What's happening in our learning spaces?

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

FAM	Blake - For your amazing effort when sounding out words and recording the sounds during writing. Brilliant Blake!
FLW	Thomas - For always trying your best when completing your learning tasks. You have been very focused each day. Great effort, Thomas!
FOS	Estelle - For working hard on being an independent learner and building your letter-sound knowledge to sound out and read words! Excellent Estelle!
1/2VS	Ruby - For being a risk-taker as you continue to try new things. You are super brave and your confidence is shining bright! Amazing effort Ruby, keep it up!
1/2VB	Isaiah - For making positive learning choices by staying on task and engaging in whole class discussions! Keep up the fantastic work, Incredible Isaiah!
1/2NA	Leo - For the confidence you have shown this week when sharing your ideas in front of the class. Don’t stop believing in yourself champion!
1/2CW	Marley - For consistently listening and following directions, and always approaching learning with a positive attitude. Keep up the great work, Marley!
3/4BP	Abby - For showing persistence in overcoming challenges and for building new friendships with kindness and courage. Well done!
3/4SH	Isaac - For his enthusiasm, collaboration and input to class discussion. You have been a confident contributor. keep it up, Isaac! Carlo - For his effort and focus during learning this term, as well as his home learning iniative. Well done, Carlo!
5/6ZK	Victor - For his impressive learning with fractions, plotting them on a number line and explaining why they belong there. Victorious Victor!
5/6NT	Maddie - For being a wonderful collaborator in the classroom and showing kindness and inclusiveness towards others. Well done, Maddie!
5/6MC	Felix -For being a curious learner in 5/6MC throughout all areas of learning. It is great to see you challenge thinking and ask questions to look for deeper meaning/understanding. Thanks for keeping me on my toes! Well done Felix!
Maths	Veronica 3/4BP - For showing excellent commitment and enthusiasm on Matific. Amazing work Veronica, keep up your great work ethic. Patrick 3/4SH - For consistently participating and pushing your maths skills on Matific. Keep up the great work Patrick! Isaac 3/4SH - In recognition of your dedication and consistent effort on Matific. Well done Isaac, keep up your great work.

FOUNDATION NEWS

Last Tuesday, we reached 50 Days of School. What an achievement! Time is certainly going by very quickly! We hope that all of the Mums, Grandmothers and motherly figures in the Foundation area had a wonderful Mother’s Day yesterday and that you enjoyed the special gifts prepared for you.

Each Monday, at 12:50 pm, the school Hall is the place to be, as we engage in a dance lesson run by the talented Miss Esther from “Dance till you Drop”. Many skills are being taught to us all during this Performing Arts session and we can’t wait to share our amazing talents at the whole school performance in Term 3. In the meantime, you might catch us busting a few moves during the school day and at home!

Last Thursday, our learning area was overwhelmingly filled with love and joy as we welcomed our mums, grandmothers, aunties and other special people into our spaces. It was lovely to be able to share our wonderful learning experiences with the people we love the most. We started the day with breakfast in the hall, where we were able to view an amazing Mother’s Day slideshow, followed by an opportunity to engage in some activities with our special people. We did word searches to find our mum’s names, drew portraits of our mums and grandmothers and some of us even made crowns! To finish off a special morning, we returned to the Hall for the whole school assembly, which was led by 5/6MC. We are so lucky to have such kind and caring women in our lives who love us very much!

This Friday 16th May, come and start the day with a walk to school as part of The Walk Safely to School initiative. Meet teachers at Shore Reserve at 8:15am and then walk down Reynard Street to school. After the walk, enjoy a yummy breakfast of cereal, milk and a piece of fruit in the school yard. Don’t forget your bowl and spoon! Thank you for your continued support - we can’t wait to share more of what’s ahead!

This week, we will be learning about…

Numeracy: We will continue learning how to break numbers into parts and put them back together using part-part-whole models to build number sense.
Reading: Revision of sounds, stretching out words, using learnt sounds to build, read and spell words (m,s,t,a,p,i,f,r,)
Writing: Writing about our experiences- recording different sounds we can hear in words, sight words, and beginning to use spaces and full stops in our writing
Inquiry: Tuning in to our Inquiry into stories and cultures
Religion: Learning about the Sacrament of Eucharist and related symbols
The Resilience Project: Emotional Literacy

Foundation Team,

Alycia Marsico, Leanne Wenckowski and Olivia Sargent

YEAR 1/2 NEWS

What another fantastic week we have had in Year 1/2! We have continued to explore non-fiction texts in our reading groups and during writing, enhanced our knowledge of number lines and enjoyed a lovely day celebrating our amazing mums and motherly figures in our lives!

