STUDENT REPORTS

All student reports from Kindergarten to Year 6 will be accessible via the parent portal on COMPASS on Monday 9 December.  Please make contact with your child's Class Teacher if you wish to discuss the Student Report.

Reading the Student Academic Report

When reading the student report, it is important to celebrate your child’s Learning Gains - the areas where your child has shown improvement. This section uses syllabus text to capture the new learning the student has demonstrated in the reporting period. It’s important to note that because of the specific nature of syllabus text, it is not uncommon that the same comment will appear on students’ reports from the same stage of learning. The Areas for Growth section identifies areas where your child may still be working towards. The comments in this section also uses syllabus text to capture the new learning the student will encounter as the ‘next step’ on their learning path. The final comment is written by the teacher and may cover a range of academic and non-academic areas and attitude to learning/work habits. If you need any clarification after reading your child’s report, please do not hesitate to contact your child’s class teacher.

SCHOOL CAPTAINS AND VICE-CAPTAINS 2020

Recently, students who nominated for the role of 2019 School Captains and Vice Captains delivered their speeches to students and staff. Congratulations to the following students on their formal leadership roles for next year:

School Captains: Tiahna Ross & Jarvis Chaplin

Vice-Captains: Elsie Clare & Kurt Canavan

The greatest responsibility of any leader is to serve.   We wish our 2020 School Captains and Vice-Captains every success as they lead in the service of our school community.

SCHOOL DATES

School concludes for all students on Wednesday 18 December and resumes for students in Year 1 to Year 6 on Wednesday 29 January 2020.  Kindergarten 2020 students will attend their individual Best Start dates and then start together on Thursday 6 February.

STAFFING 2020

Staffing for 2020 will be finalised ready to be shared with our community in our last school bulletin on Monday 16 December.

TALENT QUEST

Holy Cross will again hold a talent quest this term.  This will take place throughout next week from 2pm-3pm, note change of date for Year 1 due to so many participants!

Monday 9 December:  Year 3 & Year 4

Tuesday 10 December:  Year 2 & Year 5

Thursday 12 December:  Year 1, Kinder & Year 6

We look forward to seeing the many talents that the children of Holy Cross have on display.

CHRISTMAS CONCERT & HOT DOG LUNCH - WEDNESDAY 18 DECEMBER 

Our concert will take place under the COLA on Wednesday 18 December at 10am followed by a hotdog lunch for all.  The children have been practising for the concert during their weekly music and dance lessons with Mrs Sommerville and Mrs Boyle.  Make sure you save the date and come along to celebrate with family and friends.

BOTTLE TOP COLLECTION - FINISHED NOW

Your support for collecting bottle tops has been overwhelming, thanks everyone.    We have now stopped collecting the bottle tops at school and wish to thank Mrs  Swanson and Charlie for this great initiative.  Thanks Holy Cross.

PARISH NEWS AND CHRISTMAS TIMETABLE 2019

Wednesday, 18 December 7:30pm:    2nd Rite of Reconciliation
Tuesday, 24 December 6pm:               Christmas Vigil Mass
Wednesdy, 25 December 8:30am:      CHRISTMAS DAY - Christmas Mass

Raffle Winners

Thank you for supporting our recent Parish raffle, see below our winners:

1st Prize - Ester Marks;   2nd Prize - Julie Ninness;   3rd Prize - "Midge" Oldfield

LIBRARY UPDATE

Library Books

A reminder that all library books need to be returned for our end of year stocktake, please return all outstanding books now (no questions asked!).

Premier's Reading Challenge

Holy Cross had a record number of students who completed the challenge this year,  a total of 158 which was FANTASTIC!   Congratulations and well done to the following students who received the Premier’s special awards.

Gold Certificate – for completing 4 years in a row

Year 6 – Lucy

Year 4 – Mia, Lenny, Jed, Amelia, Jacob, Kitty

Year 3 – Nate, Nate, Madeleine, Jeremy, Isabella, Lara, Joel, May, Eva, Ripley

Platinum Certificate -  for completing 7 years

Sommer and Hugo