Good Samaritan Catholic Primary School Fairy Meadow eNewsletter

School News

Year 5 Classrooms

The students in Year 5 are looking at the planets in our Solar System for Science and Technology. This week we have been looking at the first four planets closest to the sun, which are known as the rocky planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars.

Year 5 have been working on fractions in Mathematics. The students have been finding parts of a fractions and comparing it to a whole fraction. Using lovely pizza slices to find how many parts to a whole. It made us all feel a little hungry.

Last Wednesday Year 5 marked the beginning of Ash Wednesday with a Liturgy. During the Liturgy, Year 5 remembered Almsgiving, Prayer and Fasting in preparations for Easter. Each student was given ashes on their fore heads to show that they wanted to change and get ready for Easter.

Year 5 have been extremely busy throughout Term 1 at Good Samaritan. We’ve been learning about the Solar System in Science, Australian landmarks in Geography, fractions and decimals and length in Mathematics. In English we have been beginning to listen to and discuss Squiz Kids. It is a child friendly podcast that discusses current events around the world. Below are some student testimonials about the podcast.

“Squiz Kids is great for learning about the world and what’s going on everywhere. I love Squiz Kids.” Jazzmin Nassif

“I adore Squiz Kids because I don’t have to watch the actual news and I can still keep updated on what’s going on around the world” Ella McDonald

“Squiz Kids is the best it keeps you update with the news in the world. WOW.” Macy English

“Squiz kids is good because you get to learn about interesting information that is cool to learn about.” Edward Page

“I like Squiz Kids because it’s a podcast every day that keeps you updated on stuff going on around the world” Ivy Timmins

Here are a few logos we created on ‘Canva’ about International Women’s Day. We learnt about International Women’s Day on Squiz Kids!!

News from Year 6 Classrooms

Year 6 students and teachers have enjoyed a busy and productive start to the 2022 school year. Already students have been involved in the Good Samaritan Swimming Carnival, trials for Diocesan basketball, Year 6 Leadership Day 1 and Year 6 Camp. Importantly, as our school leaders, all Year 6 students received their leadership badges at a special liturgy on Friday, February 18.

Despite some rather wet weather,

Year 6 students managed to involve themselves in all planned activities at the Tops, Stanwell Park.

This group is launching their “bottle rockets” that they had created. Much excitement ensued as the rockets blasted successfully into the sky.

Nothing like a “little” bit of rain to enhance the experience!

Year 6 accepted the challenge of “The Spider”, part of the “Survivor” course. In this activity, students worked in teams to support each other in navigating their way through the spider’s web without touching it.

Nate and Alex suitably dressed in safety equipment before attempting the “Leap of Faith”. It was important to have trust in your team as they controlled to guide ropes that kept each participant safe as they attempted to reach the top of a pole that was over 9 metres high.

Co-operation was a key component of the Year 6 Leadership Day. In this activity, the students are working as a team to lower a rope with a ring in the middle of it onto a small timber spike. Maintaining balance and equal tension proved to be rather difficult.

Laura carefully balances a ball in the centre of a group of strings as Sienna watches intently.

The Year 6 Leadership Day 1 featured many activities that really held the attention of the students. Quality listening skills featured throughout the day.

Year 6 Guest Speaker: Year 6 warmly welcomed James Arblaster (Seminarian) who spoke to the children about being leaders and walking in the footsteps of Jesus throughout life and what it means to be a leader at Good Samaritan. James will be a regular visitor to our school and we look forward to working and learning with him.

Year 6 Maths Groups- There are lots of ways we can learn mathematics, it can be done in groups as well and we learn so much from each other. Maths can be fun in year 6!