a great couple of days. INSIDE THE CLASSROOM Reading:  Beginning in Week 8 and running for 5 weeks, the Year Five classes will be participating in a Book Club. Each student will be placed into a reading group and will be assigned a particular novel to read. Each week, the members of the group will have to perform a different role and contribute to a Book Club meeting every Friday. Over the five weeks and on a rotation system, each student will have been responsible for being the director, illustrator, word finder, summariser and connector.  Over the next 2 weeks of this term, we will continue to model how to perform each role explicitly, so that they will ready for the Book Club. Culture, Nature and Challenge Days: Another year and anot

Dear Parents, Apologies for the late message... I was glued to the Matilda's inspirational performance; they showed so much heart! Today, as a class the students participated in creating our classroom creed (in their own words) based around the four school core values of Compassion, Appreciation, Respect and Excellence.  Having a positive classroom culture that encourages participation, is one of the most important elements of a successful learning environment. S tudents have more likelihood of success when they feel connected to school and feel that teachers care about them as people as well as their learning. Here it is: Starting tomorrow, all of us in 5C will encourage, and give each other opportunities to put into action our classroom culture, and praise each other for doing so. As positive reinforcement I have set up a "raffle ticket" reward system, where students recieve a ticket when I and/or any teacher see them putting our values in action. When a student has col