SCHOOL NEWS
Reporting Timeline - Years 1-6
Student academic reports will be released via Compass on Thursday 17 June, Week 9 for Year 1-6 students. The Semester 1 report demonstrates students’ academic achievement in relation to what they have learnt in Term 1 and Term 2. Parent/Teacher Interviews will be offered in Week 10. Interview bookings are available via Compass.
Assemblies
Our final assembly for Term 2 will be held on Monday, 21 June at 8.50am. Principal Awards will be presented and Year 3 will present a celebration of their learning.
In Term 3, our assemblies will be held fortnightly on Tuesday afternoons at 2.40pm.
Recent Staff Professional Learning
Research tells us that the quality of the teacher is the greatest in-school influence on student achievement. Therefore high quality professional learning for teachers must be a priority to ensure improved teacher practice that leads to improved student growth.
1 June - Online - Dyslexia & Significant Reading Difficulties
Mrs Mitrevski
3 June - NCCD Moderation Day
Mrs Mitrevski
7 June - Teaching Reading Strategies in Years 3-6
Miss Facci, Mr Body, Miss Costello, Mrs B Baker, Mrs N Baker, Mrs Barbuto, Mrs Jennett
9 June - Principal’s Business Meeting
Mrs Duffin
10 & 11 June - Religious Education Coordinator Spiritual Retreat
Miss Costello
Crazy Hair Day and Dance-A-Thon
On Friday, 25 June, we will be hosting a Dance-A-Thon to raise money for our school. Students are asked to come in their Sports Uniform but are also encouraged to come with Crazy Hair!! Today, each student will bring home a Dance-A-Thon sponsorship form. We ask that this form, along with any money raised, be brought back to school by Friday 25 June.
Parents and families will be invited into our school to watch the Dance-A-Thon from 1.30pm on the day.
ADMINISTRATION
- School gates open 8.20am and supervision is from 8.25am. Camp Australia is available for before & after school care, contact them on 1300 105343.
- If students are taken out of school for a holiday, extended sport or family leave (apart from illness) this leave must be requested in writing to the Principal prior to the event, forms are available from the office. Please note that this leave is managed by the School in Compass, not parents.
- Compass Parent Entries—If your child is absent due to illness, please call the office, send in an email or a letter to the classroom teacher when they return. Alternatively, parents can enter student absences due to illness only on Compass for up to 2 days only. If students are absent for more than 2 days due to illness, parents must contact the office via phone on 4294 1588. Medical certificates may be required.
Thank you
Holy Cross Fairy Gardens
Sport News
Touch Football Mackillop Team Selection
Congratulations to Emma
Congratulations to Emma M in Year 3 who represented the Wollongong Diocese at the Catholic Schools NSW Cross Country Trials at Eastern Creek on Tuesday. Emma ran a great race and we are very proud of her.
Library News
Friday Library Assistants – THANK YOU!
Every Friday, we have some students who have shown great initiative and leadership by taking the Book Return boxes to the Library instead of letting the books overflow onto the ground at the front gate. I would personally like to acknowledge from Year 6 Kai, Mia and Claire and from Year 3 Jake who every Friday give up their before-school playtime to help us out. A HUGE ‘Thank you’ from the Library – this small gesture of help makes a huge difference to the Library day.
Premier’s Reading Challenge – We are underway!
Our students are well underway in getting the challenge completed. The Challenge is all about fostering a love of reading and at Holy Cross, we totally agree and endorse this sentiment.
Our Infants teachers in classtime and Mrs Barbuto in Friday Library time have been reading some beautiful, engaging picture books to our infants students, who will all be completing the challenge at school.
In Year 4 and 6, we conducted a ‘how to key in your book entries’ session last Friday and we already have some ‘PRC Supa-stars’ who have completed the challenge! Congratulations goes to:
Year 6 - Kai, Mia, Will and Liam
Year 4 – Mia A., Tom, Ella, Mia G., Leni, Annabel, James, Darcy, Anna, Pippa and Nevra
Year 3 and Year 5 will have their ‘how to’ session in Term 3, Week 1 and I know that they have all been busy reading so they will have some books to enter!
I can’t wait to see and share with you who our next PRC Supa-Stars will be!
Mrs Sue Murray, Library
Gardening Club
Year 2 – I smell fresh bread…
Week 6 was our last week with Year 2 – we did our evaluation AND what better activity shows how individual everyday materials, when combined, make a completely different material…than bread. They were the envy of anyone that entered the infants block based on the smell of fresh bread, they learnt how dry materials when combined with wet materials, can make something truly yummy…and the proof was in the tasting - there was nothing left, not even a crust!
Lunchtime Gardening Club – The secret garden has been revealed…
The last fortnight saw Gardening Club working on our “secret garden” – which I can now reveal is our Bush Tucker garden at the site of the old vege patch! Our dedicated members worked hard and with the assistance of Year 6 (thank you MUST go to Mr Whitehall for allowing Year 6 to assist us for most of the day) were able to complete the project within the timeframe. A HUGE thank you needs to go to: Mr Nathan Dalmer who provided the mulch; Bunnings for providing a beautiful pot, bench and tools; and Heathcote Wildflower Nursery for the plants. Mr Peter Hill, Director of Schools, opened our new garden last week – a garden that will provide an outdoor learning space of bush tucker which the whole school will benefit from.
Stay tuned to see what we get up to next.
Sue Murray, Coordinator