St Anthony's Primary School Girraween

On Tuesday and Wednesday, every class commemorated Holy Week by participating in a Holy Week Prayer Room. It combined prayer, song, actions, listening and silence to reflect on the final days of Jesus' life, his suffering and death.  The prayerful reflection engaged students in key events of Holy Week in different ways:

• Classes began by watching a video that retold the key events that they would be reflecting on
• Students engaged in the crowd's reaction to Jesus' arrival in Jerusalem on Palm Sunday through taking on their role in actions and song
• The Last Supper was retold and modelled, focusing on the key actions of breaking and sharing bread and wine
• Teachers used Scripture and Catholic Tradition Storytelling to focus students on Jesus' prayer and arrest in the Garden of Gethsemane
• Classes solemnly recalled Jesus' crucifixion on Good Friday through silent and spoken prayer, and song
• Finally, each student received a cross which they could colour, cut out and keep as a reminder of the commemoration.

Holy Week leads us to the most important feast in the Church's year - the Easter celebration of Jesus' resurrection from the dead.  By dying on the cross, Jesus reconciled the world to God and offered the gift of eternal life to all.  We invite you to participate in the Easter celebrations in your local Church community.

The preparation process to celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation for the first time will begin in our parish in May.  If you wish for your child to celebrate First Reconciliation this year, please read the information in the letter below and ensure that you attend the parent information session.

Our Gardening Club occurs every Monday and Tuesday during lunch time.  All students from Kindergarten to Year 6 are welcome to be a part of the group. During this time, students enjoy a range of outdoor activities such as weeding, mulching, planting seedlings, watering and picking a range of herbs, vegetables and fruit to taste. This term our gardeners have had a lot of success with growing our Sunflowers. Our gardeners have learnt about the life cycle of a Sunflower, held their own guessing competition to guess the height of the Sunflower plant and they took turns estimating how many Sunflower seeds were in the head of the Sunflower. 

The Gardening Club look forward to spending more thyme in the garden in Term 2. 

At St Anthony’s we Act Respectfully, Live Responsibly and Learn Together.  To remind us of our school’s expectations and values we need to create a logo that represents this.  Over the school holidays we are asking for our talented students to design a logo for our PBS4L resources. 

Think about how you would represent us acting respectfully, living responsibly and learning together in one logo.  Think about what it will look like and what colours should be in the logo. The winning logo will be used to design an official one which will be used on all our PBS4L signage and correspondence moving forward.

There will be prizes awarded to 1st, 2nd and 3rd place for each stage. Entries will close on Friday 23rd April.

Our subscription to the Parenting Ideas portal provides us with access to many parent education resources by Michael Grose, one of Australia's leading parenting educators.

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