A friendly reminder that on Friday 26 th July (Week 1, Term 3) we will be celebrating Grandparents Day. This is a special day to acknowledge the important role that our grandparents play in our lives.
If you could please remind all the wonderful grandparents in our school community of this event that would be greatly appreciated.
The day will begin with a Mass in the church commencing at 9am. From there, Grandparents are invited to the hall for morning tea. After a short amount of time, the children will join their grandparents for a picnic on the grass. Visitors are welcome to bring a picnic blanket with them to sit on, otherwise there will be seats scattered around should visitors wish to sit on a bench instead. (We ask however that none of the children enter the hall during this time, and that visitors ensure that lids are kept on cups of coffee or tea at all times.)
After the break, we will transition to the classrooms where our grandparents will spend 25-30 minutes participating in some interactive learning with their grandchildren.
The day should be finished by 12pm.
We look forward to celebrating this wonderful community event!

The Living Classroom Report – Friday – Week 8 – Emelia Connor
On Friday of Week 8 Year 4 was in the garden with Mr Mattas, Mrs Madaschi and Mrs Kapsimallis. To start the day, Year 4 does something called a check-in. A check-in is when everyone stands up in a circle and says their name, how they're feeling, their favourite vegetable, and their favourite job in the garden. After that we got out the tools such as spades, loppers, and garden forks. Mr Mattas then gave us our jobs. We get our jobs by putting up our hands, then Mr Mattas picks some people do to it. Mr Mattas said the main job was weeding. Everyone was given a different part of the
garden to weed. The entire class was weeding until lunch, and some children also got to ‘chop n drop’. ‘Chop n drop’ is where you trim back any overgrown or dead foliage, cut it down to small pieces, then spread it around the bottom of a fruit tree in the shape of a bird’s nest. This a great way to keep the trees happy and healthy. After lunch some people were weeding the little garden near the handball court and the rest of the class was weeding the garden. When it was the end of the day the entire class got to take home juicy mandarins.
It was a great day!
By Emelia Connor

Kind regards
Mr Sam Mattas
Religious Education Co ordinator