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Our class have explored, created, investigated and used our imaginations while learning our Jolly Phonics sounds through hands on and play based experiences.

A big focus has been on school ready behaviours, being bucket fillers, using our manners and sharing.

Some of our weekly themes have included colours, zoo animals, patterns and number in maths, Humpty Dumpty, Green Eggs and Ham, frogs, magnets and The Gingerbread Man.

Throughout these themes children have had the opportunity to develop their handwriting skills, fine and gross motor skills, communication and interactions with others.

We have been Zoo Vets, colour mixers, cup stackers, mask makers, cookie decorators and artists, just to name a few!

A fantastic effort with our book week costumes too!!

We LOVE Growing into Reception!!

The Year 2 and 3 classes finished their ‘themed world” for the OZOBOT to travel through. They had to be very creative and use their problem solving skills with the codes. The Upper Primary classes finished their “Operation games” that were linked with the Makey Makey and Scratch resources. They had a morning of sharing their games with the R/1classes. As a reward they are now creating their ideal future city on Minecraft.

Mrs. Maddern is very proud of all of the students this year for their engagement and persistence with all of the concepts covered. Great job everyone!

This week we have had special kindy night sessions for our beautiful children who are going to school at the beginning of next year. Families have been able to come along and spend time doing kindy activities together.

We would like to thank all our lovely kindy families for your support throughout the year.

WE WISH YOU ALL A MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A SAFE AND HAPPY NEW YEAR

Next year our first playgroup session will be in week 2 of Term 1 on Wednesday 3^rd February.

It was wonderful to see so many children dressed up and moving into a fantasy of ‘Curious Creatures & Wild Minds’. The children really love the opportunity to dress up and our staff are always keen to join in with their very clever and well-thought out costumes. Thank you to all our parents for making this special for your children and a special thanks to Shey Angove in the library for providing some special Book Week activities for the classes during the week and to Jess Cowan and the R/1 R class for leading our Book Week Assembly.

This year OLV competed in the Section 6 Carnival.  The boys finished in 6^th place and the girls finished in 5^th place. Well done to all our participants.

OLV WON the Percentage Pennant Bannerette. This is awarded to the best performing school when you take into consideration a school’s enrolments from Years 3-6. All students gave 100% and had a fun day. There were lots of ribbon winners throughout the day.

On the day we also had an outstanding individual result. Mayah Edwards was awarded Year 5 Age Champion for the carnival.  Mayah also broke the Year 5 girls Long Jump record with a jump of 3.77 metres.  Well done Mayah!

Thank you to John Merrett, Shey Angove & Sandra Naismith for organising and supervising the students at the carnival.

A special thank you to Tina Ida, Michelle Edwards & Tanita Rodgers who volunteered as officials for the day. A job well done.

In R/1 Yellow we enjoyed making curious creatures as part of our Book Week and literacy activities. We gave a name to our creature and wrote some of the interesting things they could do, such as fly really high, read a really hard book, run fast, and meditate. 

We also read many of the books nominated for picture book of the year. Our favourite book was "When Billy was a Dog", we give it a big thumbs up.  

During Book Week, R/1 Purple enjoyed listening to the shortlisted book called ‘We’re Stuck’ by Sue deGennaro.  We liked looking at the different animal characters in the story and talking about the clothes they were wearing and the jobs they might do.  We drew pictures of Apartment # 24 where the animals all lived.

R/1 Red enjoyed reading lots of the shortlisted books during Book Week.  We really enjoyed the winning book “I NEED a parrot” by Chris McKimmie.  We drew a pet that we NEED and listed the reasons why.  We also made our own curious creatures as pets and named them.

 For Book Week in Week 3, Reception Blue read many of the shortlisted books.  Our favourite book that we read was called Three, written by Stephen Michael King.  The story is about a dog who had three legs and is looking for a home.  He makes his way through the city counting all the legs he can see until he makes a new friend!  We decided to draw our favourite part of the story.

The children have been reading Italian books in small groups which has reinforced their knowledge of colours.

They have learnt the song Ciao Buongiorno and enjoy singing it each week along with the other songs that we have learnt throughout the semester. At home you may want to ask them to show you how they are able to sing songs and count to 10 in Italian independently.

Through vocab games we have learnt about colours, numbers and greetings. We are looking forward to Christmas activities and learning about how Christmas (Natale) is celebrated in Italy.

