Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Parent Meetings and Year 1S Assembly

Parent/Teacher Meetings
As of Tuesday afternoon our Parent Interview Timetable looks like this:

There are still a few time slots available and if you haven't already selected a time, please do so by email or outside the classroom. Please take this timetable as confirmation of your meeting time. Meetings begin from tomorrow afternoon.

Email Address
Just a reminder that my email address is still under my maiden name -  amy.rundle@cewa.edu.au

Year One Performances
After the children's beautiful Holy Week performance today, we can start to focus more on our upcoming Year 1S Prayer Assembly (next Friday 6th April). Many thanks to all of your efforts with helping the children practise their reading parts at home, as well as preparing costumes for today's Holy Week performance of The Last Supper.

With the long weekend coming up, we will have limited time to work on reading parts and singing at for our Prayer Assembly, so any help from home will be greatly appreciated. I have introduced the children to a song that we will sing and a link to the song is below if you have some time to play it on repeat for your kids (perhaps over the long weekend)!
Prayer Assembly Song
I have sent home short reading parts in the children's homework folders today. Every child has a small part to read. There will be no costumes for this Prayer Assembly.




Have a lovely week!
Mrs Amy Sherborne


Wednesday, March 21, 2018

Holy Week Reminder!


Dear Year One and Two Parents,


As part of our school’s preparations for Holy Week, the whole school will be gathering at 9am each morning in the hall next week to participate in a short re-enactment of the events of Holy Week.

Year 1S and Year 2K will be performing on Tuesday 27th March at 9am. Parents are most welcome to come along and watch. There are a few different parts that have been allocated across the classes.

Costume ideas for parts as follows:
·         Jesus/Disciples/Children washing feet – an old sheet/pillow slip with a piece cut out for the head and arms. An oversized t-shirt would also the trick. Tie a rope/sash around the waist.
·         Readers – To stay in school uniform. If your child receives a reading part to practise at home they do not require a costume.

Please feel free to use your own creative licence to modify costumes as you wish. Costumes should be simple and only take 5-10 minutes to put together. We are also happy with something as simple as a head piece, or anything that the children can throw over their uniform to emphasise the era. School uniforms can with be worn under the costume, or be packed into the children’s school bags to change into, following the performance.

Please have the children ready in their costume on the Tuesday morning during gathering time. We will go straight across to the hall to get ready on stage when the bell rings at 8:45am.

Thank you for your support in preparing this special liturgy. If you have any questions, please feel free to email us.

Kind regards
Mrs Amy Sherborne, Mrs Penny King and Mrs Kristy Hunt

Tuesday, March 20, 2018

Parent Interview Timetable

The Year 1S Interview Timetable is now up on the classroom pin up board (as pictured below).


Please write your child’s name down in an interview time slot outside the classroom. Or if you are emailing from home, please select 2-3 preferences and I will confirm your meeting time by email. If none of the allocated times suit you, please let me know so we can arrange an alternative meeting time.

I look forward to discussing your children's progress with you.

Amy Sherborne

Monday, March 19, 2018

Sun Chime STEM Project

In Science, the Year One students have been learning about light and sound. We have learnt about how sound reaches our ears through sound waves and light is a form of energy that is detected by our eyes.

As a part of our Science Program, the Year One students were asked to create a sun chime to both catch the sunlight and make a pleasant sound when the wind blows.

We reviewed our environment and found that the tree in the Early Childhood playground would be the perfect place for our sun chimes.

The children chose their groups of three and began to plan their ideas. They sketched their design and labeled what materials they would use. We then invited some parent helpers in to help us construct our designs. Throughout the construction process, the children showed various communication, reasoning and negotiating skills to design their sun chime as a group. The rich conversations they engaged in to change and adapt their design created a buzz around the ECC area, which led to individual and creative sun chimes being produced.

Thank you x 1000 to our outstanding parent helpers who came in to help us on Friday. You twisting, fixing, gluing and laminating skills were second to none! Another huge thank you to those lovely parents who took home very tricky shells and strung them up while your children slept. We appreciate all the parent help and could not have done it without you! 


Here are some of the wonderful pictures of the children creating their sun chimes.

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Last Supper Liturgy and Other Information

Last Supper Liturgy
On Tuesday the 27th of March at 9am, the children in Year 1S and 2K will be performing a short Liturgy focused around the Holy Week event of Holy Thursday: Jesus' Washing of the Feet and Last Supper. We will be organising and rehearsing acting parts and reading parts over the next few days in which some of your children have received readings to practise.  This will only be a short 15-20 minute Liturgy and will require minimal costuming (no costuming for the readers). Please keep an eye out for the letter that went home today for further information. Parents are of course more than welcome to join us in the hall on this morning. Other aspects of Holy Week will also be performed by other classes throughout the school across that week.

Parent Teacher Interviews
Our Term 1 formal parent meetings for 1S will be in the afternoons and evenings of selected days in Weeks 9 and 10. However, I am more than happy to meet earlier than this date if it is more convenient and you wish to discuss or review any part of your child's learning so far in Year One. The Term 1 Parent Meetings roster will be available next week outside the door. Once the roster is out, a copy will be provided on the blog if you wish to email 1-3 suitable preferred times and I can slot you in where possible.

Prayer Assembly
As posted on the blog a reminder that our prayer assembly will be held at the end of Week 10 (Friday 6th April). There was some confusion about this date, as we had initially been scheduled for this Friday. There will be no Year One prayer assembly tomorrow!

I look forward to seeing some of you in for parent help with our chimes tomorrow morning. Many thanks for your offers of assistance with this project.

Happy Friday to you all!

Mrs Sherborne

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Sun Chime materials

Thank you to all those people who have started collecting items for our sun chimes. All of the children did a wonderful job of planning and designing their sun chimes and we had some very clever people who came up with some outstanding materials that could be used to capture light and create sound.

If you could please bring in any of the following things into class:

- Bottle tops
- Old coat hangers
- Buttons
- Gem stones
- old sun glasses
- Old CD's
- Unused keys
- Mirror tiles (mosaics)
- Old spoons/forks
- Twine
- Shells
- Plastic plates







...plus anything else you can think of!

We will also require some helpers to help construct our sun chimes next Friday the 16th of March from 9.30am - 11.00am. If you are able to help at all, please email me as we would very much appreciate many hands to construct our creations!

Thank you for your on going support.

Mrs Sherborne