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Welcome back term 2.  We hope you had a lovely Easter break and enjoyed time at home together.   

This week we are getting back into the swing of things.  We will revise the important components of being a Lourdes Learner and school behaviours.  It is imperative now that the good routines we worked so hard to establish last term are revised and maintained.   

Already this term we have commenced with two new letters of the week, Gg and Oo, our word families ‘at’ and ‘am’, and our new sight words.  We will also begin learning about the comprehension strategy of retell – focusing on the beginning, middle and end of a story.   

In Maths we continue to revise and reinforce the numbers from 1 to 10 and counting on from a given number – not just 1. 

Over the holidays, the weather certainly changed, and the cool air can be felt in the mornings.  Please ensure all children have a jumper at school daily and it is clearly named.   

Please remember to read nightly, practising sight words and letters and sounds learnt.  We do have a few short weeks in the calendar, but our program continues. 

Library borrowing day is on Wednesday for both classes.   

Don’t forget to read all of the articles in the newsletter to keep up to date with school events. 

We look forward to another great term. 

Liz and Melita

Year 1

Welcome to Term Two. We hope that everyone had a lovely Easter. 

After reading the text, ANZAC Biscuits by Phil Cummings last week, the students in Year One followed a recipe to make ANZAC biscuits. We hope that our families enjoyed eating them. 

In English, the students will focus on writing literary retells using the books, There's a Sea in My Bedroom by Margaret Wild and Too Many Pears by Jackie French. The children will write about a character in the story and will explore the texts to write about the most important parts from the beginning, middle and end. 

In Maths, we will be investigating patterns using objects and numbers. The children will take what they know about patterns to help them count in twos, fives and tens. 

In Science, we will look at changes around us, paying particular attention to day and night changes, the weather and the seasons.  

As the weather begins to change and become cooler, please remember to label all items of clothing.  

Jen and Ange

Year 2

Welcome to week 2! We hope that everyone enjoyed the beautiful weather over the long week-end. The Year 2s have been working hard and have settled into Term 2 very well! Our trip to the zoo was very exciting and students learnt so much about many different animals. Thanks to the parents who came with us for the day. Your help was very much appreciated!

The Year 2s have been exploring fairy tales, studying the characters and analysing stereotypes. This will lead us into creating alternative character attributes for characters.

Towards the end of the term we will be having a Mad Hatters Tea Party. Students can come dressed up in any fairy tale costume.

In Maths we are working with numbers up to 1000, focusing on arranging them in order, as well as looking at number sequences and patterns. In Religion we are studying the world in which Jesus lived, finding out about the customs and culture of the time. In Hass we are exploring our world and how it is divided, studying continents and countries and identifying where they are in relation to the equator and the hemispheres.

Our Mother’s Day Mass is being held on the 5^th May. If you would like to share a special ‘Mum’ photo at Mass, please email it to Janice.Moore@twb.catholic.edu.au

Please remember to bring in a Mother’s Day gift for our stall on the 7^th of May.  Students who have brought in a donation will be able to purchase a gift for $2. 

Please contact us if you have any concerns or questions!

Dennielle, Allyson, Sarah, Aleisha and Megan

Year 3

Welcome back! We hope everybody had a blessed Easter and all students enjoyed their break. This term, we will continue to develop our persuasive writing skills and look at text connections. We have started to read ‘The Midnight Gang’ in preparation for our Empire Theatre excursion in Week 5. A note about this excursion went home last week; please let us know if you did not receive one.  

In HASS this term, we will be looking at how our local community has changed over time and in Science we will be exploring the Sun, Earth and Moon and how they relate to each other.  

We will change over to Winter uniform on the 4th of May. 

Last Friday we commemorated ANZAC Day with a liturgy led by the Year 5 classes. 

Please send photos for the Mother’s Day Mass (one photo per family) to Mrs Moore by this Friday, 30th April.  

Have a great week! 

Angela, Sarah, Damian and Janice

Year 4

Welcome back to Term 2! It was certainly as very busy start to the Term last week.  It was great to see everyone looking smart for school photos last Thursday.  Many thanks to Mrs Salisbury for organising our Cross Country last Wednesday – wasn’t it a beautiful day!  Congratulations to everyone that participated on the day – it is a big effort!  Well done to the Year 4 placegetters – Arohamae, Charlotte B, Mikayla Cooper, Olivia and Isabel.  Best of luck to Olivia, Isabel, Blake, Harris, Leila and Max when they complete at the West Zone trials this Friday.   

Congratulations to Year 5 and their ANZAC Day Assembly last Friday – it was a great reminder of how grateful we are, to the armed forces.  This is another short week, as is next week – so it is important that students are at school as much as possible.   

A couple of reminders – Mothers’ Day gifts can be sent into teachers as soon as possible – the Mothers’ Day Stall in on next Friday 7th May!  Students are required to change over to the Winter Formal uniform next Tuesday. Homework begins this week. 

Year 3 and 4 students have an upcoming excursion to the Empire Theatre in Week 5.  Last week, students were given permission notes for this event.  Many thanks to Mrs Moore for all her work in organising Confirmation and First Communion – best of luck to all students involved. 

As we will not have another newsletter before Mothers’ Day, Garry, Toni and Suzanne would like to take the time to wish all mothers, grandmothers and mother figures, a blessed Mothers’ Day on Sunday 9th May.  Where would we be without you? 

