St Mary's Catholic School Boyup Brook

The St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal is one way our students can help and give to others in our community of Boyup Brook. Christmas is a special time to spend with family and celebrate the birth of Jesus together.  

We ask kindly families if they can donate something from the class list below:

Kindy/Pre Primary - Tinned vegetables 

Year 1/2 - Rice

Year 3/4– Fruit Juice

Year 5/6 – Long life custard 

Each classroom has a box to place your items in, these will then be added to the hampers made up by the St Vincent de Paul volunteers from each church just before Christmas. 

Please don't hesitate to contact me if you have any queries.

Kind regards

Sharon Nield

On Friday night we took the opportunity to celebrate student success from throughout the year and award our End of Year Awards. The award winners were:

Dux - Braxton O'Hanlon

Christianity - Braxton O'Hanlon

Values Champion-

Pre Primary- Leo Wheatley

Year 1/2 - Georgia Power

Year 3/4 - Tom Chapman

Year 5/6 - Penny Nield 

We seem to have just had some super busy and exciting weeks lately. Out star event was the athletics carnival where every student completed every event with determination and skill, showing all the spectators just how capable four, five and six year olds can be.

The pre-primary children have been very busy writing recounts including one about their holiday adventures, one about the volcano in the sandpit and one about the athletics carnival. In maths they have been looking at the teen numbers and trying to fathom the concept of ‘ten and some more’. The kindy children have been revising the single letter sounds, carefully counting out quantities and partitioning numbers.

Both year groups have looked at maps of the world, our continent and our state. All the children drew a little image of a place in Western Australia that they had visited and we added these to a very large state map that we made. ‘Camel Soak’ near Perenjori was the furthest place from Boyup Brook that anyone drew a picture of.

In Religious Education the students have discussed how important it is to be able to say sorry in a meaningful way. They have also been discussing how everyone’s name is different and how their names might have been chosen.

Outside the children have enjoyed creating some quite large inventions, including a large ‘candy making machine’ complete with conveyor belt. This machine turns soft toys into chocolate animals.

We were all lucky enough to have former student Sienna Rhodes join us for a week of work experience. Sienna quickly established a wonderful rapport with the children and made everyone’s life a little brighter.

Mrs Wheeler and Miss Deb

As we head towards the end of the year, our classroom has been buzzing with exciting activities!

Literacy

We’ve been exploring poetry in creative ways! Students wrote imaginative poems using nonsense words and illustrated them to bring their ideas to life. We also adapted poems to give them a bush poetry twist, featuring Australian animals and country themes. A highlight was a visit from Bill Gordon, a member of the WA Bush Poets. Bill listened to students recite their own poems, shared some of his favourites, and explained how bush poetry competitions work.

Math

Our focus has been on 3D shapes, comparing their features and learning how to identify them. We’ve also practiced breaking large numbers into smaller parts to solve equations mentally. We’re finishing Module 12 and enjoying a festive challenge with the 12 Days of Christmas Math Puzzle!

Religion

We completed our unit on Baptism, exploring its symbols, colours, and importance in the Catholic Church. Students studied scripture passages, watched videos of Baptisms, and researched how the sacrament has changed since the time of John the Baptist.

Health

We investigated health messages about healthy eating, sleep, screen time, sun safety, and physical activity—from local to national levels. Students then turned these messages into creative health-themed poems!

HASS

Our geography unit focused on climate—locally, globally, and in neighbouring countries. Students created postcards celebrating our amazing climate and even designed their own imaginary planets, complete with unique weather, plants, and animals.

We’re excited to finish our learning tasks and enjoy some Christmas activities together before the year ends.

Wishing you all a wonderful Christmas filled with joy and time with loved ones!

Mrs Melanie Elks

Our class has been learning about the season of Advent by exploring the Church calendar. We have read about the prophets Isaiah and John the Baptist who foretold the coming of Jesus and explored the different names by which Jesus is referred to in the Bible including The Good Shepherd and Messiah.

In Guided Reading we have been practising the skill of summarising a text, this can be challenging, deciding which details to include and which to leave out. We have explored odes and anthems in our poetry writing. Now poetry anthologies are being created to showcase our poetry writing skills all about one theme. You can see some of our creations below. While writing an anthem is extremely challenging, it has been very exciting to see everyone rising to the challenge, giving thought to the message they want to convey and choosing words and phrases carefully to achieve the goal.

We have been enjoying exploring the world of Economics in HASS recently. Everyone has a good knowledge of how resources can be classified and we have explored how retailers may advertise goods as being a need when really they are just a want. This led to some discussions about being critical viewers and not just falling for the persuasiveness of ads! After viewing a video about some of the weirdest jobs in the world we investigated what qualifications and personal qualities people might require to fill these positions.

Christmas Ode by Skye

Oh Christmas!

You bring joy and happiness to people,

You are the most fampous event of the year!

On Christmas we celebrate the birth of Jesus.

My heart and all of me gives thanks to you.

Oh Christmas, how I adore you!

Summer Diamante by Kristy

Summer

hot, riverside

swimming, fanning, sweating

canoe, barbecue, tree elf

sleeping, giving, dancing

celebrate, wait

Christmas

Swimming Cinquain by Brayden

Swimming

Enjoyable, relaxing

Splashing, kicking, squealing

Cooling me on a hot day

Floating.

Santa Cinquain by Oliver

Santa

Red sack

Caring, zooming, giving

Big jolly man

St Nicholas

Today student's who placed at the Dinninup Show and did not collect their winnings will be receiving an envelop with their prize winnings in.