Dear parents,

I hope this email finds all of your family coping with lockdown and remaining healthy. After a few weeks of remote learning I am sure many families have ‘hit the wall’ engaging in tasks remotely.  I know some staff have had enough as well, and long to be back in the classroom.

In these trying times, we are asking a lot of our health professionals and other workers that keep our health services functioning.  It is amazing to hear of the high numbers of staff that are isolating at home because of being a close contact to a person with COVID.

Last year Pope Francis, in a message to commemorate the World Health Organisations ‘Year of the Nurse’ said, ‘Every day we witness the testimony of courage and sacrifice of healthcare workers, and nurses in particular, who, with professionalism, self-sacrifice, and a sense of responsibility and love for neighbour, assist people affected by the virus, even to the point of putting their own health at risk.’

‘Because of your dedication , you are among the ‘saints next door’.  You are an image of the Church as a ‘field hospital’ that continues to carry out the mission of Jesus Christ, who drew near to and healed people with all kinds of sickness and who stooped down to wash the feet of his disciples.”

Below is a link to a short clip that I shared with staff in a recent morning prayer.

Personal Plan Meetings

Due to the current lockdown, there will be no PP meetings this term.  The Diverse Learning Team will be in contact with parents in Term 4.

God bless,

Peter Hughes

Maths Problem

Congratulations to Nathan Mellor who had the first name drawn out this week. It was terrific to see so many entries.  Nathan, I will organise your prize when we return to school.

This week’s problems are:

Years Five and Six

You have several plates, each with a unique number. They are stacked one upon another in some order. You must extract the plates exactly in the order 1, 2, ...

There is a second stack, initially empty, which you can use to store plates. At any time, you can take either of the following actions:

• Move: Take the top plate of either stack and put it on the top of the other stack.
• Extract: Remove the top plate from one of the stacks.

From the stack below, what is the least number of actions you need to make to extract all the plates in order?

4

3

1

5

2

Years Three & Four

The average age of the 11 players in the Australian soccer team is 22.

One player got a red card and had to leave the field. Then, the average age of the remaining 10 players on the field was 21.

How old was the player who received the red card?

Kindergarten to Year 2

These problems follow on from last week’s problem. Arrange the numbers 1 to 6 in each set of circles below.

The sum of each side of the triangle should equal the number in the centre of the triangular shape.

How are you going about trying to find an arrangement that works?