School News
News from Year 5
This term Year 5 Is asking ‘How can the state of materials be changed and manipulated?’ We investigate and compare the properties of solids, liquids and gases. On Tuesday we performed an experiment on how Ice cream is made, this showed us how energy is very important in the process of material changing state. We understood that when we cool things down, we remove energy. This understanding will help us in the future when we are considering the properties such as boiling and freezing point of different mixtures and materials. We had to prepare a mixture of Milk, Vanilla and Sugar, cooled down by salted ice (which was below 0°) and insulated by newspaper. The result was very delicious!
News from Year 6
Year 6 students have continued to enjoy a range of educational, sporting and cultural activities. Term 4 will undoubtedly be busy, but so exciting, with the highlight surely being our end of year farewell mass and dinner. There is much for the boys and girls to look forward to.
Leadership with Cameron Continues
Kristian certainly “put his foot in it” during this activity with Cameron.
“Come Fly with Me” was the theme of another team building exercise where Year 6 students worked cooperatively to build innovative paper planes and to see whose plane was the most aerodynamically superior. Look at the focus on the faces of Lucia, Atlas and Kristian.
Jia teamed up with Jackson and Marcus and displayed the same enthusiasm and level of concentration as Lucia, Atlas and Kristian. Year 6 have continued to involve themselves in a wide range of experiences that have helped to enhance their all-round leadership skills, which they have proven capable of incorporating into their daily lives at school.
Dragons’ Breakfast
Thanks to the wonderful artistic talents of Chloe Olima (6 Gold) who won a competition conducted by the St George Illawarra Dragons, primary students were able to enjoy a healthy breakfast and fitness activities with members of the Dragons NRLW team and several staff members.
Chloe is pictured below being interviewed about her winning artwork.
CDF Public Speaking
All Year 6 students availed themselves of the opportunity to participate in the school round of the annual CDF Diocesan Public Speaking competition. A great deal of research and thought was evident within the content of the speeches across the grade. Two students from each class were selected to present their speeches to Stage 3 on Monday of this week. After much deliberation from the judges, Mrs O’Donnell, Mrs Smithers and Mrs Hailstone, Ezekial (6 Gold) was selected to represent Good Samaritan at the south eastern zone final to be held at St John’s, Dapto, next Wednesday.
Pictured below are the four Year 6 finalists. Ben and Alex (6 Blue) with Ezekial and Isaac
(6 Gold).