Jacinta Zandona

This year has been very different without parents being able to attend.  Thank you all for your co-operation and understanding of the situation.  Our students have been outstanding in their ability to be so independent – dressing themselves and being so organised.  It has been great seeing the children so excited about their lessons as well.  These swimming lessons play a vital part in the total development of the child.  

The feedback I have received from the Largs Bay Swim Centre’s swimming coordinator and bus driver is that they have been impressed by our student’s behaviour, organisation and skills.  This positive feedback makes me proud of our students and school.

Many thanks to Mr Merrett for coordinating our Swimming Program and for our class teachers organisiation, and to parents for your assistance in organising the students each day.

Students have been exploring…

• Posing questions
• Collecting data
• Displaying data in different forms (i.e  line, column, dot, pie)
• Interpreting and comparing data

This year students have also focused on the use of digital technologies to display data. 

Here are some examples of their work.

The students ran for a distance of 2,000 metres. There was a total of 500 students at this event from 14 local schools. Some 46 students from OLV completed the distance. Well done! The weather was great! A huge thank you to Amelia Maddern, Shey Angove, Brianna Schwidder, Michelle Edwards, & Tanita Rodgers for helping with marshalling and first aid. Thank you to Tina Ida, Sandra Naismith and Frank DeTullio for supervising the students. Thank you also to the Semaphore Surf Life Saving Club for cooking a BBQ and Stir for their Coffee Van. 

The following students have qualified to represent Port SAPSASA at the State Cross Country Championships at Oakbank Racecourse on 5^th August (TBC) in 2021, Ajok Kuir, Jordan Smith, Mayah Edwards & Braiden Pahl.

The following are some of the children’s performances;

Our next carnival is the Port SAPSASA Athletics Carnival on Tuesday 27^th October 2020. There will be between 650-700 students participating, so at this stage the carnival will be restricted to Staff and Officials only due to Covid-19 restrictions.

Yours in Running,

John Merrett

Given the weather of this week, we were blessed to have such fantastic weather (if a bit windy) for our Sports Day.  There was a large number of parents and grandparents that came along to support this event which was great and many thanks for registering and following social distancing protocols.  

Sports Day is an opportunity for us to showcase our Physical Education program.  At OLV we believe that sport is an important educational and personal development area which offers many benefits to the individual and to the school community in general.

Events such as Sports Day do not happen without a lot of hard work.  On behalf of the school Community I would like to thank the following;

• John Merrett, Amelia Maddern & Shey Angove who put in so much hard work in preparing the students, organizing the events and ensuring that the day was successful.
• Tracy Fiacchi for organizing parents signing in.
• Our team leaders who helped with the coordination of the Sports Day and organizing their teams.
• To our staff for their ongoing commitment in providing our children with positive experiences. 
• Thank you to the parents who helped out with supporting the children.
• Congratulations to all the students who participated extremely well.

Sports Day Trophy -

Equal 1^st                St Elizabeth (yellow) & St Mary (green)

2^nd                          St Dominic (red)

3^rd                          St Anthony (blue)

Spirit Cup -

Winner:  St Anthony (blue)

House Leader Awards – each House Leader will present to a member of their team with an award for affirming their fair play, act of good will or trying their best.  These will be presented at Assembly.

This year our choir consists of Year 5 and Year 6 students Ashton, Violet, Ali, Tara, Maya, Eden, Mackenzie and Zahra.

This has been a year of uncertainty, and early in the pandemic the choir were prepared to take on the unwelcome reality of cancelled performances. However, through the persistence of the Catholic Education Office, technological alternatives were explored and a way forward was found.

So instead of performances in the Adelaide Festival Theatre with audiences numbering in the thousands, the Festival will present a streamed version. The choir have prepared a smaller repertoire than usual, worked hard all year and are now feeling the excitement. On Monday they travelled to their 'studio' at Sacred Heart College, met their film crew and performed their songs.

The final version of the concert will be ready Week 4 next term, and I will send information in the next newsletter about how we will be able to access and enjoy this wonderful (and unprecedented) event.

The Junior Primary students have had fun coding the OZOBOTS around a maze and creating a bowling alley for the robots. The Year 2 and 3 classes are also creating a ‘themed world” for the OZOBOT to travel through. Keep an eye out next term for the final products. The Upper Primary classes are so engaged in making an old style “Operation game” that is linked with the Makey Makey and Scratch resources. Next term they would love to have a chance to share these games with the community.

