Hello everyone,

It is Green air

This morning there will be a code blue lock down, please make sure you have read the information on the folders on your class wall.

Alicia is away sick, and Zoe will cover K3C

Hats

The weather is now warming up, please remind all students to wear hats when outside playing.

Dolls

In the ECE Office are two dolls for each class. One male and one female these dolls are part of the wellbeing curriculum and will need to stay with the classiest of items. Please ensure you use the correct terminology when identifying body parts. Please collect them today

CCAs– will begin again next week

Wednesday– Year Level meetings to look at Week of the Young Child activities

Photos– Did you all read the the blog post that came out yesterday about the make up photos?

The Boy Friend – Opening Tuesday, April 17th
This year’s Secondary Musical, The Boy Friend, will be opening for it’s first evening performance next Tuesday evening at 6pm, featuring a cast of talented students from Years 7-12. Madame Dubonnet’s finishing school, near Nice, could exist only in musical comedy. The charming young pupils burst into song at the least provocation, and forbidden boyfriends are forever popping through the French windows to make up the numbers. Polly Browne is too rich to be allowed a boyfriend. Tony, for whom she falls, turns out to be the Honourable Tony Brockhurst, which is very lucky, because Polly thought he was just a delivery boy. Written in the fifties as “a new musical of the twenties”, this is a tuneful and witty send-up musical.  Tickets are available from CP office and upon request from the RP office.

Therapeutic Value of Drawing-worth reading
April 9, 2018

When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.
-John Muir

“For many kids, drawing is exhilarating not because of the final product it leads to, but because they can live completely in the world of their drawing for a few minutes (and then promptly forget about it a few minutes later). Adults may find it hard to relate to this sort of full-body, fleeting experience. But the opportunities for self-expression that drawing provide have important, even therapeutic, value for kids.

Even simple scribbles are meaningful. While it was once thought that kids only scribbled to experience the physical sensation of moving their arm along the page, ‘now it’s been shown that when children are scribbling … they’re representing through action, not through pictures,’ said [Ellen Winner, a psychology professor at Boston College who also works with Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Project Zero, a research group that focuses on arts education]. ‘For example, a child might draw a truck by making a line fast across the page and going ‘zoom, zoom,’ and so it doesn’t look like a truck when the child is done, but if you watch the process, what the child says and the noises and motion he makes when he’s drawing, you can see that he is trying to represent a truck through action,’ she said. ‘And in a way you have drawing fused with symbolic play.'”

Source: “The Hidden Meaning of Kids’ Shapes and Scribbles,” by Isabel Fattal, October 25, 2017, The Atlantic

  • ok Photos – please sort  photos that you would like to add to your yearbook pages and collect video footage

 

Upcoming Dates:

Wednesday 11th April

  • Year Level meetings
  • Year Book Make-Up Photos – RP Auditorium

Monday 16th April

  • Environment Week commences
  • PLCs

Tuesday 17th April

  • Secondary Musical Matinee

Wednesday 18th April

  • ECE Staff Meeting, 3.30-4.30pm- Bring your lap tops

Thursday 19th April

  • Team leaders Meeting

Friday 20th April

  • Green Dress Day

Have a great day

Veronica and Michelle