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This week in Year Five, we are learning about the life of our beloved Pope Francis. What an inspirational man and exceptional leader.

This term in Year Six we have been developing our skills in public leadership. We started off the term by revising the 4 Building Blocks of Leadership:
Presentation skills
Responsibility
Organisation
Teamwork
 
We have also been learning about how to get organised by using a planner to see how effectively we are using our time out of school hours.
 
After leaning about organisation, Miss Brown set us some HOMEWORK! We each chose a personal and family chore that we could take responsibility for. Personal chores help us as individuals; for example, if you don’t take your dirty washing to the laundry then you will run out of clean clothes. Family chores help members of your family: if you don’t follow them then there are repercussions for other family members, for example, if you don’t feed your pet, it will go hungry (lots of us chose to take responsibility for feeding our pets).
 
All of these activities have helped us prepare for our House Athletics Carnival. On Wednesday afternoon we met with our House Teams and decided on how we can make sure the day is a success. We had to choose a goal for the day and work out what steps we can follow to achieve this goal. Here are some photos of us brainstorming ideas to ensure that we have a successful carnival day.

In Year 2, we have been busy doing activities to do with Father’s Day. We very carefully built toolboxes for our Dads, using wood, nails and hammers. We painted them as well.
 
In English, we have been learning about expositions! We wrote an exposition about how our Dad is our superhero.
 
In Geography, we have been learning all about Australia. We know all the States and Territories of Australia and the landmarks in each state!

In Year 3, we celebrated our Fathers and Father figures with Fathers' Night.  Students showed their families our class prayer space where they placed a picture of their dad.  They also shared our afternoon prayer:
 
Come and Pray
Come and Pray
Let Us Pray
 
It’s a very beautiful day
Keep us safe as we go home
Keep away dangers on the road
 
Amen (clap clap)
Amen (clap clap)
Amen, Amen, Amen (clap clap)

On the 18th and 19th of August, many of the Year 4 students received the Sacrament of First Holy Communion. This was a very special time that they had spent many weeks preparing for with the help of their teachers, parents and Father John. The students were all very excited to take this next step in their faith journeys and made us all very proud with how reverently they participated in the mass. Thank you to all the students and families that kept us in your prayers during this special time.

In Kindy this term, we have been focusing on an Inquiry Approach to learning about Farm Life. The students brainstormed what they knew about farms and then listed what they wanted to learn. In our research, we discovered a lot of information about farm life; including how to look after the animals, baby animal names, animal homes and jobs that farmers and some animals have around the farm. We turned our home corner into a barn, constructed a tractor out of boxes and even planted our very own vegetable garden! On Friday, we will be getting a visit from Barn Babes and can't wait to hold and feed the baby farm animals. We are very excited!!

Our Pre Primary students are thoroughly involved in our Mini Beast topic this term. They have been using their science skills of observing and investigating to draw and create pictures as well as writing stories about mini beasts. Their beautiful work is on display in the classrooms. The students have also been taking great responsibility in caring for our snails and silkworms that Mrs Walker has given them.

We celebrated our class liturgy on Friday and joined in with all prayer responses and singing in a spirited but respectful manner.

Congratulations Pre Primary on a wonderful start to the term.

In Year One this term, we have being learning about Prayer. These pictures show us praying around a candle. This candle has symbols on it that represent our school values.

In Year 2, we have been learning all about Creation. We have focused on our favourite parts of nature, especially those in Australia. We chose natural landmarks that we thought Jesus would like the most and discussed the reasons why. We have also written a prayer thanking God for what He has created for us.

Year 3 have settled back into Term 3 and cannot believe it is Week 4 already.  We have been busy with English group rotations (see pictures below) and have been busy preparing for our assembly next Friday.  We have also been lucky enough to be chosen to test out NAPLAN online in preparation for the Year Threes in 2018.   We are likewise looking forward to Bookweek and our excursion to the Wanneroo Library to hear a guest author.  Life certainly is busy and exciting in Year 3.