Suzanne, Toni and Garry

Year 5

Term 2 started off with a bang with Cross Country, School Photos and our ANZAC day ceremony.  We would like to commend the Year 5’s on their reverence and respect for service men and women during this commemoration.  Mr Golightly spoke to the students Tuesday morning about how he had many reports he had from members of the community about the wonderful job they all did.  They thoroughly enjoyed the opportunity to talk with Corporal Jason Erbacher before our ANZAC day liturgy learning about life in the army and his service in Iraq and Afghanistan.     

We welcome a few new faces to our Lady of Lourdes community.  Tiana Howell and Madison Faranda have joined Mr Franzmann's class.  We also welcome Miss Natalya Kajewski (aka Miss K) to Mrs McKay's class for the next 4 weeks.  Miss K is completing her Masters in Education and in her spare time is a speech pathologist working with Ed QLD.  Sadly, we will be farewelling the Mohammed Ali family who are relocating to Sydney.  We wish them all the best and safe travels as they begin a new adventure.   

RE 

Students will develop their understanding of the Holy Spirit and how it applies to their lives. They will analyse and interpret Scriptural passages that refer to the Holy Spirit and the words, symbols and actions of the Catholic Rite of Confirmation. 

ENGLISH 

Term 2 brings revision and new rounds of learning.  We will spend time revising Persuasive writing structure and language features in week 2 and will move into Narrative writing from week 3.  Our Historical Narrative unit with focus on structuring a Narrative based in the time of the Eureka Stockade.  We will be focusing on presenting a perspective from a person in that time, sentence types, developing ideas and harnessing the skills of descriptive vocabulary and figurative language explored in term 1.  Students will be perfecting their planning, writing and editing skills as we move towards NAPLAN in week 4.  

MATHS 

This term we will be conducting three impact cycles.  Cycle one will cover interpreting data and constructing side by side column, line graphs and dot plots.  Cycle two will investigate measurement (length, perimeter, area, mass) and grid reference systems which will link with HASS and the gold rush.   Our final cycle will explore fractions; adding and subtracting fractions with the same denominator, and, ordering and locating fractions on a number line.  A continued focus this term will be on the 4 operations, especially multiplication and division (with remainders including fractional and decimal).  Times tables while a boring and monotonous task, is essential to student success.  Practise! Practise! Practise! 

HASS 

Students will examine the effects of a The Gold Rush and the Eureka Rebellion on the Australian Colonies.  They will then explain its economic, social and political impact on the colony.  Students will also investigate the role that a significant individual or group played in shaping and changing a colony e.g. Peter Lalor.  Exploring the motivations and actions of individuals or groups, students will follow an inquiry process to develop a historical narrative.  Students will also explore Democracy in Australia and the key features of the Australian electoral process.   

SCIENCE 

In this Science and Technology unit, students will consider Earth as a component within a solar system and use models for investigating systems at astronomical scales. They will understand that Earth is part of a system of planets and other celestial bodies, orbiting around a star. Students will research Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples’ understanding of the night sky and how scientists were able to develop ideas about the solar system through the gathering of evidence through space exploration. They will also recognise how technologies developed to aid space exploration have changed the way people live, work and communicate. 

Mothers Day Mass and Stall 

Mothers Day Mass is on the 5th May at 10am in the school hall.   

Don’t forget to please bring in Mothers Day Stall donations.  Mothers Day stall will be operation in on the 7th May. 

Homework 

Just a reminder that homework starts again this week.  Students will have Reading Logs, Maths Online and Spelling Vocabulary A-Z.   

Thank you to the Bonnie Fairbanks and the Fairbanks family for their lovely presentation and gift of purple donuts, and a big thank you to Gus Goddard (Claire's older brother) for coming in to share his story as well. All the Year 5 students thoroughly enjoyed the Epilepsy Awareness Presentation, and have gained some wonderful insight into what epilepsy is and how we can support those around us that are epileptic.

Links:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2pB1Za-nhoA

Have a wonderful week!

Tim, Jess and Emily

Year 6

Welcome to Term 2

Date claimers: 

Friday April 30 : West Zone Cross Country 

Wednesday May 5: Mother’s Day Mass 10 am 

Friday May 7 : Mother’s Day Stall 

Monday May 10 : Parliament House and Old Government House excursion 

At the end of last term, we had our first round of Leadership Groups. These were an  authentic way to carry out our school motto- Serviam and act as Global Citizens.  

Thank you to Beeston House students for organising a fitness morning. Unfortunately, this was cancelled due to Covid restrictions. However, we will plan for this to still go ahead early this term.  

Thank you to Bradman House for supplying eggs for our younger students to enjoy an egg hunt and reflecting on the meaning of Easter to create artwork for our school office.  

Fraser House students examined Global Citizenship and how they can connect this to Catholic Social Teachings of Human Dignity, Preferential Option for the Poor,  Care for our Common Home, Subsidiarity and Participation, The Common Good, Solidarity, Economic Justice, Stewardship of Creation and Promotion of Peace.  

Goolagong House students worked in our school environment with Mr Golightly to prepare the long-jump pit and Mrs Broderick to prune roses and prepare seedlings for the next plant stall. 

All students have received an assessment planner and class timetable for Term Two. Our first English piece of writing is due next Friday – 7 May as part of our unit Boy Overboard. The text, by Morris Gleitzman examines the story behind asylum seekers from Afghanistan. A powerful story, that sits perfectly with our Hass unit on migrants and refugees – Calling Australia Home. 

All students have received an excursion note for our upcoming tour of Parliament House and Old Government House on 10 May. Please return permission notes by the end of this week. 

Thank you, Year 6 students, for acting as global citizens and assisting at our cross-country last week. Your efforts of encouragement, participation and spirit  make you truly live out the Lourdes Way. Congratulations to all runners heading to West Zone this coming Friday- good luck!