MAJURA Have a happy long weekend!!! NEWS Public holiday this Monday. 5 June 2015 No 6 Majura Primary School acknowledges the Ngunnawal people who are the traditional owners and custodians of this land DATES TO REMEMBER Monday 8 June Queen’s Birthday holiday Wed 17 ‐ Fri 19 June Yr 3/4 Camp Wednesday 10 June Yr 5 Combined Band Thursday 18 June Junior Assembly 2.15pm Friday 12 June CEIS Thursday 25 June Athlecs Carnival Monday 15 June ICAS Wring Friday 3 July Whole school Assembly Tuesday 16 June ICAS Spelling Last day Term 2 Dear Parents and Carers, Our year 2 students in Auroras, Vivid and Reflections had an excursion to Downer Oval on Tuesday as part of Majura Primary’s involvement in the National Museum of Australia’s Food Stories project. As part of their ‘Past In The Present’ inquiry, the year 2 classes investigated how the Downer area has changed, from CSIRO farm land to local oval. George Main, curator at the NMA and parent of MPS, organised an authentic Stump Jump Plough that was used at the CSIRO Dickson Experiment Station (Downer oval) from the 1940s to the 1960s. For the students it was an opportunity to learn that before the suburbs were built much of the local area was a CSIRO agricultural research station. I am sure that for the children a special connection was made as this was the actual plough used here until the 1960’s. Please use the following links to see news articles and pictures! http://www.smh.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/ganggang-the-national-museums-chatty-plough-20150602-gheotu.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-06-02/historic-plough-returnd-to-csiro-site-in-downer/6514526 ABC radio interview link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/hqh6wgodln1dq0k/666%20Afternoons%201259-1500.mp3?dl=0 The Food Stories project also aims to link local history with food production, and has links to the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden program, which encourages a very hands on approach to learning across the curriculum. History has been a big focus for the year two students this week, as they have also been making and cooking damper in our kitchen garden this week. I have had a long interest in history; this was what I first studied at university, before specialising in prehistory and archaeology, and working in that area for some time. When children discover this I often have to explain that archaeologists study the human past, it is palaeontologists who study dinosaurs, a subject generally of much more interest to young children. It has been a big week for excursions this week. On Tuesday with our year 5 students visited the National Library, and on Friday our year 6 classes are visiting Parliament House as part of their learning about government and democracy. ICT at Majura Before next week’s P&C meeting we will be holding an information session about future plans for the use of ICT at Majura primary. Parents are invited to come along at 6.30pm to hear, and see, how schools are using ICT, including google apps for education. All parents are welcome to attend, and there will be an opportunity to ask questions. Just a reminder that next Monday is a public holiday, and we look forward to seeing everyone back at school on Tuesday 9th. Regards, Daniel Knox Street, Watson ACT 2602 Phone 6142 3140 Canteen 6255 4441 Fax 6142 3141 Aers 6241 4767 [email protected] Web www.majuraps.act.edu.au A group of EALD students from Kindergarten have been parcipang in lots of acvies aer reading the big book The Monsters’ Party. They talked about the pictures, described the monsters and acted out the story before making their own monsters and wring their own stories. They played a Barrier game giving instrucons to their friends on how to make a play dough monster. During these acvies they are learning new sounds, words and vocabulary as they develop their skills and understandings of English speaking, reading and wring. Reading the text. Making the monsters Monster stories. Following instrucons to make play dough monsters. Our Year One EALD students enjoy wring and playing games with their high frequency sight words and building words using phonics and rhyme (E.g. bee, tree, see). They are responding to Where? When? and Why? quesons and exploring posion. Where? When? Why? In, on, under, above, beside, next to. With 45 minutes a week of French, students have been busy and are enjoying learning about French cuisine and cooking. Years 1‐ 4 are watching the film ‘Ratatouille’ and years 5 and 6 Luke Nguyen’s ‘Food Adventures