Primary Newsletter
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Dear Parents and Caregivers, As we reach the halfway mark of the term, the students can reflect on five weeks of excellent effort and most pleasing results in their classwork and in their assessments. It goes without saying that talent and ability can only take one so far, but that hard work inevitably produces results. Whether in their cultural activities, out on the sports fields, or in their academic endeavours, achievement comes on the back of plenty of effort. And effort isn’t always easy. Hours may be spent on a single piece of music to be played at the Instrumental Competition Finals, or countless revisions made to a composition for the Vocal Finals, as each note is fine-tuned. All of this for a couple of minutes of performance in front of an appreciative audience. In the same way, the final lunge at the cross country finish line comes after hours of gruelling effort and training, and the winning goal only materialises when all the members of a team combine to make the goal possible. As we all know through personal experience, these moments of success and celebration are made all the sweeter when we know that we have committed ourselves to the effort to make them possible. Some people have put forward the idea that true success comes only after 10 000 hours of practice. While I’m not suggesting that so many hours are required for each task at a school level, the principle is just as valid – practice makes perfect. For this reason, the Year 3-6 students have already been hard at work alongside their teachers to prepare for the mid-year exams. From the time that they received their Revision booklets, the students have shown commendable focus and a determination to show off what they have learned this year. In the lead-up to the exams, and throughout Revision Week, the teachers will help to prepare the students, so that they can approach them with confidence.
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A focus on study skills and on practical ways of helping to organise their studying – and the writing of exams – should ensure that students are able to arrive each day ready to impress their teachers and parents. However, more than anything, we hope that they set out to impress themselves and to take each exam as an opportunity to test their academic skills and knowledge.
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We trust that the coming few weeks will not be too onerous for the students but that they will realise that with challenge comes the chance to excel. We look forward to walking alongside them through the assessment process, to make this time rewarding and successful.
On the cultural front, Amiella Allen did wonderfully in her recent Australian Music Examinations Board exam, where she received an A+ result for her four trumpet pieces. Then, Millie Price competed a few weeks ago in the Sydney regionals for one of the prestigious national dance competitions, known as Get The Beat (GTB). She won the title of Miss Get The Beat with her Broadway Jazz number, in which she competed with the age group above hers (10 Under and 9 Under). She also won, in her her age group (9 Under), four 1st places, one 2nd place and a 3rd place, in addition to the Improvisation section, in which four age groups competed. Well done, Amiella and Millie! Last week, Joshua Tancred travelled to Coffs Harbour to compete at the NSWPSSA State AFL Championships. This was Joshua’s' second time representing CIS in this competition, as he made the team last year whilst he was in Year 5. This competition saw the best primary students from across the state competing in a 3-day tournament, representing their individual associations (primary, catholic and independent schools). CIS played some incredibly tough, skilful games over the round matches, booking a spot in the final against Sydney North, where they showed their dominance in a 39 - 7 victory. Joshua had an incredible tournament, taking the man of the match honours in game one and also being selected in the NSWPSSA AFL in a squad of 23. From here Josh will meet his NSW team mates at the SCG for a squad photo and then spend a week in Barooga at an NSW team camp. It is here Joshua will be preparing for the National Championships in Adelaide, where he will then spend a week playing against the best young players from across the country! What a fantastic achievement! Well done, Joshua! We are so proud of you! The Reddam House Primary School Newsletter
