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Term 3 Week 7: 2022

From the Principal

Dear Parents/Caregivers,

Golf Day

We had a fantastic afternoon on Saturday for our heroes and villains golf day! A huge thank you to our sponsors for your generous donations, to our parents that provided a dish and to our staff for all your assistance in washing up and dishing out on the night. We also appreciate all the efforts from the golf club to have the greens and fairways ready for our golf day, we know a lot of work goes into the maintenance of the course. Lastly- thanks to past parent AJ for cooking the BBQ, we appreciate it! Our school successfully raised $960.

Parent Teacher Interviews

We will be holding Parent Teacher Interviews again this term, like Term 1 these are not compulsory and will only be required if the parent or teacher requests one. We will be sending home more information about the interviews in the coming weeks.

Pupil Free Day

Just a reminder we have a pupil free day coming up on Friday 2nd September. Our staff will be working here in Hughenden with the St Patrick’s Winton staff on a variety of topics including the latest version of the Australian Curriculum, Moderation and co-planning for writing alongside our friends from Winton. We thank the Winton staff for making the effort to travel over and we look forward to continuing our relationship with St Pat’s.

Father’s Day Breakfast

This year to celebrate Father’s Day we welcome all our Dads to join us for breakfast on Thursday 1st September. We will have a liturgy following breaky for anyone wanting to stay. Please join us from 8.30am in our eating area.

Changing of school times

Last week we sent home a survey on google forms regarding the changing of our school times for 2023. As a staff we propose our times be altered starting at 8.30am and finishing at 2.45pm. We thank the families that have already completed the survey but would love to hear from as many families as possible regarding the change. You can find the link here. The breakdown of the day would look like as follows:

8.00am- Supervision of students starts

8.30am- Learning time commences

9.30am- Snack Attack

10.30am- Lunch

11.00am- End of Lunch

1.00pm- Lunch

1.30pm- End of Lunch

2.45pm- End of School Day

The structure of the day looks almost identical to our current times other then the times changing and 2 30 minute lunch breaks. The students still spend the same amount of time in the classrooms

Have a great weekend,

Sharn Greenaway

Principal

https://www.sfsh.catholic.edu.au/enrolments/enrolment-enquiries/

Assembly

This week the class in the spotlight is Year 3/4.

Each week a different class will be in the spotlight during assembly and sharing something they have learnt with us.

Student Of The Week

P/1/2 - Isaac Ferguson

3/4 - Adley Crozier

5/6 - Bonita Angus

Happy Birthday

27/08 - Ryder York

Prep/1/2 Happenings

We’re making a recipe book!! We read the book Wombat Stew and we decided to have a go at writing our own recipe for Bush Stew!!

Miss Brown,

ebrown17@sfsh.catholic.edu.au

Year 3/4 Happenings

Check out these Literacy Legends! These hard workers practice a variety of literacy skills including reading, spelling, and writing skills. This week, we focused on alliteration, the "or as in horse" sound in spelling, and comprehension strategies in reading

Miss Allison,

sallison1@sfsh.catholic.edu.au

Year 5/6 Happenings

This week in science we explored where the planets were in relation to the Sun and each other in the Solar System. We lined up with our planets and also looked at how they rotated. Neptune was a long way away!

Miss Eriksen,

leriksen5@sfsh.catholic.edu.au

Family Fun Fair Dodgers

The raffle ticket books for the Dodgers went home on Wednesday the 24th of August. If you require any more we have a few left at the office. Below are the Prizes!

Scholastic Bookclub

Hi Families,

Orders for Issue 6 are due back on Friday the 2nd of September.

No late orders will be accepted.

Tuckshop

Reminder: Tuckshop is now on Friday.

We are still after tuckshop volunteers, if you have some free time on a Friday please feel free to pop up and lend a hand!

Home Bake Roster - Term 3

Guido's Gossip

A message to our Dads: Celebrating Father’s Day

In today’s world, the role of a father has dramatically changed, with many dads being celebrated for being sensitive caring, and more hands-on. Research has shown that the amount of time fathers are now spending teaching, helping, and playing with their children has tripled. This has transformed our understanding of how fathers shape their children’s lives from the start, challenging the conventional and outdated ideas of parenthood and gender.

Dads who involve themselves with physical activity with their children play a key role in influencing them to learn self-control, face challenges, regulate their emotions and take manageable risks. In order to be a great dad, it is important you engage with frequent self-care and look after your own mental health. This allows you to be more responsive to your child’s needs, and engage more readily in play, and learning activities.

The Fathering project was founded in 2013 by Professor Bruce Robinson in Western Australia, with the aim of supporting fathers, and father figures. The Fathering Project is an incredible host of ‘fathering’ tips and resources that aims to improve child development outcomes, by inspiring and equipping fathers and father figures to effectively engage with their kids. This platform helps dads to be the best dads they can be for themselves, their children, and their families. Click the link below to have a gander.

https://thefatheringproject.org/fathering-channel/

Happy Fathers day

Brittany