GENERAL NEWS

PUPIL FREE DAYS

The following are the Pupil Free Days for the remainder of 2024.

Please mark in your diary....

Monday 27th May
Friday 5th July
Monday 22nd July
Tuesday 23rd July
Monday 14th October
Friday 20th December

ST NICHOLAS GREEN DAY/ART COMPETITION 2024

Thank you to everyone who came along to support Green Day and the Art Competition. A huge thank you to the Yr 6 students who showed excellent leadership when running their stalls. Thank you to their Yr 6 teachers for all their organisation behind the scenes.

Thank you to all the students who took part in our Art Competition and entered some masterpieces! Thank you to Mrs Henry for her coordination of this event.

In total (Green Day and Art Competition combined), we raised $1500.00 for Caritas which is outstanding.

St Nicholas Art Extravaganza 2024

We are thrilled with the number of entries, artistic talent and the variety that was on display yet again in our annual art competition. This year artworks were judged by Miss Ellie Johnson and Mrs Shelly O’Sullivan. We thank them for their time and the huge task it is to choose winners in each of our sections. Students were also able to vote for the artworks in their own stage and the recycled sections to find Student Choice winners for each category. We are pleased to announce that with more than 320 entries we have raised $588.90 for Caritas. Congratulations and a huge thank you to everyone who participated in the St Nicholas Art Extravaganza this year.

The following winners were presented with their certificates and prizes at assembly this week:

Early Stage One

1st: Evie Bird

2nd: Wyn Townsend

3rd: Ava Harwood

HC: Auron Clynes

Student Choice: Chloe McAuley

Stage One

1st: Lincoln Heywood

2nd: Kaiden Bonnell Campbell

3rd: Audrey Rosewarne

HC: Riley Bartlett

Student Choice: Hallie Masters

Stage Two

1st: Jonty Townsend

2nd: Nellie Burgess

3rd: Harper Henry

HC: Zoey Davis

Student Choice: Sophia Wadwell

Stage Three

1st: Faith Kelaher

2nd: Myah Prussing

3rd: Hannah Davidson

HC: Liam Roworth

Student Choice: Hugo Clery

Recycled Art

1st: Ruby McHugh

2nd: Eli Johnson

3rd: Reuben Gallagher

HC: Samuel Lane

Student Choice: Darcy Lane

HAPPY EASTER FROM NORMAN

Norman has just enjoyed his first two full days of “wellbeing work” at St Nicholas this week…..what a success! Congratulations to all our students for “keeping calm and carrying on with their learning” when Norman has gently joined their learning spaces. Many of our students have now had the opportunity for a little pat or snuggle. It’s also been lovely to see so many calm greetings and smiles on our students’ faces as they’ve entered the school gate past Mr Clery and Norman of a morning.

Happy Easter to all from our furry friend Norman! See you again next week.

EASTER HAT PARADE

It was lovely to see all the students on Monday parading their Easter Hats which were made here at school with their buddies. It was also great to see so many parents and friends supporting such an event.

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VERITAS

Our Veritas Awards stem from our school motto - ‘Veritas’ - meaning truth. The Veritas Award is awarded to students who have been consistently displaying citizenship, leadership and/or Christian Living. Students receiving a Veritas Award are those students who have displayed our ‘Rules for Living’ in their everyday interactions. This term our focus is on ‘Valuing, respecting and caring for others’.

Congratulations to the following children who received Veritas Awards recently; Alex Unwin, Harper French, Addyson Pollock, Darcy Kavanagh, Kingston Davies, Elsie Gibson, Sidney Remorozo, Marlee Prussing, Sophia Wadwell, Lucy Shaw, William French, Alera Dallas, Sara Scott, Lara Macdonald, Harrison Randall, Lily McNair, Eleanor Pryor and Michael Rankmore.

COMPASS MEDIA CONSENT

IMPORTANT !!! Please make sure that you jump onto COMPASS and approve or decline the Media Consent event for your child or children.

SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS

All parents need to be aware, our supervision of students

does not begin until 8.15am each day.

St Nicholas School gates will not be open until the arrival of the first school bus at approximately 8.10am. It is not appropriate for children to be at school before this time with no supervision.

If your child/ren require care before 8.15am you may like to consider before school care here at school with Esteem.

COVID INFORMATION

At the end of 2022, National Cabinet announced that people who test positive to COVID-19 do not need to isolate. In line with this announcement, schools will continue to follow guidance issued by NSW Health to support the safety and wellbeing of our school communities.

Staff and Students with COVID-19 Symptoms

If a student or staff member is unwell and has any symptoms they should always test for COVID-19 and not attend school until they are symptom free.

Positive COVID-19 Cases

If a student or staff member receives a positive result with a RAT or PCR test they should:

Notify school of positive results as soon as possible.