Dear St Anne's Community,

This is our last newsletter for the term and I would like to thank everyone for their efforts over the 10 week term. I have enjoyed getting to know our new students and families, as well as watching our existing students grow. I would also like to thank staff for their ongoing dedication to the students and community of St Anne's. 

Community Council

Last week, we held the School Community Council AGM and the following people now make up your community council. Congratulations to all involved and I thank them for their contribution. 

Chair: Duncan McCrone

Vice Chair: Karissa Roberts

Treasurer: Cassie Coddington

Secretary: Kristi Blachut

Principal: Grant Haigh

Parish Priest: Fr. Sijo

Parent Representatives: Stacey Coleman, Renae Sinclair, Kerissa Reardon, Eloise Warren

Staff Representatives: Louise Gaynor and Georgia Hughes

Appointment by the Principal: Dennis Sleigh

Uniform

I met with the Lowes regional manager this week to pass on our concerns with the uniform supply. Please see the uniform article that is further on in this newsletter with some positive news on this front. 

Long Lunch

Thank you to everyone involved in making the Long Lunch this year another success. The total fundraising profit is $4,269.32 We have purchased 180 white chairs to future proof the event. These chairs are also available for hire to the public.

Open Day Tours

We had a very pleasing presence from families at our open day tours this week. I had the pleasure of showing around 13 potential enrolments. The feedback that I receive is always positive. Comments are made about the great presentation of the school and that the students are engaged in their learning. 

Catholic Education Staff Visitors

This week, we have had a number of staff members visit our school from head office to support us in our curriculum and pedagogy journey. We continue to adopt evidence based approaches to teaching and learning and the support from the office is always appreciated. 

We thank the Lord for his blessings and I wish you and your family an Easter full of joy and peace.

Take care,

Grant Haigh

Principal

RE News

First Reconciliation Retreat day and Sacrament 

Retreat - Thursday 4th May all day in St Joseph's hall

Sacrament - Sacred Heart Parish Church 7pm Thursday 4th May, (Week 2 of Term 2)

YEAR 8 AND 9 RETREATS

Year 8 and 9 were fortunate to participate in their annual Western Region Retreat days which were run by the CSYMA Team out of Canberra. Year 8 enjoyed theirs today with Year 9 participating yesterday in Tumut. The day included plenty of activities, small group discussions, personal faith sharing, music, prayer and Reconciliation. Students from Year 8 and 9 at Macauley Central School, Tumut and Sacred Heart Central School, Cootamundra joined our students for the retreats. Thank you to Mr Gaynor, Mrs Collins, Mr Inch and Mrs gaynor for accompanying the students.

Please mark Holy Thursday 6th April (last day of Term One) on your calendar. You are invited to join the whole school for the Stage 5 Passion Play at 2pm. Rehearsals are progressing well and we are very proud of the reverence and commtment that the students are displaying.

ALTAR SERVING

Altar serving training will be commencing at the start of next term. There have been a number of interested volunteers from Year 4 and any other students who have made their First Eucharist in the Catholic Church are invited to be involved. If you and your child would like them to be involved please email Mrs Collins jacqueline.collins@cg.catholic.edu.au to express your interest.

PARISH MASS

In week 5 next term St Anne’s will be hosting a parish Mass. Please keep an eye out for details as we will be requesting volunteers to lead the part of the Mass. 

Week 7 

Kinder - Ruby Mitchell, Charlie Crawford, Rupert Coleman

Year 1 - Peyton Derrick, Connor Jones, Sophie Irving

Year 2 - Karzon Rebibis, Flynn Gilchrist, Aiden Roberts

Year 3 - Ned Hale, Evie Keith, Samuel Moroney

Year 4 - Adele Oliver, Jack Crawford, Edie Bett

Year 5 - Brooke Gilchrist, Leo Drenovski, Mailee Reid

Year 6 - Meg Ruskin, Joey Cotton, Serenity Bron

Week 8 

Kinder - Charlotte Williams, Ellie Fisher

Year 1 - Claudia Lancaster, Leo Jayawardene, Patrick Wallace 

Year 2 - Thomas Harris, Ella Hartwig

Year 3 - Matthew O'Connor, Ella McCrone

Year 4 - Zephanie Lancaster, Madison McCormack, Rosie Maurer

Year 5 - Addie Warren, Kayla Block, Dallas Gibbs

Year 6 - Mathias Lancaster, Imogen Baldock, Harvey Drumore

Week 7

Year 7 - Regan Blachut - Working hard in religion, Lana King - Focus & work ethic in History and French, Lani McCrone - Excellent bag design in Mandatory Tech; Excellent Science test results, Eliana Orbita - Excellent Science test results, Laughton Pinney  - Great pronunciation of the French Alphabet; Effort in Science, Darcy Reardon - Excellent work ethic in Mandatory Tech, Zali Sinclair - Great pronunciation of numbers 1-20 in French.

