Primary School News

Welcome Back!

Welcome back to Term 3 and a big welcome to our new Reception families that started this term.  We also welcome several International Students who are visiting some of the Primary classes for a few days to a few weeks.  We hope they enjoy their time with us.

We would like to officially welcome our new primary teachers who also started at the beginning of the term. Miss Kendall Schenk who has replaced Mrs Victoria Ruggiero while on maternity leave and Mr Cameron Brealey who has replaced Miss Jessica Sullivan.  In Henry Vo’s Year 6 class, Miss Katarina Schulz will be completing her pre-service placement for the first four weeks of this term. We would also like to take this opportunity to congratulate Mrs Victoria Ruggiero and her husband, Mr David Ruggiero on the birth of their gorgeous daughter Amelia, who arrived 11 days early and all are doing very well.

On Thursday 27 July, there were 23 primary students from Years 3 to 6 who competed in the Australian Mathematics Competition. We congratulate these boys on their efforts and look forward to getting their results back later this year.

On Tuesday 1 August, there were 14 students in Years 2 to 6 who sat the ICAS English paper and the last ICAS paper will be Maths on 15 August is our biggest paper with 33 students opting to sit this.  The results for both will be available next term. 

Last term 11 students in Year 3 to 6 completed the Digital Technologies paper, we received 2 Distinctions and 5 Credits.

Distinction:

Luca D’Orazio (Year 3)

Matthew Wright (Year 6)

Credit:

Kian Leonard (Year 3)

Hamish Skene (Year 4)

Jordan Hutt (Year 6)

Isaac Jacobs (Year 6)

Stefan Zienkiewicz (Year 6)

On 30 May 2017, 18 students in Year 2 to 6 completed the Science paper.  Out of those 18 we received 1 Distinction, 2 Credits and 4 Merit certificates.

Distinction:

Isaac Jacobs (Year 6)

Credit:

Ananthu Ananthakumar (Year 2)

Anay Vishal (Year 2)

Minh Lam (Year 3)

Merit:

Alexander Frith (Year 2)

Luca D’Orazio (Year 3)

Matthew Wright (Year 6)

Stefan Zienkiewicz (Year 6)

On 14 June 2017, 15 boys completed the Spelling paper from Year 2 to 6.  From these 15 students, we received 1 Distinction, 7 Credits and 2 Merit certificates.

Distinction:

Hugh Caton (Year 4)

Credit:

Ananthu Ananthakumar (Year 2)

Minh-Chuong Tran (Year 3)

Max Sampson (Year 3)

Stefan Zienkiewicz (Year 6)

Matthew Wright (Year 6)

Isaac Jacobs (Year 6)

Jordan Hutt (Year 6)

Merit:

Anay Vishal (year 2)

Jayden Dang (Year 5)

We have once again registered for the Earn and Learn rewards at Woolworths which started on 26 July.  The more stickers we receive the more rewards we will be able to redeem, so please ask all your family and friends to collect these for us as well.  We are aiming this year to get 20,000 stickers.  If you require more sheets, you son will be able to collect these from his class teacher or from the Primary Administration Building.

This term we are going to be alternating every Friday morning between either an Assembly in Frassati Hall or a Mass/Liturgy in the School Chapel. 

Week 2  - Year 4H Assembly

Week 3  - Year 3P Liturgy

Week 4  - Year 2WH Assembly

Week 5  - Year 6V Assembly

Week 6  - Wednesday – Father’s Day Liturgy STAFF RETREAT ON FRIDAY

Week 7  - Year 5 Mass

Week 8  - Rec K and S Assembly

Week 9  - Year 1 Grand friends Liturgy

Week 10  - End of Term Assembly (Dismissal 1.00pm)

On Thursday 3 August, we celebrated St Dominic’s Feast Day. This is a day the whole school comes together to celebrate the life of our founding Saint. The day is very busy with different events happening throughout the day. As a Primary School, each of the classes completed different activities between recess and lunch.

Reception S and K  - Making Rosary Beads

Year 1S and 1HH  - Sketches of St Dominic statue at the front of the school

Year 2WH  - Decorating biscuits

Year 3P  - Scavenger Hunt around the school

Year 4H  - Pilgrimage talk with Fr Matthew Boland

Year 5B and 5OL  - Helping with an activity in ELC

Year 6NR and 6V  - Kahoot! about St Dominic and research activity

Mrs Alison Ronoastro

Acting Deputy Principal – Head of Primary