As readers, we have been exploring non-fiction texts, with a particular focus on information reports. We have continued to focus on being researchers by exploring a variety of texts. We have been extremely focused on developing our ability to read, locate, and recall key facts. To support our learning, we have used a range of graphic organisers and participated in activities to organise and share new information. Throughout this process, we have continued to deepen our understanding of the purpose, structure, and language features of information reports. We have also continued learning about nouns, verbs and adjectives and engaged in various sorting activities.

As mathematicians, we have been investigating number lines, specifically what they look like, how to create one and then using them effectively. We collaborated with our friends to make number lines to 10, 100 and even 1000! We have learnt the skill of benchmarking (adding specific numbers) to help us better understand number lines and improve our number skills, as well as placing other numbers on number lines and justifying our reasoning. For example, explaining that 88 would be placed closer to 90 than 80.

Thank-you to all of the mums and motherly figures who visited our learning spaces last Thursday morning! It was such a joy to get creative, play games, and take part in fun activities together. We hope everyone who joined us had as much fun as we did!

We appreciate your support as you have recommenced the home learning routine. We are very impressed with the effort that has already been put into reading, spelling and mathematics.

Vania Sparano, Nadia Ascenzo, Chloe Wang & Olivia Bovolato

1/2 Team

YEAR 3/4 NEWS

As writers, we are learning to create imaginative texts in the form of a postcard based on a location around Australia from our shared text “Off we go around Australia’’ by Roland Harvey.

Additionally, we have gotten back into the SMART Spelling routine and this week's spelling rule is, the plural rule, words that end in sh, ch, tch, s, ss, x, z, zz – add es. We are continuing to use different spelling strategies to practice our selected words.

Another fun dance session was had with our instructor Miss Esther! We were able to practise our moves from last week and then put it all together with the music. We had so much fun and are excited for our future lessons!

It was a lovely morning with our Mother’s on Thursday, where we shared breakfast together and engaged in a colouring activity in our learning spaces. We are so grateful to all the wonderful women in our lives. We wish you all had a special Mother’s Day celebration with your loved ones.

Week 4 Reminders

Year 4 Eucharist Online Workshop - Thursday 15 May 7pm (Zoom link will be sent closer to the day)
National Walk Safely to School Day - Friday 16 May (Bring your own bowl and spoon to enjoy yummy cereal at school)

Year 3/4 Teachers

Belinda Panzarino & Sarah Hogan

YEAR 5/6 NEWS

We hope you all had a wonderful weekend!

Just a reminder for this week:

Victoria Rocks Times Tables Challenge

From the 14th to the 16th of May, students at St Fidelis are invited to compete in the challenge for a chance to win prizes. Log in between 7.30am - 7.30pm and compete in the challenge. Students have their logins but any issues contact their classroom teacher.

Last week, we concluded our first Fractions unit of the year. We build up our understanding on simplifying fractions, the highest common factors and proper and improper fractions. This week, we will begin our first Decimals unit of the year, naming and renaming decimals and making connections between decimals and fractions. Please review the home learning each week as you will see the focus and a task related to the learning we are doing.

Each Monday, we have been participating in the Dance Till You Drop dancing sessions. The students are currently learning a cultural dance they are looking forward to sharing with you! This is a half an hour session each week.

Two weeks ago, we completed our last game of the Summer Season. Congratulations for all of the students' efforts during this game, and congratulations to their overall success during our 2025 Summer Season of Interschool Sports.

This week we will begin our Winter Interschool Sports - it will be a home game. We look forward to seeing you there and supporting the students!

Thank you to our special women who joined us on Thursday for our open morning. We had such a lovely time welcoming you into our space. We hope you all had a wonderful time on Sunday celebrating such a special day with your family.

Thank you and have a wonderful week!

BIanka Zorzut, Vicky Karalis, Madeline Comrie & Nick Tresize