Out of School Hours Care- Our Patch

Our new OSHC- Our Patch will begin on Monday 8 August. Our Patch will be visiting the school this week to begin setting up the program. We welcome them onboard to our school community and look forward to working with them. Our Patch is still finalising a permanent coordinator and will let us know soon who that will be.

Eucharist Candidates

On Sunday 7 August our Euchaisrt Candidates will be presented to the parish community. Their first Eucharist celebration will take place on Sunday 21 August at 10:30am. Students and families will gather online this Wednesday 3 August to take part in a eucharist workshop. Thanks to year 3-4 teachers Megan Moore and Jen Burnet, Carmel Donlon and the Parish for supporting the candidates to receive this special sacrament.

Learning Assemblies

It has been fantastic to invite families back into our school to our level learning assemblies. Students have been proud to show and talk about their learning with family and friends. Special congratulations to our Foundation students who also celebrated 100 days of foundation!

Our year 1-2 learning assembly will take place Tuesday 2 August at 2:45pm in our Learning Hub.

Our year 3-4 learning assembly has been postponed, due to staff absences. We will reschedule a date before the end of term and let you know shortly.

Online Lunch Orders

Thanks for your patience and understanding as we investigate new options for online lunch orders. I will be finalising details this week and let you know when we can offer this service again to our families. There are a number of options to explore and I want to make sure the quality of food is good and the price is affordable for families.

School Closure Day

There will be no school for students on Friday 12 August

Revised Child Safety Statement

With the new Child Safe Standards now in place, CECV has updated Catholic School’s commitment statement to ensure a safe, nurturing and empowering culture for all children and young people in Catholic schools.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWSLETTER

First Eucharist- Year 4 students

First Eucharist Candidates

Congratulations to the following students who will celebrate their First Eucharist at the 10.30am Parish Mass on Sunday, 21st August.

Eucharist Reflection Day- Wednesday 27th July

Last Wednesday I worked with the all the Year 4 students to begin preparations to receive the Eucharist. The students took part in many activities during the day.

• Attended 10am Parish Mass
• Tasted the host (unconsecrated)
• Revised the 4 main parts of the mass
• Revised Mass responses
• Decorated their Sacramental Stoles and Eucharist Candle
• Worked on a poster to display in the school foyer and church

Eucharist Family Workshop- 6.30pm Wednesday 3rd August- ONLINE 

A Google Meet link will be sent to parents on Tuesday. A bag of resources was sent home with the students last week. Please have these ready for use during the Workshop.

Eucharist Parish presentation Mass- 10.30am Sunday, 7th August

All Eucharist candidates and their families are invited to Parish Mass this Sunday. The expectation is that all students attend with at least one parent. The students will be presented with their Eucharist candle and presented to the Parish Community.

First Eucharist Celebration- 10.30am Sunday, 21st August

We are all looking forward to this special day. At this stage there are no restrictions regarding the number of family members/friends that can attend. We will let you know if this changes before the 21st August.

Children’s Liturgy of the Word- CLOW

I have met with Donrita Reefman (Parish Coordinator) and Marta Nowak (Parent & Parishioner) to discuss setting up Children’s Liturgy at 10.30am Parish Mass. This will involve students coming out to the meeting room to hear readings and complete activities related to the readings that are more child friendly. The students will come out for the readings and return just before the Offertory procession. The activities will be designed for Primary aged students. 

We have decided to offer CLOW once a month (First Sunday of each month). The first session will be this Sunday, 7th August. Marta and I would love to see you there this Sunday. If you would like to help with the sessions, please let me know. I have included my email below.

 Carmel Donlon

(Religious Education Leader)

carmel.donlon@scmoorabbin.catholic.edu.au

The Science Discovery Dome 

This portable planetarium arrived at St Catherine’s in week 2 and had us all buckle up for an immersive experience around Earth and space. Led by Nick, we learnt about night & day, the Solar System, Earth’s rotation and revolution and phases of the moon, to name but a few.  

Here are some student reflections on the experience - 

I want to do it again one million times. I liked everything about it. I learnt about space and that was really cool.

Sebastien, Foundation

I liked learning about the big rocks (asteroids) and they came so close to us in the dome - it felt like Georgia and I could kick them. 

Zoe, Foundation 

I loved the science dome, especially the asteroid belt because it looked like it was going to smash into my head. I learnt about the gas giant you should never go to - Jupiter - because of the lightning and the storms.

Aidan, Year 1

It was really good because it was dark and big and I learnt all about Jupiter and the sun. I used to think the sun was just a big rock but I know the sun is a star. 

Alexander, Year 1

It was amazing because it felt like you were there in real life. It was cool because the asteroid (giant rock) felt like it was going to fall on us.

Kensie, Year 2

I liked how the Earth, sun and moon were all projected so I got to see what it really looked like and it helped me understand day and night.

Lily, 3/4MD

I liked how we could see into the sun and it looked like it was a real image - a lot like virtual reality. I learnt a lot and I thought it was pretty cool.  

