LIFE In Year One!

The Year Ones had a ball during LIFE Week exploring their Big Ideas question ‘Where have we been?”, from cooking through to an excursion to Kings Park, learning some cultural dances and working with their Year Five Buddies.

The week started with a Pilgrimage to learn about Ursula Frayne. The students visited buildings around the College that represented Ursula and experienced the reflection garden for the first time to say a pray to her. This was followed by some multicultural cooking with the parents, tasting food from America, Italy, Mexico, Australia and England.

On Tuesday, we left for our excursion to the Education Centre and Naturescape at Kings Park. We learnt about the Noongar culture through a story of Chunyart and the Cheeky Parrot, and then explored the bush of Kings Park in the Naturescape. The students had so much fun experiencing the mud baths, tall towers and rope swings.

   

Wednesday brought a visit from Bunnings Warehouse to build money boxes. We received some special help from our parents and Mr Basson. We decorated these using a country of our choice as inspiration.

A big day of multicultural activities were held on Thursday as the students worked together with the Pre Primary and Year Two students. Moving around different sessions lead by the parents, the students were able to visit several countries and taste some of the national food, dancing, singing, artwork and more! With every child brining in a share plate for lunch, the students had a real experience trying food from countries, such as Ireland, India, Sudan, England, Australia and many more.

   

The Year Fives came across for the day on Friday and celebrated a liturgy with us. Team games followed this, seeing some great skills of collaboration. We continued to learn more about our Year Level Patron, Ursula Frayne with the help of the Year Fives.

The students were very tired, but were very happy after this very exciting and enriching week.

Miss Sibbald

Year One Teacher