SCHOOL VISION: TO PREPARE EACH OF OUR STUDENTS FOR SUCCESS IN THEIR EVER CHANGING FUTURE BY PROVIDING THEM WITH THE NECESSARY SKILLS, KNOWLEDGE AND GENERAL

CAPABILITIES.

SCHOOL VALUES: OPTIMISM SUCCESS RESPECT DETERMINATION

Issue 53 23rd August 2019

NEWSLETTER

KEY DATES AT BARTON

DATE EVENT TIME WHO

FOR MORE INFORMATION, PLEASE VISIT OUR WEBSITE:

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28th August

Junior Hoop Time

9am – 2pm

Selected Students

30th August

Father’s Day Breakfast

8am – 8.45am

All Students

2nd September

Myuna Farm Excursion – Prep A, E & F

9.30am – 2.45pm

Prep A, E & F

3rd September

Myuna Farm Excursion – Prep B, C & D

9.30am – 2.45pm

Prep B, C & D

4th - 6th September

Camp Rumbug

All Day

Grade 4 Students

9th September

Turn the Tide Excursion

All Day

Grade 6 Students

17th September

Taskworks Excursion

9am – 3pm

Grade 2 Students

20th September

Footy Colours Day

All Day

All Students

23rd - 4th

October

School Holidays

2 Weeks

All Students

17th October

Citizens of the World Incursion

11.30am – 12.30am

Grade 5 & 6 Students

17th October

Barton Day

9am – 10.30am

All Students

6th – 8th November

Swimming

9am - 11am

Grade 6 Students

11th - 12th

November

The Briars Camp

All Day

Grade 3 Students

22nd November

Swimming – Mount Martha Life Saving Club

All Day

Grade 6 Students

3rd December

Curriculum Day

All Day

All Students

10th December

End of Year Concert

6.15pm

All Students

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT – Andrew Felsinger

BOOK WEEK

Last week we celebrated Book Week at Barton Primary School. On Thursday our students dressed up as their favourite book characters and donated a book to our library. We saw a range of different characters at the parade including the BFG, the Cat in the Hat, Superheros, wizards and a few Disney Princess’. We also had a few Wally’s make an appearance. I was very proud of how many stu-dents donated books towards our growing Library.

BARTON UNITED FOOTBALL CLUB - OPENING

Barton Reserve celebrated it’s Grand Opening on Sunday 18th August. It was fantastic to see so many familiar faces there supporting our community. If you would like any further information re-garding the club please or become more involved with Barton United Football Club, please con-tact Ned Saber, Vice President Barton United FC. Email: info.bartonunitedfc@gmail.com

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FATHERS DAY BREAKFAST

Parents and students are invited to our Fathers Day Breakfast this Friday 30th August 8am—8.45am in the Stadium. Pikelets, Tea and Coffee will be provided. We hope to see you all there to celebrate

BASKETBALL COURTS RECTIFICATION

Our basketball courts are in the process of being improved. A temporary fence has been put up around the basketball courts and will remain there for a couple of months while the surface is re-paired and resealed. Once this process is complete the fence will be taken down and our students can continue to utilise this facility.

RELOCATABLE CLASSROOMS

Our new relocatable classrooms are scheduled to arrive in the next 2 weeks. You will notice some temporary fencing going up in preparation for this. These will be the same modular buildings as we currently have and ill cater for our growing numbers in 2020.

PREP NEWS

Reading

In Reading we have learnt about digraphs within our new words of the week ‘teacher’ and ‘feather.’ We have been focusing on rhyming words and using the reading strategy ‘Skippy Frog’. Skippy Frog teaches us to skip a tricky word and read the rest of the sentence before determining the missing word and then rereading the sentence.

Writing

We have been learning about procedural writing. During our writing workshops we have been making crafts and writing the steps to create our crafts.

Numeracy

In Maths we have been learning about addition and have begun our unit on subtraction. We have also explored location. We listen to, give and follow instructions using positional language words such as near, far, under, over, next to, behind, in front, forwards and backwards.

Inquiry

We have continued to learn about different animals on the farm. We are working on developing our questioning skills by using words such as who, what, when, where, why and how to start our ques-tions.

