The Year 6 students put all of their economics knowledge into practice with their stalls at the Year 6 Spring Carnival. It was an amazing turn out on the day. A big thank you to the Year 4 & 5 students and teachers who came out and showed their support.

The Year 5’s loved their Sovereign Hill experience. They spent their time shopping, watching interesting demonstrations panning for gold and watching the Aura Sound and Light Show.

The Prep students loved their first ever school excursion to Chesterfield Farm. As part of their IBL unit ‘Growing, Caring Kids’ they were able to milk a cow, pat baby animals, go on a tractor ride, see how sheep dogs work and feed an array of animal friends. What an exciting day full of smiles it was!

This term our Five Star Foodies program returned for our primary students. These superstars continually model Timbarra expectations and were rewarded by making some waffles in the Food Tech Kitchen.

PREP B UPDATE,

Maths: In Prep B, our budding mathematicians have been diving into the world of numbers. We've been exploring partitioning and combining collections up to 10 using part-part-whole relationships. Through subitising, students are learning to quickly recognise and name the parts of these collections, enhancing their number sense skills.

Inquiry-Based Learning: Our IBL topic of “My Place” has taken us into the heart of what makes a community. The students have been discovering different places and helpers in our community. One of the highlights was dressing up as various community figures and workers, which brought our lessons to life in a fun and engaging way. Additionally, we used team work, blocks and toys to build our own community, ensuring it had key inclusions like roads, parks, shops and buildings.

SMART spelling: This week’s word was “sun” and our sentence was "The sun was up, but it was not hot." We had a fantastic time creating a sun-themed craft and learning interesting facts about the sun. To make our writing tasks even more enjoyable, we listened to a variety of songs featuring the word "sun”. Our favourite being ‘Cover me in sunshine’ by Pink. Along with this, we explored rhyming words such as "bun," "fun," and "run," which helped enhance our phonemic awareness.

Wellbeing: In our wellbeing lessons, we've been focusing on the Zones of Regulation, learning how to identify our emotions and use strategies to get ourselves back into the green zone, where we are calm and ready to learn. Additionally, we've been revisiting important school expectations, such as not playing with rocks and sticks, keeping our hands to ourselves, and seeking help from yard duty teachers when needed.

Prep B is buzzing with excitement and learning, and we look forward to many more upcoming adventures together- like our ‘Around the World Day’ in week 10 😊

Timbarra College Miniature Art Show

Congratulations to all the Year 7-9 students who entered our very first miniature art show. Students worked in a small scale to produce 7X7cm masterpieces.

This years winners are:

Chloe King

Brigid Shields

Viduni Fernando

Harmony Nooroa

Winners each receive a merit award, ribbon and art supplies.

Education Week! What a great way to celebrate the wonderful learning here at Timbarra. We loved opening our classrooms to families and sharing what makes our school so special: an amazing community working together to achieve success for our students.