Honouring Annalise

It is with the heaviest of hearts that I put pen to paper today. Our entire Casey Grammar School community is in mourning following the tragic death of one of our treasured students, Annalise.

Annalise was a 4N class member. She was a bubbly, happy girl who always had a smile on her face. She loved and adored her family and friends and her teacher, Ms Nolan. Her favourite colour was blue and music was a passion of hers. She loved singing and one of her favourite songs was Pink’s Cover me in Sunshine.

Each Junior School virtual classroom is honouring Annalise this week and part of that process is listening to this song which will forever remind us of Annalise.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Annalise’s family at this most difficult time. Even though we are not onsite together, I’m sending strength and prayers to our whole community and all our staff are figuratively wrapping their arms around Annalise’s family and every CGS student and parent.

Melissa Roberton

Head of Junior School

Remembering Annalise

Just as 4N was dealing with Lockdown 6.0 they then had to cope with losing a classmate.

Earlier this week we learnt the very sad news of Annalise’s sudden passing. This has left a giant hole in the 4N Family and we have spent the week trying to bond as a class and support each other in this time of extreme sadness.

Annalise was a vibrant, bubbly, happy, funny, artistic, talented little girl with a huge smile. She made our class laugh, she loved to sing, make jokes and share her stories. The students have been creating cards and writing pieces to honour Annalise.

Here is a poem by Ivy in 4N:

Annalise,

A special person with a beautiful smile, who made every day brighter.

A friend I loved to sing and play with, and laugh with every day.

Now there is a new star, the brightest in the sky, and everytime I look up and see it, I will always remember you and smile.

I miss you from the bottom of my heart, and wish I could see you again.  I love you so very much and am so lucky that you came into my life.

Love from Ivy xxx 💙💙

Today we celebrated ‘Blue Day’ as we remembered how much Annalise loved the colour blue. We all dressed up in blue and made our backgrounds blue. We knew how positive and happy Annalise was and we wanted ‘Blue Day’ to reflect this.

Our hearts go out to Robert, Julia and Brendon and all of Annalise’s friends and family.

Miss Sarah Nolan

Year 4 Classroom Teacher

4B Remembers Annalise

It was wonderful to see all the students in 4B embracing the colour blue in our Google Meet on Tuesday morning. It was a beautiful way of paying tribute to Annalise and her favourite colour.

Here Goes Remote Learning 6.0!

4N have demonstrated resilience and a very positive attitude towards this latest lockdown. Our roll question for the class last week was “What word do you think of when you hear the word ‘Lockdown’?"

The students responses included patience, depressed, annoyed, frustrated, grateful, sad, resilient, bored, uncertainty, anger, stuck, anxiety, worry, family, masks, press conferences, loneliness, isolated and exercise.

I am proud to say that 4N has had full attendance for all lessons and they are trying their very best. Miss Nolan still tries to impress her students with her ridiculously funny jokes, but she thinks that sometimes the students’ internet has been a bit slow, because the students were not laughing!

While many parents have been concerned about the learning taking place online, one might look at this generation as a group of students who have shown resilience and adapted extremely well to change.

They have shown flexibility and discovered new ways to learn. I believe these skills to be very important in real life. One positive about these lockdowns are that students are able to face challenges and work through them.

Keep up the fantastic work 4N!

Miss Sarah Nolan

Year 4 Classroom Teacher

Our Preps Have Been Busy…

This week, the Prep students have enjoyed reading the book, Rosie’s Walk, and explored story mapping. It was a pleasure to see the wonderful ideas that our Prep students had when creating new story endings.

One of the highlights of our week was receiving the videos of each student acting out their story map using a wide variety of voices for the characters on Seesaw.

Holly Waugh

Prep Teacher

Prep to Year 2 Performing Arts

We may not be on campus but that hasn’t stopped the creativity flowing in the Junior School. Click on the links below to hear just some of our students’ accomplishments from their online Performing Arts activities.

Prep H, Joziah Click here

Year 1B, Chloe Click here

Year 2G, Sascha Click here

Year 3D, Geona Click here

Year 6N, Esha Click here

Mrs Bronwyn Kyne

Performing Arts Teacher

The Importance of Gratitude

Now more than ever, it’s important to be grateful for the things that we do have. Class 2G explored the theme of gratitude and noted down a list of all the things they are grateful for:

"I am grateful for having time to spend with my family. I am also grateful for being able to connect with all of my students in 2G from my computer."

"I’m grateful for a wonderful world, my pets, my parents and myself."

"Our school is a really fun place where we can make new friends and learn new stuff."

"I am grateful for my baby brother because I get to play with him."

"I’m grateful for having lots of friends and family."

"I am grateful for my family, friends, people around me and everything I have."

"I am grateful for my family."

"I am very grateful for my mum helping me with my school work."

"I am grateful that after school finishes, l can spend time with my family."

"I am grateful for going outside and getting to ride my bike. Also staying at home to keep safe of COVID-19."

"I am grateful for being with my family. I am also grateful for my mummy making bacon and egg muffins for breakfast today. It was yummy."

"I am grateful for my dad is helping me tomorrow and make a computer and I am grateful because my dad got me a happy meal from McDonalds."

"I’m grateful for my Mum for helping me with my computer."

"I am grateful for getting $10.00 for my tooth from the tooth fairy."

"I am grateful for my brother and my mum and dad."

"I'm grateful for a nice family."

"I am grateful for my trampoline as I love to bounce on it."

"I am grateful for a nice family,i am grateful for my mum's dad's sister's brother's, I am grateful for my dad because he helps me with 10000 x 10000 multiplication and in 10 thousands we do division."

"I am grateful for my mum and sister because my sister plays with me and my mum helps me."

Persuasive Posters

As part of our persuasive writing, students created persuasive posters to try and convince their peers to buy what they were selling. A fun task, students enjoyed sharing their posters during our class Google meet.