Events

Friday's Junior Assembly was a great mix of singing, Japanese drama (see below), a wonderful message on "Living for God", and recognising student's efforts with merit certificates. We also enjoyed a special guest speaker Julia Boland who is one of Australia's top female golfers. Julia is also the little sister of Mrs Dye (Year 5). Julia came to share about her experiences of being a Christian golfer on tour. Julia opened her bag and showed us her teddy Phillip who travels with her on tour and reminds her of Philippians 4:13 "I can do everything through him who gives me strength". After her inspiring talk she showed the students her trick of being bouncing a golfball on her golfstick. She made it look easy, but as three students found out it was actually very difficult.

Julia wrote the following for us "Thank you for inviting me to come and speak to you about my favourite topic, God. Being a Christian is a great honour and we are all blessed with so many gifts and abilities. Playing golf for Australia has meant that I have been able to see some amazing countries and meet heaps of people who have achieved great things on the sporting field. One of the best feelings is being able to sing your national anthem loud and proud after winning an international event for your country!!! However as amazing as playing for Australia is the best best best thing in my life is knowing that God loves me so much he sent his only son to die for me on a cross!!!

I hope you enjoyed hearing about some of my adventures today, and I hope that you all love to play sport with your friends…. But most importantly I hope you put God as your first priority!!" Julia Boland 

One of our Year 4 classes presented a Japanese Drama: Konnichiwa – A day in Japan
Students in 4S have been learning about the Japanese culture and language in class. For an assembly item, they put together a song and a skit using the Japanese phrases they had been learning. The item consisted of a Japanese greeting song followed by scenarios based on different settings; such as at school, at home, at a restaurant and at a shop. The students worked hard at pronouncing the Japanese phrases and putting together the skit. It was a wonderful experience where they were able to work as a team and demonstrate the Japanese language they had been learning.