1399 Upper Lansdowne Road, Upper Lansdowne 2430 Telephone: 6556 9163 Fax: 6556 9219

Email: lansdowneu-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: http://www.lansdowneu-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser - Who Can Help?? When - Saturday September 9th Where - Taree Bunnings The P&C have created a timetable but we still NEED volunteers! You can volunteer for 1 hour, 2 hours or all day. It should be lots of fun and ALL money raised will support your child/children, especially since we have our Swimming Program and major excursions in Term 4. There is a volunteer timetable on the noticeboard which you can add your name to tomorrow!

CAN YOU HELP???? Swimming Program When - Term 4 Where - Taree Aquatic Centre Cost - Still to be decided

Gymnastics Program When - Term 4 Where - at Upper Lansdowne PS Cost - $4 per child each week, which the school will pay for The trained gymnastics instructors will bring all equipment and provide our children with one hour skills development lessons.

Stage 3 Excursion When - Term 4 Week 4 - Monday to Wednesday - 3 days, 2 nights Where - Aussie Bush Camp - Tea Gardens near “Ayers Rock” Cost - Approximately $285 Please advise me if your Year 5-6 child WILL NOT be attending. This will allow us to select interested Year 4 students.

Upper Lansdowne News “Friendship and Learning”

Principal - Shellie Tancred

Term 3 - Week 7

HELP! Sam W has lost 3 of his school jumpers. Please have a look at home, as your child may have accidentally brought the wrong jumper home. His name is on them. Thanks.

1399 Upper Lansdowne Road, Upper Lansdowne 2430 Telephone: 6556 9163 Fax: 6556 9219

Email: lansdowneu-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: http://www.lansdowneu-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Maths with Mrs Powell

3-6: The 3-6 students were investigating floating and sinking which led to their participation in the activity “float my boat.” Firstly the students investigated floating by building foil boats and afterwards loaded them with weights to see how much the boat would hold before it sunk. Through testing, the students discovered an important pattern - the boat’s size and shape made a difference in how much a load the boat could carry. Prior to the students testing their boats, they explained the process of making their boats and the reasoning behind the design, and predicted how much they though their boats would hold. After the students had tested their boats and how much load it carried they redesigned the boats based on the observations from the experiment. Aspects that were discussed in the redesign process were what features do boats that hold a lot of weight have in common? Some answers involved “size- bigger boats hold more weight; strength - sturdy boats don’t crumble under the load; and stability - so the boats don’t roll over or take on water adding extra weight.” Originally, after the first testing, the winning boat was Jasper and Jackson’s whose boat held over 400g, but after remodelling the winners were Seth and Gus whose boat held over 900g.

K-2: 2D and 3D shapes was the students learning topic. Firstly, they started the lesson by identifying different 2D and 3D shapes around the classroom. Then using marshmallows and toothpicks, constructed 2D and 3D shapes of their choice. The toothpicks made the sides (edges) of the shapes and the marshmallows made the corners (vertices). The students then wrote a reflection based on the activity and one of the shapes they had made.

YEAR 3: Last week, the year 3 students were learning about fractions. They learnt to identify different fractions including halves, quarters, thirds, and fifths. Their favourite activity for learning fractions was based on the book “The Lion’s Share” where all

the guests at the Lion’s party cut a piece of cake for themselves until there was no cake left for

the Lion. The students replicated the story by cutting a piece of paper to recreate the cake and

cut the relevant fractions of the cake for each animal.

1399 Upper Lansdowne Road, Upper Lansdowne 2430 Telephone: 6556 9163 Fax: 6556 9219

Email: lansdowneu-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: http://www.lansdowneu-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Learning in Year 3-6 To increase the variety of fun, playground activities for students I have introduced 4 scooters for the Y3-6 students. Strict rules have been applied to the use of the scooters to ensure equitable use and safe use. Last week the Y4-6 students discussed student reward systems that aimed to increase student excellence, school pride and student engagement. We were having difficulty identifying a healthy, cheap reward for the children to achieve, as they strove for student excellence and engagement. Chay suggested an “out of uniform” reward system which had merit, as there was level of difficulties to achieve, it was cheap, healthy and student driven. This is ultimately what I want my students to become creative, independent, responsible students, who show initiative. Please have your child explain this reward system which we will “give it a go” and re-evaluate at the end of the term. Last week Tahlia, Sam J and Sam D made delicious, healthy fired rice which everyone enjoyed for Thursday recess. At home, Gavan and Jasper made ginger muffins which we eagerly devoured at lunch. On Wednesday Seth, Gus, Deegan, Jackson and Jasper participated in the NSW Permanent Maths test which was exceptionally difficult but all boys strove to achieve personal excellence. In Science the students were given the task of saving an ice cube from melting. The students worked co-operatively to research how to insulate an ice cube and design an insulated container for their ice cube. The following day the students constructed their containers and placed them directly in the sun. An unprotected ice cube was placed directly next to their containers to enable the students to make comparative observations. The students concluded that all the containers insulated the ice cubes from the melting effects of the sun. However, Chay, Daley and Hunter’s container provided the best protection. In art we analysed Van Gogh’s “Starry Starry Night”, Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” and “The Big Wave” by Japanese artist Hokusai. Afterwards the students painted their own “The Scream” in the style of Edvard Munch. Next the students will use the green screen app to superimpose themselves into their painting and hopefully the “Chatter Pix” app to record their learning journey.

1399 Upper Lansdowne Road, Upper Lansdowne 2430 Telephone: 6556 9163 Fax: 6556 9219

Email: lansdowneu-p.school@det.nsw.edu.au Website: http://www.lansdowneu-p.schools.nsw.edu.au/

Term 3 Weeks 6 Reader of The Week - Tahlia Student of The Week - Jackson Other Awards Sam J - Super Gardening Jackson - Super Star Sam D - A Super sentence Sam W - Great attitude Michael - Great perseverance in maths

School Calendar - Upper Lansdowne Public School

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Term 3 Week 1 Staff Develop. Day

17th July Students Return

18th July 19th July 20th July 21st July

Term 3 Week 2 24th July 25th July 26th July

Mrs Powell K-2 27th July

Narelle Mrs Powell 28th July

Term 3 Week 3 31st July

Athletics Carnival 1st August 2nd August 3rd August 4th August

Term 3 Week 4 7th August 8th August 9th August

Mrs Powell K-2 10th August

Narelle Mrs Powell 11th August

Term 3 Week 5 14th August

LMBR - Miss T 15th August 16th August

17th August LMBR - Miss T

18th August

Term 3 Week 6 21st August

Planning - Miss T 22nd August

23rd August Mrs Powell K-2

24th August Narelle Mrs Powell

25th August

Term 3 Week 7 28th August 29th August Brave Heart Performance

30th August 31st August 1st September

Term 3 Week 8 4th September 5th September 6th September Mrs Powell K-2

7th September Narelle Mrs Powell

8th September

Term 3 Week 9 11th September School Photos

12th September 13th September 14th September 15th September

Term 3 Week 10 18th September 19th September 20th September 21st September

Narelle Mrs Powell 22nd September Term 3 last day!

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