Interview with Mrs Bell

On Monday, we hosted an interview with Mrs Bell about how she shows her christianity. we asked her many questions about how she shows faith in her life. Some of these questions were: 

"How do you show your christianity at home?"

"I pray in the car before and after school, at school and at home."

"Why do you go to church?"

'It felt like something was missing if i didn't go to church on sundays." 

"Do you have any church responsibilities?"

"YeS

Mrs Bell had a wonderful range of answers for our questions. Mrs Bell talked to us about her faith it was very good for our learning.Mrs Bell answered all of my questions i had for her.
Mrs Bell is a follower of Jesus.Mrs Bell has a heart of faith.
Mrs Bell says she is a follower of Jesus and a leader of Jesus.
I think Mrs Bell gave a good message on how to follow Jesus.I definitely think that mrs bell is good example of a follower of jesus.

SISTER PAULINE

Sr pauline improved 5S's faith by telling us many many story's like a nun came to her school and then she was inspired by the nun and then she wanted to be closer with god.At first she didn't care then the nun told spoke to her then it all happened.Sr pauline wouldn't put her self first unless she had to but she would only do it if she had to.She had amazing responses to all of our questions in 5S.Here is some of the examples,what inspired you to become a nun? why did you contributed to be a nun?   

                                           Buddies!

Last week Year 5 received a sheet of paper notifying who our buddies are. We were stoked to find out we had our own sidekicks like batman and robin.

Some people received 2 buddies and some girls received boys this makes it a bit hard to know what they like. Also Year 5 made little gift bag packed with fun activities like colouring  in, reading picture books and a note about school rules. Some of us have found out what our buddies look like because they have came to school for the siblings in kindergarten to year 6. Some buddies have no older siblings in big school.Year 5 are meeting there buddies in December 3. We cannot wait.

Recounts

Recounts

By blue groups.

This week, we have been learning about recounts. We have been looking at the structure, vocabulary and we have done some fun games to do with recounts. We chose 7 people to go out of the room and the rest of the class watched a video on a mystery story. We then formed groups of six, and in each group, a different person had a different qusetion to answer. A person who was outside walked through 1 line of six and were told 1 piece of information from each person. The walker then had to write a short recount of what they heard, and then read then out to the class. It was interesting to see all the different versions of the story and how they told it. After they were told , they watched the video and could see the differences they had made. It was funny that everyone chose to tell the interesting information insted of importent information. The children also elaborated the information. Some peoples stories were completly off and some were close. 

PASSIVE AND ACTIVE VOICES

In week 2, we have started discovering what active and passive voices are.

Passive voices are when the reciever of the action is placed before the verb. Active voices are when the doer of the action comes before the verb. Here are some examples of active and passive voices:

• ACTIVE - Tom kicked the door - PASSIVE - The door was kicked by Tom.
• ACTIVE - Olivia read the book - PASSIVE - The book was read by Olivia.
• ACTIVE - Matt ate a rotten apple - PASSIVE - The rotten apple was eaten by Matt.

FORENSIC SIENCE

This week we  have been investigating forensic science and what it is. Conveniently Mrs Standring's begonias were stolen when we arrived back from lunch. A crime scene was set up around Mrs Standring's desk. Many pieces of evidence have been found such as :Lipstick marks on a mug with black tea inside it, blue footprints,blue fingerprints on a letter, brown hair and chunks of dirt lying on Mrs Standring's desk.

IMAGINE A DAY 

Imagine a day...is a book full of illusions with mirroring effects water effects sky effects and many more.the book plays illusions on your eyes that looks like one thing than it is not the same it is a very good book author Sarah L Thomson and paintings by Rob Gonsalves 

                                                                IMAGINE A NIGHT

In this book imagine a night they're are mystical illusions that make your head spin like a ferrest  wheel. The whole book is about is about illusions at night time and telling a story with images.

Thursday Do-Good-Dot Reward.

Last Thursday, year 5 had a movie afternoon, watching "A Series of Unfortunate Events". We had an amazing time, eating chips & drinking a juice box. The story was about an extremely unfortunate event. The children's parents died in a mysterious fire (Count Olaf did it) and they are forced to live with their parents distant relative Count Olaf. The evil count has a plan to steal the orphans fortune. They are sent to live with another relative, a scientist who studies snakes. He was killed by Count Olaf. They are then sent to live with a paranoid aunt who is always saying that things will happen to them but when a large storm came all the things she was scared of happend .Count Olaf then fooled Aunt Josephine into a trap to float away into the ocean and be devoured by horrifying and slimy leaches.  

We also got to dress up in our favourite sports jersey, sporting clothes or their weekend sport shirt to school. Everyone had an amazing time on Thursday watching the movie, enjoying the chips, juice and wearing our mufti.We also had sport and music that day so we played a modified version of baseball in our wicked sports outfits and chanted our beats,rhythms and ostinatos in style.We enjoyed Thursday and we can't wait for our next do-good-dot reward.

On Friday we had a special incursion celebrating book week.Two people came to show us the important's of books.They dressed up and sang funny songs 

This book week has been going for over 70 years 1945-2015. On this day all the people who won the book week competition all gets a book and certificate because they have drawn a beautiful piece of art work. Primary did the  drawing competition and infants did the colouring,the theme was what books light up your world when the people that won got their certificate they got a picture with the people that did the show.   

There was a man and a girl book week 2015 Shine and light and they sang songs together.

Manly Beach

On Friday 23 October, Year 5 and Year 6 took a trip to Manly Beach to learn about Surf Safety and how to identify and save ourself in rips. Some activities that we did were board surfing, wading and how to dolphin dive. We spent some of our time at a waveless beach to learn basic skills before moving onto Manly Beach were we had fun doing our major activities.
On Tuesday, last term, the surf education people came in to talk about surf safety and revising us about safety and how to identify rips.They were talking about what we will be doing on the day when we go to Manly beach like surfing, swimming, races, running, how to surf (not standing) and how to survive when you get cought by a rip. We got stuck in traffic on the way to Manly but it was worth it. Everybody enjoyed the ride and surfing at Manly.We were split into three groups one group walked to shelly beach then the other group was on the surf board and the final the group was doing races and body surfing.We had about 1 hour for every activity then we rotated. We are very thankful to all the teachers and parents who attended the day and helped it be a day worth remembering.

Remembrance

Remembrance day-Lest We Forget

On Wednesday the 11th of November, St. Paul the Apostle students came together to remember those who fought for us by coming together in the playground for a ceremony. We said scripture readings, prayers, the ode and a two minute silence.To remember The Australian solider's, their hard work and that they fought for our country. The solider's who gave up their lives for our country they first thought it was a adventure but it turned out to be hell. Today we remember the brave solider's who put down their weapons  and stopped the gun fire to think about what they have been doing for the past 4 years. The poor men that had been tormented by what they had seen.