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Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Welcome back to another new term! I hope that each of our families enjoyed the mild Au-

tumn weather during the break, and had a restful and happy time together during this

school holidays.

Walt Disney once said, “We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new

things, because we're curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.” It is with

this spirit of curiosity and exploration that we enter the new term. I know that the teachers

and coaches are eager to get started on exciting academic, cultural and sporting en-

deavours, and that they have ensured that we hit the ground running from the very first

day of school.

I appreciate all their preparatory work, as it will surely set the tone for the rest of the term,

with each lesson, rehearsal and practice thoroughly prepared for and well structured.

Thank you to Elli Bortolotti for arranging the Navy Jazz Band to perform at our wonderful

ANZAC assemblies today.

I would like to send my congratulations to Dr Michael McGregor and his lovely wife on their

new born Claire!

Next week our annual Ballet Production will take the stage. I would like to wish all our won-

derful ballerinas the best! I am so proud of the effort that the staff, students and parents

have put in last term and during the holidays to help bring it to life.

I wish all those associated with our school an enjoyable, fulfilling, and exciting term !

Have a wonderful term!

Dee Pitcairn

The Reddam House Primary School Newsletter Volume 17 Issue 11 Friday 28 April 2017

IN THIS ISSUE:

Start of Term

News from the classrooms

Sport Fixtures and Results

SPORTING FIXTURES 29TH APRIL 2017

Basketball

Girls

10R Easts Comp (Lee) V Bourkie Bandits 2.15pm

Waverley Pavilion Sunday

12R (Div2) (Hayley) V Sapphires 9.30am Alexan-

dria Basketball Stadium Saturday.

12E Easts Comp ( Lee) V Clovelly Warriors 2.50pm

Waverley Pavilion Sunday.

12D (10s) Easts Comp (Lee) V Waverley Pavilion

Sunday

14 E Div 2 (Henry) V Ravens 1.30pm Marrickville

Basketball Stadium Saturday

16 R Div 2 (Hayley) V Inferno 4.20pm Alexandria

Basketball Stadium Friday. The bus will leave the

Woollahra Campus at 3.30pm

18 R Div 2 (James) V Wildcats 5.05pm Alexandria

Basketball Stadium Friday. The bus will leave the

Woollahra Campus at 3.30pm

Boys

10 R Div 1 ( Lee) V Storm 8.00am Alexandria Bas-

ketball Stadium Saturday.

12 R Div 2 (Lee) V Cobras 11.45am Alexandria Bas-


12E Div 3 (Lee) V All Stars 2.00pm Alexandria Bas-


12 D Easts Comp (Lee) V Maccabi 10.20am Wa-

verley College Sunday

14 R Div 1 (James) V Lakers 2.45pm Alexandria

Basketball Stadium Saturday.

14 E Div 2 (James) V Rockets 4.15pm Alexandria


14D Div 3 (James) V Ka Boomers 1.00am Alexan-

dria Basketball Stadium Saturday.

14M Div 3 (James) V Bullets 10.15am Alexandria


16 R Div 2 ( Henry) V Maccabi 3.00pm Marrickville


16E Div 3 ( Henry) V Maccabi 6.45pm Marrickville


18R Div 2 ( Luke)Year 10 Boys V Bye

18E Div 3 (Luke) Year 10 Boys V Reddam D 5.15pm

Marrickville Basketball Stadium Saturday

18D Div 3 (Lee) Year 11 Boys V Reddam E 5.15pm

Marrickville Basketball Stadium Saturday

Please check sydneybasketball.com.au to ensure

there have not been any late changes to the draw.


