Dear families,
This Sunday 10th May is Mother’s Day. We have a few options for gifts this year at Holy Family. We have an online shop (until this Thursday 7th May 2pm) available through the Qkr! App and a chance for students to purchase a gift from the Mother’s Day stall (cash only) on Friday 8th May. There is also a Mother’s Day raffle available (tickets to be purchased online). We wish all the mums a lovely day on Sunday!
Kind regards,
Ms Pinneri and Mrs Stam
We welcomed our students back last week after a refreshing break. We had a busy week full of learning and fun!
Literacy – past, present and future tense / what is an exposition?
Maths – time
Religion – parables of Jesus
Health – learning about our own character strengths / what does it mean to keep safe?
HASS – why do we celebrate Anzac Day?
We also baked some Anzac biscuits and spent some time being active when the sun came out briefly! Congratulations to our 3 stars of the week – Calvin, Abby and Kayden for showing our class values of being brave, being kind and being awesome!
This morning we watched a video to help children understand the importance of social distancing. As a group we discussed ways we can have fun while staying at home during the holidays and on weekends.
We wish you and your families a safe and healthy holiday break and we look forward to speaking to you next week during our learning conversations.
Kind regards,
Ms Pinneri and Mrs Stam
Hello everyone,
I have created a few videos to help you have text read out to you, which I have referred to as ‘text to talk’. This can be done when there is a lot of writing to read and you would like to have someone read it to you. Please watch the following video links. The first one shows you how to set up ‘text to talk’ and the second one is an example of it.
Happy reading (and listening) 🙂
Ms Pinneri
Hi everyone,
We hope you are all busy working on your learning tasks each day. It’s important you are not doing too much (no more than you would be doing at school), but you are at least having a go at everything we give you.
I am going to put a video below for you to watch if you need to know how to send us an email with an attachment. A big thank you to the people who have been emailing their finished work back to us, we are saving all your work and are marking it off as complete. Tomorrow we will show you how to highlight text and get your computer to talk back to you if you are having trouble reading text.
Remember the work that is due by this Friday:
A lot of this stuff you have had a few weeks to work on.
*The narrative animations are probably too big to send, so save it to your desktop for now.
Helpful hints for parents:
Thanks again everyone for your patience and understanding while we are working to reply to emails and work with students here at school.
Here is a video to show you how to send an email with an attachment:
Kind regards,
Ms Pinneri and Mrs Stam
Hello students and families,
We have put together some work for this week to be done at home for those not at school. We have emailed the work to you but it is also accessible here on our blog. The last thing we want to do is confuse the students or add extra pressure to parents at this time. So if you need to take breaks or modify the work to suit your family’s needs please do so. We invite students to email us any completed work to take a look at or get any feedback.
This week will be the last week for term 1, with week 11 being declared pupil free days now. This means teachers can work on ways to make distance learning easier for students and families to access for Term 2.
Stay safe, happy and healthy and please don’t hesitate to contact us if you have any questions.
Ms Pinneri and Mrs Stam
On Friday we enjoyed the lovely sunshine and a shared ‘dining hall’ experience together.
Students ate burgers and chocolate mousse, provided by the canteen staff here at Holy Family. Thank you to Susan and Sue for a delicious lunch!
For those at home today, here is our assembly for you to view. We are very proud of all the effort and hard work that has gone into this project. Ms Pinneri and I are proud to say that students had worked collaboratively in groups to create their segments and used their creativity and resilience. Enjoy the show!!
Dear families,
A reminder that our dining hall lunch will be supplied by our canteen staff tomorrow, Friday 27th March. Students do not need to bring lunch from home tomorrow. We look forward to a ‘socially distant’ lunch with our classes and celebrating our online assembly. Students will have access to the iMovie that we all created as a class group and will be able to share it with you over the weekend.
Kind regards,
Ms Pinneri and Mrs Stam
