The Juniors have been VERY busy! By Room 6a and 6b

This term, we have been doing a lot of learning and also having some fun. 
This is what we have been up to, by Room 6a and Room 6b:

• Some of our writers, have been doing great and awesome narratives. 
• We have been learning different languages, like Samoan, Romanian and Te Reo Maori.
• We know even more ways to say Hello, like in Filipino, Dutch, Spanish, Irish, French, Polish, Romanian, Indian, Australian, Mandarin and Japanese. 
• We had Malo, she is Phoenix, Lachie, Mollie and Sophie's Nan. She taught us Samoan and our song.
• Alexandra's Nanna taught us a Romanian song and dance. 
• We have really good goals for maths. "My goal was teen facts, it's easy now!" said Riley P. "My maths goal used to be counting in 5's and now I know it!" said Paloma. "I found the 2 x table really hard, then I got it," said Nisharn. "I used to not know how to count in 5's, but now I do," said Tessa.
• "We did Samoan art, we made a Siapo cloth," said Iosefo. "I know the colours of the Siapo Cloth," said Mefi, "they are brown and black."
• "Mrs Hainsworth came to RE one day and taught us a song called Welcome to the Family," said Liam.
• "We made birds from the Phillipines," said Matthew. "They were Sarimanok birds," said Yechiel.
• "We made Frangipani from Samoa," said Lucas. In Samoan, we call these Pua.

Our Cultural Performances and Art

Wow we have been busy this term! We have been learning about our own cultures, our family culture, our school cultures and where our families are from. We have also been learning about the different cultures in our class, through art and performance. 

We hope you all join us on Monday 15th September for our evening Cultural Performance! We will be sharing singing and dancing from several different cultures!

In the meantime, here is a sneak preview of the awesome art we have been creating:

St Brendan's Feast Day & Grandparent's Day

This coming Friday, we have our St Brendan's and Grandparents Feast day Mass. This will be held in the chapel at St Patrick's College Silverstream at 11:45am. Grandparents and families are welcome to come back to the school hall following the Mass for a light luncheon. Students are welcome to join their families, but must bring their own lunchbox for their lunch. We look forward to seeing you then!

Welcome back!

A warm welcome back to everyone in the Junior Syndicate for Term 2. We hope you have all had a lovely holiday and are looking forward to an exciting new term. We would like to welcome Katie, Ethan, Maddix, Amelia, Madison, Ariel and Madeline and their families to school. We hope you have a wonderful time here with us at St Brendan's!

A warm welcome to our Junior Syndicate 2014!

A new year is here! A warm welcome back to everyone in the Junior Syndicate for this year and to all our new students and their families! We hope you have all had a lovely holiday and are looking forward to an exciting new term.

This year the Junior Classes in Term 1 are as follows:
Room 1 - New Entrants (Mrs Jones & Mrs Vulu)
Room 2 - Year 1 (Mrs Hey)
Room 6a  - Year 2 (Miss Kennedy)
Room 6b - Year 2 (Mrs Causer)

Welcome to Term 4, 2013!

Term 4 is here already! We have a very busy and exciting term ahead. We are really looking forward to performing our whole school production, 'The Amazing Race' in Week 1. Room's 3 & 6 have a wonderful Irish scene, Room's 1 and 4 have produced a colourful Jamaican scene and Room 2 are sharing their fantastic Samoan scene with some of the older students in Room 5. Make sure to get your tickets from the school office if you haven't purchased them already! 

From Week 2 onwards, our inquiry topic looks at how communication has developed over time, to help people communicate in different ways. 

Stay posted for more on this one!

Welcome to Term 3!

We hope you are all enjoying the school holidays. Term 3 is nearly here and it should be a very exciting 9 weeks, with our school production near the end of term! We are going to spend some time at the start of the term looking at different cultures around the world, including own and those of our classmates. It is going to be lots of fun.
This term, our Junior Syndicate is expanding from 4 to 5 classes! Mrs Cole and Mrs Vulu will be teaching a Year 1 class in Room 3. We would also warmly like to welcome all our New Entrants starting in the coming term.