St Francis Xavier Primary School - Lake Cargelligo eNewsletter

During 2023 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.

Every day I am reminded of how privileged I am to be working at St Francis Xavier School.

Today the staff put on Morning Tea for me to celebrate the safe arrival of my new granddaughter, Lacey, all dressing in pink to acknowledge how very special she is to me and how important our families are to us all.

Yesterday during our Book Week celebrations, the characters our staff chose to dress up as were a collection of inspiring people including Rosa Park, Amelia Earhart and Dolly Parton, from the series ‘Little People, Big Dreams’. These characters and our teachers are inspirational!

This week in Canberra many members of the schools in our Archdiocese will be recognised through receiving 2023 CECG Faith in Learning Staff Excellence Awards. These awards recognise exceptional contributions to the mission of Catholic Education in the Archdiocese of Canberra Goulburn. We have 3 members of our school community receiving one of these awards this year. Congratulations to Miss Sharon and Miss Karli. We are very excited for you and very proud of all you contribute and continue to achieve within our school.

I am so very grateful for all each and every staff member does to support each and every one of our school community.

A Prayer for Fathers

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We wish all fathers a wonderful Father's Day next weekend!

Due to Miss Corcoran's taking leave there are some changes to school staffing for the remainder of the term.

Mrs Rachael Morris will be the Kindergarten teacher, with continued support from Miss Ashlea Robertson and other staff members.

St Francis Xavier School staff work extremely effectively together as a team, and as such we will continue to all work together to support the learning needs and wellbeing needs of all our students.

We wish Miss Corcoran the very best and thank her for looking after herself and her family.

Term 3

Monday 28th August - Social Media Talk (Yr 3-6)

Tuesday 29th August - Trent Barrett Shield

Wednesday 30th August - Dad's in School Day and Year 6 Transistion

Tuesday 5th September - Aust. Biggest Child Safety Lesson (K-Yr 2)

Friday 8th September - School Mass~ Feast of the Nativity of Blessed Mary

Thursday 14th September - MeerKat Show 9.30am Primary 10.45am Infants

Oliver Townsend Memorial Concert (Evening)

Tuesday 19th September - Andrew Chinn Visit and performance

Friday 22nd September -School Mass and last day of Term 3

Term 4

Monday 9th October - Staff Day - Pupil Free Day

Tuesday 10th October - Students return for Term 4

Our school will be participating in Fruit & Veg Month 2023. Fruit & Veg Month 2023 runs from Monday 28 August to Friday 22 September. This year’s theme is: Fruit & Vegie STEMs!

Together we will learn about the science, maths and technology behind fruit and vegetables. Students will be involved in various classroom and school-based activities to encourage them to eat more fruit and vegetables.

We will be looking for healthy lunchboxes at school. Students will receive points for the fruit and vegetables they have in their lunchboxes and students with the highest points at the end of the month will receive a prize.

Kindergarten and Year 1/2

Kinder and 1/2 had a special class with Mr K last week. They looked at a map of Australia and talked about the various places around Australia. They then zoomed in a little bit and talked about the places we had in Lake Cargelligo and what our school looked like from a birds eye view. The students then got to create their own birds eye views of a place that was special to them and most of the students either picked their house, farm, or a family members farm. While creating their own birds eye views, the students were able to engage in lots of conversations about the things that needed to be included in their drawings.

Year 3/4/5

Funday Fridays -

Year 3/4/5 and year 1/2 have been enjoying Friday picnics for fruit break together. Last week we enjoyed visiting the year 1/2 classroom for fruit break. We helped them with their work, read some books and did a movement break with a dance before returning to our classroom.

Year 6

A successful day was had on Tuesday with students, staff and famlies. Book Week is a wonderful opportunity to spend one glorious week celebrating books and Australian children's authors and illustrators.

Thank you so very much to everyone who dressed up, to all the family and friends that joined us during the day and every staff member that helped make our day so very special!

A quick reminder about our Book Week Book Fair being held in our library. There are many beautiful books available to purchase. Thank you to the families that have already supported this Book Fair - your purchases will help us to get new books for our library and classrooms.

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This term Stage Two and Three students participated in the Little First Aider online program to learn how to administer care and support through first aiding.

The Little First Aiders eLearning platform provides fundamental first aid education to primary school students right across NSW through a range of videos, games, and interactive activities.

Stage Two program provides students with the following information -

- Recognising an emergency,

- Calling triple zero in the event of an emergency,

- Provide awareness and skills required to manage someone bleeding and how to clean a wound

-Recognise and treat someone suffering from shock

Stage Three program provides students with the following information -

Recognising an emergency
Calling triple zero in the event of an emergency
Provide awareness and skills required to manage someone bleeding and how to clean a wound.
Recognise and treat someone suffering from shock.

All students of stages Two and Three have practiced many practical skills of DRSAB. This includes:

Students also had the opportunity to explore the recovery position. Which they performed on each other, and completed exceptionally well.

Congratulations to Leigha Brooks

Leigha travelled to Canberra this week to compete in the Archdiocesan Athletics Carnival. Leigha competed in 3 events;

11 years 100 metre dash - placing 10^th with a time of 15.68 seconds (less than a second behind the winner)
11 years 200 metre dash - with a time of 34 seconds
11 year High Jump - placing 2^nd - jumping 1.30m

This second placing means Leigha has qualified to compete in the MacKillop Athletics Championships in Sydney on Monday 18th of September.

We are so very proud of Leigha and thank her family for the support given to enable Leigha compete at this level!

May be an image of 6 people Congratulations to our students who represented our school at the Western Region Public Speaking last Thursday at West Wyalong.

A huge congratulations to Belle Bardawil who came away with a 1st place at Western Region Public Speaking. Belle will now compete at the next level later this term.

Grandparents/Grandfriends day was a special day at SFX, celebrating grandparents and special people in our lives. Students shared some cooking, sport and learning with families followed by a picnic lunch. A huge thank you to all those families that came along.

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