Archives for April, 2012

Twitter Battleship – Let the invasion begin!

The battle is on! In order to consolidate our understandings of position, we have decided to invade North Star Public School with our impressive newly formed Bradbury Navy. Twitter Battleship has begun! Over the coming weeks, our fine, brave sailors will be fearlessly led by the mighty Admiral, Lee Knowles. By his side will be his two fierce lieutenants, Isaac and Read full article »

Antarctica Assessments and Holiday tasks

Today I was lucky enough to be handed a bunch of USB's loaded with amazing PowerPoint presentations. Tuesday was the day that the Bradbury's Antarctica written component was due and I am absolutely amazed by some of their efforts. Although they are yet to complete their speeches, I couldn't help placing these wonderful creations on the web for all to Read full article »

Term 2 – Planting the seeds of thought…

Welcome back to terms 2! It is very exciting for us all as this will be the term that we get our unit of work started. At MEPS, we have already made up our own marketing companies and created logos, colours and names to match. We have been working hard on creating cover letters and brochures in order to introduce Read full article »

Wow, I am really bad at this…….

The progress reports are in an Mr E is still bewildered as to how he could possibly be losing! I am not for one instance saying that any teams are cheating.....though the Power Puff Girls have been acting very suspiciously for weeks. Hmm.... Read full article »

Exposition Assessment Results; Halfway progress…

The results for the interim Exposition Assessment can be found below. I have been really impressed with your efforts and urge you all to look very carefully on your results and work out what you need to work on before NAPLAN and your final assessment begin. Everyone has an area in which they can improve and I look forward to asking Read full article »

Maths Assessment Results

Hello All, I hope you are all enjoying what remains of the holidays. Below you will find the results for the first Maths Assessment for the year. The test focused on the following areas of student development: Organises numerals to create 4-digit numbers Orders 4 and 5-digit numbers in ascending order Expands 5-digit numbers Identifies the larger of two numbers Adds and subtracts 100’s and 1 Read full article »

NAPLAN Preparation : Only if you want to….

Term 2 means NAPLAN testing for all years 3, 5, 7 and 9 students across Australia. This test is a measure of how students have progressed from the moment they entered the school gate until where they find themselves now. The upcoming tests will not be measuring how much knowledge, facts and figures have been crammed into your little angels Read full article »

Behaviour Reports; Coming to an inbox near you!

Dear Parents, Term one has been an extremely busy term for your little darlings and it is about time you saw just how lovely their behaviour has been. In the classroom, Class Dojo is used to monitor and reward their ongoing behaviour. Class Dojo is an online behaviour management tool that it used to reinforce positive behaviours and promote a safe, Read full article »

Week 5 Footy Update

We are well and truly into the season and it seems that the folk at North Star Public School have our number. It's time the students from MEPS dig deep and start pulling out some big numbers in the coming weeks. Congratulations, North Star. Read full article »

I can smell the holidays….

We desperately need to get some assessments completed by the end of the week so I can have them marked by the beginning of next term. I will then be using this data to form some of your report scores – so work hard and try your best! With the holidays approaching we are also needing to finish our marketing brochures Read full article »

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100 Word Challenge

‘The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.’ Ursula K. Le Guin We ask children to write in school but often there is no apparent purpose that they can see other than pleasing their teacher! This can prompt some very reluctant writers in our classrooms. The 100 Word Challenge seeks to address this problem.