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BE KIND, BE YOU!
Click on the video of 'Under Your Star' by Andrew Chinn to watch, listen and sing along at home.
You may like to create your very own picture story book of the birth of Jesus.
How can you be a person of Peace during this special season of Advent?
Read the story from the bible and reflect how you can spread peace in your life. What will this look like? Sound like? And Feel like?
Waste Free Wednesdays at St Mary's
What are you doing to help St Mary's be more waste free?
Make a poster and put it on your fridge at home to remind yourself to reduce the plastic packaging in your lunch box every day.
What other things could we do at school to help create positive changes for our planet?
Try these strategies at home.
How do you feel before & after?
What helps you to find peace & calm inside your body?
Create your own
Comic Strip,
Poster or
Picture Story book about being kind.
Bring it to school to share with your teachers and friends.
This Wednesday is our Socktober Social Justice Event Day at St Mary's.
You are invited to wear some Crazy Socks to school and bring in a donation for Catholic Mission.
Participate in our Socktober Soccer Shootout at 2.30pm.
Have fun whilst raising money and awareness to support families in Timor-Leste facing health and wellness challenges.
The Catholic Mission projects on the ground help sustain and enrich the lives of vulnerable children by providing vital medicines and health support.
What words and actions will you say and do this week to spread kindness at St Mary’s, in your home and within our wider community?
choose-kindness-powerpoint-us-ss-586_ver_5.pptxWhen you watch this video
What do you SEE?
What does is make your THINK?
What does it make you WONDER?
T-TP-2679223-Printable-Be-Kind-Colouring-Page-_ver_2.pdfYou can print this off and colour this in at home or ask Miss Dullard at school for a copy.
You may like to try this Mindfulness Meditation at home with your family.
Reflect on how you feel before the meditation.
How did you feel after the meditation?
What strategies do you use to fill your body with peace?
You may like to try this Mindfulness Meditation at home with your family.
Reflect on how you feel before the meditation.
How did you feel after the meditation?
What strategies do you use to fill your body with peace?
Research and learn how to say thank you in a different language, share this with your teacher and classmates.
At home discuss - What similarities and differences do you have to your classmates, friends, members of your family?
What makes you special?
What makes you proud?
Teaching children we are different yet the same, helps celebrate diversity and encourage peace.
This term we have explored how First Nations people solved problems using natural resources.
With the help and expertise of Marissa we been learning about Bush Tucker and Bush Medicine.
With adult permission and supervision you may like to make damper at home.
Please save the date for our Term 3 Learning Expo.
You are invited to come and visit our classrooms. They will be open between 2.30pm until 4pm on Monday 11th September.
We hope to see you there and cannot wait to share some of our amazing learning with you!
If you have any questions please speak to your child's teacher.
Can you find the Dark Emu constellation in the sky?! Take a photo or draw a picture of it to share with your class.
Read this information from the amazing book we have been learning about 'The First Scientists' to find out more.
"Look with kindness and you will always see wonder."
We continue our focus this week on using a kind heart and ensuring there are no put downs being used in our school.
Listen to Mrs Galvin read the text 'Resilience' written by Zonni Louise and illustrated by Missy Turner.
In the Grade 1 and 2 learning community we are resilient by:
… understanding it is important to persist when faced a challenge
… identifying helpful and unhelpful thinking
… calming myself after being angry, worried or sad
… trying to bounce back when others treat me unfairly
...taking actions to manage problems
Talk to your family about how you will be resilient today.
This week we celebrate National Science Week. Through our Inquiry lessons we will continue to explore our big question for the term: How can being curious help us to learn from and celebrate Australia's First Scientists?
What does it LOOK like, SOUND like and FEEL like when you let your light shine?
Remember to use positive self talk at home. Make a poster with a statement you will focus on for the week, teach your family members to do the same.
Australia's First Peoples used science skills to invent tools which have been used as the basis for many modern inventions today.
