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BSG NEWSLETTER
2021 Term 2 Issue 2
Published 18 May 2021
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Dear Parents, Students and our Gurukula Community,
I would like to thank our Gurukula Parents and Friends Committee for contributing $7,900 towards the new commercial gas oven, assisting the school with the project to develop a fully functioning kitchen at the school. Our aim is to daily serve our students hot, delicious and healthy prasadam lunches. With this contribution of our parents, this aim is now closer to becoming a reality.
Over several years, our parents organised various fund-raising initiatives, working tirelessly to cater for sport carnivals and other events, and collecting these funds to assist the school.
On behalf of the students and staff, once again, I would like to offer our sincere thanks for our parents' support.
On Tuesday 25th May (Week 6), our Gurukula students will be running Sri Narasimha Appearance festival at the temple, working together to decorate the temple, to cook the feast, to conduct the Abhishek, to perform and sing for the Lord and finally to serve the feast to all the devotees. Please come to the temple to participate in the festivities and to support the students. The program starts at 4pm and will finish with prasadam at 5:30pm.
Vinod Bihari Das
School Principal
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A new addition to our upcoming Gurukula kitchen set up, a Commercial Gas Oven with Reverse Osmosis System
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Please note these important dates for the 2021 Term Two:
Tuesday May 25 - Narasimha Caturdasi
(Appearance of Lord Narasimha) - School Day
Note: Temple festival will be run by Gurukula students. The program starts at the temple at 4pm and finishes at 5:30pm with Prasadam.
Friday June 4 - Pandavas' Sports Carnival - School Day
Note: Pandavas' Sports Carnival is a fun event open for all our parents and friends. Please come to support Gurukula students competing. Gurukula P&C will be catering for the event.
Monday June 14 - Queen's Birthday Public Holiday - No School Day
Tuesday June 22 & Wednesday June 23 - Parent Teacher Interviews and High School Knowledge Expo
Thursday June 24 - Last day of school for students for Term Two
Uniforms: It is expected that all the students come to school in the correct uniform. If your child is unable to wear the correct uniform on any given day, please send a note to their teacher explaining why. Students are given 4 warnings if in the incorrect uniform, parents will be notified after the third warning that their child has come in the incorrect uniform, on the 4th warning, students will be asked to go the office, parents will be contacted and asked to bring the correct uniform in to the school for the child to change into.
Our uniform shop is well stocked, so please ensure your child has the appropriate uniform, this includes winter jumpers, jackets and pants.
Thank you very much.
Ratipriya
School Secretary
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Please see this link for the Gurukula Calendar.
If you ever have any queries or require assistance, the school office is available via phone on (02) 6672 3788 or via email: admin@krishnaschool.org
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JAGANNATHA CLASSROM
Pre K & Kindergarten
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Who said Maths lessons need to be boring? In our classroom, we learn through play and manipulative resources. During this session, students practiced many skills including subitising, recognising numbers, counting, adding and subtracting, all while having fun!
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Naya practicing writing her name.
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Wednesdays are also for Sanskrit! Vinod prabhu teaches the students words and slokas. So far, we have learnt some animal names and started to recite the ‘ isvarah paramah krsna ‘ verse.
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Taj likes playing with the trucks in the sandpit at lunchtimes.
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Kindergarten students have started to write simple sentences, independently. Here is Gauri’s beautifully illustrated writing piece.
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GAURA NITAI CLASSROOM
Years 1-2
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Dear Parents,
The students have learnt about different forms of Krsna’s Energy. In our science unit, they are learning about natural and manmade ways of harnessing those energies. The last 2 weeks have been exciting and in the students’ own words “ This is fun and I don’t want to miss out…” The students enjoyed the following experiments: how light travels; how to measure sound; and how to make a musical straw that whistled different pitch levels. Stay tuned for their next performance at the temple on Lord Nrsimhadeva’s Appearance day!
Premavati
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Students' projects: learning how to measure sound using bottles of oats, rice and pasta.
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Making a musical straw with different pitch
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Madhurika’s success at adding using the split strategy
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Students' experiment: how light travels in a straight line and goes through cellophane sheets.
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In this video, grade 1 students identified some “doubles plus 1” dominoes, which will be used as a near doubles strategy during addition.
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Our School Chaplain and Wellbeing Support Officer is available on Tuesdays for student support. Please don't hesitate to get in touch to discuss support options available to our students, families, and of course our staff.
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Tech Agreement
Smart phones have a major impact in the times we live in. We need them, and yet we also need to make the time to be without them. It is imperative to one’s well-being to take a break from them.
A family tech agreement is a set of rules about how devices, like smartphones, tablets, computers, TVs and gaming consoles are used in your home. It is written down and agreed to by all family members and kept in a place where everyone can see it (such as on the fridge).
At a young age, children recognise rules, so you can build on this understanding in a fun way to talk about online safety and set some rules. Talking with your child about these rules helps to develop their critical thinking and self-regulation skills and encourages them to build good habits around technology. It can also help them to understand how the internet and networked technologies work, which in turn explains the importance of online safety.
As children grow older, or if your situation changes, it is a good idea to revise your agreement.