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The Instrumental Competition Finals saw some beautiful pieces being played, as our students showed off their considerable talents. It is never easy to perform in front of an audience and for this we congratulate all who performed so well. We know that just as these talented musicians spent many hours practising, so too it is true of those who will perform in next week’s Vocal Competition Finals, to be held on Wednesday. We wish them everything of the best and we know that the event will be a treat for the audience. In addition, we wish our cross country runners strong lungs and equally powerful legs as they compete in the NSWCIS Cross Country Competition next week on Thursday. We know that they will fly the Reddam House flag high, as they give their all. Have a great weekend! Dee Pitcairn Principal
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Sporting fixtures 4th June 2022
Un16s – Reddam Jazz v Newtown Force 1.00 Ct 4 Un18s – Reddam Heat v Pagewood Meerkats 1.50 Ct 4
Basketball Comets Competition – Friday 3rd June Un16s – Reddam Knicks v SGHS Knives 4.30 Un18s – Reddam Suns v SGHS Move like Who’a 5.15 Un18s – Reddam 1st V v Hoops I did it again 6.00 Perry Park Courts & Comets Stadium Saturday Fixtures 4th June (Perry Park Courts are located behind the Comets stadium)
Boys MPCYC Un16s – Reddam Warriors v MVP Cheetahs 2.20 Ct 1 Un16s – Reddam Nets v Accelerate Warriors Navy 4.00 Ct 1 Un18s – Reddam Grizzlies v Newtown Kings 1.30 Ct 1 Un18s – Reddam 1st V v Inner City Rockets 5.40 Ct 2
Netball Saturday - Heffron Park Netball Courts
Girls Un14s – Reddam Timberwolves v KHY Astronauts 11.20 Ct 4 Un14s – Reddam Sparks v Inner City Magic 9.40 Ct 4
Un 14s – Reddam Mystics v Newtown Lynx 10.30 Boys Alexandria (Perry Park Courts) Un12s – Reddam Raptors v Sydney Hoopstars Add 10.30 Ct 1 Un14s – Reddam Bulls v Newtown Lions 11.20 Ct 2
Reddam 2 v Randwick Rugby Court 32, 3.30pm Reddam 3 v Rose Bay Court 4, 2.15pm Reddam 4 v Rose Bay Court 34, 1.00pm Reddam 5 v MRSL, Court 25, 11.45am Reddam 6 v Kincopal, Court 18, 11.45am Reddam 7 v Mascotl, Court 3, 11.45am Reddam 8 v Kincopal, Court 3, 10.30am Reddam 9 v Kincopal, Court 4, 10.30am Reddam 10 v St Bridgidine, Court 3, 9.15am Reddam 12 v Coogee, Court 23, 9.15am Reddam 13 v St Catherines, Court 34, 9.15am Reddam 14 v MRSL, Court 7, 10.30am
Un14s – Reddam Cavaliers v Reddam hawks 12.10 Ct 1
Un14s – Reddam Mavericks v Sydney Hoopstars 12.10 Ct 3 Un14s – Reddam Nuggets v MPB 12.10 Ct 2 Un14s – Reddam Hawks v Reddam Cavaliers 12.10 Ct 1 Un16s – Reddam Rockets v Inner city titans 12.10 ct 4
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Soccer Girls Sunday Reddam Under 13 V Maroubra United G13 Thundercats, Lyne Park, 11.00am Reddam Seniors V Bye Primary Saturday Under 9s Reddam United V Easts Torino 10.00am Queens Park 2C Under 9s Reddam City V Easts Yellow Roma 10.00am Queens Park 2A Under 10s Reddam United V Easts Orange Newcastle 11.00am Queens Park 12A Under 10s Reddam City V Waverley Old Boys Orange 12.00pm Queens Park 12A Under 11s Reddam Gunners V Easts FC Athletico 12.00pm Queens Park 2A Under 12s Reddam United V Mascot Kings 1.00pm L'Estrange Park 2A Under 12s Reddam City V Queens Park Everton 1.00pm Queens Park 1B High School Boys Saturday Year 12 v Knox, Curagul No.1, 1.00pm Year 11v Knox, Curagul No.2, 2.00pm Year 10 v Knox, Curagul No.1, 11.00am Year 9 v Sydney Grammar, Weigal No.3, 12.00 noon. Year 8R v Sydney Boys High School, Centennial Park No.10, Parkes Drive Centennial Park, 9.00am Year 8E v Sydney Boys High School, Centennial Park No.10, Parkes Drive Centennial Park, 10.00am Year 7 v Sydney Boys High School, Centennial Park No.10, Parkes Drive Centennial Park, 11.00am
Cross Country Newington Cross Country Carnival – Sydney Park.
