Our Whole School Production

Last night the whole school production took place. It was an amazing evening for the students and their families and the result of a lot of hard work by everyone involved. To read some reviews of the concert I highly recommend visiting Senior S' blogs:Ava G

Ava M
Cooper T
Cooper M
Isabella
Jenny
Jessica
Tom
Madison
Natalie
Natasha
Natalia
Piers
Tia
Patrick
Tully
Will
Zach
Lochie

Below are some photos of Senior S from the Dress Rehearsal.

Paintings of Nature Close up.

Today Senior S finished their magnified paintings of nature that they had sketched last week, after finding an image that inspired them, online. The final step will be to select an appropriate colour to back these vividly colourful picture and display in class.

Sorry about the side view, but the photos "insisted" on rotating between the laptop and the blog.

The Global Goals

This week we are finishing our presentations of the 17 global goals. These goals were developed by the United Nations and are focused on the Sustainable Development of our world. They are very relevant to our Inquiry learning this term, as nearly half the goals target environmental sustainability.

We worked in groups of 3 or 4 across the whole level and used a five point thinking process as well as research the goal we had been assigned.

The thinking process is:

1. What do I think?
2. What do others think?
3. What does the world think?
4. What does the Catholic Church think?

(Research)

      5. Now, what do I think?

 

We then created some very original and interesting presentations that explained each of the goals to the other Seniors.

 

Letters to Pope Francis

In Literacy this week, we read an article about Pope Francis addressing the UN in September. We wrote letters to Pope Francis in response to the article and what he said. Then some of us thought it would be a good idea to mail the letters to the Pope. Here are some of our letters and the envelope they were sent off in...

Tuesday 13th Oct. 2015

Dear Pope Francis,

This week my class has been talking about your encyclical and I agree with you about how we are just trashing our planet and that we should stop it and respect our planet.

I think that if everyone knew about the global goals for the planet then there is a chance that we can help keep the world clean and healthy, Most people might think that they can’t do much to help because there is only one of them but if we all work together then we can save the planet and keep it clean.

By Natalie

P.S. please write back to me!!!

 

Dear Pope Francis,

In my opinion I do agree with you, you have got a point, people are just throwing away things, we do live in a throw away culture. Our world, the greed is astounding, people want the latest phones, toy, computer yet there is people in the world that just want clean water, we take it for granted, some people want education, we also take it for granted.  These people are suffering, when we can make a change, people can throw away T.V’s like it is nothing, when it can change another child or even adults life.

The senior students at my school are learning about the seventeen global goals and we want to make a change.
 

Your Sincerely,

Cooper Jy

Dear Pope Francis,
My Name is Will from Australia and I’m here to support your visit to the United Nations and your support to the environment and why we should be  taking care of it. At school, we are learning why we should take care of our common home and what damage we are doing to our planet. So I think that your speech was very inspirational and I enjoy learning about you and all of the brilliant things you do.

Yours sincerely,

Will

Dear Pope Francis,

Today My Class has written Letters to you about the article that you wrote, We have been looking at your letters because you are talking about caring for God's creations, and for inquiry we have being learning about how to take care of the world. I am going to write this letter to you about the article that you wrote. I think that your article is right and that we should take care about our world.

Yours Sincerely,

Ava 

Dear Pope Francis,

Today our class read an article about your speech about stopping climate change, inequality and other unfair things.

I think you’re right about we have to do something about the problems, I know a thing called Global Goals, there is 17 goals and all are really important, to save the world.

In Inquiry we are learning about “Caring for our common home.” We are 17 groups learning about all of the goals, I am doing Life On Land/Deforestation, we shouldn’t just cut down trees just because of furniture and other things.

Yours Sincerely,
 

Jessica

Dear Pope Francis,
 

My name is Zachary and I strongly agree with you about your message that you are trying to get through every ones head. I also think it a big problem and that  it needs to be fixed for the world's sake. I think your speech really gave people an idea about what is happening. It is a good idea what your doing for the world and you are doing a good thing for the world.

I think that if we can get your message through to the whole world we can make a difference to the planet.

Sincerely,

Zachary.Z

Dear Pope Francis,

In school we have been looking at the environment and how we are called to care for our common home and we have looked a lot at some of the speeches you have made and some of things you have done and it has inspired some people in our class to take care of our earth and it has also worried some people in my class.

So I would like to thank you for being a good person that cares about the environment.  

Yours Sincerely,

James

Dear Pope Francis,

I completely agree with your views on equality and consumerism. The statistics go to show how serious the problem is and it’s great to have a Pope who cares about these issues.

Buying unnecessary, useless rubbish, then throwing it out is completely absurd. It’s ruining the environment and wiping out Earth’s resources. It needs to stop now.

The fact that you are helping has inspired tons of people to join the cause. It’s amazing that you view yourself as an equal among equals being the Pope. I think this is why more people are joining the cause, me included.

This cause needs to be seen and heard, and I’m glad that you’re promoting it because I agree wholeheartedly with you.

Yours Sincerely,

Tom

Dear Pope Francis,

I found your speech at the United Nations headquarters really inspiring. It really made me think again on what can be done to save our environment or to put it in your words “to end social and economic exclusion”. Your speech covers every topic that we are covering at school. Like I said it was truly amazing.

You talk about justice, the environment, wealth, power and greed. All things that are present in everyday life. I find that wealth, power and greed corrupt people. It is seen everyday. To me everything that you said was true in a way.

To try and follow up with this letter I will sit down with my family and discuss the actions that we can take to save the environment and end all exclusion. But for now I will see what I can do and do it.

