Junior School News & Sport

Mothers' Day Stall - Raising money for the women of Candela, Peru

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Junior School News

80th ANNIVERSARY CONCERT

The 80th Anniversary Concert, entitled 'A Night Full of Stars' is on this Thursday evening, 18th May, at The Concourse in Chatswood. I hope to see you there.

NAPLAN

The NAPLAN testing has concluded and now begins the task of marking and collating the data. According to the website we will receive the results sometime between mid- August to mid-September.

All students who participated in the NAPLAN tests will get an individual report of their results. NAPLAN individual student reports provide information about what students know and have achieved in the areas of reading, writing, language conventions and numeracy. They also provide information on how students have performed in relation to other students in the same year group, and against the national average (over one million students participate in NAPLAN tests each year) and the national minimum standards.

JUNIOR SCHOOL MOTHERS’ AND GRANDMOTHERS’ DAY

Mass & Mothers' Day Stall for Candela Mission

It was fantastic to see so many mothers and grandmothers attend the Junior School Mass and morning tea. It was also good to see those who couldn’t make the morning tea come along to the morning liturgy. I’m sure the boys appreciated you being there. Thank you to Mr Makarewicz and Mr Roche for their assistance serving the tea and coffee.

I would like to also thank you for your support of our Mothers' Day stall where all the goods are made by the women of Candela in Peru. Every cent of the proceeds goes back to these women which assists them greatly. The beauty of this situation is that the boys get to give a present that gives twice, one to their intended recipient, their mother or grandmother, and the other to the mothers of this community in Peru. We received this message of thanks:

Message from Mary Rajca

On behalf of the Candela Mission I would like to thank you for your generous support of the Mothers' Day Stall. An amount of $2,695 was raised from the sale of their beautiful handicrafts. The money has been banked and it will be used by the women to provide the basic necessities for their families.

***FOUND: After the Junior School Mothers' Day Mass & Morning Tea - a black and white scarf.

YEAR 6 FAMILY DAY –SATURDAY 20TH MAY

Thank you to the Year 6 class representative parents who have organised this event. Please diarise Saturday 20th May when we will be meeting at Willoughby Park at 2.00pm for a family fun day in the park. Bring along cricket bats, bikes, scooters etc. Year 6 class representative parents will be supplying pizzas for afternoon tea to be delivered around 3.30pm. We are looking forward to seeing you all there!

BUS SAFETY

Please note the message below which refers to safety around bus stops and school zones. It is important that we all are vigilant and obey the rules, especially in these areas.

BRIGHT FUTURES

The University of Technology Sydney (UTS) is running a series of exciting as well as educational workshops targeting primary and early secondary school aged students in the July and October school holidays.

The program is called Bright Futures and offers a unique combination of eye-opening experiences based around subjects studied at UTS including STEM, Robotics, Creativity and Forensics.

Please see program details below:

Program Summary.pdf

COMING EVENTS

Thursday 18th May - 80th Anniversary Concert
Friday 19th May - IPSHA Debating Rd 2 Home vs St Luke's Grammar. Venue is the Sarto centre.
Saturday 20th May – Year 6 Family Day.
Tuesday 23rd May – Year 5 Mary MacKillop excursion

Mr T Long - Head of Junior School

Junior School Sport

Thursday Sport: Normal Sport with Winter training continuing for AFL, Football (Soccer) and Rugby.

Rugby: SPX 2 def by WAV 5 and SPX 2 def by NEW 5 (N Arena, L Fitzgibbon, J Bewley)

Football (Soccer):

Mr G Virgona - Junior School Sportsmaster

AFL:

Continuing our strong form, the SPX team had another good win, this time against Waverley 2. The team play is developing and great combinations of play down the field were pleasing to watch. Special mention to the great handball exchanges especially by Billy and Declan and to the unselfish kick pass from Zac to his brother Sam who scored a great goal. Lachlan Connell also demonstrated some excellent marking and positional play.

One aspect of our game that needs a great deal more practice is accuracy in goal kicking with many of the first points of the match coming from behinds from reasonable goal kicking positions. Remember boys that at training you need to be more focused on the simple drills and skills so that you can use them effectively in the pressure of games.

Thanks to Cavan Ryan and Xavier Dwyer for coming down to support and assist their team.

Player Points: 3 – Lachlan Connell; 2 - Billy Sykes; 1 – Jesse Reed.