Good Afternoon,

Starting from tomorrow (Tuesday the 7th of May) an AFL football clinic will be run every Tuesday after school on the oval for students reception-year 2. We encourage students to get involved and learn some new skills!

In order to participate, scan the QR code below and follow the prompts.

Wow! What a busy week we have had in 1EJ and 1KS.

We cannot believe that we are already in Term 2. Some important dates for Term 2 to remember are as written below.

• Pupil Free Day: 6th f May
• 1EJ and 1KS Assembly: 7th of June
  

To being our week, we asked the students to reflect and recount on their two week break. The students enjoyed sharing all of the places they visited, people they spend time with and things that they got up to with their peers.

In Numeracy, we have been exploring patterns. We have learnt that a pattern is a sequence that repeats and that all patterns have a unit of repeat. This week students engaged in a variety of activities where they used colours, numbers, symbols and objects to both create and continue patterns.

In Science this term we are going to be learning all about weather! This week the students had an opportunity to show us what they already know as well as make predictions about what the weather would look and feel like for the rest of the week. We watched a weather report on the news and used the symbols to show what the weather looks like in Parafield Gardens.

In Word Study, we have begun learning the digraph sounds. A digraph sound is 2 letters that make 1 sound.

Our focus this week was the sound ‘ch’. We practised our handwriting, found words in books that contain the ‘ch’ sound and wrote our own sentences using words that have a ch in the beginning, middle or end of the word.

In Technologies, we have been learning all about design processes. This week the children designed their very own Emoji Mask. They were asked to draw their favourite emoji and label all the materials they would need to make it the following week.

Just a reminder that this Wednesday the 10 April is Sports Day! Sports Day will be held on the schools oval.

Students are allocated to one of the Houses listed below:

Here is a list of which team your child is in.

School will commence at the normal time of 8.50am. Students will need to wear their sports uniform but may wear a coloured shirt for their sports house. Our session will run from 9:00-11:00am.

If you are attending and would like to take your child home early, please ensure that you see their teacher before leaving to sign out your child.

PROGRAM

Hi all,

As this Friday is a pupil free day the students are not able to go to their usual library lesson. We are instead going to go to the Library on Wednesday to ensure the children have new books for the holidays. We ask that you please have a look at home for any ‘missing’ books and that all children bring their library bags on this day!

Kind Regards,

Emily and Kyle

Welcome to Week 9! We had a wonderful and busy week this week in preparation for Easter. Even in a shorter week the children achieved so much learning and are starting to become really brave learners. Have a look at pictures from our week!

In Maths, this week we have continued our learning around counting by 10s to 120. We have been practicing counting each day to a variety of counting songs and have engaged with a range of different activities. We completed an activity where we had to glue the multiples of ten in order on a caterpillars body.

We also had a go at representing collections of 10 using materials in the classroom and recording the multiples of ten on a sticky note.

We have been practicing writing numbers larger than 100. Have a look at our rockets that count up by 10s to 130! WOW

In Religion, this week we explored the lead up to Easter and the importance of these days in the Catholic Church. We went on a prayer walk around the school and used our i-pads to learn about each Station of the Cross. The students enjoyed reflecting on how they are like Jesus and made connections to times where they would have felt sad, lonely or have needed help from another person just like Jesus did during Easter. We spent each day reading stories, watching videos and drawing our own interpretation of Palm Sunday, Holy Thursday, Good Friday, and Easter Sunday. Here are some photos of our work this week!

The children also had the opportunity to make an Easter basket and learn’t how to draw the Easter Bunny!.

Our focus sounds in Word Study this week, were ‘w, v and y’. The children have shown great improvement in their letter name and sound recognition and are beginning to write more complex sentences during this time.

In HASS, we have been continuing to look at the past, present and future. This week we explored toys from the past and the present. We sorted a range of toys as a class into past, present and both then the children had a go sorting them on their own.

We hope you all have a safe and happy Easter and spend some time with your families. We sent the children home today with a small gift to enjoy over the long weekend.

We look forward to seeing you all on Tuesday for Week 10.

Holy Family’s Sports Day for 2024 will be held on Wednesday 10 April (week 11, term 1) on the school oval.

Students are allocated to one of the Houses listed below:

We have displayed a list of the children in each team on our classroom doors!

School will commence at the normal time of 8.50am and finish at 3pm.  Students will need to wear their sports uniform but may wear a coloured shirt for their sports house.

The program will be run in 2 stages with classes returning to their classrooms for their normal lessons when not required to be at the oval.  Families are welcome to attend to watch their child participate.

Sports Day activities will finish at 2.10pm with all students returning to their classroom until the end of the school day at 3pm.  If you are attending and would like to take your child home early, please ensure that you see their teacher before leaving to sign out your child.

PROGRAM

The Canteen will be open on Sports Day with the available menu shown below.  Please order at the canteen or through the Qkr app.  Families attending Sports Day are welcome to make purchases from the canteen.

