Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School Newborough eNewsletter

Once upon a time...

3/4BA dressed up in magical, adventurous and creative costumes!

They learnt about "The Unwilling Twin"- where a girl and her pig claimed to be identical twins. We learnt though, that what counts is how we are on the inside. So we created "visible" and "invisible" self-portraits.

Then we learnt "How to Make A Bird". The origami bird task encouraged us to muster our resilience and try (multiple times) until we finally succeeded! We were very proud of our persistence and the beautiful birds we created. Then, it was time to investigate the inside of a bird using a bird anatomy interactive website.

After a big day, they all went home and lived happily ever after.

The end...or is it?

Dear Parents

We are very sad to be saying farewell to several staff members at the end of this year. One very significant farewell is to Helen Procak. Helen has worked at St Mary’s for many years and has always given her very best to any role she has taken on. She is such a team player, going out of her way to provide support across the school. We will certainly miss Helen and thank her most sincerely for all she brings to our school community. As the year draws to a close we also thank Mersina Gelagotis, who has been our Physical Education teacher this year. Mersina has brought so much to our school and we thank her for all that she has been to our school community. Mersina will be missed by all staff and students of St Mary’s. We also say goodbye to Kelsea Timmers who has been a highly valued Education Support Officer for the past two terms this year. Kelsea will be missed by all of our staff and students. We also say goodbye to Jordan McMahon. Jordan has been an Education Support Officer for the past two terms. Jordan has built relationships with staff and students and will be missed by our school community.

We warmly welcome two new members to our staff for the 2022 school year. We welcome Trudee Ridley to the role of classroom teacher two days per week in the 1/2 area. We also welcome Lauren Halket to our team as our new STEM teacher. We are very excited to have these two talented and passionate teachers as members of our staff and we are sure you will all make them feel very welcome.

We are in the final stages of creating the classes and will be letting you know whose class your child is in prior to the Statewide Transition day on Tuesday December 7. This information will be sent to you before this day.

The following are the teacher allocations to classes for next year:

	Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
Foundation AW	Emma Anderson	Emma Anderson	Emma Anderson	Emma Anderson	Bek Warner
Foundation SB	Nicole Skinner	Nicole Skinner	Nicole Skinner	Nicole Skinner	Julian Blackford
1/2 G	Catherine Griffiths	Catherine Griffiths	Catherine Griffiths	Catherine Griffiths	Catherine Griffiths
1/2 B	Alyssa Bell	Alyssa Bell	Alyssa Bell	Alyssa Bell	Alyssa Bell
1/2 DR	Trudee Ridley	Trudee Ridley	Kayla Dobric	Kayla Dobric	Kayla Dobric
3/4 P	Jasmin Prestidge	Jasmin Prestidge	Jasmin Prestidge	Jasmin Prestidge	Jasmin Prestidge
3/4 A	Bree Alger	Bree Alger	Bree Alger	Bree Alger	Bree Alger
3/4 HS	Carrie Schembri	Michelle Hale	Michelle Hale	Michelle Hale	Michelle Hale
5/6 B	Irene Bramstedt	Irene Bramstedt	Irene Bramstedt	Irene Bramstedt	Irene Bramstedt
5/6 A	John Aliotta	John Aliotta	John Aliotta	John Aliotta	John Aliotta

Learning Adjustment			Carrie Schembri		Carrie Schembri
Italian		Carolina Manuele	Carolina Manuele
Music		Bek Warner	Bek Warner
STEM		Lauren Halket	Lauren Halket

Wishing you all a wonderful last few weeks of school for the 2021 school year and I thank you all for your continued support and positivity throughout this ever-changing year. We are so fortunate and blessed to be part of such a wonderful school community.

Kind regards

Lisa Broeren

We need Concert Back Drop Props

The Concert Committee are on the lookout for medium to large fake pot plants that may be borrowed for the filming of the concert. These will bring depth to our impressive backdrop for the "jungle".

If you have something suitable, please drop off your pot/s at the office before Week 10, with your name tucked inside the pot or at the base of the fake plant. All pots will be securely kept in our dedicated concert space. Your assistance is greatly appreciated and we will return these to you in Week 11.

Our Concert will be held on Thursday 9th December at school during the day and a full dress rehearsal on Wednesday 8th December.

Unfortunately due to Covid restrictions we are unable to have an audience at school. However we will have the concert professionally filmed and DVD's will be available to purchase. We will send out information on how to purchase DVD's closer to the date.

Thank you to our amazing team of costume designers who have been very busy creating costumes for your child since February.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to reach out to Catherine Griffiths, Bek Warner or Bree Alger.

Warm regards,

The Concert Committee

A quick peek at some of the amazing Book Week costumes today!

EISTEDDFOD RESULTS – 2021

Encouragement Award – Paddy & Loftus Award

Marlee Korab

Year 3 & 4 Prepared Readings

SECTION 607.1

1st – Mia Blandford

2nd – Mataya Kennedy

3rd – Eva Walsh

HM – Isabella Thorpe, Scarlette Geisler

SECTION 607.2

1st – Georgia Priddle

2nd – Marlee Korab

3rd – Kyah Brown

HM – Georgia McMurdy

SECTION 607.3

1st – Dexter Hoffman

2nd – Mia Aitken

3rd – Luke Scholes

HM – Jasper Warner

SECTION 607.4

1st – Grace Moroney

2nd – Imogen Richardson

3rd – Adeleine Rees

HM – Kaitlyn Laidlaw

SECTION 607.5

1st – Keira Odlum

2nd – Penny Anderson

3rd – Harper deDios

HM – Shiloh Kelly

SECTION – GROUP SPEAKING

1st – Yr 3/4 JP

2nd – Yr 3/4 JA

3rd – Yr 3/4 BA

Year 5 & 6 Prepared Readings

SECTION 608.1

1st – Caitlin Hale

2nd – Ben Skinner

3rd – Rheanna O’Connell

HM – Xavier Schembri

SECTION 608.2

1st – Noah Warner

2nd – Zade Fussell

3rd – Anna Giacobbe

HM – Raymond Hunter

SECTION 609.1

1st – Riley Richardson

2nd – Emily Laidlaw

3rd – Ben Raymond

SECTION 609.2

1st – Jax Cowton

HM – Alison Radford

Vaccination Requirements of Parents, Guardians and Carers and Other Visitors Attending Schools

Parents, guardians and carers who enter school buildings must be fully vaccinated or have a valid medical exception with the following limited exceptions:
• when attending to administer medical treatment to their own child when the treatment cannot be administered by the school
• when attending to collect their child who is unwell and cannot leave the school building unaccompanied by their parent/carer.
• when attending for a momentary period that does not involve any sustained contact with staff or students, for example, to collect a completed art project or similar.

All adults, including parents, guardians and carers attending any school event or activity including, but not limited to assemblies, tours, graduations, transition days or whole school events are required to be fully vaccinated and show evidence of vaccination.

Parents, guardians and carers attending school sites for drop off and pick up who do not enter school buildings do not need to comply with vaccination requirements.

School Fees

Any family who is experiencing financial hardship due the the COVID-19 pandemic is encouraged to contact the office and make a confidential application for fee relief.

Uniform Shop

The Uniform shop will be open to pick up orders or grab last minute items on Friday 28th January 2022 from 10.00am to 12.00pm. Please place orders through CDFpay.

To place orders online please click the link below.