SCHOOL NEWS
Enrolment for 2025
Enrolments for Kindergarten 2025 are now open. If you have a child attending
Kindergarten next year or you know of anyone who is thinking of enrolling their child, please encourage them to contact the school, or commence an application. Enrolment is now online, and can be accessed via our school website.
School Website
Professional Learning
Recent professional learning undertaken or other professional commitments by our staff this fortnight includes:
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Date |
Event |
Staff |
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13 February 2024 |
Caritas Project Compassion Diocesan Launch |
Mrs Colussi, Mrs Turton |
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19 & 21 February |
Safety Intervention Training |
Mrs Colussi |
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20 February |
Instructional Coach Zoom 2-3pm |
Mrs Baker, Mrs Colussi |
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21 February |
MacKillop Tennis Trials i |
Miss Facci |
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29 February & 1 March |
Lamplighters- CEDoW Spiritual and Prayer Formation Retreat |
Miss Facci |
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1 March |
CEDoW English Curriculum Advisors Day |
Mr Bôdy, Mrs Jennett and Mrs Baker |
Assemblies, Term 1
Tuesday 5 March at 2:30pm - Principal Awards
Tuesday 19 March at 2:30pm- Year 3 Sharing Learning
Tuesday 9 April at 2:30pm- Principal Awards
Parent Calendar
Whole School Sport Dates Coming up
Cross Country - Next Wednesday 6 March @ Rex Jackson Oval, K-6
Permissions have been sought via COMPASS already. The timetable will be shared on Monday as we are taking into account the weather forecast as well as the start timing of some of our Year 5 students who are returning from their BOSCO College Open Morning.
Uniform
Please ensure that your child is wearing our school summer uniform with a sense of responsibility for their smart appearance as learners and pride connected to being a student of our wonderful School community! We thank you for your support in this. If you have any feedback or suggestions about any aspect of our uniform policy, please email us! Please find our school uniform policy for your reference.
Waste Management at Our School
We now have 2 options for waste at our school: General Waste and Comingled Recycling. The Red and Yellow labelled bins are on each playground and smaller versions are also available in each classroom. The Red and Yellow posters will help support our school community in using the correct bin for their waste!
Library News
Premier’s Reading Challenge 2024 HAS BEGUN!
Each year at Holy Cross, we participate in the Premier’s Reading Challenge (PRC). The Challenge aims to encourage a love of reading for leisure and pleasure in students, and to enable them to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge for each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. With hundreds of PRC texts in our Library, the challenge is a great way for our students to enjoy reading and maybe read something they may not normally choose, thus expanding their exposure to different genres.
With support from all our staff, our students complete the Challenge at school:
K-2: 30 books – teachers read Challenge books to students and reading records are entered by me.
Year 3-6: 20 books – students complete and enter their own reading records. Each student records their own Reading Log where they enter ALL books they read – this includes: Library books (both school and public Library), books from home, and books their teachers read to them. At the end of Term 2, there is a dedicated Library lesson on entering their Reading Logs.
The Challenge ends Friday, 23 August 2024 so there is plenty of time.
SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB
At Holy Cross, we promote the Scholastic Book Club. Twice a term, your child will bring home a Book Club catalogue. Book Club is a great way for parents to provide their children with popular literature in a variety of genres which aids in encouraging children to read. And they also make great gifts!
By supporting Book Club, the school earns reward points from every order. I use these points to purchase books for the Library that our students request.
Book Club Issue 1 orders are on their way and will be distributed once they arrive.
Book Club Issue 2 catalogues will be sent home soon. These orders will be due by 29 March 2024.
Instructions:
* jump online to order: https://bookclubs.scholastic.com.au/
* if your order is a gift, you can nominate it online as ‘gift’.
* once the orders arrive, all parents are given a courtesy call.
PLEASE NOTE: all orders are done online, the school does not collect cash or cheques.
BOOK COVERERS WANTED!
If you enjoy covering books in contact (or find it therapeutic), I would love to hear from you.
I am compiling an email list of parents who can cover books in contact and/or plastic. If you are able to assist, please email me at hchlibrary@dow.catholic.edu.au .
Any assistance in this area is very much appreciated – it enables us to get Library Books and Readers to our students quickly.
We currently have some covering which needs to be done. If you are able to assist, please see the Office Staff who can give you a bag (or 2!).
LIBRARY WARRIORS
Who are they?
Library Warriors are students who give up their time to help out in the Library on Fridays. They assist me with a range of tasks from collecting the returned Library books before school, sorting the books into their Collections, shelving the books, and looking after the shelves making sure they are ordered and kept tidy. These students assist before school and at Lunch 2 and are invaluable to the upkeep of our Library – I certainly cannot do it all without them and very much appreciate their help.
Being totally voluntary, we have many students from Kinder to Year 6 who come to help out each week – however there is a core group of students who come every Friday – a role they take very seriously. Each newsletter I will introduce you to one of our long term Library Warriors.
An Interview With…Jake (Year 6)
Note from Mrs Murray: Jake has been a Library Warrior since it started in 2022 and has never missed a Friday. He collects books in the morning before school and gives up his Lunch 2 to put books away. He is an invaluable member of our team.
What section are you responsible for?
Fiction and Fiction series (with Dominic H. – he and I are the Fiction team!)
What is your favourite book?
The Pokemon books of course!!!
What do you love about being a Library Warrior?
Really everything! I don’t care if it’s morning or afternoon duties. All I can say is “I don’t care – I love it all!”
What is your favourite Library task?
This is tough but I’m going to say putting away books. It’s a time where I can chillax, sing (Mrs Murray plays cool music while we work) and make jokes (I sometimes have to excuse my voice cracks haha).
Happy reading everyone!
Sue Murray
Library Coordinator
CANTEEN NEWS
The Canteen will re-open next Thursday, 7th March.