SPORT FIXTURES

Rugby

Reddam 15s V Newington College, Centennial

Park No.6 (where we train) 12.00pm Saturday

Reddam 13s V Newington College, Centennial

Park No.6 (where we train) 11.00am Saturday

Soccer

Open Boys V Bye

Year 10 Boys V Bye

Year 8 Boys V Bye

Year 9 Boys V Bye

Year 7 R Boys V Newington College, Buchannan

Field No.2 ( Inside Newington College) 10.00am

Saturday. The bus will leave the Woollahra Cam-

pus at 8.45am

Year 7 E Boys V Bye

16 Girls V Bye

12s V South East Eagles, Heffron 53, 1.00pm Sat

11Rs V Pagewood, Jellicoe Park B 12.00 Saturday

11Es V Pagewood, Jellicoe Park F 12.00 noon

Saturday

10s V Bye

9s V Bye

Netball

Reddam 1 V St Catherines Heffron Netball Courts

3.05pm Court No. 5 Saturday



Reddam 3 V St Randwick Heffron Netball Courts

9.48am Court No. 13 Saturday

Reddam 4 V Bondi United Heffron Netball Courts


Reddam 5 V Randwick Heffron Netball Courts






Reddam 8 V Maccabi Heffron Netball Courts


Reddam 9 V Kincopal Heffron Netball Courts






Reddam 12 V South Eastern Heffron Netball

Courts 11.06am Court No. 34 Saturday

Touch Football

Reddam 1 Girls V Touch Heads Queens Park

9.00am

Reddam 2 Girls V Arrows Queens Park 10.00am

Reddam House

would like to wish a very happy birthday to

Ricky Chen, Bronte Bookallil, Eden Elski, Ella Gray, Maia Sundararamen, Vadim Van Geuns, Dar-

cy Rosemont, Skye Russell, Ioannis Macrocordatos, Scarlett Huxham, Lachlan Fink, Jesse Wang,

Coco Veksner-Shaw, Stella Gotsis, Leo Heinola , Ryan Wu, Tico Malki, Bailey Mitchell , Dasher

Stewart, Noah Wooldridge, Archer Yeo Spanbrook, Georgia Maragiannis, Mimi Tolnay, Dewa

Inder, Mia Peleg, Billie Snow, Angus Snow, Noa Garbett, Remy Phillips , Maya Milanovic, Daisy

Singleton, Bronte Treffiletti, Daniel Pinski, Ava Karpes, May Yue, Eva Gorbatov, Elia Klugman,

Jenga Klugman , Chloe Williamson and Dylan Fisher

who celebrated their special over the holidays!

It was great to see all the students so happy and enthusiastic to come back to school. They

have enjoyed sharing their holiday news and we listened to many stories about their adven-

tures!

This term we are learning about ‘Australia Our Country’ and we learnt all about Anzac Day in

our special school assembly, we also ate delicious Anzac biscuits. Students created their own

beautiful Anzac poppies and are very excited to learn more about the important history of

our wonderful country.

In Maths this week we have been busy revising our numbers to ten and had great fun making

ten frames using finger paints. We are concentrating hard on our sight words in English and

blending our sounds to make CVC words independently.


KINDERGARTEN

Year 1 have returned to school with enthusiasm and focus for the term ahead. In their re-

counts they shared their delightful holiday experiences. Students also had fun making jam

sandwiches. This introduced our text type of ‘Procedures’ for this term.

The children collaborated to create an Anzac day wreath as a symbol of rememberance for

the Anzac soldiers.

Our topic of Transport has begun and the students are enjoying the research of many types

of transport. They collated data to discover what modes of transport the children have al-

ready used.


YEAR 1

Year 1 have been learning how to read music on music staff lines. They began exploring the

music staff through playing jumping games on the five lines and four spaces.

Mia suggested that the class could use the dancing scarves to create the lines and spaces.

This was a fantastic idea and the class proceeded to use their bodies to create the music

notes on the music staff.

Next week Year 1 look forward to writing the rhythm and the solfa to a traditional song called

Starlight.

Starlight star bright

First star I see tonight

Well done Year 1!


