Planting Sunflowers in Year 3 Recently our Year Three students and teachers along with Mr Justin Worsnop (our fantastic Grounds person and teacher) planted some sunflower seeds. The aims of the exercise are; identify and describe the functions of different parts of flowering plants: roots, stem/trunk, leaves and flowers. explore the requirements of plants for […]

Engaging in Physical Education Program During the week, I visited our students engaging in their weekly physical education program in our school hall.  There are many powerful and broad benefits that our students gain from our quality physical education program with Mr Irvine.  At St Therese’s we believe in actively inspiring our students to be […]

Year 6 Camp Last week I returned from my stay over at Camp Tinaroo! From all accounts the students have had the best time ever! Trying to figure out the highlights of the camp was challenging as the camp food seemed to “trump” everything. Day one saw the student engage in a four-hour hike through […]

Dance Fever! Our students have commenced the dance program as part of the Australian Curriculum “The Arts”. This program is very popular among our students. The program provides many benefits for our students that includes expansion of their imagination and creativity and not to mention the development of three-dimensional thinking skills. Dancing also promotes good […]

Year One – Exploring the number 10! My visit to Year One allowed me to explore the wonderful world of mathematics. This week the students were engaging in rotation activities around the number.  One little girl working with the teacher was making numbers to add to 10. Another group were exploring numbers that make 10 […]

Year 2   Year two students were making funny sentences using their knowledge of written and oral texts. It was exciting to hear students use a variety of texts, processing strategies to retrieve literal information and then draw on their knowledge of grammar, vocabulary and punctuation that in turn produced a a funny text. The […]

National Walk Safely to School Day  This year St Therese’s school community participated in the National Walk Safely to School day that celebrates its 20th year. National Walk Safely to School Day is an annual event where the majority of our students and families along with our Police and Fire Fighters walked from the Gymnasium […]