TERM 2

WEEK 5

TERM 4

WEEK 3

WEEK 1

Staff at St Paul’s are thankful of the extremely committed parents and families at our school. Your continual contributions of your time and energy in support of St Paul’s helps build a vibrant, positive and progressive learning environment.

The Power of Working Together

A MESSAGE FROM THE PRINCIPAL

We also value parent voice and I am looking forward to meeting with you all at our Term 4 Parent Information Session on Tuesday 15 November. We will be sharing our learning journey and initiatives for 2023. Our school board members will also be there, so it will be a great opportunity to join together as a school community and celebrate the future plans of our wonderful school.

Update on COVID Requirements

We received advice from AISNSW regarding the updated isolation rules for COVID-19. While the government no longer require testing and isolation, NSW Health strongly encourage continuing this practice. Based on our risk assessment, and in line with NSW Department of Education schools, we will be following the below procedures:

• Staff and students are asked to remain home if they have acute symptoms of COVID-19 or other respiratory illnesses

• Staff and Students are required to stay home if they test positive to COVID-19 until they are symptom free

• Staff and students are required to notify the school if they test positive - this helps us to notify and protect our community from further spread

Further information can be accessed via this link:

https://education.nsw.gov.au/covid-19/advice-for-families

Yours in Christian Service

Brad Moss

HAPPENINGS WITH HOLLIE

St Paul’s appreciates …

Appreciation is in full swing this term at St Paul’s and this week the focus has been to look for those moments where collaboration is in action and write a ‘shout out’ or two to let someone know how much you appreciate their hard work when working with others. It’s not always easy and certainly takes practice.

The rain has been hindering our play a little lately. However, it hasn’t stopped some mad cricketers getting out onto the multipurpose court and it has been wonderful to see collaboration in action between our youngest members of school – the Kinders and the big kids playing and collaborating together.

It sure is great to be able to welcome families back on site this year. After what’s been a strange few years with COVID, it really is wonderful to welcome people back on site. This term, we have lots of opportunities to build connections and community through different events at school. The first of which was Grandparent’s Day! What a great day we had on Tuesday. Thank you to our wonderful Grandparents and special friends who came to our Chapel, morning tea and activity time. It was wonderful to watch Grandparents and children painting each other’s hands to make artwork together. We were blessed to have you here with us!

Over the coming weeks there are several events happening. Here’s some information on a few, but please check out the important dates below for additional events:

+ Friday 4th Nov – School Concert

This is a variety type of concert and your children are very excited to perform on stage in our newly painted hall. It will start at 6:30pm, however we ask that students arrive at 6pm please.

+ Tuesday 15th Nov - Parent Information Night @ 6:30pm

+ Tuesday 22nd Nov – Parent Feedback Session @ 2:45pm Have a blessed week!

Hollie

IMPORTANT DATES

mainly music
Monday 7 November - 9:30am

mainly music
Monday 21 November - 9:30am

mainly music
Monday 5 December - 9:30am

SCHOOL CONCERT
Friday 4 November - 6:30pm

RAS TENNIS TRIALS
Thursday 17 November

KINDER TRANSITION DAY
Wednesday 2 November - 9:30am to12pm

KINDER TRANSITION DAY
Wednesday 16 November - 9:30am to12pm

KINDER TRANSITION DAY
Wednesday 30 November - 9:30am to1:45pm

LIFE EDUCATION VAN
Wednesday 30 November

GRADUATION SERVICE
Tuesday 13 December - 6:30pm

DENTAL VISIT
Week 6 starting 14 November

FINAL DAY K-6 2022!!
Wednesday 14 December

FIRST DAY YRS 1-6 2023Wednesday 1 February 2023

FIRST DAY KINDERGARTEN 2023Thursday 2 February 2023

PARENT INFORMATION NIGHTTuesday 15 November - 6:30pm

PARENT HELPER APPRECIATION MORNING TEATuesday 22 November - 9:30am

COMBINED SCHOOLS CHRISTMAS SERVICEFriday 18 November

YEAR K/1/2

There's been lots of creativity flowing from the K/1/2 classroom over the last few weeks. We are especially proud of our artworks and we hope you enjoy looking at them as much as we enjoyed creating them!

YEAR 3/4/5/6

Our PBL projects are in the process of being made which we are very excited about! Today, we had our chicken coop dropped off at school for students to add the finishing touches, thank you Dave and Sue Forland!

With the concert quickly approaching, we will begin full dress rehersals soon. 3-6 will be dressing as farmers for their class concert. If they could please bring their farmer clothes in by next Monday 31 October that would be fantastic!

A reminder for year 5 students, their School and Sport Captain speeches need to be in Monday at the latest. Speeches will be held on Tuesday after assembly for any families who wish to attend.

Many blessings,

Katie Ridley

This term in Creative Arts students will be focusing on Music.

K-2 will be experiencing music from different times (symphony), music from different lands (Africa and Denmark), music for different purposes (spiritual and clapping rhymes), music for dancing (old time dance and folk dance), and how music and dance can tell a story (mime and sound story).Through these areas they will be exploring the musical elements of beat, rhythm, melody, dynamics, tempo, form, and tone colour.

3-6 will be experiencing songs with actions, songs and dance from different lands (East Timor), song and dance from different times (Colonial Australia), and song and dance for special occasions (festivals).Through these areas they will be exploring the musical elements of beat, rhythm, melody, harmony, tempo, form, and style.

CREATIVE ARTS

Mrs Jill Tucker will be visiting St Paul's on Friday 21st October. She is a very experienced examiner of speech and does her best to put students at ease.

Students in Years 5 & 6 have been preparing work for the occasion, but still need to brush up a little to be at their best on the day.

Parents and Friends are encouraged to come to support their child and be part of the exam process.

If you would like to discuss anything relating to the work your child is doing please feel welcome to call me on 0427 889 599.

Best wishes to all,

Grace Stein

SPEECH EXAM NOTES

CONGRATULATIONS U14s

It feels like it was a while ago now but a huge congratulations needs to go to the

Swampies 2022 Hume League U14s Premiers!

MERIT AWARDS

VALUE AWARDS

Aiden Cunningham

Dane Cunningham

Aaron Lieschke

Louisa Lubke

Milly Forrest

Zoe Lieschke

The Numbers Are In

For this year's Field Days we were rostered on for the shed that is traditionally considered the quietest shed, so going in to the Field Days we didn't have expectations of particularly enormous takings.

Well we got that wrong! A combination of crowd sizes plus fabulous food and hard working people saw a profit from Field Days that was so far above and beyond our expectations.

Thanks to all the efforts from our St Pauls' Families & Friends we are so pleased to announce that give or take a bit of change the P&F made

$21,800!!

HMFD UPDATE

CONCERT FRIDAY 4 NOVEMBER

We look forward to showcasing our student's many talents at the end-of-year School Concert.

When: Friday 4th November 6:30pm

Where: St Paul's School Hall

Who: Feel free to invite Family Members, Grandparents and any Special Guests

School families please bring a plate of supper to share after the concert

Students will have received lines and any costume requirements from their class teacher

Please have students at school by 6pm

OPERATION CHRISTMAS CHILD

It's almost time to pack our shoeboxes!

We have a little time up our sleeve so if anyone would still like to send items in please feel free to do so, by the end of Week 2 would be ideal.

TUCKSHOP MENU

Next Session

7th November