‘Reading is Magic’ Book Week 2024 is just around the corner. We have been enjoying reading the Book Week 2024 shortlisted books.
Just a reminder that Story and Craft time is on tomorrow Friday 16th August from 10am-11am in our wonderful school library. Preschooler’s and their parents/carers are welcome to join us for a story and craft activity.
To register please email: principal@scbtemplestowe.catholic.edu.au or call the school on 98427634
Our Year 5/6 students certainly have shown some very advanced gaming skills.
During Term 2, they built games and they have entered them into a Video Game challenge. We are so pleased to see that our games have advanced in the competition to Round 2!
Thank you to @ACER for providing us with an amazing oppprtunity.
Every morning our day begins with Christian Meditation.
All of the staff at St Charles Borromeo have participated in ongoing professional development exploring the benefits of Christian Meditation.
‘Simple relaxation techniques allow students to make the transition from the busyness of the day and to move into a more receptive mode, even if just for a few minutes.’ (RESource, 2021)
Every Monday morning families are invited to join Christian Meditation in their child’s classroom.
Recently we have enjoyed welcoming lots of children from local preschools and early learning centres.
Thank you for visiting us;
Doncaster Gardens Preschool
Busy Bees ELC
Creative Play ELC Bulleen
We look forward to welcoming Deep Creek Preschool and Yarra Valley Preschool to our school soon.
Happy National Science Week!
The students at St Charles love their time in our well resourced STEAM lab.
Each week they have a 1 hour specialist STEAM lesson where they get to do lots of fun and engaging science investigations.
Here is one of our favourite investigations.
The students are super excited about participating in the Australian Mathematics Competition.
First run in 1978, the Australian Mathematics Competition is Australia’s longest running, largest and most well-known maths competition for school students.
Like all our competitions, the AMC contains unique problems designed each year by leading educators and academics to challenge and extend your students’ problem-solving skills.
(AMT, 2024)
Our next Open day is scheduled for Tuesday 13th August at 9am.
Don’t miss your chance to join in a student led tour, followed by a chat with our principal Ms Zuzic about the amazing opportunities that St Charles Borromeo can offer your child.
Register for a tour here: https://www.stcharlestemplestowe.org.au/
We’d love to see you.
The students at St Charles Borromeo loved decorating the Ms Zuzic's office door to celebrate Principal Day 2024!
Thank you for the amazing work that you do Ms Zuzic. We appreciate it and loved celebrating you!
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It was so pleasing to see all of the Potatoes followed the rules at this weeks Potato Olympics.
Potatoes need to be good listeners, and follow the teacher’s directions. Any potatoes caught not listening will be reported to the International Olympic Committee (IOC)
Potatoes need to support and encourage each other- no ‘booing’. Any potatoes caught ‘Booing’ will be turned into chips.
Potatoes must participate in each event following the instructions, any misuse of potatoes will result in disqualification and will receive a lifetime ban.
Rotary Manningham City commenced running an annual Primary Schools Speech Competition in 2013. The speech competition is designed to encourage primary school children in Grades 5 and 6 to prepare and deliver a short speech from a selection of topics, thus providing them with the experience of speech preparation and public speaking in a safe forum.
The annual event is attended by Toastmasters Australia who provide guidelines, assessments and judges for the event. St Charles is one of 12 schools who participate in this event in the Manningham area. This year, St Charles students Lucas and Elena were chosen to compete in this competition. Lucas prepared and delivered a speech on How Lucas Can Change the World and Elena’s chosen topic was What Kindness Means to Me. Both students spoke on their chosen topic for three minutes and were assessed by independent judges who provided feedback to each participant. We are extremely proud of how well both Lucas and Elena delivered their speeches on the night.
The event is often attended by the Mayor of the City of Manningham as well as senior Rotarians, school teachers and family and friends of the participants, and is increasing in popularity each year it is run. Visitors are treated to an entertaining evening of wonderful speeches with light refreshments at the conclusion of the night.
Unleashing creativity and sparking joy at our story time and craft activity morning on Friday! The children had so much fun creating a wonderful unbrella art activity to match the beautiful story ‘Under the Love Umbrella"‘ by Davina Bell.
If you happen to be visiting The Pines Shopping Centre in Doncaster East don’t forget to go and visit our beautiful art creations.
Anzac Day honors Australian and New Zealand veterans. Commemorates bravery, sacrifice, unity, and remembrance. Gallipoli campaign remembered. Lest we forget.
Our school leaders joined other schools in Manningham to show our respect.
#rotaryclubofmanningham
#lestweforget
Students transformed into cross country champs on Monday during PE class. The students practised running lap after lap for the up and coming cross country. We look forward to seeing them in action on the day!
As well as being a fun sensory activity this activity helps students understand plants and biology. Our students love coming to the STEM lab and exploring fun and intersting investigations. Call our school office if you would love to book a tour. Ph: 9842 7634.
Today we had a wonderful time’ at our Preschool Story and Craft time. The children listened to a wonderful story ‘Elmer the Patchwork Elephant’ by David McKnee. This story promotes and encourages children to celebrate their unique characteristics, and to show inclusion towards others.
On Monday we were delighted to welcome the Honorable Matthew Guy to present our 2024 SRC representatives with their badges.
We look forward to seeing what wonderful initiatives that SRC introduce at our school during 2024!
What a fun afternoon! The students and their families enjoyed participating in a ‘Daily Review’ and then playing Bingo and Diffy Towers.
