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.

We have an amazing school community, as was very evident leading up to and throughout last weekend. I would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who assisted in any way with the First Eucharist Celebration and the Car Rally catering.

We are blessed with an amazing staff family, wonderful families, including parents and grandparents and terrific students. I want to thank each and every staff member that goes well and truly beyond the 9 to 3 school weekday and every family member that assisted in anyway to support our school last weekend!

As a community we need to give particular thanks to Mrs Rachael Morris and Miss Tori Corcoran for our reverent Eucharist celebration and the excellent preparation of the First Eucharist candidates, and to Nicole Wood and Sharna Hayward for the organisation and preparing of everything for the successful catering.

TERM 2

Thursday 12th May - AECG Meeting @ Land Council 3.30pm

Friday 13th May - Pirate Day - preschool visit

Tuesday 17th May - School Community Council Meeting @ 6pm

9th to 20th May - NAPLAN for students in Year 3 and Year 5

Friday 20th May - Biggest Morning Tea at 11am

- School Mass @ 11.30am

- Assembly Kinder and Year 5/6 @ 12.30pm

- First Eucharist Information Session @ 1pm

Tuesday 24th May - CWA Public Speaking

Thursday 26th May - 5/6 League Day (Griffith) and National Sorry Day

Tuesday 31st May - Reconcillation Day

PLEASE NOTE - End of Term 2 will be Wednesday 29th June for students. Thursday 30th June and Friday 1st July will be additional Pupil Free Days.

Years 4-6 have been playing many different maths games to help improve their recall of timetables facts. These are easy games you could play at home with your child - ask them to share.

Mrs. Shaw:)

Last Saturday evening was a lovely celebration as we joined with the parish to witness Haydn, Seraya, Tyrelle, Margaret, Leonie, Rose, Tyson, Ivy, Leigha, Scarlet, Amelia, Sophie and Beau receive the Sacrament of First Eucharist. The students worked hard to prepare for this special time and they are to be commended on their reverent participation in the service. Many thanks to our families and friends who joined us.

Special thanks to Mrs Rachael Morris and Miss Tori Corcoran for the preparation of the students and the lovely celebration.

Year 2/3 held their Assembly today and showed us some of their fantastic work from this term. Congratulations on a wonderful assembly and congratulations to all our award winners.

In Creative Arts we have been busy creating artworks of the rain and we have been looking at how the paint rolls down the page toward the ground due to gravity. We have also excitedly learned drumming patterns and ukulele chords! Learning an instrument takes patience and our students have shown amazing persistence by continuously practising strumming and putting their fingers on the right strings! ☺️

The WR Athletics Carnival new date is Wednesday the 14th of July (week 1) and a backup date of Monday the 19th (week 2). Hopefully, we have more luck with the weather. Mrs Elwin will be in touch with families of students eligible and willing to represent our school on Monday 12^th July.

Attendance Champions

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!

Kindness is like a boomerang

In K/1 they have been looking at Making Jesus Real. They have cut out and decorated boomerangs as a symbol that if you give out kindness, it comes back around.

Transition programs provide opportunities for discussion on any queries or concerns families may have regarding school readiness. Transition programs will be run in Term 4 on Tuesdays for 6 weeks.

Another information session will occur later this term, hosted at Lake Early Learning Centre to continue to provide families with information to support the learning journey from preschool to primary school.

A huge thank you to all family members, staff and students that helped in any way last Sunday. The day was busy but a huge success for the school fundraising committee. Many hands helped out with working on Sunday, donating cooking and donating prizes for the raffle (thanks Jenna and Michael).

The day has raised a profit of $4906.43 for the school community.

The Liverpool Catholic Club has
also donated to the school and community 100 jackets and 50 hats!

No-Bake Peanut Butter Treats

Ingredients

1/3 cup crunchy peanut butter

1/4 cup honey

1/2 teaspoon vanilla

1/3 cup dry milk powder

1/3 cup quick-cooking oats

optional: 2 tablespoons biscuit crumbs

1 tablespoon coco

In a small bowl, combine the peanut butter, honey and vanilla. Stir in the milk powder, oats and biscuit crumbs. Shape into 2cm balls. Cover and refrigerate until serving.

Another yummy healthy treat - thanks Ms Wheeler!

Students, families and staff were invited to provide feedback on their experience of our school using an online survey. The surveys are an important part of our whole school evaluation and planning process.

The Tell Them From Me (TTFM) Partners in Learning survey will close for families today. As we value the role of families within our school community we would greatly appreciate your feedback. The information you provide will be used to maintain our commitment to working together in partnership to further improve student learning and wellbeing at St Francis Xavier School.

The survey is anonymous and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. You are able to access the family survey on your computer or mobile device by using the URL below:

The link is http://tellthemfromme.com/s9t22

Final_School_Holiday_Program_AD.pdf

"On Friday the 18th of June a group of Year 11 students from Bede Polding College will be visiting St Francis Xavier Catholic Primary School.

They will be running an interactive session on 'Trusting in God' for classes during the day and will be running some student activities during recess and lunch.

They are looking forward to working with the students at St Francis Xavier as part of their outreach experience."

School Photos will be taken on Tuesday 22nd of June 2021. Packages available are as follows:-

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Family portraits are also available - envelops for ordering are at school office.

Thank you again to everyone that supported our school as we hosted the Western Region Principal’s Meeting. Along with the Principals from all the Western Region schools we had members from our Catholic Education office, including Deputy Director, Dr Tony Bracken. The meetings were very productive and all enjoyed the hospitality provided. Dr Tony Bracken was impressed with our school and on his return to Canberra spoke about how our school is a great example of meeting the mission of the church.

Thank you Sharna, Nicole, Sharon and everyone that assisted in the catering for this meeting - it was wonderful to see all our visitors sitting in our staffroom before they left sharing a wonderful meal together created by our school community!

Our Student Representative Council are planning a Beanie day to raise money for St Vinnies Winter Appeal. On Tuesday 22nd June (Week 10) students are invited to wear their best winter hat and order a special lunch. We also ask that students bring a can of food that can be donated to Vinnies for their Winter Appeal. Money raised from lunch will also be donated. Lunch order forms will be sent home today - if you wish to order order form and money need to be back at school by Friday 18th June. Thank you for supporting this appeal.

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