Dear Families,
Please see the attached letter regarding viewing your child’s FreshGrade Portfolio. Please note the letter is updated and includes important information regarding downloading a QR scanner to view some of you child’s work.
Updated FreshGrade Letter 2017
Thank you and have a lovely weekend.
Kind Regards,
Ruby Carroll & Louise Corkhill
Year Four Teachers
The media this week has been covering many new Science innovations as part of it’s coverage about National Science Week. Here at St Emilie’s we also celebrated this exciting learning area. Enjoy these few images and clips about our experiences this week.
Our major event was by invitation to the CSIRO STEM in Schools ‘virtual classroom’ that took place this morning. By invitation only, through our involvement in Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools, we were included in a webinar/virtual classroom with a panel of Australians working in the space industry.
Our Year 5 students prepared their own questions to ask the panel and we submitted these for consideration last week. Here are a few of the ideas that we proposed to the panel-
Joshua P– Is it possible for the space junk to come back to earth?
Joshua D – How many times have there been a space disaster on a satellite? How far is the furthest satellite from Earth? What is the most common piece of material in space? How long does it approximately take to make a satellite or rocket ship?
Emmy M– What age was the youngest person ever to go into space?
Meilee R – Do you need to go up there and collect all the space junk?
Francheska D – Have you found any other planets that we humans could also live on?
Joanna T– What was the laser invented for in the first place? What was its purpose when it was first made?
Annette C – How does it space junk stay near Earth without falling back to Earth? What would happen if we didn’t have an ozone layer?
Drew M – Is it possible to go to a different planet and still return? Do you think that there are some undiscovered planets? In NASA who are the most important people for scientific breakthroughs?
Luke H – Could you make something that clears or sucks up all the space junk? How long does it take to reach Mars? Would people be able to live on Kepler?
Enjoy these images of our experience this morning.
The Year 5 students all ready and keen for the ‘virtual classroom’ event to begin.
We heard the answers to questions presented by students from schools all over Australia.
St Emilie’s were lucky to be acknowledged in a ‘shout out’ to schools invited to the webinar. Click on this link and you can view some of the webinar.
Here are some the other lessons that occurred during National Science Week.
The Year 2 students measured the seedling in their Future Garden made from a recycled soft drink bottle.
The students in 5B enjoyed a visit with Gina Pearse from the Mildew Mania project at Curtin University. She also treated our students to a few gifts to celebrate National Science Week.
The Year 4 students are learning about the diversity of bird species that inhabit the school bushland. They are in the process of making their own bird feeders so that they can entice birds into their own gardens at home.
Year 6 students are investigating ocean acidification. The students conducted an investigation with two marine shells placed in different solutions.
Year one students explored the value of water and how it is a vital necessity for life.
Happy National Science Week to all…
Mrs Cogger
Hi Everyone,
Click on the link to see what we’ve been up to this week!
From Year Four, Miss Corkhill & Miss Carroll
Click the link to read about our MacKillop Day celebrations on the 8th of August.
Go MacKillop!
MacKillop Staff & Students.
As part of our whole school focus on Social Justice this term, and as an acknowledgment of our deep respect for the Aboriginal people who first walked this land of ours, we invited Father Giovanni to come and bless the plaques we have just installed on each of our classroom doors.
The message on the plaques reminds us of the presence of the Aboriginal people millennia before the making of the Australian colonies and the Australian nation.
The use of plaques such as these were one of the recommendations of the Social Justice Statement from the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC), called The Heart of our Country: Dignity and Justice for our Indigenous Sisters and Brothers.
More information on current or previous Social Justice Statements is available from the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council (ACSJC) website: www.acsjc.org.au.Thank you Father Giovanni and students for your presence and participation and may we all continue to be mindful of ways that we can contribute to reconciliation and a bright and positive future for all our Aboriginal brothers and sisters and for children everywhere.
Mrs Cogger would like to remind all our science enthusiasts about the
FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE EXPO
on Sunday 20th August.
This is always a wonderful ‘free’ event in our local area (Kent St Weir in the Canning River Regional Park) to celebrate National Science Week.
Here is a link to the event details.
Hi Everyone,
We can’t believe it’s already week four.
Click on the link to see what we’ve been up to!
From Year Four, Miss Corkhill & Miss Carroll
Dear Families,
Please click on the links below to access the Year Four Purposeful Practice grid for Term Three – Weeks 4&5 and any other resources that may be needed to complete purposeful practice throughout this fortnight.
Please print the ‘Print Me Page’, which is to be filled in, signed by a parent and returned to school on Friday the 18th of August.
Purposeful Practice Grid:
Year Four Purposeful Practice Grid Weeks 4&5 Term 3, 2017
Here is the link to the ‘100 Things Every Kid Should Do Before They Leave St Emilie’s’: 100 Things Every Kid Should Do Before They Leave St Emilie’s
Here is the link to some word work (spelling) activity ideas provided by your teachers:
Word Work (Spelling) Activity Ideas
Have a great week.
Kind Regards,
Miss Ruby Carroll & Miss Louise Corkhill
Year Four Teachers
A huge thank you to Alison and Bec in particular, as well as the special parents who supported them to run both the School Disco and the Wine & Cheese gathering on Friday evening – a really great night for all involved!
An equally special thank you to all of our very special staff, who donated a precious Friday night to support us all.
It is always wonderful to watch children having a lot of fun and experiences like the disco are a terrific opportunity for them to be with friends in a different environment, dancing with gusto, singing at the top of their lungs, laughing and zooming around! Thanks to Mums and Dads for encouraging them to come along and join in, as we know it can be a big ask on a Friday night!
To those parents who wandered over for a chat, a drink and some cheese and crackers, thank you for supporting the P&F – it was really lovely to see you and we are glad that you had an opportunity to catch up with one another. I think you will agree that our new Learning Hub space is fabulous and some of the cost of the renovation was met by the use of P&F funds, so thank you again for your valued support.
Click here for sneaky peek No.1
Click here for a sneaky peek No. 2
Click here for sneaky peek No.3
