Going home next Friday will be student reports for semester one. These reports are based on an A - E scale for students from Year One to Year Six while Kindergarten reports use the achievement descriptors ‘above expectations’, ‘meeting expectations’, ‘working towards expectations’ and ‘experiencing difficulty’. To make it easier to understand, simply view a ‘C’ as what was once termed ‘average’.

The best way to understand how your child is progressing is through discussion with your child’s teacher. Several weeks ago we had the first formal opportunity for parents to meet with their child’s teacher and another opportunity is planned for Week Six of Term Three. This will follow a slightly different format in that students will also participate in the process. An Open Classroom where the students can showcase their work will take place for all families in Term Four. At the end of Term One our first interim reports were sent home to parents and another will go home towards the end of Term Three.

Included with this report is a report on the general capabilities the children have been developing as they work with others, as well as how they live out the school values of ‘Respect’, ‘Responsibility’ and ‘Service’.

We have been trialling sharing work samples with parents via Compass. This allows parents to see what constitutes a ‘C’ grade for a given activity and what is required for a student to move from a ‘C” grade, to a ‘B” or ‘A’ grade. We will continue to develop these but are looking at ways to involve the students in this process so they can better explain it to parents.

In some reports you may see the comment ‘excluded.’ This simply means that area has yet to be covered in class. For example, the HSIE curriculum is broken down into History and Geography. One year level or stage may have chosen to focus on History for the first semester and will focus on Geography in the second semester. This often occurs in subjects with a number of strands.

This year the reports will still be available for you to view on Compass however we will also be sending home a hard copy with each student.

Should you wish to discuss your child’s report with your child’s teacher, I ask that you contact them directly.

Reading Logs

Our reading challenge ends today and I ask students who completed the challenge and are in years three to six to bring their logs in on Monday. For students from kindergarten to year two I will gather the data from their home reading journals.

Sacrament of Confirmation

This term, our Year 6 students have been preparing to make their Sacrament of Confirmation. Please keep them in your prayers as they continue on their faith journey.

Can You See the Spirit?

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.

- Galatians 5:22-23

IMPORTANT: Parents are asked to email Ms Murray the name of their child’s sponsor and their chosen saint name by WEDNESDAY 26th JUNE. Thank you.

jillian.murray@cg.catholic.edu.au

Western Region Athletics Carnival

We wish our squad of 36 athletes the best of luck today as they braved the misty weather to compete for selection in the Archdiocesan Athletics Team. We thank Mrs Presser for attending with the students and the parents for transporting the students and assisting on the day. Please look out for the results in next week’s newsletter.

Trent Barrett Legends Gala Day

This event will be held in Harden on Tuesday 13th August (Week 4) and is open to students in Year 3 and 4 who wish to play either tackle football or league tag. Please note while this is not a competitive day we ask that students playing tackle football have previous experience and are registered with a local tackle Rugby League or Rugby Union team please. Permissions for this event are open via Compass and will close on Thursday 1st August.

Boorowa Touch and Netball Carnival

This event will be held on Friday October 25th and will be open for students in Year 2 to 6. Students may play either Touch Football or Netball. Teams will be mixed and made up of 10 players. Permissions for this event are open via Compass and will close on Thursday 8th August. This is a very popular event and the teams fill up quickly. Once we have submitted teams we cannot make changes.

Girls Rugby 7s - Year 5 & 6 only

Registrations are open for the MacKillop Girl’s 7s trials to be held at Santa Sabina College on Wednesday 14th August. Register via the CSNSW Sport portal before 2nd August. Please check for mandatory size/weight ratios on the website.

1/2C class doing numbers lines in chalk on the concrete.

Yr 1 practising their tricky words during initial lit.

Also using hand-made clocks to practise making o'clock & half past times.

Year 5D have been busy this week!! Today we got to share our Genius Hour Presentations. We have worked really hard on these over the semester and thoroughly enjoyed sharing them with the school!’

LUNCHTIME ART CLUB

WEEK 9

Tuesday 25th June

School Speak-off with St Josephs Grenfell - 9:30am

Friday 28th June

Year 1 & Year 2 assembly item - 2pm
Reports to be sent home
Men of St Mary's @ The Aussie - 5:00pm

WEEK 10

Monday 1st July

McKillop Union Trials

Wednesday 2nd July

NAIDOC prayer service - 1pm

Thursday 4th July

Last day of term for students

SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

Friday 5th June - Friday 18th July

TERM 3

WEEK 1

Monday 22nd July

Pupil Free Day

Tuesday 23rd July

Students Return for Term 3

Thursday 25th July

Confirmation Retreat Day

Friday 26th July

NAIDOC Mass - St Mary's Paraish Church - 10am NAIDOC students

Saturday 27th

Confirmation - St Mary Catholic Church - 6pm

We offer businesses the opportunity to advertise their business on a sign attached to the fence at the front of the school facing Elizabeth Street.

This street has a high volume of traffic and is an ideal location to place these advertisements. We would like to thank our sponsors that have supported our school by taking this opportunity.

Should you wish to support the school, please contact the office 6382 5844.