Mrs. Maddern is very proud of all of the classes and loves seeing the joy in the children’s faces when the robots do what they are asked (coded) to do!!

We have had a busy term with lots and lots of learning. The students have enjoyed learning Italian greetings like ciao, buongiorno, buonanotte and arrivederci and they have learnt to count 1-10. Activities have included singing songs and playing games in Italian, making masks and learning about colours.

The children have enjoyed discovering the different aspects of Aboriginal culture…how people lived in big family groups, hunted together and shared food and shelters. It was hard for the children to imagine a life without houses, shops, roads, TVs, computers and phones. We explored Aboriginal art, dance and music and learnt a beautiful new Aboriginal song as well as greetings and counting in the Kaurna language.                  

Our nature garden outside became a place for children to extend their knowledge of the Aboriginal way of life. Some children decided to have a go at making their own ochre, mixing a little water with powder from rocks or dirt before painting bark, logs and even their own faces! They also enjoyed creating their own Aboriginal music with ‘clapping sticks’ and ‘didgeridoos’ while their friends performed special animal dances as kangaroos and emus.

Throughout our learning activities we continue to make connections, build relationships and develop a sense of belonging as we begin our journey into school life.

Our focus over the last few weeks has been about establishing routines, getting to know each other and building positive learning experiences. We have been having fun counting and matching numbers, listening to stories, developing our fine motor skills, writing our name and learning sounds through the Jolly Phonics program!

Students have had the opportunity to explore, investigate, inquire, role play and create! Our home corner has transformed into a florist, farmyard and minibeast lab. Lots of other experiences to be explored over the next few weeks too!

Firstly we had an important conversation about how we can care for our environment and improve sustainability by not throwing things away that we can re-use.  Students then went on a nature walk on the Oval searching for ‘natural treasures’ to collect to construct their own weaving frames.  Students also collected different types of leaves to make necklaces with.  Thank you to Cameron from Nature Play SA for guiding us through this creative and engaging experience.

Why is nature play important?

Nature Play is important for the cognitive, physical, social and emotional development of Early Learners. Outdoor play has important benefits for developing children’s gross motor skills, hand-eye coordination and appreciation for their environment.  Playing in the natural environment stimulates creativity, initiative, confidence and problem solving skills. Time spent in nature also increases concentration and cognitive skills, along with added benefits to physical health, personal and social wellbeing.

The RAA’s Street Smart Primary programme provides South Australian schools with specially trained teachers to pass on the road safety message.

Road safety is an important life skill that we use almost every day in one form or another. It is important to reinforce the rules of the road and correct strategies to use when crossing a road, riding a bike, walking on the pavement, reading road signs and when using crossings for a train.

This session together with subsequent activities have been part of the programme as students in our year levels can often have a lack of knowledge and understanding of traffic and the road environment. Their sight and listening skills are still developing. They have difficulty judging speed and distance accurately. Perception, attention, memory and coordination are still being developed.

Road safety is most effectively learnt by combining first-hand experiences of real-life traffic situations with classroom activities.  Of course this learning is on-going to develop good road safety habits. We trust you will see your children developing and using these road safety skills.

The focus for this unit of work will be on…

• Who is Picasso?
• What is Cubism?
• Exploring artworks that show a painting of a person from lots of different angles in one picture.
• Creating their own Picasso styled piece of artwork
• Researching information relating to Picasso’s life, his paintings and influences.

They have begun using various materials (acrylic paints, oil pastels) and experimenting with different techniques (use of block colours, blending different profiles – side and front on, use of shape, use of quadrants  when designing) to create their own Picasso inspired artworks.

Included are some photos of the student’s work so far.  We look forward to their final pieces – look out for our displays in the corridors of the VERITAS CENTRE.

The Year 4/5 class and the Year Sixes are involved in preparing class ensemble pieces, with untuned percussion being the focus for 4/5 Blue, and tuned percussion for 6 Red. These musical works are full-term projects and require the students to learn and focus on their part and how it works in with the other parts. Both classes have been very impressive with their application of these complex tasks and are well on the way to producing an outstanding result.

Complementing this learning has been the exciting creative assignment of Design and Build a Musical Instrument. Miss Naismith and Miss Ida have guided their classes to draw on both their STEM and Music know-how, tap into their creativity, and come up with a fully working handmade musical instrument.

