Classroom News 

Foundation

"WE LOVED OUR FIRST BOOK WEEK AT SACRED HEART!" 

What an incredible week! Foundation enjoyed coming to school dressed as their favourite book characters, bringing their favourite stories to life, sipping hot chocolates, making wands, and experiencing a magical performance by Tim Credible: The Magician. These were just a few of the memorable highlights that made the week special for everyone involved! 

I loved sharing my book with my friends! Lucas 

I liked making the wands. I used yarn, string and some stick on jewels! Scarlett 

I liked having marshmallows with my hot chocolate! Joseph 

I loved that we got to dress up and I liked everyone listening to my book! Max

I loved the hot chocolate! Steve 

I liked watching Tim colour in his magic book with magic pencils! Ben 

Year 1

This week, the Year 1 students celebrated Book Week with enthusiasm and creativity! Embracing this year's theme "Reading is Magic", the children dazzled in imaginative costumes and engaged in enchanting activities, including wand-making. Their joyful participation and magical transformations brought the week to life, highlighting the wonder of reading. 

Year 2/3

Hello Families,

It has been a huge week celebrating Book Week. A BIG thank you needs to go to the families for making such an effort to create, design, construct and find costumes for the children. They all looked marvelous. Please enjoy the photos below and have a GREAT WEEKEND. 

Year 3/4

What an exciting day yesterday was. It was great to see all the children dressed up as a book character. There were lots of exciting events happening, such as the making of Magic Wands. 

We also got to re visit one of my favourite books 'The Bowerbird Blues' and created our own bower for the bowerbird. 

Year 4 / 5

What an exciting and wonderful day was yesterday's Book Week at Sacred Heart! “Reading Is Magic” was this year’s theme and the magic was certainly there at the morning parade where all students and teachers appeared in their favorite book costume. Wands and witches’ hats were made, reading of favorite stories were shared amongst each other and to top it all off, some delicious hot chocolate was enjoyed by all! What a great way to celebrate “Book Week 2024”. 

Book Week day was a fantastic and memorable day to have. It was fun and a wonderful experience.   Stephanie

Book Week was exciting. Everyone was creative and really made an effort with their costumes on Wednesday.   Brenton

Book Week was magical, fun, exciting, cool, amazing, the best!   Natalie

I feel extremely happy abut Book Week this year. I was really fun and enjoyable.   Callix

Book Week was fantastic and magical. I loved all the different and fabulous costumes that everyone made. It was a memorable experience.   Nirav

Yesterday was fantastic! We all dressed up in unique costumes. Everyone including the teachers looked awesome.   Jasmine

Book Week was imaginative and inspiring!   Shamus

Book Week was really fun and I loved it. My favorite part was guessing everyone's costume.   Cody

I had an amazing time during this year's Book Week! Everyone's costume was soooo creative and I'm really proud of how great it was.   Allie

I had a lot of fun dressing up and I loved how everyone came in different costumes.   Aleisha

Yesterday was a fantastic day and a wonderful experience. It was magical, fun and special. It was great, colorful and the costumes were creative.   Kaitlyn

Book Week was a wonderful week and lots of fun.   Raffaele

Year 5 / 6 

BOOK WEEK ROCKS!

Well what a fantastic week of celebrating the wonderful world of literature. The theme of Book Week was Reading is Magic and the senior students took to the week with gusto! 

I shared one of my favourite books (The Lotus Seed) which talks about our shared emigration story through the eyes of a Vietnamese girl. Some beautiful artwork to support this will be exhibited as part of our Inquiry Exhibition of Learning, taking place on Thursday, 12th September.

We also looked at the Picture Story Book of the Year finalists and focused on a beautiful book 'That Bird Has Arms', a story about celebrating differences together with the effects of cyber bullying amongst teenagers (and all from a picture book!). 

What makes me special?

• I'm the only one that can’t speak English well.
• I’m the only one that has been in Australia for only three months.
• I’m the only one named Mahommad.
• I can read and write in Persian.
• I’m the only one that is in Grade 5 that comes from Iran. (Mohammad)

• I am the only person in this class that plays for Northern Falcons FC.
• I am the only person in this class whose name is Ali.
• I am the only person in this class that is from Mashhad.
• I am the only person in this class that was born on the 20th of August.
• I am the only person in this class that has a sister in Year Prep.  (Ali) 

1. I’m probably the only one that has a stigmatism. 
2. Fingerprints, DNA and name.
3. I’m probably the only one that has been to Dinner Plain.
4. My birthday.
5. My handwriting!    (Gail)

1. My DNA is different to others.
2. My handwriting is different to others.
3. Where I live is different to others.
4. I love Maths!
5. My birthday is different to other people's birthdays  (Isabella)

1. I am the only person who counts and collects number plates in this class.  
2. I am the only person in my class who can sing ‘Stella Stai' off by heart.
3. I am the only one from Abruzzo, Italy in this class.
4.  I am the only person in my class who can sing the Juventus Anthem off by heart.
5. I am the only person in this class whose favourite soccer player is Cannavaro (Roman)