Mahananda
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How a family tech agreement works
This is a sample section of a family tech agreement filled out. It is important for parents and carers to agree to some of the rules, as how you use technology provides a model for children to follow. You can also decide which rules are appropriate for children of different ages.
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KRISHNA BALARAMA CLASSROOM
Years 3-4
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Year 3-4 have been keeping busy with their learning and play at school. The following descriptions and photos give a snapshot of some of our week.
Mangala Gopi
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The class had an engaging outdoor math session tallying up all of the insects and animals that they saw around the school and then representing the data in bar graphs.
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Mridanga classes are going well with our new mridanga teacher Gova.
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Everyone enjoyed making heart-warming Mother’s Day cards for their beloved mothers.
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RADHA KRISHNA CLASSROOM
Years 5-6
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Last week Radha Krishna class went to Brisbane to visit Sparklab, an interactive science museum for children. We spent the late morning strolling up the scenic South Bank, stopping to play in playgrounds and refuel during picnic breaks. Sparklab was a treasure chest filled with interactive exhibits that allowed the students to unleash their curious minds. Exhibits focused on a range of areas including energy, matter and space in which students were encouraged to question, manipulate and investigate.
At the end of the visit, we were asked by the staff if our class would like to be the first group to witness their newest exhibition, a tesla coil that also created music. We were told that this was the only music-playing tesla coil in the country! The students were blown away (not literally thankfully). It was a spectacular conclusion to our visit.
Rachel and Kamallini
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Gurukula Students in Brisbane Science Museum
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Upper primary students are learning musical theory and are having fun.
Robby
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A glimpse into Years 5-6 Class learning of music
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When thinking about careers they’re curious about, students mostly wonder how much money they’d be able to earn doing that job. In our years 7 & 8 career classes we have been practicing how to ask many other questions about careers and how they relate to other needs apart from the financial. Below are a few of the many creative questions students came up with while thinking of being a doctor.
Leonardo
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Personalised Learning Plans
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We continue to share how our year 9 students engage themselves in their Thursday PLP sessions. Here we have Gopal cleaning and pulling apart a computer at Precise PCs in town, and also Nimai Rowe learning about horses and helping people with disabilities at Riding for the Disabled, Stokers Siding. Excellent practical and people skills to take with them in any professional path they end up choosing later in their lives.
Leonardo
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Some students have been experimenting with digital art and mixed media in an effort to create self-portraits that are slightly different.
Featured above are work in progress from Toshan and Bala.
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Cooking Classes
(Stage 4)
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Below are a few photos from our last week's cooking class. During that lesson, Years 7 & 8 students had to choose a colour and find a recipe that was associated with the chosen colour. Then each student took charge in the preparation and cooking the selected item from beginning to end.
We had a colourful meal to offer to Krsna.
Cooking classes in the high school run weekly on Thursdays.
Sri Haripriya
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High School Gurukula students are enjoying their learning of music and performing arts.
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Hare Krsna,
In our sastra classes the students have prepared a presentation on Lord Chaitanya. Senior students from Years 11 and 12 chose a topic and researched facts and information about it. Asavri and Nitai presented the reasons for the Lord's appearance.
Anjalee and Nimai presented the pastimes where the Lord manifested His true identity as Krsna.
Tara and Salome talked about different deities of Lord Gauranga in India. Mandali, Sruti and Blue presented the Lord's appearance pastimes.
Our students in Years 7 and 8 were also divided in pairs and each pair had a pastime of the Lord to learn and present. All students created beautiful digital presentations and practiced standing in front of their classmates with their work.
Sri Haripriya
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In Science we are studying about the solar system. Part of our study was to draw the different planets in proportion to their real size, but in order to get the proportion (in scale) of the distances between the planets to the sun, we left the classroom and went to the football playground, where we could build to scale, a model of the distances of the different planets from the Sun. Just for the comparison, the Earth, in our model, was 3.7 meters from the Sun while Neptune, the most distant planet known in the solar system was 110m from the Sun! The students were very pleased with the model and said they will always remember how some planets are very close to the Sun and others very far away.
Sri Harinam
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Learning can happen anywhere and anytime.
I was happy to see children, while waiting for their parents at the end of the day, sitting around a book about marine life and happily reading together and sharing their viewpoints and realisations on the topic.
Observation by Sri Harinam
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Students are moving on to bigger canvases trying their hand at a final body of work on the theme of landscape. I am looking forward to seeing the completed works.
Gopapatni
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Business Studies
(Stage 6)
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Business studies students have embarked upon learning about marketing, uncovering the psychology behind marketing campaigns and exploring the legal and ethical issues associated with marketing efforts of large businesses.
Vinod Bihari
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Using Gurukula as an example, Business Studies students are conducting marketing situational analysis through the SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, Threats) framework.
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Society & Culture
(Stage 6)
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Our seniors have hit the hard stuff in Society and Culture. They’ve chosen research topics and are now busily designing and conducting research into significant social issues ranging from fashion and identity, to social media and its discontents, sports and stress, the role of food in rituals and culture, comparative attitudes to science, health and medicine, cultural hybridity, perceptions of maturity, and social taboos in education. The topics reflect the diverse interests and skills of the students and their research is counted toward their final HSC marks. One proud teacher …
Dhara
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