We are a welcoming Catholic community who live the Gospel values with Jesus at the centre of all we do. We are always open to others in respectful dialogue.
This Sunday is our annual Spring Fair at Holy Family Catholic School. Please come along and support your community. There are amazing things to see and do.
This weekend your Spring Fair Committee shown below presents the 2022 Spring Fair . This is the 20th consecutive Spring Fair subsuming our 40th Birthday as a school having been established in 1981.
The purpose of the Spring Fair is more than a fundraiser it is a celebration of our culture of an inclusive school of excellence , engagement and enjoyment.
When you come to the Fair you will see parents, staff and leaders working side by side. You will see the diversity and talent of our people in action.
The purpose of the Spring Fair is to demonstrate to our children that our community can achieve anything it puts it’s mind to. Our children are capable and talented.
If you can spare an hour to help set up come to the school on Saturday morning at 9.30am. Bring the kids! Free BBQ. at 11am.
If you can help on Sunday simply turn up to a stall at any time between 11am and 8pm and offer to help. You will love being involved in your child’s school.
Today the children listened to the story The Gingerbread Man and discuss examples of tricks or secrets that are shown in the story. Then the children used small puppets to retell the story in small groups.
Maths
As part of our measurement focus this term, today the children explored the word time and what takes a short timeas opposed to a long time. When talking about time some children also said they have clocks in their homes that helps them to tell the time. The children drew a clock in their books.
More clocks on Tuesday…
This week the children have been practising their team’s sports day chants. The aim has been to develop teamwork, a sense of team spirit and show their commitment to being part of a team. Here are some snapshots from over the course of the week.
Iteka: Indigenous artist in residence
This week, Iteka brought in some Aboriginal artefacts that have been passed down from generations in her family. The students enjoyed learning and being able to hold, touch and feel the different tools and materials.
Religion
Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand
Jesus got into a boat and crossed the Sea of Galilee. When he heard that John the Baptizer had been beheaded by King Herod, he went to a deserted place, not far from the city of Bethsaida. Jesus brought his disciples with him, saying, “Come with me, away from where people live, so we can rest.”
However, so many people were going to see Jesus that he and the disciples hardly had a chance to eat. After they got into the boat, a large crowd saw them leave and followed them on foot along the edge of the sea. Many other people in the towns along the way joined them. they brought those who were sick in hopes that Jesus would heal them. When the boats landed at the shore, the huge crowd was already there. Jesus welcomed them. He was filled with love for them, because they were like sheep without a shepherd. he spoke to them about the kingdom of God. He healed everyone who needed to be healed.
It was getting to be late in the day. The twelve apostles said to Jesus, “Send the people away so that they can go into the villages and buy some food for themselves. There is no food here.”
Jesus said, “You give them something to eat.” He asked Philip, who was from Bethsaida, “Where should we buy food for all these people?” Jesus knew what he would do. He asked Philip this question to test him.
Philip answered, “Eight months’ wages would not be enough to give each man even a bite.”
Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, said, “Here is a boy who has five small barley loaves and two small fish, but what is that among so many people?”
Jesus told them to have the people sit down on the green grass in groups of fifty and one hundred. there was plenty of grass in that area. So the people sat down. There were about five thousand men there, not counting women and children. Jesus took the five loaves and the two fish. Looking up to heaven, he blessed it, thanking God for it. Then he broke the loaves and gave them to the disciples. They gave it to all the people. Everyone had as much to eat as he wanted.
Ecology
Today the children did some gardening near the Mudla.
Well done to all our readers and the wonderful achievements they are making.
Great achievement Emily, well done and keep on reading!!
English Phonics and Word Study
Letter Hh
Hetty’s Day Out
Letter Bb
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOV1FvlDMO0
Bertie and the Bear
Maths
The children listened to the story One Is a Snail Ten is A Crab this morning. Earlier this term the children were introduced to this text and they revisited it today. After reflecting on their peers recording from a few weeks ago the children continued their recording today and new understandings of addition.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDjp7rTXtsk
Dancing with Iteka
The children has some fun today whilst learning some dance sequences to music.
Keeping Safe and Good Secrets
The discussion today was about good secrets and what good secrets could look like. The teachers stated that bad secrets are something that they need to tell a trusted adult about.
Technology
Students explored different foods from around the world. They were able to discuss and share their favourite cuisine.
Religion
The children explored the meaning, differences and similarities in the story: Jesus blesses the children which is found in Mathhew’s , Mark’s and Luke’s gospels. Students shared their observations.
English | Book making
Well done tool our budding authors! Everyone is making progress in one way or another as they reach the end of term 3. Good to see the children being brave and adding words, having a consistent theme throughout their books and enjoying the process of becoming writers and illustrators.
Please find below our Newsletter Link. When you click on this link it will take you to the newsletter section of our website. From there you can navigate to English or Vietnamese newsletters.
Please remember that at the end of Term 3 HFCS has Sports Day and the Colour Run for all students.
Congratulations to the children who have achieved their reading milestones. Well Done!
English and phonics | Letters Uu and Rr.
Maths and Measurement | How heavy or how light?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8eGWfE4l9g
After reading the story Hairy MacLary, the children were invited to think about how big or small the characters are in the story by comparing their sizes and discussing their weight according to how heavy or light each dog would be.
The students then explored the classroom and recorded items that were heavy or light by ‘hefting’ them.