1. I know how to speak the most Indonesian in this class/school.
2. I know how to sing the most Japanese here. 
3. I am the only one to go to Hong Kong at 4 years of age
4. I like Anime the most in this classroom/school
5. I am the only birthday on the 4th of April in my class.(Maxie)

1. My birthday! I am the only person at school that has a birthday on December 30th.
2. My fingerprints! Each and every one of us have different fingerprints.
3. DNA! DNA is a unique part of me, as it is different in every way from all around me.
4. Birthmarks! 
5. How my name is spelt! Normally a lot of people would spell my name wrong when they first meet me.  (Katelin)

Alex

• I play for Preston Lions 12s,
• I am good at FIFA and my highest division was in div 2
• I am very strong, especially in my shot power in soccer
• I am from Skopje in Macedonia and from Italy
• I am funny in joking wise and generally 

Jacob - 

• I'm the only one with my buddy having the same name as my older brother and he as a younger brother with the same name as me.
• I'm going to take archery classes.
• I'm the only one who has a hyphen in their last name.
• I'm the only one whose favourite colour is purple.
• I'm the only person with four siblings

Harper - 

• Cultures/Background/Language - I’m the only one that comes from Vietnam and that speaks Vietnamese.
• Foods - I eat foods that are different from everyone else from Vietnam. For example, Phở, Xôi, Chả Cá and more!
• My hearing - I’m the only one that is wearing hearing aids right now.
• The meaning of my name - The meaning of my name means someone who is playing a harp.
• My Appearance - I look different than everyone else - long, straight, black hair in Year 6, 

Ishe

• My voice (Can go to 0% to 70% really quickly)
• My hair which is brown, long and curly.
• My personality (Highly active)
• My family.
• My talent (Most of my weird talent is on computer games)

Keefe

• Only person in my school with the name Keefe Resma. 
• The only person in this classroom with a double E in their name.
• Only person in this classroom who has gone to a school called.                                        Holy Cross in NZ.
• Definitely the only person in Australia to have brothers named  Callix and Jamiel.
• I have a  Different height to everyone in my class. (Taller than Izaac,   smaller than Ishe.)

 Izaac-

• I’m the only person in the classroom that has the letter z in their first name
• Only person in the school who went to Brooklyn school in Wellington NZ
• Only person in this suburb with the name Izaac and a brother named James.
• Only person who comes from Brazil, New Zealand and Philippines in the school.
• Only person in Preston whose teacher in New Zealand was absent for a year.

Connor

• I have a different personality than everyone else.
• I'm the only person in my class from Malta and Spain. 
• I'm the only person in my school that has the same birthday as me.
• I'm the only one in my class whose name means master of hounds.
• No one in my class has the same name as me.

Glendon: 

• I have two younger twin sisters named Jaz and Taz. 
• I am the only one born in Kuwait and I am Indian and Portuguese ( Asian and European.)
• I am the highest level in this video game called Smash Karts which is Level 52.  
• I am the only person named Glendon.  
• I dressed up as Pickachu for book week and I was the only Pokemon in the entire school.

Yianna

• Looks. I am the only person in the world with my look.
• I am the only person in this classroom with the last name Kagioglou.
• My name is Yianna kagioglou and I have the same name as my Yaiya and my name also means God is gracious (Italian).
• I am the only one in this classroom with the birth date of April 18 2013.
• I am the only one who has these specific backgrounds: Greek, Filipino, Spanish and Italian. And I can speak a little bit across nine different languages : Greek, Filipino, Italian, English, Auslan, Japanese, Korean, And South Korean.

Fortunato

• I call my grandma nanna.
• I was born on August 15 2012
• The person that takes care of me is my dad and grandparents
• I have a brother named Michael who is 5 years old
• I have a white blood cell that if I drink the dirtiest water I will not get sick. 

Onella

• I am the only person to have the meaning of my name called Onella which means light.
• I am the only person who comes from Sri lanka in my class.
• I have a different personality than others in my class.
• I am the only person that had dislocated my elbow when I was 2.
• I am the only person that has double l’s in my name = Onella.

Bhavin

• My height
• My bushy hair
• Buddies with Maxwell
• I was Marty a year ago
• Sister named Lishika

Roery

1. I play Minecraft and run the Club at school.
2. I also take care of the little ones at school.
3. I wrote to my favourite author, Andy Griffiths and he wrote back!
4. I can actually be loud if I want to!
5. I know the different types of trains there are on the Metro system.

Year 5 / 6 Visit to Good Start Early Learning Centre Preston

As part of Book Week celebrations this week our school accepted a kind invitation for our students to visit the centre and read our favourite books to the little ones, from 2 to 4 years of age. What a great experience for our students, who had a ball spending time with the little ones!