Learning and Teaching
LS1 Juniors Week of Fun!
Taekwondo in LS1
LS1 Juniors have started their Taekwondo Clinics for Term 3. The children have had so much fun learning the different skills related to Taekwondo including jabbing, boxing stance and many more.
Feast of the Assumption- Monday 15th of August
On Monday we celebrated the Feast of the Assumption at SFS. It was very special having the juniors from St Kevin's Primary School visit us and join in our celebrations.
During the day our juniors showed Respect, Responsibility and Kindness towards our visitors. The children worked together and played “get to know you” games where they shared something interesting about their new friends. We also completed an art piece based on Mary, which we called the “Marion Lisa”.
We explored what and who the Feast of the Assumption celebrates and used this information to complete our beautiful art pieces. We also came together for a special liturgy in LS3. The day went so quickly and we enjoyed coming together as a Parish to celebrate and meet one another after not being able to do so for the last two years.
LS1 Junior Mathematics Sessions
Clinic 2
This week in Clinic 2 the children have been investigating the features of three dimensional objects. Children shared their understanding of vertices (corners), faces (flat surface) and edges by describing the features of different objects.
Clinic 3
This week clinic 3 have been exploring Shapes. At the start of this unit, children investigated different orientations of two dimensional shapes (e.g. flip, slide and turn). Using this understanding, the children interpreted the features of three dimensional objects using mathematical language to describe the points of view (e.g. top, side, front and under).
Rosie, Imasha
LS1 Junior Team Teachers
SPORTS NEWS
SENIOR SPORTS
Today Grade 5/6 competed against Rangebank Primary. We hope that they had a great time. Next week Grade 5/6 will continue with their training and Grade 3/4 will continue with their rotations of Winter Interschool Sports.
JUNIOR TAEKWONDO
Next week Junior Taekwondo will continue. Please ensure your child wears their sports uniform and brings their drink bottles on the following days:
Tuesday LS2
Wednesday LS3 – Please note change of day for this week only
Friday LS1
DISTRICT ATHLETICS
During Week 7 of Term 3 some of our Senior Students will be involved in District Athletics where we compete against other schools in our district.
Our team is now finalised and we would like to congratulate the students who qualified and also all the students who put their name down to try out. We encourage everyone to try out again next year.
Further details are available on Operoo for parents whose children have qualified. Please give permission via Operoo and ensure your child’s profile is up to date.
SWIMMING
THANK YOU TO ALL PARENTS WHO HAVE COMPLETED THE OPEROO FORM AND RETURNED THE SWIMMING ABILTY FORM. BOTH WERE DUE TODAY.
We ask any parents who have not yet given permission on Operoo and completed and returned the swimming ability form to do so, as I will need to finalise numbers with the pool and also hand over the ability forms.
Remember to assist you must have a current Working with Children Check and it must be registered with the School Office.
The Victorian State Government in conjunction with Lifesaving Victoria have published some material explaining the importance of school swimming lessons. I have included the links to this material for your reference.
https://lsv.com.au/toolkit/key_water_safety_messages.php
https://lsv.com.au/toolkit/pdf/Importance_of_School_Swimming_Information_Sheet.pdf
FOOTBALL CLINICS
We are excited to inform you that through the Positive Start Program funded by the government we have been able to organise football clinics for the Juniors and Seniors. These are free clinics kindly run by coaches from AFL Schools Program Australia.
The Senior Football Clinics will be held on Friday September 2nd and the Junior Football Clinics will be held on Friday September 9th. The students will attend the 50 minute clinics in their Learning Space groups. Please ensure your child is wearing their sports uniform (which can either be shorts or tracksuit) and has their water bottle on the day. Reminders will also be placed on Morning Gathering and in the Newsletter.
Lulli & Giuliana
PE & Sports Program