Holy Family is proud of our orchards of red and black olives, oranges, avocados, nectarines together with our gardens of salads, mints and vegetables. Not forgetting the Principal’s Rose Garden. These crops provide content for our studies of food production, supplying the School Canteen “Food for Life”, casual eating by students and families and various…Continue Reading Holy Family Green School: Gardens of Eden
Outer Worlds and Inner Worlds
At Holy Family we are conscious of the Outer world of the Universe and Inner worlds of the biosphere. We are undertaking very important work in ecology by our work in farming some endangered species of native fish. These include the Southern Purple Spotted Gudgeon. We are breeding this species for the purpose of releasing…Continue Reading Outer Worlds and Inner Worlds
Robots in the new Design Lab
The recently constructed Design Lab within the new complex “Curiosity” is an ideal venue for students to build robots and to code them to undertake tasks. I have been speaking to the children about their future and what it may hold for them. I am fascinated by the NASA program exploring Mars and the ambitions…Continue Reading Robots in the new Design Lab
Welcome to the 2022 School Year : Update on 22/02/2022
Holy Family Learning Continuity Plan Well, what a wonderful eventful few weeks as we transition from holidays through Remote Learning to full enrolment (minus some students at home isolating) Our Learning Continuity Plan is in full swing flowing through from our experience last year. In fact we are always improving our professional practice as we…Continue Reading Welcome to the 2022 School Year : Update on 22/02/2022
How we manage Remote Learning at Holy Family Catholic School
Leadership Team Working Online with Teachers Hi Everyone, During the Pandemic our staff have been deployed in four groups: The Administration Team is keeping the organisational side of the school in operation: ICT services, Enquiries, WHS, enrolments, maintenance, support services, Canteen, OHSC and Alive ELC All class teachers are working from home using Microsoft Teams…Continue Reading How we manage Remote Learning at Holy Family Catholic School
A whole new world of Fish Farming and Recycling Rainwater
The next phase of the Fish Farm and Curiosity Precinct is the development of the new billabongs into which we will release the Purple Spotted Gudgeon and various other creatures in the coming months. The new Curiosity building will capture up to 91,000 litres of water which will water the oval and provide water for…Continue Reading A whole new world of Fish Farming and Recycling Rainwater
Enhanced understandings of learning at Holy Family in 2021
Teaching the teachers…Numeracy Coach Nick De Palma in action at last night’s Staff Meeting In 2021 at Holy Family we are fortunate to have Beth Hawkes our Leader of Learning and Literacy Coach and Nicholas De Palma as Numeracy Coach. Our coaches are imparting their wisdom in literacy and numeracy to our teachers together…Continue Reading Enhanced understandings of learning at Holy Family in 2021
Learning literacy through Information and Communication Technology
I wanted to share with you a lovely image of our R/1 students sharing the brand new set of laptops in use of our 8 Reception/Year 1 Classes. We were in the situation in which all students in Years 2-6 had been provided with their own laptop. Unfortunately, we didn’t have any left for the…Continue Reading Learning literacy through Information and Communication Technology
Signs of the times…
Today we are installing the LED Video screen on the footpath at the front of the school to share the wonderful learning occurring within the school and our Early Learning Centre. After a year of planning which included horizontal underground boring for services from the school to the new sign, it’s all happening now. This…Continue Reading Signs of the times…
Our Annual General Meeting Reports on the 2018 School Year
Enjoy reading this amazing account of just some of the highlights we managed to squeeze into the 2019 School Year. 2019 AGM FINAL REDUCED-27l709m…Continue Reading Our Annual General Meeting Reports on the 2018 School Year