Learning and Teaching

LS3 Juniors

A Junior School Walk in Wonder: Exploring God’s Creations at Banjo Paterson Park

Our Junior students recently enjoyed a meaningful excursion to Banjo Paterson Park as part of our inquiry focus: “How Do Places, People and Stories Help Shape Who We Are?”

The Banjo Paterson Park, a special place within our local community, provided the perfect setting for students to connect with both nature and their sense of belonging. A highlight of the visit was gathering around a beautiful big tree, where we took time to pause, reflect, and say a prayer in appreciation of God’s creation and the history held within this significant place.

Students also participated in an engaging scavenger hunt, exploring the environment as they searched for different elements of God’s creation. This hands-on experience encouraged curiosity, observation, and a deeper appreciation for the natural world around them.

Back in the classroom, our LS3 Junior students reflected on their excursion by writing thoughtful recounts.

Through their writing, students shared their personal experiences, insights and favourite parts of the excursion, highlighting the moments that were most meaningful to them.This excursion was a wonderful opportunity for students to learn beyond the classroom, fostering both spiritual reflection and a growing connection to the world around them.

Have a lovely weekend,

LS3 Junior Teachers

Rebecca, Imogene, Natasha and Keely 😊

Visual Art News

Art Competition News:

We begin our art news segment with fantastic news!!!

The results for the Catholic Education Week Exhibition have been revealed and it with great pleasure we announce and congratulate:

Adi (Yr 5),

Elyse (Yr 3),

Grace (Yr 5),

Dityaa (Yr 6) and

Emilia (Yr 2)

were chosen as the recipients for the Zart Art Sculpture & 3D Art Award - Group Award category.

The award-winning students and their families, our Principal Christine and myself have been invited to attend the Award Winners Presentation to celebrate and support the students and their families. A special thank you to all the students who entered this competition, expressing great skills and passion for the visual arts.

Keep it up!

If you would like to attend this event it is still open for public viewing til this Saturday 21 March 2026. The public viewing event is held at Celtic Hall, Catholic Leadership Centre, 576 Victoria Parade, East Melbourne 3002.

Award Winners of the Catholic Education Week 2026 Exhibition

(N.B Below are the current year levels of our artists.)

Learning Experiences:

The students have begun the term using their fine motor skills and creativity to express highlights of their holidays through different lenses. For our Year 1’s and 2’s their art piece entitled “Capturing Holiday Moments” encouraged them to use drawing techniques with a combination of soft granite pencils to draw various lines in images, use textas to outline and pencils to colour in one direction. They also explored analogous colours (colours next to each other in the colour wheel) and blended to create realistic depth. Whilst the Seniors artwork entitled “Framing the Moment”, allowed them to show effective drawing and colouring techniques through detailed panoramic images, analogous colours and shading in one direction. They also built on their drawing techniques explicitly to draw facial features and used a value scale to show tones with blending techniques to make the image come to life.

For our newest art students, our Preps, they began their debut art piece at SFS primary school by showing a portrait of their family inside a decorative frame of their house.

In this unit they were excited to experiment with grey leds and fine liners to show basic lines and shapes. They constructed a coloured house frame with paddle pop sticks and used their imagination to explore the three primary colours as they designed different patterns to represent unique families.

These pieces and others will be on display in the coming weeks. Enjoy!

Housekeeping:

If you would like to donate coloured wool for future art activities, please send them through your children to pass on to me. Thank you!

Until then, keep on making the spark in your art grow!

Melissa Junkeer

Visual Art Teacher

mjunkeer@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au

SENIOR SPORTS

GRADE 5/6

Our Senior Students are enjoying their practice and learning new skills and strategies when competing against other schools. Their enthusiasm is contagious which is reflecting their enjoyment when training for their respective sports. Our Senior teachers are to be commended in preparing our students for their first game against Rivergum Primary School.

INTER-SCHOOL SPORT

The schools we are playing, dates and locations for these events are as follows:

Friday March 27th, Rivergum Primary School - Away Game
Friday April 24th, Lynbrook Primary School - Away Game.
Friday May 1st, -St Kevins Primary School Home Game.
Friday May 15th, Hampton Park Primary School - Home Game.
Friday May 29th, Lyndhurst Primary School - Away Game.
Friday June 5th, Coral Park Primary School - Home Game.
Friday June 12th, Kilberry Valley Primary School-Home Game..

Friday June 19th, Summer Lightning Premiership

Venues for each sport are as follows for Lightning Premiership:

Soccer - Melbourne City Synthetic Pitches (Casey Fields)
AFL 9’s - Oval 2 (Casey Fields)
Netball - Casey Stadium
Volleystars - Casey Stadium
Teeball - Oval 3 (Casey Fields)

BIKE EDUCATION

The students are becoming familiar and confident with the skills of Bike Education and understanding the rules of the roads, for example:

1. Reviewing the safety protocols from each session to ensure that the students are well-acquainted with them.

2. When to accelerate and decelerate and use their gears.

3. Being vigilant about pedestrians while riding, signalling their presence to those on foot, and maintaining awareness of their environment.

4. Navigate the proper approach to entering a roundabout, including the necessary actions to take when vehicles are present, ensuring that you remain safe.

5. Being aware when approaching certain signs, such as Give way and Stop signs, is essential.

6. Continuing communicating to each other and making sure every student understands the command.

Furthermore, engaging in regular activities is crucial, as it contributes to the enhancement of fitness, health, and overall well-being.

Lulli Barbakos

Physical Education Teacher

Senior Sports Coordinator

lbarbakos@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au

EXTRA CURRICULAR ACTIVITIES

SENIORS

GRADE 6 BIKE EDUCATION

Next Friday our Grade 6s will have their last Bike Ed Lesson.

Parents please ensure your child’s bike and helmet is at school next Friday March 27th. If you dropped your child’s bike off and it has been stored in the Bike Shed for the duration of the program it will now need to be collected on Friday.

If your child is riding to school, a reminder that bike helmets are compulsory and students will need to dismount their bikes on school grounds and walk. Bikes can be placed in front of their Learning Space. Like always if raining heavily in the morning we ask that bikes be left at home.

WHOLE SCHOOL SPORTING EVENTS

BASKETBALL CLINICS

We would like to thank Casey Basketball Association for giving our Grade 3/4 students and LS3 Juniors the opportunity to participate in the Basketball Clinics today. Students loved learning new skills from Max Meaney, the coach and also a NBL1 Player. From the photos, you can see that our staff also engaged and learnt new basketball skills today.

NETBALL CLINICS

Casey Netball will be providing free netball clinics for our Grade 3/4 students and LS2 Juniors next Friday while the Grade 5/6 students participate in Interschool Sports. We hope the Grade 3/4 students and LS2 Juniors enjoy the clinics and some might even discover that this is a sport they might want to take up out of school hours.

Further information has been provided to parents via nForma.

SFS HOUSE CROSS COUNTRY

Parents please note information regarding House Cross Country on the last day of school, Thursday April 2nd, has now been provided via nForma. Please ensure you read and acknowledge the notification.

We will need some parent assistance on the day. Remember to assist, you must have a current Working with Children Check registered with the school office. If you are able to assist, please indicate this on the nForma notification as soon as possible.

Any queries please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Giuliana

Extra-Curricular Coordinator

gfaiola@sfslynbrook.catholic.edu.au