Dear parents,

As mentioned in my newsletter in week 3, parent teacher interviews will be scheduled for weeks 9 and 10 of this term.  The school uses an on-line booking system to enable the smooth timetabling of parent-teacher interviews. This term, we will have two different interview timetables.

1.  Students on a personal plan

Students who are on personal plans, including students new to the personal plan system, will recieve an email today from the Diverse Learning Team outlining the booking procedures for interviews.

The meeting for these students are scheduled for 30 minutes. This will enable discussions regarding the child’s personal plan to be incorporated into the parent teacher meeting.

2.  All other students

For all other students, an email will be sent home next Wednesday with details on how to book an interview.

The interviews are the main avenue for communicating a child’s progress to their parents. It is essential all parents take this opportunity to meet with their child’s teacher.

Maths Problem

Congratulations to Nathan Alex who had the first correct answer drawn out this week. I was pleased to see a lot more students attempting the problem. This week’s problem is below.

School BBQ

Today we cooked 900 hundred beef sausages, 50 chicken sausages and 12 vegetarian sausages. Each sausage was put on a slice of bread. Each loaf of bread contains 16 slices (excluding crusts) that can be used.

How many loaves of bread would be needed to ensure every sausage was in a slice of bread?

CSIRO Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge

Just before the move the remote learning 17 eager students from Years 5 and 6 participated in the CSIRO Bebras Computational Thinking Challenge.

The students’ problem solving skills were put to the test completing online challenges ranging in difficulty. The challenges involved the concepts of algorithms, abstraction, decomposition, pattern recognition, creating models and simulations, and evaluating solutions.

Congratulations to Thomas Abad, Hugh Almond, Thomas Beeton, William Blackwell, Billy Carroll, Ethan Ciceran, Samuel Craft, Jonty Duvall, Quinn Duvall, Lucas Korab, Sean Loney, Rafael Paredes, Isla Parker, Sonal Perera, Esther Robin, Milana Sadler-Pather and Rhys Webster.

I commend each one of the students for stepping outside their comfort zone to tackle these challenges. 

Congratulations to Hugh Almond who was awarded a distinction. Several other students were awarded credits and merits. Well done!

This is an excellent result given it is the first year our school has participated in the challenge.  Thank you to Mr Hart for supervising the students.

I wish everyone a lovely long weekend.

God Bless

Peter Hughes