Around France’. Students have been reflecng on some of the interesng cultural similaries and differences they observe; for example, Luke cooks pigeon and goat meat which are not too common in Australia, although quite a few students have tried goat before. Students’ reflecons include how old the buildings are, how beauful the architecture is, that the French are quite religious and that they walk everywhere! We have been looking at the pronunciaon of French words and word endings, words that are borrowed from French (eg mousse) and from English to French (eg le sandwich) and adding them to our ‘Word Wall’ (Le Mur des Mots) as we find them. A couple of weeks ago, year 1 performed a great rendion of ‘J’aime les Fruits’ (‘I like fruit’) at assembly, having had lots of pracce thanks to the year 1 teachers. Well done to all, and ‘merci beaucoup’ for the beauful cards. Year 5 created a poster using ‘collage’ (scking or gluing in French) about ‘Ma maison idèale’ (My ideal home) and there were some interesng and creave responses. Students labelled their rooms and the objects in their room in French and presented their posters to the class. Year 6 wrote some lovely leers to the kids in Vanuatu affected by Cyclone Pam, and I have sent them off to the Port Vila Alliance Française. We are hoping to receive some leers back! Next term students will be looking at some French literature and poetry. In parcular, the fairy tale genre in the form of ‘Puss in Boots’ wrien by Charles Perrault in 1697 in his ‘Tales and Stories of the Past with Morals’ (Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé), or ‘Tales of Mother Goose’. The Carousel Puppet Show will be again vising Majura Primary to perform this play for Kindergarten to year 6 in week 2 of term 3. Permission notes will be sent home in the next couple of weeks, and the cost remains the same as last year ($7 per child). As always, please come and see me in purple room 1 in the senior corridor if you have any quesons about the French program. Merci! Madame Lamb ROSTRUM PUBLIC SPEAKING Congratulaons to the following students who represented their classes in the school final of the Rostrum public speaking compeon. Year 4 Lulu Coleman Thomas Gray Oliver Dunn Year 5 Irene Merlino Cassia Cunningham Maddie Hade Year 6 Ben Clifford Lily Kelly‐Ebbeck Ella Lester Dooley O'Leary Congratulaons to the winner Lily Kelly‐Ebbeck and runner‐up Irene Merlino. Lily will represent Majura Primary School at a quarter final at Kaleen Primary School next week. We wish her all the best! Majura Primary Awards This Week’s Awards for Excellence, Respect and Responsibility go to: Tobias Newbury 3J Owen Radajewski 3M Makhaya Talbot-Hogg 3P Tessa Bond 4S Ida Shopen 4R Braidyn Cummins 4H Irene Merlino 5S Callum Durnell 5N Asher Light 5L Matilda Field and Leah De Gier 6T Stella Sanixay Molland 6F/VG Angela Kim 6H Uniform Shop Labels Following on, have you seen the lost property News around the school this term?! The Lost Edition Now that winter is here and jumpers come off and on and not mention the beanies, gloves, scarves, shoes (you’d be amazed at what we find!) please be sure you label everything. Nothing fancy needed, just an old fashioned marker and a name in clear bold print. Lost property Lost property will be sorted during week 9, just to give the Tuesdays baskets a chance to really overflow! .30 — 30am 8 9. Labelled items will be delivered back to classes. Non labelled items will be on display in the office corridor, please Can’t make it? Use the order forms take some time to recover your lost items. Anything unclaimed by and locked box found in the front Wednesday week 10 will be donated to the next second hand sale or charity. foyer, for delivery to your classroom. Check your uniform. Before we sort the lost property please go home and check that your uniforms are your own. If you have accidentally taken something that is not yours please leave it in one of the lost property baskets and we will make sure it finds its home. Second hand sale Help Needed Last week’s sale raised I’m sure you have seen the lost property baskets $284.00 and can imagine that sorting it is a massive task Thank you to everyone who this time of year - we really need more help. made a donation of clothing. We have been delighted by the quality. Can you make it? Tuesday week 9 from 8.30am in the office Don’t forget we have a sale in week 4 of every term so please continue to leave your clean, pre corridor to sort. -loved uniform in the box in the front foyer. Wednesday week 10 from 9.30am to pack away.