Dear Families,

Numeracy is one of our strategic focuses of our Site Improvement Plan for 2016. The

way we teach Numeracy has changed since we were at school. In the coming

newsletters we will be sharing some of the ways we teach Numeracy and some of the

language we use. Your child may come home talking about subitising and you may be

thinking what is that? It’s a term that hasn’t always been taught or used in schools

but now is an important part of the Maths Curriculum. So what is subitising?

The word subitising derives its meaning from the Latin word subito=sudden.

Subitising is a strategy taught as part of the Maths Curriculum, from Reception.

Subitising is the strategy of not counting a group but relying on your intuition to know

how many objects the group contains. As you look at a group of objects, you just know

how many objects it contains.

How many objects in each group?

There are fewer love hearts than circles, but because the hearts are not in a regular

pattern eg. like we see on the face of a dice, you may need to count them all to be

sure that there are eight love hearts. When we subitise we usually have a clear

picture of the arrangement of the objects and are able to describe the group eg. The

group of 9 circles we could describe as three rows of three.

Subitising is fundamental to children developing an understanding of the number. At

home you can help your child learn to subitise by playing games with a dice or dominos.

Subitising helps children to see parts in the whole. For example if you look at the five

suns, you can see four and one, three and two. Subitising helps children to develop a

strong sense of number and lays the foundation for later addition, subtraction,

multiplication and division.

Rebecca Read

Principal

Term 2 Week 5 2 June 2016

Diary Dates 3/6/16

Pupil Free Day

8/6/16

Assembly hosted by Rm 6

13/6/16 Public Holiday

16/6/16

Bunnings BBQ

14/6 – 17/6 R-5 Swimming

22/6/16

Assembly hosted by Rm 10

1/7/16

Rm 18 & Rm 20 Sleep-over

6/7/16

Assembly hosted by Rm17

8/7/16

School is dismissed at 2.10 Casual Day – Gold Coin

Contents

Principal’s Message

Room 18

Head Lice

Commbank

Camp Australia

Pupil Free Day Friday 3rd June

Noarlunga Dentist

Disco Photos

You Asked

QuickSmart

Canteen Closure

REMINDER

PUPIL FREE DAY FRIDAY 3RD JUNE

STAFF WILL BE OFF SITE

CANTEEN Canteen is closed Tuesday and

Wednesdays starting Week 6

Room 18 - Math In the school holidays Mr M, Mrs W

and some other Junior Primary

teachers attended an Early Years –

Natural Math Workshop run by Ann

Baker. Ann Baker is an

educational consultant with a

background in maths and literacy

education. She specializes in

working with teachers to

maximize the potential of the

children they teach in areas such

as numeracy, literacy and

thinking skills.

.

At the Early

Years Workshop

we focussed on

subitising,

estimating and

quantifying,

learning some fun

and practical

ways to engage

students in

Maths.

From the workshop

Room 18 and 20

have introduced

take home Math

Pack’s. The

students are given a

game or activity

based on what they

are learning in class

to take home and

play with their

family.

Subitising

What is Subitising?

Subitising is defined as the

ability to instantaneously

recognise the number of

objects in a small group

without the need to count

them.

Here are some

Room 18 students

engaging in one of

the math subitising

activities in class.

NAPLAN reports were sent

Pupil Free Day Friday 3rd June

Staff will be working off site

Out of School Hours Care 1300 105 343

CELEBRITY DISCO On the Red Carpet

Get involved in the School Banking program.

Your closest branch is at Reynella. Remember to take in

identification for you and your child (driver’s license and birth

certificate). You will receive a Dollarmites wallet and deposit book

that your child will use to participate in the program.

Our school receives $5 when a student makes their first ever

School Banking deposit and 5% on every deposit made through the

school (to a maximum of $10 per individual deposit).

Thank you for supporting our school and helping to teach your child

the benefits of saving regularly.

THANK YOU to the parents who attended the

School Banking Account Opening Session at school

recently. If you were unable to make it to the

Account Opening Session and would like your child

to participate in the School Banking program, you

can get involved by opening a Commonwealth Bank

Youthsaver account at any Commonwealth Bank

branch, over the phone on 13 2221.

We have had a few cases of head lice already this term, please check your child’s hair regularly and treat if required. The treatment needs to be left on the hair for the time stated on the product, combed through with a headlice (small toothed comb) until all eggs have been removed—we understand that this is a very time consuming exercise but it is necessary to remove all of the eggs to stop the cycle. Various shampoos are available to purchase from your local supermarket or chemist. Thankyou.

Keep your kids smiling SA Dental Service

At the School Dental Service, dental care is FREE for all babies, children not yet at school and most children to age 17.

The School Dental Service is a Child Dental Benefits Schedule provider.

Call us now for an appointment! Noarlunga GP Plus Dental Clinic Phone: 8284 9244

Canteen is NOT OPEN on Tuesday and Wednesdays

You said….. * Students suggested that we make our yard wrapper free

We Did: * Children now eat their recess & lunch in their classroom & put all wrappers in the bin before going outside. WOW! What a difference it has made.

We value your suggestions and feedback.

Com

mun

ity N

ews

Would you like to receive a text message from the school, if your

child has had an office timeout or lost learning time?

We are interested in your

feedback. Email us on rebecca.read360@schools.sa.edu.au or

text us on 0418 158 511

QuickSmart Coorara Primary is a QuickSmart maths school. A

group of students work with Sharon Clark for 3

sessions a week. The QuickSmart maths lessons involve

a review of the focus facts, starting with those

already known, and move on to those yet to be

remembered. Sharon leads discussion and questioning

about the relationship between number facts and ways

to recall them merge into simple mathematics fact

practice activities. Flashcards and timed performance

activities, such as speed sheets, are used to assist

students to develop automatic recall. Both structured

and incidental strategy instruction is a feature of the

lessons, with the aim of moving students on from

relying on slow and error-prone strategies, especially

count-by-one strategies, to the use of more

sophisticated and efficient strategies, including

automatic recall.