Welcome to Week 8! We have had a busy week celebrating Harmony Week and all of the things that make us unique and special here at Holy Family. The children made lovely connections between Harmony Day and our current learning in Religion being that God loves all of us no matter our differences and that our differences should be celebrated. It was great to see all of the students dressed in cultural dress and/or orange clothing on Friday.

Reading at home!

Congratulations to Audrey, Tanmay, Dominic and Marley who have completed 25 nights of reading at home and have been awarded a sticker in their reading journals!

This week we read the story of Palm Sunday. We created our own palm leaves and wrote the word ‘Hosanna’ in the middle. Each class in Holy family has decorated their door for Palm Sunday to show off to other classes next Monday!

Harmony Day

For Harmony Day the students created medallions focusing on the orange.

We have almost made our way through all of the single sounds during Word Study. This week our focus sounds were ‘b, j and z’.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIKTaqbfo9Y

This week, in Maths we have continued to consolidate our understanding of counting by 5s through a range of tasks. The students had a go at showcasing to us their knowledge and strengths when counting by 5s through an assessment piece. Later in the week the students began a new topic. We are now exploring and learning how to count to by 10s to 120.

In Religion, we have been working on creating our own retell of the Creation story. As a class we watched and listened to numerous versions of the Creation story and the children made the connection that ‘God is our Creator’ and that every living thing was created by God. The children created mini books where they had a go at writing a sentence and drawing a matching picture to show what God created on each of the 7 days.

We asked the children to show us their favourite page.  Have a look at their hard work 🙂

In Hass, we explored a range of images and compared the differences in everyday tasks from the past to the present. We discussed that in the past there was not a lot of the technology that we have today and that meant that a lot of things had to be done by hand. Today we had a go at making our very own butter by hand!

Hi Families,

Just a reminder that this week we have been celebrating Harmony Week.

This Friday 22nd of March students are encouraged to wear traditional cultural clothing, orange or school uniform.

Students will also be able to order a special Harmony Day lunch of Butter Chicken or Chickpea Curry and rice and an Orange Jelly for $6.50 through the canteen.  The normal canteen menu for lunch orders will not be available on Harmony Day however the canteen will still be open at recess.

Kind Regards,

Emily and Kyle

Just a reminder that next week we will be celebrating Harmony Week as a school community.

Harmony Day is a day to celebrate Australia’s diversity. It is a week of cultural respect for everyone who calls Australia home. The ongoing theme of Harmony Day is “everyone belongs”. By participating in Harmony Day activities, we can learn and understand how all Australians equally belong to this nation and enrich it. At Holy Family each class will be involved in activities leading up to and on Harmony Day.

All families are invited to a Harmony Day morning tea in the staff room on Tuesday 19 March at 9:00am.  Please join us for a bite to eat and to get to know other families in a relaxed environment. For catering purposes please RSVP to  emma.finos@holyfamily.catholic.edu.au

On Friday 22 March students are encouraged to wear traditional cultural clothing, orange or school uniform. Students will also be able to order a special Harmony Day lunch of Butter Chicken or Chickpea Curry and rice and an Orange Jelly for $6.50 through the canteen.  The normal canteen menu for lunch orders will not be available on Harmony Day however the canteen will still be open at recess.

Welcome to Week 7. We have had another wonderful week of learning!

In technologies, we explored creating graphs to represent our favourite ‘everyday’ foods. The students chose 5 of their favourite everyday foods to eat, collected their own data using tally marks, added the tallies together to create a total and showed their findings on a bar graph.

This week our focus sounds in word study were ‘u, l and f‘. We also explored the sight word on. When exploring these sounds and words students take part in a range of activities. They have a go at playing sound/word games, have a go at writing on a whiteboard and then complete an activity in their books. Students also use their word detective skills to find our focus sounds in their library books.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=84WRUos_6c8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2zRjc9h_ZY

We started a new topic in Maths this week. We are now looking at how to skip count by 5s when counting a collection of objects. We have talked lots about why skip counting is a more efficient way of counting and also noticed a pattern being that each number ends in a 5 then a 0.

We read a the story Starry Fish which was all about starfish counting by 5s. We then had a go creating our own starfish out of play dough and gave them 5 legs using matchsticks. Have a look at our hard work.

I can skip count by 5s to 100. I can paste the missing number in order.

In HASS, we have been exploring how families have changed over time and how all of our families look different. This week we worked in pairs to discuss the similarities and differences between each others families. The students enjoyed talking about their own family and found it extremely interesting that their peers family homes looked a little different to theirs. Have a look at our drawings.

Welcome families to a look at 1EJ and 1KS’s Week 6! We are over half-way of  Term 1. The children have been flourishing in their approach to learning and commitment to trying new things. This week we have continued our learning of single letter sounds, investigated creating blurbs, showed off our new knowledge using place value and explored how different emotions look and feel during our health lessons.

I can correctly write the letters ‘d, g and o’.
I can record some words and a sentence that have a ‘d, g and o’ sound in them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxHGPWFmMSA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWXUTOran8k

I can partition 2-digit number using place value.

I can identify different feelings and emotions.
I can sort and show different emotions.