Classroom Learning

Last week students arrived at school eager to join their classmates and begin their learning and learning routines for 2025. In week one and two our students have been undertaking diagnostic and pre – assessment in writing, spelling, reading comprehension and maths. This assists teachers with identifying students’ current levels of knowledge and understanding and helps the teachers plan the required teaching and learning episodes for the term.

Class Newsletters and Term Overviews

This Friday class teachers will be disseminating Term One curriculum learning area overviews and class newsletters.  The term one curriculum overview provides information regarding the learning your child/children will be undertaking in all learning areas for the term.  The class newsletter provides you with information pertaining to weekly timetables and resources needed on particular days. (eg. Library is on Monday. Homework to be returned on Wednesday).  We encourage you to use this information to initiate discussions with your child about their learning during the term.

NAPLAN 2025

All students in Years 3 and 5 will be undertaking assessments in Writing, Reading, Language Conventions and Numeracy as part of the National Assessment Program in Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) between Wednesday 12^th March – Monday 24^th March 2025 (Week 7 and 8). 

Year 3 will complete Reading, Language Conventions and Numeracy online and complete the writing test in paper format.

Year 5 will complete Reading, Language Conventions and Numeracy online. 

In preparing for these assessments students have been developing required ICT skills and capabilities through weekly Digital Technology Lessons focussed on:

• Mouse Skills
• Logging on and off
• Keyboard Skills
• Icons, images and NAPLAN specific Tools

As part of daily classroom instruction students are being explicitly taught the literacy requirements of NAPLAN Testing through:

• Consolidation and practise of Question Types (e.g. Multiple Choice, short response)
• Reading Comprehension Strategies
• Teaching of Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation
• The teaching of Problem Solving using the See, Plan, Do, Check Model
• Planning, Drafting and Editing Texts

Students in Years 3 and 5 will sit a NAPLAN Practise Test in Week 5 on Wednesday 26th February to enable them to engage with the online platform, build confidence and practise their skills.

For information around NAPLAN and sample questions please view the below link. https://nap.edu.au/naplan/public-demonstration-site

Enoggera State School will be conducting a Parent NAPLAN Information Session for Year 3 and 5 Parents on Tuesday 18^th February 5:00pm in the Library to provide detailed information regarding testing processes and requirements.  We hope to see you there.

Library News

Students will be beginning library borrowing with their classes in Week 2.  Just a reminder that students require a library bag to borrow in order to protect books.  Teachers will provide information on class library borrowing in their term letters.

Book Club

Students received Issue 1 Book Club brochures last week.  All Book Club purchases must be done online via https://bookclubs.scholastic.com.au/

Cash payments cannot be accepted by the school.

You will be directed to click here to go in to the LOOP service.  If new to ordering you will be directed to create an account.

ORDERS ARE DUE BY the 17^th FEBRUARY

 Next week we will be having big celebrations in the library with it being Qld Schools Library Week and Library Lovers Day on Friday 14^th February. 

Students will be able to participate in a variety of reading and colouring activities to celebrate these two events.  I look forward to sharing photos of our celebrations in upcoming newsletters.

Mrs Amy O'Malley