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Sacred Heart Feast Day Winter Warmth Donations

Sacred Heart Feast Day Family Mass

We warmly invite all our families to join us as we celebrate the Feast of the Sacred Heart together as a parish community.

Friday, 27th June⛪ Mass at 5:30pm – Sacred Heart Church

Dinner to follow in the hall – Enjoy pizza and fellowship

Special Guest: Gen Bryant – We’re thrilled to have Gen, who leads parish ministry, joining us to help lead us in song and celebration.

It will be a joyful evening of faith, music, and community. We look forward to seeing you there!

Year 4 First Communion

While they were eating, he took a loaf of bread, and after blessing it he broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take; this is my body.”Mark 14:22 

We are excited to share that our Year 4 students will be celebrating their First Holy Communion next term. This is a very special milestone in their faith journey. 

The celebrations will take place on the following dates:

Saturday, 23rd August at 5:30pm – St Margaret Mary’s Church

Sunday, 24th August at 10:00am – Sacred Heart Church

Sunday, 31st August at 10:00am – Sacred Heart Church

Please note that for your child to receive the Sacrament of First Holy Communion, they must have already been baptised and have made their First Reconciliation.

We look forward to sharing this sacred and joyful time with our students and their families.

Please use the following details to book:

https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code/5zxzb

Password: 5zxzb

Cath Palmer

Deputy Principal

Catholic Identity & Pedagogy

Learning and Teaching 

English

This term the Year 6s have been exploring the novel Us Mob Walawurru which is a historical fiction novel written in two parts. It follows the life of Ruby, the narrator, from when she is a young girl in school in the 1960s in Central Australia, up until when she becomes a mother herself.  Through this novel study, students explored the 1967 Referendum, the Central Land Council, and Native Title. These important topics supported a better understanding of the history and experiences of Australia’s First Nations peoples, and why it is important to recognise and respect the Traditional Custodians of the land where we live and learn. 

The students explored informational texts alongside the novel study with a focus on factual recounts. They developed their skills at a sentence level targeting the following:

• Subordinating Conjunctions 
• Writing Complex Sentences
• Coordinating conjunctions
• Writing Interesting Topic and Concluding Sentences
• Sentence Types (commands, statements, questions and exclamations)

Students were also explicitly guided through the structure of writing these texts focusing on writing introductions, body parts and conclusion using their sentence level knowedge to demonstrate competencies. Here are some factual recounts from our Year 6 students which reflect that knowledge and understanding. 

Madison Chandler 6A

Levi Scolaro 6K

Olive Zheng

Sue Burke                                                                 

Literacy Leader                                                     

Learning and Teaching Team