Class News & Awards

Prep A

This term Preps have been involved in a PMP (Perceptual Motor Program). Each day Prep A and Prep B get together into four groups and complete four fun and engaging activities: fine motor, gross motor, PMP, and brain gym. The kids seem to really enjoy the PMP program. This will continue until the end of the term.

Class 1A

Adjectives and character descriptions were on our minds these last couple of weeks in 1A. Students are pictured practising their writing with characters from the book Feathers for Phoebe.

Class 2A

Year 2 students had a fantastic time with their Year 5 buddies during buddy class, playing fun and engaging literacy games. It was a great opportunity for them to build friendships while developing their reading and writing skills together!

Class 3A

Year 3A has been actively engaged and enthusiastic during our maths lessons, eagerly and confidently tackling new challenges. Students have particularly enjoyed hands-on activities and problem-solving tasks, which have helped them develop a deeper understanding of key concepts.

Class 4A

Last week in class 4A we looked at using the Five Senses and Show Don’t Tell writing techniques to help build tension in their narratives. Using a lightning storm photo as a prompt, students worked in groups to brainstorm each of the senses creating a vocabulary list. Students are working towards then using pebble, rock, boulder to build up the tension with a series of problems or challenges for the character to overcome.

Class 5A

In Year 5, students are beginning to re-create a Local Indigenous story, “The Legend of Jarraga”. We have examined many types of Indigenous stories that focus on creation and express settings and characters a little different to standard narrative structure that students are highly exposed to at school. The change has been excellent, and students have shown great agency and creativity in their writing.

Class 6A

Friday 28th March, St Michael’s Year 6 cohort participated in a Leadership development program at Seville Mercy Centre in Earlville. They were able to discover more about each other as part of being a leader (listening skills) and the different types of poverty that people from across the world may suffer from such as educational and social poverty. An outdoors activity involved students in a physical game learning about scarcity of resources such as food, water and shelter highlighting a common problem in developing nations. After a fulfilling lunch, the students were put to work in teams to present the various ways St Michael’s can provide Corporal and Spiritual works of mercy for our communities. Many practical ideas were put forward and recorded to help our leaders be of better service for their school community. The students showed respectful and diligent behaviour which was commended by the Seville staff and proudly witnessed by myself, Mr Hubbard and the incredibly helpful Mrs Daniels (Thank You!). Well done St Michael’s leaders!

CLASS AWARDS