Dance with Iteka
Today the children joined Iteka in the Hall where there was much more space to move and dance. Iteka taught the children some songs and actions using the Adnyamathanha language from a region of South Australia. The Adnyamathanha people are from the Flinders Ranges area.
Maths and measurement
Today the students used ‘scales’ to experiment with different objects in the classroom.
Book Making in Reception
Science
Today we made wind chimes as part of our learning about the weather.
The Moon Lantern Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated when the moon is at its fullest and brightest.
At Holy Family we will be celebrating the Moon Lantern Festival on Friday 9th September 2022. Students are invited to wear traditional or cultural clothing.
Reading
Well done to the children on reaching their reading milestone.
English | Phonics revision | ck and e sounds
Mrs Norris read the following story to the class:
The Everywhere Bear
Health
The class discussed safe and unsafe touching. Mrs Norris read the story below that explained why Hattie did not like hugs but as smile was just as good for her! Students explored different ways of safe touch and when it feels uncomfortable or unsafe that they can say stop or no.
Moon Lantern
The Moon Lantern Festival will be celebrated by our school this Friday and the children listened to the legend of how moon cakes are a symbol of love and kindness.
The children had lots of fun making their moon lanterns today.
Dance with Iteka
Iteka is a very talented dancer who also is able to share her knowledge of culture in the classroom. She is also able to share and create visual art with students.
Here is a bio with some more detailed information……
Iteka Ukarla Sanderson-Bromley lives in Adelaide, South Australia. Her language groups are Adnyamathanha (Flinders Ranges), Narungga (Yorke Peninsula) and Yarliyandi (Simpson Desert. Iteka has grown up making regular trips home to ‘country’. She loves sharing her culture and does this through her art, dancing in “Of Desert and Sea”, as well as by guiding cultural tours in Adelaide as part of her family’s business.
The Moon Lantern Festival or Mid-Autumn Festival is a popular harvest festival celebrated when the moon is at its fullest and brightest. At Holy Family we will be celebrating the Moon Lantern Festival on Friday 9th September 2022. Students are invited to wear traditional or cultural clothing.
Welcome to Week 6! Our school’s Newsletter link is below, please click!
Congratulations to the following readers for their amazing efforts.
Book Week | Friday 26th August
It was wonderful to see the children dress up last week for Book Week. Antonio, Manny, Eliza, James, Audrey and Emily each brought in the book from home that their costume was inspired by.
English | Phonics
Letter C
Letter K
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EmaUVXgzJ0I
It has been fantastic to see most children being brave and writing their own sentence for each focus letter this week.
Health
Students explored the concept of privacy and things that belong to them. This included personal belongings, personal information, personal medication and our bodies.
Maths
The children continued their measuring activities today. Some children were using their problem solving as they attempted to use long units to measure long objects and short units to measure short objects.
The children are revisiting the letters g and o this week.
The Gruffalo
Olivia
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=109nPHKw9CI
English | Phonics, handwriting and Word Study
Health and my family
The children were asked to draw their family members enjoying time together.
Food Technology
Today the students explored where food comes from. For example , from, the farm, tree, animals or simply from our own gardens. Some students also noted and illustrated some ingredients that are used to make other foods. Have a look.
Religion
We revisited the creation story from Genesis. We discussed, reflected and shared how we can care for the environment/creation that God has given us.
Maths and measuring
The children measured a partner today and remembered the rules for measuring.
Congratulations to the students for reaching their reading milestones. Keep it up!
English | Phonics and Word Study
The children revised the letter sounds i and n this week.
Word Study | Letter Ii
Maths | Measurement
Today the children were asked to compare and order varying lengths of paper from longest to shortest.
Health
This week the students explored the concept of personal space. We used a hoop as a visual to help students understand the concept and the importance of respecting each other’s personal space and what to do when someone is in your personal space.
Reception Learning Intentions and Success Criteria:
If you wish to know more about the above image, the teachers are more than happy to discuss our learning intentions and success criteria with you. These regularly change, even on lesson by lesson basis or weekly basis depending on the learning area and topic.
Birthdays celebrated this week:
Jordan, Eliza and Sarah all turned 6 years old on the same day this week! Happy Birthday!
English | Phonics
This week the children are re-visiting the letter sounds t and p.
Shared Reading | Books with titles that began with t or p.
This week’s reading milestones:
Congratulations Emily on reading for 150 nights
Monday’s Word Study
Tuesday’s Word Study
Today the children re-visited the letter sound p by searching for words that begin with p, writing the letter p, singing a letter p song and writing sentences with some letter p words and words that are frequently used and written at this age.
Jasmine plays a cvc word game.
Word games.
Brooke makes the word ‘bee’.
Book Making
The children shared their books this morning.
Health
The children drew a picture of themselves and labelled the body parts.
Maths
One Is a Snail, Ten Is a Crab Investigation.
This week the children explored the book and used problem solving and addition strategies to add feet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zDjp7rTXtsk
Next day the children chose 2 pictures and counted the feet.
Religion and Art
Maths Mini | Snap It!
Mudla
Welcome to Country
Mrs Martin read the story to the children and we discussed how lovely the illustrations were made in the book. The children used the inspiration to draw a border around a poem about Kaurna land.
Buddy Time
Dance
We have been practicing our Indigenous dance moves. Here are our kangaroo and emu moves
Welcome to Week 4 everyone.