Benjamin, 3/4MD

I liked everything about the Science Dome. It was so cool. We learnt about the sun, day and night, the galaxy (which I love). I wish it was coming back tomorrow.

Eve, 3/4JB

It was a fun and amazing thing to do and I recommend it to anyone. It looked really cool and we learnt lots of amazing facts - so many I can’t even begin to remember them all.

Harry, 3/4JB

I really enjoyed the science dome. It  was just like you were in space. I learnt that some stars live for millions of years. I found this really interesting.

Paige, Year 5

I learnt that a day in Venus is longer than its year. I enjoyed the dome because it talked all about Mars and that’s a planet I’m intrigued in. Elon Musk also likes Mars!

Jackson S, Year 6

Wow! What a week we had in Foundation last week. We celebrated being at school for 100 days and all dressed up as 100 year olds. The students celebrated some of their literacy skills they have been learning with their parents at our first learning assembly.

We had eagerly been counting the days in the classroom with great enthusiasm as we got closer to our 100 days at school. The day began with our learning assembly in the learning hub. The students shared with their parents and grandparents the work we have been doing learning about cued articulation. To make our learning a multi sensory approach we use the hand cues to assist us when learning the names of letters and the sounds they make.

The students were then the teachers showing the parents all of the literacy activities we have been doing in class while learning about the short vowel sounds in 3 letter words, consonant-vowel-consonant words. We have been learning about rhyming words, deleting initial letters to make new words and learning to read, write and build our frequency words.

A big congratulations to the following students who received a certificate on the day:

• Zoe Currie for her wonderful work in Maths
• Sebastien Laville for his wonderful work in reading
• Matteo Piccolo for his fantastic work in writing 

As part of our 100 days celebration the students made artwork showing what they thought they would look like when they were 100. They wrote about what they would buy if Mrs Hills gave them 100 dollars. We sang, danced and counted to 100 as old people would do. We completed challenges throughout the day. Two favourites were who could be the first to blow 100 bubbles in the courtyard and which team could stack cups in 100 seconds.

The students had a lovely morning tea provided by the families. A huge thank you for the support from the families in FMH over the last 100 days. We look forward to sharing the learning over the next semester.

 Year 5/6 Learning assembly

I liked reading and getting better at reading to people and how they asked a lot of questions at the end and I was having a lot of fun meeting my classmate’s parents or family members. I was not as overwhelmed as I thought I would be.

By Alexander D

It was an excellent and fun assembly. Everyone in our class did their best. All the stations worked very well. I think all the parents learnt a lot and also got ideas of what our class, 5/6AT, have been learning.

I think the Kahoot was very fun because it got to test what the parents learnt and what they knew. 

At the start, I was a little nervous but by the end, I was proud of myself and my class. The preparation took time but it was worth it when we saw our parents' proud faces. In my group we got a few questions like "Why is that Ethos?" Thank you to all the parents that came, I hope you know how well we are doing. 

By Zara

My class 5/6 AT presented a learning assembly at  2:45 pm on Tuesday the 26th of July, in the learning hub.

The preparation for everyone's scripts and props took 2 days to make and set all the props and displays. After lunch, we went straight to the learning hub to get ready.

It was 2:35pm at 2:38pm everyone’s parents and family members started to fill up the room and everyone's butterflies kicked in.

Then the clock ticked to 2:45pm, most parents had arrived. Then Mrs.Tavcar said the speech, introducing everyone to our assembly. The parents then went to their child's station. Mrs.Tavcar pressed the button that started the timer.

Everyone's group started.  There were five stations 1 was Advertisements that we made, 2 was Types of Advertisements, 3 was How to make an advertisement, 4 was Radio advertisements, and 5 were techniques of advertisements with a jamboard activity.

When our parents ended up back at our station we played a Kahoot about Pathos, Ethos,Logos. Everyone enjoyed it.

By Alexander A

On the 26th of july, 5/6AT had a learning assembly. Once we had got everything near perfection we were ready to start our learning assembly. The parents got there pretty early, my dad was the first though (hehe). Mrs. Tavcar introduced the parents to the stations and what we will be doing, Then the Faith and Learning Leaders read the prayer. Mrs. Tavcar guided our parents to our stations then we got to work.

My station was about advertising techniques. The parents all went to their child's station first. My group told them about all the techniques, taught them about jamboard and then they got to use their own real life jamboard after watching a famous Australian ad.

Before the assembly, I felt proud and kind of nervous

After the assembly I felt proud, relieved and still a bit nervous

By Lex

On the 26th of July at 2:45pm, I walked into the Learning Assembly for 5/6 AT. It was filled with bright colourful posters and each station had its own unique things. I patiently waited at my station as the room filled with parents. My heart filled with joy but I was very nervous. As Alex and Eva finished up their prayer and Mrs Tavcar finished the introduction all the parents went to our stations. The learning hub was filled with joy. A huge smile was on my face as I taught all the parents about persuasive techniques. In the end my mum and dad were so proud and loved it so much.

By Cristina Chiodo