IMPORTANT DATES

Friday Chapel - Hosted by Year 5/6 GC
School Hall
Friday 24 March, 9.30-10.00am
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Community FUN Day for students
Gold Coin Donation for Casual Clothes Day
Friday 31 March
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Friday Chapel - Hosted by Chaplain Pete and Dight House Captains
School Hall
Friday 31 March, 9.30-10.00am
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Cross Country - Whole School
Thursday 6 April, Schedule to be confirmed
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Last Day of School
Thursday 6 April
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ANZAC DAY in Jindera
Hosted by St John's Lutheran School
Jindera Memorial Park, Cnr Dight and Urana St, Jindera
All St John's Families Welcome, Students please wear your School Uniform
Tuesday 25 April, 10.30am

DESIGN LAB

He’s green, he’s lucky, and he’s ready to cause mischief at a moment’s notice. We’re referring to the leprechaun who looks for gold at the end of the rainbow. And if you’re lucky enough, you might just catch one!

This fortnight, the students in Year 3-6 were provided with sustainable or recyclable materials, like cardboard rolls, tissue boxes, shoeboxes, tealights, coloured paper, craft sticks, string, etc. Students will use their supplies to design and build a simple trap to catch one of these little green mischief-makers. The students learned about simple machines such as a pulley, wheel and axle and inclined plane and had to incorporate one of these into their trap.

In addition to STEM training, the students are exercising critical thinking skills, exploring creativity, strengthening verbal and motor skills and considering cause and effect.

The K-2 students have been continuing to build their houses for the 3 little pigs, I have been so impressed with their collaboration and engineering skills. 

Mrs Jessica Cottrell
Design Lab Teacher

NCCD

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD) gives Australian schools, parents, guardians and carers, education authorities and the community information about the number of students with disability in schools and the adjustments they receive. The Australian Education Regulation 2013 requires all schools to report the data collected for the NCCD to the Australian Government on an annual basis.

As a parent, guardian or carer, what do I need to know? - Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (nccd.edu.au)

YEAR 1

This week we have been super busy!

Chappy Pete came in and did a devotion for our class. He used instruments to demonstrate the importance of collaboration and compromise. Students learnt how well they can work together as a team, rather than on their own.

We have new class pets! I am sure you have heard all about them, Chocolate and PomPom. They are our Guinea Pigs that we will be taking care of. The students love finding out who is going to feed them for the day.  

We had some special visitors come into our classroom last week. The Albury SES came out and spoke to the students about our driving PBL question ‘How might we help people who have been affected by floods?’. The year ones thought it was the best thing ever when the sirens went off. We cannot thank Britt, Curtis and Chloe from the SES enough. They were awesome!!

YEAR 3/4 PV

JETHRO
Jethro brought in his electrical circuit kit he had built as part of his ‘All about Me’ bag. He explained how it worked and showed the class how to turn on the light. It’s wonderful to see Jethro’s interest in electronics.

PBL
For PBL, students have been partnered and are collaborating as they research information about their landform. Students place their information into their own page in OneNote, using the ‘Collaboration Space’. In this way, students can both work on the same page together. We were taught the importance of reading information copied from the computers and rewriting in our own words to show our understanding.

'WHY I LOVE AUSTRALIA'
After reading Bronwyn Bancroft’s book ‘Why I Love Australia’, we were inspired by her beautiful artworks on each page to recreate our own paintings of an Australian landform. Students used watercolour to paint and then outlined their work using a black permanent marker. Before the students added the dots, they practiced on paper focusing on uniform well-spaced dots using the back of their paintbrushes. They are looking terrific!

YEAR 5/6

ALBURY NETBALL CUP
On Monday the 13th of March, 40 St John’s students went to JC King in Albury for the day to play in a netball carnival. We entered in four teams in the non-competitive draw. The teams played four matches throughout the day against schools from the Albury area.

Thank you to Bree Schilg, Toni Terlich, Christine Barber and Shannon Tuohey who did an awesome job managing the teams. Thank you also to Danielle Schulz, Ivy Cossor, Hannah Male and Layne Griparis who were our umpires for the day.

All students developed their skills in netball, playing a variety of positions, working together as a team and most importantly having fun.

By Jake Gaston, St News

ENVIRO TEAM
On Monday 13th of March, the Kinders enjoyed making herb faces. The Enviro Team led this initiative at lunch. The Kinders enjoyed drawing the faces on the cups. At the end Harper and Alannah put some potting mix in the cups. At the end of term, the herb seeds should have grown into hair.
“I thought it was fun.” Said Daria who is in Kinder.
“I liked making the happy faces!” Said Alex who is also in Kinder.

Alannah and Harper repeated this activity on Wednesday and Friday with the year 1’s and 2’s respectively.
By Ben Code, St News

OUTDOOR BOYS
On Monday the inaugural cricket tournament began on the St John’s oval. The Outdoor boys have created this event and it involves the students in Years 2- 4. Teams are made up of about six students. For some of these students it is the first time they have ever played cricket.

The Outdoor boys will assist the students in how the game is played. The first game was “Schulzys Spiders” against “I Dunno.” The Schulzy Spiders batted first and made 33 runs.

We look forward to hearing how the other teams go and which team is the overall winner of this inaugural event.

Outdoor Boys- Axel, Casey, Charlie and Jake Anderson

PBL
Students have been thoroughly enjoying our PBL unit this term. Our driving question for this term is ‘How can we, as designers, design a collection of clothes, accessories art or other items using preloved materials?’.  The start of the term involved us researching the amount and effects of waste in Australia. Student’s reflected on their own daily habits and what they could change to limit their waste. Excitement has been building as students move from their prototype stage to their create stage.
It will be a busy couple of weeks preparing for our showcase. We would like to thank all the parent helpers who have given their time to help as well as those who have donated items to be used.

WONDER
This term, our students have been reading the novel 'Wonder' by R. J. Palacio.
They were then tasked with writing an autobiography in the shoes of August, also know as 'Auggie', the main character.
Here are a handful of autobiographies we wanted to share with you... be aware, you may be inclined to read 'Wonder' after reading these below, and we HIGHLY recommend you do!

MERIT AWARDS