Term 4 Week 6 (22/11/2024)

What is On?

It's a safety issue

Kiss and Drop

It's a safety issue. 

The speed limit should be 10km per hour.

Please respect all users by slowing down and demonstrating patience towards those who do.

Dear Parents and Carers

This week we were very lucky to have Kirra Pendergast in our school with Safe On Social. This is a great input to parents and was particularly timely with the new scoial media laws in the parliament at the moment.  We have had interactions with Kirra 3 times now and always learnt something new. Thank you to our Community Conversations group who put their Parent Assembly Grant towards this. 

Do you have a kindy (ES1) student for 2026? Now is the time to get online and enrol. We nearly have one class already and are in discussions for the growth of the school into the future. Please help us with accurate data.

Have a lovely weekend 

Ann

RE News

St Vincent De Paul Christmas Appeal 

We are collecting food items for the St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal.

Some families in our community are unable to buy special treats to share with their loved ones at Christmas time and rely on Christmas food hampers from St Vincent de Paul. We are asking for any donations of non-perishable food items to help make Christmas Hampers (see below).

Christmas treats for the hampers include: long life custard, long life milk, plum pudding, blocks of chocolate, Christmas cake, bags of lollies, soft drink, cans of beetroot, pineapple, corn, peas or fruit, packets of jelly, popcorn, chips, nuts, corn chips, salsa, Milo, fruit mince pies, icy poles in plastic, biscuits or anything else you might enjoy at Christmas.

We will also be collecting gift cards for our ‘Giving Tree’ on the ‘A Little Bit of Fun for Christmas’ evening, later this term. These will also be distributed by St Vincent De Paul to people in need of support over the holiday season.

 Thank you for your kindness and generosity.

Renee Howland

Assistant Principal Mission

School Awards Assembly

St James' Award - Sanne

Principal's Award - Hope

Be Your Best Self – Layla, Poppy, Juliet, Mack, Archer, Lola, Amelia, William, Willa

MJR – Ella, Lily, Dolly, Lachlan

Sports – Clarence, Edward, Declan, Amelia,

Achievement – Jensen, Sailor, Harriett, Lennox, Jarrah, Finn, Sage, Luka

Encouragement – Ashton, Harlan, Taylah, Vincent, Ella, Louis, Joey, Asher,

Student of the Week – Zoe, Lola, Matteo, Oliver, Nicholas, James, Charlotte, Hendrix

LONG WAY HOME Writing Competition 2024

LONG WAY HOME Writing Competition 2024

Stories from the Clarence Valley 2024 – Fly By Night will be launched soon. This uniquely Clarence book features outstanding entries from this year’s Long Way Home Writing Competition, including the following students from our school: 

Fionn Mawn

Remi Murphy

Leah Scanlon 

Reevan Harding

Ashton Miller

The launch is on:

Monday 9th December

at Grafton Regional Gallery, 158 Fitzroy St, Grafton

6pm-7.30pm

Competition winners will be announced on the night.  

All students and their families are invited to attend the event. 

The competition theme was ‘fly by night.’ It was a challenging theme. But everyone cast wide into the night sky for ideas and the judges received a haul of excellent stories, including some great nature-writing.

Books will be on sale on the night (all contributors receive a free copy.) Books will also be available at Grafton Book Warehouse, Coldstream Gallery in Ulmarra, and Grafton Regional Gallery.

Congratulations to our finalists!

Book Club

This is our last Book Club for the year. It's a great opportunity to purchase some Christmas presents with the added bonus of accumulating rewards for our school library. 

If you would like your order to be a gift, please ensure you tick ‘gift’ when you order and it will be held at school for you to pick up. 

Please note, all orders must be placed through scholastic.com.au/LOOP. No cash will be accepted. 

Orders must be submitted by Monday 2/12/2024.

Little J's

Stage 1 News

English

Stage One students have enjoyed exploring two amazing texts - ‘The Boy Who Tried to Shrink His Name’ by S. Parappukkaran and ‘Hark it’s Me Ruby Lee’ by L. Shanahan. We have been focusing on character traits and building up a rich vocabulary as we go. Check out some of our first sentences in our recent assessment task…. 

Fletcher: Ruby Lee is a courageous, kind and valiant girl. She is also adventurous and confident.

Tippi: Ruby Lee is a courageous, kind, fun-loving girl, who has an imagination as big as a blue whale.

Christopher: Ruby Lee is an ingenious girl. She is a helpful friend and has a lot of imagination.

Aria: Ruby Lee is a thoughtful, confident and intrepid Primary School girl.

Ruby: Ruby Lee is a little girl with a loving heart. She has an exquisite imagination.

Maths

Recently in Maths we were learning about measurement. One of our challenges was to make a container out of lego or blocks that holds exactly 50 paper clips. We had some time to estimate and then the building began. 

There were a variety of shapes and sizes created and there were extremely accurate containers built. Check out our efforts!

In Other News…

We have loved our swimming lessons this term and have developed some vital skills for summer. In the classroom our Investigation Spaces are always developing and changing with the students' interests. We have a new class ‘Florist’ where we research, design and sell arrangements of different flora. There have been lots of exciting orders and deliveries to other classrooms! We are enjoying learning about sound in Science and Technology, so we have designed an area where we can explore, create and record the sounds we make! Stop by and visit our classroom soon.

Radio

Tune into  TLCFM 93.5   on Fridays from 11am to listen to Stage 3 on the Radio.