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We have been looking closely at the Holy Spirit and how this is expressed through the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, by teachers and pupils in our school and how the Holy Spirit gave strength to Jesus and other key people through examination of various stories from the Bible.  We have also learnt about different kinds of prayer and made prayer cubes to use at different prayer times throughout the day.

This week in 6B, we have finished our Book Club novel, Boy Overboard, and created visual representations. We have looked at the themes, setting, problem and resolution and interesting vocabulary. Boy Overboard is a great book and lead to a lot of conversation in our class!

We have also created our “Dream Machine” this week. After drawing our ideal transportation we had to label the picture and write a detailed description of its features.These machines would make getting to school exciting!

This term, we are covering Friends Together, We Make Choices and A Wonderful World.  These units discuss how we can be more like Jesus in the decisions and choices we make, with the people that we come into contact. We have read stories from the Bible about Jesus' meeting with Zacchaeus, Jesus talking to the little children and Jesus praying on the hill. Our focus has been Prayer, Church and Penance.  We have drawn different pictures about Creation and our favourite parts of Creation.

Picasso Cow

The painting of the cow is finally completed. Many thanks to Mrs Parker for undertaking such a creative venture with very young budding artists.

This term at St Anthony’s, we are learning about road safety. In Year Four, we have been focusing on making safe decisions around roads. This includes times when we are pedestrians, passengers or when we are travelling on something with wheels. Tomorrow is Walk Safely to School Day. It is is an annual event when all primary school children are encouraged to walk and commute safely to school. We have learnt how to check that our helmets are well fitted and how to follow a decision making model to make safe choices. Hopefully some of us can put it into practice.

This term in Religion, we have been giving thanks to God for our wonderful mums and families. We had a ‘Mother’s Afternoon’ where we got to spend some special time pampering our mums and doing some craft activities together. We drew pictures of our mums and talked about why they are so special. We then focused on families, and in particular, Jesus’ family. We asked Wonder Questions such as “I wonder if Jesus had to help Mary and Joseph at home?” and “I wonder what Jesus liked to do with his family?” We have had prayer circles where we thanked God for our families and Jesus’ family. We also read stories about families and discussed ways they show love, just as God does!

We celebrated Easter last term, and made buntings to celebrate that Jesus is Risen! Alleluia!

Religion in Year 2 is all about loving others at the moment. We have been writing lots of prayers, saying lots of prayers and thanking God for the gift of Love. We have also been learning how to genuflect in Mass and how to show respect when we attend Mass.

Year Five have been working predominantly on English and Mathematics NAPLAN practice this week. We have also focussed on learning about the ANZACS and trying to understand what commemoration looks, feels and sounds like. We have learned many new facts about World War One, the ANZACS and symbols of commemoration.

The Religious Education unit began by exploring some of the Symbols involved in the Sacrament of Confirmation. The children have learnt that Confirmation continues the journey which began at Baptism and as we grow older we join as a community of faith to better understand the presence of God in our lives.
Confirmation is another reminder of the love God has for each person and the desire of God for these young people to be filled with the Gifts of wisdom, understanding, right judgement, courage, reverence and wonder and awe so that they might be guided and helped throughout their lives to grow to their fullest potential and strengthening them to bring hope to the world.
In the past week, we have been researching about our Saints Name for Confirmation and some of the Gifts and Fruits of the Holy Spirit that they used in their life to help others. We are also eagerly awaiting to participate in our Confirmation Retreat next Friday 13th May.
As May is traditionally one of the Months we pray the Rosary to Mother Mary, the Year 6s would like to invite any of the School Children to the Library on a Friday Lunch-time to join them in reciting the Rosary.