Phonemic Awareness

Phonemic awareness is an important early reading skill to teach children who are getting ready to learn. Developed primarily through oral language experiences, phonemic awareness is an understanding of phonemes and how they work together to create words. Phonemes are the smallest units of sound that can be differentiated in a word. For instance in the word “cat,” the phonemes are the “c” sound, the “short a” sound, and the “t” sound. A child who possesses phonemic awareness can segment sounds in words (for example, pronounce just the […]

A reminder that summer uniform is worn by all students in Term 4.  This includes a hat for all students when outside.  The College Shop is open next week for normal opening hours but will then be closed until Friday 12 October, the Friday before school goes back.

We congratulate all our age champions from this year’s Athletics carnival.

Girls

Year 6 Girls Champion- Ashlee Davey
Year 6 Girls Runner- Up- Mackenzie Buck
U13 Girls Champion –Jessica McCallumSmith
U13 Girls Runner-up – Piper Foot-Hill
U14 Girls Champion – Amy Campbell
U14 Girls Runner-up –  Amy Muldoon
U15 Girls Champions – Isobella Larby and Ashleigh Reid
U15 Girls Runners-up – Eva Baonza
U16 Girls Champion – Isabella Foster
U16 Girls Runners-up –Louise Tyson
U/17 Girls Champion- Camilla Taylor
U/17 Girls Runner-up- Lucy Jones
Open Girls Champion- Jacinta Stocks and Danieka Wagner
Open Girls Runner-up- Mika de Bruyn

Boys

Year 6 Boys Champion – Thomas Watters
Year 6 Boys Runner-up – Riley Donlon
U13 Boys Champion – Bryce Lawes
U13 Boys […]

Last term was particularly busy for some Humanities students who took up the challenge to enter the Australian History Competition and/or the Australian Geography Competition.
It is wonderful to see the achievements of these students and especially encouraging to see so many students take up this opportunity.

Special congratulations must go to Abirami Raj (Year 8), who was ranked in the top 1% of her year level and Harry Furzer who was awarded an equal first prize in Year 9 – both in the Australian Geography Competition.

In the Australian Geography Competition the results were:

Year 7 – High Distinctions awarded to Hamish Fyffe […]