News

A special thank you to all children, parents and staff for their invaluable time and effort in coming to the St Anthony's Day Mass and Procession last Sunday.

This week the Year 1 students have been practising the basic object control skills of under arm throwing, rolling a ball and kicking a round ball. They had to follow rules in simple games showing cooperation skills with a partner.

The Year Two students have been acting as coaches to each other in throwing and catching activities. Their focus in a simple game of Bin Ball has been on working as a tram and communicating with team members.
Ann Shakespeare

Our current theme in Kindergarten is ‘Australia’. We have read the stories ‘Possum Magic’ and ‘Edward the Emu’ and completed activities related to these. We all helped make a big map of Australia and talked about all of the different places that the characters visited in the story Possum Magic. We also worked together to paint and collage the Australian Flag. This week, we have continued our ‘Australia’ studies and have been reading the story ‘Wombat Stew’.  We have had lots of fun acting out the story using props and masks. We have practised sequencing pictures from the story and retelling it back to our teachers. In cooking, we have made ANZAC biscuits and pumpkin scones (Possum Magic) and will be making ‘Wombat Stew’ this Friday. We have had so much fun learning so many interesting facts about Australian Animals!

In Religion the Year Three’s have been looking at Communities.  We discussed the various communities we belong to and the needs they provide.  We also went for a visit to the church and looked at the symbols and signs found in various churches throughout the world.
 
Below are some sketches of these symbols and signs.

YEAR 2 CLASS NEWS

In Year Two we have been working hard writing narratives in English. We have been taking extra care to make sure we use many adjectives when we describe our characters and setting. We think it is really important to have a clear beginning, middle and end to our stories.

In Mathematics, we have been learning about how to flip, slide and turn different shapes and objects. We have also been using the strategy of using a number line to work out addition and subtraction.

PRE-PRIMARY NEWS

This term we welcome Miss Bianca Forte and Miss Emma Williams from Edith Cowan University who are completing their final teaching practice this term.
 
In Week 2 we celebrated our Mother’s Day morning tea where the students sang songs, served their special guests biscuits and cordial (after taking their order) and gave them the gifts that they had made.  Many thanks to the aunties, grandmothers and friends for standing in for mothers who were unable to attend this happy event.

The integrated unit for this term is “Fairytales.” Fairy tales are not just fun but can provide students with the opportunities to boost their imagination, teach right from wrong, develop critical thinking skills, help  to process emotions and expose them to stories from different cultures. Many of the activities include role play in the fairytale corner, story sequencing, discussing the common elements of fairytales, designing and creating a shield for their fairytale hero/heroine and making magical snowflakes. By participating in these purposeful and playful learning experiences we are supporting the St Anthony’s Early Childhood Policy.  “Play is an essential tool for learning and when a child is actively engaging in play, they are using all of their senses to make sense of the world around them….”
 
Pre Primaries enjoyed their visit to the Wanneroo Library for National Simultaneous Storytime to listen to the reading of “The Cow Tripped Over the Moon.”

YEAR 1 RE NEWS

YEAR 4 CLASS NEWS

Last week in Year Three, we went on an excursion to the local Wanneroo Museum.  We learnt all about the history of our local community.  Did you know that Wanneroo was all farms when it first began?   We were lucky to be able to touch and explore olden day items.  We are so lucky to have all the modern technologies that we have today!  A special thankyou to the parents that were also able to help us explore our history on the day.  

Year 2’s are learning about ways in which people can show love towards others. We discussed with students how God loves each of us personally and how he does this through the people he has placed in our lives. We wrote sentences describing what we thought love is.

A Prayer for My Mummy

Dear God,

Thank you for my mummy.
She looks after me, plays with me,
Listens to me, and makes me laugh.
She works very hard and sometimes she gets tired. 

Please give her good sleep.
Help her at work.
Give her happy times,
And lots of hugs and kisses.

Amen.

The Year Sixes have been learning about the importance of the 7 gifts & 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit and the Sacrament of Confirmation which many of us will be making later this month. We would like to thank Mr Marando, our parents, all of our teachers and Fr John for leading us in the Sacramental Meeting last night.

We have learnt that the 7 gifts of the Holy Spirit are - Understanding, Counsel, Fortitude, Piety, Fear of the Lord, Knowledge, Wisdom.

The 9 fruits of the Holy Spirit are - Love,  Joy, Peace, Patience, Kindness, Goodness, Faithfulness, Gentleness, Self Control.

We are excited about our Confirmation Retreat on Friday the 19th of May to learn more about Confirmation and what we can  do as a Christian. Please keep us in your prayers over this next month.