HAS Community Library
Premier’s Reading Challenge
Each year, students in schools across South Australia (and Australia in fact) are involved in the Premier’s Reading Challenge. To compete in the challenge, children need to record 12 books they have read through the year. This information is forwarded to the Premier’s Reading Challenge department, who then award students a certificate/medal for their participation. There is a different certificate/medal for each year they are involved in the challenge. This year, students from our school were some of the 123,795 students from 690 schools in South Australia who competed in the challenge. We are awaiting the arrival of the medals and certificates. However, I would like to congratulate the following students on completing the challenge this year…
Certificate for first year of involvement: Karl Braden, Ryan Gill, Logan Hatch and Pip Solly
Bronze Medal: Rowan Bevan, Ollie Du Bois, Leo Fels, Khole Johnson, Noah Merchant, Lily Morgan and Alice Wallis
Silver Medal: Ada Fels, Sammy Haywood, and Rachelle Johnson
Gold Medal: Bayley Hatch, Jim Johnson, Ruby Johnson, and Eli Johnson
Champion Medal: Archie Morgan and Nicole Oakey
Legend Medal: Will Du Bois
Hall of Fame Medal: Lachlan Hilder, Harry McAuley, Angus McInnis and Jimmy Morgan
HASS – Humanities and Social Sciences F-2
The students are continuing their research about the different habitats around the world and some of the animals that live in those habitats, before working out how they would travel around the world and communicate with family and friends if they were going on a Grand Tour in the early part of the 20th century, as many people did in the 1800 & 1900s.
Digital Technologies F-2
Coding is the new literacy! ScratchJr is a visual programming language designed to introduce programming skills to children. With ScratchJr, they can program their own interactive stories and games. In the process, they learn to solve problems, design projects, and express themselves creatively on the computer. It is a free app that can be downloaded to an iPad or tablet. The F-2 students have commenced working with this programme. We did some work on it last year, so it has been exciting to see the students remembering what we learnt, even though it was 12 months ago when we last did it! All the students are enjoying creating animated pictures using different algorithms. Even the adults supporting them are excited by what they themselves are learning.