Week 6 Term 3 2023

From the APRIM

Visit of the Holy RELIC of St John Bosco at Gawler Church

The relic statue of St John Bosco, better known as Don Bosco, will be touring Australia as part of the celebrations of the centenary of the arrival of the Salesians on Australian soil. The Salesians came to the shore of Australia on 30th March 1923 in Fremantle, Western Australia. The wax replica of the Saint contained in a glass casket comes from the Province of Hong Kong, made by Gianpiero Zoncu at the time of Don Bosco's beatification in 1929. A small bone from the right arm of the Saint was removed and placed in this wax replica before being securely concealed in the large glass casket. Please see below the Relic Tour schedule (September 1-5):

Friday 1st September

Xavier College Gawler

5:00 to 8:00 pm in St John Bosco, Brooklyn Park, Fr Long Hai

Saturday 2nd September

Saturday 6pm to Sunday 12 noon: St Peter & Paul Parish, Gawler

Sunday 3rd September

3:00 pm to 8:30 pm - Church of the Holy Name (80 Payneham Road, Stepney)

Monday 4 September

Xavier College

The program at St John Bosco Parish will be as follows:

5:00pm: Welcome Ceremony

6:30pm: Mass

Venerating until 8:00pm.

All are welcome to come pay homage and pray at the relic.

Made in the Image of God – Weeks 7, 8 & 9

The MITIOG Curriculum seeks to offer young people in our Catholic schools the insight that sexuality is not a trivial thing and that being human is a wonderfully rich, beautiful and complex experience. Schools teach human sexuality because it is a part of who we all are and is a part of coming to know ourselves in relationship with others and God. Our sexuality is a part of our whole being, right from our conception. It is an innate human drive and dimension that permeates and influences human action, thought and feeling. And it is through our sexuality that we encounter, engage with and love others. Our own Catholic school communities are diverse culturally, socially, spiritually etc…- and so these different experiences and perspectives have been considered in the development and teaching of a Human Sexuality program through the lens of Catholicism. Although we offer this curriculum, all Catholic schools recognise and respect that it is families who are the first educators of their child’s sexuality. It is for this reason that we have communicated with you to let you know that we are about to engage with Catholic Education’s theologically reviewed MITIOG curriculum. Families can request that their child not participate in these MITIOG lessons (or a particular MITIOG lesson) depending on the content. Please know that teachers do not teach content beyond the scope of the age-appropriate curriculum. Further to this, part of helping your child feel safe and understand boundaries in a Human Sexuality curriculum is for the teacher to set up good classroom practices at the start of the MITIOG learning. Please know that you can read up online at the MITIOG website. Here you will find information about the role of the family, the curriculum itself, and how to talk to your child to help deepen their understanding and growth of their human sexuality. https://re.cesa.catholic.edu.au/mitiog-home

Learning in RJJ

The Assumption of Mary

On Tuesday the 15th of August we celebrated the Assumption of Mary into heaven. The children were inspired by different images of Mary and had prior knowledge, questions, and wonderings to share. This led us to create our own image of Mary. The children began the process by sketching Mary’s facial features. They then began to manipulate wire to mirror their sketches. This came together to create our shared artwork, ‘Wire Mary’.

Mary is Jesus’ Mum. – Kiansh

God and Mary are Jesus’ Mum and they care for their land and people in heaven and back when the Kaurna people were first on this land a long, long time ago. – Iyla

Mary married Joseph a long, long time ago. – Zoe

Mary went to heaven to be with Jesus. – Crystal

Mary said ‘yes’ to God. – Thomas

Jesus’ Mum said ‘yes’. – Jaisikh

Mary was kind. – Jugaadveer

We sang a Mary song for prayer. – Zoe

We made Mary and we had to put lots of teamwork and effort into it. We used wire and it was fun! We had to use friendship and we had to speak and use a lot of people for it. – Iyla

I worked on Mary’s eyes. I made circles in the middle with wire. It was so good! – Darcy

I had to do lots of twisting with the wire. – Arcadius

I did a nose drawing and then I just put wire on my drawing. It made a shape like a nose. – Ariana

I drew Mary’s eyes. They were like big ovals. – Elijah

I did the eyeballs on wire Mary. The eyes were hard. I got a small bit and attached it around to make the eyeballs. – Amalia

I did a little eye too. It took perseverance! – Amelia

I did her lips with Crystal. It was easy because we were bending it and pointing it but when we were putting the line inside it was a bit hard. – Ayok

Mary wears a blue scarf on her head. So does our Mary. – Lena

We made Mary! – Jozef

I like the ‘Wire Mary’ it looks so good. – Markos

I felt proud when I saw it at the end! - Jaisikh

Book Week in RJJ

We have loved getting into the spirit of Book Week! As a part of our Book Week celebrations, we invited the parents/caregivers of RJJ to come in and share their child’s favourite story with us.

Some of our favourite moments and activities from Book Week…

My favourite part was when we were drawing ourselves in our costumes. - Ayok

My mum came to read “Piranhas Don't Eat Bananas” because it’s my favourite book. I liked my Mum coming to read it. – Elijah

The best part of Book Week was dressing up! – Markos

I liked it when my Mum came in to read the “Smeds and the Smoos”. I felt so happy. – Lena

My favourite part of Book Week was when my Mum read “Time for Bed” and my Dad read “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”. My Mum read it sensible, and my Dad read it funny! – Amalia

I loved when we did the parade. My parents were watching me. I was Elsa. - Ariana

I liked seeing everyone’s costumes. They were really cool. - Crystal

I liked it when the parade started. I saw plenty of ladybugs when I looked around. - Amelia

Mr Zandona dressed up as Green Eggs and Ham. He went around to everyone. It was fun! - Jozef