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- School Goals for 2021
- Principal's Report
- Prayer
- Canberra Goulburn Catholic Education Recognition Award
- 2021 Class Arrangements and Stafffing
- Mission Week
- Performance THREE
- Hats & Water Bottles
- Scholastic Book Club
- Thermomix Raffle
- School Fundraiser
- Dates to Remember
- Breakfast Club
- Kinder Transition
- Remembrance Day assembly
Build a community that continues to learn
Through:- Building a school wide approach to the teaching and learning and increasing teacher capacity.
Enhance and maintain the wellbeing of all
Our target for the year:- Attendance rates will increase from 88% to 95% across the school, and we will maintain representation throughout the community
Build a community that is connected
Our target for the year:- Increase family attendance at interviews and open day and introduce Yarn Time sessions
NAIDOC WEEK ~ 2020 ~ 'Always Was, Always Will Be'
This week we celebrated NAIDOC week. Normally NAIDOC week is celebrated in July, but the date was moved due to COVID-19. This year's theme, 'Always Was, Always Will Be', recognises the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples and encourages appreciation of the wealth and breadth of Aboriginal Nations, languages and knowledges.
Although we haven't celebrated as a community this year we have spent this week being involved in many learning and fun activities around NAIDOC week and learning more about culture and our history.
Next week our Year 3/4 students will head out to Murrin Bridge Preschool to participate in some NAIDOC Activities with the children at the preschool. The Year 3/4 students will travel out on the school bus with Mrs Morris and Mrs Elwin.
The words accompanying the presentation of the award were, "Sharon Thorpe has tirelessly served the community of St Francis Xavier in significant ways for over 25 years. Her continued dedication and support for students, student's families and for staff is exceptional!'
This award is completely deserved, and we are so very proud of Sharon.
Although all arrangements have not been finalised, some decisions have been made in regards to classes and teachers for 2021. Due to numbers and class needs the class arrangements for 2021 will be:-
Kinder / Year 1 - Miss Sarah O'Brien will be the class teacher
Year 2 / Year 3 - Mrs Sarah Whiting will be the class teacher
Year 4 / Year 5 / Year 6 - Mrs Marilyn Shaw will be the class teacher
Last week we celebrated Mission Week,through fundraising and our first whole school mass for some time. Through our fundraising; Trash n Treasure, Money line and recycling our fruitboxes and other drink containers, we were able to send $870 to Catholic Missions - more than double the amount we sent last year.
We will continue to recycle our drink containers to raise funds for Catholic Mission and Caritas. Any family wishing to support this fundraising and wishing to reduce their waste can drop recyclable drink containers (10c) at school for us to continue to support these worthwhile charities.
Book Club Issue 4 have been given out - any orders will need to be returned by this Friday, 17th June please.
Kinder Transition
Transition Graduation and Kinder Information Session- On Tuesday 1st December, the last day of Transition, there will be an information session for families at 10.30am in the library. After the information session families are invited to a morning tea in the staff room. Then at 11.30am we will have a Graduation Assembly for our Kinder Transition students and their families. Please join us for these special events.
Year 6 Canberra Excursion- Sunday 6th December till Tuesday 8th December - note sent home with students today.
Year 6 Dinner - Wednesday 8th December - at the Bowling Club - 7pm for a 7.30pm meal.
Thanksgiving Mass- Friday 11th December at 11.30am. This will be the final School Mass for the year. During this liturgical celebration we will ask for God's blessing on our Year 6 students and their families as they move onto the next phase of their life. Please join us
End of Year Presentation- Instead of the normal end of year Presentation Evening we will be having 2 assemblies on Monday 14th of December. We will present awards and celebrate our year of learning together. So please add the date - 14th December to you calendar, with the following times
- 11.30am for Kinder/Year 1/Year 2 students and families and
- 2.00pm for Year 3-6 students and families.
