AGGIES ARTICLES - Term 4 Week 6 - Friday 12 November 2021
Term 4 - Week 7
Mon 15 November |
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Tue 16 November |
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Wed 17 November |
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Thur 18 November |
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Fri 19 November |
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Dates For The Diary
Sat 27 November |
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Wed 1 December |
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Thur 2 December |
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Fri 3 December |
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Mon 6 December |
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Tue 7 December |
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Wed 8 December - Fri 10 December |
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Tue 14 December |
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Wed 15 December |
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Dear Parents and Carers
Remembrance Day falls on 11 November each year. At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, a one minute silence is observed and dedicated to those soldiers who died fighting to protect the nation. Today the loss of Australian lives from all wars and conflicts is commemorated on Remembrance Day. Yesterday we celebrated this with a prayer service in our individual classrooms. I had the opportunity to visit each classroom with our school wreath to show the students how people in the community remember and acknowledge this special day in our history.
2022 Student Leadership
Our Student Leadership process continues for those in Year Five. We are pleased to announce the following student leadership appointments:
Captains: Baxter Allison and Tora Wehlow
SRC:
- Patrick Byrne
- Javier Carle
- Koby Stewart
- Ryder Tiller
GIRLS
- Abigail Byrne
- Georgie Carlton
- Jessinia Collins
- Chloe Ribot de Bressac
Congratulations to all children and staff involved in the process. It is a wonderful group of student leaders for 2022. We look forward to the next stage of the process with Sport Leaders over the coming weeks.
2022 Classes - Parent Input
Thank you to the families that completed the parent input into classes Google Form. We value the information you have shared with us to assist when forming groups. Teachers will be working on this over the coming weeks.
Hampers
This year the major act of service that our students and families make to our Parish Christmas Hamper Appeal has needed to adapt again due to COVID-19 restrictions. The way in which we are able to support this is similar to 2020. We will assemble identical, generic style specific food hampers. There will be only non-perishable food items and vouchers for fruit/vegetables and meat, no gifts this year.
We are going to have an out of uniform day on Thursday 18 November for the donations.
A note will be coming home today to outline what your child's nominated grocery item will be.
Parent Portal for School Reports.
Due to blended learning in Term 3, we are again offering a comment only report for all students in Semester Two. This will include comments on English, Mathematics and a General Comment which will also mention Religious Education. This format is very similar to the 2020 format used in Semester One. We sincerely thank the parents who had provided feedback on the parent portal for reporting, we are always using your feedback to help inform our future processes. This semester all reports will be provided electronically unless otherwise requested. To access the report please see below.
The Parent Portal is a secure web based application which contains information about the school and your child, including student reports, NAPLAN results and class and teacher information.
An account needs to be created as a first step. For security reasons the username for this account must be your email address recorded at the school. Please be aware our system sometimes has issues with both hotmail or outlook email accounts. If you have any issues logging in, please contact the office during business hours. The process is as follows:
1. Log in to http://parent.lism.catholic.edu.au and create an account with your email address as the username. This link is also available on the home page of our School App - Parent Portal - Register.
2. An email will be sent to this address stating that a new account has been created and includes instructions to activate your account by following the embedded link.
3. If the email does not arrive check your spam folder.
4. You will be prompted to create a password and to confirm this password.
5. Select the blue log in button. Add the username and new password created in step 4
6. Click on the Schoolworx icon to enter the Schoolworx parent portal.
7. Select your child.
8. Log out when done.
Outdoor Classroom Day
Today the planning committee met to discuss our plans for outdoor classroom day. On this day, all grades will participate in outdoor learning activities as part of a national initiative to enhance learning and wellbeing. Our school will celebrate outdoor classroom day on Thursday 2 December.
Craft For Service
Important Reminder - Staff Spirituality Day
We remind all families that next Friday 19 November is a staff spirituality day, therefore children will not be required to attend school on this day. We thank you for your support to enable our staff to participate in this special experience.
Assembly Award Winners
Congratulations to the following students who received awards at last week’s assembly:
KE - Dotti Kemp and Willow Harris
KJ - Sharni Dunn and Arie Ford
KW - Charlotte Bender and Jett Lindsay
1B - Skylah Neale and Ashton Moon
1O - Eliza Wallace and Charlee Carpenter
1TB - Hamish Downie and Archie Millard
2JW - Shayla Davis and Ava Schneider
2M - Georgina Foot and Alba Webb
2W - Chase McIntosh and Elise Galbraith-Robertson
3O - Lara Blackmore and Ethan Burdoe
3P - Mars Anastas and Poppy Turnbull
3TM - Harley Cadden and Sophie Cook
4A - Jenson Henderson and Savannah Campbell
4NS - Indigo Duncan and Ben King
4T - Joshua Mullen and Ruby Dean
5C - Eve Yuen and Isaac Buttsworth
5M - Lila Duncan and Georgie Carlton
5W - Abby Moloney and Jack Franklin
6B - Caitlyn Hucker and Charlotte Gibson
6E - Jordan Casey and Dawson Taylor
6W - Ebony Hassett and Indie Bennetts
Centred In Christ and With Love For One Another, St Agnes’ Learners are:
PBS Focus
This week our focus is on following the 4R's. We should treat everyone as we would like to be treated. (Even when we have a different teacher and when things change). It could be that our teacher is away and we have another teacher for the day. Or it might be that our really good friend is away from school. We remember to be respectful and resilient to change.