This year’s Festival Choir have experienced the most dramatic and unprecedented change of plans. The annual Catholic Schools’ Music Festival had to be cancelled, causing great disappointment to our keen and dedicated singers. An alternative event is in the planning and will be a pre-recorded streamed event to replace the live concerts in the last week of Term 3. Our choir members are continuing their rehearsals to reach performance standard in both singing and choreography. Each time updated details of the planned streamed event are revealed, the more exciting it looks!

The Music Room has recently re-located, but only as far as the room next door. You will still find us across from the library in in the back courtyard.

In 2019, OLV Preschool submitted a project as part of their ‘Little Scientists House’ application. The project was titled ‘AIR CAN MOVE.’ The children explored some of the ways we use air in our everyday lives. They asked questions such as, “How do we use moving air to make things happen?” Research involved lots of fun experiments such as balloon rockets, paper planes, bubbles, helicopters, spiral kites, and blowing air through a straw. Included are some photos of last year’s kindy children making discoveries as Little Scientists.

The Year 2 and 3 classes completed their mini skate board parks and designed a Minecraft world linked with their HASS topic. They certainly do love Minecraft Education!

The 4/5/6 classes were given the task of designing and creating a ‘Perfect Playground’. Given the circumstances of our world, we talked about how some children were missing play and what they would include in an ideal play space. The Year 6 class also made Biomes of a habitat that an animal uses to camouflage in. They did a wonderful job and we have received some lovely feedback from the display in the Veritas Centre.

Next semester: DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES!!!!!

The Year 2 and 3 classes have been learning about the map of Italy, the Italian flag and various Famous Italian landmarks.

The Year 4/5 class have been researching information and producing their own books about Italy. Their books provide interesting information about the Italian flag, Italy’s place in the world, Famous Italian Landmarks, Famous Italian Cars and Famous Italian Foods.

The Year 6 students learnt about Famous Italians, Famous Italian landmarks, Italy’s map and regions and Italian foods.

The students have enjoyed building upon their knowledge of the Italian Culture and it has helped them appreciate the attitudes, beliefs and values of the culturally diverse nation in which they live.

The following are OLV’s results:-

Born 2015 Girls 500m                                                    Born 2015 Boys 500m

1^st Matilda McCallum 3:01                                        1^st Sebastian Maberley 2:23

2^nd Mariah Ryan 3:07                                               2^nd Ollie Tsiboukis 2:51

3^rd Arok Kuir 3:10                                                        3^rd Asher Barry 3:05

3^rd Tayah Hammond 3:10

Born 2014 Girls 750m                                                    Born 2014 Boys 750m

1^st Madison Bennett 3:52                                          1^st Jett Hedley 3:51

2^nd Amelie Burchell 4:33                                           2^nd Noah Atkinson 4:18

3^rd Amelia Maggs 4:57                                             3^rd Gabe Kluzek 4:51

Born 2013 Girls 1000m                                                  Born 2013 Boys 500m

1^st Yar Kuir 5:46                                                           1^st Oliver Ford 5:35

2^nd Piper Kluzek 5:58                                                 2^nd Leo Clarke 5:43

3^rd Manaia Taiapa 6:19                                             3^rd William Page 5:48

Born 2012 Girls 1500m                                                 Born 2012 Boys 1500m

1^st Emily Leonard 8:48                                              1^st Maxim Burchell 8:10

2^nd Anyeeth Akuei 10:12                                            2^nd Tane Taiapa 8:54

3^rd Isabel Coggins 10:15                                            3^rd Parker Schell 8:59

Born 2011 Girls 1500m                                                  Born 2011 Boys 1500m

1^st Ajok Kuir 7:03                                                        1^st Rylan Barry 6:48

2^nd Alysia Baldacchino 11:54                                   2^nd Jack Page 7:37

3^rd Josipa Svilicic 12:02                                           3^rd Jacob Leonard 7:54

Born 2010 Girls 2000m                                               Born 2010 Boys 2000m

1^st Tara Coggins 11:44                                               1^st Jordan Smith 8:47

2^nd Ella Gustard 14:13                                               2^nd Lucas Kalaitzis 10:49

3^rd Ziva Grim 14:36                                                   3^rd Jake Atkinson 10:50

