News
RE News
Hello!
Last Friday the staff had their annual staff retreat day. The day was frame worked by the Alpha course, which is an introduction to the basics of Christianity. This allowed for us a staff unit to reflect on the ‘why’ of what we do and like I said in the last newsletter, more importantly the ‘who.’ It was great to have the staff that were present to throw themselves into pondering questions, ideas and theories that are so pivotal to our school’s foundation. We look forward to continuing with the course in the future.
This week we welcome back Fr John who has been back home in Kenya for 6 weeks after not being home for nearly three years. We look forward to hearing all about his time visiting his family and friends.
Next term will prove to be a busy term as it always is, with sport, graduation, harvest for some of our families and the lead up to Christmas. I hope that the school holidays will allow for you to get some much-needed time to rest and recharge.
Finally, during the holidays we remember the one-year anniversary of Deb Walford’s death. We ask that you keep her family in your prayers during this time and for the repose of her soul. She was a lovely, thoughtful woman who is very much missed.
God Bless,
Miriam Honner
Reception News
The Reception classroom have enjoyed revising numbers from 0-20. Here we are playing a fun game of number bingo to work on their number recognition.
Senior Primary News
What Matters?
Throughout the year a few of our students entered the Whitlam Institute ‘What Matters?’ writing competition. This was a writing competition designed to encourage young students to develop a perspective, a point of view, on where we’re heading as a society. The writing competition had year 5-12 students from all over Australia enter, all writing about different topics they are interested in. Recently our students received participation certificates, to acknowledge their hard work. Throughout this process it was encouraging to see how passionate, observant and articulate our students are.
Congratulations on an outstanding effort, Isabella Rowe, Jade Player, Owen Bishop, Jada Clasohm, Henry Bryan, Angus Slade and Catalina Taheny.
Middle Primary News
The Year Three and Four Class have completed our M.I.T.I.O.G. Learning for this term. We have enjoyed exploring and celebrating the gift of our lives as Humans who are made in the image of God. It was so special to learn about our own early life stories and to share the special moments with the class!
Junior Primary News
The Year 1/2 children have had the opportunity to create and maintain their very own potato patch. The students had a blast planting the potatoes and they look forward to having a sense of responsibility over the patch as the year progresses. Thanks Jo for making this happen for the students.
Spanish News
Spain has not always been one single country. In the past it was many small kingdoms. When Isabella 1 of Castile (one such kingdom), married Ferdinand 11 of Aragon (another kingdom), they worked to make a united country; one Spain, not many. It was through them that the explorer, Christopher Columbus discovered America:
In 14 hundred and 92, Columbus sailed the ocean blue.
Spain became very rich from all the discoveries in the Americas
Regards,
Mandy Thompson.
RAA Car Seat Safety
Last week Gerd and Claire from the RAA visited our school! The RAA delivered a new suite of car seats for our school vans, through their Regional Safety Grants Program. Time was spent training staff, following best practice for use of the new seats. The RAA team were also able to assist the wider community with seat checks, fitting and general advice. Gerd and Claire enjoyed their time so much in our community that they are taking the idea of pop-up car seat services for rural and remote communities back to their team. We hope to have them back 'on tour' in Yorketown again. Thanks to those who stopped in for a seat check and chat, Gerd and Claire commented many times on how friendly and welcoming our community is!
