Student Led Conferences

 

Thanks to all the people who were able to come to the Student Led Conferences. It was great to see parents and children talking about the learning together.

We have set up a wall for you to leave comments about the night. Join the conversation.

http://padlet.com/wall/studentled2013

 

Concert Wrap-Up

c/o the Newsletter

CONCERT WRAP UP!

A huge thank you to everyone who came and flew with the 4-7 students who put on an outstanding concert full of in-flight entertainment. We had an excellent attendance of approximately 450 people between both the Wednesday matinee and Thursday evening performances. It was a fantastic production with all students showcasing many of their gifts and talents. The in-flight entertainment started with 4/5 Newton and Siviour putting on a musical of Jack And The Bean Stalk. Miss Lytwyn's class presented A Tricky New Fool, full of aspiring jesters trying to impress the Queen. Miss Ross’ class performed So You Think You Are the Master Fiction Talent Factor Idol, a talent show where book characters battled it out to see who could take the ultimate prize.

After the in-flight refreshments were served, the senior unit students put on a late show with Luke and Halfback Darby. Starting off were some girls dancing the Can-Can. We then found out the Top 10 Four Square rules at Immanuel, followed by mime artists from the Hueppauff Academy Of Arts at the bus stop, Minnie The Moocher with some talented singers and then Things To Do With Random Objects (A Frisbee and Pipe). To finish the senior unit’s performance, there was a late night story from grandpa. Closing the evening was the entire years 4-7 cast singing Lean On Me.

A massive thank-you to all the parents who helped out the classes in preparation for the concert - whether it was painting and constructing props, sewing costumes or cooking. Thank-you to all the class teachers who helped students to learn their parts and organize their class and also thank-you to all the other staff who helped out at the evening performance. Finally, a huge thank-you to all the students who performed and made it a fantastic concert along with the helpful flight attendants who ensured the flight ran smoothly. Without everyone's contributions the concert wouldn't have looked as good. We really appreciated all your hard work!

We can't wait to see what the R-3 students put on next year!

By Nikeisha (on behalf of the Flight Crew)

 

Student Led Conferences

Student Led Conferences are being held this Thursday from 3:30-5:30. These conferences are a wonderful opportunity to share in your child’s learning. At a student-led conference, your child has an opportunity to spend some individual time with you or other family members. They will be able to share their work around their classroom, in their Learning Journey folder and take part in some games or activities with you.

We invite you to come to the Senior Unit and see what we have been doing.

Student Initiated Learning

During the school year students initiate their own learning and through this gain a deeper understanding of the topics covered.
We love to share the work they do so as they come to us we would like to share it with everyone.

With our disasters unit we have had a website created to share about disasters.

http://worldcatastrophes.weebly.com/

Check it out and as more comes in we will post that too.

How The World Works

 

Units of Inquiry ar kicking into full swing now that Concert is over.

The Year 7's have been talking topics for Exhibition and have agreed upon 6.

It will be interesting to see when their investigations lead.

 

The Year 6's are talking disasters.

The Central Idea is...

Disasters destroy lives and challenge people’s ability to survive

 

The Lines of Inquiry are ....

Extreme events create disasters (natural and man-made)

Disasters impact on communities in various ways

Preparation and response to disasters continues to evolve over time

 

It will be an interesting topic to investigate.

Post your thoughts on the wall.

http://padlet.com/wall/htwwdisasters

 

The Results Are In

The results of the natural disasters pole is in with Tsunamis being voted the most dangerous.

New poll is up. Have a say by having a vote.

Concert 2013

Concert is over for another year and we would like to thank everyone for their support and work to help it all happen. The children did a wonderful performance on both ocassions and showcased their performing skills.
We would like to hear what you thought of the show. Tell us what you enjoyed, thought was funny or  where we could improve.
For this we have created a wall to share thoughts on. Post and tell us what you think.

http://padlet.com/wall/concert2013

 

 

Housing Assignments more added.

Just an update that more assignments have been added to the housing assignments page.

http://seniorunit.blogspot.com.au/p/uoi-housing.html

Bike Ed

Way2Go Bike Ed in coming to our school!

Sponsored by the Department for Transport Energy and Infrastructure the way2go Bike Ed program gets students active on bikes and teaches a variety of theory and practical road safety skills.Immanuel Lutheran school has been awarded with way2go Bike Ed programming for our "continual commitment to road safety and rider education within the school curriculum" by Bike SA. Selected students will be participating in way2go Bike Ed in weeks 1-8 of term 4 this year. So keep an eye out for the permission slips we will be sending home and be careful on the road around the school ground during this time.

 

$50 Challenge Stalls

The stalls were set up today for the $50 challenge and the children are ready to sell. Stalls will be around tomorrow night for you to purchase some of their products.
Here are the stalls.

 

 

 

Stalls will also be open at the Friday markets until the end of term or until sold out!

 

Another website in the making.

http://www.cardsonacob.weebly.com/

$50 Challenge

The $50 Challenge groups have been working hard at making their products and will have them for sale at both sessions of the concert.
The challenge the groups have had is to create a product and sell it to make their $50. Any money they earn over that they have decided to donate to charity.
They have created a range of products. Check them out.

 

 There is also a website where you can see some of the key rings.

 http://razziekeyrings.weebly.com/index.html

A Busy Time of Year

 

It is a busy time of the year and this week is no exception.

With concert this week and the focus on practice and refining it has been decided not to do spelling this week.

All things will be back in place next week when we go back to some sense of normal.

Concert

 

There is still time to get some tickets to the performance. Look forward to seeing you there.

Blast Cricket

On Thursday the 5^th of August a group of 16 students (a girls team and a boys team) went to Trinity to play a modified cricket carnival against other school teams from around the area.

 The boys played well after adapting to the new rules and won their first game of the day making a total of 239 in 8 overs. They then went on and were undefeated at the end of the day. At the presentations, the boys were announced the premiers and now will be heading to Adelaide to play other winners from other regions sometime in term 4.

The girls played extremely well for the majority of the group had never played cricket before. The girls played three games for the day and won all three. At the presentations the girls tied for first place but they had to split the win on average runs and wickets and sadly came second out of 7 school teams.

 It was a great experience for everyone who went and the boy’s team can’t wait for their next trip to Adelaide oval.

Well done to all who participated.

Unit of Inquiry

Today we began looking at our new Unit of Inquiry. Our focus is on How the World Works and for this Unit we have broken into Year 6's and Year 7's.
The Year 7's have begun looking at Exhibition and what that will entail.
The Year 6's have started to look at a topic on disasters.

To support our learning and continuing to inquiry into the topic a WonderWall has been started on Disasters.It can be found here: http://padlet.com/wall/htwwdisasters

Come along and have a say

Monday Fitness Poll Results

The poll results are in for our Monday Fitness.
Just Dance was the most popular with 46% of the votes while Ball Games came in second with 36%.
We may see more of these activities in the future.

Check out our new poll and have a vote.

Lightning Jack

During book week some of the Senior Unit students read a book called Lightning Jack. They wrote reviews for the book and they can be found here:
http://seniorunit.blogspot.com.au/p/lightning.html
Check out what they had to say.