Newsletter Thursday 14th September, 2023

We the staff of St Patrick’s acknowledge the traditional owners, the Kulin nations, of the land on which we learn and play.

We pay respects to the Aboriginal Elders, past and present, who are our teachers.

We thank them for taking care of children and country for countless generations.

 

John 3:13-17

God sent his Son so that through him the world might be saved

Jesus said to Nicodemus:
‘No one has gone up to heaven
except the one who came down from heaven,
the Son of Man who is in heaven;
and the Son of Man must be lifted up
as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
so that everyone who believes may have eternal life in him.
Yes, God loved the world so much that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him may not be lost
but may have eternal life.
For God sent his Son into the world
not to condemn the world,
but so that through him the world might be saved.’

 

Hello family and friends, 

As you probably already know this week is the last week of term 3! And because of that our school is having a footy day! Remember to dress up in your team's footy colours and we’ll be having sausage sizzle for lunch! 

Over the term our class (6BC) has done lots of work on numerous subjects. 

On Tuesday our class and the rest of the year sixes got to bring cup noodles from home and got to cook them and eat them in school. The past couple of weeks in Japanese we’ve been learning about the origin of cup noodles and learning how to use chopsticks. So on Tuesday we put our knowledge into practise and tried using our chopsticks provided by Mrs Ashcroft to eat the noodles. You can see the photos below!

For our writing this term we did hybrid texts. Hybrid texts are two different types of writing conjoined into one. While doing our hybrid texts we also were doing our natural disaster topic, so we made a narrative and did it about natural disasters. Some of them were based on real natural disasters that actually happened but also based on fictional characters. It was a very unique and different style of writing. 

Our class is practising for the Rotary Public Speaking competition by doing oral presentations. Oral presentations are basically where you get a topic to write about like your favourite food and favourite animal and you present information about them but you only get 2 minutes to present. We enjoyed doing this task and becoming more familiar with presenting and it helped us become more confident. 

One of our classmates, Addison, was able to make it to division athletics in discus.  We congratulated Addison on coming 4th overall in her event, which was an amazing achievement considering she may have broken her finger the day before! 

Footy tips

This term we finally finished our footy tips. It was a really close match, Mrs Couch was leading most of the season but then she had a few bad weeks towards the end and Lewis and Harlow were able to take her over, but in the end Lewis won. What team do you think will make the premierships? 

Natural disasters

Another thing we explored this term was to learn about different natural disasters, we learnt interesting facts and expanded our knowledge on all of them. It was a really fun topic to learn about and we all enjoyed doing this inquiry task. 

Times tables challenges

To practise our times table we got a times table grid each week. We had 5 minutes to complete it and it revised our efficiency and accuracy of times tables knowledge. Everyone made huge improvements and Ishaan even got 100/100 on the last week!  

We hope you all have a fantastic holiday with your family and friends. 

Thank you for reading 6BC’s newsletter and we hope you enjoy Term 4! 

By Ryan, Davina, Willow, Brax, Ishaan, Jackson