Term 1 Week 5 2024
Term 1 Week 5 2024 |
School Events |
Monday 4th March |
Guitar Lessons Year 5/6 Library Day Canteen |
Tuesday 5th March |
Yr 1/2 Library Day 5:30 - 7pm Pool Night |
Wednesday 6th March |
Kindergarten Library Day Diocesan Trials - Hockey Grafton |
Thursday 7th March |
Sports Uniform Schubert 7's Rugby League Gala Day |
Friday 8th March |
Whole School Assembly 2.20 pm - Everyone Welcome Diocesan Trials - Soccer and Rugby League Grafton |
Up Coming Events |
Term 1 Week 7 NAPLAN 13th - 25th March Term 1 Week 10 Kinder & Year 1 Catch Up - 7th April Year 2 Picnic Kendall Pool - 7th April
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Parent to Teacher Meetings
Thank you to all the parents who have met with Teachers over this last week. We really value being able to work together to support student’s learning and strong communication from the beginning of the school year is very important in achieving this. Our next round of formal meetings will be at the end of Term 2 after first Semester reports are provided. In the meantime, if you have any further questions, concerns or would like to check in on how your child is doing at school, please get in touch with your child’s Class Teacher anytime to arrange a meeting.
Incitare
This week some of our year 6 leaders joined other year 6 students at Incitare. A day of faith and friendship. Students prayed, reflected, sang and met other students interested in enhancing their faith.
World Day of Prayer
Today Year 6 and the Choir sang beautifully at the World Day of Prayer, an ecumenical event that invites all Christian communities to pray. Thousands of events were held throughout Australia.
This year the focus was on Palestine. We learned about Palestine and the student sang 2 songs including “Make me a Channel of Your Peace”
Family Pool Night 2024
We are having our first whole school social gathering of the year with the Family Pool Night on Tuesday 5 March from 5.30 - 7.00pm. This is an excellent opportunity to reconnect with other families at the school, mingle with our school staff and meet and welcome new families to our school community.
It is important to know that parents are responsible for supervising their children during the event in addition to the pool lifeguards on duty. Pool entry will be charged for each swimmer via Flexischools at $4.70 each. The cost of the inflatable pontoon, parent spectators' fee, and a sausage sizzle (limit 1 per person) will all be covered by the School Community Group (previously P and F). Feel free to bring a picnic rug and additional food and drinks (no alcohol allowed).
The Pontoon will be available for any children who can competently swim in the deep end of the pool and can exit the pool safely without assistance. This is at the parent’s discretion, and if you decide your child can go on this, you may pick up a wristband for them on the night so this is visible to the lifeguards.
Please complete the following form for numbers and then go to Flexischools to purchase your orders by 9 am Monday 4th, March. Please be advised in the case of severe weather, this event may be cancelled, and money will be creditted. We hope to see as many families as possible come along to a fun and fantastic family night!Follow this link
Best wishes from the leadership team
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Mr Rick Galvin Principal |
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Mrs Maria Wilson Assistant Principal Mission |
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Mrs Jessica Koenig Assistant Principal Learning and Teaching |
Zone Swimming Championships Success
Congratulations to our swimming squad who represented our school in their bright yellow caps at the Zone Swimming Championships last week. Our school had incredible results from 29 athletes with 8 students making it through to the Diocesan carnival.
Good luck to our students (Gypsy Sams, Oliver Davis, Isabella Fede, Aiden Koenig, Summer Randall, Thomas Hayward, Iggy Patrzala and Mason Hardy) who are competing in Macksville today at the Lismore Diocesan swimming trials. We know that you will do your school and region proud. We can’t wait to hear the results!
Winter Sports Trials Success
Last week year 5 and 6 students participated in the Winter Sports Trial for Netball, Soccer and Rugby League.
Our Netball team consisting of Skylah, Tanvika, Yasmin, Leah and Sadie combined with another school and played very well. Yasmin and Leah made it through to possibles and probables which is a great achievement.
Gypsy, Charlise and Zarli represented our school in soccer. They played very well and showed some excellent positional play and hunger for the ball. Both Gyspy and Zarli made the possibles and probables stage.
Willem, Gideon, Jack, Oliver, Eli, James, Harry and Will represented the school in soccer. They were joined by two boys from Bowraville and made a very strong team. Eli, Oli, Willem, Gideon and James all made it to the possible and probables stage and Oli, Willem and James were successful in making the Hastings Zone Team. This is an impressive achievement considering only 9 players were selected in total and two of our players were in year 5! Congratulations to all the boys. We will definitely be contenders at this year's Zone Gala Day for soccer.
Jack E was our only Hockey player and he has been selected to move through to the Hastings Zone Team next week.