Yours Sincerely,
 

Tia

 

Dear Pope Francis,

I strongly agree with your message about equality. I can really relate with your quote ‘The ecological crisis and the large-scale destruction of biodiversity can threaten the very existence of the human species’. I feel strongly about these issues to and I think if we can put our minds to it and stop excluding because everyone’s got a right, I also think that you're doing a great job as the Pope.

Yours Sincerely, Jackson

Dear Pope Francis,

I was intrigued by your article and book, I totally agree with what you are saying about people having to buy and always get new things all the time.

Everyone always needs the latest trend or new Iphone, Ipad etc. In my opinion we don’t need all this, just get the essential things in life and stick with it until it actually stops working instead of chucking stuff out that still works and has use for you.

When people make products that they sell at the store they make it cheap and they don’t make it so it will last. Which forces us to buy new things and they are only doing that just to get more money. All this waste ends up cluttering up our common home, it’s basically just lately when we started to make all this junk making giant dumps and waste lands all over the place. This is only one of the many problems contributing to Global Warming.

Hopefully as many people as possible try to stop Global Warming greediness of people so the human race can live on.

Yours Sincerely,

 

Isabella

Reflecting on our learning this term...

Natalia - I thought this term’s inquiry would be hard, because I missed out on the first two weeks but it wasn’t. I really enjoyed practicing my speaking part for the school production, but not so much practicing our class.

WILL- I learnt a lot this term and it has helped me especially the maths.

Zach-I thought this term was a really good and interesting one. I learnt a lot and I think I had a lot of learning opportunities than last term. I liked the art that we did it was way more satisfying. Some of my goals were better hand-writing, better at math,  and better at learning.

Piers-This term has to be the best term this year because it has been really fun and I have changed my opinions on some lessons we were doing, I like art now. Also maths and writing is really fun because Ms Scott is reaching to us by like letting us play maths games with our favourite things such as we get to play fun games. I want to learn more about bodmas.

PATRICK- This term I learnt a lot. from our famous Australians expo. Going to sovereign hill  made me think more about how people lived back in the day.

Tully - This term was fun and interesting. We covered heaps of stuff in math, Inquiry, Religion and art. In art we have been learning the origins  of the paintings and learning about BODMAS and in religion about stories and about famous Australians in inquiry. I had a good term and I learnt heaps in term 3.

JAMES- This term has been quite fun because we have done loads of cool things like practising school play, Italian day and doing presentations on famous Australian people in history. This has been one of my favourite terms I have had this year and I am looking forward to next term.

 

Madi - This term has been very interesting, We went to Sovereign Hill and The Immigration Museum for inquiry and learnt about the Gold Rush. In Maths we learnt about BODMAS and Algebra. For Inquiry we also had to research a famous Australian and I researched Mary MacKIllop.

Ava G - This Term Has been amazing! I really enjoyed doing my Inquiry project, art, sport and our excursions! For my inquiry, I did Jenny Kee

Natasha- This term I enjoyed  learning about famous Australians and how they became famous and what they did. I also enjoyed the sport and the excursions that we went to.

 

Jenny-this term was fun and interesting because we got to learn about stories from the bible and we learnt about one significant Australian - I did May Gibbs. I learnt a lot about her like her birthday and when she died and if she got married and things. Next term I want to improve my math skills in division.

Isabella- I liked this term because we got to go on so many excursions like Sovereign Hill and the Immigration museum and some more places. We have been learning about significant people who have contributed to Australia and made it what it is today. I did a project on Miles Franklin, she was an author and was really good. In religion we have learnt about the old testament stories and my friends and I did a puppet show on Noah's ark.

Ava.M -This term has been fun because we have been learning about different things which is fun and the art was really fun because I haven't seen that type of art before and the Inquiry has been fun is well because we have been learning about famous Australians.

Jessica - This term we have been learning about history of  Australia and how it has shaped Australia, we did a project and  we chose a significant person and learn about it for the last two weeks, and dress as them on the day we had the expo. I did Elizabeth Kenny, she was a nurse that found a cure for a disease called Polio.   

Natalie-This term has been good because we have been learning about Australia's history and how it has grown and developed. We also chose a famous Australian and researched them and learned what they did to shape Australia's history, I did Nancy Bird.

I have found out that on google docs when you are on a doc with the class that you can just press the minimise button and then you don’t need to see all the silly messages that people send and you can do your work without the silly messages.

COOPER M-This term has be great we have learnt a lot about famous Australians and that has been fun. We had a lot of great excursions and we learned a from those excursions. Overall this term has been great. we all have learnt a lot.

Tia- This terms inquiry was really intriguing as we had to pick someone that we knew nothing about and we had to learn as much as possible about them. I chose Mary Gilmore and it turned out to be really hard as she has been dead for around about 53 years so it was hard to get onto primary resources. It was really fun to learn about Mary as it turned out that she was the 1st person to be appointed Dame Commander of the British Empire for Contributions to Literature. The only bad bit about this terms inquiry was the costume I had to wear as it was the Late Victorian fashion, so it was very black and boring.

Lochie- This term I have learnt a lot. Some of the things we did were an Australian project and religion: the Ruth and Naomi story. for the Australian project I did Johnny O'Keefe. his nephew is Andrew O'Keefe who was channel 7 host in 2004 and now runs deal or no deal.

Tom: Term 3 has been great. The math has been fun and pretty much everything is better than term 2. We researched about the famous Australians and how Australia’s story has grown and developed.