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A cold morning in the veggie garden

August 11, 2018
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · For Families · Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold · Science · Uncategorized · What's On? · Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold

This morning the Devereux brothers and and the Backus children met with Mrs Cogger to work in St Emilie’s Community Veggie Garden. Today we had some seed potatoes to plant. These were left over from our donation of seed potatoes from WA Potatoes Seed Potatoes for Schools project. We had been waiting for these last few potatoes to start ‘chitting’. Mrs Devereux also brought along a few of her Royal Blue potatoes that were ready to be planted.

First of all we had to weed the garden bed.

Here we are ‘armed and ready’ with our garden tools.

Then we had to dig a hole to plant our potato.

It was so cold this morning that we were all breathing out ‘steam’. So Mrs Cogger took a photo of us all being little ‘puffing billies’. Can you see the steam?

We are still looking to fill the veggie garden roster with volunteers so if you would like to meet on Friday 17th August at 8am, then please let Mrs Cogger know. Mrs Cogger would like to thank the Devereux and Backus families for volunteering this morning.

Year Three Purposeful Practice – Weeks Four & Five

August 7, 2018
Tiana Massimi
· Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold

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National Schools Tree Planting Day

July 29, 2018
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · Science · Uncategorized · waterwise · Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold

On Friday it was National Schools Tree Planting Day. The Year 3 students planted a ‘Noonjar Bush Tucker Garden’ with tube stock plants kindly donated by SERCUL, one of the local environmental groups that we are in partnership with.

Groups of students worked with Kirsten Devereux and Mrs Cogger to plant out the bush tucker garden. If you would like to take a look, you will find the bush tucker garden along the fence line behind the Year 1 boat playground.

The Year 3 students have been learning about bush tucker plants during their Science lessons this past fortnight so they were very well informed about the different species and the Noonjar uses for them.

Some of the species that were planted are

The Scarlett Runner – Noonjar people use this for making crafts and tools as the stem can be used like a ‘twine’ and the leaves can be brewed to make tea.

This is known as a Bloodroot and can be roasted and eaten like a potato.

The students also planted the Bull Banksia which is used to carry a flame when moving camp sites.

Here are some images of the students working hard on Friday morning. As you can see there was a lot of work to be done.

Of course by 10:30am we were not finished. There were still 12 plants left to go in. So at 2pm Mrs Cogger invited the Year 6 Environmental Committee to help her finish off the project. Thanks Year 6.

Mrs Cogger would like to thank Kirsten Devereux for kindly helping out as it was a huge task to get all of these plants in and she did a fantastic job – helping set up all of the equipment and marking out a planting pattern.

We would also like to thank Natasha Bowden from SERCUL for supporting us with this project and for donating the plants.

Year Three Purposeful Practice – Term 3, Week 2-3

July 23, 2018
Chantelle Goodall
· Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold

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Year Three Parent Letter – Term Three

July 17, 2018
Tiana Massimi
· Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold

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Year Three Community Mass

June 28, 2018
Chantelle Goodall
· RE News · Religious Education · Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold

On Wednesday 27th June, the Year Three teachers were joined by St. Emilie’s staff, St. Emilie’s families, and the wider St. Emilie’s Parish community to offer thanksgiving at mass, for the school term. The significance of NAIDOC Week was also highlighted within the mass, and we were given an opportunity to share in a community prayer for our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander brothers and sisters. Harry had the important role of carrying the St. Emilie’s ‘message stick’ up to the alter, at the beginning of the mass. It was wonderful to share in the celebration of NAIDOC Week, together as a school and parish community.

100 Things To Do Before You Leave St. Emilie’s

June 26, 2018
Chantelle Goodall
· Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold

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Veggie garden

June 23, 2018
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · Pre-Primary · Science · Uncategorized · Year 3 · Year 3 Blue

The Devereux brothers were back in business again this week helping out with St Emilie’s Community Veggie Garden. Patrick and Merrick helped harvest ALL the radishes and wow look at that amazing amount of produce!

The boys have fun towing the trolley to the hall to sell our veggie produce to visiting parents and guests.

Here are some of our happy customers this morning.

A group of Year 6 students have taken over the veggie accounts. This a wonderful maths problem solving and accounting exercise for the students. Mrs Cogger gives the students the money made from the sale of veggies and then the students work out their own accounting system. As a team they work out the profits and pay out any debts. At present we are in front.

Mrs Cogger is putting together a new veggie garden roster for Term 3. If you would like to volunteer, then please send Mrs Cogger an email.

Year Three Fruit of the Holy Spirit Focus – JOY

June 13, 2018
Chantelle Goodall
· Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold

In Year Three, we have been discussing the Fruit of the Holy Spirit focus, joy. We watched a video that helped us to understand that joy from things like trophies and kicking goals, only lasts for a short time. We thought this was a little odd, until we realised that the special joy that we find in Jesus, lasts forever. We also reflected on how we can share the joy we receive from Jesus, with others. We discussed the quote, “How wonderful is it that we laugh because our bodies cannot contain the joy?”

Blake came up with his own quote, that we loved – “When you give joy, you actually kind of feel it too.”

Click here to view the video we watched, all about joy.