Early Years News
How fantastic to see our students so engaged upon their return to classrooms this week! It is shaping up to be another exciting term across the Early Years, with several opportunities for ‘learning outside of the classroom’ this term.
Congratulations to our Year 2 cohort who ran an excellent Invention Convention at the end of last term, coupled with a beautiful prayer celebration and sausage sizzle. The learning dispositions were well and truly called upon, and there was an astounding amount of curiosity, creativity and optimism on show. The students also handled being interviewed by the myriad of parents and grandparents who visited their exhibition, showing excellent use of oral language and dialogue. Special mention to school leaders Josh, Kaity and Claire who helped out with the sausage sizzle. These wonderful leaders show up many, MANY times throughout the year to assist the Early Years in a myriad of ways and we are so grateful to have such positive role models for our youngest students.
Our Year 3 students will once again be venturing off campus as they explore the history of Dalby with the assistance of some of our alumni, participating in a ‘bus-about’ tour of town. As this newsletter goes to print, Mr Cuskelly and I will be joining our Year 4 students on camp at Columboola Environmental Education Centre at Miles. Next week, all our Early Years classes will participate in an incursion with the Juiced Up Groms – Healthy Living for Kids team, supporting our health units in reinforcing the messages around the importance of healthy eating and active lifestyles.
This week you will have once again received the Term 4 outline of what your child is learning about in the classroom. Remember that this is a great document to refer back to or print out and stick on the fridge, to enable you to have meaningful conversation with your child about what they are learning at school. This gives a great base for the vital questions of
- what are you learning?
- how are you going with the learning?
- what do you have to do to bump your learning up?
Early Years Nativity Musical
Preparations are underway for our annual Nativity Musical. Details of the performance times are:
Day: Thursday 30 November
Time: 9:30am (note: earlier performance time this year)
Venue: MPC
Who: All classes P-4
All families and friends are welcome to join us for the performance.
Year level roles and costume requirements are listed below:
|
Year level |
Role |
Costume Requirements |
|
Prep |
Barnyard animals |
Any barnyard animal of choice – cows, sheep, donkeys, pigs. Can be made up of coloured clothing with headband or more explicit costume. |
|
Yr 1 |
Shepherds |
Traditional shepherd from biblical times – gowns, dressing gowns, long smock style robes in muted, neutral colours. Please do not feel pressured to purchase specific costumes as these can be easily gathered from everyday home materials, including sheets, pillowcases, robes etc. |
|
Yr 2 |
Angels and Messengers |
Students are free to choose whether they would like to dress as an angel or a messenger. Halo headbands will be provided at school. ANGEL: all white (dress or pants and shirt) with silver halo headband from school OR MESSENGER: black school shorts, white shirt and black tie with sunnies and silver halo headband from school. |
|
Yr 3 |
Wise Men |
Crowns are provided at school. Traditional clothing from biblical times – gowns, dressing gowns, long smock style robes in muted, neutral colours. You may like to add a cape or strip of material in red, green or blue to distinguish themselves from general townsfolk. Please do not feel pressured to purchase specific costumes as these can be easily gathered from everyday home materials, including sheets, pillowcases, robes etc. |
|
Yr 4 |
Various |
Notification via email |
Please note that the intention is for costuming to remain as simple as possible for families to access. There is no need to purchase specific costume items for the musical with most pieces able to be gathered at home.
Mrs Katrina Walton
Assistant Principal Early Years