2023 Term 2 .... Issue 1
Diary Dates
Week 4 - Friday May 26th -PUPIL FREE DAY - Staff Berry Street Training Pt4
Week 5 - Monday May 29th to Friday June 2nd - National Reconciliation Week
Week 5 - Monday May 29th - Year 6 Aquatics West Lakes
Week 5 - Monday May 29th - Yellow 3 Visiting Enfield Library
Week 5 - Monday May 29th and Tuesday May 30th - Wheelchair Sports Program Visit
Week 5 - Monday May 29th and Tuesday May 30th - SACA Cricket Clinics
Week 5 - BANB Baristas excursion to Cirello Coffee Roasters
Week 6 - Monday June 5th - Yellow 2 Visiting Enfield Library
Week 6 - Monday June 5th and Tuesday June 6th - SACA Cricket Clinics
Week 7 - Monday June 12th - Queens Birthday Public Holiday
Week 7 - Friday June 16th - Soccer Boys Excursion to The Pines
Week 8 - Thursday June 22nd and Friday June 23rd - Yr 5/6 Seniors Camp AFL Max
Week 9 - Monday June 26th - Girls Statewide Soccer Ingle Farm
Week 10 - Tuesday July 4th - FAMILY CONNECTIONS DAY
From the Principal
Staff News
Long serving BANB6 Learning Advisor, Nathan Anderson has secured a position as Wellbeing Leader at another school and will be leaving us at the end of next week.
I take the opportunity to congratulate Nathan on this appointment and offer him sincere gratitude on behalf of the entire BANB6 community for all that he has given our school over a long period of time.
Learning Advisor Xi Fang will step into the Yellow 7 Studio until the end of term 2. Xi has been working as a Guest Learning Advisor and in IELC this year at BANB6 and is looking forward to working with the Learners in Yellow 7.
Roma Mitchell Secondary College – High School Registration
A reminder to all families of children in year 6 that registration of interest for secondary school information is due by this Friday (May 26). For any families that would like to speak to a staff member from Roma Mitchell or have any questions or queries about the enrolment process, staff members from RMSC will be here at BANB6 next Wednesday (31 May) morning from 9.00am – 11.00am to answer any questions and provide assistance.
Pupil Free Day
A reminder to all families that this Friday (May 26) is a pupil free day, and the school will not be open. OSHC will be providing care all day and to enrol your child in OSHC, please click the link below:
Purple East
Purple East had a shared cultural experience when we celebrated the opening of the ALS. Tasting kangaroo, drinking lemon myrtle tea and sitting around the campfire were highlights. Making cultural connections has happened across the curriculum this term through the fantastic rich texts of ‘Collecting Colour’ being read in InitiaLit storybook lessons, and ‘Big Rain Coming’ which we are focussing on in Hass/ science.
This week Purple East began the first of three cricket clinics run by Cricket Australia. Adam led students through a series of cricket drills to improve skills in catching, batting and bowling. Great fun was had by all!
Purple West
Purple West have worked very hard since late last term to prepare a special performance for our Reconciliation Day Team Time. For quite some time we were learning the song ‘We are one’ as well as practicing Auslan sign language to go with it. A very special ending included us learning the Kaurna word- ngai, ninna, wirltuthidnamiyu (I am, you are, we are Australian). The children were very excited to watch a very special performance and smoking ceremony from Isaac Hannam, a very proud Kaurna and Ngarrindjeri man.
This years National Reconciliation Week theme- Be a voice for generations- enabled us to start some very important conversations in the studio about our past wrong doings, healing, and ways in which we can move forward together.
Purple 4 and Yellow 6
Each Friday Yellow 6 learners look forward to our MATES session with Purple 4. This provides an opportunity for the Y6 learners to develop confidence and leadership skills by being a ‘buddy’ to a younger learner. We started the year with a collaborative art project to encourage connecting with others by having a common goal. We now have a permanent Friday booking in the BANB forest space for nature play which has been a huge success! The children are calm and considerate as they connect with others and with nature. We have seen many benefits of play during these sessions including communication, teamwork, risk analysis, problem solving and curiosity. The children have shown so much joy that we have recently increased to a double session and are now looking at the possibility of extending our time for our weekly nature play session to a half or a full day in the future.
Yellow 1
Yellow 1 has had a number of new students join our class. It has been wonderful to see the older students welcome them in and show them around our learning areas. Highlights of term 2 so far include: ALS opening, our kitchen garden session and time in the rain garden.
Yellow 2 and 3
‘This term in Yellow 2 & 3 the learners have been inquiring into the people and places in our community. We went around different places at our school and talked to our school community helpers. In literacy learning we have been working in small groups to work on reading, writing and oral language skills and learning about recount writing. Our numeracy focus has included skip counting by 2s, addition and 2D shapes. We have welcomed Xi to our studios as a Co Learning Advisor. It has been a busy term so far and we all look forward to seeing what adventures in learning the next few weeks bring us.
Red 1, 5 and 6
Red 1, 5 and 6 students have settled back this term and gotten into their regular learning.
In literacy, learners have explored what makes a successful fantasy text. As a mentor text we have been enjoying reading Harry Potter. After deconstructing plot structures, language features and characterisation, learners will soon write their own fantasy stories.
In numeracy we have finished our unit on measurement and now we are exploring multiplication and division. Our focus for this has been to learn efficient mental strategies and the manipulation of numbers over the traditional processes of multiplication and division.
A group of our 5/6 learners have been trouble shooting our VR/ AR technology. Through these sessions we have ironed out many of the issues with the hopes we will soon be able to use this technology school wide as an authentic tool to deepen the understanding of many learning focuses.