Classroom News 

Year Prep

In Prep this week we have begun our Inquiry topic - "What can we explore and discover at school?" with a focus on Water. We started off by reading the picture storybook "Who Sank the Boat?". We then had a brainstorm about what "floating" and "sinking" means. Madelyn explained that sinking is when something in water goes to the bottom. Rayzon explained that floating means it stays on the top! 

This was followed by some time in Discovery where students explored the new Water Station in small groups. The groups experimented by putting different objects in water and observing what happens, and if the objects float or sink. Lance observed that when he put a paper cup in water it floated, but when he put a rock inside the paper cup, the cup sank! 

We will continue to explore the concept of floating and sinking over the next couple of weeks, before moving on to other properties of water.

Year 1

This week the Year 1's were introduced to the well known Pamela Allen book "Who Sank the Boat?" as part our our Inquiry unit. We had many wonderings about the book and who actually sank the boat.

Laura asked “how does the lightest animal (the mouse) sink the boat?”

Mia stated “that all of the animals sank the boat.”

Eklavya made a prediction that “the boat would fill up with water and sink to the bottom.”

The students made some great connections from the book to our Discovery area, where we have set up some water play. The students were starting to predict whether the items we have like rubber ducks, plastic cups, glass jars and rocks will float or sink. 

Year 2

Basketball Fun! 

Over the past few weeks, Year 2 have been further developing their basketball skills. During their PE sessions, the students have been practising how to bounce pass and chest pass to a peer, how to catch a ball and how to bounce a ball with only one hand. 

Place Value!

In Maths, the Year 2s have been learning about Place Value. Have a look below to see the different one, two and three digit numbers they have represented using MAB blocks and ice-pole sticks. 

Goodbye Alex! 

Last week, we said goodbye to Alex, one of our Learning Support Officers at Sacred Heart. To celebrate Alex and the amazing work he did over the last few years, the Year 2 students had a disco. We dressed up in Alex’s favourite colours and listened to some of his favourite songs. Thank you Alex, for helping the students at Sacred Heart learn and grow. We will miss you and wish you the best!

Year 3/4 - How to be Safe Online Tips. 

Following Safer Internet Day in early February, the students in Year 3/4 have been working on posters to tell us how to be safe online. Here are some of their tips. 

Year 4/5 

Chutney for Tonga!

This week we have been reminded of the awful natural disaster that occurred over the holidays and greatly affected Tonga, a country with which we at Sacred Heart have a strong affiliation with. So we wore casual clothes this week to raise money for Caritas, who are providing support for the people of Tonga. 

As part of our Science unit, we wanted to find out what happened when you mixed fruit and heat! Together with some other yummy ingredients, as well as tomatoes grown from our garden, we made some chutney, which will be on sale next week at school! We're donating the money to Caritas to help our neighbours in Tonga at this most difficult time. So come and support us next week, buy some D-E-L-I-C-I-O-U-S home made (well, school made, really) chutney and support the relief effort in Tonga!

Math's Mayhem

We've been studying Place Value in Mathematics pretty much for the past two weeks and have been having lots of fun building numbers and creating Math's Expanders, such as the ones you can see in the photos.

'I know that 6 364 is the same as six thousand, three hundred and sixty four. It's also 63 hundreds and 64 ones!' Enock

'I know that three thousand, seven hundred and fifty one is written like this 3, 751' Michael

I know that1087 can be split up into thousands, hundreds, tens and ones' Ishe

'I made two thousands, nine hundreds, seven tens and one one to make this number ~ 

2, 971' Roery

Freaky Friday Raffle Winner

Last week's winner Ishe chose a bouncy ball as his prize. Congratulations, Ishe!

Year 5/6

As part of the our unit on Prayer, students wrote prayers for us to share each morning.

Dear God, 

Thank you for giving us our friends who make us happy when we need it and who make us laugh when we need it.

Thank you for giving me a good life where we can be happy and wake up every morning and see this beautiful world waiting for me.

Thank you for guiding us through this world where we can learn to be grateful for everything and learn to love everyone.

Thank you God for being here with us.

Amen.

By Bernice & Ria

Dear God, 

We thank you God for the food and water we have. We thank you for our teachers and friends. We thank you for our family and loved ones. We pray for everyone who is sick or has relatives that are sick, and we also pray for the people who work so hard to keep us safe and healthy. We thank you for the warm beds we sleep on and clothes that we wear. We thank you for the house we live in. We thank you for the school we learn in.

Amen 

By Amelia & Hansvi

Dear God,

I hope everyone who is sick gets better. I hope all the people who don’t have food or shelter can get all the things they need. I hope Covid cases go down and everyone with a family member who has Covid or knows someone who died with Covid get better. I hope that all the small business get customers and that they have enough money. I pray that  climate change gets noticed more and that more people know about it and take it seriously. Please give all the people who are sad or having a bad time, hope and faith that things are going to get better. 

Amen.

By Ayisha 

Dear God,

We pray for you to look after everyone in the world,

We pray that everyone who is sick gets better and that God is always looking out for them,

We hope that we are all loved and respected,

We hope everyone has an amazing day,

We ask this through Jesus Christ our Lord.

Amen.

By Caitlin & Isabelle

Dear God,

Thank you for our friends and our family, look after them everyday.

Thank you for our caring hearts and learning brains.

Please look after our school and our teachers, so we can all be happy here.

Amen 

By Mili

Dear God, 

Thank you  for the food we eat because it keeps us healthy,

Thank you for  our house because it gives us shelter,

Thank you for our pets because they keep us company when we are bored.

Thank you for our Family who keep us safe,

Thank you for  friends who keep us company,

Thank you for our cars or our transportation to help us get to places, 

 Thank you for looking  after everyone who is sick, homeless and the people who have Covid19.

By Ahan & Liam

Dear God,

We pray that you keep our school safe. 

We pray that you keep everyone in this school happy and excited to come to school everyday.

We pray that all the teachers and students can have a lovely day everyday at school.

We pray that students are happy to learn something new everyday.

We pray that you keep our world safe.

Amen.

By Brian and John

Dear God, 

We hope everyone is respected and loving and kind. 

We pray that this school will be a safe place of love and adventure. 

And that the teachers are loving and where we love to learn and we love to play 

Amen.

By Mia & Sheen

Library News

'Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. READ!'

We had a lovely visit to the Library by Marie's 3/4 Class today. They spent some time discussing respectful ways to make good use of their Library and then had a wonderful time choosing books to take home to read and enjoy there. And of course there was time for lounging on the bean bags and giant cushions having a lovely read of some of our new library books. It's lovely having our Library come to life with our students making good use of the facilities we have.