SCHOOL AND COMMUNITY NEWS

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Happy Birthday to the following students who celebrated a birthday Week 6, 7 and 8 of Term 2.

Kinder	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5	Year 6
Leo S	Daniel A			Josiah M		Ryan T
Luna W	Kane F
Charlotte T	Rose C

NEWS FROM THE SCHOOL OFFICE

Catholic School Parents Australia's Free Family Engagement Resources

Catholic School Parents Australia has developed free resources to strengthen the home-school partnership. The new video workshops help guide primary and secondary parents, principals, and school staff to take a holistic approach to their children’s well-being and educational experience.

The resources also include guides for local facilitators to run through the video workshops in collaborative sessions with principals, staff and families. Insights from experts like Andrew Fuller, John Hattie and Donna Cross inform the workshop’s research-backed strategies.

The resources can be found on the Gearing Up for Parent Engagement website.

Premier's Reading Challenge

The challenge aims to encourage a love of learning for leisure and pleasure in student's. It is not a competition - however, there are rewards of certificates and medals for participants - but a challenge to each student to read, read more and to read more widely.

Between Monday 26 February and Friday 23 August 2024 students in Year 3-6 are encouraged to read and record what they have read at the link below. Student's in K-2 will participate and have their entries uploaded in class. Countless research links the time spent reading quality literature to improved results in school - this is a way to support improvement in your child's literacy, knowledge and vocabulary skills.

Each child is able to borrow books from the school library, which count towards the Challenge, when they bring their library bag to school every Friday.

Teachers will be able to provide log in details in Years 3-6 next week.

2024 NSW Premier's Reading Challenge

Lost Property

The lost property black container outside of the office is full of jumpers, cardigans and jackets. Each day we hand back items that are labelled with the student's name. However, all items currently in the lost property bin are not labelled. If your child has lost a school uniform item please encourage them to have a check.

News from the Canteen...Just a friendly reminder

If you have placed an order and your child is going to be absent, please contact Nicole by 8.30am via text on 0415548899 to move your order to the next available service day.

Orders close at 9pm the night before canteen

- Wednesday 9pm for Thursday

- Thursday 9pm for Friday

Thank you for your help

Nicole

CATHEDRAL CAR PARKING - CAN YOU HELP?

If you can assist at some of the upcoming events, please add your nametothegoogleeee spreadsheet.

CAR PARKING

PARENTS & FRIENDS NEWS

Lawn Mowing

Thank you to all the parents on the mowing register, the lawns and hedges continue to look fantastic!

Weekend	Mower #1	Mower #2
20/7/2024	Darrell M	Mark H
17/8/2024	David H	Adam F
07/09/2024	Shane G	Thomas M

If there are any concerns with your allocated date to mow, please feel free to swap with someone you know on the list alternatively contact Simon Young on 0422 240 833.

Pie Drive

Thank you to everyone who purchased a pie or cake in our Pie Drive, it was a huge success and hope you are enjoying delicious pies in this cool weather.

Trivia Night

The day is finally here!!! So excited to see everyone tonight!

Thank you to all of those who have purchased a ticket to attend and also to all of our wonderful sponsors who have generously donated prizes for the evening - looking forward to all the lucky winners being able to enjoy them!

For those attending:

Time - Doors will open at 6:30pm for a 7:00pm start!
Where - Wollongong Tennis Club, Upstairs - turn left as you enter the club.

Food is available for purchase from the club’s restaurant - Bistro on Beaton. Drinks will be available from the bar down and upstairs throughout trivia.

Upcoming for Term 3 - Get the diary’s out