The First Eucharist program is about to begin shortly. The Year 4 class are all involved in this preparation in class. If you have a child wishing to make the Sacrament of First Eucharist who is in an older grade they are most welcome to be involved in the after school sessions. Please contact Mrs Collins for more information.

Dates for the Calendar:

First Eucharist Parent Meeting Tuesday 29th (August T3 Wk 7)

Enrolment Mass #1  Sunday 10th September at 10am or

Enrolment Mass #2  Saturday 16th September at 6pm

First Eucharist Retreat Day Thursday 19th October (end T4 Wk 2)

First Eucharist Sacrament Sunday 22nd October at 10am

Scholastic Book Fair

Our Book Fair is now closed. All orders which were in stock have been sent home this week. Some books were extremely popular and have been re-ordered. These will arrive in approximately 2 weeks. 

Thank you for supporting the Book Fair. Our school benefits from your purchases and we will be able to buy new books and resources for our Library.

Author Visit

To celebrate Book Week, K-2 students have been invited by the Temora Shire Library to participate in a workshop by author Debra Tidball on Friday 18^th August, 2023. Debra Tidball is the author of "Anchored". This event will take place at the Town Hall from 11:10am to 11:55am. Students will walk to and from the event with their class teachers.  Please check compass for details.

Book Week Parade

K-6 students are invited to come to school dressed up as their favourite book character on Wednesday 23^rd August. Family and friends are invited to watch the Parade which will take place on the playground at 9:15am. 

Students will parade with their class where prizes will be awarded for the best costume in each class. After last years success we will also be running "The Group Parade". This is optional. Students may choose to dress up with friends in their class or family members as a group. For example, they could come as the characters from "The Wizard of Oz".

If students choose not to dress up they are asked to come to school in their uniform. Students who have PE on Wednesday are reminded to pack suitable footwear to change into for this lesson.

Thank you to our Primary SRC who will be the judges for our Book Week Parade.

Week 1

Kinder: Rupert Coleman, Callum Roberts

Year 1: Evie Smith, Duke Krause, Josie Bush

Year 2: Bailey Bickham, Isabella Irving, Bentley Combe

Year 3: Evie Keith, Samuel Moroney, Dusty Karn

Year 4: Edie Bett, Nate Swanston, Madison Darrington

Year 5: Kayla Block, Bailey McCormack, Addie Warren

Year 6: Oscar Block, Jadah Cotton, Liam Oliver

Week 2

Kinder: Reed Gray, Pippa Hale, Darcy Maguire, Ivy Taylor

Year 1: Hunter Chown, Duke Krause, Spencer Lynch, Gus Reardon

Year 2: Tristan Swanston, Ella Hartwig, Harrison Pham

Year 3: Alice Reid, Archie Block

Year 4: Noah Swanston, Zephanie Lancaster, Adele Oliver

Year 5: Lilah Caldwell, Kayde Carney, Sarah Smith

Year 6: Georgia Gibbs, Hayley Kite, Harry Swanston

Year 7: Zali Sinclair - Making good connections and decoding words in French.

Year 8: Esther Adeyemi - An excellent presentation in Georgraphy, Isobelle Crawford - Excellent presentation in Maths, Isabel Fairman - An excellent presentation in Geography, Carus Gray - An excellent presentation in Geography, Darcy Murphy - Great application to Maths tasks. 

Year 10: Dane Sinclair - Great leadership during the wellbeing day, Caitlyn Watson  - Making a great start to the term in English

Year 11: Evie Gidley - Great recall of cross cultural communication concepts, Daniel Hirt - An incredibly strong mindset and perseverance.

NSW Cup Netball Finals

St Anne’s attended the final of the NSW Cup Netball in Albury on Monday 31st July. The team competed fiercely in the mixed division where they won 2 and lost 2 in their pool. They played off against Narandera in the semi final which they won by 1 goal placing them 5th overall. The team is to be congratulated on their sportsmanship and skill, particularly the boys who adapted very well to netball. Their results were:

Round 1 St Anne's vs St Joseph's Lockhart 21-14

Round 2 St Anne's vs St Anne's North Albury 14-22

Round 3 Bye

Round 4 St Anne's vs Tumut Public School 18-6

Round 5 St Anne's vs St Joseph's Narrandera 11-18

Semi Final  St Anne's Vs St Joseph's Narrandera 15-14

A huge thanks to Mrs Kite and Mrs Hughes who coached the team on the day and the parents who were able to attend to support the team.

The team was: Ava Derrick, Barney Taylor, Brooke Gilchrist, Meg Ruskin, Livvy Blackwell, Hayley Kite, Georgia Gibbs, Addie Warren and Matthias Lancaster.

Last Wednesday 26th July we held our Grandparents day where we celebrated our amazing Grandparents and thanked them for all they do for us. 

The U14 boys competed at the Small Schools Carnival at Boorowa on Wednesday 26th July. It was a fantastic day against some great competition. They made it through to the Semi - Finals before being knocked out by the eventual winners. It was an outstanding effort by all players.

NAIDOC Week is an opportunity for all Australians to learn about First Nations cultures and histories and participate in celebrations of the oldest, continuous living cultures on earth. This years theme is ‘For Our Elders’. Across every generation, our Elders have played, and continue to play, an important role and hold a prominent place in our communities and families. 
 
They are cultural knowledge holders, trailblazers, nurturers, advocates, teachers, survivors, leaders, hard workers and our loved ones. 
 
Our loved ones who pick us up in our low moments and celebrate us in our high ones. Who cook us a feed to comfort us and pull us into line, when we need them to.  
 
They guide our generations and pave the way for us to take the paths we can take today. Guidance, not only through generations of advocacy and activism, but in everyday life and how to place ourselves in the world.  

We draw strength from their knowledge and experience, in everything from land management, cultural knowledge to justice and human rights. Across multiple sectors like health, education, the arts, politics and everything in between, they have set the many courses we follow. 
 
The struggles of our Elders help to move us forward today. The equality we continue to fight for is found in their fight. Their tenacity and strength has carried the survival of our people. 

It is their influence and through their learnings that we must ensure that when it comes to future decision making for our people, there is nothing about us - without us. 

We pay our respects to the Elders we’ve lost and to those who continue fighting for us across all our Nations and we pay homage to them. 

NAIDOC Week falls in the first week of the winter school holidays so our Catholic schools celebrate this important week with events in term 3. On the 21^st of July Mr Haigh, Miss Winkley and the primary and secondary captains travelled to Sacred Heart Church, Cootamundra to take part in a NAIDOC Mass.

MacKillop Netball Trials 2023

Last week Ava Derrick represented the MacKillop Primary Netball team at the NSW Netball Championships held in Port Macquarie. After a very full week of intense netball, Ava’s team came 3rd out of 14 teams with 11 wins and just 2 losses for the week, a great effort. 

Congratulations to our Semester 2 SRC Representatives who were inducted at our recent Mass. 

Pictured are: Archie Block, Alexy Balon, Lucy Taylor, Noah Swanston, Mailee Reid, Zali Sinclair, Isabel Fairman, Morgan George, Eloise Haigh and Jacie Blachut and Charles Minchin.

Absent was: Shiraz Broad

Weekly workshops are back at Platform Y this week!

Green Team- Environmental Group: Monday 7^th August 4pm- 5pm

Young Entrepreneurs: Monday 21^st August 4pm- 5pm (third Monday of the month)

Details on Temora Youth FB page or call  0418 357 230.