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Book Week Celebrations 2021

Each year since 1945 the CBCA has brought children and books together across Australia through CBCA Book Week. During this time schools and public libraries spend one glorious week celebrating books and Australian children’s authors and illustrators. Classroom teachers, teacher librarians and public librarians create colourful displays, develop activities, run competitions and tell stories relating to a theme to highlight the importance of reading. You will often see parades with students dressed as their favourite book character.What a wonderful celebration of literature and characters we had on Friday! Well done to those who dressed up as their favourite character!

Book Week Dress-Up Tomorrow

Tomorrow we celebrate Book Week, an initiative of the Children’s Book Council of Australia. This week, as part of Book Week, the library has hosted a series of activities and events to promote and celebrate reading. 

On Friday 20 August (tomorrow), we are having a dress up day where students are encouraged to come dressed as their favourite character from a book. 

Friday July 23

Hello bloggers!

Welcome to Day 3 of home learning, and more importantly… FriYAY! 🙂

Today is going to look a little different for your children as we are going to be experimenting with a few changes to their day. Morning check in will be conducted through a live stream where your child will be able to see and hear your teacher, but will not be able to video or voice record themselves. Children will be able to engage with the conversation via replying to the thread this live feed is on. This morning live stream will be at 9:00am each day.

Similarly, we will also be finishing our day with a live stream to once again check in and see how their day has gone, especially with the changes made. This end of day check-in will be at 2:00pm.

All this information will be explained to your child during our Live Morning Teams Check in.

We hope this changes will enhance your child’s learning whilst working at home, and moving forward during this period of time 🙂

Please have a look at today’s timetable below:

Online Gratitude

Hi and welcome to our first day of online learning!

We hope that you are your families are staying safe and healthy during this time.

It is always important, especially in difficult times, to appreciate the things that we may take for granted – like having a place to live, food, clean water, friends, family, even access to technology.
Gratitude is pausing to notice and appreciate these things, it’s taking a moment to reflect on how fortunate we are when something good happens — whether it’s a small thing or a big thing.

We took time in our day today to think about what there is to be grateful for! Here are some of our heartwarming responses.

OzAsia Shibori Workshop

We were lucky enough to participate in a special art workshop connected to the Oz Asia Festival this coming October.

As a part of the sustainability focus, students brought in an old white 100% natural fibre (cotton/linen) item to dye and donate to the project (sheet/t-shirt/tea towel/old curtain etc.).  Thank you for your support with this.

We thank Truoc Nguyen for teaching us a new special tie dye method using onion and turmeric!

Wow – look how they turned out!!

Sports Day 2021

Dear Families,

 

Holy Family’s Sports Day for 2021 will be held on Friday 23 July (week 1, term 3) on the school oval.

School will commence at the normal time of 8.50am and finish at 3pm.  Students will need to wear their sports uniform but may wear a coloured shirt for their sports house.

This year, we have amalgamated the sports houses and learning houses together and students are allocated to one of the Houses listed below:

  • St Mary MacKillop – Black
  • St Pope John Paul II – Red
  • St Vincent de Paul – Cream

The program will be run in 3 stages with classes returning to their classrooms for their normal lessons when not required to be at the oval.

Parents are welcome to attend to watch their child participate.

Parents are also reminded that when entering the school, they must check-in by scanning the SA Health QR code or completing the paper recording log template. The paper recording template is available in the front office.

Please note the COVID SAfe Check-in is purely for SA Health contact tracing purposes and does not replace our normal visitor sign-in process.

 

Adults needs to continue physical distancing of 1.5 metres whenever and wherever possible.  This requirement does not apply to people who live together.

A reminder that any person who is unwell or symptomatic must not attend the school.

If you are a registered volunteer and able to assist the class teacher with the Sports Day activities, please advise your child’s teacher.

PROGRAM

8:50am School commences
9:00am Opening ceremony – all classes in Hall

Please note that due to current COVID-19 restrictions, parents will not be able to enter the Hall to view the opening ceremony

9:25 – 10.45am Reception – Year 2 classes only
11:00 -11:20am RECESS
11:30am – 12.45pm Years 3 and 4 classes only
12.50 – 1:30pm LUNCH
1:30 – 2:40pm Year 5/6 classes only
2:40pm Year 6 championship race & Presentation
3:00pm School finishes

 

The Canteen will be open on Sports Day.  Please order at the canteen or through the Qkr app.  Parents attending Sports Day are also welcome to make purchases from the canteen.

 

Curiosity Tour

Yesterday we were lucky enough to get a tour of the new building, Curiosity. We are all beyond excited to use this space for our learning. Check out this awesome space!

Mission Day 2021

On Friday, as a school, we celebrated, Mission Day. Our whole school Mass with Father Shibu taught us to always give to those less fortunate than ourselves. Through giving we are doing God’s work with our own hands.

During the afternoon, the children visited the stalls of each class and make purchases of goods. As a whole school we raised over $2100, which will be donated to charities to support those in need.

Thank you to all the families who donated and helped to make this such a special day!