Term 2 Week 10 (25/06/2021)

What is On?

Friday 25th June - Staff Development Day- School Closed (child care available if you are registered with the OSHC)

July

Monday 12th July - Staff Development Day-  School Closed

Tuesday 13th July - Students Return for Term 3

Tuesday 13th July - Zone Athletics - Coffs Harbour

Thursday 22nd July - Confirmation

Friday 23rd July - St James Feast Day Celebration

Dear Parents and Carers

The term has come to an end with a lovely productive and thought provoking professional learning day. The staff at St James' are continuing to work on building a collective understanding of our role as staff in a Catholic school under the name of St James. All staff have worked today to build knowledge and to prepare for our first whole school celebration of the Feast of St James, the Fisherman. 

Below is an invitation to join us on Friday 23rd July to learn about his story and to recognise his role, his guidance and his relational contribution to the story of Jesus. Students will be working hard on creating our Camino pilgrimage as part of our celebration. More exciting details to come. We ask you to save the date  to join in this agenda with us as we begin the next phase of foundationing our school as a Catholic school in identity, not just name. 

See you in Term 3

Ann

RE News

Friday 23rd July, 2021

St James Feast Day Celebration for our whole school community. 

We are planning an exciting day to celebrate the feast of our School Patron Saint, St James. All parents, families and community members are warmly invited to celebrate with us. More details to follow early next term.

Sport News

Last Friday we held our school Athletics Carnival. It was great to see everyone getting involved and having a run and also cheering and encouraging their housemates. The winning house on the day was Turners and the Age Champions are listed below.

Students who qualified for the Zone carnival have been notified and given all the information about the carnival and events they have qualified for. As the carnival is on the first day of next term, Tuesday 13th July, it is very important that money has been paid and permission given as we won't be able to chase students up next term to remind them. If you have not yet done this can you please do so ASAP. 

Athletics Age Champions

Junior Boy/Girl:

-Kydan Jones & Marlie Zvatora/Sailor Short

11yrs Boy/Girl:

-Will Hutchinson & Heidi Van Leest

Senior Boy/Girl:

-Rohan Chivers-Smith & Tully Waghorn

Winter Appeal

Mini Vinnies

As part of our winter appeal, we are collecting any warm blankets or clothing that you no longer need. These will go to people in the community who are in need during Winter. Items can be dropped off to the box in the front foyer in the school office.

Vinnies Family Sleepout

We are inviting all families to be advocates for the Homeless. We are hoping to raise awareness about homelessness and disadvantage in our community. Families in our school community are invited to take part in the Family Sleepout during the school holidays.

Choose a night, dress in warm clothes and sit outside in the cold until you start to feel cold.  During this time, discuss questions around how you are feeling, how the homeless must feel, as well as share some facts to raise awareness of Homelessness.

Make soup together to drink to stay warm when out on your own sleep out/sit out.  This is something that the Vinnies Homeless Van usually distributes to those on the street.

Don't Forget:

Take a photo of you and your family and email to yamp@lism.catholic.edu.au to be shared in the newsletter next term.

More information on the link below.

https://youtu.be/oxZKU6pDZOY

School Awards Assembly

St James’ Award-  Max Olsen

Principal’s Award- Lola Dougherty

 Sports Awards

ES1- Declan Mawn 

S1- Slater Petersen

S2-  Aaron Perry 

S3-  Katie Courtney 

ES1 Class Awards

SOW- Maeve Mortimer

Achievement- Elliott Cranston

Encouragement- Oliver Grieve

MJR-  Dolly Dougherty

Be Your Best Self - Sebastian Beckwith

S1 Class Awards

SOW - Austin Dougherty, Luccee-Mae Knox

Achievement- Hayley Long, Ava Scanlon

Encouragement-  Ella McInnes, Liam Triggs

MJR - Poppy Dougherty

Be Your Best Self -  Luca Espag

S2 Class Awards

SOW-  Autumn Enns, Dusty Wood

Achievement- Levi O’Shea, Ella Gilbee

Encouragement- Mignon Espag, Fin Waghorn

MJR - Mahi Khabra

Be Your Best Self- Savana Wheatley-Mazzitelli

S3 Class Awards 

SOW - Arya Kantamneni

Achievement - Sam Brailsford, Tully Waghorn

Encouragement - Will Hutchinson, Owen Mortimer 

MJR - Jessie Wallace 

Be Your Best Self - Gypsy Williams 

Library News

Books purchased from the Yamba Catholic Ladies donation.

Early Stage 1

This week in Kindergarten we say goodbye to two students who are leaving Yamba. We wish Sebastian Beckwith and Oliver Grieve all the best at their new schools, they will be greatly missed. Cruz, Elliott, Aiden and Jackson built a Yamba roundabout during their construction time in Investigations this week. I was so impressed with their attention to details. Jackson built road worker signs, Aiden ensured he had a coffee cup in his hands at all times, Elliott placed pot plants in the middle and Cruz told me he needed to now build ‘worker accommodation’. Such great team work and inspiration from their Yamba context!

Stage 1

Some of our highlights at school this week include

• Project 72 with 72 minutes of play with out friends
• Student verse teacher handball game
• Experiments in science
• Number lines in Maths
• Maths games
• Seeing our teachers every day
• Playing with out friends
• Maths warm-ups
• Maths
• Uluru oil pastel art
• Origami
• Scaled number lines
• writing about  a myth or legendary creature
• Playing Boggle
• Building a fairy garden
• Meditation

We look forward to seeing you all again at the start of Term 3. Have a safe and happy holiday.

Rachelle and Anne-Maree

Stage 2

As part of our Persuasive Writing unit this semester students have been learning about advertising! Persuasive advertising aims to convince its audience of a certain belief that leads to action — often buying products. Students have been using persuasive techniques to convince their audience to buy their product! In small groups the students chose a product that they were going to advertise. The challenge was- they had to make an original advertisement. This meant that they had to create a new image of the product (not just download one from the internet), this is where the fun began as stage 2 used green screen technology to create their ‘original image’. We have seen lots of creativity and fun ideas thus far…..stay tuned for the finished products!

Stage 3

Change Makers