Learning & Teaching 

LEARNING & TEACHING - Vira Pirrotta

THE COMMUNITY DAY

WOW, what a day! 

Thank you so much to all the families who attended our community day. It was such a wonderful day. It was great to see so many families on the day. I know that when I went home, I had so much to talk about with my family. Talking about the community day is a wonderful opportunity for you to help develop your child’s oral language and writing skills.  

Talking with your child is important because it builds your child’s language and communication skills. This is a great way to support your child’s early literacy development. Talking about events that have happened encourages children to build their sentence structures, their language and their comprehension. 

If you took photos of the day, this is a great way to engage your child in conversations and writing tasks about the experience. Talking about these photos will help your child build their language and understanding of sequencing events. It allows your child to use language such as first, next, then, last or before that and after that.  Recount language is important, as it helps students with their storying telling and writing development. 

Some fun writing tasks that you can do with your child at home using the community day event are:

• Make a photos album or scrapbook of the day for your child to share with their class
• Make a list of all the activities or tasks that your child completed on the day 
• Write a recount using sequencing words 
• Write a letter/email to a friend or family member about their experiences. 

Please send me any writing or activities that you may do with your children about the community to vpirrotta@sfmoreland.catholic.edu.au as I would love to showcase them in the newsletter in the coming weeks.  

SPORT & PE - Michael Jennings

SSV COBURG DISTRICT SUMMER SPORT RESULTS

Over the past three weeks, St Fidelis’ Year 5/6 students have participated in Rounds 2, 3 & 4 of the SSV Coburg District Interschool Sports Competitions. In these rounds, St Fidelis played matches of Softball, Basketball and Bat Tennis against Newlands, St Pauls & Coburg. Once again congratulations to all our teams on displaying wonderful sporting behaviour and team effort.

Results Round 2:

Softball Boys

St Fidelis 8 runs defeated Newlands 7 runs

Softball Girls

St Fidelis 8 runs defeated Newlands 4 runs

Bat Tennis Boys

St Fidelis 32 games defeated Newlands 20 games

Bat Tennis Girls

St Fidelis 39 games defeated Newlands 6 games

Basketball Boys

Newlands 28 points defeated St Fidelis 14 points

Basketball Girls 

Newlands 24 points defeated St Fidelis 8 points

Results Round 3:

Softball Boys

St Fidelis 15 runs defeated St Pauls 12 runs

Softball Girls

St Fidelis 20 runs defeated St Pauls 7 runs

Bat Tennis Boys

St Fidelis 37 games defeated St Pauls 10 games

Bat Tennis Girls

St Fidelis 36 games defeated St Pauls 11 games

Basketball Boys

St Pauls 24 points defeated St Fidelis 6 points

Basketball Girls 

St Pauls 20 points defeated St Fidelis 10 points

Results Round 4:

Softball Boys

St Fidelis 8 runs was defeated by Coburg 9 runs

Softball Girls

St Fidelis 8 runs defeated Coburg 3 runs

Bat Tennis Boys

St Fidelis 33 games defeated Coburg 19 games

Bat Tennis Girls

St Fidelis 26 games defeated Coburg 23 games

Basketball Boys

Coburg 54 points defeated St Fidelis 18 points

Basketball Girls 

Coburg 54 points defeated St Fidelis 9 points

SSV Inner North/Moreland Tennis Championships

The SSV Coburg District Girls Tennis Championship was held on Tuesday 7 March 2023 at West Brunswick Tennis Club. 17 girls from the Coburg, Moreland and Pascoe Vale areas competed at this event. St Fidelis Primary School was represented by one student, Hunter Fitzgerald. Congratulations to Hunter on her performance at this event. She won her pool and she was a semi-finalist.

SSV Inner North/Moreland Swimming Championships

The SSV Inner North/Moreland Division Swimming Championships were conducted at Oak Park Swim Centre on Tuesday 14 March.  Congratulations to the following St Fidelis students who represented our school at this event:

• Hunter in the 11 Year Girls Breaststroke and 12 Year Girls Freestyle Relay, 
• Maya, Xena & Emily in the 12-Year Girls Freestyle Relay & Open Medley Relay 
• Alex in the Open Medley Relay