What a busy start to Term 3.

I hope everyone is staying warm and dry in this sudden burst of Winter weather.

Last Friday we were able to farewell Mr Langford in style. A great reflection from students, the school council and staff on his time at Carrum. It was great for our students to say goodbye and well done to Kai and Meila on their wonderful speech on behalf of the students.

    
            

Our Junior School Council also organised Pyjama Day and chose this year to donate to Guide Dogs Australia. This dress up day is a particular favourite of Carrum staff, and I know many students told me they just came straight to school after getting out of bed. I wonder if it made the morning hustle a bit easier for some families? It was great to see our teachers in their stylish and matching PJs too.

The school has been a bit quieter at the start of the week as our P-2 and Yr 5/6 students have spent the last three days participating in their first week of the swimming program. This program is a government initiative so all students can receive quality swimming and water safety education so primary school students can have the opportunity to learn how to swim and develop lifelong skills in water safety to reduce their risk of drowning and injury. This is an essential skill particularly for Carrum students to have living in a Bayside suburb close to water.

Congratulations to our Prep students as tomorrow they will celebrate 100 days of school. What an achievement and how fast this year has flown for our young students. I know the teachers have been busy planning for this day and have some great activities planned. As parents you must also be feeling very proud!

This week we have had some of our staff participate in Professional Learning to upskill in our whole school programs. We aim to have all staff educated in the Orton-Gillingham (OG) training which is an explicit synthetic phonics program that underpins our literacy programme and the Berry Street Educational Model. Both these courses are quite intensive, and our teachers are trained over four days. Like our students our teachers are continually learning to improve their practise which impacts student outcomes.

We have had our save the date flyer in the newsletter recently for the school performance, as a reminder this is September 8^th and 9^th stay tuned for costume requirements and more communication about official times.

Finally, a huge shout out to our Teamkids educators. Yesterday was Out of School Hours Educators Day and we are so grateful for the wonderful programmes Teamkids provide and the amazing support Renee and Declan give to our school.

Wishing everyone a wonderful weekend

Cassie Kennedy

Mandarin @ Carrum Primary School – Term  3 Snapshot

Curriculum Overview – Term 3

Prep

Our Prep students have made a fantastic start to their new unit on Fruit! Through lots of repetition, movement, songs, visuals and play-based activities, students have been learning to recognise and say the names of seven different fruits in Mandarin. Throughout the term, they will also learn a catchy fruit song and practise asking and answering the question, "What is your favourite fruit?" in Mandarin.

Year 1 & 2

Year 1 and 2 students have been revisiting the numbers 1–10 in Mandarin through a range of fun and interactive activities. One of the class favourites has been our Monkey King card game, where students enthusiastically practised their number skills while working with their peers. The classroom has been filled with laughter, teamwork and lots of meaningful conversations as students negotiated the rules and encouraged one another. For the remainder of the term, students will begin a new unit on emotions and feelings, learning to recognise and describe different emotions in Mandarin while making connections to this term's Inquiry learning.
           

Year 3 & 4

Year 3 and 4 students have been practising our classroom learning expectations while using mini whiteboards to build confidence and participation. We have also revisited Chinese numbers and extended our counting skills all the way to 1,000. Students especially enjoyed creating their own Counting Fries craft, which combined creativity with number recognition and Chinese character writing in a fun, hands-on way.
 
 

Year 5 & 6

Our Year 5 and 6 students have been exploring the mathematical concept of experimental probability through the classic game of Rock, Paper, Scissors—all played in Mandarin! Students had great fun collecting and analysing class data to investigate which choice was the most popular. This engaging activity combined language learning with mathematics, giving students the opportunity to apply Mandarin in a meaningful and interactive context.
              

WHAT AN AMAZING FUNDRAISING EFFORT BY ALL.

Tomorrow is the big day for our colour run and we couldn't be more excited! Don't forget to wear old clothes 

We raised a HUGE amount of ........$31,816.72

As well as Mr Langford and the teachers we have already slimed for each target we get to slime 6 more, the students were involved in choosing so there is no backing out now!

Thank you all for your huge efforts

Mr V, Mrs Riley and Fundraising Team

We're excited to be partnering with Boxxi for an exclusive school ordering program. Our wonderful Carrum PS families and community are being offered discounted pricing and free shipping on Boxxi Maths Kits - the perfect way to support numeracy skills through play.

Each kit includes 100+ hands-on maths resources and manipulatives, plus one full year of downloadable maths activities designed for primary school children. The activities take just 5-15 minutes and make it easy for families to support maths confidence at home.

For every 10 kits sold, our school will receive a free kit to use at school. Thanks for helping us build confidence in maths at CPS!

Orders can be placed through this compasstix link, and kits will be delivered to the school in late August/early September.

Please see the attached file for further information or reach out to Kathryn Kenner with any questions.

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