Born 2009 Girls 3000m                                               Born 2009 Boys 3000m

1^st Mayah Edwards 14:01                                          1^st Thomas Page 16:15

2^nd Achol Kuir 15:45                                                   2^nd Ty Stead 16:52

3^rd Calleigh Ruth 18:33                                             3^rd Gavin Bosworth 19:28

Born 2008 Girls 3000m                                                Born 2008 Boys 3000m

1^st Anyieth Akuei 15:37                                               1^st Braiden Pahl 12:05

2^nd Indiana Moffatt 18:33                                        2^nd Mark Coggins 14:37

3^rd Jessica Carter 23:20                                           3^rd Israel Strecker 16:50

                                        Born 2007 Boys 3000m

                                    1^st Anthony Connell 18:52

We have listened to stories, sequenced pictures, built zoo habitats, decorated cookies, discovered magnets, excavated ice dinosaur eggs, counted collections, made patterns and continued to learn our Jolly phonics sounds, just to name a few!

Our home corner has transformed into a variety of exciting, hands on and inviting role play experiences! The Zoo vet surgery and Palaeontologist Lab being super popular!

Lots of fine motor activities have been explored with our weekly themes allowing for the development of hand strength, pincer grip and hand/eye coordination. Puzzles, sensory bags, small world play, dino bone digging, monkey balancing, dino track making, tracing and using tweezers are some of the activities GIR have experienced.

We love to play, learn and grow together!

Students have participated in various fitness activities to practice fundamental movement skills and gross motor development.  They have experimented with strength movements such as ‘bear walk’ and ‘crab walk’, they have also worked on improving their balance and coordination by undertaking skill-drills in hopping, skipping and manoeuvring various pieces of sport’s equipment.

Along with developing our physical skills, the R/1 students have also engaged in regular yoga and mindfulness sessions promoting calmness and stillness.  Students have practiced forming different yoga poses and using their bodies creatively to make different shapes. 

A group of our R/1 students have also worked with Tina Wood on the ‘Move It Coordination Program’.  These sessions build confidence and gross motor skill development in a small group setting.

The grounds enhance environmental, educational and social outcomes for the entire school community, including safe playgrounds and improved student behaviour and better learning outcomes. Our oval, Tennis Court Area and Front Court Yard have catered for PE, play, socialising areas and special events. The oval includes AFL goalposts at opposing corners, soccer goals and a sandpit is found in the Nature Play area. Our grounds also provide informal, ‘incidental’ learning opportunities for students, like observing ladybugs during lunch time or recess or making ‘cubby' houses using sticks and branches.

Last term in response to the uncertainty of what school would look like in Term 2, the students very quickly developed a new skill set and their application to different online learning platforms. We have been extremely proud of the way in which the students took all this on board.

Over the first 2 weeks of this term we are working through using online communication forms to complete our programmed activities. This has involved students both at school and home.

Despite issues beyond our control with system errors, the students are managing our learning tasks very successfully.

Some of the tools we have used to support student engagement in activities have included…

• TEAMS – for messaging and video conferencing
• Emails
• Uploading and downloading work to their laptop
• Use of our Year 4,5,6 Learning Space
• Using additional Microsoft programs to complete familiar tasks and routines

We would like to thank our students for their: enthusiasm, commitment, ability to be flexible, patience and openness to new learning and experiencing learning in a different way.

To our families, we would say thank you for your continued support and encouragement in enabling us to work through these new challenges.

The R/1 classes have enjoyed making every day things with small concrete materials such as towers, castles and cars. They made marble runs with plates, straws, paper and signs and have used the iPads to code Scratch the cat on missions.

The Year 2 and 3 classes have had Science linked with their learning in STEM. They are currently making mini skate board parks, after a play on the scooter boards and hanging mobiles with items from home or the school garden.

The 4/5 class is making a board game incorporating magnets and the Year 6 class is making a biome of a habitat that camouflages an animal. They enjoyed designing these initially on the website Tinkercad.

We certainly have had a busy term in STEM full of fun, engagement and learning.

Carnevale is a winter Italian festival held every year in the month of February. Carnevale means goodbye to meat. At Carnevale people eat delicious food such as crostoli, zeppole and frittelle. The week before Ash Wednesday is known as Carnevale. During Carnevale people dress in fancy costumes and wear le maschere (masks). In many cities there are street parades with huge and colourful floats. A grand fireworks display ends the Carnevale celebrations and the last day of Carnevale is called Martedi Grasso (Shrove Tuesday). The students have engaged in various activities which have included reading and writing activities, singing songs in Italian, making masks, writing acrostic poems about Carnevale and Arlecchino craft activities.

