Holy Cross Catholic Parish Primary School Helensburgh
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1 McMillan Street
Helensburgh NSW 2508
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Phone: 02 4294 1588

SCHOOL NEWS

ASSEMBLIES in TERM 4

Our fortnightly school assemblies during Term 4 will be held under the top Cola on Thursday afternoons at 2.35pm. 

  • Week 4 - Thursday 7th  November, KIndergarten sharing their learning

  • Week 6 - Thursday 21st November, Principal Awards

  • Week 8 - Thursday 5th December

  • Week 10 - Final Assembly- TBC



Save the Dates

  • Swimming Carnival - This annual event will take place on Friday 6th December, at Helensburgh Swimming Pool. More information and race nominations will be sent home shortly.
  • End Of Year Mass and Yr 6 Graduation - Please note that our End of Year Mass and Year 6 Graduation Ceremony will be held in the church on Thursday 12 December at 9.30am. 
  • Christmas Concert - This wonderful event will be held on Wednesday 18th December, on the playground, from 9:30am.

BUSHFIRE MANAGEMENT PLAN 2024-2025 

Our Emergency Planning Committee (EPC) met with our local Rural Fire Service (RFS) personnel to complete our annual review of our school’s Bushfire Management Plan, which includes our Shelter in Place Plan. Our Wardens have completed a drill, our staff and students will complete this drill in our first week back of Term 4. This information is for our parent community:

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e-Safety Commissioner Free webinars 

Information and registration https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents/webinars

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Visit from Paraolympian

On Tuesday we had Anderson Parker visit our school to talk to Year 3-6 about his experience at the Paralympics in Paris 2024. He is a wheelchair tennis athlete and was part of the Australian Paralympic team this year. Andy spoke to the students about showing resilience - giving things a go, even if they appear hard and to never give up on their dreams and aspirations. The students showed great engagement and interest during Andy's talk. The student received a poster and a signed picture of Andy.


CDF Public Speaking Regional Final

Congratualtions to Mattia (Yr 6) and Sophie (Yr 5) who will be representing Holy Cross at the REgional Final at St Therese, West Wollongong. Good Luck Mattia and Sophie.

Welcome to Term 4 - It's Library Christmas Raffle Time!

Our students are very excited to see the return of the Library Christmas Raffle and

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there are lots of Christmas-sy prizes on offer.

Students get a raffle ticket when they return and borrow their Library books on Fridays. The raffle is drawn in Week 9.

Good Luck everyone!

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB ISSUE 7

Book Club Issue 7 catalogues have been sent home. Orders are due by 1 November 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.

SCHOLASTIC BOOK FAIR DONATIONS

Just an update that the donations from the Book Fair last term are almost done – Mrs Attenborough and myself have been working hard to get them into the system and covered. If your child has not received their donation in Library time yet, they will in the next week.

Once again, thank you so much to all the parents and grandparents who generously donated to our Library – a great selection was chosen and our students are very excited to get their hands on them!

Happy reading everyone!

Sue Murray
Library Coordinator