News

This term the Year 2’s have been learning about what it means to show love towards others.  We have had conversations about where we think love comes from and have identified people we love and people who love us.
 
We read the book, “The Invisible Love String” which talks about how we are always connected through love even though sometimes we can’t always see it. We wrote about who is connected to our very own love strings.

With NAPLAN over the Year 3's have been designing and trying various paper plane designs and competed in the annual Year 3 Paper Plane competition.
 
We followed the rules for the competition from the movie Paper Planes.

We had five minutes to fold a piece of paper into our plane design and then went into the junior primary breakout area to launch them and see how far they flew.
 
The top three pilots from each class were:
 
            3G:  Blake Roost - 11 metres;  Marcus Jolliffe - 10.5 metres;  Charolotte Hicks - 7.5 metres.
            3B:  Sam Reindl - 7 metres;  Jessica Fortuin - 7 metres;  Myles Lippi - 6 metres.

Welcome to Year 5 News. We have been extremely busy this term preparing and completing the NAPLAN testing in maths, language conventions, reading and writing.  We all did our very best and are proud of ourselves.

In Year 5 classrooms, we have created a “Garden of Greatness.” In this garden, we have each made a coloured flower.  On the flower, we put our name in the centre and on each of the petals, we have written something positive about ourselves.
 

Our current RE unit is “Thanking God for our Feelings”. Students have had the opportunity to discuss the different feelings that people experience and how they can show their feelings in loving ways.  They had plenty of fun posing for the camera using facial expessions that people use for certain feelings.  Students have also been retelling stories about the many feelings Jesus experienced using bible character paper dolls. 

“We believe that every child is unique and will develop and meet milestones and targets at different rates.”

In Religious Education this term, the Kindy students have been learning about God’s Creation and Easter. They have observed natural objects on Wonder Walks around our playground and have created creepy crawlies out of various collage materials. They even had a go at designing their very own creatures!
 
For Easter, the students learned about Ash Wednesday and the events of Holy Week. They discovered that Easter isn’t just about chocolate eggs and bunnies, but about Jesus dying on the cross and coming back to life for us. They participated in many Easter craft activities, such as making palm leaves and symmetry butterflies.
 
In the next two weeks, the Kindy students will be learning about their bodies and how special we are because we are all unique. Did you know God made us to be like him?

This term in Year Four we have been doing a Civics project where we have had to design a community where citizens can both survive and live together peacefully.  We have learnt that laws are for everyone to follow and that they are decided on by the government.  We also know that breaking them usually results in more serious consequences.  We have represented our communities on Minecraft and are going to present them in our classes next week.

On Wednesday 28^th March 2018, the Year 5 students participated in a project called Whadjuk Gift at Mater Dei College. Both students and parents were invited to come and celebrate a day honouring our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures. The project is based on the 250 different Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander nations within Australia. The students took part in researching and designing symbols to represent four different Noongar nations. These designs and symbols were printed onto t-shirts for students to wear, representing their nations on the day. The students participated in a round robin of Aboriginal games, followed by a relay race against the other schools involved. They thoroughly enjoyed competing against and joining in with other schools. A wonderful day was had by all.