YEAR 1 MUSIC

Year Two students have returned refreshed and re-energised for a busy and exciting term

ahead. It has been wonderful hearing about all the experiences our students enjoyed over

the holiday break. This week we have also reflected on the significance of Anzac Day.

We are very excited about our upcoming excursion to the NSW Schoolhouse Museum and

the ballet production. The students are looking forward to investigating different cultures and

communities around the world in Geography. This will also link to our novel study in English

"The Little Refugee". In Science we will focus on "Water" and discuss the importance of con-

serving this precious resource as well as investigating the water cycle.


YEAR 2

There was a buzz of excitement around the Year 3 corridors this week as the students re-

turned to school for another exhilarating term. As usual, the students greeted their teachers

with wide smiles, great enthusiasm and an eagerness to learn. Not only have they tackled

vertical algorithms in Mathematics lessons but have also written some jaw-dropping narra-

tives in English.

Here’s what some of the students had to say about returning to school:

Alice Maynard: ‘I couldn’t wait to get back to Art Club because it is so much fun.’

Jasmine Wolfe-Coote: ‘I’m so happy to see all of my friends.’

Linus Alroy: ‘Being back at school is more fun than being at home as I’m much more active.’

Noah Gil: ‘I get to see all of my friends which is great. Plus, it’s a new term, so a new leaf.’

Lachlan Fink: ‘The best thing about being back at school is being around my friends. Also, it

means that I get to learn even more, which I love.’

Madison MacIntyre: ‘I’m so happy to be back at school so that I can do more Mathematics.

It’s my favourite subject.’

Well done Year 3 on an excellent start to the term!


YEAR 3


YEAR 4

Year 4 students launched back into their studies with enthusiasm this week.

They were fascinated with their Science unit, exploring natural and man-made materials. The

children analysed how a product is made up of different components or materials, with a fo-

cus on the components of a computer.

In English this week, a biographical study of Roald Dahl ignited a sense of delight among stu-

dents who have enjoyed this author’s wonderful literature over the years.

We encourage students to read quality literature at home every night and to read for both

meaning and pleasure. Well done Year 4 on an excellent start of Term 2!

Year 5 have begun an overview of their unit on ‘Natural Disasters’ in which they will learn

about the non-fiction genre of factual recounts. They have already gleaned a great deal

about the effect of natural disasters in Australia and they are learning that non-fiction texts

can contain a lot of technical terms which need to understood for thorough comprehension.

Charlotte Budd discovered that the natural disasters which most often affect Australia in-

clude cyclones, droughts, floods, bushfires, earthquakes, landslides and severe storms.

Chloe Fink learned that Cyclone Tracy hit the city of Darwin on December 24, 1974. 195 milli-

metres of rain fell in nine hours and winds of up to 250 kilometres per hour flattened the city,

displacing 25000 people.

Tommy Malki learned that one of the factors which contributed to the devastating effect of

Cyclone Tracy was poor building regulations and a series of smaller cyclones which led the

local people to feel complacent about the possible danger.

Isabella Luca became aware that cyclones are graded in categories. For example a cate-

gory 4 cyclone produces wind gusts of up to 279 kilometres per hour and a category 5 is any-

thing over 280 kilometres per hour which would obviously have a devastating effect on the

landscape.

Luke Nunn-Price read about a more recent cyclone in Far North Queensland called Larry

which was a category 4 and hit the towns of Babinda, Silkwood and Innisfail. He wrote that

even though the cyclone destroyed 90% of the homes in the area there were no fatalities be-

cause of their Disaster Preparation Plan. Three days prior to the cyclone, emergency crews

were deployed and people were evacuated.

Noah Hunter produced an excellent definition of drought. Drought he has written, is an ab-

sence of rain and lack of water which last a number of years and causes drastic loss of crops

and livestock.

Jethro Wilson realised that there are precautions to take in a flood such as switching off the

power, moving garbage and chemicals so that they don’t contaminate water ways and

avoiding entering floodwaters during an emergency.