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SPORT RESULTS
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Sporting results 28th May 2022
Netball Saturday -Heffron Park Netball Courts
Basketball Girls Un16s – Reddam Knicks v Newtown Diamonds 20 – 0 Un18s – Reddam Suns v Newtown Newts 18 – 17 Un18s – Reddam 1 V v SGHS Move Like Who’a 24 - 14 Un14s – Reddam Timberwolves v Newtown Lynx 27 - 21 Un14s – Reddam Sparks v Reddam Mystics 42 - 2 Un 14s – Reddam Mystics v Reddam Sparks 2 - 42 st
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Reddam 1 v , The Juniors 0 - 20 Reddam 2 v , Kambala 26 - 2 Reddam 3 v , St Catherines 29 - 57 Reddam 4 v Randwick Rugby 25 - 29 Reddam 5 v Kincopal, 29 - 17 Reddam 6 v Mascot, 14 - 66 Reddam 7 v Kincopal, 25 - 48 Reddam 8 v Kincopal, 10 - 0 Reddam 9 v Randwick Rugby, 0 - 10 Reddam 10 v Maccabi, 27 - 13 Reddam 12 v St Catherines, 8 - 29 Reddam 13 v Saints, 1 - 26 Reddam 14 v Dolphins, 0 - 15
Soccer Girls Sunday
Un12s – Reddam Raptors v Newtown Power 23 – 0 Un14s – Reddam Bulls v Newtown Raptors 23 -2 Un14s – Reddam Cavaliers v Newtown Lions 27 – 35 Un14s – Reddam Mavericks v Inner City 15ers 43 – 21 Un14s – Reddam Nuggets v Reddam Hawks 8 – 40 Un14s – Reddam Hawks v Reddam Nuggets 40 - 8 Un16s – Reddam Rockets v BYE (No game) Un16s – Reddam Jazz v Inner City Titans 33 32 Un18s – Reddam Heat v Newtown 36 – 26 Un16s – Reddam Warriors v MPB 22 – 33 Un16s – Reddam Nets v Inner City Warriors 40 - 34 Un18s – Reddam Grizzlies v Manesis Strength 39 – 39 Un18s – Reddam 1 V v Newtown Warriors 47 – 50 Reddam COUGARS v Triple Threat 18B 42 – 39 st
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Reddam Under 13 V Maccabi Hakoah 2 - 10 Reddam Seniors V Maroubra United 0 - 8
Primary Saturday Under 9s Reddam United 0 Pagewood Botany Young Guns 6 Under 9s Reddam City 5 Queens Park Hurricanes 3 Under 10s Reddam United 2 Maccabi Dragons 7 Under 10s Reddam City 13 Pagewood Botany Manchester 2 Under 11s Reddam Gunners 0 South East Eagles 4 Under 12s Reddam United 0 Glebe Wanderers 8 Under 12s Reddam City 14 Pagewood Botany Blue 1
High School Boys Saturday Year 12 v St Aloysius, 3 - 0 Year 11v St Aloysius, 1 - 1 Year 10 v St Aloysius, - 2 - 3 Year 9 v Riverview, 7 - 2 Year 8R v Newington 1 - 0 Year 8E v Newington, 2 - 3 Year 7 v Newington, 1 - 1
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Reddam House Would like to wish a very happy birthday to
Ashley Ma, Jordan Serman-Segar, Elly Peles, Alexa Kirby, Maria Nuche-Eznarriaga, William Feng and Jayden Thompson
Who celebrated their special day this week and over the weekend
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Principal & Principal Honour Awards Reddam House Would like to congratulate the following students on their Principal Awards. Principal Awards recipients:
Santiago Smart, Evie Hayward, Zachary Macintyre, Andrea Di Lorenzo, Amber Charles, Angus Snow, Joshua Kruger and Diyan Menon
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Instrumental Competition 2022 On Wednesday evening, 45 Reddam House students competed in the Finals of our Instrumental Competition in Adelaide Hall. This was a wonderful celebration of the talent and variety within our music programme, and we congratulate all of the students for their wonderful preparation and performances. A film will be made available in the coming weeks, and you can enjoy a selection of photos from the evening here. Our adjudicator for the evening was acclaimed pianist and conductor Paul Fitzsimon, who commented on how important live performance opportunities were for developing young musicians, and also how difficult it was to select winners amongst such talent. Thank you to Year 6 Senator George Negas for acting as host, and Romany Hoskins (Year 6 Music Portfolio), and Oliver Wood (backstage crew), as well as all members of the Reddam House String Orchestra for their performance. The results are included below. Kindergarten to Year 2 Gold: Ryan Lee Silver: Amiella Allen Bronze: Timothy Wang Year 3 to Year 6 Gold: Thomas Hui Silver: Tang Guoer Bronze: Jayden Cao Congratulations to all the finalists who took part: Anson Ruan Pippi Pike Wyatt Fong Miley Yuan Isabella Chen Victor Wang Andre Chan Martin Ding Amiella Allen Timothy Wang Ryan Lee May Yue Romi Gor Charlize Allen Janie Kogan Brenton Ma Hugo Karpes Jayden Cao Sienna Lim Lawrence Chan Winston Wang Tang Guoer Thomas Hui
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Instrumental Competition 2022
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Instrumental Competition 2022
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KINDERGARTEN
