Dear families,

A reminder that our Christmas Concert is being held tomorrow night, Friday 3rd December commencing from 5.30pm.  The event will be held on the school oval.  Families are encouraged to bring a picnic rug or chair.  From 5pm there will be a Gala Auction and the canteen will open for drinks and sausage sizzle to purchase.

ELC/Reception classes will be first to perform at 5.30pm and we will then make our way through each year level, finishing with the year 5/6s.  We should finish about 7pm.  The raffle will be drawn after the year 1 classes have performed so younger students can go home earlier if desired.

Participation by all students is encouraged, although not compulsory.  We do ask that if your child wishes to attend, then they must also perform.  Please confirm if your child will be participating by advising your child’s class teacher.

We will be asking for your cooperation to ensure the concert is safe and complies with the directions we have been given.  To keep numbers within our density requirements we will be limiting tickets to 4 per family (this does not include students of Holy Family).

Bookings

There is an online system for parents to make a booking.   We are using this system because it is the most user-friendly approach for families to make a booking.  Please note that the booking system will close if capacity limit is reached before the event.  To make a booking, please follow the instructions below:

Go to https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code/ma8a7

or

Go to the school website at www.holyfamily.catholic.edu.au and click on Carols booking.

• Enter your details
• Add the details of up to 3 other people (if applicable)
• When you click FINISH, a confirmation will be emailed to you. If you do not receive your email, please check your junk mail folder AND make sure you have entered your email address accurately.

If you are unable to access an electronic device to make a booking, please see the staff in the front office for assistance.

As you book, there will be some guidelines we need you to agree to and follow on the night. This includes keeping a safe distance from others, not bringing any glass or alcohol onto the school grounds and collecting your child from outside Curiosity at the conclusion of their performance. Also remember that if you, your child or anyone in your family is unwell, please do not attend our event. If we experience inclement or unsafe weather leading up to the event or on the night – we will be prepared to cancel the event.

Please keep the confirmation of your booking as you may need to show this when entering the school.  Only the people listed on the booking confirmation will be allowed onsite to ensure that we are following our density requirements.

You will be required to COVID-safe check in on entry.  Masks for adults and children over 12 are compulsory unless requirements change.

Please note:

• All students will need to be accompanied and supervised by their parents  – children cannot turn up to school alone.

• All students need to MEET THEIR TEACHER OUTSIDE CURIOSITY (near the Design Lab door) two items before their own. (Reminders will be made throughout the evening).  After they have performed, they can continue to watch the rest of the concert with their family

• Parents and caregivers – please ensure you see Ms Pinneri or Miss Andersen to officially sign your child out after our carols performance from the Curiosity building, so we are aware that your child is safe and back in your care

• Students may wear neat CASUAL clothes for the concert, preferably in Christmas colours (red, green, white, yellow) or accessorized with a Santa hat, tinsel etc.  If the class teacher sends a note home requesting something different please take note of those requirements.

Christmas Raffle

$1 each OR 6 tickets for $5 OR 15 tickets for $10

Christmas hampers will be raffled and will be drawn at the Carols night after the Year 1 classes have performed.

Tickets available from www.holyfamily.catholic.edu.au or front office

We look forward to seeing you all tomorrow night and celebrating the year with our Christmas carols concert 2021!

Ms Pinneri and Miss Andersen

Today in maths, we recapped what we already know about shapes!

We used shape cut outs of shapes we are confident with and made christmas pictures with them, take a look:

Over the past few weeks we have been fortunate to have Chris coach us through the soccer clinic here at Holy Family.  We have learned new skills and taken part in activities that have supported our ball control and coordination.  We usually finish each session with a soccer match!

We have one last session next Wednesday for the soccer clinic with Chris.  We are having such a great time and learning new soccer skills!

In maths recently, the Year 1s have been learning about chance, data and graphing.

On Monday, we created a survey of our choice to ask our classmates, some included favourite colour, smoothie flavour, animal and many more! The students really enjoyed walking around the class to ask their survey questions and collect data.

Then on Tuesday, we created a car survey to find out what the most popular car colour was on the road and what colour cars you would be unlikely to see. We went out as a class and sat on the oval to watch the cars go past on Martin’s Road to take our survey.

On Monday, 1NP and 1HA were invited to watch the year 5/6 buddy classes participate in a dance battle, prepared by UniSA Lab Schools.

Each group presented their prepared dance and we cheered and encouraged our buddies to win the prize.

We were very lucky to have a chance to get up and dance too! Take a look

This year, the library will be hosting a book fair to celebrate the approaching end to a wonderful year. Students and families will be able to browse a wide range of books and stationary which they can purchase from the fair. Flyers have gone home last week.

Dates: Tuesday 16 November – Tuesday 23 November (Weeks 6 and 7)

Times: 8:30am – 9:00am, Lunch, 3:00pm – 3:30pm

(Please note that the first Tuesday will be after school only and the last Tuesday will be before school only, to allow for drop off and pick up of the fair cases).

Today we were lucky to have the student teacher from our buddy class come and run a lesson with us and our buddies.

First we looked at some examples of mosaic art that we might have seen before, and then worked through the steps to create some mosaic art ourselves.

Today in maths, we continued with our learning about data and graphs.

To create data to make a graph with, we created our own surveys where we made 3 choices that someone can choose from before walking around the classroom and asking our peers to vote for their favorites.

Some categories included favorite food, favorite animal and even your favorite type of goats.

The students were very successful in both their data collection as well as creating the graph.

Next time, I think we might have to go upstairs to ask our buddies their favorite things!

Dear families,

Today in our History lesson, we discussed people, places and objects from the past.  Children have been asked to bring one significant item to school by this Wednesday 3rd November.  The item could be: a photo, figurine, toy, piece of clothing, medal etc from the past (from birth until now).  Children will engage in conversation with their peers and their teacher to discuss the item they have brought to school from the past.

Please be aware that this task will be performed in class during our History lesson on Wednesday and children are reminded that no toys are to be taken outside at recess or lunch time.  We will ensure that the items are brought back home Wednesday after school.

Kind regards,

Nadia and Hannah

This week in our History lessons, we have been discussing what life was like at home and at school for people from the past.  As a group, we created a list of questions that children might like to ask their parents/grandparents or family members, friends or neighbours of that generation.

The children were asked to choose 3 of the following questions and provide their person’s answers on a piece of paper.  We will discuss the answers in our History lessons next week.

Questions for our parents/grandparents about life when they were young:

• What did you do for fun when you were young?
• How did you get to school?
• Where did you go to school?
• What did your house look like?
• How old were you when the television came out?
• What did you learn about when you were young?
• What kind of toys did you have?
• What did your bedroom look like?
• Tell me about your teacher.
• What year were you born and where?
• What did your school look like?
• How old were you when you started and finished school?
• Who were your friends when you were young?