PREP NEWS

Book Week

Each of the Prep Grades have joined forces with another Grade within the school to explore the book ‘Wombat Stew’ for Book Week. With this Grade we created new characters and wrote our own page of the story. Well done to all the students who got involved with our Book Week Parade dressing up as a book character.

Reminders!

Please don’t forget to read every night.

Please log onto online programs such as Reading Eggs, Bug Club and Mathletics.

We are also collecting the Coles Little Shop for our unit on money and would gratefully accept any donations of extra minis that you may have.

GRADE 1 NEWS

Mathematics News—Location

The Grade 1 students have been learning about location in Mathematics. Location is a part of the Measurement & Geometry strand of the Mathematics Curriculum.

They have been using vocabulary that describes the position of objects. Additionally, they are re-quired to follow and give instructions to and from a place that involves turns, direction and distances.

Here are some examples of the vocabulary they have been exposed to:

Jade is standing outside and Jetta is standing inside the learning hub.

Gursirat is standing near and Isabelle is standing far.

Manya is in between Murtaza and Janica. Murtaza is on the left, Manya is in the middle and Janica is on the right in the photo.

Zachary is standing behind Kon and Cooper is standing in front of Kon.

Prerita is sitting on top of the table and Binyamin is under the table.

GRADE 2 NEWS

Maths: Half and Quarter turns.

The Grade 2’s have been learning about half and quarter turns in Maths. We used our bodies to show quarter and half turns. We also hid an object in the classroom and used the language of quarter and half turns to direct someone to find the mys-tery object.

Reading: Book Week.

The Grade 2’s had the opportunity to buddy up with another grade and read the story ‘Wombat Stew’. Together they looked at describing words and got to act out the story. Then they wrote their own episode of the story and drew pictures to match.

GRADE 3 - 6 NEWS

Science

In the 3-6 cohort, we have been learning all about all things Physical Science such as energy, light, refraction and electricity. We have been lucky to engage in a range

of experiments such as water refraction and working

with circuits.

Athletics

On Wednesday 21st, we had a huge number of Barton stu- dents represent our school at the District Athletics. The students trained hard for the completion and gave it their all. Congratulations to the students who participated in District Athletics.

Book Week

What a week! The 3-6 grades have found a buddy grade throughout the school and worked with them to create an episode for the book Wombat Stew. The students were able to learn from other peers by reading, writing and creating together.

We also got to celebrate Book Week by dressing up as characters from our favorite books. The 3-6 teachers also got involved with the dress ups, can you find Wally?

Have a look at some of our costumes.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

1500m 910yr boys

1st Niamat Mohseni

2nd Nicholas Hes

11yo boys & girls

1st Caplen Dexter

2nd Fatima Mohseni

3rd Atifa Karimi

Hurdles

910yr boys

3rd Cooper Scandizzo

11yo boys

1st Alicena Rajaey

Highjump

12/13 yo boys

2nd Anthony Cin

Long Jump

11yr boys

1st Alicena Rejaey

200m

11yr boys

1st Caplen Dexter

RELAYS

910yr boys

Niamat Mohseni

Zarif Mohammadi

Cooper Scandizzo

Immanuel Porter

11yr girls

Atifa Karimi

Fatima Mohseni

Homa Nazari

Ieshani Lathpandurage

WOW!! What a fantastic day we had at the Casey Fields Athletics Track. Our students excelled in their individual and team events with many of our students placing 1st, 2nd & 3rd.

Congratulations to the following students who will be going through to the Division Athletics on the 18th of Septem-ber.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

Becoming familiar with the technique of the kick

Identify the different steps to take when kicking a ball Improving our skipping technique (with rope)

Turning the skipping rope consistently

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

STUDENTS ARE LEARNING TO:

STUDENTS ARE LEARNING TO:

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Become familiar & further develop the fundamen-tal motor skill technique of Punt

Identify the different steps to take performing a punt kick

Improve skipping technique (with rope)

Turn the skipping rope consistently

Understand what an invasion game is

Explain why Netball is an invasion game

Move to a new position to receive the ball and to defend a player

Pass the ball to a team mate who is free and stop a player from getting the ball

Start to understand the netball positions

Put all skills learnt into a game

PHYSICAL EDUCATION

The aim of SEPEP is for students to learn how to plan, manage and run their own sports ‘season’. This is what is referred to as ‘student centred learning’ in physical education. As well as being players, the other roles in-volved in running a sporting competition will also be filled by students

The individual positions that students fill are:

Coach

Captain

Publicist

Umpires

Scorer

Manager

Equipment manager

Timekeeper

PERFORMING ART

We have had a very busy couple of weeks in Music! Our students have been learning about a lot of different concepts and ideas.

