Dear parents and carers,

Grandparents Day – Thank you to all of our very talented grandparents and stand in grandparents who were able to come along and join us last Friday morning, it was terrific to see you all!

When it came to playing some board games, it was terrific to see something of a “competitive spirit” appear… It was a fantastic opportunity for the children to test themselves against players of skill and knowledge.

Already, the children are asking if there will be an opportunity for a “re-match” at some point soon!

Thank you to everyone who helped with the arrangements for morning tea, it was an excellent morning.

During this week, both Miss Schneider and Mrs Heath have been continuing professional development courses that they have been working on across the year.

Miss Schneider has worked on the Writing Project with staff from a number of Archdiocesan schools.

Both Miss Schneider and Mrs Heath have attended the Berry St training program commenced during Term 1. It is focused on the Berry Street Educational Model. This is based on Berry Street’s approaches to trauma-informed learning and the science of wellbeing. The Berry St School is located in Richmond VIC.

Kinder Transition - Orientation mornings for our 2020, Kinder students continued yesterday. The children have begun preparing a small presentation for our final Transition morning in a few weeks’ time. They also completed a variety of activities in their classroom. Next week will be our final Transition morning for this year.

Congratulations – to Skye, who has really taken on board the Mary Mackillop philosophy of seeing a need, and choosing to do something about it! Please see the message below to find out more about Skye’s project!

Swim Safe – Earlier this week, an information note for our forthcoming swim safe program was sent home. This note needs to be returned to school by Friday November 29.

Please be aware that the school will cover the cost of this year’s program for all students.

Chooks – the chooks have been very busy eating up our lunch scraps and giving us eggs that have been used in a number of different cooking adventures. We are asking if anyone is able to care for the chooks over the summer holidays. If you can help, please let us know. 

Choose Water to Drink – Grenfell Community Health has kindly donated a drink bottle for every child, which has been distributed to the students this week to encourage the children to drink more water. I encourage you to take the time to read the attached information sheet provided by Community Health – as it contains many useful pieces of information of which you may not be aware.

P & F News – our P & F held the final meeting for 2019 earlier this week.

Please note the Annual General Meeting is to be held on Tuesday February 18, 2020 at 7:00pm in our school library. All executive positions will be vacant 

Scholastic Book Club – the book club order forms have been distributed.  All purchased now need to be made online using Scholastic’s LOOP ordering system.  Instructions are on the order forms.  If you need assistance setting up an online account, please ask.  Book Club orders need to be completed by Friday, 29 November 2019.

Year 6 Graduation Mass Presentation Photos – We would like to kindly remind parents that school related photos of your Year 6 child, depicting a range of activities throughout their schooling, for the end of year school Graduation Mass presentation, are to be submitted to the school as soon as possible. Submitting these now will allow ample time to compile the presentation.

Library – as we are now moving towards the end of the year, please start looking for those extra library books to return to school. They might be under the bed, on the coffee table, in the pile of things on the kitchen bench.

All returns will be gratefully received – our record for the most overdue library book in this period is 256 days, I wonder if we can beat that.

Sincerely