DRESSING FOR COLD WEATHER

As the colder weather continues, please ensure your child comes to school dressed warmly each day. Wearing a school jumper, jacket and other appropriate winter uniform items helps students stay comfortable and ready to learn, particularly during outdoor activities.

Please make sure all uniform items are clearly labelled with your child's name. Naming clothing makes it much easier for lost items to be returned to their owners and helps reduce the number of unclaimed items around the school.

Our Lost and Found is located in the walkway near the 5/6 building. If your child is missing a uniform item, we encourage families to check the Lost and Found regularly, as many unnamed items are handed in each week.

We also have plenty of school beanies available for purchase from the Uniform Shop. A school beanie is a great way to help keep your child warm during the colder months while they're outside.

Thank you for your support in helping keep our students warm, comfortable and organised throughout the winter months!

SWIMMING LESSONS

We are pleased to advise that all students from Prep to Grade 6 will participate in swimming lessons during Term 3.

Swimming Lesson Dates

Thursday 30 July (Week 3)
Thursday 13 August (Week 5)
Thursday 27 August (Week 7)
Thursday 3 September (Week 8)
Thursday 10 September (Week 9)
Thursday 17th September (Week 10)

Lesson Times

9:30am – 3/4LR & 3/4DW
10:10am – 3/4SD & 5/6OL
10:50am – 5/6JB & 5/6BP
11:30am – PrepAB & 1CA
12:10pm – PrepCM & 1EW
12:50pm – PrepSC & 2SW

Swimming lessons provide students with valuable water safety skills while helping to build confidence and enjoyment in the water.

Please ensure your child brings:

Bathers
Towel
Goggles (optional)
A plastic bag for wet clothing

Permission forms will be sent home shortly via PAM. Please complete and submit these as soon as possible to ensure your child can participate in the program.

Thank you for your support. We look forward to a fun and successful swimming program.

Kind regards

Travis Ledwidge

CHANGE ROOMS & PHOTOGRAPHY

To support our Child Safe responsibilities and ensure the privacy of all students, parents and carers are not permitted to enter student change rooms or take photographs of students during swimming lessons.

If your child requires assistance changing into or out of their swimwear, please use the designated separate change room.

Please be aware that staff will be supervising students throughout swimming lesson times and may not be available for extended conversations. If you need to discuss any concerns or matters with a staff member, we kindly ask that you arrange an alternative time to meet with them.

Thank you for your understanding and cooperation in helping us maintain a safe and respectful environment for all students.

ATTENDANCE

UNIFORM SHOP

HOURS OF OPERATION

Tuesday 8.45am - 10am

Wednesday 8.45-10am

As families are purchasing items and preparing for the new school year the following information is a reminder about school uniforms! We take great pride in our uniform and would like to remind our families of expectations. Our uniform shop has all requirements and is very well priced with good quality materials! We ask that students do not wear branded clothes (this includes sports shorts and socks.) The sport shorts from the uniform shop are recommended as they are longer in style (as per our SunSmart policy!) Shoes are so important as they work hard! We ask that shoes are fully black (no white soles) and that canvas shoes are not worn (either for formal or sport) Please if you need support with uniforms or have any questions, message us or make contact when we are back at school. We are here to help! Below is the uniform requirements and remember to label all clothing especially jumpers and hats! We will let you know Uniform Shop arrangements. Orders can also be made online.

TUCKSHOP VOLUNTEERS

We need your help. If you can spare some time each week on a Friday, please consider volunteering. We will be unable to run the tuckshop if we do not have your support. Please message us if you can!

If anyone has time available on Fridays to be a volunteer in the tuckshop, please contact Kim on 0419 349 363.

Times:

9 - 10.30am

10.30 - 12pm

12 - 2pm

PLAYGROUP

St Liborius Playgroup runs every Thursday during term time, with opportunities for free play, music, movement and craft each week. Join us in our welcoming and safe environment, a chance for both you and your child to socialise and form connections. We hope to see you there!

Thursdays 9-11am

MacKillop Room, Liborius Centre (look for Fred Bear)

$3 per family - includes hot drinks and morning tea for grown ups

Please bring a healthy snack, water and a hat for each child

CHILDREN CHATTER MATTERS

Morphology activities - Children's chatter matters

Tell a story. Adapting the same cards from the previous week. As each card is played, use the word in a sentence that join together to make a story. This helps develop vocabulary, sequencing skills and memory. At the end of the game, look at the cards and use each word to recall the story. This is a memory skill. It is easier to remember a lot of key words by linking them together in a story.

Flashcards. See how many cards can be read in one minute. Next time, see if that score can be beaten and give a small reward and incentive to beat the previous score. This activity helps to improve the speed at which a word can be recalled from sight.

Jigsaw Game. Using the previous words cut them into their prefixes and suffixes. See how quickly you can join the matching pieces. When all the pieces have been joined, say each word individually and then put them into a sentence. Alternatively, write the prefixes on a post-it-note in one colour and the root words on another colour. Then make words by joining the two different colours.

Spelling words with prefixes. Using the words, say the word you want you your child to spell. Ask them to say, write and highlight the prefix and then the root word with different colours.

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