Term 3 Week 2 (29/7/2022)
What is On?
Postponed - School Disco - TBA - will be in Term 4
Thursday 4th August - Meerkat performance
Monday 8th August - Parent Night (Flyer below)
Wednesday 10th August - Dio Athletics - Coffs Harbour
Monday 15th August, 100 Days of School- Kindergarten
Save the Date - Monday 22 August- Informed Consent Parent evening offered by the Diocesan
Parent Assembly
Monday 22nd August to Friday 26th August - Book Week
Tuesday 23rd August - Book Week Character Parade
Wednesday 24th August - Reconciliation
Saturday 27th August - First Holy Communion
September:
Tuesday 6th September - Stage 3 Soccer/Netball Carnival
Friday 9th September - Polding Athletics - Newcastle
Friday 16th September - Touch Carnival S2 & S3
Thursday 22nd September - Last Day Term 3 for students
Friday 23rd September - Staff - Professional Learning Day
Coming Events
Sacramental dates 2022
Reconciliation- Wednesday 24th August, 11:40am in school hall.
First Holy Communion- Saturday 27th August, 5:30pm at St James Church, Yamba
Sport Dates 2022
Athletics
-Dio - Coffs Harbour, Wednesday 10th August
-Polding - Newcastle, Friday 9th September
Neil Newman Bequest
In the early days of Saint James School the family of Neil Newman left a significant bequest in his memory to support students access to the Arts. Every year this has been used to offer an arts program incursion within the school year. This week we are sending out a permission for the MEERKAT performance based on a Bookweek shortlisted title. We are subsudising the cost with the remainder of the bequest. This will be the last of the subsidies offering. What is important to us is that we both recognise and acknowledge this support from a community member who we need to remember.
Parent Night - Monday 8th August
This meeting is to look at the two options for the school going forward. All current Parish School Forums and P and F's will be "closed" and two options will be offered by the CSO. Please come along and share your opinions on which looks good. We have been asked to consider these as a school and I feel that this is very important for us as we look to the future.
RE News - Feast of St James
Feast of St James, the Apostle 25th July
On Monday our school celebrated the Feast of St James. We had a wonderful morning journeying through the life of James and exploring the messages behind the scripture stories. Students engaged in activities and looked at the lessons that we could take from James and apply to our lives today.
James was Jesus’ cousin and his closest friend. Below is a film clip that shows James being called by Jesus to follow him.
Sport News
Athletics
Yesterday St James had 30 students represent our school at the Clarence Zone Athletics Carnival in Coffs Harbour. Whilst we don't have a list of the official results on hand, we had a number of students place in individual events as well as our Junior Boys and Girls and Senior Boys relay teams. These students will now move through to the Lismore Diocesan Carnival which will take place on Wednesday 10th August in Coffs Harbour.
A full list of placegetters and those qualifying for the Diocesan carnival will be in next week's newsletter. Well done to everyone who competed yesterday!
School Sport
This term we will be beginning Touch Football for Sport for our Stage 2 and 3 students in a few weeks time, as they prepare for the Lower Clarence Touch Football Gala Day which is being held at the Angourie Sports Complex on Friday 16th September (Week 9).
Also happening toward the end of this term is the Stage 3 Soccer and Netball carnivals in Grafton. This is being held on Tuesday September 6 (Week 8). More details to follow later in the term.
NCCD
ES1 News
This term students are sharing their favourite book with the class. Why is this your favourite book? Is it fiction or non-fiction? What is the author's purpose? Who is the author’s intended audience? These are just a few of our focus questions. There will even be other staff at school “on tour” and reading their favourite book to the class! We just love celebrating books and becoming authors in Early Stage One!
“This book makes me laugh” Billy.C “I like this book because the baby owl is kind” Ruby
Stage 1 News
We have had a busy week this week in Stage 1. Firstly we celebrated Saint James on Monday. The students enjoyed the morning as they followed and discussed the stories of Saint James. Secondly we had a wonderful excursion on Country as part of our Naidoc celebrations. Stage 1 were very lucky to have Aunty Dianne and Uncle Neville spend the day with us and sharing their stories
Stage 2 News
Stage 2 had a very exciting excursion on Monday as part of our school's NAIDOC celebrations. The students were lucky enough to have local elders, Uncle Dale and Uncle Darrell, spend the day showing us around some significant places in our local area and sharing some stories and knowledge about the different areas. We visited Reedy Creek, Yamba Museum, Mara Creek, Backbeach Angourie, Green Point and the Lighthouse. The kids really enjoyed the day and learnt lots of interesting information about the local Yaegl history of our area.
Jensen - “We learnt that they used to get Oysters at Reedy Creek and play marbles with the pearls out of them”
Harlan - “Uncle Dale showed us a little pool on the rocks at the end of Backbeach that they used as a fish trap. When it was high tide the water would wash over and the fish would come in and then they would close off the entrance with rocks so as the tide got lower the water could drain back out but the fish would be caught in the trap”
Sarai - “At Reedy Creek they used to clap their hands under water and that would bring the dolphins in and the fish would follow them and they would be able to catch the fish for their food”
Zoe - “Uncle Dale told us how the river was made by the Giant Eel. He said that all the islands in the river were from the Eel shedding its skin as it made its way further inland.”
Stage 3 News
Head Lice
The facts
- head lice are one of the most commonly reported health complaints within schools
- anyone can catch head lice regardless of their age, sex, or how clean their hair is
- head lice move from one person's head to another via direct contact with the hair
- head lice do not survive long when they are off a human head
- head lice do not live on furniture, hats, bedding or carpet
- head lice have built up some resistance to head lice treatments
Please assist us by checking all children, as we have had a report of the presence of headlice within our school.
Information available at
Birthdays
Jackson Howden - 23rd July, Poppy Dougherty - 28th July, Amelia MacInnes - 29th July, Jack Drayton - 30th July, Sage Edwards - 30th July, Finn Brossman - 1st August, Tayah Cole - 3rd August, Aiden Johnson - 3rd August, Louis Collins - 6th August, Rashad Rice - 6th August, Isabel Duckett - 8th August, Layla Hodge - 10th August, Aryadeep Kantamneni - 12th August