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Dear St Anne's Community,
Congratulations to all of our newly elected School Captains, Prefects and House Captains. I look forward to working with this great group of students over the next twelve months. Please see an article further on in the newsletter, that explains our new Captains structure.
Stage 3 Excursion
This week, I have been attending the excursion to Melbourne and Ballarat. It is great that we have been able to commence these types of excursions again, as the students learn so much from the different experiences.
Cake Drive
Thank you to everyone that supported the recent CanAssist cake drive. The amount of money that was raised for this organisation is incredible. Well done to our staff and SRC for organising and our students for their input in making it such a success. "Never see a need without doing something about it" Mary MacKillop.
Important Dates
Friday 16th December- Last day of Term 4, 2022
Wednesday 1st February- First day of the 2023 school year
Enrolments
We continue to have a steady stream of new enrolments for next year. I look forward to welcoming the new families to St Anne's in the new year and introducing them to our community.
Playground
Recently, a representative from a playground equipment company attended St Anne's to provide a quote for new playground equipment. The recent fund raising will assist us in completing this project. The next step is to ask the students if they like the choice of equipment, or if they would like another style.
Take care,
Grant Haigh
Principal
Sharing Mass
Thank you to the families who have already returned their donation for next Tuesday morning’s Sharing Mass. We are proud that as a school we are able to support the St Vincent de Paul at this Mass each year. Please return envelopes to the school office by Monday morning 28th (or by Tuesday morning at the latest please). These will be presented to Mrs Holland on behalf of the local St Vincent de Paul chapter to distribute to needy families during this Christmas period. Thank you in advance for your generous support.
Christmas Mass Volunteers Required
A note was sent home recently requesting volunteers for this year’s Christmas Eve Parish Mass in the park. Your support would be greatly appreciated. All school aged children, including high school students, are invited to take part.
If you are interested in your child being involved could you please reply to Miss Anne Sleigh at amsleigh@gmail.com or on 0457 450 269.
Secondary Cake Drive Thank you
A Huge thank you from the SRC to all of the secondary students and some family members who supported the Secondary Cake Drive in such an impressive way by supplying home made baked goods. The SRC managed to raise over $4000 for CanAssist Temora through the school cake stall, cake auctions and the many business houses in town pre-ordering and purchasing trays of cakes. We will warmly welcome Mrs Lyn Hegarty to a special secondary assembly next Tuesday afternoon where she will be presented with the cheque for the local Temora branch of CanAssist on behalf of the school.
The Colour Run was an amazing success and once again we thank the hard working SRC who have been very busy supporting the school this semester. Thank you also to Year 10 for their support.
School Captains and Prefects
Yr 11 Captains- Angus Cooper & Bea Balon
Yr 10 Prefects- Josie Crawford & Ruby Matthews
Yr 6 Captains- Judd Oliver & Meg Ruskin
House Captains
Primary
Pauls- Imogen Baldock
Joes- Livvy Blackwell
Pats- Matthias Lancaster
Johns- Georgia Gibbs
Secondary
Joes- Mia Block
Pats- Calle Gregory
Pauls- Josh Daly
Johns- Zoe Bent
With the introduction of Stage 6 over the next two years, we have decided to adjust the secondary captains structure to suit this. No change to primary captains structure. Therefore:
2023
2x Year 11 School Captains
2x Year 10 Prefects
House Captains to be elected from Year 11 and Year 10 students.
2024
From Term 4 2023:
2x Year 12 captains
2x Year 11 Prefects
2x Year 10 Prefects
House captains elected from Year 12 and Year 11 students.
Prefect role
Our Prefects will have a particular leadership area that they will be responsible for in the school. E.g. Wellbeing or environment
Week 5
Kinder - Peyton Derrick, Evie Smith, Spencer Lynch
Yr 1 - Bodhi Reardon, Rylee Overs, Isabella Irving
Yr 2 - Alexy Balon, Samuel Moroney, Ari Bryon
Yr 3 - Ava Crawford, Madison McCormack, Scarlett Ward, Zephanie Lancaster
Yr 5 - Imogen Baldock, Billy Krause, Jadah Cotton
Yr 6 - Jake Bett, Lana King, George Morton
Week 6
Kinder - Sophie Irving, Hunter Chown, Alena Arun
Yr 1 - James Broad, Ella Hartwig, Tristan Swanston
Yr 2 - Olive Coddington, Jackson Parry, Stella Krause
Yr 5 - Judd Oliver, Livvy Blackwell, Harry Swanston
Yr 6 - Eliana Orbita, Michael Kreyts, Claire Hartwig
Last Friday Stage 2 travelled to Canberra for their annual excursion. After an early start students enjoyed a “technology free” trip chatting with their friends.
The bus arrived at the National Zoo and Aquarium at 10am and after a recess break, students were free to explore the aquarium. At 11am each class went their separate way with a guide each to tour the zoo, taking in many animals with interesting facts and details about animals with a focus on the status of endangered or threatened animals.
After lunch at the zoo the bus travelled to Questacon for an amazing afternoon of science based learning and interacting with many themed science and technology areas, including space, electricity, forces, robotics and the highlight of the trip for many was the free fall slide that most students experienced. After tea at Macca’s the students arrived home at 7pm, tired but still buzzing from a very exciting day. All students are to be congratulated on their fantastic behaviour.
This week is the last week students will be able to borrow books from the Library.
All Library books are due back at school by the 1st December.
Overdue notices will be sent to students and families by email.
If a book is lost, students are encouraged to check the Library to see if it has mysteriously shown up. There is a lost book fee of $20 which can be paid via the QKR! app.
Book Club
Issue #8 of the Scholastic Book Club has been sent home. Orders are due by Tuesday 29th November. A reminder that all payments are to be made online.
Stage 3 Poetry
A Cinquain by Amber
Flowers
Smelling nice
They drink water
They’re not for me
Bouquet
A Cinquain by Shiraz
Rainbow
Beautiful multicoloured
Sun and rain
Makes me very happy
Colourful
A Cinquain by MJ
Moustache
Thick, bushy
Big, nice, beautiful
Hangs below the nose
Stash
A Limerick by Robert
Tim was smart and he was very fat
Time had a fat cat who wore a hat
He wore a hat every day
And then he went to the Bay
Sat on a bale of hay and said g’day
A Limerick by Claire
There once was a girl that loved to twirl
And she had a dog she called Whirl
The dog liked to go for walks
It would stop and have a talk
Its favourite thing to do was a swirl
Grace McCrone and her family travelled to Brisbane to compete in the National Athletics championships last week.
After a week of attendance at the meet and preparation in Brisbane, Grace finally got to compete in the under 10 high Jump Sunday evening, and what a result!! Grace jumped 1.31m to win gold in her event. This jump eclipsed her previous best of 1.25m, an amazing effort and a credit to Grace and her family and uncle Greg who have trained her to a very high standard.
Grace was welcomed back to school yesterday with a mini “ticker tape” parade by her very proud schoolmates and staff.
Congratulations Grace-2032 Olympics, here you come!!!
A reminder that trials for 2023 Primary (Year 5/6 students) touch footy 7th December, basketball and tennis 2nd 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 21st 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.
