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CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY
Last Friday was clean up Australia day for St Therese Year 5/6 students.
We travelled by bus down to Torquay Beach and walked all the way around to Point Danger and on around to Fisho's Beach. We were cleaning up the area around the beaches and along the foreshore. As we were walking we were astonished to find a huge amount of waste.
We found thousands of cigarette butts, hundreds of pieces of hard plastics and general waste and glass was over 300 pieces and we are still counting...
We were overwhelmed by these findings.
Our plan was to do this as part of a community service, especially during Lent, but it felt good to just do something for our community and the environment and not expect anything back, apart from a clean town.
In the future, we would like the community to hold more clean up days around the beach areas and the parks.
We would like to see the community use more recyclable materials everyday.
Such as no single use plastics, use a 'keep a cup' and boomerang net bags for fruit and veggies at the supermarket.
If you come across any rubbish on your walks or anywhere, please pick it up because it all makes a difference.
By Kyla, Ava and Summer
(Sustainability Leaders)
BUDDY PICNIC
What a lovely afternoon it was for a picnic!
Year 6 and their Foundation buddies enjoyed an afternoon of fun and games followed by a picnic on the St Therese oval. It was a lovely opportunity for the buddies to meet each other's parents and for the parents to meet each other too.
Lots of fun was had by everyone!
Welcome Back!
Our students and staff have enjoyed a great first week! The students have immersed themselves back into school life and have reacquainted themselves with school routines and friends and are getting to know their new teachers. Home visits commenced for our Foundation students, which always creates great excitement! The Foundation, 1/2 and 3/4 students all participated in their first Specialist Day for the year, with some exciting new subjects. The 5/6 students have enjoyed an external golf session, a new sport for some, with an emphasis on healthy exercise and fun. We hope your children have been able to share some of their school week with you.
SURF COAST YOUTH ENGAGEMENT GROUP
Earlier this week, the Surf Coast Youth Engagement Group, along with The Surf Coast Shire organised an event for Year 6 Girls who go to school on the Surf Coast and our Year 6 girls had the privilege of participating. The day started with a special guest speaker, Alex Marshall, who inspired the girls to think positively about their own abilities. Alex is a past St Therese student and Sacred Heart College captain. The girls then engaged in a range of activities including boxing, yoga, making beeswax wraps and other wellness and positive mindset activities. They interacted with other Year 6 girls from across the Surf Coast.
A fun day was had by all.
ST THERESE COLOUR RUN 2019
Thank you to all those who supported our Colour Run. It was wonderful to see so many parents join us on the day. Great fun was had by all.
We must also congratulate the Year 3/4 students who volunteered to organise different aspects of the day. This involved, students designing flyers, organising the obstacle course, allocating roles to the supervising teachers, taking photos and course dusting the participants with powder.
All the money raised will go towards supporting the girls in Kon Tum. Your contribution enables the girls to live at the convent during the school term and attend school.
GRANDPARENT'S DAY
CONGRATULATIONS
We would like to say how proud we are here at St Therese of one of our ex-students, Zoe Jones. Zoe was recently announced as one of the school captains for the 2020 school year at Sacred Heart College, Geelong​.
We are sure her parents Felicity and Rick, along with her sister, Hannah, are all very proud and excited by the news.
Congratulations Zoe!
BASKETBALL DIVISION CHAMPIONSHIPS
- Report written by Harry D and Jack O
On Monday, ten boys from Year 6 attended the Division Basketball Championships at AWA Stadium in Geelong.
As we walked in we saw lots of representatives from different schools. We were all nervous for our first game. Once we got into the game, the nerves started to calm down. We did win our first game, though it was close for most of it. One of our players got sick and had to go home early and we had some other illness issues throughout the day too. This meant that we did not do as well as we had hoped. One of the teams had a player that was six foot two and was very hard to play against.
We feel we challenged ourselves well and it was a good experience for the whole team.
SCIENCEWORKS DESIGN SPRINT
BOOK WEEK
What a way to end our Book Week celebrations! Our annual Book Week parade was sensational last week with every student and staff member accepting the challenge and going above and beyond with some sensational costumes.
A massive thank you to Ty, our Librarian, for all her hard work and organisation in making the week so special for everyone.
OUT AND ABOUT IN GRADE 3/4
GRADE 1/2 SPECIAL VISITOR
A huge thank you to Alison Villani for sharing her amazing work with our 1/2 students this week! The kids loved listening to Ali the Shiny Sparkly Unicorn and learning about the value of being themselves and spreading kindness throughout the world!
GRATITUDE | COMPASSION | RESPECT
SCIENCEWORKS DESIGN SPRINT
LEARNING WALKS
Thank you to the parents who participated in last Thursday’s Learning walk. As part of the learning walk, we talked about what education was for them. We then engaged in the learning walk through the years 5/6 learning area.
Parents had 3 questions in mind as they experienced the classrooms.
1. What did you see?
2. What did you think/feel?
3. What are you wondering?
Responses where
What did you see?
Group work, students working together, a variety of activities not all doing the same, children engaged, children knew what they were doing and could organise themselves, loved the visuals in the classrooms, focus groups with the teacher.
What did you think/feel/wonder?
Children comfortable, content and engaged, confident children, good communication skills – were able to engage with the parents when they walked around, really organised, children weren’t distracted when people moved through the classrooms. Were very impressed with the SMART spelling approach and have been enjoying the Seesaw posts.
ANNUAL REPORT
Our 2018 Annual Report to the school community has just been finalised. If you would like to have a read, can find it here.
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