Dear St Anne's Community,

Welcome

A warm welcome to our new students and their families that have joined us recently. Erin in Yr 2, Bayley in Yr 3, Ryan in Yr 5 and Elora in Yr 7. 

Enrolments

We are fielding a high number of enquiries across most year groups at present. If you have a child that is starting with us next year and you are yet to fill in the enrolment form, please action this one as soon as possible. Additionally, if you know that your child is leaving at the end of the year, please let the school know as well. Students often tell their friends in class, but we need to know for official purposes. We need to know as soon as possible to assist with 2024 staffing and classroom space. 

School Master Plan

Recently, Catholic Education employed an Architect to visit our school to gather information for our School Master Plan. What is a Master Plan?

A well-considered Master Plan allows your school to demonstrate it has a clear vision, strategy and plan in place for the future and will add significant strength to grant or funding applications. Far more than a set of drawings, a Master Plan details where the school is at now, where it plans to be in the future and how it will get there – aligning the school’s strategy and vision with its built environment. The Master Plan development process provides a school with the opportunity to review its current pedagogical approach and explore emerging teaching and learning trends, to ensure the relevance and effectiveness of the school in the future. 

As a governance document, the completed Master Plan guides a school’s development over the next ten to fifteen years, ensuring a long-term approach that aligns with the school’s vision for learning is applied and maintained.

Based on the school’s vision, education and business plans, the Master Plan:

• Details existing land uses, buildings and facilities and proposed future uses and building projects.
• Sets out development phases, with likely timeframes and costs.
• Provides the logic and reasoning that underpins the plan and need for development.
• Includes drawings, schedules, explanatory diagrams, surveys and other materials to support grant applications and inform future decision makers. 
• Ensures sound decision-making and ultimately improved learning outcomes from the use of school resources and funds.
• Provides external authorities and financiers with added confidence in funding a school’s building projects. 

We are calling for your input on this Master Plan. If you would like to respond to the questions below, we would appreciate this feedback by Wednesday 6 September please. Send through your feedback to my email address. 

1. What do you consider to be the most important aspect of a school’s design?
2. Can you think of anything related to the physical setting of a school that would enhance student learning?
3. What in your opinion should be avoided in future school design?
4. What do you believe are the building and site issues at St Anne's?
5. Do you have any other comments about improving the functionality of St Anne's, and in particular the learning spaces?

The Resilience Project

The Resilience Project (TRP) delivers emotionally engaging programs to schools, sports clubs and businesses, providing practical, evidence-based mental health strategies to build resilience and happiness.

Through presentations, school curriculum, events, the TRP App, and Wellbeing Journals, they share the benefits of Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness, and easy ways to practise these in everyday life. They also incorporate Emotional Literacy, Connection and Physical Health education and activities as they are foundational contributors to positive mental health.

Next year, St Anne's will be implementing TRP across K-12. Temora Public and Temora High School have already implemented the program and they are carrying out some great work in their respective communities with this program. They are also launching the program in the wider Temora community next Tuesday night at 6pm in the Town Hall. If you would like more information about this program please go to this link: The Resilience Project

School Supervision Times

We kindly request that students do not enter school grounds before 8:30am of a morning. Students are not allowed on school grounds unless they are supervised by a teacher. Thank you in advance for your support.

Student Pick up and Drop off

It is important that students are dropped off and picked up at Joey's Hall on Loftus St of a morning and afternoon. It is too dangerous to have students leaving via DeBoos St, due to the buses arriving and departing.

Father's Day BBQ & Touch Football

It was a great day for our fathers to joins us. After a sausage on the BBQ, the school made its way over to Fr. Hannan where our secondary boys played a game of Touch Football against some of the dads. It was a great spirited game, with the students winning 1-0. Thank you to everyone that joined us. 

Take care,

Grant Haigh

Principal 

Please keep the Year 4 students who have begun preparations for the First Eucharist program in your prayers. 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:

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

Year 7 have been learning about Physics this term in Science. Last week they were faced with an engineering challenge to design, build and test a parachute. The aim was to keep an egg-pilot safe during landing and most of the pilots did survive! Well done Year 7.

Book Club 

Issue #6 of the Scholastic Book Club is due by Wednesday, 6^th September 2023.

 Book Week Parade

Thank you to everyone for supporting and the wonderful effort you put into costumes for our Book Week Parade. Our Primary SRC had a hard time picking winners from each class on the day. It was lovely to have so many parents, family members and friends come and watch the parade.

Kinder - Leni and Jake

Year 1 - Peyton and Duke

Year 2 - Skyla and Karzon

Year 3 - Rosie and Samuel

Year 4 - Addie and Joey

Year 5 - Ryan and Lilah

Year 6 - Livvy and Harvey

Groups - Bananas in Pyjamas and The Footy Players

Shared Reading

One of the special things about being in a Central School having different age groups interacting and supporting each other. Throughout Book Week, our Year 7-9 classes joined infants classes during their Library lesson where K-2 students read their home readers and were then treated to having a story read to them by their secondary partner. Before heading back to class, Secondary students helped our Infants students 'Find Wally' who was hiding in the Library.

Pre loved book sale

Our Book Week pre-loved book sale was well supported and raised $66 for our Library. Thank you for your support. Thank you to the Year 10 students who volunteers to run the sale during Recess.

