St Anne's Catholic College - Temora eNewsletter

Dear St Anne's Community,

The half way mark of the term is upon us and it has been nice to have some sunny and dry days this week.

Garden Viewing

A huge thank you to the Garden Viewing committee for their amazing efforts in making the day such a success. I also appreciate the support of the volunteers that helped out on the day. Events like these do not happen without the combined effort of many. The amount of money raised is incredible with the current tally at $10,000. There is still a cheque to be processed, which will add to this amount. Thank you to the home owners for placing their gardens in this years event. It is greatly appreciated.

Year 10

All the best to our Year 10 students as they conduct exams next week and their work experience placements after that.

Important Dates

Friday 16th December- Last day of Term 4, 2022

Wednesday 1st February- First day of the 2023 school year

Siloam

Wednesday and Thursday this week, I attended a Principal's Siloam Retreat at Galong. Principal's from across the Archdiocese are offered an opportunity to come together to reflect on their personal growth and faith formation in the context of their call to mission and ministry as leaders in Catholic Education.

Year 7 Orientation Monday 7/11

Thank you to our Secondary staff for the delivery of an engaging orientation day for our 2023 Year 7 class. We have 9 new students joining us from a range of different schools across the region. We look forward to seeing them again in Week 8.

Kindergarten Orientation Friday 18/11

We will be welcoming our 2023 Kindergarten students to the next stage of our orientation program. 25 students will join St Anne's in this class next year.

Coffee Machine

We recently received money from Catholic Education to purchase a coffee machine for our 2023 Secondary Hospitality students. We are very excited to have placed that order this week and we can't wait for the opportunities that this will bring for our students (and staff).

Take care,

Grant Haigh

Principal

Last night our talented Stage 5 Elective Students showcased their amazing work in Visual Arts, Industrial Technology-Metal, Food Technology and Commerce. It was wonderful to see so many family and friends join in the celebration. Well done to all students and their amazing teachers.

It was great to welcome our Year 7 for 2023 into secondary last week. They started the day attending Secondary Assembly and taking part in the weekly well-being session. They were then kept busy with Woodwork, Cooking, Science, Art and French. The next orientation will be held in Week 8, Friday 2nd December from 8.55am to 3.20pm.

Week 3

Kinder - Gus Reardon, Wilson Lim, Olivia Perry

Yr 1 - Francis Moroney, Chad O'Connor, Flynn Gilchrist

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

Yr 3 - Jack Crawford, Evie Cooper, Annabelle Gray

Yr 4 - Grace McCrone, Lilah Caldwell, Georgie O'Connor

Yr 5 - Georgia Gibbs, Meg Ruskin, Serenity Bron

Yr 6 - Macey Coddington, Kimberley Roberts

Week 4

Yr 8 - Lilli Block, Lizzie Cooper, Cate Granleese for an excellent Chemistry assessment. Scarlett Minchin, Lillian Oliver for an outstanding Chemistry assessment.

Week 5

Yr 7 - Esther Adeyemi for consistent application to all tasks in Geography. Ethan Bett for good work on his assessment in French. Lily Gibbs for making a consistent effort in French. Carus Gray for attention to detail in Geography assessment planning.

Yr 8 - Jaicie Blachut for showing consistent growth in Maths. Joseph Collins for improved application to Maths tasks and perseverance with poetry recital in English. Scarlett Minchin for a great recital of poetry in English. Sienna Orr for a great recital of poetry in English. Matilda Reardon for consistently working hard in Maths.

Yr 9 - Bella Bush for working well in Maths. Callie Gregory for persistence in all Geography tasks. Nino Matanguihan for excellent application to Maths tasks. Dane Sinclair for excellent growth in Maths.

Yr 10 - Bea Balon for excellent application to Maths tasks. Myra West for excellent application to Maths tasks.

Year 10 looked very smart on Monday night attending the Rotary Mock Interviews. A big thanks to Arthur and Rotary Club of Temora and all the wonderful interviewers. A great experience for our young people.

Students were lucky to have West Wyalong’s Local Aboriginal Land Council Chief Executive, Linton Howarth, come and share his aboriginal culture with them. Students were involved in many hands-on activities including eating 'snotty gobbles'(mistletoe fruit).

Yr 8 have been composing compounds from jelly beans.

On the 21^st September, 7 students travelled to Sydney for the MacKillop selection trials. Congratulations to Zephanie and Matthias Lancaster, Immy Baldock, Annabelle Gray, Lani and Grace McCrone and Elsie Keith for their efforts in reaching this level of competition and a huge thanks to the parents of these children who went to extraordinary lengths for their children to compete in Sydney and perform in Showcase!! From this meet Lani and Grace McCrone qualified to compete at the NSW PSSA State championships in Sydney.

Congratulations to Lani and Grace McCrone after their success in Sydney at the NSW PSSA State Championships on the 19-20 October 2022.

Lani competed in the high jump and long jump but wasn’t successful in progressing, however, in the Junior Girls High Jump Grace did a Personal Best jump of 1.30, equalling the second best jump of the competition but coming away with a bronze medal due to a count back. Grace also competed in the long jump finishing 15^th.

Grace is now heading to Brisbane on 17-21 November to represent St Annes School and the NSW team which will compete at the Australian School Sports National Championships and we wish her the very best of luck.

Canberra-Goulburn Sportsperson of the Year Awards

A number of St Anne’s students have polled in the annual sportsperson of the Year Awards for Canberra-Goulburn

In the Junior girls points Lani McCrone finished =6^th, Immy Baldock 11^th , Zephanie Lancaster 13^th and Grace McCrone 15^th.

In the boys George Morton finished 3^rd and Will Maxwell 23^rd.

Well done to all!

A reminder that trials for 2023 Primary (Year 5/6 students) touch footy 7^th December, basketball and tennis 2^nd December, will take place in Canberra. these are selection trials for Canberra-Goulburn teams and students must be of a suitable standard to be considered. Parents are responsible for taking their child to trial.

AFL trials in Term 1 next year have been moved back to 21^st February. Nominations will be called for this trial early in Term 1 2023. Please note these trials are in Wollongong.

It is hoped that swimming may resume in the final 2-3 weeks of this term, depending on the completion of the pool upgrade.