GENERAL NEWS
YEAR 6 - LEADERSHIP DAY - TAMWORTH
Chocolate mud cake, Zooper Doopers and sausages sizzling. Am I in Heaven? Nope, welcome to Year 6 Leadership Day 2022. It was held on Tuesday, 8th March 2022 in the school Auditorium. We had so much fun on Leadership Day!! We had four guest speakers who were Adam Brook, Isla Farr, Sam Tickle and Matilda Barton.
The first guest speaker (Adam Brook) gave an amazing speech of his journey through cancer, how he set goals every day for himself throughout his battle and he made a promise to himself. When he was first lying in the hospital bed, he would get up out of bed each day and rehabilitate himself.
The second guest speaker (Isla Farr) is the Vice Captain at Oxley High School. Although Isla is disabled with cerebral palsy, she puts her mind to new challenges everyday. She pushes all the negative comments aside and leads the school with pride.
The next people we had at our Leadership Day were the two MCC captains (Sam Tickle and Matilda Barton). They spoke about how to be a good leader and what their leadership roles as a leader involves. They taught us to socialise with peers and other students and see if you have anything in common! You never know, one of those people you talk to might just become your best friend.
The first activity of the day was the tower challenge. Under your chair there was a coloured ribbon taped there, once you have tied the ribbon to your wrists you had to sit down at your table with your colour group, then you discuss a group name with your team including the colour you got (e.g. the Pink Panthers), then came the first challenge! The first team challenge we had to do was to build a spaghetti building tower. You had to use your leadership skills to try and include every one.
The second challenge was all about ‘popping the put downs’ (negative comments) and you would have to write a negative comment on a balloon, then you would use a sphero and put something on it to pop the balloon.
Finally, the final activity of the day was the Amazing Race. Now I'm sure some of you have heard of it, if not, let me explain it. There are 4 activities to complete, such as blindfold hockey, Crocodile River, a three legged race, a cup pyramid challenge and dancing the Nutbush.
Leadership Day was a blast!! In our opinion, the ‘Amazing Race’ was super fun, as we all loved using our leadership skills to team up and cheer our other team mates on! Thank you to the all of the teachers for organising this day for us. We all appreciated this very much.
By Ruby Brooks, Emily Peeters and Archie Barry
HALOGEN LEADERSHIP DAY - SYDNEY
MUFTI DAY - TOMORROW - FLOOD APPEAL
Tomorrow, Friday 11th March, St Nicholas School will hold a Mufti Day. Students are asked to bring a small donation to support the schools and students of the Lismore diocese. Please remember enclosed shoes and hats are a must. Every cent raised will be forwarded directly to Bishop Greg's Diocese of Lismore 2022 Flood Appeal (https://www.lismorediocese.org/)
ART COMPETITION
GREEN DAY
SRC REPRESENTATIVES TERM 1
Congratulations to the following children who were elected by their peers to as SRC representatives for their class
3I - Taj Fitzgibbon
3R - James Lee
3T - Bailey Maher
4B - Campbell Judd
4M - Kate Baiocchi
4P - Ivy Thomas
5S - Lotty Archer
5M - Oscar Tonkin
5HW - Kalen Loveday
These children will join our Year 6 captains to discuss matters pertaining to students.
VERITAS
Congratulations to the following children who have received Veritas awards so far this year: Campbell Juss, Makayla Lloyd, Nora Tamang, Boston Hitchcock, Ashton Kelaher, Chase Pritchard, Abbey Te Aho, Flynn Dodson, Emilee Wratten, Nate Deacon and Madeline Robinson. These children have been noticed by a variety of teachers leading by example and showing empathy and compassion towards others.
KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS FOR 2023
Applications for Kindergarten 2023 are NOW OPEN and close on Friday 8th April 2022. Please contact the school office for an enrolment pack. Enrolment forms will not be processed until all supporting documents are received: Birth Certificate, Immunisation Certificate, Baptismal Certificate (only required if your child is a baptised Catholic) and proof of student’s residential address.
MANNERS MATTER AT ST NICHOLAS SCHOOL
Manners matter - not just some of the time, but ALL the time. This year we are taking time to remind students about what good manners looks like and sounds like. The past few weeks we have been focusing on the students making eye contact and using a person's name when speaking to someone. We have been encouraging them to stop, look at the person speaking and use the person's name to ensure they are using their best manners.
