Term 3 Week 5 (13/08/2021)
- What is On?
- Fun Bike Event - Checklist for next week
- Dear Parents and Carers,
- Awards Assembly
- Cancelled - 1st Orientation Day McAuley Catholic College for Year 7, 2022
- RE News
- Mini Vinnie's Winter Appeal
- Curriculum Corner
- Little J's video
- Little J's
- ES1
- Stage 1
- Stage 2
- Stage 3
- Long Way Home Writing Competition
What is On?
Monday 16th August - Bikeathon S3
Tuesday 17th August - Bikeathon S2
Wednesday 18th August - Bikeathon S1
Thursday 19th August - Bikeathon ES1
Wednesday 25th August - Reconciliation in hall
21-27 August - Bookweek
Friday 27th August - Book Character Parade
Friday 3rd September - Touch Footy Gala Day S2 & S3
Thursday 16th September - Last Day Term 3 for students
Friday 17th September - Staff Development Day - School Closed - all staff attending (First Aid)
Fun Bike Event - Checklist for next week
o Check when your bike day is on - Monday S3, Tuesday S2, Wednesday S1, Thursday ES1
o Bikes only for S3 (in good working order)
o Bike or scooter for S2, S1 and ES1 (in good working order)
o Helmet
o Mufti and covered in shoes and hat
o Permission to ride - emailed to: yamp@lism.catholic.edu.au
o Water bottles
Dear Parents and Carers,
The bike week is coming! Bookweek is coming! Reconciliation is coming! Let's hope and pray that these are all that turn up over the next few weeks.
Thank you to those parents who have taken a cautious approach to the current situation. As you will be aware the LGA is open but some families are at school and others are not at school. Both of these responses are entirely appropriate. This does mean that we are "down" quiet a few children.
In the event, the children can access work online but as with the Diocesan Policy we are not in a Blended Learning phase until we have a large number of students offsite.
Lots of other interesting reading, so I will say farewell.
Ann
Awards Assembly
St James’ Award- Willow Bews
Principal’s Award- Miles Ferguson
Sports Awards
ES1- Addison Duckett
S1- Sarai Waghorn
S2- Benson Smith
S3- Taya Murphy
ES1 Class Awards
SOW- Jackson Curtis
Achievement- Cruz Walters
Encouragement- Aiden Johnson
MJR- Hunter Bennett-Falconer
Be Your Best Self - Lola Bice
S1 Class Awards
SOW - Ashton Miller, Lily Gill
Achievement- Ayva Hollington, Joseph Dillon
Encouragement- Violet Bennett, Arabella Dendle
MJR - Jack James
Be Your Best Self - Layla Hodge
S2 Class Awards
SOW- Scarlett Long, Rashad Rice
Achievement- Willow Seivers, Severin Griffin
Encouragement- Anzac Williams, Henry Miller
MJR - Myla Cranston
Be Your Best Self- April Newman
S3 Class Awards
SOW - Jack Carolan & Jorja Fuller
Achievement - Dexta Jones & Tully Waghorn
Encouragement - Finn Brossman, Tayah Cole, Darcy Riley
MJR - Heidi Van Leest
Be Your Best Self - Elly Day
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Cancelled - 1st Orientation Day McAuley Catholic College for Year 7, 2022
RE News
Mini Vinnie's Winter Appeal
A big THANK YOU to all of the families who donated to the Mini Vinnies Winter Appeal. These items have been taken to St Vincent de Paul this week.
Curriculum Corner
Premier's Reading Challenge
The Premier's Reading 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 to each student to read, to read more and to read more widely.
The Challenge has been extended for a further two weeks, and therefore closes Friday, September 17th, 2021.
Book Week Activities (23-27 August, 2021)
Monday 23 August- A Local Author Maggie Hutchings will talk to students in Stage 3 via Zoom.
Friday 27 August - Book Character Parade under Big Top.
- This will be videoed and uploaded for parents to view.
- Lucky Spot winners will recieve a $10 book voucher for the Book Warehouse in Grafton.
- Book Week activities in classrooms follow after parade
Christine Jeffrey
Little J's video
Little J's
ES1
Early Stage One students are currently learning about Forces in Science and Technology. We are observing the way objects move and relating changes in motion to push and pull forces. Our Guiding Questions are: How do different things move? Why do they move like this? Can I tell what objects roll, spin and slide? Can I explain why? Is it a push force, or a pull force? We have an Investigation area that explores Forces and students are busy sorting and examining objects. We have Beyblades, Pop-its, magnets, ramps, mini skateboards, wooden spinning tops, fidget spinners, bouncing balls, bike wheels and balls. Ask your child to explain push and pull forces!
Stage 1
This week our photographer and reporter Ella C and Austin, collected some photos for the newsletter to share what they thought were the interesting ‘goings on’ in the classroom.
They focused on all the authors that are hard at work in investigations, crafting and illustrating their own books.
They also thought the newsroom and the farm animal addition to the lego were special too.
Great work Ella and Austin for sharing your inspirations this week.
Stage 2
Stage 3
Long Way Home Writing Competition
As you are aware (as avid newsletter readers!) all Stage 3 and Stage 2 children enter the Long Way Home competition each year. Real audiences for real authors. A lovely opportunity. You may remember Erin Brady and Clare Aman running a writers workshop for the children after our Mother's Day liturgy.
Hot Off The Press!!
This week we received notification for the shortlist winners for the 2021 ‘The Long Way Home’ writing competition! The criteria was a story based on the theme of ‘look up’, and had to be 150 words or less. With 240 entries into the Primary School section, Stage 3 has had students selected! Their stories will be published in ‘Look Up - Stories from the Clarence Valley 2021’.
A huge congratulations to;
- Dexta Jones, The Race
- Pippi Short, Look Up
- Tully Waghorn, The Night When We Couldn’t Look Up
The winning story will be announced at the end of September, with the book being published in December.
Well done Dexta, Pippi and Tully, we are so proud of you!