Year 8 - Esther Adeyemi  100% on language quiz in English, Bradley Daly - 100% on language quiz in English,  Carus Gray - His effort and application in History, Jonte Reid - For working hard in History.

Year 10 - Josie Crawford - Crafting good creative writing in English. Her effort and application in English, Isabella Darrington  - Writing an ' exciting ending' in English, Caitlyn Watson  - Effort & progress in Mathematics.

Week 8

Year 7 - Liam Edis  - Working hard on his Religion task, Amber Haigh - Exceptional results in her French topic test, Addison Matthews - Working hard on her Religion task, Lani McCrone  - Outstanding results in her French topic test, George Morton - His independent revision and outstanding results in French, Eliana Orbita - Exceptional results in her French topic test.

Year 8 - Esther Adeyemi - Her continued work ethic in History, Ethan Bett  - For excellent application and behaviour in Maths. Great effort in creative writing (English), Rahni Coleman  - Her continued work ethic in History, Archer Gaynor - Consistent application and achievement in English, Lily Gibbs - For showing great perserverance with her Maths.

Year 9 - Alice Fogarty - Great use of citations in History research.

Year 10 - Josie Crawford  - Excellent attention to detail in her History draftwork, Evie West  - Excellent answers in English

Parent Teacher Interviews are being held next Tuesday 4th & Wednesday 5th April. 

Bookings are being taken online. Please note online bookings will close 3.30pm on Monday 3rd April.

The whole school participated in some St Patrick's day activities on Thursday 17th March with a total of $333.70 raised for St Vincent de Paul.

Congratulations to the following winners:

Colouring Kinder - Ivy and Austin

Colouring Year 1 - Paddy and Josie

Colouring Year 2 - Isabella and Bodhi

Primary Coin Toss - Year 4

Secondary Jig - Year 10

Infants best dressed class - Year 2

Primary best dressed class - Year 4

Secondary best dressed class - Year 9 

Year 3 have been busy in Science talking about the features of a good package and why these features are important. We have designed a package to hold a 'fragile' item and are in the process of building our packages! We are looking forward to testing our packages next lesson to see if our 'fragile' item will last the distance!!!!

Year 8 have have been investigating street art, artists and techniques. Pictured is some examples of their wonder work. 

School Uniform Update

We met with Anita from Lowes on Tuesday this week and expressed our concerns about the lack of uniform items available from Lowes. Anita assured us that shipments have just arrived and they have plenty of stock in the various items listed below. They are also fixing up their website to be clearly labelled.

Lowes can post items out to your address. Free postage on orders over $100.

We are extremely grateful to Millers here in town for supporting us during this transition period.

Primary

K-6 Girls and Boys Winter Uniform- Lowes currently have all winter items in stock. Available online and in store. The Sloppy Joe and lined wet weather jacket are available at Millers. We are currently in the process of transitioning the winter jumpers over to Lowes.

Secondary

7-10 Girls and Boys Winter Uniform- Lowes have all winter items in stock. These can be ordered online or in store. The Sloppy Joe and lined wet weather jacket are available at Millers. We are currently in the process of transitioning the winter jumpers over to Lowes.

Year 11 Girls and Boys Winter Uniform- You have received a second white short sleeved shirt. The long sleeve shirt will not arrive in Lowes store until mid-June. There is plenty of stock in store for winter girls skirts and boys pants. The knit jumper is available from Lowes and needs to replace the sloppy joe that students wear in K-10. No lined wet weather jackets are to be worn. When a student is cold, they must have the blazer on at all times and they can add the knit under the blazer.

K-12 Sports Uniform- The sports polo is not available from Lowes yet; orders can be placed through Millers in town. Sports shorts are available from Lowes online and in store. Sports tracksuit pants are available from Lowes.

We are phasing out the fleece zip jumper; however, this is a two year phase out period and students will still be able to wear them up until the end of 2024.