Learning & Teaching 

LITERACY - Vira Pirrotta

TERM 3 TEACHING AND LEARNING 

What an amazing term of learning we have had!  Teachers planned and delivered quality learning and teaching experiences and opportunities for our students. Students have had the opportunity to:

• problem-solve
• create
• inquire
• Design
• collaborate and communicate with peers 
• discover.

Some of our many experiences, opportunities and celebrations include:  

Build a Billy Cart Incursion 

100 Days of Foundation

Confirmation 

3/4 Netball clinics 

Interschool Sports 

Sustainability program 

Year 5/6 leadership Incursions

Robogirls and Akon Challenge

Be and Esafe Kid program 

STEM MAD 

Year 5/6 News Room Incursion 

Footsteps Dance and Drama program 

Father’s Day activities 

Foundation excursion to the National Art Gallery 

District Athletics

Science Week experiments 

Book Week activities and Parade 

National Week Against Bullying activities and dress up day 

Here are some of the best things the Foundation students have enjoyed this term: 

I have loved writing because it was fun. Adam FLW

I loved working with my friends in groups. Mia FLW 

I enjoyed creating and designing a house for the Three Little Pigs Arnold FLW

I have enjoyed playing outside with my friends Gabriella FLW

I have enjoyed going to art and making masks. Zara FLW

I have enjoyed maths and counting by 5s. Evelyn FAP

I loved the new sandpit and playing with my friends. Benajamin FAP 

I loved writing about our excursion to the NGV. Lucy FAP

I have loved everything about Foundation. Victor FAP

I have loved playing outside with my friends. Axil FAP

Have a look at some of the fantastic photos of our learning. 

CELEBRATION OF LEARNING -Thursday September 14th 

This week we will celebrate the amazing Inquiry learning at our Celebration of Learning on Thursday, 14th September. Please visit our learning spaces, Art Room and STEM spaces. Students are excited to present their learning to the families so please come along. The spaces will be open from 3:30pm - 4:30pm. Can’t wait to see you all there. 

Have an enjoyable holiday, and see you next term. 

SUSTAINABILITY - Annette Gasbarro

What is happening in Sustainability

Cup Rescue Schools Program

As part of our Sustainability learning, we are looking at ways in which we can care and protect our environment.  We are happy to announce that 7-Eleven has implemented a Cup Rescue Schools Program.  As a school community, we have been invited to work in partnership with 7-Eleven.  This program helps schools recycle their cups, saving them from landfill. Our goal is to educate the next generation of Australians about how recycling works, and recycle as many cups as possible. 

7-Eleven have provided St Fidelis' School with 2-cup stand holders.  These holders have been placed around our school so that we can begin collecting paper cups, straws and lids and placing them in the cup stand holders. 

When the collection units are full, they are delivered them back to our partnering 7-Eleven store in Bell Street Coburg. Simply Cups will pick up the collection from 7-Eleven stores and deliver them to technology partners all around Australia. Technology partners transform the used cups and lids into upcycled products, like outdoor furniture and wheel stops. Let us work together to help save our environment. 

Worm towers

Our Sustainability learners have been busy cutting up food scraps to feed our worms. Thank you to Frank Muscara father of Arnold & Patrick for donating worms to our school.  The worms are placed in the worm towers.  Food scraps are then added to the worm towers for our worms to produce worm tea. 

Worm tea is very beneficial for our plants to grow. It supplies a quick boost for plants. Worm tea can be applied as often as you want and it will not harm plants. 

SPORT & PE - Graham Troy

Kiara and the relay team will compete in the Regional Athletics on October 11th. We wish all competitors well for this day. Thank-you to all parents who assisted in getting competitors to the venue.

STEM - Joe Frazzetto

STEM MAD- Making A Difference

STEM MAD is designed to acknowledge and promote STEM learning initiatives that address real-world problems and demonstrate how students in Catholic schools take action that matters. Student teams are invited to design a product, service or innovation to Make A Difference (MAD) to others or the environment. 

During the last 2 terms, students from Year 3 to 6 were selected to participate in the STEM MAD League design process where they were placed into seven groups and they were tasked to explore, design and construct a prototype of their invention.  They then share their idea to ‘Make A Difference’ to others or the environment by producing a 2½ minute video pitch promoting their design to the STEM MAD judges. Only one of the six groups will be selected to enter the STEM MAD Showcase on October 12th. 

The Seven groups designed an invention to make a difference in the following areas: 

• Space
• Health
• Social Wellbeing
• Sustainability
• Safety
• Environmental

Here are the seven prototypes and video pitch which the STEM MAD League have produced to promote their product.

TEAM 1: Yr6 Maya Woodhouse, Yr6 Alexandra Archibald, Yr6 Madeleine Leahy

THE CHATTERBOX

The Chatterbox is an app to help students/children who are non-verbal or in the spectrum. The Chatterbox main purpose is to support and make life a little easier when they are at school or even at home. The user will be able to communicate, collaborate and self-manage their daily life at school. The app will give the student/child the opportunity to express their feelings and thoughts when working on a task in class with their teachers or peers. The Chatterbox is an APP that will open a new way to communicate with others a little easier and less anxious. 

