Parent Teacher Interviews
Thank you to all families who attended our Junior School Parent Teacher Interviews this week. These meetings provided an important opportunity to discuss each student’s academic progress, celebrate achievements and set goals for the remainder of the year. We trust the experience was valuable and that you now feel well-informed to support your child in both areas of growth and challenge.
If you were unable to attend or have not yet booked an interview, please contact your child’s classroom teacher to arrange an alternative time. We strongly encourage all families to participate in these valuable conversations.
It is a particularly busy time in the Junior School, and we encourage parents to regularly check their child’s Year Level Family Engagement Page for valuable learning resources, curriculum updates and information about upcoming events.
We greatly appreciate your continued support and collaboration as we work together to ensure the best learning experiences for our students.
Melanie Morton – Assistant Principal: Head of Junior School (Maddingley) and
Sally Savic – Assistant Principal: Head of Junior School (Woodlea)
Maddingley
100 Days of Super Learning in Prep 2025
Congratulations to our youngest BMG students who celebrated their 100 Days of Prep this week! We are now 100 days smarter, super, confident, and BRIGHTER! The students certainly looked the part, dressed in vibrant colours as we spent the day celebrating this wonderful milestone and exploring all things one hundred. In English, we wrote about our special day, and in Maths, we engaged in fun activities working with numbers to one hundred.
It has been incredible to watch our bright young learners grow and thrive in their first year of school, and we look forward to seeing all the amazing achievements they will accomplish throughout the rest of the year.
Here’s to the next 100 days of learning, laughter, and amazing adventures in Prep!
Click here to see all the photos from the day!
Kylie McKerrow – Head of Prep
STAR Reading
STAR Reading (Students Teachers All Reading) is a vital part of the English curriculum in the Junior School at Maddingley. Every class is engaged in purposeful reading activities designed to not only strengthen students’ reading skills, but also to inspire a lifelong love of books. From focused independent reading, paired fluency activities and small group reading sessions with the teacher, students are developing their fluency, comprehension and confidence, all while discovering the joy of getting lost in a good story.
One of the highlights of STAR Reading is the involvement of the school community. We are fortunate to have wonderful parent reading helpers who generously give their time each week to listen to students read, offer encouragement, and share in their reading journey. Adding to the excitement, our older students step into leadership roles by visiting Junior School classrooms to read with our younger learners. These moments not only give our youngest readers a chance to practise in a supportive environment, but they also build cross year level connections and a shared passion for reading.
We are so proud of the enthusiasm and progress we’re seeing in our Junior School students. We can’t wait to see our readers continue to shine!
Ashleigh Durham – Teaching and Learning Co-Ordinator P – 4
Year 3 Maddingley Staughton Vale Day Out
On Monday August 11, the Maddingley Year 3 cohort donned their gumboots and gaiters and ventured out for the day at our Staughton Vale Campus. The sun was shining, not a cloud in the sky, and a glint of Spring was on the horizon for a fun day together exploring the grounds of Staughton Vale together. The Year 3 students competed in an Orienteering/Geocaching style activity with their peers in a small group race around the campus to collect goodies from allocated positions on a map. They worked collaboratively in teams to communicate, read maps, navigate around the campus and complete the challenge set for them.
For their next activity, students got to complete a nature wind chime in a mindful Art task in which they collected the perfect stick, tied knots of string to the stick, threaded on a variety of colours and shapes of beads and bells and completed a personalised wind chime to take home with them as a memento of their day at the campus. As always, lunchtime was a hit as the cohort ran free in the expansive paddock space to kick a footy, jump some ropes, take part in a game of soccer, launch a frisbee, or hit a six in a cricket match. Overall, we had a fabulous day in the sun at Staughton Vale and lots of smiling faces on the bus back to school. We look forward to our next adventure to the farm!
Melissa Pearson – Teacher
Year 3 Maddingley Natural Disasters Incursion
On Thursday August 7 and Friday August 8, the Year 3 classes were lucky enough to experience a Natural Disasters Incursion with the team from Mad About Science. Each of the four classes experienced an hour long session in the dedicated Junior School Science Lab with Tracy and Mesa to learn about the atmosphere around our Earth and how this impacts the weather and produced clouds, and other more terrifying weather phenomena like blizzards, cyclones, hurricanes and floods. They made a mini tornado in a bottle, created a cloud in a jar by joining cool and warm air masses with water vapour, and played with fake snow they produced in their hands!
We then learnt how the Earth’s tectonic plates shift, producing Earthquakes, triggering Volcanic Eruptions, and played with the pressure build up simulation of a volcano with a rubber stopper bursting off a test tube. The experience was very hands-on for all students and highly interactive with the sessions’ leaders. It was a fabulous incursion that further extended their scientific learning within our Term 2 Science topic of ‘Processes that Shape the Earth’, and our current Year 3 History and Geography topic of ‘Natural Disasters’, and gave the students an opportunity to demonstrate their learning to impress the session leaders with their deep and enduring understandings.
Melissa Pearson – Teacher
Woodlea
100 Days of Prep at Woodlea
Recently at Woodlea, we celebrated our 100 days of school. The day was full of fun as our Preps dressed up as 100-year-olds and took part in activities all about the number 100.
In their first 100 days, the Preps have gone from learning the sounds and letters of the English language to applying these skills to read and write sentences. At 100 days of Prep, they are now producing some high-quality and entertaining pieces of writing that showcase what they have learnt.
As part of our celebration, the children responded to two special writing prompts:
- When I am 100 years old I will…
- If I had $100 I would…
Here are just some of their wonderful ideas:
When I am 100 years old I will…
- “knit and go to Kmart. I will cook at home and sleep.” – Viahna, Prep WA
- “do some shopping at Coles. I will go on a rollercoaster and I will get cotton candy.” – Srithik, Prep WA
- “hold a lovely walking stick because I am old” – Kiaan, Prep WB
- “be asleep because I had a long walk.” – Ilyana, Prep WB
- “have a walking stick. I will have pretty clothes and perfume.” – Avleen, Prep WC
- “have a fancy house, a fancy car, fancy clothes and fancy glasses.” – Yuvan, Prep WC
- “sleep with my dog and my cat. Then I will garden every day.” – Mehar, Prep WD
- “be working on my computer to get more money.” – Ivaan, Prep WD
- “watch TV and roll on my wheelchair and will play a little bit of golf.” – Atharva, Prep WE
- “watch TV and read books. I will sit on a chair and I will cook.” – Tegh, Prep WE
If I had $100 I would…
- “buy a Barbie house, a box of lollypops and games.” – Ambryn, Prep WA
- “buy a big castle, a fluffy toy and a Labubu.” – Riaan, Prep WA
- “buy a shop and a school.” – Ryan, Prep WB
- “buy a Barbie camper van.” – Aahira, Prep WB
- “save my money for important things.” – Kristy, Prep WC
- “buy Elsa and Anna dresses to wear to birthday parties.” Safa, Prep WC
- “buy a Tesla and a Mercedes. Then I could go to school in any of them.” – Manreet, Prep WD
- “buy lollies and a golden lollypop.” – Pari, Prep WD
- “get a Zooper Dooper and I would get a burger and have a sandwich.” – Aavishi, Prep WE
- “buy a toy for the kids and give a treat to my family.” – Kiyara, Prep WE
Click here to see all the photos from this event
Warwick Grinter – Head of Prep
