St Francis Xavier Primary School - Lake Cargelligo eNewsletter

During 2022 our educational focus will be to improve Literacy and Numeracy skills — staff, students and families working together so all our students achieve at least 12 months growth. Other goals for the year are:

Build a community that continues to learn - Implement system Literacy and Numeracy initiatives which will increase student assessment data.

Enhance and maintain the wellbeing of all - Continued increase of attendance rates and implementation of school-wide Well Being Policy.

Build a community that is connected - Increased promotion of the school Vision and Mission statements throughout the community and to continue to increase family attendance at school events.

Next week we celebrate National Family Week. National Families Week is held between 15 - 21 May 2021 (coinciding with the United Nations International Day of Families on 15 May).

The aim of National Families Week is to celebrate the vital role that families play in Australian society. The enduring theme 'Stronger families, stronger communities' highlights the important role that families play as the central building block of our communities and that community wellbeing is enhanced by family wellbeing.

As a Catholic School we often refer to our school as St Francis Xavier School family, made up of student, staff, Fr Dominic and our very important families. We are continually grateful for the support and dedication to our school from our families. With families we are able to better meet the learning needs of all our students.

Please join us next Wednesday for our Open Morning starting with breakfast at 8.30am and continuing with visits to classrooms and concluding with Morning Tea. We would love to see as many faces as possible back in our classrooms and school.

St Francis Xavier School community celebrated with Joy Kelly her 35 years of service to the school with present and past students, families and staff, including Aboriginal Education Consultants, Kerry O'Callaghan and Katrina Cambridge.

'Aunty' Joy joined St Francis Xavier school family in 1986 on the 17th March and she has supported staff and families throughout the past 35 years in a very kind, caring and respectful way, helping to make learning enjoyable and exciting.

Joy has enjoyed wirking together with staff, parents, and students as a community. One of the highlights of her many years were the opportunities to attend Aboriginal Education Retreats with other Aboriginal Education Workers from schools throughout the Canberra Goulburn Archdiocese and other schools in NSW.

In these 35 years Joy has been a very special part of our school and Parish family, and we have so much to be very grateful for…

- her extremely understanding and respect of our Catholic school and all our families. Joy assisted staff to understand connections within the community and culture and tradition.

- her dedication and commitment to Catholic Education – ensuring our school has a family feeling and helping to make everyone feel that they belong.

- being the face of Jesus to many students as she shared the love, forgiveness, and gentleness of Jesus in her vocation in education.

St Francis Xavier School will miss Aunty Joy and we wish Joy all the very best for the next stage of her life.

Congratulations to our students who celebrated the Sacrament of Reconciliation last week. Thanks to Miss Corcoran, Mrs Shaw, Aunty Georgina and their classmates, for preparing the students. We were very proud of the reverence and understanding the students demonstrated throughout the service.

Thanks also to Mrs Morris for all the extras including preparing our special liturgies.

Loving God,

as we enter Holy Week, we pray that it will be a time for us to grow as disciples. May we know deep in our hearts the immensity of your love for us. May our hope be rekindled in the midst of our own joys and sorrows, knowing that nothing can separate us from the love of Jesus the Crucified and Risen One. Amen

Holy Week ceremonies are the most important and holiest time in the Church year. Holy Week began with Palm Sunday, last weekend, which introduces Jesus as King of Israel. In the liturgy of Palm Sunday, we remember Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem in order to pass from this world to the Father.

Holy Thursday we celebrate the beginnings of the Eucharist. During the Mass, today, the priest re-enacts Jesus' washing the feet of his apostles at the Last Supper. This is a reminder that the Church is there to serve in the same way that Jesus took care of God's people.

Good Friday liturgy reminds us that Jesus descended into the darkness of sin and death for our sake, even though he was without sin. It is a day of prayer and reflection when we remember is a special way Jesus' death on the cross.

The Easter Vigil Mass is the most majestic of all the Masses in the Church's year, when we celebrate Jesus' resurrection - his victory over death! It is a time of great joy.

May you take some time this Easter to remember God's love for us all.

Thanks to the students, staff and families that helped to make our 'take 2' Fun Run so much fun.

Congratulations to the winners:-

K,1 1st Caden & Elwina, 2nd Ellis & Indigo 3rd Thomas & Eliana

Year 2/3 1st Wayne & Sasha 2nd Zheng & Lizzy 3rd Aiden & Macayla

Year 4/5/6 1st Benji & Leigha 2nd Max & Amelia 3rd Gus & Ivy

Last Day of Term 1 - Thursday 1st April

First Day of Term 2

- Staff will be at school on Monday 19th April

- STUDENTS RETURN - Tuesday 20th April

ANZAC day - Sunday 25th April

St Francis Xavier School will again participate in ANZAC Day. We will participate in the parade on Sunday 25th April as usual and this year we will be joining the choir to sing the New Zealand National Anthem. Please add this date to your calendars.

NAPLAN Assessment for Year 3 and Year 5 students - May 10th ~ May 21st

What a wonderful time students and Staff had last week when Andrew Chinn visited our school. Andrew last visited our school in 2006, so we loved having him in our school again!

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Thank you to the students that worked with Andrew to help with the concert, singing and dancing to his amazing faith filled, fun music. Thanks to Belle G, Belle B, Macayla, Wayne, Jimeal, Jay, Scarlet, Leigha, Jayde, Rose, Ivy and Leonie. These amazing students are stars!!

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In Music with Miss Corcoran we are continuing to practise our guitar chords and are learning how to strum. Tyrelle and Jimeal showed expertise by teaching our other students how to correctly play the chords, using the right finger positioning!

Year 4/5/6 have been busy reading and this is the badge the students received for reading. We do the Daily Five three times a week and Epic is part of this program. In Term 2 this will continue and we will see how many more books we can read by the end of Term 2.

Congratulations to all the children who have attended school more than 95% of the first 5 weeks of this term. To congratulate these children they were given a treat of hot chips this week.

Congratulations again to Year 2 class with the highest attendance average - 91%. Keep aiming to attend school every day!

Congratulations to Jayde who was one of 25 students across the state to be awarded a NAIDOC Medal in 2020 for her creative art.

Vegie Week: Year 2/3 made super healthy hummus and a beetroot dip to go with chopped raw carrot, cucumber, snow peas and capsicum. Everyone tried all the veggies and the plates of leftovers shared with the other classes all came back empty! Mrs Elwin still wants the recipes please!

The School has a Mobile Phone which can be used for communication with the school. You can also use this number to send a text when your child is absent from school or for any other communication.

Please save this in your phone for future reference 0488 493 103.

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For those of you that are new to the school or don't have the school app, please see attached on how to install. If you need any further help please call into the office on a Thursday or Friday. This app allows the school to send notifications, notes and other information - it also allows families to send in Absentee notes.