What's Happening - Reminders & Updates! 11th April 2024

2024

Term 1 - Wednesday 7th February - Thursday 11th April 

Term 2 - Monday 29th April - Friday 5th July 

Term 3 - Tuesday 23rd July - Friday 27th September 

Term 4 - Tuesday 15th October - Wednesday 18th December 

*Student Free Days Friday 12th April, Monday 22nd July, Monday 14th October.

(Easter Break - Good Friday 29th March, Easter Monday 1st April, Easter Tuesday 2nd April. Return to school Wednesday 3rd April.)

April

2024 Board Meetings

The school office will be closed from Friday 12th April (all staff will be offsite for a whole staff training day) we will re-open on Monday 29th April at 8.30am. 

In Year Six this term one of the subject areas we have worked on a lot has been History, with a specific focus on migration to Australia. Students have learnt about the different reasons that push or pull people to migrate as well as some of the policies Australia has had over the last 200 years that have also influenced migration patterns. Some of the tasks students have engaged well in have been;

• Creating a family tree that focused on where family members were born and exploring any stories of migration within their own family
• Creating their own suitcase that contained 4-6 significant items from home and the reasons they would take them if they were to migrate
• Creating an historical journal that tells the physical, emotional and cultural journey of a migrant coming to Australia during the past 200 years

Students were also lucky enough to secure their Leavers jumpers before the end of term and eagerly wore them with pride.

This term has flown by! In Religion, we have explored units on Prayer, Lent, Holy Week and God. Our English this term has been focused around the novel, “War Horse” by Micheal Murpurgo. Our vocabulary and knowledge of grammar has been enriched with our weekly focus. We have explored writing at sentence level, working on sentence expansion, adding appositives and coordinating conjunctions such as; and, but, and so. Students have created narrative and persuasive texts.

In Mathematics, we have explored the multiplication and divisions algorithm with regrouping, perimeter, fact families for multiplication and division and equivalent fractions.

Our HASS unit has focused on How the colonies developed after the 1800’s, students have researched the effects of penal settlements, whaling, the Wool industry, exploration and the gold rush on the expansion of the colonies.

In Art, we have explored different sketching techniques to help us sketch an image of a horse inspired by our class novel. 

Congratulations to the following students who have received Student of the Week.

Prep

Year 1 

Liam For thoughtfully and kindly co-operating in games with his friends during break times.

Year 2

Year 3

Max for completing several tasks in class with gusto!  Well done Max.

Year 4

Angus for always being thoughtful and caring to those around him.

Year 5

C.J for always being thoughtful and caring to those around him.

Year 6

Annabell for completing Term 1 with a responsible and mature approach and demonstrating a can do attitude!

Congratulations to our House Raffle winners this week:

Dooley - Ruby T

Martyn - Jobie 

Byrne - Deacon

Congratulations to Evie & Violet who competed in their first Netta netball tournament over the weekend. Any students in Years 2 - 4 can join the Netta roster. Please see Mrs Harris if your child is interested in playing netball on a Saturday morning. 

Mersey Leven Catholic Parish 

Mersey Leven Catholic Parish is a Catholic community made up of many people who seek together to live and share the joy of the Gospel. 

Parish Office: 90 Stewart St Devonport

Wednesday - Friday 9am - 2pm

Phone: 036424 2783 

Email: merseyleven@aohtas.org.au

See the Parish website for more information

https://www.merseylevencatholicparish.com/