St James' Primary School Yamba eNewsletter

What is On?

Term 2

Monday 24th April - Pupil Free Day

Tuesday 25th April - ANZAC day - Public Holiday

Wednesday 26th April - First Day Term 2 - Maclean Show Day - School Closes at 12pm, Gazetted Holiday

Thursday 27th April⋅ - Photo Day Catch up

May

Wednesday 3rd May -Zone Cross Country - Grafton (Week 2)

Wednesday 3rd May - School Health Nurse visit

Friday 5th May - Year 6 Mass with McAuley Catholic College at Grafton (More details to come)

Week 3 - Catholic Schools Week

Monday 8th May - Parent Night

Tuesdaty 9th May - Out and About- Please join us for lunch at the lighthouse at 1pm.

Wednesday 10th May- Event at school (classrooms open details to come)

Friday 12th May - Mother's Day Morning Breakie (More details to come)

Thursday 18th May - Disco

Tuesday 23rd May -Diocesan Cross Country - Grafton (Week 5)

Thursday 25th May - The Biggest Morning Tea Fundraiser (More details to come)

June

Thursday 8th June - Close the Gap

Friday 9th June - Staff Professional Learning - Pupil Free Day

Tuesday 13th June - Polding Cross Country-Sydney

Friday 16th June - School Athletics Carnival

Thursday 29th June -Zone Athletics - Coffs Harbour

Thursday 29th June - Last day Term 2

Friday 30th June - Staff Foundation Day - Pupil Free Day

Thursday 1st June - No longer a pupil free day

Thursday 1st June - No longer pupil free day

Due to the illness of the presenter for the Proclaim Staff program we will NOT be closing on June 1st.

However, the diocese has this week released the following:

All primary schools have been granted two additional Staff Professional Learning Days in
2023 specifically dedicated to:
● Professional Learning in the syllabus.
● DoE Professional Learning Micromodule Update, K-2 or 3-6 Syllabus
● Training in Dibels and/or Probe for the new evidence based assessment approaches
● Co-planning in teams to review K-2 implementation to date
● Co-planning in teams to learn about and plan for the 3-6 implementation

These will take place in Term 3 and 4. As soon as we have dates we will let all families know.

Dear Parents and Carers

A term of learning, doing and sharing draws to a close for Saint James. Thank you for all your support the initiatives which make our school a community.

ANZAC DAY March

For the families who are joining us to march we will meet opposite Stella on Yamba Hill at approximately 9am. The march will form up and we will leave at 9:30am to march to the cenotaph. If you are marching please wear school uniform and your hat as well as bring a waterbottle.

The beginning of Term 2 looks very different to usual with public holidays and a staff professional learning day. Please be aware that the school closes at 12:00pm on the Wednesday and there will not be buses running in the middle of the day.

Mrs Smith and I just looked through the accounts due and want to thank all families who have made a huge effort to action the fee acounts.

Hoping the Easter break is wonderful and refreshing and we look forward to seeing everyone in Term 2.

Regards

Ann

School Awards Assembly

St James' Award -

- Sage EDWARDS -Finley WAGHORN

Principal's Award -

- Gemma HOLLINGTON

- Bonnie CAROLAN

Be Your Best Self -

Charlotte BRAMWELL, Fletcher PETERSEN, Leah SCANLON, Maggie DILLON, Hudson HARDWICK, Jett KNOX, Fionn MAWN, Sarai WAGHORN, Iyla TOWNER, Jarrah WRIGHT , Henry MILLER, Aiden RIBEIRO

MJR -

Hendrix PERRY, Letty TIERNEY, Maeve MORTIMER, Elliott CRANSTON, Slater PETERSEN, Cadence TAYLOR, Indie WRIGHT, Grace WILKINSON

Sports -

Ori SALISBURY, Ralph COUPER, Noah NIXON, Athena PATTAS, Harlan BEWS, Jake SEIVERS, Severin GRIFFIN, Sanne LITTLE

Achievement -

Ella VERSTAPPEN, William BROPHY, Pearl GOULD, Cruz WALTERS, Sage WRIGHT, Molly O'BRIEN, Ella CAROLAN, Poppy DOUGHERTY, Ralph UEBERGANG, Oscar CRANSTON, Kydan JONES, Levi O'SHEA, Reevan HARDING, Scarlett LONG

Encouragement -

Georgia PRESLEY, Isiah MEHAN, Skye-Leeah KNOX, Liv ISON, Ivie STAPLETON, Mila STAPLETON, Max CHENNEY, Lily FLEMING, Violet BENNETT, River CAVANAGH, Alyssa BEVERIDGE, Savana WHEATLEY-MAZZITELLI

Student of the Week -

Bonnie CAROLAN, Lyla TUCKER, Joey BYRNE, Jonas COLLINS, Willa STOWE, Chase TOWNER, Rhaya BRASH, Remi MURPHY, Francesco LANE, Dean PERUGINI, Clarence DOUGHERTY, Zoe EDWARDS, Aaron PERRY, Rashad RICE

RE News

This week we celebrated Holy Week. Holy Week is a very sacred time of the Catholic Church year, where we commemorate and remember the last week of Jesus' life on earth. These are the days leading up to the great Easter Feast and it signals for the Lenten season to come to an end. The greatest focus of the week is the Passion and Resurrection of Jesus Christ and the events that led up to it. Students have also been learning about Holy Week in their classes.

We wish all of our families a most holy and blessed Easter season.

See below some photos of our travelling liturgy.