Acting Principal's Report
Book Week
What a wondrous week we are having. We began the celebrations with a Cake and Bake stall. Our 5/6 students cooked up a storm and made cakes to represent a book. Thank you to the 5/6 students and families for their culinary skills. Thank you to all of our community for supporting the stall and feasting on cakes at recess.
Tonight many families will come to the library between 5:30 and 6:45 for Snuggle Up and Read. Stay the whole time or for a short while and read together as a family. Children must be accompanied by a parent. Cost: $5 per family.
Friday of course is our Character Parade in Holy Faith Hall at 9 am. Children will come dressed up as a book character, tell their class what their character’s reading power is and participate in book activities led by 5/6 during the day. Please consider packing suitable shoes to change into for play time if required.
Thanks to Mrs Reid for organising all of the Book Week learning activities.
Father’s Day Breakfast
A reminder 3/4 Green Families are hosting the Father’s Day Breakfast on Friday August 30th from 8am until 8:45am.
The STM choir (years 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) will be singing a few songs to entertain famillies at the Father’s Day breakfast . The choir will sing from 8.40am.
Future of ACT Catholic School Soccer and Netball Carnivals
Please read the following message from ACT Primary Principals.
Regretfully, this year is the final year for the ACT Catholic School Soccer and Netball Carnivals.
This decision was carefully considered and was made unanimously at the recent ACT Catholic Primary Principal’s Meeting.
Although these are great community days and have been going for many years, the huge workload on staff, increasing costs, complexity of indemnity and insurance and a lack of volunteers to assist has necessitated the decision to no longer host these events.
Schools are rostered on to coordinate, run and volunteer these events and are run, entirely, by the host school, irrespective of the school size. Parents volunteer on the day and staff work all weekend on these events. In the past few years, some executive staff have worked nearly fulltime in the lead-up to pull off these carnivals, along with many staff who commit their time to support the planning and preparation, all of which is impacting on the teaching and learning agenda of the host school.
ACT Principals acknowledge that there may be some parents and students disappointed by this decision, however, we have agreed that the future of hosting and leading an event such as this is untenable.
This year, Holy Rosary Watson will host the final ACT Catholic School’s Netball Carnival.
ACT Primary Principals
Read-More-A-Thon
This is the last week for the Read-More-A-Thon. Please send orange logs and donations THIS Friday August 23rd. Thank you to those families who have already generously donated so we can buy MORE books for our classroom libraries.
Kenny Koala
Kenny Koala came to visit Kinder, Year 1 and 2 today. He told us about how to keep safe as part of our Protective Behaviours Health Program. Does your family a family code word that someone who is picking them up can say? The code word is only known by those people who have permission to collect your child from school.
Yours sincerely
Nicole Mikkonen
Acting Principal