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2022 Term 1 .... Issue 2

Diary Dates

Week 11 - PUPIL FREE DAY - Thursday April 14th - Staff participating in Berry St training

Week 11 - END TERM 1 - Friday April 15th

Week 11 - PUBLIC HOLIDAY - Friday April 15th - Easter Good Friday

TERM 2 RESUMES - Monday May 1st

TERM 2

Week 2 - Year 6 Aquatics West Lakes - Friday May 13th

Week 2 to Week 3 - NAPLAN testing for Years 3 and 5

Week 4 - National Reconciliation Week Begins Friday May 27th to Friday June 3rd

Week 5 - Wellbeing Week - Monday May 30th to Friday June 3rd

Week 6 - PRESCHOOL closed - Monday June 6th

Week 7 - PUBLIC HOLIDAY - Queens birthday - Monday June 13th

Week 8 - Year 5/6 AFLMax Overnight Camp - Tuesday June 21st

The BANB6 Raingarden and Nature Education Project - A Transformation

For 9 years, the drainage area near the southern end of the BANB6 Forest was a swampy, overgrown and rubbish strewn area fenced off from staff, students and our school community. This ‘swamp’ had always been envisioned as an outdoor learning environment that could be utilised to provide our children with opportunities to engage in a range of nature education experiences. Unfortunately, there were a number of obstacles that prevented any action being taken to transform the space.

With the advent of the BANB6 Sustainability Group (consisting of nearly 50 students who applied to be a part of this team), plans were drawn up to begin the process of adapting the environment. BANB6 students met with LCS Landscape Architects and shared their ideas before visiting metropolitan raingardens to learn about their construction, features and impact on urban revegetation and renewal. Students learned about water management through participating in a session run by GreenSA and met regularly to plan and promote a campaign that aimed to get the Raingarden project off the ground.

After lengthy consultation with a range of stakeholders, the Raingarden project was finally approved in 2021 and our student team immediately set about cleaning and clearing the space in preparation for the initial landscaping to begin.

Stage One of the project involved removing weeds, rubbish, debris and dead trees, creating the swales for water to run through a ‘creek’ (capturing run-off from rainfall), constructing paths and a creating ‘campfire’ meeting area.Upon completion of this phase, our school was informed that we had been successful in securing a Green Adelaide Grassroots Grant for $140,000 which would ensure the completion of stages 2 and 3 of the transformation. Stage 2 involves revegetating the Raingarden with Adelaide Plains native flora, the construction of an observation deck and the addition of a bird hide to the space. This phase is scheduled to commence later in the year, and students will again be heavily involved in much of the work to be carried out. Stage 3 will see the development of a path to the Raingarden from the Yellow Neighbourhood bounded by garden beds, signage installation and a new entrance incorporated to ensure easier access to the space.

In the meantime, the Raingarden has already been embraced by our children, staff and community as an ‘outdoor studio’, with our learners engaged in working bees, nature play activities and a range of outdoor learning experience in the newly-developed environment.

Our students have embraced the key concept that we all have a shared responsibility for the Raingarden and that we are stewards and custodians who care for and respect the plants, animals and insects who inhabit the space. Many of our learners have commented that the Raingarden is a place where they feel calm, peaceful and mindful, and there is a genuine sense of connection with the space that is evolving as every child at BANB6 is able to spend time in the Raingarden through coming in with their studio or as part of our Sustainability Focus sessions. We look forward to sharing more information about the project over the year as it progresses and we can’t wait to extend an invitation to our school community to come and spend some time this beautiful and unique environment.

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Red Neighbourhood

All 4 of the year 5/6 studios are learning together seamlessly.

Red 1,2,5 & 6 learning advisors are working collaboratively and in teams to provide learners with a cohesive curriculum, ensuring that all entitlements are met. This includes splitting year levels for Science, Hass and Maths.

In Literacy we have been exploring short stories by Roald Dahl and David Walliams
Year 6 Science are exploring Natural Disasters
Year 5 Science are exploring Celestial bodies
Year 6 Hass are exploring Geography: A diverse and connected world: Same same but different
Year 5 Hass are exploring Geography: Human and environmental impact on the planet
A daily vocabulary routine introducing 1 new word each day
Maths groups ranging from fractions, number and worded questions
Weekly specialist learning of PE, STEM, Japanese, Dance and drama and Sustainability

Yellow Neigbourhood

We have reached the half way make of TERM 1. We would like to thank you for your help so far in working together to give your child the best start to the year possible given our challenging situation. Below is some information about what we have covered so far and reminders. We will keep you informed regularly as the year goes on and please remember to ask your child about their learning. Our big focus as a school is oral language- generating conversations and discussions about learning supports children to transfer their understanding.

ENGLISH

Persuasive Writing. We have been looking at how authors persuade their audiences by using the structure of their writing and advertisements. The words and language that are used when trying to convince an audience to a particular point of view. We have been reading and viewing a range of persuasive texts and investigating common vocabulary. Together we have brainstormed ideas and opinions that we will begin to use when attempting some persuasive writing of our own.

