Class News
AFL Colours Day
On Wednesday 18th September, the Year 6 Sports Captains have organised a Footy Colours Day. On this day children will have the chance to wear their team’s AFL colours. If you don’t support an AFL team then you are more than welcome to wear your choice of team colours with your sports uniform. This day will be full of AFL activities for you and your class to enjoy. We ask that you please bring a gold coin donation to help make this day possible. You will also have the chance to vote on the footy team you think will win the grand final and one person from each year level who guesses the winner will get a bag of lollies.
Year 6 Sports Leaders
YEAR 2
In Religious Education the children have reflected on how it is our duty to care for the environment and to become good ‘stewards’ of it. We have investigated ways to care for creation in our local environment e.g. responsible waste disposal and recycling. As a result the children in Year Two are collecting bottle caps. These can be recycled to make prosthetic limbs for disabled children using 3D printing. The project is called “Lids for Kids.” We would love your support- there will be a container placed at the front office and one in each classroom.
Bernie Whiffen
Year 2 Teacher
YEAR 3
On Tuesdays we work in a group with Mrs Dodds. She challenges us and helps us extend our writing. Next term we will be using our literacy skills to teach everyone at St James to be more environmentally friendly. We will be writing with a purpose to inform and persuade our community. We want to remind everyone of simple things like turning off lights and computers when not using them, or using the right bins for waste.
Issy, Lucy & Belle
Before we decided what the problem is, we surveyed the teachers and found out that most of them thought that waste was our biggest problem in the school. We walked around the school and saw that people weren’t putting their rubbish in the right bins, there was paper on floors, property left around the school, food scraps left on the playground, indoor plants needed care and there was way too much plastic used for little things.
James & Jack
We are trying to work on saving the world by reducing waste in our school. We noticed lots of things around the school that are wastes of resources. Next term we will be showing everyone how we can better use paper, power, water, good resources and equipment. Some tips to start off are:
If lights and power points aren’t being used flick them off
Make sure you put paper scraps into the paper recycling bins
Take care of your property by looking after your lunchboxes, jumpers, pencil cases
Max & Josh F
Keep an eye out next term for some of our posters, newsletter articles and presentations to improve how we are solving some of the waste problems in our beautiful school!
YEAR 4
Yoga
In term three we have been doing yoga. Every week on a Wednesday a lady named Jackie comes in and does yoga with us. Yoga is calming and fun because we play games and then we do meditation. Before yoga everyone is really excited.
On behalf of Year 4 ,thank you Jackie.
Jess P
Life Skills
This Term we have been doing Life Skills with Marica. Yr 4 has been focusing on Gentle, Team work, Respect, Perseverance and Confidence. We have been playing games to learn what we can do to make a difference and impact on each other and to make a difference in life later on.
We have one session left next week and on behalf of Yr 4 we would like to thank Marica for all the fun activities we did with you!
Olivia V
Budgeting Holiday Project
Last week in a group of three we had to make a poster going to any place involving food, flights, accommodation, activities and transport from the airport to the hotel. There were three different families we could choose. Each had pros and cons. After we had all our information we got an A3 piece of paper and wrote all our information in bubbles and decorated it. There were challenges, like your grandma pays 15% of the trip. When everyone was done, we presented our poster to the class and discussed what trip we did with all our information. This was a really fun activity!
Millie W
P.I.P. Homework
In Term 3 we did a Personal Interest Project we called P.I.P. which we did in our home work at home and had 2 weeks to complete it. We had to choose a topic to do with space and earth science e.g one of the planets, stars, black holes, wormholes, weather patterns and lots more.
We then had to put it all on slides, a poster and if we wanted to add a diagram, a model and some people made a cake. When the 2 weeks were over, everyone presented to the class and the presentations were great!
Alana W
YEAR 5
Book Day
On the 28th of August 2019, our school had Book Day.
Book day is a day where everyone dresses up in their favourite character from their favorite book.
At 9:15am the whole school gathered together for a big book day parade, all the classes took turns to walk around and show their amazing costumes. A big thank you to Zoe RobeRts and Imogen chapman in year 6 for running the parade and Callan O' Connor for interviewing the winners of the parade, which were two people from each class.
Big thanks to Mrs Nicola AND miss Quinlan for organising the whole event!
Interview with the teachers
Mrs Stacey Clingan- Miss Honey from Matilda: Why did you choose Miss Honey? Because she is her own type of super hero in the way she looks after and cares for the children in her class
Miss Nooy and Miss Contin - Pig the Tourist: We wanted it to be fun and look a bit silly together. We were in Kmart and saw the book and thought ‘how cute, let’s do it!’
Mrs Dodds - Rosie the Riveter (Rosie Revere Engineer): because she is a strong female character with a positive personality
Mrs Busch - Where's Wally: she loves ‘where's wally’ because you look at the pictures and other characters have funny storylines
Miss Corio - Wonder Woman: because I always loved Wonder w
Woman growing up
This part of the Year 5’s Book Day is about 5C so here is Year 5C’s view on Book Day.
At the start of the day my class (Year 5C), took a photo of the class to remember the class’s cool costumes. Then we went to a Book Day parade to show off everybody's costumes from Year prep-6.
