Term 3 Week 1 2024

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Welcome back to Term 3. We hope you had a lovely break. The students certainly looked refreshed and ready for a busy term of learning. There is a lot happening this term in creative arts, academics, sports and excursions. Now is a great time to check you have Compass notifications turned on so you don’t miss all the wonderful events happening around the school. You can also use the compass app to check the school calendar for future events as well as go to our school website to view all past newsletters and even sync the school calendar to yours. If we are missing something, please call Crystal, who does such a wonderful job of staying on top of our school communication. 

On Monday our staff professional learning day focussed on some of our school goals and included analysing student data and planning for student success in English and Mathematics. Tuesday saw us welcome a new student Stephanie to Year 4 and on Wednesday we welcomed Courtney to Year 3. Our classes are thrilled to have more new friends to play with. Thank you to all our families who make our school such a welcoming place.

On Wednesday, Mr Marshall, Bec and Mrs Hurrell supported our Zone Athletes in Regional College. Parents commented on how supportive all the children were of each other and the teachers were very proud of their efforts. Thank you Mr Marshall for all your organisation and congratulations to the students who will represent Hastings Zone at the Diocesan Carnival.

Today we had a wonderful day with our grandparents and parishioners joining us for a beautiful morning led by our infants classes. Thank you to our infants staff for all the work that went into today. Grandparents are so important to primary schools like ours. We have so many grandparents in and out of our school, whether in the canteen or at pick up and drop off or helping out taking kids to sports or dropping off forgotten lunches. Thank you for what you do.

NAPLAN reports for Years 3 and 5 will also go home today. These reports will also be available on Compass in the reports module soon. Although not every child performs under pressure, and although this is only one snapshot of student learning, we are delighted with the results and the growth we have seen in the students. We have been focussing on Writing and Maths as part of our school goals and we have certainly been successful here. We will use our NAPLAN data along with many other data sources to further support students' growth and plan for future successes.

Next Monday, our year 3 and 4 students will join in with other schools in Port Macquarie as part of our years 3-6 discipleship continuum. We look forward to hearing about their experience.

Next Wednesday 31st July we look forward to a wonderful NAIDOC Day. Thank you to Joshua Wright who has been working tirelessly organising this day. On this day students are encouraged to wear Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Flag colours or designs. Students will be involved in activities including dance, face painting, bush tucker tastings, traditional Indigenous games and more. The day will start with a liturgy at 10:30. All are welcome.  

Next Friday, 2nd August, Kindergarten will celebrate 100 days of Kindergarten. We are so proud of how they have grown! We can’t wait to celebrate with them!!

Best wishes from the leadership team 

	Mr Rick Galvin Principal
	Mrs Maria Wilson Assistant Principal Mission
	Mrs Jessica Koenig  Assistant Principal Learning and Teaching

Compass Events

Speech and Drama - Selected students

Todd Woodbridge

Year 3 & 4 Retreat

Zone Athletics Carnival

On Wednesday, our school athletics squad attended the Zone Athletics Trials held at St Joseph’s Regional College. All of our students performed to the best of their ability and showed great sportsmanship and fantastic school spirit.

Congratulations go out to the following students who made the Hastings Athletics team to contest the Lismore Diocesan Trials in Coffs Harbour on Friday the 16th of August; Isabella Fede, Lachlan Wilson, Gypsy Sams, Jaidah Stevens, Yasmin Cain and Willem DeVries.

Our next School Community Group Meeting is coming up in week 3. Last term we surveyed families to find a suitable time for the meeting and the most popular time was Tuesday 6th August at 3:30pm. We will trial this time. We hope many of you can join us in the Library. Zumba is on in the hall at the same time.

Agenda items can be sent through to the office before the meeting or by going to the suggestion box on our school website: Suggestion Box

On Thursday 8th August Janita Thomson from Parent Assembly will also be running a parent workshop just after drop off on "Emotional Intelligence". This workshop has been received really well by families in other schools. Please register your interest here by opening the flyer and clicking the link.

Kind regards

Maria Wilson

Assistant Principal - Mission and Pastoral Care

Understanding how to support your child with online gaming
Suitable for parents and carers of children and young people in primary and early secondary school.
Tuesday, 30 July, 12.30pm
Tuesday, 3 September, 12.30pm
Register here

Consent and online boundaries: How to support your primary-aged child
Suitable for parents and carers of children in primary school.
Tuesday, 13 August, 12.30 pm
Wednesday, 11 September, 12.30 pm
Register here

An introduction to online safety and emerging technologies
Suitable for parents and carers of children and parents in primary and secondary school.
Wednesday, 24 July, 2.30pm
Thursday, 5 September, 12.30pm
Register here

*Further dates will be advised via Compass or Schoolzine. Please contact your class parent/s for more information on social activity.

2024 CLASS PARENTS

All Dads: Tony Maher (Artie Year 1) 

K: Irene Santi, Taliska Arentsen, Katie Barker 

1: Rachel deVries, Emma Hockham. Justine Reedy, Tony Maher

2: Lyndelle Lee, Emily Fogg, Katie Barker

3: Lou Roberts, Emma Hockham, Aaron Jackson, Erin Elliot, Katie Barker, Brooke Hudson

4: Erin Richards, Lyndelle Lee, Hayley Guffogg

5: Tamara Romer, Rachel deVries, Emily Fogg

6: Brooke Hudson. Michelle Latham, Chaney Boyle

School Leadership Contact: Fiona Hayward

Knowledgeable Others (for support to new class parents): Brooke Hudson and Michelle Latham