Story Time
House Cup Winner
This week's House Cup winner is: BORONIA
600 Dojo Awards:
Congratulations to the following students who have received 600 dojos this week for following our 4 R’s at St Agnes'.
500 Dojo Awards:
Congratulations to the following students who have received 500 dojos this week for following our 4 R’s at St Agnes'.
KJ - Arie Ford and Aubree Dunn
1B - Sienna Lewis, Harrison Foot, Loki Henderson and Kruze Daley
5C - Georgie Mulder
400 Dojo Awards:
Congratulations to the following students who have received 400 dojos this week for following our 4 R’s at St Agnes'.
KE - Amelia Clinch, Charlie Totten, Hailey James and Sophie James
KJ - Amirah Taylor, Flynn Nesbitt, Jeffrey Walsh, Korbin Cunningham, Pippa Taylor and Rocky Walker
KW - Aisha Morris, Angus Sales, Ara Jo, Charlotte Bender, Ella Ritchie, Elle Harris, Lily Stewart, Mia Tait and Storm Taylor
1O - Archie Sherd-Booby, Jaxon Seckold, Lola Fuller, Lucas Robinson, Madelyn Field, Miles Sonego, Noah Blair, Norah McIntosh, Sophie Wainwright and Stephanie Murray
1TB - Ava Costello, Jake Collins, Nikita Smith, Scarlett Gaul and Sophia Hardie
2JW - Alexander Bushe
2M - Lucas Gardiner
2W - Jack Clifton and Ruby Hagenbach
3P - Tyson Elkins
5C - Ryder Tiller
5W - Baxter Allison, Bella McNeil and Jaysen Wei
300 Dojo Awards:
Congratulations to the following students who have received 300 dojos this week for following our 4 R’s at St Agnes'.
KJ - Beau Bowditch
KW - John Nilsson-Linne
2M - Sally-Ann Vickers
2W - Koby Smith, Ryan Chilko and Thomas Bolton-Hall
3P - Sophia Fox
3TM - Archie Stafford, Casey Murray, Laylah Walsh and Sophie Cook
4NS - Francis Borja, James Rohr and Olivia Edwards
4T - Mitchell Hagenbach
5C - Lilah Beck
6B - Alex Saunders, Blake Elliott, Declan McWhirter, Hunter Clark, Kiarna Burns, Liam Wright, Lionel Carney and Timothy James
6W - Darcy Middleton, Kayden Madden and Madeline Hall
200 Dojo Awards:
Congratulations to the following students who have received 200 dojos this week for following our 4 R’s at St Agnes'.
2M - Jake Glover and Malakai Cain
3O - Bilyana Brown
3TM - Willow Newall
4A - Juann Jino
4NS - Penny Burt
6B - Jessie James
6E - Jayla Nixon
100 Dojo Awards:
Congratulations to the following students who received 100 dojos this week for following our 4 R’s at St Agnes'.
5C - Samrina Adhikari
This week at Aggies:
Congratulations Leyna Casey
Leyna was awarded a Certificate of Distinction from the New England Regional Art Museum for being a finalist in the 2021 University of New England School Acquisitive Art Prize (UNESAP).
Creative Arts News
What a busy week we have had again this week. Firstly, thanks to all of our St Agnes’ students for participating in our 'Day of the Living Arts Festival', and coming to visit our Art Gallery exhibition. We are so lucky to have such a wonderful group of creative and talented students. Our Gallery was set up in the Hall this week so that all grades could visit. We also took the opportunity to film this exhibition as part of our Creative Arts showcase movie which is currently in production.
Year 2
This week Year 2 have been exploring 2D shapes. We used the Tangrams on the OSMOs to develop the skills of flip, slide, and turn. On Wednesday, students had a lot of fun developing their concepts of symmetry by designing and making symmetry sculptures.
Library News
Swimming Carnival
We are still working on having our parents attend as spectators at our Swimming Carnival in Week 10. We are currently consulting closely with both the pool and The Catholic Schools Office and will be in a position to make an announcement very shortly. Fingers crossed! Notes for the Swimming Carnival will be going home next week.
Summer Sports Trials
The Hastings Zone Sports Coordinators are currently exploring options to hold trials for Touch Football this term. We are considering an out of school hours trial among other options. We will communicate this through the usual communication channels.
If children in Years 4 and 5 play competitive tennis or basketball and would like to try out for the Hastings Zone Summer Sports Team, they should make themselves known to Mr Brazel. There is a small chance that Diocesan trials for these sports only may go ahead this year in Lismore. There is a criteria that will need to be met to qualify for both sports, such as being a regular player in an official competition. The skill levels required to compete at dioscean level are quite high and we want to ensure that trialists are competent enough in their chosen sport.
As the year begins to come to an end, we will be having our House Leaders provide some reports on the sporting highlights of 2021 for future newsletter items. Watch this space!
| MONDAY | Jo McLaren |
| TUESDAY | Ros Caldwell and Natalie Favaloro |
| WEDNESDAY | Katrina Adamson |
| THURSDAY | Carol Sealy and Help Please |
| FRIDAY | Pupil Free day |
Dear Families,
We hope you are having a great week. Our P&F Meeting is scheduled for Monday 15 November at 5:45pm via Zoom. Here is the Agenda November_2021_P_F_Agenda.pdf.
Please get in touch if you would like to attend and we will email you a Zoom link. We hope to get as many parents as possible for our final meeting for 2021.
Leasa Harris and Erin Elliott
0409 467 898
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