The temperature may have dropped but that did not deter the fun and excitement in Kindergarten this week. We are now halfway through the term and the teachers are very impressed with the progress the students are making. The ‘Show and Tell’ presentations are continuing to impress, with bright and engaging posters and lots of interesting facts. We enjoyed hearing about The Daintree Rainforest, The Great Barrier Reef and major cities in Australia, to name a few! In our Topic lessons this week, we continued our learning about how Indigenous Australians traditionally live and the importance of land as they hunt and gather food, set up shelter and move through their territory. The students had lots of knowledge to share as well as intriguing questions about the First Australians and their many traditions. During PDH this week, we explored the importance of being an organised learner by keeping our space tidy, using our time to focus on tasks and listening to instructions carefully. We got to meet Oscar Organisation, who taught us all about it. We enjoyed getting to know each of the characters this term, as they gave us lots of ideas of how to work to the best of our ability and get along with each other.
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YEAR 1 In English this week we continued to focus on sentence structure when writing, ensuring that capital letters and full stops are used correctly and consistently. Our news presentations, which link closely to the Geography and History Unit ‘Transport’, were really interesting. Valentina Tesorriero spoke in great detail about gondolas, Murray Chou delivered some amazing facts about different types of submarines and Archie Witchell shared some wonderful information about container ships. These presentations took us on a fascinating journey each day and the students are becoming so confident when speaking in front of a large group. In Mathematics, we had fun estimating and measuring the area and capacity of a range of objects. We also practised our mental maths skills by reciting number bonds, doubling and halving facts as well as skip counting at the start of each lesson to increase our automaticity. In Science, the students researced extreme weather as part of our unit ‘Changing Skies’. We read information books and searched the internet to research tornadoes, droughts, hurricanes, floods, and blizzards. The students were amazed to see how destructive these natural disasters can be and how they can affect the environment and people’s lives. We also designed and made weathervanes. The students adapted the models to improve their function during the process. During our Personal Development and Health lesson this week, we met ‘Gary Get Along’ who supported our understanding of social management. The students were involved in discussions and role play activities which highlighted behaviours such as communicating effectively and working collaboratively. The students were excellent at demonstrating skills such as using eye contact, speaking in a friendly and calm manner and turn taking. It was another fabulous and busy week. Well done Year 1!
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YEAR 1
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YEAR 2 Wow! What amazing musical talent we have at Reddam House! On Wednesday night, the Year 2 teachers and the rest of the school community were treated to a fantastic showing at the Instrumental Competition finals. All of the students showed great skill, poise and confidence and should be incredibly proud of their efforts. Congratulations to our Year 2 finalists: Anson Ruan (piano), Pippi Pike (violin), Victor Wang (violin), Martin Ding (cello), Amiella Allen (trumpet) and Ryan Lee (cello). During the school week we continued to focus on water. We experimented with the water cycle, mimicking the evaporation, condensation, precipitation and collection that occurs in nature every day. The students also continued to present their water saving tips and tricks during their news time. The audience consistently asked great questions and gave helpful feedback. Some examples were: · You used good eye contact and a loud and clear voice. · Next time, could you try to speak louder. · How did you put that picture into your PowerPoint? · Can you explain more about _________? In English, we inserted words into speech bubbles and looked at the use of quotation/speech marks in the books we read. We also used the 5 senses to guide a detailed description of a setting in the book ‘The Little Refugee’. What might the characters see, smell or hear in that scene? What sensations might they have on their skin? Would they taste anything? Our knowledge of adjectives came in handy during this activity. Our Mathematics lessons focussed on the addition jump strategy using a number line. For example, instead of adding 15 one at a time, we add on 10 and count on 5 more. The students also used a variety of methods to identify and continue skip counting patterns, both forwards and backwards. We looked at the definition of a face on a 3D shape and used materials in the room to count the number of faces on each and the shape of each face. Another hands-on activity was to use the balance scales and informal units such as pencils, popsticks and unifix cubes to estimate and weigh other objects from around the room.