After we went to our class and had recess, which other than normal days, it was big and bright with so much colour. We then met up with our buddies and used make make with cardboard boxes, which was lots of fun to see our buddies costumes.
Then we had lunch inside and watched movies because it was a little rainy outside. After lunch we saw a book day performance with the whole school, which was definitely enjoyed by all.
Here are some people from 5C and their opinion of what they thought of the day:
Raphy Trist “It was probably doing the parade”
Tom Williams “I’ve enjoyed the buddy activity”
Charlotte Granger “I really enjoyed the parade”
S.T.E.M. (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths)
STEM has a big group of scientific studies. We do all kinds of fun things, like building things, learning about our earth and so much more. We get to do all kinds of science, such as engineering and electricity. We get to do fun science and things we love with STEM.
St James participated in an exciting STEM activity along with book week (which was really enjoyable as well). This is what we did in STEM class: so as a warm up we had a battery, a light and a switch board that connects to the battery to make a light appear.
After we finished the warm up, we made our own drones. We enjoyed making them and after we made them we controlled them to fly. This came with some problems, when we had to connect them to an ipad, but we enjoyed it either way.
We thank the helpers from the STEM class for taking their time to teach us about STEM and drones.
Billie A, Evie O and Leyla V
Year 5 Students
Book Week and Foundation
What an incredible Book Week celebration Foundation had this year.
The costumes the children wore and the book parade led by a large T Rex dinosaur was amazing.
Children had a wonderful time dressing up and participating in the Book Week performance ‘Big Dreams’ organised by our fantastic Ann Nicola.
Children came dressed as:
Madison- Minion from ‘Despicable Me’
Mikayla-Jessie from ‘Toy Story’
Lucia- Thelma the Unicorn
Peyton-Fancy Nancy
Anita- Emma from ‘The Wiggles’
Audrey- Wenda from ‘Where’s Wally?’
Poppy- Ironman
Eve- Matilda from ‘Matilda’ by Roald Dahl
Ethan- The Flash
Arran- Knight from the Round Table
Tilly- T Rex dinosaur
Alice- Harry Potter
Holly- Dorothy from ‘The Wizard of Oz’
Matilda- The Fast Easter Bunny
Emma- Peter Rabbit
Mila- Rapunzel
Nicholas-Essendon football player
Sienna- Coco Chanel
Iris- Pippy Longstocking
Beau- Peter from ‘Peter Pan’
Madelyn- Batgirl
Foundation and Their First
St James Father’s Day
On Friday 30th August, St James celebrated Father's Day with a Father’s Day Breakfast in the school hall.
Wonderful mums got up early to prepare a special breakfast for our dads.
The Foundation children were busy creating their Father’s Day cards and sharing breakfast with their special parent.
Some children took their fathers to the interesting STEM Expo in the old library and showed them some of the new STEM technology at the school.
We hope our St James dads had a wonderful Father's Day and enjoyed the breakfast.
Foundation Enjoys Pyjama Day
On Friday 6th September, Foundation children came to school in their pyjamas.
Children felt warm and cosy on such a cold, wet day and looked amazing.
Dressing gowns, slippers, onesies and fluffy soft toys were all bought to school for a great day.
Thank you to all the parents who helped to make this day possible.
Foundation Attend the STEM Expo
On Thursday 29th August, Foundation was given the opportunity to participate in the St James STEM Expo. We were all very excited to begin simple coding and create algorithms for a ‘Cubetto.’
Cubetto is a friendly wooden robot that teaches the basics of computer programming through adventure and hands-on play. Children worked together to move the ‘cubetto’ to different locations on a mat.
We look forward to working with cubetto and other technology next term.
We thank Mr McMahon and Chad DeClase for sharing their knowledge and resources with us.
Foundation and Father’s Day
In Foundation, we have been talking about our special dads.
We made rockets and cards for Father’s Day that read ‘I will love you to the moon and back’.
The children put a lot of time and effort into the cards and they looked great. Everyone was very excited to give their card to their Dad. We hope they loved them.
During the week, I asked each child about their Dad and this is what they said.
Madison-He plays games with me when its bedtime.
Mikayla- My Dad let me have a slurpee and ice cream on holidays
Lucia- He gives the best cuddles
Peyton- Dad takes me to the park.
Anita- We went ice skating together.
Audrey- We went rollerblading together.
Poppy- My Dad goes for Saints
Eve- My Dad buys me the best toys.
Ethan- My Dad plays cricket with me and goes for the Hawks.
Arran- My Dad kicks the footy with me.
Tilly- My Dad gets me a hot chocolate before school.
Alice- He reads us ‘Harry Potter’
Holly- He brings us colourful shoes and one day he got us party shoes.
Matilda- My Dad gives me ice cream after dinner.
Emma- My Dad likes making things with me.
Mila- We go bowling together.
Nicholas- My Dad cooks with me.
Sienna- My Dad takes me on holidays
Iris- My Dad took me to the shops.
Beau- He plays soccer with me and he goes for Hawks.
Madelyn- My Dad goes for the Lions in footy and he looks after me.
Cathy Busch
Foundation Teacher