Prep students have begun to learn about dynamics in music, using proper musical words like pi-ano and forte to describe soft and loud sounds.

Year 1 & 2 students have been learning about different melodic elements each week and talking about how they are all related and how they all help to create interesting music to listen to. We had a lot of fun singing and playing the Grizzly Bear song and game to learn about crescendos and decrescendos. We even had a go at improvising using the pentatonic scale on xylophones!

We have concluded our recorder unit with Year 3/4 students—they have completed an assess-ment task this week, and realised just how much they’ve learnt so far this term! We have covered topics like blues music, major and minor melodies, and the difference between harmony and chords. We have an exciting last few weeks of this term planned where students will have the op-portunity to use their favourite song to investigate different aspects of music!

Students in Year 5/6 have started composing their jingle for their commercials. They have been using the iPads in Music to create their own backing music using an online tool. Their next step is to write the lyrics for their jingle, and record their completed jingle together. We will have a few groups perform their commercial at assembly in the coming weeks, and we can’t wait to share them with you!

DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY NEWS

CODING CLUB

Since the 13th of August Coding Club has been running. In Coding Club we have been learning how to use the new Sphero Bolt ro-bots. This week we were trying to make different matrix/animations on the Sphero Bolts. So far, we have seen a lot of peo-ple contributing in groups to create codes for the robot to follow. If you wish to participate in Coding Club and you are in grade 3-6 you can come to the 3/4 Hub every Tuesday at the start of lunch.

By Alphy (56C), Bilal (56A) & Thomas (56C)

ENVIROMENTAL STUDIES Miss Dunstan & Mrs Krejic

It has been a sensationally busy few weeks in Enviro!! We have begun planting seeds this week, which has been very exciting. Students in Prep and Grade 2 have planted Spinach seeds. Students in

Grade 1 have planted bean seeds and Students in Grade 5 have begun planting spinach, lettuce, cauliflower and beetroot in our vegetable garden. Grade 6 students are working on environmental ac-

tion plans to improve our community.

Grade 2 students have been working on creating ecosystem posters. They presented their eco-systems to some parents for our open morning. Maybe teaching the grown ups a few things too.

Miss Dunstan’s Question Corner

While walking on the beach at 5/6 Camp Miss Peters got to thinking… Where do all the shells come from, how do they get to the beach?

Great question Miss Peters! Let’s start by explaining what a shell is, which is tricky. Most seashells are actually protective outer coverings of marine ani-mals. Most shells you see on the beach do not have a living organism attached anymore, but some do. Seashells come from mollusks including clams, mussels and oysters that use the tough outer surface to protect them-selves. When the animal dies the outer shell remains. The older the animal gets the larger, and stronger the shell becomes. Shells are unique, and spe-cific to the species they belong to.

How they arrive on the beach is due to ocean currents. The currents flow all around the world, and depending on where the animal lives and dies, and how the ocean current is moving will determine where they get washed up on the shore. Because beaches change every day as the tide changes it is un-likely you will ever see the same shell again in the same place. Shells are an important part of the environment and you should never remove them. They provide homes for creatures, are used to create nests, and when shells break down they provide nutrients back to the ocean for marine animals to eat.

ENVIROMENTAL STUDIES

Grade 2 Southern Brown Bandicoot Incursion

The Grade 2 students were fortunate to have a guest speaker for their incursion on Wednesday the 14th of August. Charlotte Fletcher is one of the Rangers at the Cranbourne Botanical Gardens and her role is to educate local schools and the community about the Bandicoot, and how we can pro-

tect this endangered Australian animal.

Students played a game called “rat or bandicoot” and students had to decide if the picture shown was a rat or a bandicoot. Students now know the difference between the two. A bandicoot has a big

bottom and a short tail, a rat has a long tail but a little bottom.

Students will continue their research on native animals over the next few weeks, and will be working on an artwork to display at the Cranbourne Botanical Gardens at the end of the term.

COMMUNITY NEWS

COMMUNITY NEWS

COMMUNITY NEWS