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ST ANNE’S SENTINEL WATCHING OVER OUR COMMUNITY

In This Issue

Primary Awards

Important dates

Secondary Pool

party

RE News

Tuckshop Roster

Tuckshop Price List

‘Let us all have courage’

St Anne’s Central School Newsletter Term 1 Week 3 2017

Week 3 sees the students settling down to their learning routines. I hope everyone

has had a chance to look at our first Parenting Ideas article. These will be sent out

fortnightly.

Community Council Meetings are held on the second Tuesday of each month. The

Council provides advice to the school and principal on the following areas:

· Catholic Identify and Character

· Enrolment and Growth

· Financial

· Leadership

· Physical Resources

· Academic Programs

Our Council is divided into a committee structure and most members lead a

committee. The committees are:

· Fundraising

· Marketing

· Repairs and Maintenance

· Canteen

· Uniform

At this week’s meeting Mrs Marita McRae tendered her resignation from the council.

Marita has contributed much to St Anne’s in this capacity and in the previous P & F.

We owe her a debt of gratitude for her hard work and commitment to the school.

Thank you Marita. Nominations are now open for new members and the council could

have up to three new members. Please consider nominating for a position. If you are

interested, please write to me or email me on [email protected].

Thank you to our canteen volunteers both old and new. Please consider using the

QKR ordering system if you can and getting orders in before 9:00 am. The early lunch

time means a much shorter timeframe in preparing lunches.

The Annual Secondary Pool Party was held last night with a Hawaiian theme.

Students had a great time, thank you to Mrs Breust and the secondary teachers for

organising this event.

Please pencil next Wednesday at 9:30 onto your calendar. This is our Opening

School Mass. Student leaders, SRC reps and Sports Captains will be recognised, our

new liturgical banner will be unveiled and our brand new choir and band will make

their first appearance as we join together to pray for our school community in 2017.

Kathy Holding

“Being deeply loved

by someone gives

you strength, while

loving someone deep-

ly gives you cour-

age.” - Lao Tzu

St Anne’s Sentinel ‘Let us all have courage’

Primary News

Primary Awards - Week 2

Kinder Year 4

Academic - Benjamin Samaan Academic - Lexi Lancaster

MJR - Livvy Blackwell MJR - Angus Lindsay

Year 1 Year 5

Academic - Gurkirat Khela Academic - Mia-Rose Chown

MJR - George Morton MJR - Poppy Minchin

Year 2 Year 6

Academic - Adelaide Gaynor Academic - Harry Bush

MJR - Jasmin Cassidy & Ethan Bett MJR - Maddison Cassidy

Year 3

Academic - Jimmy Harper Got-cha Award - Wilson Gaynor

MJR - Jaxon Chown Jed Ruskin

Jed Reardon

Year 4

Academic - Lexi Lancaster

MJR - Angus Lindsay

Clean up Aust Day

All students from K-10 will be

participating in the ‘clean up

Aust day 'on Friday 3rd March.

Please bring in gloves and

garbage bags

Sister Gerardine presenting the

Vinnies Christmas Appeal

appreciation certificate to school

captains, Meg Schmidt and Molly

McCrone


General News

Dates to Remember

Fri 17 Feb Kinder parent social night 6pm

Tue 21 Feb Infants swimming 12-1pm

Wed 22 Feb Opening School Mass 9.30am

Infants Swimming 12-1pm

Thur 23 Feb Parent Reconciliation Meeting

7pm Hall

Fri 24 Feb Infants swimming carnival

10-1.30pm

Mon 27 Feb C/G Sec Swimming - Goulburn

Tue 28 Feb C/G Primary Swimming - Boorowa

Wed 1 Mar Ash Wednesday Mass 9.30

Fri 3 March Clean up Aust Day K-10

St Vincent de Paul Society

‘The Saint Vincent de Paul Society is a lay Catholic

organisation that aspires to live the gospel message by

serving Christ in the poor with love, respect, justice hope and

joy, and by working to shape a more just and compassionate

society’.

St Vincent de Paul Society (Vinnies) is seeking new mem-

bers for our local Conference to reach out to people who are

in need of emergency relief assistance and basic home

budgeting support. All training will be provided.

Do you :

Have a few hours spare per fortnight?

Want to make a difference?

Have empathy and compassion for people in need?

Contact Joy Shelton at Temora Vinnies 62347430

School Photos

Monday 13th March

School band and choir

We have around 40 students from years 3-10 who have

joined the school band and choir. They are working

hard to practise for the Opening mass next week.

Hennessy Catholic College, Young

OPEN DAY

Wed 8th March

1pm - 4.30pm

for students going into year 11 in 2018

Come and see the College in action!

More info contact the college on 63821486


Secondary Pool Party

Opening Mass

You are all invited to attend our Opening Mass on Wednesday 22nd

February in the

Church starting at 9.30am. Captains, Sports Captains and SRC will be inducted during

the Mass.

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Parent Information Night is on Thursday 23rd

February, 7pm in hall. Parents and their child

need to attend this evening. If you are unable to make the night please contact the

Presbytery.

Ash Wednesday

Lent begins with Ash Wednesday on 1st March this year. The students will be attending the

morning Mass at 9.30am. Parents are welcome to attend.

Year 8 RE news

This term in Year 8 RE, the students have been exploring the unit ‘Prayer and Healing’.

They started the unit by looking at a scene from the movie ‘Invictus’ and discussing Nelson

Mandela’s ability to forgive and promote Reconciliation in country that was ravaged by

apartheid.

This took our discussion to the students naming what they thought ‘Forgiveness’ meant.

Some of the responses included:

Sorry

Reconciliation

Trust

Peace

Second chance

Everyone free together

Understanding sorry

The strongest weapon but the hardest to use

RE News

The students indicated in their RE surveys at the start of the unit that sometimes it can be

hard to understand bible passages that are used in Religion lessons. When Year 8 were

introduced to the bible passage from Colossians 3:12-14 which was about forgiveness.

‘As the chosen of God, then, the holy people whom God loves, you are to be clothed in heart-

felt compassion, generosity and humility, gentleness and patience. Bear with one another,

forgive each other if one of you has a complaint against the other. The Lord has forgiven you;

now you must do the same. Overall these clothes put on love, the perfect bond.’

In order for the students to understand this passage they undertook an exercise whereby

they ‘dressed’ a student to make the connection. Below is a photo of Liam who was dressed

in the virtues of forgiveness and overall they put an overcoat which represented’ love’.

Thanks for being brave Liam!

RE News

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