Catholic Education Week Mass & Concert in the Park

Some of our senior students had the privilege of attending the annual Catholic Education Week Mass at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne today. The Mass was a beautiful celebration of unity and faith, and our students participated with reverence and joy.

Congratulations to the following students for receiving awards at Monday's assembly.
Well done to every one of you.

FRF - Nash, For showing determination and focus when learning to record letters and numerals. Superstar!

FRF - Sephora, For helping and including others in the classroom and on the playground. Sensational!

FRZ - Morgan, For working really hard on writing his numbers to 10 correctly. 

FRZ - Fiadh, Her positive attitude to all learning tasks. Fiadh contributes great ideas to our class discussions.

JSE - Emelia, For correctly filling in missing numbers on a number line.

JSE - Charlie, For using adjectives when writing a recount sentence about Pancake Tuesday.

JMR - Zara, For being able to represent numbers to 120 using base 10 blocks. 

JMR - Jordan, For being an active member in class discussions. 

JTA -  Mia, For outstanding effort in staying focused and demonstrating persistence during the Daily Maths Review.

JTA -  Yuvin, For an excellent effort in accurately reading the time on an analogue clock.

JDB - Evie, For being able to tell the time using half past, quarter to and past. Well done.

JDB -  Charlie, For using descriptive words and important events when writing his own narrative.

MSM - Eddie, For persevering through NAPLAN even when it may have been challenging.

MSM - Noah, For working well and focussing during NAPLAN tests.

MSM - Esther,  For having a positive attitude towards NAPLAN.

MNG - Henry, For being a kind and caring friend to all and always working to the best of your ability. You are a wonderful role model.

MNG - Ellie, For always sharing wonderful ideas and connections during learning time.

MYK - Ben, For working independently during Reading Groups

MYK - Eva, For creating strong arguments in her persuasive writing task.   

MLR - Luka, For approaching his learning with a positive mindset.

MLR - Shivani, For trying really hard to persevere when challenged in her learning.

SHJ - Isabel- For confidently using the area model to multiply one digit by two-digit numbers.

SHJ - Jasper- For being a cooperative, caring and enthusiastic student, working well in all his lessons. 

SLN - Braddley - For consistently working to the best of his ability on all tasks.

SLN - Olivia- For the way she interacts with others in an inclusive and caring way that makes SLN a wonderful class to be.

SWD - Lucy D- for writing an engaging and thought provoking description of a scene she had drawn.

SWD - Hamish L for writing an engaging and thought provoking description of a scene he had drawn.

STC - Nixon: For consistently working hard in class and maintaining a positive attitude towards learning.

STC - Charlotte Wilson: For your exceptional creativity, attention to detail, and ability to clearly express your ideas in narrative/persuasive writing.

Irene Stewart 

JSE celebrated their Liturgy of the Word

 (Third Sunday of Lent)

This Thursday 20th March, JSE(Year 1)  participated in the Liturgy of the Word. JMR(Year 1) joined them for the celebration.

The following is their reflection and prayers:

In today’s Gospel Jesus tells us a parable about a Fig Tree, a gardener and a landowner. The fig tree did not bear any fruit and the gardener tried his best to do all things to make it grow better. 

This parable helps us remember that God, like the gardener, tends to us with love and care. He doesn't give up on us, even when we may give up. God wants us to try hard so that we can grow.

As a class we have reflected on what actions we could ‘take up’ to make us each a better person and bring us closer to Jesus. 

Prayers of the Faithful:

Dear God,

Help us to learn from our mistakes and grow to be better people. 

Lord, hear us.

All: Lord, hear our prayer.

Loving God, 

Guide us to make good choices and follow in your footsteps. 

Lord, hear us.

All: Lord, hear our prayer.

Loving God, 

Encourage us to persist and not give up when things are hard. 

Lord, hear us.

All: Lord, hear our prayer.

Dear God,

Help us to keep our Lenten promise this Lent. Lord, hear us.

All: Lord, hear our prayer.

Dear God,

Thank you for being with us on our Journey through our happy times and hard times.

Lord hear us  

All: Lord, hear our prayer.

Maths in Foundation!

We are seeing some amazing growth in our Foundation students. They are beginning to recognise the order in the sequence of numbers to 20 and are exploring the formation of Numbers. Keep up the great learning! 

Have you ever wondered what animals live in Antarctica? 

The students in Year 1 have been keen to learn about the animals and discovered that penguins are the most populated bird living in the frozen waters of Antarctica. The students have been drawing penguins with all its important features such as a beak, flippers and webbed feet to help them balance on the slippery snow and ice!

Did you know that a male penguin balances the egg on its feet so that the embryo does not freeze and can hatch into a chick?

Middle School - Introducing Cursive Script

During Years 3 and 4 we build on our handwriting skills by introducing cursive script. In Year 4 there is a focus on increasing fluency and automaticity. MLR have been practising joining letters both on lined whiteboards and in handwriting books. 

Audiri App

Our school uses the Audiri App to help us communicate more effectively with our Parent community. This type of notification does not usually require a response from parents (as Operoo does).

We ask parents to install our Audiri School App which is easily obtainable from the Apple App Store or Google Play Store.

Once installed, just search for our school name “St Joachim's Primary School”. 

Absence Notifications on Audiri

Absence notifications are sent to the school via the Audiri App. These notifications are seen by the classroom teacher, and the office staff who manage the daily roll. 

Parents and carers have an obligation to notify the school of their child’s absence as soon as possible on the day of absence - preferably before 8:30am.

Other messages such as early pick up, can also sent using the Absence notifications form of the Audiri App.

Here’s a video on how to send absence notifications.

If you're having trouble with your Audiri App on your phone, it may need to be deleted and the latest version installed. Families and staff are telling us that this has fixed any Audiri issues that they have been having.