Tuesday 14 February - Year 6 Camp commences

Sunday 19 February - P&F Picnic

Tuesday 21 February - Shrove Tuesday

Tuesday 21 February - P&F Meeting at 7pm

Wednesday 22 February - Ash Wednesday Mass - Y1-6

Friday 24 February - Assembly - 3G

Thursday 2 March - CAPSS Swimming Carnival

Year 1G - Vincent, Ava

Year 1W - Chloe, Lily

Year 2G - James, Ava

Year 2W - Charlotte, Judsen

Year 3G - Thomas, Alexis, Wesley

Year 3W - Iris

Year 4G - Dohyun, Charlene

Year 4W - April, Kyle

Year 5G - Orlando

Year 5W - Max, Martin

Year 6G - Sofia, William

Year 6W - Carmen, Tiana

NAPLAN is a national literacy and numeracy assessment that students in Years 3 & 5 sit in March (this has been changed from May in previous years).

The NAPLAN Online test window begins on Wednesday, 15 March and finishes on Monday, 27 March 2023.

All students will be involved in a coordinated practice test in Week 5 this term to experience the platform and the different test formats.

The school has begun extensive School Readiness Testing procedures to ensure our devices and networks can support the online assessment.

Our school NAPLAN testing schedule will be released in Week 5.

A public demonstration site is available for parents and students to access. The link below provides access to the NAPLAN Online Demonstration site which provides examples of the different types of question formats as well as practice questions across all 4 testing areas.

Public Demonstration Site Link

More information is available at www.nap.edu.au

We invite you to speak with your child’s classroom teacher if you have any concerns regarding the NAPLAN assessment.

Ash Wednesday Mass will take place for Year 1-6 classes at 9am on Wednesday, 22 February in the St Columba’s Church.

Ash Wednesday is one of the most popular and important holy days in the liturgical calendar. Ash Wednesday opens Lent, a season of fasting and prayer.

Ash Wednesday comes from the ancient Jewish tradition of penance and fasting. The practice includes the wearing of ashes on the head. The ashes symbolise the dust from which God made us. As the priest applies the ashes to a person's forehead, he speaks the words: "Turn away from sin and be faithful to the Gospel.”

Ashes are a symbol of penance made sacramental by the blessing of the Church, and they help us develop a spirit of humility and sacrifice.

The ashes are made from the blessed palms used in the Palm Sunday celebration of the previous year.

We invite all parents to join us for Mass on this reverent occasion.

School fees were sent out this week to the primary contact for every family. If you have not received your fees please check your Junk/Spam folder or with your partner before contacting the school.

School fees are due by 31, March 2023 if paying in full, otherwise a payment plan needs to be selected.

Payment plan option forms are due back to the office by Tuesday, 28 February 2023, all families must complete a form.

If you have any queries regarding your fees please contact our Finance Officer, Narelle Foster.

Hi Everyone,

Last week, the P&F committee and the school met for the Annual Planning Meeting. At this meeting we discussed everything from our theme and vision, what events and activities the P&F will be running this year to our budget and expenditure forecasting. It was a fantastic meeting between Allen and the P&F Committee. We are looking forward to getting stuck into some amazing initiatives for the year.

The P&F are proud to be supporting the school's theme of "Community", which you will see come through in all of the activities and efforts we have planned for the year. If you have anything you will like to see the P&F achieve for the year, please let your class reps or anyone on the P&F committee know.

On that note, thank you to everyone who put their hands up to be class reps for 2023. Our first P&F meeting will be held in the school staffroom next Tuesday, 21 February at 7:00pm. We look forward to seeing everyone there.

Lastly, it looks like Sunday is shaping up to be a lovely sunny day. We look forward to seeing everyone at the school for our Welcome Back School Picnic. Here are the details again-

Where: School Bottom Oval

Time: 2pm-5pm

What to Bring: Picnic blanket, food and drinks. The P&F have organised lawn games, free ice-cream and face painting.

Have a wonderful week everyone.

Hayley Mitchell

P&F President

The year starts from the date of purchase of your Entertainment Book.