Learning & Teaching

We're turning Holy Spirit green & gold on Friday 9th August, in support of our Australian Olympic Team!! We invite all of our students to come dressed in as much or as little Green & Gold as they like.

‘Green & Gold Day’ is for everyone. The athletes, the fans, the businesses, the schools, the young, the old and everything in between. It doesn’t matter who you are, your sporting ability or your background, we believe sport has the power to unite us all.

This day is about painting our school in our national colours and being proud of Australia’s sporting achievements, it’s about all Australians coming together and celebrating the green and gold!

GO AUSSIES!!

A big thank you to our Australian Roo Mascot who visited us at assembly last week. 

Nate, you are an absolute superstar!! Thank you to the Sullivan family for letting us borrow the costume!!

3 - 6 ICAS Assessments

Thank you to the families who have signed their child/children up to ICAS English or Mathematics.

Testing Date period  

English: Monday 12th - Friday 16th August 

3/4 ICAS: 12th August @ 9:30am

5/6 ICAS: 12th August @ 12:00pm

Mathematics: Monday 26th August - Friday 30th August

3/4 ICAS: 26th August @ 12:00pm

5/6 ICAS: 29th August @ 12:00pm

Good luck to our students sitting these assessments. We are looking forward to sharing these results with you soon!!

How exciting!! The Premiers’ Reading Challenge for 2024 is up and running!

30 days to go!

Holy Spirit has read 646 books and 5 of our students have finished the challenge! What an AMAZING effort!! Keep reading everyone :)

Our most read books at Holy Spirit:

• Pig the Pug by Aaron Blabey - 6 reads
• Dea Zoo by Rod Campbell - 6 reads
• Guess How Much I Love You? by Sam McBratney - 6 reads
• The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle - 5 reads

It is not too late to take part in the challenge. All login information and usernames can be found in the class announcement message section of each classroom dojo page and via Operoo.

We can't wait to hear about all the magical adventures our students go on throughout this challenge!

Keep reading!!

Book Week 2024

Friday 30th August is Holy Spirit's Book Week dress up day. We invite all of our students to come dressed up as their favourite book character, author or within this year's theme of 'Reading is Magic'.

We will showcase all of our costumes and learning at our assembly at 2:30pm on this day.

Students will take part in a variety of activities throughout this day and week.

Key Dates for Learning & Teaching 

• 12th August - Yr 1 excursion (ACMI & ArtVo)
• 12th - 16th August - SCIENCE WEEK
• 20th August - Prep excursion (Scienceworks)
• 26th - 30th August - BOOK WEEK
• 29th August - Yr 3 excursion (ACMI)
• 30th August - Book Week Dres Up Day

Assembly

Assembly will be held each Friday at 2:30pm in the school hall. All dates for Assembly this term are on the Holy Spirit School Calendar.

T3 Specialist Timetable

We have lots of changes to the timetable for this term. We will endeavour to share an updated timetable, via our School Dojo account, each week.

Library

Our students will visit the library each week and borrow. Students need to bring their library bag to school on their library day to borrow. The timetable for this term is below:

The library will be open each Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday morning from 8:35 - 8:50am.

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Have the best fortnight,

Kayla Flindt-Petersen

Learning & Teaching Leader