Dear St Anne's Community,

It gives me great pleasure to confirm the details of the letter that was sent home today. St Anne's will be expanding their offering to cater for the entire K-12 Catholic Pathway. In 2023, Year 11 will be offered, followed by Year 12 in 2024. This is very exciting news and we are thrilled that families in Temora do not need to send their children away, to receive a high quality Catholic Education. You will find more information in the letter, which is also further on in this newsletter. This is a significant milestone in the history of the school and we can't wait for you to join us on this journey.

I look forward to speaking about this in more detail with you in the coming days, weeks and months and please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any questions. 

We have had a busy couple of weeks recently with Naplan and various sporting events and excursions. I thank staff and students for their efforts in making these extra-curricular activities a success. 

Staff Professional Development

St Anne's staff participated in a number of webinar sessions last week. The Catholic Education Office have provided these professional learning sessions as part of Webinar Week. Webinar Week will run every term this year and it will provide staff with many opportunities to learn, revise and implement. 

We have 6 teachers continuing their High Impact Teaching Practices course this term. The teachers will be off to Canberra next week to participate in their next professional learning session. 

Pupil Free Day 30th May

Monday 30th May- As mentioned in previous correspondence, Monday 30th May is a Pupil Free day for St Anne's students. Staff will be involved in Professional Learning throughout the day. There will be minimal supervision provided on the day with no learning program in place. We kindly request that you keep your children at home on this day. If this is not possible, please complete the quick survey that was emailed home so that we know how many students to expect. Thank you in advance for your support and understanding.

COVID

A reminder about household contact rules. If your child is a household contact (of a person who has tested positive to COVID) they must wear a mask indoors and notify the school of this. They should monitor closely for symptoms as well. 

Enrolments

A warm welcome to Sienna and her family. Sienna is in Year 8 and started with us a couple of weeks ago.

If you know of anyone that is yet to decide on their choice of school for next year, please ask them to contact the school for a no obligation tour with me. 

This week, I have had the privilege of being a panel member for registration of St Patrick's Central School in Cooma. As expected, the temperature was much lower than Temora, but I was well prepared. St Patrick's is a wonderful school with a rich tradition and history, much the same as St Anne's. St Patrick's christian values were developed through the influence of the Brigidine sisters when the school was originally built as a convent in 1884.

Uniform Committee

At the recent Community Council meeting, I discussed the need to review our school uniform. Lowes have indicated that they would not stock our uniform if we did not move our entire range to their store. In supporting local business, I would like us to work with Millers to stock our full range of uniform. Additionally, with year 11 and 12 on the horizon, it is important to explore a uniform for them. One that identifies them as senior students. If you would like to be a part of this committee, please email the school and we will add you to the mailing list when we organise the first meeting. 

Take care,

Grant Haigh

Principal

Tomorrow - First Reconcilation Retreat Day

Just a reminder that the Year 3 Reconciliation Retreat will be held tomorrow, Wednesday 25th May in St Joseph’s Hall starting at 9.10am and finishing at 3.20pm. This is for all students of Year 3, even those not making the Sacrament. 

Students are to please bring: Their own recess, pencil case and drink bottle.

First Reconciliation this Thursday evening

A reminder that the Sacrament of Reconciliation will be held this Thursday 26th May - in the Sacred Heart Church, Temora at 6:00pm.

We continue to keep the students who have been preparing for the Sacrament in our prayers. Congratulations for preparing so well.

Altar servers

We are in need of additional altar servers for weekend and school Masses. Any child who has made their First Eucharist in the Catholic Church is eligible to serve. A number of new students have started in recent months and we would like to introduce more. If your child is interested or would like to resume their training please email Mrs Collins or ask your child to collect an enrolment form from the office asap so that they can be included in the preparation sessions. It is a beautiful way to serve in the Church and a necessary job that requiores as much support as possible. Please email jacqueline.collins@cg.catholic.edu.au 

Sacrament of Confirmation

Stole making volunteers required

I am requesting any volunteers who are available to offer their time to help sew the stoles for this year’s Confirmation candidates. Please contact Mrs Collins via email if you are available at jacqueline.collins@cg.catholic.edu.au Thank you to those who have already volunteered to assist. Mrs Collins will be in touch shortly.

The Sacrament of Confirmation is Sunday 19th June at Sacred Heart Parish at 10am.  Father Sijo will be celebrating the Mass this year, as the priests of the Diocese have all been granted permission by the Archbishop to celebrate the sacrament in their own parishes.

Kindergarten have been discussing Jesus's family and what they wore and why. They have looked at some robes and explored what it would have felt like to wear these items. 

Year 4 has been writing persuasive texts. Here are some examples of their writing. See if they manage to persuade you!!!!

Minecraft is better than Roblox

I strongly agree that Minecraft is waaaaaaaaaay better than Roblox. Some reasons are: on Minecraft you can make traps to troll your friends, there's no red stone on roblox to make redstone circuits and there’s COMMAND BLOCKS in Minecraft. 

In Minecraft you can make annoying traps. For example the end portal trap or the TNT pressure plate trap. You can lure people into your trap with diamonds and blow up the guy you were trying to lure in.

