Sacrament of Confirmation 

If your child is wishing to celebrate the Sacrament of Confirmation this year and has not presented themselves along with the two enrolment cards you must be in contact with Father Sijo as a matter of urgency. This is a crucial step to enrol your child for reception of the Sacrament on June 10th by Archbishop Christopher. 

Altar server training

Altar server training has begun. It is not too late if your child is interested. We need a lot of helpers and this is a beautiful way for your child to be involved. Please contact Mrs Collins if you wish for your child to join in.

Pentecost

On Sunday morning the 28th May St Anne’s will be leading the first of two school Parish Masses for this year. (not Saturday as previously advertised). A note requesting volunteers has also been sent home. If you would like your child to be involved all you need to do is please email Mrs Collins at jacqueline.collins@cg.catholic.edu.au We are looking for readers, prayers of the faithful and offertory this time.

Book club orders from Edition #3 of the Scholastic Bookclub have been sent home today. 

Stage 2

Years 3 and 4 have been learning about how the Non-Fiction section of the Library is organised using the Dewey Decimal System. They have also been learning about the different features of Non-Fiction books such as contents pages, the index, the glossary, captions and subheadings.

Year 1 Art

Each Wednesday Year 1 come to the Library for their Art and Library lessons. Their artwork is based on the story they have read from the InitiaLit storybook lessons. This week Year 1 read "Bears Don't Read!" by Emma Chichester-Clark. This week the students enjoyed using packing peanuts instead of paintbrushes to apply paint to their bears to give it a textured look.

Week 3

Kinder: Lilly Bickham, Khaleesie Wiencke, Isla Pike

Year 1: Phillipa Gibbs, Ruby Crawford, Flynn Gilchrist

Year 2: Paddy Wallace, Alby Swanston, Zahlie Oliver

Year 3: Evie Keith, Archie Block

Year 4: Addison Gilchrist, Peyton Combe, Madison Darrington

Year 5: Sarah Smith, Dallas Gibbs, Brooke Gilchrist

Year 6: Oscar Block, Harvey Drumore, Georgia Gibbs

Week 4

Kinder: Kendrea Willara Arachchige, Boyd Roddy

Year 1: Josie Bush, Claudia Lancaster, Sophie Irving

Year 2: Peyton Wiencke, Bodhi Reardon, Harrison Pham

Year 3: Dusty Karn, Jackson Parry, Avery Evola

Year 4: Primrose Minchin

Year 5: Elsie Keith, Bailey McCormack, Hannah Pham

Year 6: Livvy Blackwell, Mathias Lancaster, Liam Oliver

Week 4

Year 7 - Amber Haigh  - for her amazing prayer during Religion, Claire Hartwig  - Consistently working hard during Religion, Darcy Reardon  - His contribution to class discussions in RE, Lani Summerfield - Consistently working hard during Religion, Indy Wilesmith  - Her active participation and improved confidence in class.

Year 8 - Archer Gaynor  - Great concentration and work in HSIE, Morgan George - Developing great resources for the Wellbeing Team, Zahara Karn - her contributions to class discussions in History, 

Year 10 - Kayde Carney - His work ethic and classroom participation in English, Nino Matanguihan - Good recall of film techniques in English, Caitlyn Watson  - Good recall of film techniques in English

Week 5

Year 7 - Claire Hartwig  - working well in music, Addison Matthews - Great hypothesis on Hatshepsut, George Morton  - Working well in Music, Indy Wilesmith -  Working well in Music

Year 8 - Esther Adeyemi - showing consistent growth in Maths, Bradley Daly - Great participation in Science, Isabel Fairman - Writing thorough and detailed rules in Maths, Adelaide Gaynor  - Showing excellent detail in Maths, Layla Player - Great contribution to discussion in English, Grace Smith  - Working well in Science, Bethany Wiencke  - Excellent application to Maths tasks. 

Year 9 - Scarlett Connellan - Fantastic histograms in Maths, Ahlia Derrick  - Fantastic histograms in Maths, Eloise Haigh  - Fantastic histograms in Maths, Lillian Oliver -  Great application of concepts in History

Year 10 - Bella Bush -  Working well in Science, Guinevere Drumore  - Working well in Science, Callie Gregory  - Great questioning in History, Rachael Thompson  - Working well in Science, Kayde Carney  - Remembering political definitions in History.

Year 11 - Zoe Bent - A well written Assessment and reflection in Society and Culture.

The counting has been done and the final figures are in for our recent fun run. 

A whopping total of $6,523.57 was raised. This is a fantastic school effort and will go a long way to purchasing new equipment .

Prize winners were:

Kindergarten who raised the highest out of our classes with $1030.00.

Year 1 was the class with the most points tallied .

Charlotte Williams was the highest individual fundraiser who raised $255.00 in sponsorship.

Congratulations to all our prize winners and thank you all for your support. 

Last Friday students from Primary and Secondary competed at the combined Canberra Goulburn Cross Country event held in Stomlo.

In freezing conditions, the primary students kicked the frost off the track and in very different terrain to what they are used to, all students competed very well &  demonstrated great resilience as they went around. We had some fantastic results across all age groups with Zephanie Lancaster and Annabelle Gray finishing first and second respectively in the 10 Y girls, Quinn Crawford finished second in the 9 Y girls, Nate Swanston was 7^th in the 10 Y boys, Tristan Swanston 9^th in the 9Y boys, Grace McCrone was 7^th and Adelen Crawford 13^th in the 11 Y girls. Amazing results and good luck to Zephanie, Annabelle and Quinn who will now compete at Eastern Creek Sydney on the 21^st July.

The secondary was just as strongly contested, with competitors across the 13's and 14's age groups. Despite the toughest course Liam and Jarvey finished 2^nd and 6^th respectively and also earned their spot at the next event in Sydney.

Well done to all of our competitors for making it this far!

Virtual Biology class

The Year 11 students in virtual classes continue to amaze us with their dedication and committment. Here the Biology virtual students are conducting one of their experiments with the support of Mrs Diggin's prep for their prac.

Stage 4 Technology

Mr Gaynors stage 4 Technology students have been busy designing toys for our St Annes Kinder Class. Kinder road tested the safety function and athestics of each toy and then voted on their favourite. The winners were Claire Hartwig with her fidget board and Laughton Pinney with his sensory board. Students also completed a technology portfolio which outlined the design process. 

Parent Online Survey

Starting this week, we will be inviting students, teachers and parents to provide feedback on their experience of our school using an online survey. The surveys are an important part of our whole school evaluation and planning process.

We would like to invite you to complete the Tell Them From Me (TTFM) Partners in Learning survey. As we value the role of parents and carers within our school community we would greatly appreciate your feedback. The information you provide will be used to maintain our commitment to working together in partnership to further improve student learning and wellbeing at St Anne’s Central School Temora.

The survey is anonymous and will take approximately 20 minutes to complete. You are able to access the parent survey on your computer or mobile device by using the URL that Mr Haigh will email you on 26/5/23.

We are extremely proud of the selfless service of our school volunteers last weekend. An amazing 17 students and 4 staff gave up their time to collect for the Red Shield doorknock Appeal which added a wonderful $1381.50 to the Temora collection in support of the community of Temora. 

A reminder K -11 Athletics Carnival will be held at Nixon Park Next Friday 2nd June.