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Dear Parents This Wednesday night we will be holding Stations of the Cross at our school between 7-8pm. This has been a respectful and popular event when we have held this before. Everyone is welcome to come along and have a walk through of the Stations.

We have been working with the RTA looking at our drop-off zone-car park. This has come about as parents have complained about the traffic not flow-ing. This was always designed to have parents in their cars at pick up time while teachers bring the children to the black gate. When a parent arrives and parks their car, your child tells the teachers who then lets the child walk along the path and they get into their car. This allows a consistent traffic flow for parents lining up. This is important from about 3-3.20pm as this is the busiest time. Observations show that some parents are parking and coming into the courtyard to get children and can get caught up in conversations with other parents and therefore taking up carparks for too long a time period. We will look more into this situation but we might need to ask parents not to come into the school to collect their children but to wait in your car for teach-ers to bring the children to the gate. This seems like a logical way of improv-ing and returning our carpark to a drop off and pick up zone, especially be-tween 3-3.20pm. Your support is appreciated.

I hope every family gets an opportunity to celebrate Easter and have some quality time together. A reminder that our times for the Sacred Heart celebra-tions are included in this newsletter. Also that this Sunday there is only on Mass at 9.30am and the Parish will be trialling this format of a 9.30am mass on Sundays for the next six months.

Today we are sending home a separate note regarding NAPLAN with all the children in Years 3 and 5.

Thank you to all the parents who supported our Cross Country event last week and to Mr Lewis for co-ordinating the day.

We are having a Working Bee on Thursday, 30th April from 3.30-6pm, Jobs will include concrete edging, spreading bark-chips, fixing watering systems and repairing outside tables. If we can get a few helpers it wont be a big job. If you have talent in these areas please let Tina know and she will contact Mick Redfern who is co-ordinating the work.

Thank you to all our staff for their hard work this term, to our students for their hard work and the support of families. Have a great break, keep smiling Bede A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was the perfect act.

Mahatma Gandhi

St Anne’s School, Cnr Curlew Cres. & Lowry St. Nth Albury Ph: (02) 6025-1281 email: info@sanaww.catholic.edu.au

Term 1, Week 10 - Tue. 31 March 2015 THIS WEEK

Mon, 30 Mar

Raffle tickets due back (sold or not)

Wednesday, 1 April

Stations of the Cross Evening (7-8pm)

No student banking this week

UNSW ICAS exam forms and payment

due

The scheduled FUNdraising meeting

has been postponed

Thursday, 2 April

Last day of Term 1

Easter raffle drawn

COMING EVENTS

Monday, 20 Apr

Staff Professional Development Day

(children do not attend school)

Tuesday, 21 April

Student’s first day of Term 2

Thursday, 30 April

School Working Bee, 3.30-6pm

Tue, 5 May

School Photos

Tuesday, 12 May

NAPLAN Language Conventions

(spelling, punctuation and grammar)

NAPLAN Writing

Wednesday, 13 May

NAPLAN Reading

Thursday, 14 May

NAPLAN Numeracy

Tuesday, 19 May

ICAS Digital Technologies (Computer

Skills) Exam

Fri, 29 May

Kinder 2016 Enrolment Applications

due (forms available from the office)

Sun, 31 May

First Communion

Wednesday, 3 June

ICAS Science Exam

Tuesday, 16 Jun

ICAS Spelling Exam

Wednesday, 17 June

ICAS Writing Exam

Tuesday, 28 July

ICAS English Exam

Tuesday, 11 August

ICAS Maths Exam

Sat, 15 August

Confirmation, 6pm

Fri, 9 Oct

School Fete

STUDENT BANKING

Please note that school banking will not be conducted tomorrow, banking will resume in Week 2, next term.

SENDING MONEY TO SCHOOL If you are sending money in to school, it would be appreciated if you could send in the correct money. It is becoming increasingly difficulty to supply change as our EFTPOS facilities are being used more often. Thank you.

UNIFORM SHOP Second hand formal winter uniforms

are now available. We are looking for donations of girl’s winter

trousers and culottes. Our opening hours are -

Tuesday, 8.30-8.45am Friday, 3-3.30pm.

The Uniform Shop will be open on Tuesday and Wednesday morning and afternoon (21st & 22nd April), Thursday morning (23rd) and Fri-day afternoon (24th).

RE NEWS

On Wednesday 1st April (tomorrow) we will be conducting a Stations of the Cross evening here at school. There will be a walk-through of each classroom which will depict a Station - the journey Jesus took on Good Friday.