Eva Gorbatov was surprised that the people of Banalla did not choose to build a levy to pro-

tect their town from flooding. She learned that the residents thought it was too expensive

and dreadful-looking as well as not being a 100% guarantee of safety.


YEAR 5 ENGLISH


Year 5 have settled in well to the new term. It has been fantastic to hear all their wonderful

holiday adventures. 5M welcomed two new students Andrew and Jerry. Their buddies have

been looking after them and we wish them all the best for the year ahead.

YEAR 5 & 6 SCIENCE

YEAR 5 & 6 MATHEMATICS

It was wonderful to welcome back our Year 5 and 6 Mathematics students for what promises

to be an exciting term.

In true Reddam fashion there was no stopping us and we managed to thoroughly revise top-

ics that we dealt with at the end of last term. In Year 6, it was back to calculating the area

and circumference of circles as well as converting between units of area. In Year 5 we dis-

cussed the different square units we use for measuring area. Students found it interesting that

a hectare (ha) is used for measuring smaller areas than a km². We compared area and pe-

rimeter and drew different rectangles with areas of 24 cm² observing that their perimeters

changed.

We are looking forward to next week when we will immerse ourselves in patterns!

Year 6 Extension completed their class novel ‘Playing Beatie Bow’ by Ruth Park. The story

concerns a 14-year-old girl named Abigail Kirk (who changes her name from Lynette). While

she is very distressed over her parents' separation, she travels back in time during a play-

ground game. She finds herself involved with a shopkeeper's family in colonial Sydney-Town

in the year 1873, where she meets Beatie Bow, a girl whose name appears in the game she

was playing. Students found this particularly interesting as much of the book is set in real-life

locations around Sydney's historical Rocks district and they were able to identify the locations

described. Kaya Lurie wrote the following book review over the holidays.

Playing Beatie Bow - Book Review by Kaya Lurie

Ruth Park’s Playing Beatie Bow (1980) is a fantastical, time-travel novel that also incorporates

the concept of lived history. This book was a thrilling but devastating text to consume as I

couldn't stop myself from reading it and yet the ending was terribly sad.

Toward the end of the adventure we learn that Judah, one of the main characters, died at

sea and Gilbert, a far less likeable character, was ultimately the one who lived. Why him I

was left questioning? Gilbert was a pessimistic fatalist who seemed to hate his life.

It was tragic to learn that Judah died at sea and left behind Dovey his wife. He didn’t de-

serve to die but in my opinion Gilbert would not have been missed. He didn't appreciate his

life in the world and constantly talked about his mortality. Judah on the other hand was a

brave, smart and happy lad who loved his family dearly. The loss of him would have brought

great mourning to his family.

This said, it was so exciting to hear that the Bow family lived on and that Robert who be-

friends Abigail in the present day was a descendent of the family. Robert turns out to be

much like Judah to Abigail in both looks and manner.

The novel is also concerned with how historical memory might be affected, or even threat-

ened, by processes of development. As a class we asked ‘What impact, for example, does

the gentrification of old neighborhoods have on lived knowledge and generational

memory?’

When Abigail travels back to Victorian-era Sydney, she experiences a Rocks area that exist-

ed, 100 years after Europeans first arrived and then settled in Sydney Cove. At that time it

was inhabited by a lively mercantile community but there was no such thing as tarred roads,

the internet or traffic lights.

On a personal level, the changes that Abigail went through in the past world were enriching;

trusting the Bows, getting wounded and not being allowed to go home to her family and for-

getting where she came from or what her parents’ names were. After falling over and not re-

membering where she came from or what happened that evening, the experience must

have been frightening but Abigail proves that life can be both disappointing and full of won-

derful surprises and that human beings are incredibly resilient and adaptable creatures.

This book is definitely worth reading, I was intrigued to the last word.


YEAR 6 EXTENSION ENGLISH


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