Redstone on minecraft is used in minecraft to power everything piston powered, without it minecraft would fall apart (and it’s really fun to play around with). 

Command blocks are used in Minecraft for many things but mostly things like: traps, torture devices and to summon mobs like the Ender dragon. Command blocks are super fun.

So I strongly agree that MINECRAFT is waaaaaay better than Roblox.!!!!!

By Bailey McCormack    

Children should choose their own bedtimes

I agree that children should choose their own bedtimes. These are the reasons why:

You can stay up and watch tv, you can help mum and dad and you can get bored in bed.

Firstly, you can stay up and watch tv. There is more interesting stuff to watch.

There’s nothing to watch in bed. On a weekend you can watch a full movie.

Secondly, you can help mum and dad. You could wash the dishes, clean the table or take the dishes to the sink.

Lastly, you can get bored in bed. There’s nothing to watch in bed

You don’t fall asleep as easily because of the noise.

Don’t you think it is more boring in bed than staying up?

I hope you agree with me too.

By Paige Reardon

Art

Year 4 has been learning about perspective in Art.

Here are some of our aquariums showing perspective.

Week 3

Kinder - Peyton Derrick, Alena Arun & Alby Swanston

Year 1 - Frances Moroney, William Bush & Bodhi Reardon

Year 2 - Alfonsa Arfenoni, Archie Block & Audrey Wallace

Year 3 - Evie Cooper, Noah Swanston & Madison McCormack

Year 4 - Lilah Caldwell, Mailee Reid & Elsie Keith 

Year 5 - Judd Oliver, Imogen Baldock & Oscar Block

Year 6 - Marley Block & Lani McCrone

Week 4

Kinder - Frankie Townsend, Hunter Chown, Harriet Talbot

Year 1 - Bailey Bickham, Ella Hartwig, Peyton Wiencke, Chad O'Connor

Year 2 - Alice Reid, Matthew O'Connor, Avery Evola

Year 3 - Scarlett Ward, Addison Gilchrist

Year 4 - Angus Oliver, Kayla Block, Barney Taylor

Year 5 - Georgia Gibbs, Harvey Drumore, Lillian Perry

Year 6 - Charlie Cooper, Lani Summerfield, Robert Bett

Secondary Wellbeing

Secondary students are able to attend wellbeing sessions each week where they can take part in mindfulness activities or just have a chat and some quiet time in order to keep us healthy and happy.

We have looked at motivational quotes and tried some calming colouring.

We have also been learning how to knit. It was great to see that some of our students have already learnt this skill from their grandmothers!

Year 8 HSIE

Year 8 has been busy studying the Vikings, the Black Death and the history of Japan 

this semester.

This week we produced a poster to illustrate life in medieval Japan.

Week 4

Yr 8 - Jaidyn Baldock for working well on his website in History. Alice Fogarty for producing and excellent website on the Black Death. Matilda Reardon for producing an excellent website on the Black Death.

Yr 9 - Rachael Thompson for working well in RE. Evie West for making a conscientious effort in RE lessons.

Yr 10 - Bea Balon for great effort and enthusiasm in RE. Myra West for great effort and enthusiasm in RE.

Week 5

Yr 7 - Lachlan Foster for focus and application to research in History. Adelaide Gaynor for consistently applying hereself fully in History.

Yr 8 - Jacob Durham for good efforts in speech writing and achieving 300% growth in Maths. Catherine Granleese for achieving 333% growth in Maths. Maisy McCrone for achieving 300% growth in Maths. Jett Nguyen for achieving 300% growth in Maths. Sienna Orr for great detail in speech writing.

Yr 9 - Dane Sinclair for achieving 300% growth in Maths. Evie West for persistence in understanding WW1 events in History.

Yr 10 - Bea Balon for excellent application to Maths tasks. Annabelle Wiencke for great contributions to class discussions in History.

Volunteers are needed for this year's Red Shield Appeal on 28th and 29th May. If your child would like to be involved please let Mrs Collins know.

St Anne’s had 5 students compete at the Canberra Goulburn cross country selections trials at Mount Stromlo Canberra last week with all runners qualifying to the next level in Sydney. Congratulations to Nate Swanston, Grace McCrone, Immy Baldock, Zephanie Lancaster and Annabelle Gray in Primary.

These runners will now compete at the MacKillop trials at Eastern Creel Sydney on the 7^th June, we wish the very best of luck.

Reminder - If you need to postpone your child's canteen order please send Belinda Maxwell a text on 0412142166 before 9.30am on the day.

Did you know - You can cancel your child's canteen order on the QKR App anytime before 8am on the day.

Monday 14th November - Team 1 - Carly Bickham, Andrea Cartwright, Ashlee Smith

Monday 21st November - Team 2 - Kirsty Oliver, Liz Oliver

Monday 28th November - Team 3 - Lisa van Egmond, Nicole Talbot

Monday 5th December - Team 4 - Kerissa Reardon, Rochelle Caldwell

Monday 12th December - Team 5 - Meg Morton, Ali McCrone, Atalie Perry