Term 3 Week 10 Newsletter
From the Principal
Dear Families,
Welcome to our Week 10 Newsletter. What a busy and exciting term of learning we have had at Calwell Primary School. We are looking forward to finishing off the term in a strong way, having a restful break and returning for Term 4 on Tuesday 15th October (Monday 14th is a pupil free day).
Our annual Year 6 Market Day was held on Friday 13th and was a great success. Our students put together a fantastic array of activities, stalls and experiences for the rest of the school. Congratulations to our Year 6 students for your collaboration, professionalism and your organisation of the day. You really provided a fun and entertaining experience for everyone and helped to maintain this strong tradition for our school. Thanks also to our Year 5/6 teachers and to Emma for your organisation of the day.
Term 3 Highlights
Community
Fathers Day Breakfast
Open Classrooms and Stay and Play
100 days Of Kindergarten Celebration
Book week Assembly and celebrations
Art Show- Preschool
Donut Day
Open Classrooms
Stay and Play
Excursions and Incursions
Kaboom Incursion
Camp Quality Puppet Show
Author Visit- Preschool and Kindergarten
National Arboretum-Kindergarten
Combined Band workshops
Kindergarten Fire Visit
National Gallery Excursion- Year 1/2
PE and Sport
Year 2 Aqua Safe Program
Golf Clinics K-6
Tuggeranong and ACT Track and Field
3/4 Soccer Gala Day
Wellbeing
Fearless Future Program- Year 6 Girls
Bullying No Way Week
Year 1/2 Dental Visit
Enrichment day ANU Year 6 Students
Breakfast Club Volunteers Needed
Our Breakfast Club runs each Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning and is a really important part of our wellbeing and positive school culture. Thanks to our regular volunteers who are here every week to run breakfast club. We really appreciate your efforts in providing this service for our students. We really need some more volunteers to help with this. Volunteering for breakfast club includes cooking toast, serving and tiding up. Time commitment is from 8:30-9:00 and you are welcome to come as a one off or on a regular basis. Please see the front office if you are able to volunteer some time to help with Breakfast Club in Term 4.
Staffing update
This week we say goodbye to Jaida who has been working with us over the last 2 terms as a Learning Support Assistant. Jaida has been playing footy with the Canberra Raiders. She has been a really positive role model for our students and has quickly developed strong relationships. Jaida is returning to Queensland and we hope she will be back to work with us again next year. Thanks Jaida, for your great work here at Calwell.
Kind Regards
Ben Roberts
Principal
Parent Portal App
Parent Portal is now available as a mobile app!
You can now access Parent Portal with the Sentral for Parents app. Download Sentral for Parents for free through the App Store or Google Play Store.
Parent Portal is a secure online platform used to share student information between you and your child’s teachers.
If you’ve already registered, you can download the Sentral for Parents app to receive notifications when new information is available.
If you haven’t registered for Parent Portal yet, use this Parent Portal access link to log into or create your ACT Digital Account. To access Parent Portal, you will need your access key, you should have received this by email when we launched.
If you can’t find the email with the access key, please contact the front office team for help.
Some reminders about what you can do with Parent Portal:
- notify us if your child is sick or explain an absence
- book parent-teacher interviews
- receive academic reports
- receive our school newsletter
- receive messages from your child’s teachers
- make payments
- access the school calendar and your child’s student timetable.
CARES
Gold Awards
Notes Home/Due & Dates to Remember
-Principals Afternoon Tea (selected students only) Thursday 26th September
- Year 6 Graduation Kingpin excursion notes due back Friday 27th September
- Last day of term 3 Friday 27th September
- Pupil free day Monday 14th October
- First Day of Term 4 Tuesday 15th October
- Calwell High School Transition visit (selected students only) notes due back Tuesday 15th October
- Calwell High School Transition visit (selected students only) Wednesday 16th October
Scrivener
In kindergarten for Geography we have been learning all about special places and how we care for them. To help with this learning we headed out to the Arboretum where we learnt about some of the ways the Ngunnawal people care for their Country, and how they use natural resources for everyday uses. The students had a go at brushing their teeth with a leaf and learnt about local trees that can be used as medicine. We loved learning how to throw a boomerang, and despite the wind, everyone had a great time. While we were there students mastered climbing to the top of the Pod playground to go down the big slide. It was a fabulous day with lots of wonderful hands-on learning opportunities. Some of the highlights were catching the bus, wearing a kangaroo skin, throwing a boomerang and running down the big hill.
In Mathematics students have been learning about measurement. Over the past few weeks we have learnt how to measure and compare length, mass, capacity and we are currently learning about duration. They have enjoyed exploring this unit as they have been able to physically engage with the learning. Students enjoyed practising hefting by comparing different objects in the classroom and getting out into the sandpit to help them understand capacity.
Kindergarten are enjoying our Initialit program, and amaze themselves every day with what they can read and write. We are currently learning about digraphs and vowels. The students were amazed to learn that every word we read and write has a vowel in it. They are finding their tricky words throughout the classrooms and when reading quality texts at home or in the library.
Kindergarten would also like to Thank the year six students for their hard work on market day. They had an amazing time!
Ride Safely to School
End of year community event
Camp Australia
Calwell Little Athletics
Aquatic Achievers Calwell
