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.

2022 School Fees

Our amazing Community Council have been advocating for reduction in our school fees for families for many years and we received communication from the Director of Catholic Education at the end of last year that will enable all families to have their fees significantly reduced. I would like to thank present and past members of our Community Council for there continuous support of our school family.

The 2022 School Fees are as follows:-

Fees	Cost	Paid by CE	Cost to families
Tuition Fee	$340 Family per term	Yes	$0
Resource Fee	$85 per student per year	Yes	$0
Maintenance Fee	$80 per family per term	Yes	$0
Cleaning Fee	$80 per family per term	Yes	$0
Administration Fee	$60 per family per term	Yes	$0
IT Levy	$50 per student per term	No	$50 per student per term

This is a significant saving for all families this year. We continue to value and believe that family engagement and involvement is essential for our school community to thrive. Some thoughts on how your family can contribute and be involved are:

Financially

- donations to School Community Council projects; e.g Stores order, furniture, playground etc

- donating library books or art / music equipment

- Voluntary Building Fund - any donation to our School Building Fund is tax deductible for families

Volunteering -

- offer to come and read with children

- volunteer to spend some time in the garden or helping with cooking

- committing to School Community Council meetings - once a term

- assisting with fundraisers - e.g. catering, selling raffle tickets or helping out etc

- Friday canteen - cooking and providing food for students to purchase

School Fees will be sent to families, please continue to support our school in any way that you can.

As we continue our Lenten preparation, please keep in your prayers our students who are preparing to receive the Sacrament of First Reconciliation.

Afternoon pick up is now from the gate on Grace St (vegetable garden side of school). Familes collecting children from school please collect from side gate where staff will be waiting. These changes have been made for the safety of all children.

Term 2

Monday 25th April - ANZAC Day - Public Holiday - ANZAC March - meet at Post Office at 10.45am please

Tuesday 26th April - Staff Day beginning of Term 2

Wednesday 27th April - First Day for students

Friday 29th April - WR Cross Country at Gundagai

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

Friday 20th May - Biggest Morning Tea 11am

School Canteen is now open again on Fridays for recess. There will be assorted goods available for sale for $1.00 and fruit boxes for $1.50. If any families are able to help in the way of cooking or donating goods on a Friday please contact the school office or Sharna Hayward.

Cooking Roster:-18/3/22 - Kate Alexander, Amanda Faff, Therese Stenhouse

25/3/22 - Shane Phillips,Anna Doyle

1/4/22 - Nikki Clarke, Erin Hoskinson

8/4/22 - Anna Doyle, Sharna Hayward, Rebecca Keeley

In addition to delivering fantastic learning programs to our students, several of our staff are participating in their own learning. This demonstrates their commitment to improving their own knowledge and practice. This Professional Learning is offered mostly outside of school hours. We are very grateful to our staff for their commitment to being lifelong learners.

High Impact Teaching

High Impact Teaching Strategies (HITS) is a bank of 10 instructional practices that are internationally recognised as some of the most reliable teaching strategies for delivering learning outcomes.

Daily review - Teachers have been implementing a Daily Review through a range of subjects particularly in mathematics. This is where the students review their learning using the strategies recite, recall and apply. Students across the school have learned some common strategies when using mini whiteboards including: Bin it, Wipe it and Park it.

Goals - Individual and class learning goals are being used in classrooms to assist with learning. Individual goals are specific and measurable to students' needs. Learning intentions and success criterias guide students to know specifically what they are learning about.

Writing Revolution

Over the last 4 weeks some of our staff have been participating in 'The Writing Revolution' Professional Learning.

The Writing Revolution is a method of teaching writing to children through an explicit set of evidence-based strategies. The method builds from sentences to compositions and is embedded across all learning areas from kindergarten to high school level.

The Writing Revolution aims to enable students to develop writing skills, as well as the ability to read and think critically so they will have enhanced opportunities to succeed in school, in the workplace, and in life.

Our teachers are excited to start implementing some of the stratgies they have been learning.

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All orders due back at school by Friday 25^th March.

Kindergarten Kapers

Kindergarten students are settling into school life with ease. Students are trying really hard to follow our class rules:

Kind actions

Kind voice

Kind words

There has been lots of learning happening. Below are some of our learning goals.

Learning goals:

Literacy

-We can say and write the /m/ and /s/ sounds.

-We can say the beginning and middle and end sounds of words.

Mathematics

-We can pose yes/no questions and collect data in a simple display (e.g. ticks on a T-chart)

-We can compare collections using the words ‘more’, ‘less’, ‘same as’ and ‘not the same as’ (0-3)

Religion/ Health

We can make a collage of God’s gifts.

Pancake Day:

Shrove Tuesday was celebrated this year with the leadership class making pancakes for the whole school. Our leaders did an AMAZING jobs mixing up the batter and cooking the pancakes. We were incredibly proud of our 5/6 class for getting the tables and equipment ready for the event as well as serving the special treats to all of our students.

Leigha Brooks travelled to Canberra this week to compete in the Archdiocesan Swimming Carnivial. Leigha competed in Backstroke and Freestyle and beat her personal time in both.

Congratulations to Leigha for a fantastic effort.

"When I went to Queanbeyan on the 8th of March I was very excited. I was in freestyle and backstroke. I came 10th in freestyle and 6th in backstroke, although I didn't make it to the next level, I bet my personal time." By Leigha

Last week all our students and teachers participated in Clean Up Australia Day in and around the school. Over a million Aussies step up to clean up every year, donating their time to improve the environment. It is important for our students to be involved.

As Australia’s waste challenges continue to grow, we all need to Step Up and support solutions which move us towards a circular economy – where everything is a resource, and there is no such thing as waste. To learn more visit -https://www.cleanup.org.au/about-us

Congratulations to Belle Bardawil. Her trophy arrived this week for her win in the 2021 Western Region Public Speaking Competition.

PEANUT BUTTER BALLS

This is a healthy, high-energy snack that is super quick and easy, with no cooking required! You could add nuts and seeds instead of the choc-chips for an even healthier version.

Ingredients:

2 cups of rolled oats

½ cup honey

½ cup peanut butter

½ cup choc chips

1 tsp vanilla

Mix all together well.

Form into balls.

Eat straight away or refrigerate for an hour or two to make them firmer.

Mrs Elwin loved the ones that Year 3/4 students made with Ms Wheeler! YUMMY!!

5/6 have been buzzing along getting stuck into our learning. We are excited to be learning about the writing process, including the planning, drafting, revising, editing and publishing steps. In Maths we have been busy practising our multiplication facts as well as using lolly snakes to learn about fractions. Our class were were so excited to receive a class party for achieving their whole class dojo point goal!