School News
Upcoming Dates, RE News, Library News & Important Updates
SCHOOL CALENDAR & COMMUNICATION
Please click here to access our school calendar to view all important upcoming dates. St Edward's Parent Calendar can also be accessed via your Compass Portal. From the Compass app you can access the calendar from the calendar symbol at the bottom of the screen. If you are accessing Compass via a browser the calendar symbol is on the top left.
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R.E. NEWS
Ash Wednesday/Beginning of Year Mass
Ash Wednesday mark the beginning of the season of Lent. Our Ash Wednesday and Beginning of Year Mass will be held in our church at 10.00am on Wednesday 14th February for Years 1-6. Our infants students will travel by bus to and from the church with their class teachers. Thank you to those who have consented already on Compass. Please consent prior to the date above.
PARENTS PLEASE NOTE, NO MEAT PRODUCTS will be available from the School Canteen next Wednesday 14th February in observance of Ash Wednesday.
2024 Sacraments
Throughout the year students who have been baptised as Catholic have the opportunity to receive the following sacraments.
Year 2 - First Confession (Term 1)
Year 3 - First Eucharist (Term 2)
Year 6 - Confirmation (Term 3)
If your child is not in the sacramental years listed above, and you would like your child to receive the sacraments (they may be new to the school or may have missed a sacrament due to illness), please contact Mrs Clarke. It is important to make contact, as we only keep records of the completed sacraments at school. The sacraments follow a specific order in our parish. For example, students wishing to receive Eucharist must have received the sacrament of Confession beforehand. There is preparation involved in all sacraments.
First Confession
First Confession will be later this term (Week 7). Please keep an eye out in the newsletter and on Compass for further information regarding the Information Night and Enrolment Masses.
School Leaders Induction
Our School Leaders for 2024 will receive their badges and blazers at a special ceremony. A date for this is yet to be finalised. As soon as we have more information, families will be informed.
LIBRARY NEWS
Welcome to the Library 2024.
Included in this newsletter are:
*Library days for each class
*NSW Premier's Reading Challenge invitation and instructions
*Library Clubs and opening days on each campus, so please keep reading.
Library Bags
Please note that EVERY student is expected to have a library bag on their library day. Anything that gives the library books some protection on their way between home and school, and is practical for school, is fine. Even an old, clean pillowcase is good to use. All students have the opportunity to swap their books in break time on any day the library is open at their campus not just on their class library day.
We have many library events lined up for this year so it will be another exciting year for our students. Information will be shared throughout the year.
Class Library Days
Cycle A - ODD weeks
Monday: 3M and 3E
Tuesday: 3P and 4E
Wednesday: 4M and 4R
Thursday: 2M, 2H, 2P, 2W
Friday: All Kindergarten - every week. Year 1 students who bring their bags can swap their books.
Cycle B - EVEN weeks
Monday: 5Q, 5H and 5 C
Tuesday:
Wednesday: 6C, 6S and 6O
Thursday: 1L, 1C, and 1K. Year 2 students who bring their bag can swap their books.
Friday: All Kindergarten - every week
NSW Premier's Reading Challenge
We are very excited to give the students at St Edward’s Primary School the opportunity to participate in the 2024 NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge. This is a proud tradition at St Edward’s and every student is invited wholeheartedly to participate.
Every student at the Infants campus with be automatically be signed up to the challenge, Primary students will need to complete the online form.
The Challenge aims to encourage in students a love of reading for leisure and pleasure, and to enable students to experience quality literature. It is not a competition but a challenge for each student to read, to read more and to read more widely. There is an age appropriate list of books that participants can choose from to read (also be read to) and if they experience the required amount of books they will receive a special Premier’s Reading Challenge certificate.
The Challenge begins on Monday 26th February and runs until Friday 23rd August, 2024.
PLEASE NOTE!! Any books on the list that your child has read (or you have read to your child for K-2) over the summer holidays can be counted for this year’s challenge.
Further information can be obtained from the following website:
https://online.det.nsw.edu.au/prc/home.html
If you are interested in registering your child / children for the challenge, please complete the online form by Monday 26th February. We will then send home any further information necessary to log in and get started. Replies later than this date are not a problem as you can start any time but the closing date remains the same.
St Edward's Library Clubs
The clubs include:
Early Bird Reading Club: from 8.30am every day when each campus is open.
Monday: Lego Club - Primary
Tuesday: Games Club - Primary
Wednesday: Lego Club or Craft Club - Primary
Thursday: Lego Club - Infants
Friday: Games and Lego Club - Infants
Encourage your child to be a part of our busy, happy, vibrant library community by occasionally joining in with any or all of these activities.
See you in the Library!
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