News

After our visit from the Monster Truck last week, in 6B we wrote some exciting sentence starters to begin our explanations on Dream Machines.

• Homework, keeps my skills sharp.
• I praise the Lord by saying a prayer before I go to bed.
• I feel like Mass is something I want to go to since I live in a very religious family.
• Mass, is being there with God and being part of the community.
• I learn best by listening to the instructions at the start of the lesson.
• I learn best by looking at various pictures to understand what is happening.
• I learn best when the teacher represents the task in a way where I would be more inclined and interested to do the task.

The Pre Primary students have had a busy start to the school year and have adjusted well to the five day program.

As part of our History and Religious Education programs we have been learning about families and the diverse cultural heritage of our students. Our cooking program has included making some delicious Indian curry puffs and we will be attempting English bread and butter puddings and Filipino apple buko salad.

Well done to all students for a successful Term 1.

In Religious Education, the Year Two's have been learning about our differences. We drew self-portraits and wrote about the specials gifts that each of us have.

We have also been learning about prayer. We looked at different ways that Jesus prayed and discussed different ways that we can pray for others.

Last Wednesday was Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent. In our classroom we had a liturgy and talked about the meaning of Lent. We had ashes put on our foreheads.

In Year 3 we have been learning about the history of Australia Day.  We created posters of Australia Day facts to display around the room.
 

Australia Day:  Did You Know?

• Australia Day commemorates the day the First Fleet arrived from England in 1788.
• There were seven babies born on the voyage to Australia.
•  Australia did not start celebrating the day as a nation with fireworks until 1994.
• This year we celebrated 230 years since the arrival of the First Fleet.

We have also been revising three digit numbers, how to read them, write them, round them to the nearest ten/hundred and placing them on a number line. 

Welcome to Year 5 news.  We have a had a very busy, exciting start to the year.  Later in the term we will be participating in the Whadjuk Gift.  This is a new initiative by Mater Dei.  It involves Year 5 students from five schools in the area.  St Anthony’s was given four areas from down south. We were put into nations and each of us designed a t-shirt.  One design from each nation was chosen and will be printed for all children in that nation to wear on the day.  All the children had outstanding designs.  Our job was made very difficult. However, we managed to choose one design from each nation. 

Congratulations to:
Wardandi - Ben Surur
Minang –Lesay Asefa
Wilman – Panita Huynh
Kaneang –Zaide Stampalia

As part of the Pre Primary Religious Education program the students have been learning how to set up the prayer focus each day for morning prayer. This involves using the correct coloured prayer cloth according to the Church season, adding appropriate religious icons, candles (electronic!) and sometimes flowers. The students who are the “Helping Hands “for the day are responsible for setting the focus up each morning.

Our RE unit of work Is currently “Special Me” which looks at the uniqueness of each person. Students have completed some beautiful art works and participated in KAGAN cooperative sharing games to assist in developing an awareness of each person’s specialness.

This week in Mathematics we have learned about subtilizing and talked about how we use this to work bigger numbers out.

We wrote all about our holidays and shared with our friends all the fun things we did over Christmas.

Special thanks also to all of our guests who attended the Opening of our Prayer Garden Space, during this Advent season of our 'Laudato Si', on Tuesday. It was a lovely occasion celebrated by Fr John. Thanks to all of our special guests, especially Mr Nicoletti and Mr Moroney, the designers of the prayer space.

Wow! We can’t believe how fast this year has gone and now we are all ready to go to Pre Primary.  We have had a fabulous few weeks in Kindy. Last week, we spent some time in the Pre Primary classrooms getting ourselves familiar with our new classroom environment. Christmas activities have been our main focus over the last few weeks.  We have made some special presents for our families and have been learning about the time when Jesus was born. We also had an amazing time on Friday with our Kindy Christmas Concert, morning tea and Waterslide Day.

All the teachers and assistants in Kindy thank the families for a rewarding year and wish you a safe Christmas and New Year.

This week, the Year Three students have been making their First Reconciliation.  Here are some thoughts on the experience.
 
“I was nervous but it felt really easy.”  - Lochlan
 
“I was nervous at first but then I realised it was quite easy and really short.” – Sam
 
“It was a bit nerve wracking but it was really easy to get through it.  After I felt pleased with myself because I did it.” – Keefe
 
“It was nerve wracking at first and then I got used to it and it wasn’t so bad.  After I felt happy that I was able to do it and had made my Reconciliation” – Sophie
 
“It was good.  I was a little bit nervous because I wasn’t sure what was going to happen” – Savannah
 
“When I was making my reconciliation I felt nervous and I didn’t really know what to say.  After I felt it was really quick and I was happy.” – Sahara
 
“I felt like I didn’t want to do it.  After it I felt happy.” - Lucas