Sacred Heart Church - Easter Services Thurs 2nd April: Holy Thursday Mass 7pm Fri 3rd April: Good Friday Stations of the Cross 10.30 am, Liturgical Celebration 3pm Sat 4th April: Easter Vigil 6pm Sun 5th April: Easter Sunday Mass 9.30am Please note that as of Easter Sunday, Sacred Heart Church will be trialling one Mass on Sunday morning at 9.30am for a period of 6 months. Hav-ing the 6pm Saturday Vigil Mass and one Mass on Sunday will help create more of a community with-in our Parish.

2016 KINDER ENROLMENTS Any current school families who have a child who will begin Kindergarten next year are asked to collect an enrolment application package from the office. Please note that Enrolment Application forms must be submitted prior to 29th May.

CANTEEN ROSTER This week - Wed. 1 April - Suzie Stewart Thu. 2 April - Kay Locke, Sharon Ceglar

ICAS EXAMS A note has been sent home to all children in

Years 3-6 regarding the University of NSW ICAS

exams (International Competitions and Assess-

ments for Schools). If your child is participating in

any of these exams, please ensure that their note

and correct money are returned to school by to-

morrow, Wednesday, 1 April.

WORKING BEE

SAVE THE DATE! We will be having a working bee here at school on the second week of next term -

Thursday, 30th April 3.30-6pm

We have a variety of maintenance/garden tasks that we hope to complete on the day.

See the first newsletter next term for more details.

EASTER RAFFLE

If you still have raffle tickets at home, please bring them in tomorrow (sold or unsold). If any of the lucky families who win a prize do not want to keep their basket, we would be very grate-ful if you could return them after the holidays so they can be re-used for the Fete.

Please do NOT send nuts or nut products to school.

CONGRATULATIONS TO GOLD HOUSE

2015 CROSS COUNTRY WINNERS

MEETINGS: The FUNdraising meeting scheduled for tomorrow

has been postponed

K-6 CROSS COUNTRY Well done to all children who participated in last Wednesdays cross country carnival and a big thank you to all staff and parents and grandparents who came and helped. The event ran smoothly and was a huge success. Gold House (289) took the shield in first place, with Blue (285), Red (282) and Green (236) taking out the minor places. The following children did particularly well and I congratulate them on their achievements…

Kinder Boys 1st Archie Gitsham 2nd Billy Hall 3rd Jed DeMamiel 4th Archie Scammell

Kinder Girls 1st Chase Liersch 2nd Isla Horvatic 3rd Bella Jacobs 4th Alexis Murray

Year 1 Boys 1st Louie Ceglar 2nd Elijah Fischer 3rd Jackson Wise 4th Ethan Tschirpig

Year 1 Girls 1st Kijana McCowan 2nd Rosie Bell 3rd Matilda Tutt 4th Mia Knight

Year 2 Boys 1st Casey Webb 2nd Gabe Browne 3rd Cooper Hall 4th Oscar Cartmell

Year 2 Girls 1st Aleira McCowan 2nd Alicia Spiers 3rd Annabel Sir 4th Summer Lindner

8/9 Boys 1st Sam Webb 2nd Max Ryan 3rd Alonso Gibbons 4th Luke Frohling

8/9 Girls 1st Ruby Lloyd 2nd Tierre Lindner 3rd Rachel McAuley 4th Lyla Bell

10 Boys 1st Jordan Croker 2nd Jesse Pizzolato 3rd Will Liersch 4th Charlie Summerfield

10 Girls 1st Montanna Owen 2nd Lani Wall 3rd Hannah Eken 4th Lilyanne Stone

11 Boys 1st Harrison Arcus 2nd Tyler O’Callaghan 3rd Alec Costaridis 4th Sam Naughton

11 Girls 1st Asheigh Sanson 2nd Grace Aldrich 3rd Mackenzy Muller 4th Skye Bakic

12 Boys 1st Isaac Dykes 2nd Elijah Bodycott 3rd Euriah Hollard 4th Owen Smith

12 Girls 1st Evie Wall 2nd Montanna Mathews 3rd Chloe Clarke 4th Chloe Franciso

These children in Grades 3-6 are eligible to attend the Diocesan Cross Country Carnival to be held in Holbrook, first Friday back next term. Notes and money are due back this Thursday. Please be aware that travel is by bus and we will be leaving before school and won’t be returning on time for regular afternoon dismissal. If your child is unable to attend, I should already know by today.

Chris Lewis

School Carnival Convenor

St Anne’s

Cross Country