During 2024 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.

Last week saw the beginning of Lent and as a school and parish community we attended Ash Wednesday liturgy last week to celebrate the beginning of Lent.
Lent is the time in our church year that enables us to prepare our hearts for Easter, the resurrection of Jesus to new life after his crucifixion and death.

Our Year 5/6 leaders will return to being altar servers in our church again this year. Thank you to Wayne, Belle and 
Gemma who served during Ash Wednesday Mass.

During our Lenten season, as Christians, we are called to improve our lives through focusing on Prayer, fasting and Almsgiving. We pray to improve our relationship with God and others. We fast, as Jesus did when he spent 40 days in the wilderness.

And we try to give more throughout Lent, as helping others is a tradition of the Lent season, inspired by the command of Jesus to "love your neighbour as yourself." While we should likewise give to others in love throughout the entire year, an extra emphasis is added during the time of Lent, which includes our Project Compassion fundraising.Our first fundraiser for Project Compassion, our Pancake morning saw us raise over $100 - so thank you for your support!

We will celebrate together again next Friday morning at 11.30am for our Opening Mass. Please join us, all are welcome!

SFX COMMUNITY COUNCIL will be holding our Annual General Meeting, followed by our General Meeting on Monday 11th March at 6.00pm in the staffroom.

All parents, carers and interested persons are most welcome to come along.
Items on the agenda include

- 2024 Fundraising

- 2024 school goals

- Changes to school uniforms

If you would like to add any items to the agenda or become a committee member, please let Rachael, Jacinta or Sharna Hayward (Chair Person) know. Thank you for
supporting our school.

To encourage students to read more, a Home Reading Log will be sent home with all students to complete at home to record any book they read (or others read with them). Children will be rewarded for each total of 10 books they read and additional rewards for each 25 books they read.
Please help us to assist our students become better readers.
Please note if you wish to borrow books for your children to read at home our school is extremely well resourced and we will lend books to any family or student wishing for more books (or different choices of books) at home.

We encourage all children to have excellent attendance at St Francis Xavier School. Regular school attendance brings enormous benefits to students, their families, the school and the community as a whole. Without regular attendance, levels of learning suffer and opportunities are missed. Continued and persistent absence and lateness will affect a student's achievement and progress in school.

It is family's legal responsibility that your child attends school each day and is on time. Children with attendance less than 96% are identified as a concern if absences are unauthorised.

Welcome back to school. Get ready to kick-start reading with Book Club!

Book Club will support your efforts to foster literacy through a love of books and the joy of reading for pleasure. Some information regarding Issue 1,2024, which has been given to students this week in library lessons... 

• Parents GET $5 CREDIT for orders over $35 on Issue 1 to help keep the reading rolling! (Valid for LOOP Parent online orders only. 
• START A NEW SERIES from only $3 to get students hooked on reading.
• 50 BONUS BARGAIN BOOKS online at low, low prices

Any orders will need to be completed online or returned to school by Friday, 23rd February 2024 please.