Mother’s Day Celebrations

Mothers, Grandmothers and mother figures are invited to attend our Mother’s Day celebrations on Monday 15 May. This celebration will include a breakfast, served from 8.15am, followed by classroom visits and concluding with a liturgy.

Allergies At School 

There are a number of students who have potential life threatening allergies to certain foods. For this reason, we ask for all families’ cooperation to not send to school any food containing nuts or nut products.

Doctor’s Clearance

If your child has an injury (eg arm in a sling, in need of crutches etc) and has returned to school, we are required to have a doctor's clearance stating your child has been cleared to be at school and stating what activities they can and cannot do in relation to learning in the classroom, lunch times and Sport.  Please send this documentation to the school office as soon as your child returns to school.

Uniform

Students wear Winter Uniforms from Monday 15 May. 

Please Note:

½ zip polar fleece jumper with school logo can be worn under School Jacket or under Sports Jacket on cold days or by itself with the Winter or Summer uniform.

If any parent has any second hand uniforms they would like to donate to our second hand uniform shop, please send them into the school office. All donations will be greatly appreciated.

Professional Learning

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. Recent professional learning undertaken by our staff this fortnight includes:

2 May 2023 - Educating With A Mission Lens

Miss Costello

3 May 2023 - Library Network Meeting

Mrs Murray

5 May 2023 - Lamplighters - Spiritual Formation

Miss Costello & Miss Facci

10 May 2023 - Numeracy Professional Learning

All teachers, half day

11 May 2023 - Diverse Learning Modules

Mrs Mitrevski

Australian Catholic School Principal Conference

Mrs Duffin will be attending the Australian Catholic School Principal Conference next week, Wednesday 17 May - Friday 19 May. Mrs Jennett will be relieving Principal during this time.

Assemblies

Our fortnightly school assemblies during Term 2 will be held on Wednesday afternoons at 2.35pm. Our next assembly will be held on Wednesday 17 May.

Walk Safely to School Day

Library News

Premier's Reading Challenge (PRC)

Our students are well underway to achieving the 2023 PRC. Infants’ teachers have received their books to read and enjoy with their students in class. Primary students have shown a keenness to know how to enter their reading logs into the PRC website with many already having read the required number of books.

While Mrs Jennett and I will be conducting workshops at the end of term in Library time on how to input the Reading Logs, it became apparent that many primary students want to ‘give it a go’ now. To meet this need, I decided to write instructions on how to input the Reading Logs with the criteria being that the student must have read the required number of books (20 for Year 3-6) before taking the instructions (I want our students to ‘test’ them to double-check they work before I upload a document for all primary students to access online). I have asked the students who took the instructions home to return them when they are finished. So if you see a copy of our PRC instructions, please do not throw them out – just ask your child to return them to the Library.

Our PRC Champions for this fortnight are:

Year 3 – Jenna

Year 5 – Evelyn T., Mikaela

Year 6 – Lilly, Oliver M., Nevra, Ella

CONGRATULATIONS to you all for completing the challenge!

Scholastic Book Club Issue 3 Now Open

Book Club Issue 3 catalogues were sent home last Friday. Orders are due by Sunday 14 May 2023.

Just jump online to order: https://bookclubs.scholastic.com.au/

NEW BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE…

This fortnight’s new books which are now available …

The Gentle Genius Of Trees (Junior Non Fiction)

Sunny The Shark (Graphic Novel)

The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and the Horse (Fiction)

The Dangerous Business of Being Trilby Moffat (Senior Fiction)

As always, I would like to express my sincere thanks to the P&F for supporting our Library and our wonderful parents who cover the books!

Stayed tuned for more titles…

Call for all who enjoy covering books in contact

We still have a large amount of contact covering to do – if you are able to assist, please ask at the Office for a pack to take home.  

Library Warrior

Introducing…Emma B (Year 5)

What section are you responsible for?

I don’t have a section – I just help where I am needed.

What is your favourite book?

The I Survived series

What do you love about being a Library Warrior?

I love having a task to help with. I put the sorted return books on the trolley in the morning and do whatever needs to be done at Lunch 2.

What is your favourite Library task?

I like every task that helps Mrs Murray!

“There is more treasure in books than in all the pirate’s loot on Treasure Island.” - Walt Disney

Happy reading everyone!

Sue Murray

Library Coordinator