On the Rugby League field, Logan H, Logan D, Levi, Brax, Hardy and Lachy represented our school. All the players were mixed into teams and showed some great skill. A storm came through right before possibles and probables so only a Zone Team was selected. Lachy and Hardy were successful in making it through to the next level to represent the Hasting Zone.
Congratulations to all our sports people.
Thank you to Mr Marshall for all the organisation that goes into such a big day and to all the teachers who coordinated the teams.
Zone Rugby Trials Success
On Wednesday Lachlan travelled to Kempsey to try out for the Zone Rugby Union team. He represented the school proudly and was selected for the Hastings Zone Rugby Union Team. Congratulations Lachy.
Winter Diocesan Trials
Next Wednesday and Friday we have students competing in various sports for the Lismore Winter Sports trials held in Grafton.
Lachlan Wilson and Hardy Fletcher - Rugby League
Willem De Vries, Oliver Hallum and James Randall - Soccer
Jack Elliot - Hockey
We wish them every success and know they will do their best.
Sporting Pathways
We are lucky to have such wonderful teachers in the schools across the diocese who are talented in many sports that allow our students to represent at high levels. Our very own Mr Marshall is the Polding and NSW Hockey Coach and many other staff in our school have coached and managed at high levels.
The Pathway to National Competition in schools is represented below, with students who make the Polding Team trialling for NSW selection at a PSSA Carnival to then compete at a National Level.
Each year the National Assessment Program – Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) is undertaken by students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. Students will participate in tests for writing, reading, conventions of language (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy.
NAPLAN 2024 will take place from Wednesday 13 March to Friday 15 March with catch up sessions the following week for any absences.
NAPLAN is just one part of our school learning assessment program. The tests assessliteracy and numeracy skills your child is already learning at school.
For more information, please see the link below.
Please check your Compass Events Module for:
Schubert 7's Rugby League Gala Day - Years 3-6 SELECTED STUDENTS
Diocesan Soccer/Hockey/Rugby League Trials Grafton - Years 3-6 SELECTED STUDENTS
Kindergarten
Number card games
We love art in Kinder
Assembly
Please find below the Canteen schedule for term 1.
Thank you to everyone who volunteered to assist; every minute you can help makes a massive difference.
| Monday 26th Feb | Friday 1st March | Monday 4th March | Friday 8th March |
| Chaney | Laura | Katie | Lidi |
| Justine | Bel | HELP NEEDED | |
| Katie | |||
| Monday 11th March | Friday 15th March | Monday 18th March | Friday 22nd March |
| HELP NEEDED | Justine | HELP NEEDED | Katie |
| HELP NEEDED | Justine | ||
In order for the canteen to run efficiently we need at least one helper on a Monday, and two helpers on a Friday. If you can help at all, please contact Emma Hockham at emma.hockham@lism.catholic.edu.au
Please remember you will need a current working with children's check and sign-in through the office to pick up your name badge.
Thank you
Emma Hockham
On Wednesday night we had a great roll up to our School Community Group Meeting.
At this meeting, we reviewed the new structure of the SCG, reviewed the events, fundraising and friend-raising from 2023 and started to plan for 2024. We also voted on three proposals including contributing $1000 to the Family Pool Night, purchasing a high-grade Dishwasher to meet new food Safety Standards in the Canteen and committing to using up to $1000 to bring in an author/illustrator for a workshop with students in creativity as proposed by one of our parents.
Full minutes can be found below.
Over the next few weeks, we will finalise Class Parents and advertise these to the community. If you haven't let your class teacher know you are interested, please do so by next week. Fiona Hayward will be the school liaison for this sub-group and Brooke Hudson and Michelle Latham will be "knowledgeable others". Both are parents who have done the role before and can help new people.
Some Fundraising/events groups have started and these groups are looking for volunteers to support this work. We have a "lead" contact for these events that the group wanted to go ahead with, but as we know many hands make light work. If you are interested in knowing more or are ready to help, please complete this google form and we will share your details with the "lead" parent for that event. Maria Wilson will be the school liaison for this sub-group and Rachel deVries and Justine Reedy will be "knowledgeable others". Both have coordinated fundraising in the past and are happy to help new people.
We have also brainstormed some ideas for parent education and are looking for anyone interested in coordinating, running or simply put forward ideas in parent education. Alfina Jackson will be the school liaison for this sub-group. We have some committee members too, however, as we have not had parents lead this before we currently do not have any "knowledgeable others".
At this stage we are considering what we should fundraise for in 2024, so we do not have a Special Projects committee yet.
If you have ideas not mentioned on the minutes below, please add your ideas by coming to a meeting or filling in the suggestion box found on our website under "Parent&Friends".