This months learning update for Stage 1 is brought to you by Stage 1 teachers Miss Atachparian and Miss Dennis.
Religion
This term in Kindergarten we are beginning to get ready for the coming of Jesus at Christmas. Kindergarten learnt all about the Angel Gabriel coming to Mary to announce that she would be the Mother of Jesus.
Kindergarten created an artistic interpretation of what they thought of while listening to the scripture. It was very impressive to see what Kindergarten found most important in their painting and the words they chose to highlight within their work.
Literacy
In literacy, we have been learning about how to make our writing more interesting using adjectives, also known as ‘spicy words’ to engage the reader/audience. Students used an amazing amount of adjectives to describe a variety of things in their writing i.e. alien, pizzas and houses. Kindergarten have shown excellent growth in their writing skills this term as they apply their knowledge and understanding of the ‘non negotiables of writing’ i.e. starting our sentences with a capital letter, spaces in between words and a full stop at the end of our sentence.
This past week, students wrote intriguing recounts on a variety of subjects that allowed them to apply more adjectives in their writing and showcase their understanding of writing about things that have already happened. The students and their teachers are extremely proud of Kindergarten’s achievements in writing! Well done on your efforts!
Numeracy
Kindergarten started the term with some spectacular maths in addition and subtraction. Students had to create different ways of making the number 10 using 10 dice. Students were very quick to collect 6+4 and 5+5, but found very clever ways to use smaller numbers and lots of dice to get to 10.
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30 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Last Friday was so much fun at the Athletics Carnival! The kids were smiling, the teachers were smiling and the parents were smiling. While students got to showcase their sporting skills, it’s also important to remember this is also an opportunity to practice resilience! We can not always be the best or the fastest, but we can all be ‘good sports’, be resilient and celebrate each other! Infants photos to come. 💛🏃🏃♀️🏃🏾♂️🎽👟💨![683352593576951_1241451154433756-1]()
27 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Happy happy birthday to this fabulous young man today, turning double figures!!! He is super excited to open up some presents and eat his birthday cake - a chocolate swirl cheesecake - mmmmm yummmm! I hope you enjoy your celebrations with your family and friends and you get a chance to play a couple of games at Timezone too!!! 💛🎉🎂🥳🎈🎊🎁
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30 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Last Friday was so much fun at the Athletics Carnival! The kids were smiling, the teachers were smiling and the parents were smiling. While students got to showcase their sporting skills, it’s also important to remember this is also an opportunity to practice resilience! We can not always be the best or the fastest, but we can all be ‘good sports’, be resilient and celebrate each other! Infants photos to come. 💛🏃🏃♀️🏃🏾♂️🎽👟💨
27 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Happy happy birthday to this fabulous young man today, turning double figures!!! He is super excited to open up some presents and eat his birthday cake - a chocolate swirl cheesecake - mmmmm yummmm! I hope you enjoy your celebrations with your family and friends and you get a chance to play a couple of games at Timezone too!!! 💛🎉🎂🥳🎈🎊🎁
26 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Happy happy birthday to this brilliant young man today!!! He was super excited to open some great presents this morning including some Lego and a complete game. I hope you enjoy nuggets for your family dinner and your birthday chocolate cake or donuts - I can’t wait to hear which one you had!!! 💛🎉🎂🥳🎈🎊🎁🍩
26 Jun 2025
From Facebook
A MASSIVE shout out to this fabulous young lady who has been selected to represent CAPTIVATE & St Bernadette’s at the Australian Theatre for Young People as a recipient of a scholarship for a 5 day holiday program exploring Shakespearean Villains titled BAD TO THE BARD! Congratulations and well done on following your passions and always giving everything to all you undertake! We are so proud of you!!! 💛👏🏻💛👏🏻💛👏🏻💛👏🏻💛👏🏻
25 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Congratulations to all our beautiful Stage 3 students who received the Sacrament of Confirmation - the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, last night. Fr Fernando shared the lovely story of the child who was walking along a beach returning stranded starfish back to the sea. And when he was asked why is he wasting his time you can’t make a difference because there are so many, the child responded with “Well I just made a difference to that one!!!” God has called each one of you to make a positive difference in our world, no matter how small, with the help of the Holy Spirit. And we are here to help you honour that mission. God bless you all!! 💛🔥🌏💛🔥🌏💛🔥🌏💛🔥🌏
24 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Another puzzle down and the students wanted to try another larger puzzle - 1000 pieces. I love their energy and focus when working with our puzzles. I especially love how so many children contribute, from sorting pieces to actually putting pieces together, to cleaning up and choosing a new one!! Let’s get started….. 💛🧩💛🧩💛🧩💛🧩💛🧩
23 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Happy happy birthday to this awesome young man today!!! I hope you have been spoilt with some exciting birthday surprises and are having a great day celebrating with your family. I can not wait to hear all about your day and to hear what kind of cake you ate !! 💛🎉🎂🥳🎈🎊🎁
19 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Happy happy birthday to this beautiful young lady today!! She was so excited to open her birthday surprises this morning at 6:30am!!!! I hope you enjoy your two celebrations with family over the next two days and you love wearing your new clothes. 💛👗🎉🎂🥳🎈🎁🎊
19 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Our Stage 3 student leaders from the Sport & Community Teams did an AMAZING job yesterday during Afternoon Tea with their Resilience Activities. They led the little ones in stilt relays and musical chairs, while they led the big ones in a trust obstacle course. There was so much fun and resilience building happening. Well done teams!!! 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
18 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Our Stage 3 pre school visits always generate such joy and not just for our leaders but for the little preschoolers too. I love that our boys happily sat in the hair dressing salon and got their hair coloured, and for $50 I think they got a bargain!!!! 💛☺️💛☺️💛☺️💛☺️💛☺️
16 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Happy happy belated birthday to these two awesome young boys and Angelica, who all celebrated their birthdays over the weekend. There were parties with friends, chocolate and Pokeball cakes and tacos for dinner, no matter what they did they all had a great time. Enjoy your playing, using and wearing your gifts!!! 💛🎉🥳🎈🎊🎁
16 Jun 2025
From Facebook
Congratulations to all of Kindergarten on your very first Stage Liturgy & open classrooms! Sharing this special time of prayer with you and your families filled my heart! You are only two terms into BIG school and already you have grown so much!! We are so proud of all you have achieved so far and the way you are getting to know Jesus each day. We are blessed to have you and your families in our St Bernadette’s community! 💛🙏🏻💛🙏🏻💛🙏🏻💛🙏🏻💛🙏🏻