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YEAR 3 ‘Experience proves that anyone who has studied geometry is infinitely quicker to grasp difficult subjects than one who has not.’ Plato This week in Mathematics, the Year 3s put their ‘Measurement and Geometry’ skills to the test. They explored the various properties used to describe three-dimensional objects using mathematical vocabulary, and they drew on this understanding to recognise and draw 3D nets. Did you know that some three-dimensional objects have to be described using the terms ‘faces’, ‘edges’ and ‘vertices’, such as pyramids, prisms and cubes? However, others have to be described using the terms ‘curved surfaces’, ‘flat surfaces’, ‘boundaries’ and ‘apexes’, such as spheres, cones, cylinders and hemi-spheres.
In addition to this, the Year 3s investigated 3D objects in everyday life, finding examples both inside and outside of the classroom, and they used nets to assemble their own 3D objects. Finally, the students wrapped up their week of learning by honing their application skills. They used everything that they had been taught in order to successfully solve various worded problems. The students truly wowed their teachers with their ability to absorb so much mathematical information. Well done, Year 3s, on another successful week.
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YEAR 3
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YEAR 4
Believe it or not, the Year 4 Public Speaking teacher was left, well… speechless, after listening to the following dynamic, heartfelt, and impactful persuasive speech, which faultlessly argued that education should be accessible for everyone. The Term 2 Unit in Public Speaking focussed on Persuasive Speech. The topic invited students to work on refining their skills when delivering a speech, whilst also researching, writing, and editing of their speeches, which endorsed a specific point of view.
Composing an impactful and socially meaningful speech enabled students to connect with their peers and teachers emotionally on both an audience and interpersonal level. And let’s just say that this young writer and composer captivated her audience and was awarded a huge round of applause.
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YEAR 4 Well done, Ines, and ALL the Year 4 students, on your incredible presentations. We appreciate your effort immensely and are grateful for the colour and optimism you bring to the world! Imagine you weren’t allowed to go to school. Well, unfortunately, some people don’t have to imagine this. I believe education is a right, not a privilege - everyone should have access to it, no matter what their background, no matter how much money they have. In Sub-Saharan Africa, 1 in every 5 children do not go to school. Can you guess how many children are not at school around the whole world? (Pause) A total of 263 million! That’s almost 10 times the population of Australia! This is unacceptable. Throughout the world, we need equality. Education for everyone, for girls and boys, is essential to gain equality everywhere. If you have a good education, you are less likely to be poor when you grow up. Being educated means you can get a better job and be able to earn money to feed yourself and your family. UNESCO states that if all adults completed secondary education, the number of poor people around the world could be reduced by more than half. If you’re still not convinced, then how about this? Schooling for everyone is imperative to our survival. Covid-19 has been solved by educated people creating a vaccine quicker than it’s ever been done before. Now we need as many people to be educated as possible if we’re going to solve an even bigger problem: climate change. So, quite literally, education for everyone will save our planet and our species. It is my sincere belief that education should be free. It’s important to ensure equality. It’s required to reduce poverty. And we need everyone to be educated to change the world for the better. As Nelson Mandela said, “Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” And I agree. By Ines Buck
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YEAR 5 & 6 ENGLISH
Year 5 Year 5 students worked well this week on mastery in writing. At it is core, mastery in writing is the principle where students reflect upon their performance in an assessment and take steps to improve that piece. This week, Year 5 students received their writing assessments and, with feedback given from their teachers, they reflected and improved their pieces and redrafted them. Here is an example from Cael Barton in Year 5. Based on verbal and written feedback given, Cael was able to include description of the setting as well as correctly format dialogue. Well done, Cael.
Assessment
Improvement
Year 6 Year 6 worked well this week to achieve the outcomes of writing in preparation for their examinations in week 7. They understood that the rubric requires them to be persuasive about persuasive techniques. Here is a Year 6 class practising their persuasive writing in class.
