SCHOOL NEWS
WEN TEAM & GARDENING CLUB NEWS
Peabody Mines, Symbio Wildlife Park & Holy Cross Helensburgh present…
The Stuttering Frog Conservation Project
Hi. I’m Jake Jee Bugby from Holy Cross Helensburgh, here to give information about the Southern Stuttering Frog and the development of the exciting conservation project - Stuttering Frogs Breeding Program- a partnership between Peabody Mines and Symbio Wildlife Park.
First off, what is the Southern Stuttering Frog and what’s with all the fuss? Well, put it simply, this frog species is in a vulnerable position, meaning it’s close to extinction! To save this creature, we must know about it at least a little.
Diet. Insects & greens. What else would it eat? Its size is for males, 65mm and for females 80mm. It looks like a frog (duh) with its colour scheme being brown, yellow and green. It should be around the south east coast of the down under so for people like us, it can be anywhere around us here in Helensburgh. And if someone says Mixophyes balbus, this is what they’re talking about. Another unique thing about them is that they remain as tadpoles for up to 12 months! A much longer time than the average frog! This may be one of the reasons they are seen as a vulnerable species.
What will our role be, you may be asking? In the current state of the project, our WEN team and Gardening Club have been invited to be part of an interview to be filmed in our gardens next week. As Symbio will be breeding and feeding the tadpoles in their specially built facilities, our students will grow special food in our garden beds that will be fed to the stuttering frogs. This program is trying to help the stuttering frogs to be rehomed in the Royal National Park and live on as part of the ecosystem again.
Lily, our visiting ecologist from Ecological, Mrs Attenborough, our WEN and Garden Club students learning inside about the Stuttering Frog food and mapping the garden beds (during last week’s rainy days).
LIBRARY NEWS
PREMIER’S READING CHALLENGE (PRC)
Our PRC Champion for this fortnight is:
CONGRATULATIONS for completing the challenge!
STOCKTAKE – SENIOR FICTION SERIES
Each term at Holy Cross, mandatory Stocktakes need to occur. Each Collection needs to go through Stocktake every 3 years – this is where we need to account for every resource in a Collection. Last week I completed our Senior Fiction Series Collection and I was able to account for all but five copies (out of 532 copies) – this is a great result.
There are two reasons for this outcome:
- our students are being mindful to make sure that all books are borrowed and returned – in other words we have had very few that go ‘missing in action’; and
- our Library Warriors are making sure the books are being placed in their correct Collection – they really are brilliant at sniffing out a book that doesn’t belong in the Collection they are looking after!
Well done Holy Cross and keep up the good borrowing and returning work!
SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB ISSUE 3
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!
Book Club Issue 3 catalogues were sent home last week. These orders are due by 20 May 2024.
How to order:
* 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.
NEW BOOKS NOW AVAILABLE – STUDENT REQUESTS
This newsletter I am going to highlight some of our new books that form part of some of our popular series which have all been student requests. As always, the students who requested these books get to borrow them first. At Holy Cross we have a very active Wish List system which I think is wonderful - it shows that many of our students enjoy recommending what titles they would like to see in our Library. I believe the Wish List system is part of why we have such a wonderful borrowing culture at our school - it allows for our Library to be a dynamic space where our students are actively involved in the selection of books and their suggestions are heard.
“169 Storey Treehouse” – Treehouse series (Fiction Series)
“North and South” – Avatar, The Last Airbender series (Graphic Novel)
“Ruby’s Sparkling Surprise” – Pearl and Friends series (Popular Fiction series)
“The Great Chicago Fire, 1871” – I Survived series (Graphic Novel)
As always, I would like to express my sincere thanks to our P&F for supporting our Library and our wonderful parents who cover the books!
Stayed tuned for more titles next newsletter…
Happy reading everyone!
Sue Murray
Library Coordinator
UNIFORM
Students are to wear full winter uniform from Monday 20th May, this includes the wearing of ties.
Term 2 Dates - All dates can be found on the school website via the Parent Calendar. Further dates will be shared by the end of this term, and on the Parent online Calendar.
ASSEMBLIES
Term 2