On Wednesday of next week parents will be sent, via Compass, two notifications which allow parents to see how their child has settled into school life in Term One.

The first of these is the Interim Report which allows parents to see how their child has applied themselves across all curriculum areas as well as how they have lived out the school values of service, respect and responsibility.

There will also be access to a graded work sample completed by their child via Compass. Parents will be able to see a task that teachers have decided is a ‘C’, keeping in mind a ‘C’ is what is considered to be ‘meeting expectations’. They will then be able to compare their child's work sample with this and see why their child’s task was given the grade it was. There will also be a description of what the students were trying to achieve or the outcome the teachers were after. Please keep in mind that this is one work sample in mathematics and may not represent the final mathematics grade awarded to a student. Mathematics is a broad subject with the number strand itself covering a wide range of concepts. A final grading is given based on multiple samples of work across a semester.

We hope these both prove to be valuable information for parents. These will be supported by parent teachers interviews taking place early next term as well as more work samples being sent home via Compass later in the year. 

To access your child’s work sample via your mobile device: open Compass and click on your child’s profile picture. Click on the TASK tab which can be found next to the Dashboard tab. You can then access the Assessment Task.

To access your child’s work sample via a PC: open Compass and click on Profile (found underneath the photo of your child) you then click on Learning Tasks which is the third tab across at the top of the Profile page. You can then access the Assessment Task.

Should you have any concerns or want to talk with your child’s teacher please contact them via email at their address given on the Interim Reports.

Reading Challenge Reward

On Monday Mr Hughes will be collecting all reading logs to ascertain which students have read for 95% of the challenge period. Due to the busy schedule of next week, the BBQ lunch for the students who achieve this milestone will be held in week one of next term.

Rugby Union 10s Tackle Gala Day

What luck we had with the weather for yesterday’s Gala Day at Cranfield Oval! It was perfect playing conditions for some Rugby. Our two teams had a fantastic time and played with great enthusiasm and school spirit. Thank you to Mrs Sullivan for attending with the students and Mrs Dal Molin for transporting our kids via the school bus. Thank you also to our managers on the day - Mr Buck and Mrs Maloney - we appreciate your help so much! Both our teams made it to the finals and were narrowly defeated by Murrumburrah Public School. What a great effort!

Could all participants please return their short & socks next week please and have their name marked off with Mrs Challen.

MacKillop Swimming Championships

Well done to our amazing squad of swimmers that represented the Canberra-Goulburn Archdiocese at the Championships in Sydney on Wednesday. We certainly enjoyed the opportunity to catch many of their races on the livestream and we are so proud of all of you! 

Congratulations to the following students on their outstanding results:

Evie Brodbeck - 8yrs 50m Free - 4th place

Rory Brodbeck - Snr 200m IM - 16th place, Snr Breaststroke - 10th place

Chloe Buck - 100m Free - 6th place, 12yrs 50m Free - 3rd place, Snr Backstroke - 2nd place & Snr Fly - 3rd place 

Kynan Burgess - 11yrs 50m Free - 6th place & 11 yrs Fly - 15th place

Sam Presser - 100m Free - 14th place, 12yrs 50m Free - 16th place & Snr Fly - 15th place

Snr Boys Relay Team - Sam Presser, Jesse Gault, Rory Brodbeck & Kynan Burgess - 8th place

Snr Girls Relay Team - Myami Robinson, Chloe Buck, Kate Aston & Harlee Cartwright - 11th place

Congratulations to Chloe Buck who has been selected to represent the MacKillop Swimming Team in Senior Backstroke at the upcoming NSWPSSA Swimming Championships in Sydney at the end of next week - what an amazing achievement Chloe! We wish you the very best of luck!

Archdiocesan Football Trials

We wish Rory Brodbeck, Sam Presser, Kynan Burgess, Harry Collins, Pippa Smith & Piper Hardy the best of luck as they head to Lyneham next Tuesday to compete for selection in the Archdiocesan Football Team. We hope you have an amazing experience!

Archdiocesan Sport - Year 5 & 6 only

Rugby Union - 28th May

Registrations are via the Canberra-Goulburn Sports Webpage:

https://www.sport.cg.catholic.edu.au/nominations

https://csnsw.sport/help/help-guide-for-parents

There has been a slight change to the order in which the photos will be taken which is as below.

Monday 8th April

3/4A 

KMW 

1M 

1/2 C 

2M 

Siblings 

Wednesday 10th April

KKW 

3/4S

3/4R 

5D 

5Z 

6C 

6E 

Students are expected to wear their full blue summer uniform for the photos. 

If your child will be away on the scheduled day please contact the front office to make arrangements. Please note that we will be doing whole class photos (group shot) this year so if your child is away for the class photo they will be listed absent. We will be unable to do make up class photos. 

FAMILY PHOTOS 

Online ordering for Family/Sibling photos has now closed. If you haven’t already ordered yours but would like to do so, you must include the correct money in an envelope with your children’s names and classes. Please note that these will be taken on Monday. 

The Community Council are hosting a Disco for the children on the 11th April. This event is to raise money to enhance the music program at the school. The details are as follows: 

• K-2 will run from 5-6pm. 
• 3-6 will run from 6:15 to 7:45pm. 

Costs will be:

$10 for one child. 

$18 for 2 children. 

$25 for 3 or more children.

Entry price includes a sausage sandwich, popper, lolly bag and a glow bracelet.  

Tickets can be purchased by the LINK HERE or at the front office at school.