Week 6

Kinder: Ellie Fisher, Ivy Taylor, Rhys Evola, Jake Morton

Year 1: Sophie Irving, Hunter Chown, Peyton Derrick

Year 2: Peyton Wiencke, Karzon Rebibis, Rylee Overs,

Year 3: Avery Evola, Quinn Crawford, Ari Bryon, 

Year 4: Abby Watts, Lucy Taylor, Primrose Minchin

Year 5: Ayden George, Eliana Adeyemi, Hannah Pham

Year 6: Joey Cotton, Meg Ruskin, Harvey Drumore

Week 7

Kinder: Lilly Bickham, Jesse Overs, Boyd Roddy

Year 1: Hunter Chown, Zoe Sinclair, Leo Jayawardene

Year 2: James Broad, Aiden Roberts

Year 3: Elvie Crawford, Audrey Wallace, Mack Oliver

Year 4: Ava Crawford, Addison Gilchrist, Madison Darrington

Year 5: Leo Drenovski, Brooke Gilchrist, Dallas Gibbs

Year 6: Liam Oliver, Jadah Cotton, Billy Krause

Week 6

Year 7 - Robbie Bett - His continued focus in Religion.  Charlie Cooper - Great answers in Religion. Claire Hartwig - Always working hard in Religion.

Year 8 -  Carus Gray  - His positive effort in spelling.  Darcy Murphy - For a great presentation in Geography. Grace Smith - Always working hard in HSIE.

Year 10 - Guinevere Drumore - Her consistent application in all English tasks.

Year 11 - Zoe Bent - Great recall of Communication Accommodation Theory.

Week 7

Year 7 - Charlie Cooper  - his conscientious approach to Geography, Lana King - Her consistent focus and work ethic in Georgraphy. Ella Matthews -  Work ethic and focus in Geography.

Year 8 - Ethan Bett  - Showing 300% growth in Maths and writing excellent rules. Jasmin Cassidy  - Showing great growth in Maths. Isobelle Crawford - Showing excellent growth and application in Maths. Bradley Daly Showing excellent growth and application in Maths. Isabel Fairman - Showing great growth in Maths. Adelaide Gaynor  - for excellent application in Maths and growth in her cycle test. Lachlan Smith - Showing great growth in Maths. Bethany Wiencke  - Showing excellent growth and application in Maths

Year 10 - Josie Crawford  - Great recall of persuasive speech devices. Callie Gregory - Great knowledge of persuasive speech devices. Evie West  - Consistent recall of persuasive speech devices.

St Anne’s participated in the annual Trent Barrett Shield last Thursday with two girls tag and one boys tackle team playing. All teams played with great skill and sportsmanship with all teams winning their fair share of games. 

A big thanks to the coaches Mrs Harris Year 3 tag, Mrs Fogarty Year 4 tag and Mrs Guymer the boys tackle team. Also a massive thank you to our wonderful parents, granparents and friends who worked in the kiosk especially Emily Watts, Rachel Gray, Carly Swanston, Lorraine Sinclair, Lisa Taylor, Marnie Smith and Paula Godde.

Canberra Goulburn Athletics 2023

St Anne’s sent a squad of 27 primary and secondary athletes to the MacKillop selection trials in Canberra last Tuesday 22nd August.

All athletes are to be congratulated on their efforts to get to this stage and for their results on the day. Five primary students will now attend the Mackillop Trials in Sydney on the 18th September, and 7 secondary students have been invited to progress to the CCCNSW event on the 11th September. 

Age Champion

R/U Junior Girl: Zephanie Lancaster

11 Years Girl: Grace McCrone

12 Years Girls Secondary: Zali Sinclair

13 Years Girls: Lani McCrone

Records on the day
Grace McCrone 11 Years Girls: Long jump 4.17m, High jump 1.40m

Lani McCrone 12-15 Years Girls: Triple Jump 10.55m

Ribbons awarded to the students

Primary sport will change to Friday for weeks 8,9 and 10 this term and first Friday in term 4. This is so secondary students can train their allocated teams for the Boorowa Touch/Netball carnival.

Primary dance for Showcase will still go ahead on Mondays for the remainder of this term. Students are reminded to wear their sports uniform for sport and dance.

There have been reports of damaged chromebooks recently.

Just a reminder that Years 7-10 chromebooks are owned by the students and are the responsibility of the individual to replace should they become damaged. 

The school is not responsible for any breakages/breakdowns. Warranty and accidental and theft cover is recommended when purchasing your device for this reason.

Could you please speak to your child about this and make sure they are being vigilant with their care.

Beginner Sessions - Commencing Saturday 9th September - 9-10am

Please note: preschool to year 2, years 1 & 2 are for children whom have not participated before i.e. does not showcase basketball readiness.

Dates include:

9/9/23; 16/9/23; 23/9/23 school holidays; 14/10/23; 21/10/23 & 28/10/23

Cost per player $25 + NSWBBall Registration

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Intermediate Competitions - Monday 11th September - 4:30-6:30pm

Please note: Years 1 to 6, MUST showcase basketball readiness and too, the teams will be selected based on gender and age appropriateness.

High School Competitions - Monday 11th September - 6-7:30pm

Dates include:

11/9/23; 18/9/23 school holidays; 9/10/23; 16/10/23; 23/10/23 & 30/10/23

Cost per player $25 + NSWBBall Registration

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See Temora Basketball Facebook page for more details