How can we as town planners create a plan and design the “New Riverstone”, so that we can meet the needs of the community and the environment?
The students participated in an exciting event presented by two strategic town planners from Blacktown Council, Helen Budd and Fiona McDermott.
The next steps are to start designing their own vision of Riverstone and write reports explaining their decisions.
The students have read local newspaper articles that address the changes proposed for Riverstone and have written persuasive texts that put forward their thoughts about the issues.
Then they developed an understanding of the four 21st Century skills that are the focus for this unit. These skills are; communication, collaboration, critical thinking and creative thinking. The children are writing a weekly reflection on how they have developed these skills.
St John's Primary School Riverstone
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05 Sep 2025
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This morning we celebrated our wonderful fathers with breakfast and open classrooms! 🥓🍳 Afterwards we had our Fathers Day Liturgy where we reflected on how grateful we are to God for such wonderful father figures in our lives. 🙏 Thank you to our wonderful staff for all the effort you put into making this morning possible! To all our dads, grandfathers and father figures- we hope you have a fantastic Father’s Day this Sunday! ❤️![746041150857862_1333164652145506-1]()
04 Sep 2025
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Don’t forget to wear your jerseys to support Jersey day tomorrow. See you at our Father’s Day Breakfast.
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05 Sep 2025
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This morning we celebrated our wonderful fathers with breakfast and open classrooms! 🥓🍳 Afterwards we had our Fathers Day Liturgy where we reflected on how grateful we are to God for such wonderful father figures in our lives. 🙏 Thank you to our wonderful staff for all the effort you put into making this morning possible! To all our dads, grandfathers and father figures- we hope you have a fantastic Father’s Day this Sunday! ❤️
04 Sep 2025
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Don’t forget to wear your jerseys to support Jersey day tomorrow. See you at our Father’s Day Breakfast.
02 Sep 2025
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Look at all the fruit we picked today. Mrs Giglio has been busy making marmalade.
02 Sep 2025
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Afternoon fruit picking! We love seeing so much great produce growing at St John’s! 🍊
02 Sep 2025
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Last week, Stage 1 had an amazing time on their excursion to the Australian Pioneer Village in Wilberforce! They stepped back in time to discover what life was like in the past—exploring the old schoolhouse, water pump, police station, blacksmith shop, and so much more. The students especially loved tasting damper and enjoying a hay ride around the village!
01 Sep 2025
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Our community is saddened by the loss of our former executive director Greg Whitby. Greg was an innovative leader with a great sense of justice and equity for all of our children. We keep his family in our prayers at this difficult time. May he rest in peace.
28 Aug 2025
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Congratulations to this weeks award recipients and to team 15 for winning book week trivia! 🏆🏅
28 Aug 2025
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Today 12 students had the privilege of attending the 2025 Kitchen Garden Expo! 👩🏻🌾🧑🍳 We are feeling so inspired to continue developing our garden beds at St John’s. We participated in a cooking challenge, explored the gardens of our host school and presented the great learning from our school. Our favourite part though, was enjoying lunch- which was cooked by all participating students. We enjoyed cooking and tasting fried rice, Korean pancakes, herb bread, spanakopita, fruit kebabs, vege wraps and rainbow salad. Take a look at some snapshots from our fabulous day! 🤩
27 Aug 2025
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Our Year 6 leaders proudly represented St John’s at the Diocesan Education Mass led by Bishop Vincent, followed by the Mission Outreach Expo. They confidently shared our school’s outreach and formation initiatives, including PJ Day, our Feast of the Sacred Heart Mass, the Winter Sleepout, and work with St Vincent de Paul. We are so proud of how they spoke with confidence to principals, clergy, and students from across the diocese, showcasing St John’s commitment to faith and service. 💙✝️
27 Aug 2025
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Year 6 have been enjoying creating stop motion videos during our photography lessons with Captiv8! Take a look at their fantastic work! 📷🤩
22 Aug 2025
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Best wishes to all of our children who are receiving the Sacrament of Holy Communion for the first time this weekend. Our prayers are with you at this special time.