Extra Curricula Activities

Jump Rope for Heart

Students from the Skipping Teams at St Joan or Arc Primary School, came for a demonstration of their skills as a lead up to our Jump Rope for Heart program which will commence in 4th Term.

Public Speaking Competition:

Public Speaking Competition Winners 2009 At assembly on Monday 1st June 2009, the winners from each year level presented their speeches and were given their medals.

The children are aware of the importance of the use of their voice, choice of words and phrases, expressions, pronunciation, eye contact, audience interest and keeping within a time frame. They are also learning about how an effective audience should act.

Here is a sample of a rubics developed by the grade 1/2 students to help them to be good public speakers.

	1 point	2 Points	3 Points
Eye Contact	Not looking at the audience.	Look at the audience sometimes.	Scan the audience every now and again.
Gestures	No gestures	One gesture	Using gestures to make your speech interesting
Confidence	Leaning or not standing up tall, no expression	Sometimes leaning, some expressions	Stand tall and straight, lots of expressions
Pace of Voice	Speaking too fast or too slow.	Even speed of voice, no pausing	Nice even pace, pausing at different spots.
Volume of Voice	Only the people at the front can hear	Speaking too softly for all the audience to hear	Speaking in a loud voice but not shouting
Voice clarity	Mumbling, or not able to be understood	Able to be understood but not really clear	Very clear voice and easy to understand
Being Prepared	It looks like it hasn’t been practised	Practised a little bit	Well rehearsed, knowing most of the speech off by heart
Content Interest	Not very interesting	Sometimes interesting	Very interesting

Chess Club:

Each Friday a group of students get together at lunchtime with David or Denise to learn how to play and to compete with each other.

Round 2 Chess News

Round 2 is now complete. We had wins to Adam, Lachlan, Anna & Olivia and quite a few draws as well. After two rounds our league leader is Adam Mohamed, well done Adam !!

Premier's Reading Challenge:

To find out more follow this link http://www.education.vic.gov.au/prc/ You can find the list of books and other ideas to help you meet the challenge.

Our Canteen Garden:

In 2005 our grade 5/6 class collected sleepers from around the school after the school fire. They then built this canteen garden with the help of their teachers, Mr Brown and Mr Tippett.

Parents have also helped setting it up during working bees. They have continued to build garden boxes to increase the growing capacity.

Our canteen supervisor has been working with children in the After School Program and teachers have been working with their children during class time to plant and tend the vegetables. Everyone enjoys eating the produce through our canteen.