Catholic Schools Week

More Than A Great Education

Catholic Schools Week is  currently being celebrated at our school. The main aim of Catholic Schools Week is to raise awareness of the wonderful opportunities that Catholic Schools provide and to celebrate our achievements. In particular it is a great way to showcase to our school and the wider community the wonderful work of our students.

This year's theme is 'More Than A Great Education'. Over the week we have a wide variety of activities organised and it is hoped you will be able to join us for some of them. We kicked off our celebrations on Friday night at the Sunset disco. Although it was hampered by the weather many of our community members braved the storm and joined in a night of dancing and eating pizza.
On Monday the staff and students participated in 'Get Up and Move', where they danced the day away to the hit song 'HAPPY'. Even Mr Greg Whitby (Executive Director of School Catholic Education Parramatta Diocese) and Mrs Marian Bell joined the dancing when he visited the Year Three classrooms in the afternoon.
Tuesday saw the parents and teachers share their favourite picture book. Wednesday we are showcasing our students talents in gymnastics. Parents are invited to attend their child's gymnastics lessons. Thursday the focus shifts to the Creative Arts with Mrs Leona Nash presenting a performance based on the 'Gingerbread Man'. The performance involves students from Kindy to Year Two, however everyone is invited to attend the performance. Our celebrations conclude on Friday with a whole school mass, open classrooms, picnic recess and finally our grade's assembly item.
The children will be writing blogs all week and we hope to publish them throughout the week.
You will find our first one below.

On 10/3/2014 the whole school danced to HAPPY because it was Catholic Schools Week. We danced every thirty minutes to 'Happy' We loved dancing to Happy and the teachers loved it too.
In the morning some teachers danced on the stage, while others danced around the classes. In the afternoon we were visited by Mr Whitby, he told us a very funny story. He was wearing happy socks and even danced with us when they played the 'Happy' song.

The boys showed us some hip hop moves.

Even Mrs Bell joined in the fun.

What a great way to join exercise and laughter.

dancing with our friends.

We all enjoyed dancing together.

Mr Whitby came to our classroom and read us a very funny book. He took his shoes off and we saw his funny stripy socks. He even danced with us. We were very lucky in Year 3 because we had some parents come in and read to us too. Mrs Ricketts read us her favourite book so did Miss Veling. Mrs Standring read us one on the apple tv. Thank you to all the parents who shared their favourite books with us.

We split into small groups and listened to some parents read their favourite stories.

Mrs Standring's book was an ebook. We watched it on the apple tv.

Mrs Ricketts shared an old favourite - Rapunzel.

Miss Veling loved sharing her favourite story with us too.

Mr Whitby shared some great dance moves.

Check out his funny socks.

Dr Seuss is a great author .

We thought Mr Whitby's story was very funny.

On Wednesday the parents came and watched us during our gymnastics lessons. Emily showed us a new game where we had to pass a hoola hoop to each other without letting go of our hands. The parents were impressed by our skills. Some of the children can do handstands, while others can do some amazing forward rolls. We like the trampoline the best.

We had a lot of fun trying to move the hoola hoop from one person to the next.

It was all about team work.

We showed the parents how to make T, I motorbikes and Y.

The parents were impressed by our moves.

Even some grandparents came to watch us.