A Fantastic Term of Learning

We finish up the term, having achieved growth and progress in student learning. Although we were unable to invite parents into our learning assemblies this term, we are pleased to share in this newsletter some of the learning that has taken place throughout the term. Our students have demonstrated resilience, responsibility and enthusiasm in their learning this term despite the lockdown restrictions. We have lots to celebrate in student learning and teachers look forward to meeting with parents and students in week 4 for Parent/Teacher/Student Meetings.

Parent/Teacher/Student Meetings

Bookings for Parent/Teacher/Student Meetings on Tuesday 3 and Wednesday 4 August are now open. Please click on the link below or click on the link on the school app Zsapp. Students are expected to attend these meetings, allowing students to discuss growth and achievements that they are proud of.

Meetings will be 15 minutes in duration and take place in your child’s classroom. The meeting structure will follow a simple format. The teacher will talk for 5 minutes, students for 5 minutes and parents for 5 minutes.

We suggest that parents with more than one child do not book back to back meeting times, to allow time to move to the next meeting. 

Students must be supervised by parents or wait quietly outside classrooms and are not permitted on the school playground.

2021 Semester 1 Parent/Teacher/Student Meetings

https://scmoorabbin.schoolzineplus.com/view-session/16

School Disco

Students are very excited about the up and coming school disco on Friday 25 June. A very big thank you to our Parents and Friends who have organised this event for our students. We have 17 parents who have volunteered to supervise students and sell items on the night. Thank you to parents who are also donating snacks to be sold on the night. Please see further information on snack donations in this newsletter.

Support restocking our vegie garden

Tuesday after school we will be selling Lemons, Limes, Mandarins and Parsley. Ange Caltabiano, a former staff member, has donated  organic produce grown in her garden. We hope the money raised from the sale of the produce will re-stock plants and seedlings for our school vegie garden.

Please bring your gold coins and look out for the Sustainability leaders, Linus and Anika and the green wheelbarrows.

Year 5 & 6 Camp- Wednesday 14- Friday 16 July

All plans have been finalised for our year 5-6 camp in week 1 of term 3. Parents will receive last minute information via Operoo today. The students and staff are so excited. This year we have Michael Juliff joining Mrs Berends, Miss Armour and myself on school camp. This year our students will attend Camp Weekaway, nestled in the quiet Benloch valley just 1 hour North of Melbourne. We will be the only school attending the camp site and all COVID safe plans will be in place at the venue.

Playgroup is  Back

Playgroup will be running this Thursday, 24th June, 9 - 11am. All children and babies from birth - 5yrs are most welcome. 

Confirmation- Year 6 Wednesday 16th June

Congratulations to the following students who celebrated the Sacrament of Confirmation last Wednesday at St Catherine’s Church. Thank you to Father Hayes, Father Jacob and Father Clem for sharing this special day with our families.

SACRAMENT  OF RECONCILIATION   

 ‘A Change of Heart”

Sunday, 20th June

St Catherine’s School & Church

The following students made their First Reconciliation on the 20th June

 As we head towards a well-earned school holiday break, I have included a document from the education.vic.gov.au website for you to have a read through. Next term many of the students’ Social and Emotional Learning lessons (SEL) will have a focus on these six key wellbeing elements and skills; problem solving, stress management, help seeking, emotional literacy and personal strength. There are also activities included that focus on positive thinking and gratitude as well as breathing exercises that promote calm. You may find after reading the document, that there is an area you feel your child / children may benefit from further, to develop skills to assist with their wellbeing.

The document has been broken in to four levels to ensure the activities are suitable for your child / children at their point of learning. The activities do not need many materials. Several of the activities would be suitable for the family to complete together.
Keep safe and take care,
Maree
https://www.education.vic.gov.au/Documents/parents/family-health/parents-wellbeing-activities-primary.pdf 

This term's circuit breaker meant that the Preps as well as the Year 3/4s did not get to showcase their learning to you all via a learning assembly. Here is some of what has been happening in their classrooms.

PREP

As part of our Life and Living unit, Foundation chose an animal that they had seen at Healesville Sanctuary earlier this term to learn more about. This was the focus for writing lessons when learning to write information reports. Students researched their chosen animal using Epic and recorded their facts. Foundation students also got together with their buddies to design their animal. Now that we are back at school, the students are looking forward to making their designs from recycled and craft materials. 

Research & Design

Information Reports

YEAR 3/4

This term, alongside all the learning we did in our Life and Living unit, the 3/4s also explored the continent Africa. We each investigated a country in Africa and went ‘old school’, producing a poster with all the information we researched ourselves. 

We also looked at the topographical features of the continent of Africa. Topography is the study of the forms and features of land surfaces so to help us truly understand what this meant, we made salt dough maps of Africa, studied its land surfaces and painted it accordingly. Here are some images of our learning.

Gus Welsh - I enjoyed looking at the topography of the African map because I learnt about where the high and low lands were on the continent. Making it was fun because we got to paint.

Willow Mitchell - Doing the activities that we did, we really learnt about where the high peaks and lowlands were of Africa. I enjoyed it because I learnt a lot through experience.

Ben Anstee - I liked learning about the people and culture because it was different and I like discovering differences in our world.

Cristina Chiodo - I really enjoyed researching about my country Tanzania. I learnt how the people lived, their traditions, holidays and celebrations. 

African Topography

African Posters

Congratulations to the students who received awards this term: 

FBW

Alexander Cary

Millie Yalda

James McCubbin

1MH

Mitchell Plas

Charli Pope

Emma McKell

Vanessa Hunjadi

Year 2

Maggie Willmott

Harry Tzilinis

Lachie McDonald

Dom Slupeki

Isla Wood

Year ¾

Willow Mitchell

Riley Dolling

Evie Goulas

Cameron McKell

Ben Anstee

Analia Carapeto

Year 5

William Kommuri

Alex Danaher

Jack Sloan

Alexander Arnaoutis

Year 6

Linus Hupfeld

Jasmine Lee

Anika McGuire

Jay Koronowicz

Announcing the inaugural St Catherine’s Got Talent spectacular!

Calling all musicians, dancers, singers, comedians, gymnasts, magicians and actors… your time to shine is NOW! If you think you’ve got what it takes then we want you to get practising over the holidays.

You can be a solo performer or part of a group act - there’s no boundaries to what you can do.

More information including entry forms will be available in the first week of term 3. Auditions will be held in front of a judging panel in week 2 & 3 with finals running in week 4 & 5.

If you have any questions please email

sandra.renehan@scmoorabbin.catholic.edu.au