Junior School

A FASCINATING FUN DAY AT IMAX & MUSEUM

Recently, the year 3 students enjoyed an exciting trip into the city to visit IMAX and the Museum.

It was a joy to watch their wide-eyed amazement and hear their excited giggles as they discovered fascinating exhibits at every turn.  Below are some of their comments.

"We watched a fascinating and informative movie about space 

and we saw interesting things  in the Museum."  - Liam and Remi

"It was an amazing opportunity to see God's wonderful creations."  - Sheanne

Some of our favourite things we saw were: 

"the dinosaur fossils" - Aisha and Jonah; "the beautiful crystals" - Erin; 

"the creepy bugs" - Charlie ; "lizard" - Vanya;  "the scary tarantula and the spiders" - Cooper

It was an absolutely wonderful day!

 

Mrs Albertus  and Ms Elliott - Year 3 Teachers 

 

BEEP! BEEP! TRAFFIC SCHOOL

In early May, the Year 1s visited the Kew Traffic School.  Students learnt all about road safety and were able to ride bikes around the facility.  Students loved stopping at the real traffic lights and riding on the mini roads!  You can read more about their visit by looking at some of the students' recount writing.

 

Mrs Lepileo and Mrs Jones - Year 1 Teachers

ST ANDREWS STUDENTS SELECTED FOR

THE ISV SHORT STORY COMPETITION

Several of our students submitted stories in the Independent Schools Short Story Competition. We are proud to announce that out of 350 entries from Independent schools 40 were selected and 3 of these were St Andrews students. This is quite an achievement!

 

Two of our students were selected to feature on the Short Story Dispenser at the Arts Leaning Festival.

The stories were:

  • The Friendship Forest, by Charlotte Cheung (2H)
  • The Ransom Note, by Isabella Tan (4C)

 

 In addition, one of our students Anabelle Tay (4C) received an Honourable Mention in the Years 3-4 category for her story "Rupert”. The story will also feature on the Short Story Dispenser.

The Short Story Dispenser is available for use on Thursday, Friday and Saturday, at the Atrium at Federation Square.

YEAR 2 GO BACK IN TIME AT MONT DELANCEY

The Year 2s enjoyed a visit to Mont DeLancey on Monday the 13th of May. Mont DeLancey is an old homestead in Wandin with a museum, chapel and an old school. The students were able to experience blacksmithing, wood turning and life as a student over 100 years ago. 

The students took part in many activities such as making damper on a fire, apple slinking, peg people and lavender bag crafts as well as go karting and old fashioned games. The day was thoroughly enjoyed by all! 

INAUGURAL JUNIOR HOUSE CAPTAINS

On Friday 3rd May the Junior School had their inaugural House Captains induction assembly. Our new leaders are Erica Dunham and Joanna Kwe for Deakin, Serafim Oktanio and Annabelle Malpass for Parkes and, Zoe Wong and Derek Qi for Barton. These students went through a rigorous process of submitting an application that needed references from their parents and teachers along with a letter and commitment from them. Then they went through an interview process before the final selection. Each of these students truly understand the principle of “Servant Leadership”. At the Assembly our students were presented with their badges by our Deputy Mr Tim Farmilo and the Senior School Captains. Ben Audet our School Captain then prayed for them to be the leaders Jesus would want them to be. In the future these leaders will be attending leadership development classes in their lunchtimes, helping with various events like Assemblies and creating a culture of encouragement in the Junior School.  We are all very proud of these students and all of the Year 4s who applied. It is a great start to our new leadership development program in the Junior School.

 

WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT

FROM HOUSE CAPTAINS

Six Middle School Captains wrote 54 notes of encouragement to Year 3 students for their forthcoming NAPLAN test.

 

ENSEMBLES EXTRAVAGANZA

Tickets are now available for the Ensembles Extravaganza concert to be held in the MPH on Monday 27 May at 7pm. Over 100 of our very talented students from Year 2 - 12 will be performing in a range of ensembles including our four main choirs, Jazz Band, Concert Band, String Ensembles and our newly formed Training Band. We would love to have a huge audience to perform to! Tickets can be purchased from https://www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=498315&

 

"Year 2 have been learning about Life Cycles in Science and in Music we have created an awesome music video featuring our fantastic artwork. Please feel free to sing along  https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LMhfWuvRhe79tDRK-w96i2B2Vl32R9PO/view