They could only use the natural materials they had around them to make things.
If they had a need for something, they found a way to use the materials around them to achieve it.
Record all the interesting facts from the Indigenous Australian Artefacts, bring your work to school to share with your teacher.
1/2T3InquiryIndigenous Artefacts.pptx
What is Curiosity?
Use the video in the slides to discuss Curiosity & wonder at home and ask your children questions such as…
Why do you think our family is curious?
What are you curious about?
What do you wonder about?
If you could travel anywhere tomorrow where would you go and why?
We are learning about Australia’s First Saint.
Do you know their name?
Do you know anything about them?
We are learning this song about them in preparation for our whole school liturgy in week 5.
We use Mind Master thinking to keep our inner voice positive and to change our mindset to helpful thinking. Practise this at home.
Using the front cover of 'The First Scientists' and connecting to what you know about Australia's First Peoples predict what inventions and innovations will be found in this book.
Record any questions or wonderings you have too!
Share them with your classroom teacher to add to your Inquiry questions.
We are supporting students in grade four who are preparing for their First Eucharist by learning about the Sacrament and the very first Eucharist, The Last Supper.
Draw a modern day picture of Jesus and his disciples sharing in this very special meal.
When compromising is tricky try the Problem Solve Wheel of Choice.
On slides 2 and 3 you will see images of the Problem Solve Wheel of Choice tool. Which strategies on Problem Solve Wheel do you use? Which strategies do you find easy to use? Which strategies may be tricky to use?
Make your own Problem Solve Wheel of Choice to use at home on the school holidays.
Design a new Laudato Si' - Care For Our Common Home poster to displayed around the school.
What message do you want to the audidence to learn from your poster about caring for God's world?
What motto could you include?
How can you make your ideas stand out clearly?
Questions to think about before the excursion - use the map to help you with your questions
What are you most looking forward to about the excursion?
What do you hope to learn about?
What questions do you have?
What are you wondering about?
How can you be respectful?
(To yourself?
Your classmates?
Teachers & parents? Animals? Staff at Moonlit Sanctuary?)
You are all invited to join us at St Mary's Community Garden Open Afternoon.
When: Wednesday 7th June, 2pm-4pm
Lots of fun for everyone!
We had a wonderful morning celebrating National Reconciliation Week on Friday 2nd June with the 1/2 Community from Hastings Primary School.
kangaroo - Relay Race (1).pdfwana - french cricket style (2).pdfWhat was your favourite First Nations game that we played? Select one of the games to teach your family. How can you be a Voice For Generations?
mer_kolap - ball in hoop relay (2).pdfkalkadoon_kee_an - target throwing (1).pdfWe are so excited about our 1/2 Community Excursion to MoonLit Sanctuary next Monday 5th June.
Please take some time to read these slides so as you are ready for a wonderful day of learning.
Any questions please ask your child's classroom teacher.
Guide-to-Wallaby-Walk-and-Species-Identification.pdf
You are all invited to join us at St Mary's for our Family Fun Friday!
When: Friday 2nd June and Friday 16th June
8.45am-9.15am
Where: In your child's classroom
We hope you can make it!
St Mary’s are proudly participating in National Reconciliation Week 2023
National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is a time for all Australians to learn about our shared histories, cultures, and achievements, and to explore how each of us can contribute to achieving reconciliation in Australia.
Learn more about Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander kinship structures
We are very lucky to be going on an excursion to MoonLit Sanctuary on Monday 5th June.
Ask an adult to help you to visit their website, select one of the birds listed and find three interesting facts about them. Bring the facts to school to share them with your class.
You are all invited to join us for Willum Warrain's Mornington Peninsula Reconciliation Walk.
When: Sunday June 4th, 11am-1pm
Where: Pelican Park & 10c Pound Road Hastings.
Please find all the details on the flyer.
We hope to see you there!
Click on the link below to practise singing these new songs for our Reconciliation Week Mass next Wednesday 31st May.
