Happy Birthday Max A

We hope you're having a great day Max.
Looking forward to hearing all about it tomorrow!

Thinking About the Tryathlon

We used DeBono's PMI tool (with a twist) to help us think about the tryathlon. We made the P be the Positive things we liked about it. Instead of just thinking about the minuses for M - we made it the Maybe next time category so we were thinking about improvements we could make to the not so good bits. Feeling inspired is always interesting so we made that what the I stood for.

Tryathlon Success

We saw the Key Competencies out in force today! Why don't you go down the list of things you need to do to succeed at school and see how many you did today?

Lion Dance

TWENTY FIVE!

Happy birthday to Violet!

Chinese New Year

I was so impressed when I came in today and found you all taking notes as you watched the clip about Chinese New Year with Ms Dowd.




Here is the story of Nian too.
You will enjoy finishing your dragon puppets tomorrow. Thanks for a great day Ms Dowd!

Awesome Athletes

It is exciting to have the Tryathlon coming up tomorrow. You will have excellent opportunities for practising your Key Competencies during that!
Some Room 17 children took part in the Run to Remember event on Sunday. Congratulations to Cameron and Nate for completing this 10km run!

Cameron and his friend Jake and their mothers.

The Key Competencies

Key - The most important

Competencies - things we need to be good at

So I asked you what  the most important things you needed to be good at for success at school were and you told me:

• sticking with it
• getting on with your work
• using your initiative
• being focussed
• concentrating
• using your brain
• listening
• controlling your behaviour
• talking to others
• not talking to others sometimes too
• sharing your ideas
• reading in an interesting way
• reading lots of information
• trying to do the next thing
• trying very hard
• listening to people who are trying to help you
• ignoring people who are not controlling their behaviour
• encouraging yourself and others
• respecting other people
• having good manners
• including other people
• having GOOD fun
• being brave
• treating others the way you would like to be treated

Great work everyone! Let's see later this week how your list matches up with the list the educational experts came up with.

Peter Pan Fans

Thanks to so many families for taking the time to go to this great show. Next time we see Peter Pan will be at St Albans School. I hope you're thinking of some interesting questions to ask Ben about his experience and how he got there.

Lucky Last Day Tomorrow!

We have had such a successful time at Aquagym.

Thanks to all the wonderful teachers there and the bus drivers who took us to and from school!

We Love the Library!

What better thing could you do after a swimming session than chillax in the library? We learnt how to use our browsing paddles and chose two books to enjoy.
Happy reading tonight!

Last Week for Peter Pan

Here's a great photo of a Year 3 with Peter Pan and Wendy.

The last day for seeing this great show is Sunday the 22nd February.