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Next week is a special week, our school will celebrate St Mary MacKillop of the Cross with a Mass.  To prepare for Mass, Year 3 have been learning about St Mary MacKillop of the Cross.  We have researched information about her and have learnt about her life, including her famous saying, ‘Never see a need without doing something about it’.  This is what we think the saying means:
 

In Year 2, we have been learning about Australia. We have looked at the different states and territories in Australia and landmarks that make our country special.

In our writing lessons, we are writing persuasive arguments. We are doing a fantastic job beginning our writing with sizzling starts to grab the attention of the reader!

Here are some of the great sizzling starts we have written:

“Neigh neigh” went the beautiful horses in the country. - Liliana
 
“Forget about winning” yelled Superman at one of his arch enemies as they fought in the sky. - Olivia

Is that a planet or a bird? Wait, it’s Superman! I thought he was not real. - Furaha

In STEM, we have been working hard in our groups to complete our challenges. Some of the activities we have  been doing are; coding bee bots and ozo bots, building spaghetti towers and creating LEGO house plans.

In Kindergarten, we have been learning about Farm life and have focused on the many wonderful gifts in God’s creation, including different farm animals and produce grown on a farm.

The students have shared experiences of farm life and discussed how they and their families can look after God’s farm animals.

We have learnt about the life cycle of a chicken and will even be growing our very own Grassy Heads!

We read the stories of Mrs Wishy-Washy and The Little Red Hen and talked about the importance of being kind and helping our friends, just as God wants us to.

Last week, we had the great experience of going to the Performing Arts Mass. Whilst we were there, we saw Archbishop Timothy Costelloe and many other schools. As we entered, we marched down the aisle with the school flag. First there was a liturgical dance, then we carried on with the Mass.  The church filled with silence as we all sat down to hear Archbishop Timothy Costelloe. We sang, had fun and prayed to God.

Lachlan, Anya, Morgan, Jack C & Keira
 
This term in Religion, the Year Six classes are learning about God who provides for all. So far we have been looking at how God can act through us to help those who are less fortunate. We have created posters to remind us of the many ways that we can help the members of God’s family.
 
Mr Wynne, Dr Topliss & Mrs Allan

In preparation for our first school mass this Friday, the Pre Primary classes visited St Anthony’s Church. During our visit, we explored and discussed the important objects we found inside and outside the church. We are so lucky to have such a beautiful church so close to our school. After our visit we drew what we found in our own pictures of St Anthony’s Church.

The children have been playing different literacy games that improve their spelling.

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.