TEAM 2: Yr3 Elizabeth Francione, Yr6 Catherine Francione, Yr5 James Kowalyk, Yr6 Genevieve Mmadike, Yr6 Ethan Mercadante

The A.P.D- Air Purifying Drone

The A.P.D stands for the Air Purifying Drone. The A.P.D is designed to purify the air pollution in the major cities of the world and areas that have been effected by industrial and chemical factories that have harmed and polluted the air we breathe, effectively destroying ecosystems, killing wildlife and flora. The A.P.D is an evolutionary technological drone that will clean the air we breathe and allowing the damaged environment to repair itself. The cities will look clean and clear due to the A.P.D process of purifying the polluted air to clean breathable oxygen for all humanity, fauna and flora.

TEAM 3: Yr6 Luca Sortino, Yr6 Christian Papas, Yr6 Sebastian Lunardi, Yr4 Xavier Dickinson

EpiBox

The EpiBox is the new revolutionised epipen! It has transformed and changed the way how we administer the epinephrine into the body. The new improved EpiBox is the size of a wrist watch, it is portable, light and you are able to wear it. With the integration of MicroBit program, the EpiBox will be able to detect a allergic reaction, inject the right amount of epinephrine automatically into the body and contact the emergency services. The EpiBox will make a difference in the lives of many people with the allergies and in the health services.

TEAM 4: Yr5 Amber Smith, Yr6 Samara Di Bartolo, Yr3 Clara Perri, Yr6 Emily Mallaurino

E.Q.P- EarthQuake Preventer 

The E.Q.P stands for the EarthQuake Preventer. How might we use technology to prevent earthquakes destroying homes? We discovered the strongest metal on Earth is ‘tungsten’. Of all metals in pure form, tungsten has the highest melting point (3,422 °C, 6,192 °F), lowest vapour pressure (at temperatures above 1,650 °C, 3,000 °F), and the highest tensile strength. Therefore, using tungsten metal to create the foundation of homes, buildings and roads. This form of foundation will strengthen the structures of homes, buildings and roads to be earthquake resistant and save property and especially lives. E.Q.P truck works similar to a cement truck. However, E.Q.P truck will transport, hold, heat, melt, rotate the molten tungsten in the E.Q.P mixer before it is poured as foundation.

TEAM 5: Yr5 Joseph Falcone, Yr4 Jacob Pasceri, Yr4 Max Leahy

Fire Proof House- F.P.H

How might we use technology to prevent bushfires destroying homes? The F.P.H stands for Fire Proof House. We have seen the devastation that bushfires or fires can cause. Destroying homes, property and the loss of life in our State of Victoria and even around the world. The F.P.H is a system that is designed to protect the house and property from a bushfire or fire. The sprinklers are designed to sense the daily temperature.  When it reaches a certain high temperature, the sprinkler system will operate automatically to wet the surrounding area and prevent any fires to reach the property due to the surrounding area being wet and moist. The F.P.H system can be controlled by the F.P.H App and it is sustainable because it uses the rain water from the property’s water tanks. 

TEAM 6: Yr4 Zac Ambrosini, Yr3 Skyler Fitzgerald, Yr4 Caleb Porter

Space Cleaning Robot Association- S.C.R.A

How might we use technology to clean space junk? The S.C.R.A Robot is a space junk collector. Since the 1950s, we have sent rockets, satellites, animals and humans into the final frontier- Space! However, we have left behind junk and debris orbiting our planet, where we have polluted our new frontier. S.C.R.A space craft is rocket into space, where it orbits the earth, the space craft will launch S.C.R.A Robots to collect the space junk, crunch the junk and return it to the space craft to return to earth to be recycled.

TEAM 7: Yr4 Zara Azzopardi, Yr4 Erica DeFazio, Yr4 Gemma Piotti, Yr5 Mia Nightingale, Yr5 Scarlett Falsetta Spina

The Carbon Eliminator

The Carbon Eliminator is a revolutionary technology that will enable to biomici a flower by going through the photosynthesis process. However, the Carbon Eliminator is the height  of Wind Turbine, it is self sustainable, it transforms carbon dioxide to fresh oxygen. This technology will be constructed and built in areas that deforestation and industrial mining have occurred, such the Brazilian rainforest. By the Carbon Eliminators biomici the photosynthesis process around the world, this will hopefully support and heal the planet’s environment and produce a cleaner environment for future generations.

VISUAL ARTS - Joe Frazzetto

VISUAL ART- Mask Making

The Foundation and Year 1/2 students learned about how Picasso was inspired by African masks. They used this learning to produce amazing artworks. Students designed masks using various lines, patterns, shapes, colours and a variety of tools and materials.

The Foundation students used a stylus to scratch different lines, shapes and patterns on a mask to create their own African mask and made another mask by drawing diagonal lines, cross hatching lines, using pastel colours and feathers to decorate their own carnevale mask.

The Year 1/2 students explored and experimented with paper mache. They moulded and shaped their mask design related to Picasso’s portraits. They used a grey lead and a black marker to draw a variety of lines, shapes and patterns on their mask. Then the students used the primary colours and tonal colours to create secondary colours to paint their paper mache mask and a permanent marker to draw strong thick lines. Finally, they painted detailed eyes, shapes, lines and added glitter to their Picasso Mask. The students constructed a stand for their mask by using constructive wire.

The Year 3/4 students learned & explored cultural masks and designed their own cultural mask related to their family heritage. They explored, and experimented with paper mache to create layers on their cultural carnevale mask. The students used the primary colours to create secondary colours,  tonal (black & white) colours to control the lightness and darkness of the colour paint and decorate their carnevale mask in their cultural colours.

Here is a video of our artistic and creative students’ masks. Click on the link below: