School Photos, Book Fair, Swimming Notes

The following items have been sent home today. Please check your child's bag for these items.

1. School photos
2. Swimming notes
3. Book Fair flyer

Spare Parts Play

Earlier this year Aubin Grove introduced Spare Parts Play.  We have a shed full of bits and pieces and odds and sods (conveniently located outside the windows of Room 24 - no peaceful lunch time for Miss Calvert!).  Students have not been using this area as much as expected so yesterday Room 24 went and have a look at what is there.  After having a chat and a look, I set students the task of working in teams to make a mode of transport using their imagination and creativity. It was great to see all students engaged and working in co-operative teams, negotiating and respecting each others ideas.  We did this just before lunch time and as I peered out of my classroom window I noticed a lot of my class back there at lunch time playing.  If you have any bits and pieces like the ones pictured below that you would like to donate please drop them off to the school.

"What I like about building was we all got together and came up with ideas and we got to see how creative other people are." - Tom

"In the playground we built a tank which looked like junk.  But  still enjoyed it." - Andres

"I thought that our vehicle looked like a piece of junk that had been turned into a piece. I really loved hanging out and being creative with my friends on a scale of 1 to 10 our vehicle is a 2." - Fletcher

"The helicopter - we used a playing cube for wings, a fence for windows and a plastic thing for a steering wheel." - Jamie

"I liked building the helicopter.  It was auto pilot and looked just like one." - Noah

"I really liked working together building.  It was also really fun creating." - Owen

"Today the whole class had to get into teams to build a motorised vehicle.  Molly, Dakota, Amelia and I built a super rocking fun time van." - Olive

"I really enjoyed making a super rocking fun time van,  I think everyone else's is really good,  I liked working in a team and using our imagination." - Amelia

"We made a super rocking fun time van.  It runs on slushies and bubbles come out of the wheels.  It's got six seats." - Dakota

"I love the SRFTV (super rocking fun time van) because it runs on Fanta and has bubbles off its wheels.  It would be the best van ever!" - Molly

"My favourite thing that happened was it was really fun making it.  When someone got something we made it work. Now we called it the big wheeler." - Asha

"I liked it because it has big wheels and it has a back seat." - Thomas

"I liked Shevin's car because it had lots of intersecting stuff on it and I liked ours." - John

 "The magic school bus has a naughty corner and it has hooks and the front has a wheel and there is an air conditioner and there are toys inside." - Celina

"My school bus was so fun making all the stuff.  It is for children.  It is powered by rainbows." - Taylor

"I liked that everyone worked as a team to make them and to see everyones creativeness was great and the way they built them.  I really loved all of them." - Poppy

"I liked how we got to use our imagination and get together and make something amazing and fantastic." - Katelyn

"I built a school bus.  It is a big school bus.  I enjoyed it because it had all different kinds of parts." - Emma-Lee

"I liked how we got to all have input and each idea was made part of it.  Also our ideas were shared." - Caitlin

"I really loved it because it was fun an it was called the Monster Truck and I loved being creative." - Logan

"I feel happy about our group because they all helped.  We made a monster truck and I like all of the people in my group because they never give up." - Shevin

"I liked my creation because it was very creative.  I also liked mine because it can move when you push it." - Shaun

"I liked it. It was fun." - William

Scholastic BookFair in the Library - 3-7 November

Assembly News

After last weeks close call for the Waste Free Warrior Trophy, where we missed out by only 1%, we were motivated and inspired and won this week with a whopping 80%!  Thank you all for supporting this valuable initiative.

Congratulations to our Merit Certificate recipient, Tom.

Finally, congratulations to Molly who was the WA Winner of the SneezeSafe Design a Poster Competition. We did SneezeSafe in class and I handed out the competition.  As it required parental permission to enter it was sent home for students to post in if they wanted to enter.  Molly did this and won an iPad Mini.

Interschhol News

Congratulations to our Interschool competitors - Noah, Thomas, Tom, Fletcher, Poppy and Asha (who went home early).  Aubin Grove won the Team Games Trophy and were overall winners of the Carnival!!

Important information about the 1:1 MacBook portal

The Winthrop 1-1 MacBook portal has been closed pending the release of new computer models next Friday.  They don't want students to miss  out on the latest models so they have closed the portal until they can update it with the new models.  We will keep parents informed as to when they open the portal.  Sorry for any inconvenience.

Week 2 Notes

Students have made a great return back to school.  We have started preparing for our assembly, read through the script, allocated parts and discussed costumes.  There will be more information on this as we get closer to the date.

Next week we will be looking at Capacity and Volume in Maths.  For this we need various sized, clean containers such as yoghurt cartons, milk cartons, jars etc.  Also, we will need grocery store catalogues such as Coles, Woolworths, IGA.  If you are able to help with this please send them in.

We are still missing some progress files.  These were due back in Week 1 so please send them in as soon as you can.  

Finally, a reminder that next Friday is a School Development Day and therefore no school for students.

1:1 MacBook Program

Notes went home today about the 1:1 MacBook Program for next year.  Please ensure you have received it. In a couple of weeks I will be asking whether you will be purchasing one through the portal or privately.  This is to assist the office with setting them up etc.

Assembly Stars

We are so close to winning the Waste Warrior Trophy.  We had 60% waste free lunches on Monday, however another class beat us by just 1%.  Remember to keep those Monday lunches free from any packaging or wrapping.

Congratulations to our Merit Certificate recipient Shaun.

And congratulations to Andres who won a free lunch voucher.

Important information for tomorrow - Wednesday

There will be some people from the WA Public Education Awards coming to our school tomorrow to take some photos and do some filming in classrooms and around the school.  Please ensure students come to school neatly dressed in full school uniform. 

Thank you.

Class Photo - Thursday

This Thursday morning Adrienne, Taylor's mum, will be taking a class photo for us.  Adrienne is a professional photographer who runs her own business, Team Shields.  The photo will be taken first thing, so we will be making our way down to the playground as soon as the siren has gone.  Please ensure your child is on time and neatly dressed in school uniform.  The photo will be available to parents.  

Thank you

Breaking News - Tournament of the Minds Team win!!

The Language and Literacy team who got into the Australasian final on the Gold Coast have won!! A fantastic job by all the students and their coach Mrs Smith!

End of Week 1!! Important Notes

Thank you to those who have already returned Progress Folders.  Please send them in as soon as possible.

Booklists for next year were handed out to students today.  Collection day for pre-orders will be 1 December from 2pm-4pm.

Friday 14 Oct- end of day dismissal

Please note that this Friday, 14 October, students from Room 24 will be dismissed at the end of the day from the Music Room next to the undercover area.

Free Dress Friday - More information

To support our Tournament of Minds Language Literature team in their quest to travel to Queensland to represent WA in the Australasian Pacific TOM Final on Saturday 15th October, we are holding a Free Dress day THIS Friday.  Students need to bring a gold coin donation to participate on Friday.

Please note, casual clothes can be worn but NOT pyjamas or crazy hair. 

Getting the team of 7 students to the Gold Coast is very expensive for the families so we would appreciate having strong support from our wonderful Aubin Grove school community.  The students have been working very hard over a long period of time in preparing for this competition.  They will do their absolute best to win their division and make Aubin Grove Primary and Western Australia, proud.  We thank you for your anticipated support.

Free Dress Friday to Support Tournament of the Minds Team

Come in this Friday in casual clothes!  We know you want to!  Make sure you bring a GOLD COIN DONATION to support our Tournament of the Minds team to get to the Gold Coast!

Term 4 - Dates for your Diaries

Well, the holidays are almost over. No more late nights and sleep in, time to get back into work mode!! I hope you have all had fabulous holidays and I look forward to hearing about them all on Monday. 

Here are some dates for this term:
Week 1: Monday back to school for Teachers and Students
Week 2: Tuesday: Assembly
Week 3: Tuesday: Assembly
              Thursday: Interschool at Jandakot Primary School
              Friday: School Development Day - NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS
Week 5:Tuesday: Assembly
Week 6: Tuesday: ROOM24s ASSEMBLY!!! DON'T MISS THIS!!! *
Week 7 & 8: Swimming lessons everyday *
Week 9: Wednesday: Christmas Concert and Award Night *
Week 10: Monday: Transition Day *
                Thursday: Last day for students 

 * = more information on these events will be sent out when finalised

Paper, Scissors, Rock

Paper, Scissors, Rock from juliacalvert

Book Week Dress Up

What a great last day of term with the Book Week Dress Up!!  Everyone looked fabulous in their bird costumes and the classroom ended up covered in feathers!!

 

Interschool

Our Tuesday Interschool competitors did a great job. Well done Poppy, Thomas, John and Noah. Unfortunately due to the rain, Thursdays Interschool was cancelled.  This will be held on 27 October at Jandakot Primary School.

Author James Foley visits Aubin Grove

West Australian author and illustrator, James Foley, visited last term.  It was great listening to him talk about becoming an author and drawing pictures for other books.  He showed us how he made a book, including one of the drafts.  He talked about his books and drew us a picture of a robot. His latest book, Brobot is out now.

The Great Aussie Crunch

On 7 September we held our Great Aussie Crunch.  Students tried to make the biggest CRUNCH sound with their Crunch and Sip snacks.

 

Assembly Wiiners

Certificates went to... Celina, Logan, Kaitlyn and Poppy

Amelia won a Science Challenge prize

and Molly won a lunch voucher 

 

Class Stars for Term 3