Community Spirit at St. Luke's - Helping Others.

Today we had a mini market at school to raise money for children in the Philippines.

Our student Social Justice group organised and supervised stalls. Everyone came along today with their pocket money ready to join in the fun and help raise money for those less fortunate than us. 

Parents and friends were invited and community spirit was well and truly alive!  

The Preps were in charge of the Sweets and Lollies stall. Due to the generosity and kindness of our Prep families and families in the school we were able to raise $200.00!! - just from the lolly stall. Stay tuned for our overall amount.

Declan's mum, Sonya and Niamh's mum, Madeline did a fantastic job bagging up all the lollies! Thank you so much! 

Thank you to those parents who sent along lollies already bagged and to those who did some home baking. A fantastic effort by everyone.

Mrs Gridley prepared a PowerPoint to show where our fundraising money would go and how it will be used.

Supporting children in the philippines from vgridley

We are very lucky to have all that we do.

Why is it important to share what we have with others?

Reusing - Glass jars

As part of our inquiry this term we have been looking at how we can reuse materials to reduce the amount of rubbish that goes into landfill. All the Preps brought a glass jar to school and we decided to make a Christmas decoration using the jars. 
We found this great activity on a wonderful blog Handprint and Footprint ART and were able to turn a plain glass jar into a very special reindeer candy cane treat holder.

Reusing to make Rudolph! on PhotoPeach

How do you reuse glass jars?

How do you reuse materials?

Our Action - Can you help us?

A couple of weeks ago we did a litter audit around our local area. We discovered that there was quite a bit of rubbish in the street our school is on. So today we had a letter box drop to ask the people who live in the street if they could pick up any rubbish they see outside their houses. We are trying to care for the environment and would like to encourage everyone to help!

Here is the flyer we created together:

We hope that we can make a difference and that the people in our community will help us!

Litter Detectives!

For our Inquiry this term we are looking at how we can make a difference to the environment by reducing landfill through reusing and recycling. 

Today we were Litter Detectives and went for a walk around our neighbourhood  to see if we would find any rubbish. Luke, Hannah and Aly had a map of our streets and when we saw some rubbish they marked it on the map. We took photos of the kinds of rubbish that we saw.

This is what we discovered:

There was no rubbish around the shops at the end of our street. We think that might be because there were two rubbish bins for people to put their rubbish in.

The other streets around our school looked very clean and rubbish free.

In the street that our school is on, we saw quite a bit of rubbish and we were surprised. We think the rubbish was there because

• there are no rubbish bins in the street
• people have dropped their wrappers and containers
• the wind may have blown it out of rubbish bins
• the rubbish has fallen out of bins when the garbage collector has picked up the bins

We looked at the rubbish and we thought that some of the rubbish had been on the street for a long time. Some of the bottles and plastic containers should have been put in the recycling bin. 

We have a problem!

What can we do to help clean up our street?

Please let us know your ideas!

Preps, talk to your families and friends and see if you can find an answer to our problem.

Here are some photos of our discoveries:



Litter Detectives! on PhotoPeach

Wearing blue for UNICEF!

 

Today we all wore blue to school to raise money and awareness for the children in our world who do not have the opportunities we have. Last term Harry O'Brien came to talk to us about children who are not able to go to school.

We wanted to help so we have raised $300.00 for UNICEF!

 

 

 

Taking action that matters!

Our Action!

 Last term we were very lucky to have Mary from the RED (Recycling + Education = the Difference) group come to talk to us about how we can reuse plastic to make something new and useful. 

Our action for our Inquiry this term is to collect flexible plastic to be reused and made into something useful for our school.

We want to collect 250kg of flexible plastic - we will need the help of all our families and friends to reach our goal!

Here is the presentation Mary showed us with so many interesting facts:

RED from marieck

We want to make a difference and take action that matters.

What do you do to recycle and reuse?

Footy Day!

On Friday we had our annual Father's Day breakfast and footy day. We had such a great day! 
Our Sport Captains ran a footy clinic for the whole school. They did a fantastic job organising and running the activities and teaching us some new skills. Thank you!

Footy Day from marieck

Who is your favourite footy team?

GO PIES!

CRAZY Hair Day!

Today we had Crazy Hair Day. The social justice team in our school decided to raise money to help children in Sudan. So we came to school with our craziest hairdos and brought a gold coin donation . We raised $300.00 - a spectacular effort!

The Preps decided to match their crazy hair with crazy faces!

Our Action - In Action!

Here are some photos of the nesting boxes we made and the beautiful possums who are using them while they recuperate at Adriana's wild life shelter. You can read about our action here and here and here
We think the possums look very happy and content - what do you think?
Thanks Mrs David for the PhotoPeach.


Our Nesting Boxes! on PhotoPeach

Our Action.

Today was a very special day for Prep S and Prep K at St. Luke's. In term two we made a calendar to raise money for the homeless people in our Melbourne community. Thanks to the generosity of our families and friends at St. Luke's we raised $900.00! Netty Horton from St. Vincent de Pauls came to our school today and told us a bit about her job at St. Vinnies and how our money will be used. The money we raised will go towards feeding about 400 people on Christmas day. We are so proud of our Preps and their wonderful contribution to our local community.

Our Term 2 learning that lead to this action is detailed here

Prep News!

We have had a very busy time in Prep. See our photos below (hint - to enlarge the photos hover the mouse over a photo and you will see a magnifying glass. Just click and the photo will become larger).
Footy Day, Our Art Show, Italian Day.

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PJ Day Glog

Click on the link below to see our glog about PJ Day.

PJ Day: text, images, music, video Glogster

PJ Day

We wrote our reflections about PJ Day on Wallwisher.