GENERAL NEWS

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.

NAPLAN INFORMATION 2025: Year 3 and Year 5

Upcoming NAPLAN testing will occur for our Year 3 and Year 5 students during Weeks 7 and 8. Please take note of the following dates and ensure that your child has a working set of headphones/earbuds at school for these tests.

WEDNESDAY 12th March: Writing Test

THURSDAY 13th March: Reading Test

MONDAY 17th March: Conventions of Language Test

TUESDAY 18th March: Numeracy Test

WEDNESDAY 19th March - MONDAY 24th March: Final Catch up testing

In preparation for NAPLAN, our class teachers have been undertaking activities to help students become familiar with the format and functionality of the online tests. These preparation activities are not an assessment of student ability and will not be marked.

The public demonstration site (https://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/public-demonstration-site) is available to see the types of questions, tools and functions used in the NAPLAN tests.

Further information about NAPLAN is available on the NESA website (https://educationstandards.nsw.edu.au/wps/portal/nesa/k-10/understanding-the-curriculum/naplan/parent-information).

If you have any questions about NAPLAN, please contact Amanda Doyle or Shelly O'Sullivan (Leaders of Pedagogy).

St Nicholas Open Morning

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. We announce our Veritas award recipients at Friday morning assemblies every fortnight.

Congratulations to the following children who received Veritas awards in Week 4:

Kaitlyn Miller, Kaiden Bonnell-Campbell, Angus Linton, Mila Kilby, Hunter Moffitt, Adelaide Burgess, Callie Bolton, Chase Lintott, Maddison McDougall, Marlee Prussing, Alera Ison, Yohan Roy, Christian Iles, Baxtar Sharp, Samuel, Xander Kidd and Suzannah Kunovic.

SRC - TERM 1

Congratulations to the following children who were elected by their peers as SRC class representatives for Term 1.

3W - Marni Macdonald

3DE - Zayne Ramirez

3C - Mia Greening

4M - Clint Wellington

4RC - Sophia Wadwell

4T - Riley Ferguson

5W - Lily Jackson

5H - Flynn Thomas

5KS - Isabelle Knox

Their first job was to help serve pancakes on Shrove Tuesday.

Collection of Student Residential Address

Please see the below flyer of information provided by the Australian Department of Education regarding the collecting of residential addresses of our students and other information.

OPEN CLASSROOMS

This year we are delighted to continue to welcome our parents into our classrooms for the Open Classrooms. Thank you to those parents who were able to join us last week for the Infants Open Classrooms. This term they will be held on the following days from 8:15 - 8:45am.

Primary- Yr3 - Yr6: Friday 7th March

To ensure a successful session, please:

Respect the timings. Staff and students will be required at the 8.45am morning assembly.
Respect these sessions are not Parent-Teacher meetings. Teachers will be in the learning spaces to support participation, though will not be expected to answer questions on your child’s academic achievement, growth or wellbeing.
Remember every day at St Nicholas is an opportunity for a Parent-Teacher Meeting. If you would like to meet with your child's teacher, please reach out to them and arrange a mutually convenient time.
Respect the privacy and dignity of all students. Enjoy the opportunity to look at your child's learning, though refrain from comparing it to peers.
Respect the learning spaces. Please understand the learning spaces are fluid and places of work. Our students and staff take great pride in their learning spaces, though also understand learning is not always pretty. Quality learning can be messy.
Respect all staff by only visiting the open spaces of your Infants aged child.

NORMAN NEWS

Norman, our much loved wellbeing dog, is off to a great start to 2025 at St Nicholas, and is currently attending school on Tuesdays and Thursdays. He's already made friends with lots of new Kindy students and has helped many transition happily into school of a morning. Year 1 and Year 2 have had the pleasure of Norman's company during reading groups and he's also been quite interested in helping out in the fairy garden as we endeavour to freshen things up. With the weather being so hot, he headed off to the groomer last week and is now sporting a super trim new haircut. Although he looks quite different, we still think he's a handsome boy!

Just a reminder that all our staff, students and families can continue to support Norman's role at St Nicholas by following the three expectations.

Stay tuned for more updates as the year progresses.

PUPIL FREE DAYS

The following are the Pupil Free Days for the remainder of 2025.

Please mark in your diary....

Friday 11th April
Monday 26th May
Monday 21st July
Tuesday 22nd July
Monday 13th October
Thursday 18th December

SCHOOL UNIFORM - We wear it with pride!

At St Nicholas School we have high expectations with wearing our uniform with pride. We therefore seek parent and student support with wearing our uniform correctly each day. Each week for every student our sports uniform is to be worn Monday, Wednesday and Friday and our formal uniform is to be worn on Tuesday and Thursday.

We understand that at times students may need to wear an alternate piece of attire because of an unforeseen circumstance. If this is the case please email your child's class teacher to let them know.

SCHOOL ZERO TURN LAWN MOWER FOR SALE $5,500

2013 Husqvarna MZ5226 zero turn lawn mower recently fully serviced 338.00 hours

Please contact Jennine Grady for inquires or to make a time to inspect.

Contact to be made via email only please jgrady@arm.catholic.edu.au

Green Day 2025

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.