Recently we had a team of Belle Vue students participate in the School Sport Victoria, North Balwyn District Athletics Carnival. The day saw our athletes compete in a range of athletics events that they had previously qualified for at school-level. The students all competed with fantastic Belle Vue spirit. They upheld our school values and...Read More
Recently Belle Vue celebrated Book Week! We held a special book day, which saw students dress up as their favourite book character. In the morning we all came together to parade our wonderful costumes! It was a beautiful morning and it was great to see many students and teachers really getting into their character! Then...Read More
In Mathematics, the level 3/4 students have been learning about Volume, Mass and Capacity through a range of hands-on activities. They used different measuring instruments to measure and compare the masses, capacities and volume of a variety of objects. When exploring capacity, students were given a range of scaled instruments with water in them. They...Read More
This term the grade 3/4 students have been exploring Heat Energy as part of their Integrated Studies topic. They have been learning about how heat energy can transfer through radiation, convection and conduction. The students have been involved in conducting a series of experiments. The first experiment saw the students measuring the temperature of...Read More
Recently the level 3/4 students have been learning about Location and Mapping in Maths. We connected this unit of work to our Integrated Topic ‘Time Travel’, where we are discovering how our local area has changed over time and are studying the book ‘My Place’. Students created a map of ‘our place’, our school, Belle...Read More
This week during Maths, 3/4 have been learning about the perimeter (fence) and the area (field) of rectangles, squares and polygons. They worked in small groups and compared areas by measuring the area of rectangles (including squares) by counting the number of square centimetres. They also worked out perimeter with familiar objects around the classroom...Read More
3/4 used unifix and MAB to become little architects to demonstrate and calculate the Volume (L x W x H) for appropriate buildings. They used their buildings and their objects to determine the volume by using the familiar metric units (cubic centimetres). See below pictures of their work in progress – showing great team work!Read More
Students in Grade 3 and 4 have been working on their understanding of place value. In particular they have been using expanded notation to express large numbers in different ways. For example, the number 25,482 can be expressed as 2,548 tens. Following whole class discussions the students consolidated their understanding by practising their knowledge using...Read More
