Fun Football Sessions
Football for Children came in this week to hold a fun Football session for every classroom. The children enjoyed playing some dribbling games as a warm-up before heading of to the inflatable pitch for a quick game of 6 a side.
Fun Football Sessions
Science In A Van
Mt Carmel Athletics Day
We were very lucky to have fabulous weather for our Athletics day which we had postponed from the previous week due to the huge amount of rainfall. St Brigid won the Senior event held in the morning and St Mary won the Junior event held in the afternoon with the overall winner for both events being St Brigid.
World Water Day on Seven Sharp
World Water Day this year coincided with some of our classes having a special lesson delivered by an educator from Watercare. Seven Sharp came along to find out more about it and to ask some of our Mt Carmel Kids on how we can all conserve water. Here are our ‘Behind the Camera’ shots – click on one image to view as a Gallery.
You can view the full Seven Sharp episode here (our feature is at 16.57 minutes in)
OR
You can view just the Mt Carmel feature here
Y6 trip to MERC, Long Bay
At the Sir Peter Blake Marine Education Resource Centre, our Year 6 children enjoyed a day of abseiling, problem solving games and surf kayaking.
Watercare Lessons
Did you know a seagull can drink saltwater as it has special glands to filter out the salt? Or that we each use an average of 180 litres of water per day? That’s just two of the fun facts that the presenter from Watercare shared with our classes during their experiment sessions in Term 1. The children saw first hand the optical illusions that water creates when you look through it and they applied their learning to discover the reasons for these weird and wonderful changes.
Junior School ‘Ugly Bug Ball’
The Mt Carmel Kid
The Mt Carmel Kid is our school profile of the skills, dispositions and attitudes we want our graduate students to leave with. The ‘Kid’ was developed during discussions with the teachers, BOT and parents of Mt Carmel. The profile states:
- I set goals, seek challenges and solve problems
- I show love, care and respect for myself, others and God’s world
- I live my Catholic faith and I am learning to be like Jesus
- I serve people in our community
- I am a learner wherever and whenever I can be
- I strive to be positive and happy
- I am self-confident, strong and resilient
- I strive to be the best I can be
- I show creativity, imagination and innovation
- I am a collaborative team member who listens to others and contributes my own ideas
- I am kind, caring and inclusive
The Mt Carmel Kid is a major focus for our students. It is not a technically a graduate profile but rather a profile we all work at from Year 1 through to Year 6. The statements are discussed in class and playground, and teased out as to what they might look like and sound like for students at varying age levels. By cultivating these wide range of traits, our students will be building the key resources of a confident learner with a strong Catholic identity that will serve them well as they move from Mt Carmel to their college education.
Pet Parade
A range of animals from Fr Sam’s exotic pigeons to huge dogs were brought to school for our Pet Parade. The students enjoyed parading and viewing the pets and this was followed by a prayer of thanks, a blessing and a sprinkling with Holy Water. Students, and parents (and pets!) enjoyed the parade immensely.
Click below to view the photos.