So far our class has explored, investigated, discovered, role played, imagined and created. We have been florists, scientists, musicians, artists, farmers, gardeners, singers, shop assistants and bug catchers!

We have been having fun counting and matching numbers, writing our name and learning sounds through the Jolly Phonics program too!

In our class we practice, learn and prepare ourselves for school. We use a variety of hands on, play based experiences to develop our fine and gross motor skills and to promote positive learning experiences.

Throughout our learning activities we continue to make connections, build relationships and develop a sense of belonging as we begin our journey into school life.

We love to play, learn and grow together!

Last Friday all classes were involved in a Clean Up Schools Event replicating the work in the community on Clean Up Australia Day that was held a few weeks ago. Our Enviro Leaders Eden and Jake spoke to the school about the initative and what to do when cleaning up. All classes were assigned a part of the school to clean and did a fantastic job looking after the environment. 

Shrove Tuesday – the tradition of eating pancakes on Shrove Tuesday comes from the practise of using up eggs, sugar and milk before the Lenten fasting begins.  Thanks to the many parent volunteers, the students were able to enjoy pancakes with a selection of toppings and carry on this tradition.

Ash Wednesday – Ash Wednesday signifies the beginning of Lent and we celebrated this with a whole school mass led by Father Roderick.  The students received ashes that included ashes from the Cudlee Creek parish and Kangaroo Island parish that were affected by the recent bushfires.  Each class also received a Project Compassion box to keep on their prayer table.

During this time of Lent, the R/1 classes will be preparing for Easter, reflecting on their lives and the lives of others around Australia and the world and thinking about ways of giving back.

In R/1 Red and R/1 Yellow the students made Lenten Promises, reflecting on ways they can make a difference to others during Lent. Some of their promises included:

I promise to make my bed and Savannah’s bed during Lent.

I promise not to call out in class during Lent.

I promise to help my friends in the school yard.

Always use your manners.

Help keep the school clean.

Include others in games.

Help people find things that are lost.

In R/1 Purple the students have been learning about needs, with a focus on Project Compassion and the work of Caritas Australia.

We need food to keep us alive.

We need water to drink and to survive.

We need to have fruit and vegetables to stay strong.

We need to go to school to do our learning.

We need somewhere to live so when it is raining we can be dry.

Through STEM, students further develop key skills including:

1.            problem solving

2.            creativity

3.            critical analysis

4.            teamwork

5.            independent thinking

6.            initiative

7.            communication

The students were given task cards and together worked through the activities using many of the skills mentioned above. 

The activities shown below incorporated the use of group skills such as giving eye-contact, using people’s names, taking turns speaking, being on task, staying with the group and appreciating everyone’s ideas.

TASK 1

Using pop sticks, a plastic spoon and rubber bands, can you create a catapult to fly a cotton ball across the table?

TASK 2

Using pop sticks can you create the tallest tower?

TASK 3

Using large Lego blocks and a ball, build a maze.

TASK 4

Using one piece of A4 paper and scissors, can you create the longest piece of paper?

TASK 5

Using one piece of A4 paper and sticky tape, construct a paper place that can fly (glide) the furthest holding the most coins.

The students in 4/5 Blue and 6 Red have been working together to make connections, build relationships and develop a sense of belonging to a learning community. The students have participated in a variety of different activities to support the development of skills in this area. Students engage best when provided with meaningful social contexts, that also have a specific learning focus.

Some of these activities included…

• Simple STEM challenges – building a tower with cards
• Partner and group games
• Small Group brainstorming
• Opportunities to share
• Creating “signposts” for our learning
• Creating posters promoting “Behaviours that Support Learning”
• Art activities
• Team tasks – The Amazing Race

Included are some of our highlights from our very own AMAZING RACE. This activity challenged us to find a way to use Route Information to locate specific locations around the school and work together to complete Roadblocks and Detours along the way to our final Pit Stop.

The last 2 weeks have seen our students in the Senior Unit develop a greater understanding and appreciation of the diverse skills, abilities and knowledge we each bring. The foundations are in place and the building of a strong, cohesive unit has begun.