Junior School Update

Year 3

The Year Three class have been learning about the place value of numbers in Mathematics. We have been using concrete materials to help us understand thousands, hundreds, tens and ones. We have been working on strategies to add and subtract one, ten, one hundred or one thousand.

We have had many of our Flat Stanley projects returned. Stanley sure has been on a number of wonderful adventures including seeing the Sydney Opera House, the Sydney Harbour Bridge, visiting the Australia Zoo, catching the Spirit of Tasmania ferry from Melbourne to Tasmania. Please come and visit the Year 3 room to look at Stanley’s marvellous adventures.

We have also introduced reading buddies where students are partnered up with a classmate to practise their oral reading skills. We are working on reading with fluency and expression, so we can go and read stories to some of the younger students in the College.

On Wednesday, we also had our Reconciliation Retreat Day where we learned a lot about the Sacrament of Reconciliation through the parable of the Prodigal Son. All students actively participated in the sessions and they took away some important messages, which we look forward to further exploring in class.

Miss Antonia Ravenscroft

Year 3 Teacher

Year 6

Ella

Year 6 Student

Summer Term Final Week Events

College Assembly
The College assembly will be taking place on Monday 3rd of April at 9am. We will also farewell and bless our Camino Pilgrim's at the assembly, who leave for the Camino Santiago de Compostella.
 

ANZAC Ceremony

Year 9 students along with some students from Year 6 will attend the local Ellenbrook schools ANZAC ceremony on the morning of Wednesday 5 April.

Learning Conversations
Learning Conversations are taking place across K-12:

• Wednesday K-6 from 3:30-6pm.
• Thursday K-12 from 12:30pm-7pm.

The College will dismiss all students at 12pm on Thursday.

Stations of The Cross
The stations of the cross liturgy will take place in seperate sub schools litrugies on the morning of Friday the 7 April.

Wishing all families a safe and enjoyable break.

Mr Paul Murphy
Deputy Principal
31 March 2017

Junior School Update

Kindergarten

This week in Kindergarten, we have been super busy learning all about the letter bB and the sound that it makes. We have had so much fun blowing bubbles, playing with balloons, bouncing basketballs, baking birthday cakes and using beanbags in the nature playground. Inside our amazing classrooms, we have painted bees, butterflies and bunnies, looked after babies, used balance buckets and bear counters, threaded beads and buttons, read plenty of books and celebrated lots of birthdays. The fun never stops in Kindergarten!

Mrs. Jo Borg and Mrs. Emma Pring

Kindergarten Teachers

Year 2

This term, we have been learning about Place Value. We have learned about how Place Value means the value of where a digit is in a number. In partners, we got a collection of dice and rolled them between the two of us. We made two-digit to four-digit numbers from our rolled dice. With these, we then had to make as many numbers as we could. We also challenged our partners to tell the value of each digit in a number.

In English, we explored the story of the Rainbow Fish. We listed all the new vocabulary words in the text and made a vocabulary book on Book Creator. From there, we learned how to use a dictionary and find the most appropriate definition. The students then typed their definitions alongside the new words. As a class, we developed our ability to retell the key events in a text. The children sequenced the story using illustrations to aid their writing. We also made our very own Rainbow fish using a range of creative methods.

The Year 2’s have also been thoroughly enjoying learning Basketball skills with the VET students in the secondary school. This has been a very enjoyable and rewarding experience for all students involved.

Mrs. Hayley Sheppard

Year 2 Teacher

 

OSCAR ROMERO CELEBRATION

Tomorrow, March 24, the College will have a special commemoration of the day Blessed Oscar Romero, our College patron, was assassinated 37 years ago. This year we celebrate the 100th anniversary of his birth. Therefore he is our Patron Focus for 2017.

Oscar Romero is very important to us at Holy Cross because in the life he lived, Oscar Romero spoke very clearly to our College Vision;
 

    ‘A Community of Transformation in the Spirit of the Risen Christ’.
 

With great courage he embraced the journey of the cross, standing up for the poor and for justice, knowing that the cost was likely to be his own life. Archbishop Oscar Romero became the "bishop of the poor" for his work defending the people of El         Salvador. He promised history that life, not death, would have the last word. "I do not believe in death without resurrection," he said. "If they kill me, I will be resurrected in the Salvadoran people."

We therefore pray,

Heavenly Father, 

May we, like Romero, as your pilgrim people choose to centre our lives around you. We ask that you would speak to us this day. We ask that you would transform us, through your Spirit to be people of learning, interrelationships, faith, and enrichment. That we, like Romero, would know the true meaning of what it is to live life to the full. 

We ask this in Jesus' name. Amen.