Mary Immaculate Primary Newsletter

Catholic Education are offering a Lenten reflection to embrace, more deeply, the 6 weeks of Lent. The Gospel readings for each Sunday in Lent illuminate the human journey from “Curiosity to Clarity” in a diversity of ways and circumstances. We hope that as you read, reflect and possibly share on these Gospels, you will find a connection with the experiences from your own life stories to those in the Lenten Scripture narratives.

There will be four focussed movements for each Sunday’s reflection:

1. Gather into stillness of the heart and mind.

2. Listen or read the presented verses from the Gospel.

3. Reflect on the particular journey from “Curiosity to Clarity” in the Gospel Story.

4. Respond so as to identify and connect your personal story with the Gospel story.

May we continue to grow together on our faith /life journey from “curiosity to clarity”.

Mrs Helen Moore

Religious Education Coordinator

Last Tuesday, Session 1 of the Developing Literacy Partnerships program was held at MIPS. We were fortunate to have approximately 50 parents in attendance! During Session 1, We explored how Oral Language (speaking and listening) is essential for children to become capable readers. We also explored how parents can encourage children to engage in reading at home, and the questions to ask children about their reading. 

It was fantastic to see so many parents discussing how they can help their child to develop their language and literacy skills at home and how the school reading program can be supported. 

Some of the feedback and ‘takeaways’ we received from our first session on Oral Language and Reading:

“Understanding (when reading) is everything”

“The three questions to ask our children when reading: Does it look right? Does it sound right? Does it make sense?”

“The session really helped in understanding challenges kids face and how to encourage them”

“The session was very enriching and helpful to parents. The strategies shared were very helpful to parents in their role of guiding their children at home”

We are looking forward to our upcoming session this Tuesday, where we will look at how parents can support children in their Writing development. Thank you for your participation in the program!

Mrs Paola Dimataga and  Mrs Kylie Behrens

Year 4 is showing real independance and embracing their new learning environment. They have hit the ground running with their literacy block which runs every morning session. During our literacy block this year we are focussing on the skills of comprehension, these include predicting, questioning, visualising, activating prior knowledge, making connections, synthesising, self monitoring, inferring and summarising.

Our Writing focus this term is around informative text. Our History and Literacy units provide a rich source of learning and development of this skill. We are all looking forward to our Dirt Detectives excursion to the Rocks next week, which will allow for real life application of these skills.

Year 4’s enthusiasm for learning should be applauded, we are excited for a wonderful year!

Here are some photos taken during our literacy block last week.

Mrs Anne Kelly

Year 4 Classroom Teacher

It is imperative to have up-to-date correct contact details for all our students. In case of an emergency, current mobile numbers for parents and emergency contacts are required to notify parents.

We also request an email address for each parent, as receipts for any payments at the school are emailed as confirmation of payment.

Change of details forms are available from the school office, Skoolbag app and school website.

Please note that this information is treated as confidential.