Important Dates

As mentioned in previous communications, we are intending to continue with many of our important events this term, and will share these with our parent community as best we can. For now, please find some important dates on the school calendar.

Celebrating Our Grandparents and Special People 

Wednesday 18 November, 2020 - Students to come dressed as one of their Grandparents or Special People. More details to come

Activate Fire - Year 6 - Thursday, 19 November, 2020

Pupil Free Day - Monday, 23 November, 2020

Christmas Concert - Monday, 14 December, 2020 - Details to come

Year 6 Graduation - Tuesday, 15 December, 2020

Students’ Last Day Of School - Wednesday, 16 December, 2020

LIBRARY NEWS

LIBRARY CHRISTMAS RAFFLE IS BACK!

Our students were very excited to see the return of the Library Christmas Raffle Board filled with loads of Christmas-y prizes.

Students receive a ticket in the draw each week if they RETURN/RE-BORROW their Library Books and BORROW. If the whole class have a “NO OVERDUE” week, each student receives an extra ticket.

Raffle Draw: Week 9 (date to be advised)

JUST A REMINDER:

• Students must have a Library Bag to borrow – if a student has misplaced their school Library Bag, they may bring another bag.
• Last borrowing day is Friday, 20 November 2020 (Week 6).
• All Library books MUST be returned by Friday, 27 November 2020 (Week 7).
• If a lost Library book is found or a Library Book is damaged, please return it to the Library.

Happy reading everyone!

Mrs Sue Murray, Library 

GARDENING CLUB

Spuds Galore and Animal Research!

Year 2

We have had a great start to our Living Things unit. Week 2 our students investigated ‘what living things need’, were split into groups to research an animal and present their findings to the class – and there were some very interesting facts presented! The rain did not stop our session in Week 3 – we looked at historic photos of Helensburgh to see how our area has changed and role played what happens to native fauna. Then it was out into the school grounds for a ‘School Safari’ to look for evidence of living things – our Year 2's were so totally engaged in their safari that I’m sure we could have spent the whole afternoon investigating!    

Lunchtime Gardening Club 

Week 2 was all about potatoes, potatoes and more potatoes! It is understatement to say that our members enjoyed finding and digging up potatoes – it was hard to get them to stop! We had planted out one and a half garden beds and had enough potatoes for every member to get a bag to take home. Although we had rain in Week 3 which meant we could not get out into The Patch, Gardening Club still went ahead in the Library. Wet weather gives us a unique opportunity to look at what we are doing, research gardening practices and share ideas – this session was dedicated to ‘how can we encourage beneficial insects into our garden space’. Our members decided to team up and came up with some fantastic ideas which we can’t wait to implement. Well done GC!  

Stay tuned to see what we get up to next! 

Sue Murray, Gardening Club 

Maths Games and Maths Olympiad Team Competition 2020

Congratulations to the following students who competed in the Maths Games Competition 2020 for Holy Cross. They worked hard each week learning new problem solving strategies and completing maths problems:

Year 1

Lachlan

Year 3

Mia
Tom
Mia G - Special Maths Award
Joseph 
Keira

Year 4

Nathaniel - 1st Place
Ripley - Equal 2nd Place
Lucas - Equal 2nd Place
Daniel
Lara - Special Maths Award

Congratulations to the following students who competed in the Maths Olympiad Competition 2020 for Holy Cross. They worked hard each week solving difficult problems and applying new strategies:

Year 5

Jed
Lenny - Special Maths Award
Liam
Kitty - Special Maths Award
Jacob
Kai
Matthew

Year 6

Alexander - 1st Place
Thomas - 2nd Place
Jackson
Caleb - Special Maths Award
Ace

It was a pleasure working with these students each week!

Mrs Natalie Baker, Gifted Learning Co-ordinator