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In Religious Education, the Year 1s have been learning about the Bible. We have been talking about New Testament Bible stories and have written and illustrated some reflections on them.

Last week was National Reconciliation Week. We talked about ways that we can appreciate other cultures. We looked at some Dreamtime stories to explain how many animals were created in the Aboriginal culture.

We have taken some pictures of our work.

This week in Mathematics, the children have been learning about more and less.   The children had to say how many more or less than 5 there were.

In Religion, the Year 2s have been exploring the concept of family. The people that make up their families, someone who knows and looks after them. The Year 2s talked about how Jesus also belonged to a family with Mary and Joseph. How Jesus began a special family, called the church and how it is a special holy place. Students talked about how God’s family can gather and pray together in a church.

In Year 3, we have been working on improving our narrative writing.  We have been using our creativity to design characters and settings.  We plan for success by plotting our story on a narrative story graph.  Once all our planning is done, we write a story and make it interesting by using sizzling starts and tightening tension.  We know that we have to plan our exciting ending before we start writing. 

In Pre-Primary we have been learning about the bodies that God gave us. We wrote prayers thanking God for our bodies and all of the wonderful things we can do with them.

In Religious Education, the Year 5s have been learning about virtues. A virtue is a habit of choosing what is good, and so includes the habit of doing right.
 
In Year 5, we have been learning that followers of Jesus find that they can develop the habit of making choices that are good by following these four virtues:
 

• Prudence
• Justice
• Fortitude
• Temperance

 
One of the virtues we discussed was temperance which is the ability to control oneself. People develop temperance when they learn to temper their thoughts and actions. One way we discussed that could help temper our thoughts and actions, would be to draw about how we are feeling. Here are some drawings that we did that express our emotions.

What a busy term we have had!

We spent four days at Nanga Bush Camp.  We had great fun and learnt so much about ourselves, our peers and what it takes to be good leaders.  Although we were exhausted by the end of the camp, we thought another night would have been great.
 
We have been learning to surf or body board over the last few weeks. It has been so exciting going to Trigg, learning about the ocean and trying our hand at surfing or body boarding.
 
In our classrooms, we have been setting ourselves some goals, making some very cool art, working hard in Maths and English.  In HASS we’ve been learning about the Westminster System, the Magna Carta and the different roles of the Federal, State/Territory and Local Governments.  Recognising safe and unsafe situations and feelings has been a key part of our Health lessons.
 
We hope to see everyone in something orange tomorrow to celebrate the cultural diversity here at St Anthony’s and the wider community.

We have had a busy five weeks exploring different parables and recognising that parables are simple stories used to illustrate a moral or spiritual lesson, as told by Jesus in the Gospels. We have attended a Friday parish mass, the Ash Wednesday service and last Friday we made the sacrament of Reconciliation with Fr Ben and Fr Vinnh, from John Paul II Parish. On Ash Wednesday we wrote down promises or our intentions for Lent and our prayer spaces reflect the season of Lent.

The Kindergarten classes have had a great start to the new school year. We have settled into our class groups and have already made many wonderful art pieces and participated in lots of activities. We have had fun getting to know each other, as well as the rules and expectations of Kindy. Currently, we are learning our numbers, shapes and colours in Numeracy, and syllables in Literacy. We are also exploring fairy tales in our integrated program. So far this term, we have been on a nature walk, made colour displays, created a class book and visited the school library. We are super excited to be able to take home new library books every week. It is fun playing with the library toys, too! We can’t wait to find out what our teachers have in store for us for the next few weeks!