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NAPLAN ONLINE PRACTICE TEST 2022
Year 3 and 5 at St Nicholas School will partake in the NAPLAN Online Practice Test on Thursday 24th March 2022. The students will answer sample questions covering Reading, Language Conventions and Mathematics. This is a practice test to ensure that the online platform and requirements are ready for the actual tests on the 10 - 20th May. It also allows students a chance to practise the format of the online test. The test is not marked and no feedback is given to students or teachers about their results.
All students will require their own set of headphones or earbuds to access questions being read to them in the Mathematics and Language Conventions components of the test.
More information about NAPLAN will be published in the newsletter early in Term 2. The following link provides parent information
https://www.nap.edu.au/naplan/parent-carer-support
COVID RELATED ABSENCES
If your child is isolating due to a COVID positive case being present in your household, could you please either call or email the front office as well as completing absence details through the Compass Parent Portal. This will allow us to keep correct absent records in Compass, as well as providing a Home Learning Grid for your child to use in isolation.
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 Judd, 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.
