PRINCIPAL'S MESSAGE
Dear Parents and Carers
Welcome back to Term 4. The sunshine and warming weather helps to give us an optimistic view of the world as we wait to be able to welcome back our friends and families into our homes and our students back to school.
Next week we will be celebrating Science Week 2021. This is an important part of our learning journey each year and is a whole school initiative. Science Week was postponed from August and will now be celebrated from Monday the 11th October to Friday the 15th of October. The focus this year is on Food - Different by Design. Mrs Petersen, our Science Co ordinator has planned a learning program with guest speakers that develops the theme from a simple level in our infants grades to a more complex program for our older students. We also have a parent only workshop that you might like to attend. Please see the accompanying flyer here Science_week_parent_communication_T4_W1_Google_Docs_2_.pdf and below for the zoom links for each session. Teachers will have the Zoom links included in their lesson plans for next week as well. Our students will have experiences in the following areas:
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Monday 11th |
Fizzics Education Show |
K-6 |
Energy and nutrients in food Food preservation |
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Tuesday 12th |
Around the campfire with David |
K-6 |
Bush tucker and medicinal plants Campfire cooking Seeding our future |
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Wednesday 13th |
Oz Harvest Food Climate |
K-6 |
Food waste and the role of Oz Harvest The relationship between food and climate and how we can make a difference |
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Wednesday 13th |
STEM Challenge Day |
K-6 |
Optional STEM challenge day for students to choose from STEM and Food Science activities |
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Thursday 14th |
Biosecurity Heroes and Villains Mosman Council Environmental Education Officer |
4-6 |
Biosecurity and why it matters |
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Thursday 14th |
Tale of a Wasteful Journey Mosman Council Environmental Education Officer |
K-2 |
Where waste goes Life on a landfill |
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Friday 15th |
Karina Savage: Paediatric Dietician |
Parents only |
Children's health and nutrition and healthy eating Waste free lunchboxes |
The PAWS expectation that we are promoting this week is encouraging children to Be Responsible. We are encouraging children to be ready for learning, on time and to act responsibly in class or Zoom meetings. We hope this will help with the children’s transition back to school. Please see the dates below for each grade’s return to face to face teaching date and other term dates.
Enjoy your week.
Regards
Julie Caldwell
Term 4 2021 Some dates for the diary
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Week 1 |
7th Oct |
Year 3 Mass 9.30am Thursday |
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Week 2 |
12th Oct |
First Reconciliation Program begins |
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11th-15th Oct |
Science Week |
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Week 3 |
18th Oct |
Kinder and Year 1 return |
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21st Oct |
Year 5 Mass 9.30am Thursday |
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Week 4 |
25th Oct |
Year 2 and 6 return |
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27th Oct |
Fun Faith Day |
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29th Oct |
All Saints Mass livestream |
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Week 5 |
1st Nov |
Years 3,4,5 return |
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2nd Nov |
Book Week- Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds |
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4th Nov |
Year 6 Mass 9.30am Thursday |
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Week 7 |
19th Nov |
Water Safety Day |
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Week 10 |
8th Dec |
Virtual Christmas Carols |
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9th Dec |
Year Six Graduation Mass |
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Week 11 |
13th Dec |
Graduation Dinner |
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15th Dec |
School finishes |