Junior School News

FREE K-12 Virtual Trivia Night -

Register today!

COVID-19 has put a spanner in the social event calendar and as a result, we are all missing out on our wonderful, College community events!

To keep the College community vibe alive, we are hosting a FREE K-12 Virtual Trivia Night! Get your whole family together for a night of fun with great prizes to be won.

1st place is a $300 voucher of choice!
2nd place is a $200 voucher of choice!
And for the more adventurous, the Best Dressed Team can win a $100 voucher of choice....you choose a theme, we choose the winner!

So gather the clan and enjoy 1.5 hours of trivia fun for all families with students in Kindy through to Year 12. Visit this link to register!

If you have any questions about the evening, please email me at events@stgregs.nsw.edu.au

Ms Melissa Watts

Communications and Community Engagement Coordinator

Español a la distancia- Spanish fun during remote learning

Well, what a term it has been! Throughout all of the challenges, the students at St Greg’s Junior school have managed to have a lot of fun during their remote learning term. It has definitely been different. Especially whilst learning Spanish through an Ipad or computer screen.

We have however had a lot of fun. Through song, dance, storytelling and beautiful artworks, we have managed to get our family members involved in something fun during these tricky times for a lot of us.

I am so proud of all of the students who week after week submitted colourful and enthusiastic pieces of work through the screen! MUY BIEN!

I look forward to seeing what Term 4 brings. No doubt it will be great to finish the school year speaking Spanish like champions!

Mrs Paula Grados

Spanish Teacher

AFL NSW/ACT Volunteer of the Year recipients announced

Congratulations to our very own, Mr Darryl Howe, in the Junior School, for being nominated and winning in the category, NSW/ACT Primary School Ambassador!! This is an amazing achievement. Stay tuned for a detailed profile on Mr Howe in the coming weeks!

AFL NSW/ACT congratulates the nine hardworking volunteers who have been recognised in the AFL NSW/ACT Volunteer of the Year awards for 2021.

Award winners have come from across NSW. From Leeton in the Riverina to Glen Innes in the state’s north, Bathurst in the Central West to metropolitan Sydney.

Each one has played a role in enhancing our game and encouraging others to get involved.

Junior School Cookbook

Congratulations and well done Junior School families!

Around 130 families including staff, contributed.
186 recipes submitted and included
304 pages in total
41 sponsors

Orders are now open through this link on Trybooking. There is no limit on the number of books ordered.

I would like to confirm that every recipe submitted by a family is included. If you submitted two, or three, two have been included. Every child who entered a photo in the competition has had at least one of their photos included in the book. These were all amazing. Thank you for your great ideas and creativity!

Please don’t wait to order your books. The number of books ordered will determine how many are printed. Order these for Christmas or gifts for family members. Don’t miss out!

Thank you for making it a treasure!

Mrs Diana Ivancic

Assistant Head of Junior School

Book Week Wrap Up

Whilst the memory of Book Week 2021 may now be fading, there was so much to celebrate and so many congratulations to be made. Each morning, our students enjoyed a special story via Seesaw, with particular mention for the brady bunch style re-telling of “The Gruffalo” by our Senior Leadership Team and School Captain, Lachlan McInerney’s video of “Too Cute’, by Philip Bunting was outstanding.

Along with stories being shared every day, all of our students had the opportunity to meet author Coral Vass online, in our virtual author sessions, one each for Grades 5 & 6, 3 & 4 and K-2. These sessions were well-attended by our students working from home and we hope that our parents and carers got to enjoy them as well.

Coral’s passion for making connections between images, her ideas and the intended reader was fabulous. It was a wonderful experience for our students to explore in their own planning and writing.

On Thursday 26 August, we launched our Virtual Book Character Parade, using photos submitted by families via Seesaw. Although never the same as the real parade feel, this year’s virtual Book Character Parade was still a magnificent showcase of the ingenuity of our students and their families, especially in creating their own costumes with limited supplies at home. We had some truly magnificent submissions using everyday items and not much else. A huge shout out to all of those families who are thinking outside the square!

Also on 26 August, we released our Book Week Wrap Up video including the announcement of all of our competition winners. Senior Competition winners can be found in the Senior School section of this newsletter, and don’t forget to check out our K-2 Spelling Bee winners in this issue as well.

Our Junior School Book Week Competition winners are as follows:

Where in the World are St Greg’s Staff? This activity saw families pitted against one another in trying to track down the location of our staff, from anywhere in the world. The winners are:

Kindergarten - Harrison R; Year 1 - Elyse B; Year 2 - Tyler C; Year 3 - Siena A and Addison D; Year 4 - Ariana M; Year 5- Lennox U; Year 6 - Michael Y; Year 7 - Tristan C; Year 8 - Domenico C; Year 9 - Ben H; Year 11 - John M

K-4 Other World Creations Competition: Students designed an ‘Other World’ using any material or format. One winner was selected from each grade K-4. Congratulations: Kindergarten– Samira P; Year 1 – Harper S; Year 2 – Malia B; Year 3 – Eli P; Year 4 – Lucas S

Class Costume Prize Winners: Each student who submitted a photo for our Virtual Book Character Parade was given an entry into the class costume prize draw. The following students are our winners: Kindergarten – Ayla C; Year 1 – Lucia G; Year 2 – Ava H; Year 3 – Thomas F; Year 4 – Sabah P; Year 5 – Annie J; Year 6 – Lily H

Mrs Rachael Cosentino

Teacher Librarian/Literacy Specialist

Spelling Bee Finals