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This week in Year Six we have been extremely busy! Last week, we wrote special poems for Remembrance Day as well as hosting the Remembrance Day Service on Friday. On Monday, we participated in our first dance lesson of the year. It was quite warm in the Church hall, but we had so much fun. At Mater Dei on Tuesday, Six Gold were learning about acids and bases with Mrs Lombardo. We can’t wait to go to High School!

Five Gold has been working on looking at choices that people make that separate them from the community and what would be alternatives of thought and action. We also recognise that we are helped in our decisions and actions by Jesus' example and the strength of the Holy Spirit.

In Religious Education this term, we have been reading different stories from the New Testament showing how Jesus used his senses to help his friends and people in need.  We have talked about how we can use the senses that God gave us to work at school and at home.

Term 4 has continued to be a busy and eventful one. Our trip to Cicerello’s in Fremantle was a wonderful way to start the term. We are continuing to work hard with our literacy and numeracy activities every day and have just commenced some top secret Christmas activities.

The students have all participated in a fortnight of swimming lessons. They looked forward to their daily trek up the hill to the pool and soon mastered walking quickly in thongs. It was also a great opportunity to revisit road safety rules and to locate and name local landmarks, such as the police station. It was rewarding to see them mastering some new swimming challenges such as putting faces into the water and floating on their backs.  Well done Pre Primaries!

In Year Four, we have been using the Sphero robots and the Lightning Lab app to practise coding.  It is in keeping with the Australian, Technologies Curriculum.  This is what some of the students said they can do on the Spheros.
 
Anya: “You can program it to do what you want it to do”
 
Indy: “I can make the Sphero go in a square”
 
Ben: “You can make it so it plays sounds, and time it”
 
Saffi: “I can make it do a square and change colours”
 
Koby R: “You can program it to do different things”
 
Rhianna: “You can play games, like the toss game, with it”
 
Ava “You can change the colour and drive it”
 
Brodie “You can make all different kinds of sounds, whatever sound you want”

In Kindergarten this term, the students have been learning about the sea and it’s creatures. We have been reading ocean stories from the Bible, like Noah’s Ark and the Loaves and the Fishes. We have also read the story of the Rainbow Fish and learnt about the importance of sharing, being kind and good to your friends and including to others.

My favourite part was when the Rainbow Fish is not sharing and at the end she shared -Sienna

My favourite part was when they were making friends – the Rainbow Fish and the other fishes - Chloe

My favourite part was when the Rainbow Fish asked the big wise octoupus if he could give away his special scales. He said if you give away most of your scales, you will have more friends - Isla

My favourite part was when the octopus said to the fish if you give away the scales to the little fishes you will be happy - Josie

My favourite part was when the Rainbow Fish was sharing with the other fishies - Shaun

My favourite part was when the octopus asked the fish to share - Will

It’s been a busy start to Term Four in Year Three, as we began swimming lessons this week.  We are getting excited as we get nearer to our First Reconciliation and last week we attended the parent workshop.  We continue to learn about the choices we make in our life and learned this week the definition of a moral decision.  Did you know a moral decision is one we make between doing right or wrong?  Maths has been challenging and exciting as we master fractions and how to change them from proper to improper.  Who knew it could be so easy!  In health we have been learning about the various food groups and designing healthy meals.

In Year 2, we have been busy learning about Mary, Jesus’ mother. We have been talking about what Mary means to us and how special she is. Here are some student responses to the question: What does Mary mean to you?

Mika: Mary is kind, caring, nice, lovely and friendly. She is important to me because she helps people and she is really kind.

Lucas Allan: Mary is kind, caring and special. She is important to me because she is the mother of Jesus.

Sam: Mary is important, kind and loving. She is important to me because she cared for baby Jesus.

Ella: Mary is kind and I love her. If we didn’t have her we wouldn’t have a mother to teach our mothers to be nice.

Cooper: Mary is very kind. Mary talks to all the mothers and tells them to be nice to their friends and family.

Imogen: Mary is merciful and kind. She is important to me because she is kind and generous and helps people who are in need.

We have been busy drawing portraits of Mary. We drew them and then painted over them in edicol dye.

Year Six are investigating how electrical energy can be transferred and transformed in electrical circuits, we even made some of our own circuits.

Five Gold have worked on cross-curricula links between English and a Religion this week. The students have demonstrated summary skills by story boarding 'Jesus appoints the Twelve'. They also looked at the key qualities for leadership, as modelled by Jesus and other world leaders. This links into the coming persuasive speeches, Year Five are to write for next year's leadership positions.

This year, all Year Five students participated in the Smarter than Smoking project. The students viewed, analysed and voted for the most effective anti-smoking advertisement.  They then submitted a vote through the 2016 Critics' Choice website. Taylah Preston was selected at random from 650 entries across Western Australia and won a $30 iTunes voucher. Well done, Taylah.