Enrichment News
ICAS
The results for the Mathematics assessment were quite pleasing. Well done to the following students:
Catholic Young Voice Awards
Chloe Manning (Year 6) was awarded the WINNER of the Junior Photography section for Years 5 & 6 for her photographs and caption of the flower pot outside the ILE. This achievement was announced at a zoom ceremony at the end of August. There were over 500 entrants from across Australia in 3 different categories and 3 different age groups. Well done, Chloe!
Lessons from a pot
Persistence. When we plant seeds, sometimes the plants do not grow, so we try again until we finally succeed. This inspires us to plant more vegetation creating beauty in our gardens. In life, we all have things that fail, we just have to keep trying.
The theme for the competition was “Voices of Hope”. Two other Year 6 students also entered the competition. Emily wrote an article about how we can learn from making mistakes while Liam created a video about his dad who is an IT technician. He said, “When I think of hope, I think of my dad fixing broken computers, to make people happy, and that inspires me.”
Alison Williams
Enrichment Teacher