GRADE 1

Grade 1 has been busy during Learning@Home creating brilliant and colourful artworks. They have used autumn leaves from their backyards to design pictures and crowns, as well as Mother’s Day craft, an ANZAC day reflection, pronoun flowers and still life drawings of fruit. We are proud of the efforts of our students and all of their wonderful work and commitment during this term.

LOOKING BACK, LOOKING FORWARD

Last Monday, Grade 3 White participated in a class liturgy run by Mrs Marriott and Miss Travers. The liturgy was a lovely way for us to reflect on the eight weeks of Learning@Home, the holidays and everything that has changed with COVID19. To help us with this Mrs Marriott had prepared a centrepiece with some smooth river rocks, some rough and jagged rocks and some beautiful gems which each represented the different times we might have had during the weeks at home.

We spent time reflecting and thanking God for the smooth times. These were the calm, peaceful and perhaps relaxing times. We spent time thinking about the rocky, challenging and difficult times and we spent some time talking to God so he could help us leave these experiences behind. We wrote about these times and then looked to the beautiful gems to help us think about the good times - the bright and special times. The times in which we saw the Spirit of Jesus. We thanked God for these moments and took some time to be grateful for these. We then folded over our pieces of paper and wrote some positives on the folded part and placed these around the centre piece.

We spent some time looking forward at the next part of our journey. We thought about what we are looking forward to, what parts we might find hard and what things we might need to help us in the next part of our journey. We talked about how God is with us in the smooth and the rocky parts of life. Finally, we spent some time praying and it was so wonderful to have six girls volunteer to help with this.

A special thanks to Mrs Marriott for coming in to help our class with this. We loved having you! Thank you also to Milla King, Charlotte Bean, Ava Oakley, Sandy Stirling, Hannah Tomlin and Charlotte Dale who read the Prayers of Intercession and to Max Kull for reading the Acknowledgement of Country.

“I enjoyed doing the prayer because I was with my friends and because I like reading. We got to sit in a circle with a candle and everyone was there. I liked listening to the prayers because they were lovely and calm. I can’t wait to do it again” – Charlotte Bean

“Last week we had a visit from Mrs Marriott. She came into our classroom and we all sat in a circle. We thought about the good times at home and the bad times. It was nice to think about good and bad times. We had so much fun and at the end we got to sing a fun and beautiful song called True Colours. It was an amazing song.” – Ava Oakley

Miss Travers and Grade 3 White