Click on the link below to practise singing these new songs for our Reconciliation Week Mass next Wednesday 31st May.
Picture-Book-Spectacular-Splendid-Swamps (1).pdfRead the picture story book 'Spectacular Spendid Swamps' and reflect on how you can care for the environments around you: our school environment, home environment and local environment.
Make a poster with your ideas and share it with Miss Dullard at school.
Tell your family about the importance of an Acknowledgement of Country. Teach them the Bunrong language which we use in our school Acknowledgement of Country and then create your own gestures for each line. Ask a family member to video the gestures and share them with your teacher on Seesaw.
pc23-prayer (4).pptx
Watch the video and answer the questions about this inspiring club:
What is the club?
How can you belong to this club?
What clubs and groups do you belong to?
How do you show that you belong?
What do you have to do to belong to this group?
What clubs or groups would you like to belong to? Why?
Think about the different types of communities we all think we belong to.
Were there any from the video?
Can you think of any others?
Complete the graphic organiser below with words and pictures.
Practise singing 'Shine Among Them' at home.
Teach the song to a teddy or soft toy.
Make up some actions for the chorus and each verse.
Share the actions with Miss Dullard at school.
Read the picture story book 'Family' or ask someone to read it to you.
What lessons do Aunts, Uncles, Elders and Ancestors share with younger members of the family?
Use the illustrations to discuss the sorts of things the families in the text do together to build stronger connections with one another and their culture.
What things do you love doing with your family? Why?
Watch 'Tereesa, A Day in the life'
Then, See, Think, Wonder
Family - Heart and Home.mp4Click on the link to listen to our amazing Fire Carriers, Zarnah and Callum read the text family, written by Aunty Fay Muir & Sue Lawson. Illustrated by Jasmine Seymour.
Create a graphic organiser to show how family impacts on so many aspects of Aboriginal life
How does family support the important beliefs of caring for Country, listening to Elders, building strong relationships with extended family and keeping the traditions of story and song alive?
In a reflection, explain how important your family is to you.
I wonder...
How we can come closer to Jesus during Lent …
How we can come closer to Jesus during Lent …
About the special ways we can do extra good things to be more like Jesus …
About the special ways we can do extra good things to be more like Jesus …
How to keep God’s love alive in our homes, school and world…
How to keep God’s love alive in our homes, school and world…
What are the signs of Lent you can see in your classroom?
What are the signs of Lent you can see around our school?
Watch 'A day in the life of Laxmi'
Then, See, Think, Wonder
Can you find Nepal on a world map?
Which region of the world is Nepal in: Africa, Europe, Asia, Oceania, North America or South America?
What direction is Nepal from where you live?
What time is it in Nepal?
As part of our Inquiry question
'Who am I? How do I connect to the people and places around me'
We are learning to identify 'places and things that are special in my local community.'
With an adult's help use google maps to locate:
Our school
Where you live
Pelican Park
Hastings Library
Hastings Fire Station
Hastings Police Station
Your favourite park
Where are your special places in your local community? What makes them special? Illustrate your special place. Share this on Seesaw with your teacher.
Try this 5,4,3,2,1 grounding technique at home which focuses on our senses and helps us to be present.
WHOEVER YOU ARE
Before listening to the Book:
Discuss the front cover.
Discuss the title and the picture.
What are the people on the cover doing?
Where are they going?
Do the people all look the same?
Read the blurb, what do you predict you will find out.
After Listening to the Book:
Design a new front cover for the book
Write a new blurb
Bring your work into school to share with your teachers
Click on the image of the front cover to listen to the author Mem Fox, reading the book.
You are all invited to join us for Willum Warrain's Mornington Peninsula Reconciliation Walk.
When: Sunday June 4th, 11am-1pm
Where: Pelican Park & 10c Pound Road Hastings.
Please find all the details on the flyer.
We hope to see you there!
What does it LOOK like, SOUND like and FEEL like when you let your light shine?
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