GENERAL NEWS

STUDENT LED LEARNING CONFERENCE

Thank you to the parents who have attended the Student Led Learning Conferences over the past two weeks. We hope that you have enjoyed seeing a showcase of your child's learning. It has been wonderful to see the number of parents coming into the school to show support for your child's learning.

If you were unable to attend your child's conference, please contact your child's teacher.

PUPIL FREE DAYS

The following are the Pupil Free Days for the remainder of 2024.

Please mark in your diary....

Friday 5th July
Monday 22nd July
Tuesday 23rd July
Monday 14th October
Friday 20th December

GRANDPARENTS DAY

One of the happiest and biggest days on our school calendar! Grandparents Day will be celebrated on Friday 26th July (Week 1 Term 3). We would love to invite all of our Nans, Pops, Grans and Grandpas and special grandfriends to come along and join us on this special day where we have the opportunity to celebrate and give thanks to God for these special people in our lives.

NEW ART SPACE

Last year our School Captain Lyla Davidson and Vice Captain Eve Simpson brought a proposal to Mrs Tyrrell and Mr Clery to create a quiet drawing and sketching space to be available at some break times in the last demountable. They requested a larger wet area for the space. The space has now been renovated and opened last Friday at second break to anyone who wants to come in and have some quiet time sketching or drawing. Mrs Tyrrell will open this space on some Fridays at second break.

KAREN CROAKE - PUBLISHED ARTICLE

We would like to acknowledge and congratulate the wonderful work of Karen Croake. Karen is the Subject Matter Expert: Inclusion - Vision Support for the Armidale Catholic Schools who works closely with our school community members. Karen has had an article published in the British Journal of Visual Impairment. This journal is for all professionals concerned with children and adults who have a visual impairment and is a forum for all views on related subjects. The article highlights the need for further research and the development of evidence-based pedagogy regarding the successful acquisition of more complex reading skills for braille readers in this age group.

Here is the link to Karen's article:

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/02646196241250200

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. This term our focus is on ‘Valuing, respecting and caring for others’.

Congratulations to the following children who received Veritas awards last week:

Evie Bird, Ruby Cannon, Morrigan Gillett, Harrison Preston, Daniel Ngwu, Archie Snape, Sophia Cordy, Connor O'Brien, Mila Daly, Evie Cunningham, Chase Lintott, Arnav Dagar, Louellen Duncan, Bethany Bolton, Pip Elliott, Taj Fitzgibbon, Ruby McHugh, Sargun Kaur, Isabella Harding-Brown and Baxter Barry.

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.