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SCIENCEWORKS DESIGN SPRINT

A group of 10 Grade 5 students (Toby, Emma, Ryan, Bohdi, Georgia, Indi, Ivy, Summer, Seamus and Ed) were lucky enough to represent our school at the Kids Teaching Kids Design Sprint at Scienceworks recently.
Kids Teaching Kids is a unique event where the teaching is done by students for students. Our 10 students ran a 40 minute workshop for their peers, teaching them about ways to make a playground more sustainable.
All schools who attended the day sat in two 40 minute workshops but not all schools ran them. We were very fortunate to be able to actually run our own workshop with all 10 students doing their school proud.
Following the workshops, school teams participated in a brainstorm session followed by a “design sprint” to create a sustainable playground prototype using materials from the Scienceworks makers space, 3D pens and cospaces app.
To end the day, teams had the opportunity to share their designs as well as see each schools prototype.
 
A big thank you to Danielle from Kids Teaching Kids who came out and worked with our students prior to the day and to our very own Marty from 5/6 Orange who drove the students to Scienceworks for the event.
 

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

Whilst Out and About at Deep Creek recently, the Year 3/4 children continued their focus on diversity by investigating Indigenous seasonal calendars and how they are similar or different to that of Australia’s European seasonal calendar.
 
 
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100 DAYS OF FOUNDATION

This week we celebrated 100 days of Foundation. Our Foundation students and teachers dressed up & wore fabulous party hats to celebrate. We made cupcakes and the parents joined us in the afternoon to watch a video of the students telling what they have learnt and what they’ve enjoyed so far. It was a great day.

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!

KIDS TEACHING KIDS

Last week we had Danielle from Kids Teaching Kids come and speak with 10 of our Grade 5 students. These 10 students will be representing St Therese at an upcoming event at Scienceworks where the teaching is done by students for students. Our students are preparing their own workshop on sustainable playgrounds and how they would create one at our school.
Students will come away with an increased understanding of the importance of sustainability and feel more confident in their ability to have a positive impact on their environment while developing leadership skills and resilience.
The second half of the day all students will have the opportunity to use what they have learnt to create sustainable playground prototypes in a "design sprint" challenge.

GOLF

Chris Crabbe, the Regional Development Officer for Golf Australia ran a golf clinic with our Grade 6 students last week while our Grade 5 students were on camp.
The students were thoroughly engaged and enjoyed every minute of the experience.
Josh Lancaster from The Sands Golf Club Torquay also came and joined in, passing on some of his expertise to the students.

CROSS COUNTRY

We are very proud of Marlie and Duke who represented St Therese at State Cross Country last week.
Marlie ran a PB of 8:13 and finished 45th.
Duke ran 7:13 and finished 13th.
Well done guys, you have done yourselves proud!

1/2 LEARNING WALK

This week we conducted our second Learning Walk which was held in the 1/2 Learning Space. 
Thank you to all the parents who attended, we had a great turn out.

Our parents were asked to make some observations and let us know what they noticed:
- How focused the children were
- They knew what they were doing
- Well behaved
- A calm environment
- A healthy level of noise which allowed for active learning
- Liked the set-up of the rooms
- The came with their own experiences of school and liked the difference and the way learning has changed for the children
- Happy children learning
- So different from their own school days, different for the better
- Children supporting each other
- No competition, all children working at their level
- Different ways to learn the same thing
- Children were very good at having a go
- Respect shown between children to children, children to teachers and teachers to children

Our next Learning Walk will be in the 3/4 Learning Community on Monday 17th June at 9am.

GRATITUDE | COMPASSION | RESPECT

It was a sea of pink on Friday as students and staff dressed in pink to help support Franca in her crusade against Breast Cancer.
In a selfless act, Franca sat down in front of the entire school and had her head shaved as a way of showing her support and to raise awareness and much needed funds for the Breast Cancer Network Australia.
All students were asked to bring along a gold coin donation with the grand total when collected tallying a whopping $1057! Together with other donations that Franca has collected through her 'Everyday Hero' support page she has raised an amazing $4195. 
 
As you can imagine, Franca's parents are very proud of her and are very appreciative of the St Therese community for their support.
 
Gratitude | Compassion | Respect - three values that we at St Therese consider very important and were very evident and on full display throughout the school on Friday.
 
Thank you!

SCIENCEWORKS DESIGN SPRINT

Grade 5 students, Toby, Emma, Ryan, Bohdi and Georgia travelled to Melbourne yesterday to attend the Scienceworks STEM Design Sprint and Leadership Day. 15 schools were involved in the day where they were asked to design a brand new play space for the outdoor area at Scienceworks.
During the morning session students heard from some guest speakers who actually design outdoor play spaces. Elliot from Polygon Landscape Architecture and Valli from CoDesign Studio shared their expertise with group, helping the students with what they need to consider in their designs.
 
 
 
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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.

SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES

Our Monday assemblies this term will be held at 3pm in the school hall and we encourage families to attend.
These are generally short, with our longer ones placed on the school calendar. Our first longer one will be on Monday 27th May.

ANZAC DAY

Our Year 6 students, Kiki and Jasmine, along with Mr Gerard McCarthy, proudly represented St Therese at the ANZAC Dawn Service. This year is the 70th anniversary of the ANZAC Day at Point Danger.

HOLY WEEK

As a Catholic School, with Jesus and the gospel at the core of what we do...we have celebrated the events of Holy Week, which still have significance and meaning for us today.

We remember the meal that Jesus initiated, we remember that he spent time with his friends and that they had weaknesses and failings. We remembered that he suffered for others and that he overcame despair and suffering so that we can also see that light will always stand out in the darkness. We need to take this light, light the flame of others and watch the dawn break in a world that can so often live in the darkness of night.

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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