Junior School,
Brooklyn Park
Lachlan Brockbank, Year 1/2 Teacher
On this page: Upcoming Events / 1B Olympics Maths and Art / Friendship Day
Upcoming events
For all calendar dates, please see the Google Calendar.
| Tues 13 Aug | Junior School Principal's Tour 9am - 10:30am |
| Fri 16 Aug | Extra-Curricular Teams and Groups Photo Day |
| Mon 19 Aug | Parent Coffee Connect 8:30am |
| Mon 19 - Fri 23 Aug | Book Week: Reading is Wondrous |
| Fri 23 Aug | Book Week Dress Up Day and Parade 8:45am |
| Tues 20 Aug | Year 5/6 SACSA Netball |
| Mon 26 Aug | Foundation Farm Barn Excursion |
| Tues 27 Aug | Year 3/4 Glenelg Excursion |
| Thurs 29 Aug | Father's Day Breakfast 7:30am |
| Mon 9 Sept | Extracurricular and Groups Photo Day |
| Mon 16 Sept | Parent Coffee Connect 8:30am |
| Tues 17 - Wed 18 Sept | Student Led Conferences |
| Wed 25 - Fri 27 Sept | Year 5 Camp |
| Fri 27 Sept | Last Day of Term 3 |
Fathers' Day Breakfast
We are honoured to invite you and your children to celebrate Father’s Day together with our community at the annual Father's Day Breakfasts:
Brooklyn Park Campus (ELC to Year 6)
Thursday 29 August, 7.30am - 8:30am
1B Olympics Maths and Art
We’ve started the term celebrating the Olympics with a range of maths and art-related activities.
The students competed against each other in Addition Archery, where they had to apply their addition skills to calculate scores and compare results. We surveyed one another and created picture graphs representing which sports sounded most interesting to watch.
In Art, students also designed their own Olympic torch, including a picture of themselves playing an Olympic sport.
This has been a fun way to learn and practice key principles within our different learning areas, while learning a lot about the world of sport and the Olympics.
Lachlan Brockbank
Year 1/2 Teacher
Friendship Day Celebrations
On Friday Week 2 we celebrated Friendships at our Brooklyn Park Campus!
Our second annual Friendship Day was devoted to empowering children with friendship skills and continuing to build upon our culture of kindness. In our Junior school, students split into groups of a mix of students from Foundation to Year 6, with our ELC friends also joining in the fun this year.
Students rotated through a range of fun games and activities, each with a focus on a learning outcome. Activities ranged from cooperative challenges, making Friend-o-meters, 'Friendship Ninja' headbands, our very own Friend-O-lympics, learning a Friendship song performed by the entire campus, drawing friendship experiences with chalk, and so much more, including a massive recess and lunch dance party!
Each student and staff member also decorated a hand to represent how they show kindness to others. The hands will form part of an Emmaus Tree of Community, which will be displayed in our library.
Friendship Day celebrates the friendship skills we have been building in our 'Friendology 101' lessons. This program, by URSTRONG, helps children establish and maintain healthy relationships, manage conflict with kindness, and increase their overall resilience.
This year also allowed us to show kindness to others outside of our community, with the Sock For Wishes campaign. This ensured we had plenty of groovy socks on show today whilst raising vital donations towards making a wish come true for a child in need.
At Emmaus we're so proud of our students' engagement and their willingness to be kind-on-purpose to others.
Richard Heath
Deputy Head of School - Pastoral Care
