Classroom News

Foundation-Grade 1 Miss Bennett

Wowee! What a busy few weeks it has been since our last edition of the St Pats Newsletter. The Beehive has been a buzz with lots of learning, 100 days of Foundation, Maths Olympics, Mini Olympics, Learning Conversations and so much more!! 

Congratulations to our Foundation students for achieving their 100 Days of Foundation milestone. Their day was spent with a parade, 100 cake to share with the whole school, a class party, creating their own party shirts and using the bubbles and party poppers. 

The Maths Olympiad has been in full swing this week and Miss Bennett has been so impressed with the amount of F/1 students who have been spending their recess and lunch breaks competing against other countries in maths. 

The Mini Olympics was also a huge highlight over the past two weeks as the F/1 Busy bees gave every event a 'red hot go'. It was wonderful to see the interest and excitement for this day. We can't wait to do it again in another 4 years. 

Madison and Tom, our Student Rep Leaders in the Beehive, met with their peer leaders and discussed the 'GaGa pit' rules to create a sign for the inside and outside of our new GaGa pit. They were great during the meeting and made sure that all of the members of the F/1 beehive knew the St Pat's Gaga pit rules. 

In learning, we have been learning about 'Time Connectives' in writing and starting to write a diary entry. On Monday the F/1 students wrote a diary entry about their weekends. 

A big THANK-YOU to all of the parents who have attended learning conversations in week 3, it was fantastic to catch up with you and celebrate your child's learning and discuss their learning goals for Term 3. 

 Grade 1-2 Miss Hart

What fun we had at the St Pat’s Mini Olympics!! Miss Wooden did an absolutely amazing job at organising a fantastic day for the students and staff to enjoy. Lots of competition and new games for students to try out. The students competed fiercely with their age groups to collect points and medals for their countries. They also participated in an opening and closing ceremony where the winning country was announced. Here are just some of the students favourite parts of the day:

My favourite was the fencing activity because I could hit people with the noodle. ‘Tom’

My favourite part was Ga Ga Ball because everyone was showing good sportsmanship. ‘Alex’

My favourite activity was Frisbee because I got a score of 10. ‘Marla’

My favourite part of the day was One Bounce because I won a gold medal. ‘Ollie’

My favourite part of the day was when my country (Switzerland) came first. ‘George’

My favourite part of the day was Ga Ga Ball and Fencing because I got first in Fencing. ‘Matilda’

My favourite activity was making the flags for my country (Switzerland), we got to do lots of drawing. ‘Harlow’

My favourite activity was Bean Bags because I scored 100 points. ‘Heidi’

My favourite part of the day was Ga Ga Ball and Frisbee because I came fourth and second. ‘Charlie.’

My favourite part of the Olympics was getting a Bronze medal because I tried my best and was really good at throwing. ‘Kynan’

I enjoyed the whole day because everyone got out and had a great try at all the activities. ‘Addie Marcon.’

I loved fencing because we got to be on our tippy toes and it really challenged us. ‘Tully’

Grade 3 Mrs Stock

On Tuesday, the whole school came together to celebrate a Mini Olympics! Here are some of our favourite events, highlights and medal winners. 

Names: Edith and Ryder

Country: USA

Favourite Event: Gaga Ball 

Most Challenging: Hula Hoops

Highlight: Everybody's It

Names: Maddy and Carter

Country: Australia

Medals: Carter got a Gold for Frisbee

Favourite Event: Gaga Ball and Hula Hoop

Most Challenging: Hula Hoop and Frisbee

Highlight: Opening Ceremony and Everybody's It

Names: Hudson and Francis

Country: Japan

Medals: 

Francis- Gold- Hula Hoop, Silver- Target and Team with Most Medals

Hudson- Gold- Skipping and Target, Silver- Target

Most Challenging: Hudson- Frisbee. Francis- One Bounce

Favourite Event: Hudson- Frisbee. Francis- Hula Hoop

Highlight: Hudson- Skipping. Francis- Hula Hoop

Names: Charli and Zara

Country: Switzerland

Medals: 

Charli- Gold for team with the Most Medals and Silver for Gaga Ball.

Zara- Gold for team with the most Medals

Favourite Event- Charli- Gaga Ball. Zara- Fencing

Most Challenging- Zara- Hula Hoop. Charli- Hula Hoop and Fencing

Names: Daphne and Phoebe

Team: Italy

Medals: Phoebe- Silver for Skipping and Frisbee

Favourite Event: Phoebe- Skipping because my favourite sport is skipping. Daphne- Once Bounce because she went through five people. 

Most Challenging: Phoebe- Fencing because it was hard for poke people. Daphne- Fencing because it was tricky.

Highlight: Phoebe- Skipping and the Open Ceremony. Daphne- Once Bounce 

Names: Liam and Lani 

Country: Spain

Medals: 

Liam- Gold for Fencing and One Bounce

Lani and Liam- Bronze- For the team with the most medals

Favourite Event- Lani- Gaga Ball and Skipping. Liam- One Bounce

Names: Sophie, Ben and Jaxon

Country: Germany

Medals: Ben got a bronze medal for Gaga Ball. Jaxon got a gold medal for Gaga Ball

Favourite Event: Gaga Ball

Challenging game: Frisbee and Hula Hoop

Highlight: Everybody's it

Names: Stevie and Sydnee

Country: Japan

Medals: Sydnee got a bronze for Hula Hoop. Stevie got a bronze for the Target event. Both girls got a silver for the country with the most medals

Favourite Event: Sydnee- Gagaball. Stevie- Skipping

Most Challenging: Sydnee- Fencing. Stevie- One bounce

Highlight: We both enjoyed Hula Hooping and Fencing

Grade 4 Mrs Loughran

Grade 3/4 Camp

We recently had a camp meeting to pass on all the important information to be ready for all the excitement that camp brings.  We will talk more about camp as it gets closer, we encourage the students to ask questions so they are well prepared.

Farewell Scotty

We farewelled Scotty last week, we are sad to see our classmate leave.  We wish Scotty all the best at his new school.

Maths

We have started on our new topic which is multiplication and division.  We also have a huge focus on multiplication facts and improving our automatic recall.  

St Pat’s and St Aug’s come together

We are very lucky to be part of a joint mentoring program with Year 9 students from St Aug’s in Kyabram.  All students had a fantastic first session, through the nerves of meeting someone new, all students had a blast.  We can’t wait for the next session where the Year 9’s will lead activities that they have created.  

Grade 5-6 Miss Rasmussen

English:

We recently finished reading the classic book *The Lion, the Witch & the Wardrobe*. Our class loved the adventure and especially enjoyed the exciting ending! To celebrate, we watched the movie adaptation, *Narnia*, which allowed us to compare our interpretations of the story. Most of us agreed that the book was much better than the movie! We noticed that while the movie was shorter, the book took time to describe scenes, develop characters, and build suspense. The movie used actors, sound effects, and music to bring the story to life, but the book allowed our imaginations to fill in the details.

Now, we’ve started a new text-based unit with *Number the Stars*. We are learning about Annemarie, the main character, and her life in Copenhagen during the Nazi occupation. Our class is really enjoying this story, and we can’t wait to read more!

Maths:

In maths, we’re focusing on decimals and percentages. We are learning the importance of place value and how to align numbers correctly when adding or subtracting. We are also getting the hang of finding percentages by understanding 10% and using it to calculate other percentages.

History:

In history, we’ve been exploring the many reasons for colonisation around Australia. We’ve discovered that power, convicts, farming, and gold were the main reasons driving colonisation. Learning about these historical factors has been very interesting.