News
Basketball Carnival
Garden News
What a difference a year makes! These pictures of the school Green Space are exactly 12 months apart. For many months we have consistently used produce from our garden harvest across into the Home Ec program, sometimes only 2 or 3 ingredients are purchased fur a dish. If you have a few minutes at drop off or pick up time, please head on over and have a look for yourself, it really is a picture of health at the moment!
Upper Primary News
To revisit writing strategies learnt last term for Media Texts, the Year 5’s communicated the best part of their school holidays through a ‘Holiday News Article’. Students focused on creating a short and informative headline, followed by a strong summary lead to engage their audience. To present their news article, students also revisited the art technique of creating tone, sketching an image to accompany their text.
Spanish News
In Spanish we finished the “Los Pasatiempos” topic by writing a short piece about things we like to do in our free time. We then shared them with the class, focussing on correct pronunciation.
Library News
Could all issue 5 Book Club orders please be in by Monday the 7th of August.
Also our Book Fair will be open next Monday - please come in before or after school to check out the great range of books on offer.
Thank you
Julie Anderson
Middle Primary - Home Economics
This term, the Year Three and Four class delve deeper into their understanding of migration and the highlights of the different cultures that have integrated and enhanced the Australian way of living!
Each Monday, we are enjoying cooking with Jo as part of our HASS studies. All produce used has been sourced from our amazing green space.
We cover, explore and learn so many skills within this lesson!
Student Write Up:
On Monday the 31st of July 2023, the year 3/4 class has been cooking with Chef Jo. The 3/4s have been cooking food from places around the world. On Monday the we made spaghetti Bolognese with fresh ingredients from our garden including tomato, capsicum, red onion and many other hidden vegetables in the sauce. The pasta was made from plain flour, water and salt. The final product was very delicious. First, we rolled out the dough that Jo had made earlier and put the pasta dough through the pasta machine. Then put it into a different setting. We put the pasta carefully onto the drying rack and let it hand while we cooked the sauce. First, put around 500gm of beef into a pot and start stirring, when it looks half cooked put in the tomato, pumpkin and capsicum in. Make sure that the pumpkin is grated and the capsicum is chopped. Finally, mash it up then add the rest of the ingredients to the sauce and stir it with a wooden spoon. After it looks ready, cook your pasta in boiling water and strain your pasta. When you have them both ready, grab some pasta, put it in a bowl and then grab some sauce and put it on the pasta. If you would like, add some grated cheese on top and grab a fork and dig in. I call it "heaven in a bowl"! By Eddie P
Reception News
Last week in maths, the Reception class started learning about 2D shapes. We learnt that shapes have different features that help us to name them. We focused on the size, colour and how many sides each shape had to help us tell them apart. As part of our learning, we went outside for a shape hunt to see what shapes we could find within our school. Students recorded the shapes on their mini-whiteboards and then created a house from natural resources. They had to explain what shapes they used to create their house and describe the different features of those shapes.
Spanish News
Spectacular Spanish Year 1/2s Translate ‘The 5 Little Ducks’ Song with Ease
The fearless Year 1/2’s found out how to translate from English to Spanish for ‘The Little Duck’ song. Curious students have been busy expanding their Spanish knowledge.
Kind Mrs Murdock mentioned ‘people that learn a second language are smarter’. Over 450 million people speak Spanish. That means that if these students go to Spain they can communicate with others! Learning the ‘Little Duck’ song is a part of the R-2 unit ‘En La Granja (which means on the farm).
Luke enjoyed watching the ‘Little Duck’ song and Caleb did too!
Take a look underneath at how amazing the little ducks are that the students created!
By Lukas Rowe and Michael Franke
Sports News
St Columba’s Memorial School Home of Sporting Superstars
Students at St Columba’s Memorial School have been busy competing at multiple sporting events, not only focusing on performance but sportsmanship.
Year 5 student Poppy Craggs competed at the SAPSASA Netball Carnival on the 26th till the 28th of June in Adelaide. Poppy stated ‘SAPSASA was amazing and entertaining! My teammates were very welcoming and encouraging’. When asked about the most challenging part Poppy replied ‘My coach put me in multiple positions that I don’t normally play, but I got it along the way’.
Brother sister duo Year 6 student Patrick Johnson and Year 5 student Adelaide Johnson put their skills on show at the SAPSASA Hockey Carnival in Adelaide on the 26th till the 28th of June. ‘It was a wonderful experience playing hockey with new people’ shared Adelaide. Patrick added ‘It was very good playing with others the same age and skill level. I felt like I was able to be a good role model’.
Year 7 students Sam Phasey and Jada Clasohm had the opportunity to compete at the Zone Basketball Championships. What a great chance it is for our Year 7 leaders to compete in a competition like this! Sam explained that ‘the other teams were good competition, we came second in the state’.
Well done to everyone involved, what great role models the St Columba’s Memorial School students have to look up to!