We invite you to ask your children about their new vocabulary and help us to deepen their understand of how language works.

MATHS

Place Value and the 4 operations. We have been going through place value E.g. units, tens, hundreds and thousands. Reviewing the base 10 number system and the “rainbow facts”. We will continue to explore number this term and practice number routines using 100 charts, cards and dice.

We encourage you to ask your children to show you some of these number routines and games. The materials required can be easily gathered (playing cards and dice) if you would like more information please ask.

Social & Emotional Learning

We have been learning about MINDSETS and the skills required to learn together. We have started implementing Morning Circles to establish good routines and set the scene for the day. We use fruit breaks and brain breaks to energise or de-escalate our sessions. We are also beginning to learn and discuss the concepts related to being, belong and becoming and our school’s values. Children will be regularly participating in games that will stretch them socially and through reflective language and guided reflections they will learn to understand how to co-regulate then in turn self-regulate.

We recommend you to ask your children about some of the brain breaks we have been doing together.

Reminders.

Fresh fruit and vegetables. We have had an excellence response from children and families with our fruit break in the morning learning block. Please continue to support children with fresh fruit, vegetables and healthy snacks for them to eat during the day.

HATS. We need all children to have a school hat for excursions and outside breaks during the day. They can be purchased through the office for $5 or $10 for the reversible TEAM hat.

Thanks for your support with this.

Yellow South West

We had a great day at Waterworld!

In English we are exploring language used to persuade in a range of texts. We are using the ‘Frayer Model’ to explicitly teach new vocabulary from our mentor texts. We are challenging the children to include this vocabulary into their oral language.

In Maths we are focusing on number and place value – recently we have focused on skip counting and representing a 3-digit number in a range of ways.

In Science we have examined how animals can adapt to different climates. We have focused on heat sources and identified ‘heat sources’ across the school.

Yellow 3

Have been building our understanding of belonging, being and becoming by getting to know each other and learning what going to school looks like. The highlight of the term so far was our visit to Water world where we splashed and played for the whole day with our new friends.

Literacy and Numeracy at Banb6

Dear BANB6 Community,

All together again!

The school has been buzzing with excitement, laughter and chatter as we welcomed back our Recptions in Week 1 and our Year 2 – Year 6 in week 3.

Thank you for your patience and efforts with Remote Learning. We value working together to support your child’s learning and well-being.

What an amazing term so far! Everyone has been busy setting-up for an amazing year by focussing on building positive relationships in the studio and on the important qualities of being a successful learner. How fortunate we are to have caring and passionate teams of educators at BANB6 who have set up welcoming and purposeful learning spaces.

Literacy and Numeracy at home

As a Curriculum Leader, I thought it would be opportune to recognise the valuable impact parents and carers have on children and young people’s learning and development. There are many exciting learning opportunities in everyday activities and conversations. Here are some quick and simple ideas you can try at home.

Literacy ideas

The extra-ordinary in the ordinary

Simple old fashion activities can work magic with your child’s early development of literacy and establish good routines for learning.

These can include:

Talk, talk and talk some more.
Read books together daily. Ask questions before, during and after reading.
Sing songs and rhymes, draw and tell stories together. If you are bi-lingual, pass this amazing gift on to your child!
Play word games
Talk about words, their meanings and where they came from.

Other Literacy ideas at home

What do you think?

Share your ideas about the following:

the most interesting holiday
the best present or birthday party
the scariest movie
the funniest thing

In the family. Who amongst your family or friends is: the tallest? the shortest? the funniest? the noisiest? the quietest? the silliest? the kindest? the best cook? the best fixer?

Change the words. Choose a familiar song and change the words e.g., Mary had a
little lamb could become Pam had a naughty wolf.

Blind Fold. One person is blind folded, and their partner must explain to them how:

o to get from one room to another
o to make a peanut butter sandwich
o to tie and ribbon in their hair

Mystery bag. Ask yes or no questions to guess an object hidden inside a bag.

Numeracy ideas

Shopping

Compare prices of different brands asking, how much more? With older children, look at price per kg or L.

Talk about the different shapes of fruit and vegetables. You might notice how the shape of the fruit impacts how it is arranged. Notice how flexible numbers such as 6, 12 & 24 appear a lot in packaging. Why? Discuss the receipt after the shop.

Weather Forecast

Which is the hottest/coldest day this week? By how much? What's the quickest way the work that out?

Compare Adelaide's data to a city of their choice and have similar conversations.

Driving

Notice all the numbers on the road (speed signs, kms of distance, maps etc. Ask them what and how these numbers are used!

Cooking

Make jelly together! Talk about adding 1 cup of hot water and 1 cup of cold water. What’s half a cup?

Make muffins and get your child to arrange the patty pans in the tray. Talk about rows and groups of things. Ask if they know about anything else arranged in equal rows?