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Last week, to build a greater awareness of the effects of Global Warming on our environment and what we can do to protect our world, each class participated in an Earth Hour activity. These lessons were prepared and presented by our Year 6 Environment & Sustainability Leaders.
The classrooms were a buzz with students discussing their thoughts after listening to the information presented by our leaders and watching clips about Global warming and how our world is being impacted. You may like to watch the following clip with your family to promote further discussion. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6zW43U7yqM&t=17s
The students in the Junior school created artwork to show that they are the future and they hold the future of the Earth in their hands. The Year 3 & 4 students built paper houses from recycled paper. Each student wrote why they think it is important to look after our world. The Year 5 & 6 students wrote energy saving and environmental life statements to combat Climate Change as a way to help our world in the future.
Last Friday between 2:30 and 3:30 the whole school powered down to use only essential power. The Year 6 leaders went on a power walk to ensure the school was doing their part for the hour.
Welcome to the last week of term! We held our first community coffee morning last week at Sons of Mischief in Highett. Good coffee and good company, a great way to spend an hour or so on a Thursday! If you missed out, never fear, we’ll hold a few more across the year.
Athletics Day
A coffee truck has been booked to be at the Athletics track between 9am and 10.30 for your caffeine fix on Friday morning. With no lunch orders available on the day the P&F will be taking over the Canteen space selling icy poles and sweet treats (biscuits, cupcakes, etc). Prices will vary between 50c and $2.
Easter Raffle
With the aim to create 3 hampers for our raffle, we are still looking for families to donate Easter chocolates/gifts. We ask that all donations are delivered to the office or classroom teachers by Wednesday.
Raffle tickets went home last week and need to be returned by Thursday.
The raffle will be drawn on Friday at school after the Athletics Day.
Class Coordinators
Last week the class lists were circulated, we hope they enable you to connect with other parents in your child’s class. We are now looking for volunteers to take up the position of Class Coordinator for each of the year levels. This role is not a time consuming one, we’re just looking for someone to be the social coordinator for each class. You may choose to organise things such as dinners, movie nights, catch ups in the park over the school holidays, etc. Ideally, we’d love 2 parents from each class to take on this role. Thank you to Sylvia Cary who has volunteered to be Class Coordinator for 1 / 2. If you’d like to know more about the role or would like to volunteer, please don’t hesitate to contact me!
Coming up in Term 2
Mother’s Day Breakfast & Stall – Friday 10th May
Coffee Mornings:
- Foundation – 2 (Date TBC)
- Grade 3 – 6 (Date TBC)
School Disco – Friday 14th June (TBC)
I hope you all enjoy/survive the school holidays!
Kind regards,
Julie
0410 485 455
Stcathsparentsandfriends@gmail.com
One of our year 4 students, Sophia Yau, has gone to great lengths in her own time to raise money for Project Compassion, making and selling Rocky Road Popcorn. She has raised over $100 to donate to the Caritas Foundation. Congratulations to Sophia for showing such initiative in this act of social justice! Here is what Sophia had to say about her fundraising efforts:
How did you raise the money?
Well my Mum and I came up with an idea and it was batches of rocky-road popcorn so it was 240g a bag for $8.
Why did you raise the money?
Because we thought that there getting all of this polluted water and we thought if we did this they can get clean water and we thought that no one would get it but we sold so many.
What does the money go to?
It goes to Project Compassion and we as much to give is communities in Zimbabwe,Solomon Islands, Bangladesh, Vietnam, Indonesia and Australia.
Why is it important?
Because some communities aren’t as lucky as we are to have running clean water, school supplies or treatments or medicines when they are sick.
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Could you please donate any wool that you are not using?
Aliyah, Peter, David, Bill and Liam.
On Monday the 18th of March the 3/4 Learning Assembly was held for parents, teachers and carers to see what we have been learning during Term 1. The focus was on how we use digital technology in the classroom to support our learning.
Learning stations were set up for students to showcase their skills on Chromebooks and iPads. We had students sharing their Learning Portfolios on Google Sites. We also had students showing how they create presentations on Google Slides, type up their writing pieces on Google Docs and use Google Sheets for creating data displays in Mathematics. Some of our learners were also able to give parents and carers a tour of how we use tools such as Google Classroom and Seesaw to share learning activities online.
We hope all 3/4 parents and carers enjoyed participating in the learning experience and seeing how our students’ skills on the Chromebooks and iPads are growing!
On Thursday 4th April, we are having a crazy Hair Day. We ask that all children please come to school with Crazy hair. Students still need to wear their school uniform but they can wear a wig, spray colour or have funny hairstyles. Please ensure long hair is tied up. Please donate a gold coin to do this. Parents may also donate. Year 6 Leaders will collect donations at the school gates on the day. All money collected will be donated to our Caritas Project Compassion - GIVE LENT 100% Appeal. We hope to raise lots of money to help change lives.
Thank you for your support
Year 6 Learning, Faith & Social Justice Leaders
Aliyah Charakas, Peter Kokkalos, Liam Carapeto, Bill Lautenbach & David Gierlach
On Monday 25th March, the Foundation students, staff and parents participated in our first learning assembly for the year. The focus for our assembly was based around our Inquiry concept ‘Change’ in which we have been focusing on families and how families are different and have changed over the years.
We began with a beautiful meditation focusing on the importance of families and what our family means to us. The students shared a lovely sentence that they wrote stating why they love their family. We finished the learning assembly in which the students and parents drew a picture of doing something special together, for example going camping. These pictures have been used to make a display in our Foundation classroom along with photos of their families.
Thank you to all the parents that were able to join us for our first assembly. We look forward to sharing more of our learning next term.
Mrs Deborah Wilson
St Catherine's is hosting an all-day chess tournament on Thursday 30 May.
For more information and to register, go to the following link https://tornelo.com/chess/orgs/ku/events/glen-eira--38