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Thank you to all the families for their support of our Book Fair.  It is a great way of encouraging reading and helping the school Library to gain new resources!!! The Book Fair will be open until this afternoon.

On Father’s Night, we showed our Dads our prayer space and our class prayers.  We also brought in photos of our Dads to add to the space so that we can keep our fathers and father figures in our prayers.

We are also doing the unit on Prayer. We are looking at the feelings Jesus had when he encountered people. Because of these feelings for them, he chose to create miracles to help them out. These are some of our pieces of work

Last Thursday evening our two Year Five classes represented the school in the dance section of the Performing Arts Festival. The girls performed Earth Song and the boys performed Beat It, each song by Michael Jackson.

The benefits of a dance programme are not commonly known, but dance has been documented as showing improvement in visuospatial capacity, coordination between hand and eye movement and fine motor skills. Fitness and team building skills are additional benefits and of course the students love being out from behind a desk.  The action of performance is also seen to increase confidence in the classroom.  We separate our girls and boys for dance to enhance their confidence so that they can perform in their own particular style without feeling self conscious.

All that aside, our students applied self discipline as they learnt their routines and took pride in their performances. As teachers we were very proud of their efforts. We are very pleased to announce that the boys received a Certificate of Merit for their performance.  We are also very grateful for the assistance we had from parents in preparing costumes and make up.

If you missed their performance, you have two more opportunities to view it at the commencement of Father's Night 5pm here at St Anthony's on September 6th and at Carnevale at Forrest Chase in the city on September 8th between 12pm and 2pm.

Year Two have been very busy this term.  We have been preparing ourselves to present two fabulous Performing Arts songs.  We had so much fun learning the songs and delivering our items to the wider school community.  The judges gave us very favourable comments and we were even given “excellent” in a couple of areas. You can find a copy of the judges adjudication on our classroom window.
 
As the newsletter will come out before Father’s Day, we can’t tell you everything, but we can tell you that we participated in an awesome workshop with Bunnings.  They came into our classroom and together we knocked up something really special for our dads.  We are very proud of our work and we’re certain that our dads will love their Father’s Day gift.
 
The Book Week Parade was so exciting.  We all got to dress up as pioneers or explorers.  Thank you to all our parents for the effort you made in getting us ready and looking sensational for the parade.  As you can tell by the photos we all look pretty good.
 
Tomorrow we present our assembly to the school.  We have been learning a few songs and writing some lovely prayers about our very special dads. Remember to keep your eyes peeled as who knows how many dads you will see getting around the school.  We hope to see you all tomorrow as it’s an event that you don’t want to miss!

Year Five have finished a unit examining how we can use our talents to develop ourselves, others and creation. We have read stories of how Jesus shows us his example of how to do this and thought about how to live the 3rd and 7th Commandment in school, our families and the community.
This week is the culmination of two months of putting our talents to use in learning and performing on Thursday in the Catholic Performing Arts Festival. We have developed our timing, movement skills and stage presence. We have shared our talents with the school community and look forward to performing tomorrow at the Perth Convention Centre. 

This week in Year 6, we have been learning about Book Week! We have been spending lots of time reading and appreciating literature. The Book Week theme for Year 6 was Famous Australians. 6 Blue have created some intriguing Wanted posters for the Australians that they dressed up as, and 6 Gold have been analysing some of their favourite picture books.

WE LOVE READING!

This term, we have been learning about the parts of the Mass and reading stories from the Old and the New Testament in the Bible. Some of the stories we have listened to are Noah’s Ark, The Creation Story, Jesus in the Temple, Zacchaeus and the Assumption of Mary.

The Pre Primaries have thoroughly been enjoying learning all about dinosaurs. Their artwork has certainly made our rooms look like “The Land Before Time!”

Not only have they learnt all about the many different names of dinosaurs, they can identify which ones are carnivores, herbivores and omnivores. They have also discussed theories of why the dinosaurs have become extinct.

Our Buddy program with Year 5s is still proving to be a valued part of Pre Primary program. The senior students have shown their younger buddies how to log-on to the iPads.

We were lucky to have the science chickens for a week in our rooms where the children made many observations on their growth and development. They also took great care in looking after the chickens.

This term, we have been learning about the parts of the Mass and reading stories from the Old and the New Testament in the Bible. Some of the stories we have listened to are Noah’s Ark, The Creation Story, Jesus in the Temple, Zacchaeus and the Assumption of Mary.

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 have even started to grow our very own Grassy Heads!

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