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Enrolments for the 2024 school year are now open. Families can apply online. Information about the school in your child’s Priority Enrolment Area can be found on the Education Directorate website.
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THANK YOU TO ALL OUR VOLUNTEERS
This week is National Volunteers Week. Amaroo School would like to take this opportunity to celebrate and sincerely thank all the amazing volunteers that are a crucial part of our Amaroo School community. We recognise the significant contribution of parents and carers whether it is reading in the classroom, volunteering on excursions and for school events, being involved in the Parents and Citizens Association (P&C), School Board or the running of valuable services such as the uniform shop and canteen!. Thank you!
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THANK YOU FROM THE PRIMARY STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE COUNCIL
Thank you to everyone for their support of the Primary SRC Comfy Clothes Fundraiser. Students raised a total of $1,278 for the purchase of a Buddy Bench! Maybe even two! It was wonderful to see the buzz for student led stalls to raise money for bench/s to promote inclusion. A big thank you to the SRC and all those involved in planning the day and for the donations made to the stalls.
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LEARNING SPOTLIGHT - KINDERGARTEN
Welcome to our Week 4 ‘Learning spotlight’! Each newsletter we will feature a ‘learning spotlight’ from one of our grades across primary. We will share with you their words and reflections of why the learning we do at school is important and why it matters. Join me in celebrating our students thinking about their learning.
Student interview - Havika KKGR & William V KZXR
Learning area - Inquiry ‘Staying Alive’
What have you been learning about?
Havika: We have been learning about all the different habitats that animals live in. They need different things to stay alive and we need to respect their spaces.
William: How to look after the habitats, like beaches and oceans by not throwing our rubbish into the water.
Why is this learning important?
Havika: If we have no animals in habitats, it wouldn’t be good. It would be a boring life.
William: It’s important for us to know how to keep all the animals healthy in their habitats.
How did you take this learning further?
Havika: I respect all the animals and habitats in our world by giving them space. I put all my rubbish in the bin.
William: I’m going to use less plastic at my house so there is less rubbish in the habitats close to my home.
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INFORMATION ABOUT ChatGPT FOR PARENTS AND CARERS
You may have heard about ChatGPT. ChatGPT uses Artificial Intelligence to create responses from a variety of prompts or questions. For example:
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ChatGPT will be used at different points in different subjects as a teaching tool by teachers and students. However, it is important for students, parents and carers to know that it should not be used to write assignments. Assignments are about showing teachers what the student has learnt and is capable of. It will be considered plagiarism if students use ChatGPT and submit it as their own work.
There are many different strategies to identify if a student has used AI to write their assignment
- Using AI to catch AI. ChatGPT can recognise its own writing style and can give a probability as to the likelihood of a piece of work being written by AI.
- Plagiarism software such as Turnitin also have the capacity to recognise if a student’s work has had AI assistance.
- The history of the google document is one of the best indicators for a teacher if the student has had AI assistance. A teacher can track how the document has been created over time as the student has been working on it. A red flag is if there is nothing and then a cut and paste of an essay the day of submission.
- Similar topics and sentences from multiple students within a class.
- A dramatic change in the writing style of the student.
- Teachers also monitor the work in class to make sure there is a steady progression happening in the assignment and will ask students specific questions about the assignment to ensure that they understand the concepts they are expressing.
- American language. ChatGPT uses American spelling which can be a bit of a clue for AI assistance.
Now for the quiz! Do you think this section of the newsletter was written by AI?
You can find more information about ChatGPT here.
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LEARNING SPOTLIGHT - SECONDARY GIRLS NORTHSIDE VOLLEYBALL CUP
On Wednesday 17 May, Amaroo School took three teams over to the Girls Northside Volleyball Cup, one year 7/8 team, and two year 9/10 teams. All of the girls had shown an interest in volleyball but had limited experience playing competition level volleyball, and no experience playing together as part of a team.
Over the course of the tournament all three teams demonstrated levels of resilience, comradery, and competitive spirit that not only they should be proud of, but everyone at Amaroo should be supremely proud of these young women, they have represented us all brilliantly. Both year 9/10 teams played fierce “never say die” brands of volleyball and should be proud of their 3:1 records. Both teams narrowly missed out on a final’s appearance on a countback of points. Both 9/10 teams finish 2nd in their respective pools.
The year 7/8 teams were equally fierce in their performance; however they were able to win every one of their pool matches, finishing top of pool A, giving them a ticket to the quarter finals. The girls played well and secured the win, taking them to the semi-finals against Merici College. Both teams played incredibly well but the Amaroo girls proved to be too strong winning out in thrilling fashion. This took the 7/8 girls into the grand final against Melba, a team that had played a lot more volleyball than our girls.
Our 7/8’s had a tough start getting served to a 0-10 deficit, but with calm heads, and the overwhelming support of every single 9/10 girl behind them the 7/8's found themselves fighting back to 22-22 all. With three points left to win in the match, our girls were able to serve three aces back to back to back and secured the win and proudly became Amaroo’s Year 7/8 girls Northside Volleyball Champions!
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ACTIVE TRAVEL PROGRAM EVALUATION
Transport Canberra and City Services (TCCS) is undertaking an evaluation of the school active travel programs, including the Ride or Walk to School, Active Streets for Schools and School Crossing Supervisor programs.
As part of the evaluation, TCCS is requesting school communities to complete a short online survey about their travel habits to and from school. The survey can be accessed through the link or via the QR code included in the buttons below.
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