Life At Holy Cross College: Junior School Week 9 Autumn Term Update

Kindergarten

It is hard to believe we are at the end of the term, where has that time gone? The highlight for this fortnight has been working on our fundraiser for St Vincent De Paul. Last week, our buddies came to help us create some posters to place around the school to advertise our muffin bake sale. The final designs were also shared during HTG when some of the brave Kindy students spoke in front of the huge Senior School students to promote the fundraiser. On Thursday we ventured to the Food Technology room, which was filled with ovens and sinks and lots of different kitchen equipment, where our buddies helped us to bake our muffins from scratch. There was a lot of excellent measuring and mixing (and thankfully no taste testing during the process!) At lunchtime we set up our shop at the café and waited for our first customers. The children’s advertising must have worked too well because we had sold out of muffins in minutes! After lunch we counted our money to discover we had raised a total of $58 for the poor. We were very proud of our efforts.

A special thank you to Mrs Brown and her class for all of their help.

Year One

Lot’s of fascinating things have been happening in Year One this fortnight! During integrated lessons we’ve been looking at the ‘Elements of Art’. The students have explored how lines, shapes and colour can change the dynamics of a picture. They have also learnt the element of ‘value’ to show the shadow of an object.

We were lucky enough to see the set for the Lockie Leonard production. Mr McRae showed us the effects of the lights on the stage and discussed how much work has been put into preparing for the show. The Year One’s were very impressed by the wave on the backdrop.

The Year Eight students showcased their ‘Antarctica Big Ideas’ projects. We learnt that we need to be very careful with our environment because Antarctica is melting.

During PATHs and Religious Education lessons we have made webs with wool. We said compliments about each other for PATHs and discussed ways we use our bodies for Religion.

Year Two

Wow! What a busy few weeks the Year Two’s have had! We have been cooking with our Childcare buddies, learning fundamental movement skills with the Year 10-12 Physical Education students, completing math projects and preparing our information books on animals.

In Mathematics we are discovering the use of tallies and bar graphs. The children created questions, collated data and then worked out how to present the data in a graph. They are also learning the language of probability and using it in their graphing.

This week we celebrated our first class Liturgy. The children practised leading up to the day. This was reflected in the fantastic readings and behaviour on the day. Father Bona provided a very entertaining homily where we had to tell him the three words that we should always use, "Please, Thank You, and I'm Sorry". A big thank you is extended to the parents who were in attendance.

Upcoming Events

Playground Installation

The Junior School nature playground is not far away. Installation is due to commence during the term break. Artist Nick Compton and Andrew Baldry of Exclusive Landscapes Australia are busy preparing the pieces that will be constructed. Here is a sneak peek of a few pieces.