In just a few short weeks, the students in Year Five have:

• Explored, and established and agreed upon our class expectations.
• Investigated how qualities such as confidence, independence, adaptability, and persistence support their learning.
• Revisited the ICT Agreement.
• Set learning goals.
• Investigated digital safety.
• Created our class prayer cloth.
• Participated in the Whole School Beginning of the Year Mass, Shrove Tuesday activities and the Whole School Ash Wednesday Mass.
• Initiated the Resilience Project.
• Crafted narratives.
• Explored the 12 reading strategies.
• Investigated factors, multiples and fractions.
• Explored physical health through the guide to healthy eating.
• Engaged in rotational sports activities including tennis, cricket, teeball, and basketball.

Learning to learn

I learnt that resilience means that you can recover and bounce back quickly when something goes wrong. Shake it off! (Kyden)

It’s good to be adaptable because you get along better if there are changes in the environment, like moving houses, school or classes. (Fleur)

The Resilience Project 

This week we have been getting in touch with our emotions by building our emotional vocabulary and connecting emotions to different situations in our life.

We have learnt that there are lots of emotions that you can feel like, embarrassed, relaxed, frustrated and there is lots more. (Katya)

Prayer Cloth

Everyone put their best effort into our class prayer cloth. We all voted on ‘So great is the strength we possess in our unity’. (Thomas)

Every square we made is connected to our Mary MacKillop quote. (Noah A)

Child Safety

Don’t add strangers you don’t know. (Tilly)

If something happens online where you don’t feel safe you can block them, report them, tell your parents or maybe talk to kids helpline. (David)

Interschool Sport

I love doing different kinds of sports and interacting with others. (Casiana)

I have been practicing goal shooting for basketball. (John)

Thank you Mr Tim for improving our skills in sports and getting us ready for Lightning Premiership (Ashton).

It's been a productive and engaging start to the term for our Year Five students!

Jacqui Butler and Claire Knight

Year Five teachers

5CK Prayer Cloth

In 5CK, we chose the Mary MacKillop quote, "So great is the strength we possess in our unity." (Mary MacKillop).

As a class, we decided that unity is what makes us a team. In 5CK we have agreed to help each other and fix our problems collectively both as a class and as a school community. Working respectfully together for us means that no one is left behind and that we are all important. We discussed how Mary MacKillop worked in unity, encouraging a sense of strength among communities she was involved in or held an impact upon and how many scripture passages from The Bible explore various communities of people and the strength they possess.

When making our class prayer cloth, each student had the opportunity to design their own square with symbols that held significance to them. This was then intertwined with our Indigenous material, signifying the connections we all have with one another and the respect we hold for those that were present on our land before us.

As we say in 5CK, ‘Team work makes the dream work’.

5JB Prayer Cloth

In 5JB, we chose the Mary MacKillop quote, "Trust in the goodness of God." (Mary MacKillop, 1873)

As a class, we interpreted "Trust" as the ability to rely on a person. This led us to ponder what it means to trust in God and His ways.

We selected the following symbols to illustrate our understanding of the quote:

• Cross: Symbolising our trust in God's love.
• Praying Hands: Signifying our belief that we can always turn to God in prayer, assured that He listens to us.
• Dove: Representing the trust that, despite our mistakes, we can seek forgiveness and start anew.
• Mirror: Reflecting our understanding that each of us is unique and valued, as we are all created in God's image.
• Rainbow: Symbolic of our trust in God's gift of a beautiful world, which we are entrusted to care for.

In honoring Indigenous Australians for their stewardship of the land, we incorporated indigenous material into our prayer cloth. The pattern throughout the cloth symbolizes the indigenous people's extensive journey across Australia.