News+and+Updates


 * Monday 28th February, 2011**
 * Thursday and Friday of this week, we will hold clean up activities at our school as part of Clean Up Australia Day 2011. Please visit our school's clean up page and play 'Clean Up the River' with your class as an introduction to this theme.

Monday 21st February, 2011
 * Many classes didn't attend ICT lesson last week. Teachers please remember that attendance to ICT lessons is compulsory and that time should not be used for any other activities. It's especially important for K-1 to attend all classes as they have one lesson every 2 weeks. Please be aware that your absence is being recorded as I have to enter into my Daybook which classes are not attending and reasons.

Monday 14th February, 2011

 * ICT lessons start this week. All teachers should have received timetables from coordinators that indicate your ICT slot. Please be advised that their will be no changes to ICT timetable. There may be clashes with Gymnastics in which case teacher are advised to reschedule their Gym sessions as Gymnastics is a 5 week program whereas the ICT timetable is for the duration of the year.

= Tuesday 1st February, 2011 =
 * = Unfortunately there will be no ICT lessons from weeks 1-3 due to a whole range of programming issues I have to address. =
 * = Lexile Reading Program will be run by class teachers this year, alongside with Mathletics when classes visit Level 3 Computer Lab. Years 4-6 should work towards completing their quizzes within 15 minutes. Year 3 should be given more time, with gradual reduction to 15 minutes. I will introduce Lexile to Year 3 students so they will do the first test with me. While teachers will be responsible for ensuring their students are borrowing and reading books and completing the quizzes, I will be monitoring overall participation in the program by students as well as classes and reporting any issues to Mr Adra. Student user details to be advised soon. =

Monday 31st January, 2011
Welcome back after the holidays! Another productive year of ICT teaching and learning lies in wait for us. Hopefully we will see more people using the wiki this year. I know I will use it lots!

Monday 1st November, 2010

 * K-6 ICT classes commence this week. Can you please make sure students are ready to do a Lexile Quiz (not Test).
 * Can each teacher please choose a computer monitor? Their job will be to check that all computers are logged off/shut down at the end each lesson. Please choose a tech savvy student and let me know the name as you bring your classes this week.

Wednesday 27th October, 2010

 * You may bring your classes to the ICT lab as of Wednesday afternoon. You will be teaching this week's ICT lesson. Please do not do Mathletics or other activities. I'll still be programming.

Monday 25th October, 2010

 * Good luck to K-6 students with their yearly exams!
 * There will be no ICT classes this week (Week 4) as I'll be programming for Terms 1 and 2 next year. I know that some classes are a little bit behind due to circumstances beyond their control. I'll try my best to try and accomodate you all next week when I commence teaching.
 * I still haven't received the Year 1 and Kinda overview of units. Since my deadline is close, I'm programming with your existing units. Inshallah, I'll adapt and modify it next year. Please let me know of your final changes to the units.

Monday 18th October, 2010

 * Good luck to all Year 12 students with their HSC exams.
 * All student work to be saved in the new format starting this term. So file name will be: **Last Name, First Name**- as it is on the class list. Middle names are not required. Students need to be reminded not to type their names in all caps, put punctuations or silly comments in their file name.
 * I have discovered that the coloured stickers from the keyboard are being taken off. Teachers please talk to your class about the importance of those stickers for infants in order to locate buttons on the keyboard.