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YEAR 5 & 6 SCIENCE In Science this week, Year 6 students developed their understanding and knowledge of what antigens and antibodies are and the roles they both play in the body. Students also studied how white blood cells work and the different ways they help defend the body against pathogens. Building on this, students investigated vaccines, looking at what a vaccine is and how it actually helps the body to fight off potential illnesses. In Science this week, Year 5 students began to study sustainability. Students initially studied what sustainability is and identified changes themselves and others could make to create a more sustainable future. The concept of sustainability was then focused on agriculture and what affects sustainability in agriculture. The theme of agriculture continued into the week with students highlighting where produce is mostly grown in Australia, the process for food to get to the plate, seasonality of foods and why food isn't grown equally throughout Australia.
In Science Club the young scientists made ice cream! This was done by using dry ice. Dry ice was crushed into a snow-like consistency and then mixed with cream and flavouring. Due to the below zero temperature, freezing was instant! Students then had to wait for the ice cream to warm up before they could eat it.
DRAMA Term 2 Remaining Lion King Junior Rehearsals
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MUSIC
This week, Year 2 had a great time working on a song called ‘Who’s that?’. After learning to sing the song, we discussed the rhythms and learned how to read and write a minim which lasts for 2 beats. We then practiced the song using solfa and handsigns which meant that the students had a strong grasp of both the rhythm and pitch of the song. Next, we moved to the xylophones and the Year 2s really enjoyed putting what they had learned into practice on the instruments. Who’s that? Tapping at my window Who’s that? Knocking at my door
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YEAR 5 & 6 MATHEMATICS The Year 5s started the week by discussing how divisibility rules could be used when factorising numbers – a skill and building block to scaffold and strengthen future mathematical skill and understanding. They learned and experimented with divisibility tests and concluded that knowing these rules helped to quickly determine if a number can be divided by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11 without doing long division. They realised that these skills are especially useful when the numbers are large. They applied their knowledge to determine factors and to distinguish if numbers were prime or composite. Furthermore, mathematicians created factor trees and found prime factors. Once they had successfully factorised a number, they wrote the number as a product of their prime factors in index notation, linking their knowledge from term one to writing numbers in index form. Asher Levin investigated Euclid, a Greek mathematician who discovered that every single number greater than one is either prime or can be multiplied by using prime numbers. He proved this and factorised the numbers 1 to 100 as a product of their prime factors. In addition, Year 5s spoke about the special qualities of the number 1, not being prime nor composite and that 2 was the only even prime number. Asher Edelstein pointed out that no other even number can be prime as all even numbers can be halved. The difference between multiples and factors was discussed and Venn diagrams were also employed as a visual cue to identify the lowest common multiple and highest common factor of given numbers. Year 6s expanded their knowledge of divisibly and investigated and proved the divisibility test for 11. They factorised numbers as products of their prime factors, and they too wrote their answers in index form. They employed a variety of methods including factor trees and ‘upside down division’ as tools to find the LCM and HCF of large numbers. They were enchanted with the possibility of finding the square and cube roots of larger numbers by employing the latter methods, without the use of a calculator. To gain a deeper understanding of the concepts, word problems dealing with real-life situations were explored.
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MUSIC PERFORMANCE We're incredibly proud of all of the Finalists who performed at the Instrumental Competition Finals on Wednesday evening, and you can find more details and results earlier in this newsletter. Thank you also to our Year 6 Music Portfolio students for their assistance on the evening. Next week, we'll hold the Finals of our Vocal Competition, and our community is most welcome to attend at 7pm in Adelaide Hall. Year 3-4 Guitar Ensemble The Guitar Ensemble has been working so hard on their song ‘Old Town Road’ which is sounding fantastic. We are continuing to polish and tidy this arrangement and are looking forward to an exciting performance later this term! In addition, the group has also started playing an arrangement of a Joseph Haydn dance in four parts. This one will be a challenge but is a great piece to help the ensemble play in a unified and balanced way. It is also an excellent opportunity to work on reading music notation. Year 5-6 Keyboard Extensions Year 5-6 Keyboard Extensions students have been focusing on Adele's power ballad 'Someone Like You'. Each week, the song gets better and better! There are a few singers in the class who enjoy singing along. Starting Monday morning with a big, beautiful song like this is a wonderful way for us to begin the week. We've also been working on 'Believer' by Imagine Dragons, and a few old favourites such as 'Seven Nation Army' and 'Let it Go'.
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