Mary MacKillop's 9th Cousin at our School

We are excited at our school because Blessed Mary MacKillop is soon to be Saint Mary of the Cross MacKillop and our school was founded by Mary MacKillop's Sisters of St Joseph.

We are also very excited because one of the students in Year 6 is the 9th cousin of Blessed Mary MacKillop. How lucky are we.

Thanks for coming to our school Laura. This is a very special time for your family as well.

God Bless

Year 4 Blog

Don't forget to visit the other blogs at the school....

Year 4 - http://stjosephsy410.blogspot.com

Enjoy reading some of our poems about Canberra


Love it
Want it
Go
Again
Will go
Canberra

by Chloe 

Canberra was really fun
And we went to the AIS
Nice place to go to
Beautiful place to be
Every place was awesome
Raiders rule
Rules
Amazing place to be.

by Adrienne

Real Life Drawing

In class today we learnt about real life drawings. We discussed the importance of perspective and proportion for different objects. Below are some works in progress from some of our upcoming artists in 6NC!

6NC's Political Party Campaigns

In 6NC today the students had to organise themselves into different groups and design a campaign for their own political party. Below are some images of their Campaign posters and a summary of their presentation!

Group 1
Ahmad, Athena, Simone and Adrienne
Party Name: Sparkles Campaign
Our Aim: To have a safe country
Motto: Save our country!
Promises: Every child should have proper meals
Every child should have an education
Everyone should feel safe everywhere they are





Group 2
Sheriden, Amena, Anne, Chloe and Aman
Party Name: Dynamite
Our aim: Give Australian Citizens a fair go
Motto: Dynamite, always in Site.
Promises:Lower Bills
Free medical visits
Ban all small objects from child care centres





Group 3
Jordan, Jack, Thomas, Shaun, Tino Party
Name: D.E.P.T.S
Our Aim: To stop terrorist attacks around the world
Motto: Unite and Conquer
Promises: Better Airport Security
Better protection for people around the world
Better training and equipment for the army





Group 4
Blake, Yolanda, Abbie and Sophia
Party Name: Tru2U
Aim: To promote a country that is proud of its Auatralian identity
Motto: Tru2U
Promises: To allow same sex couples to adopt
To ban the Berka to ensure everyone knows everyone’s identities



Group 5 Brayden, Jacob, Ryan
Party Name: QU-EL
Our Aim: To let people be heard by the world
Motto : LOL – Learning ouside limits
Promises: Help the homeless
Get school children laptops
Feed the hungry
Reduce, reuse recycle
Work together
Free Wifi
Help people with money problems
Free life insurance
Save the planet

Well done 6NC. You did an amazing job working together and you all came up with some fantastic ideas!

Year 6 visit Canberra

Year 6 had a great time in Canberra. They visited:

• The Australian War Memorial
• The National Gallery of Australia
• Botanical Gardens
  
• Old Parliament House
• Parliament House
• Questacon
• The Australian Institute of Sport

Click on the hyperlinks to read about each location. Year 6 will be writing some comments about their excursion. If there are any below, please take the time to read them.



Australian Government assistance for National Capital excursion
Students from our school undertook an educational tour of the national capital. While on this tour they participate in a variety of educational programmes focussed on Australia's history, culture, heritage and democracy.

The Australian Government recognises the importance of all young Australians being able to visit their National Capital as part of their civics and citizenship education. To assist you in meeting the cost of the excursion the Australian Government is contributing funding under the Parliament and Civics Education Rebate (PACER) programme toward the travel expenses incurred. This contribution will be paid directly to the school upon completion of the excursion. This contribution was calculated into the overall cost of the excursion.

We would like to thank the Australian Government for their support of this program.

Tangrams

Year 6LS have been learning about Tangrams. They watched a video on a website to learn how to make the seven pieces of a tangram.

As they watched, they learnt that tangrams are an ancient Chinese puzzle. They made shapes from a square, different sized triangles and a parallelogram. Some shapes they found easy to make while others were more difficult.

Here is another site where you can learn more!

Here is a site that tells a football story using tangrams.

To learn more about angles, faces, vertex, edges and so much more - visit Scootle and enter the Student PIN Access code Mrs S emailed to you!

To learn more about the different properties of shapes, visit Cool Math.com

Try this site as well - A Maths Dictionary for Kids

Rainforest Maths can also be explored.