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Welcome back to Term 4! It is sure to be an exciting final term of the school year with 9 weeks and 1 day of learning. Whilst it was an incredible trip with my family around Australia over the past 6 months I was eager to return to school and engage with all of the wonderful members of our community. I am so proud of the students and staff for the continued growth our school has achieved over the past two terms and am eternally grateful to Nicole Mikkonen for taking on the role of Principal in my absence, we are so blessed to have her in our community. I would also like to thank Skye McPadden and Andrea McQuirk who thrived in their new leadership positions in my absence.
Dance Display - Feedback Welcomed
We look forward to seeing you all from 5:45pm tonight for our annual dance display. Following feedback in 2023 we have adjusted the layout of the dance display to ensure visibility of the students is optimal. We would welcome any further feedback you may have on enhancing our dance display moving forward, particularly if there is a desire to move the display to a local high school with adequate indoor facilities as our humble Holy Faith Hall is simply not big enough to hold such an event.
Colour Run
It's that time of year again where we prepare to hold our major fundraising event, our Colour Run. The event is scheduled for Friday 22 November in line with our Mission Fete. We will be calling for sponsors in the coming weeks. If you have a business, or know of one, that would be interested in sponsoring this event please get in touch.
Families Leaving St Thomas More's
As we begin preparations for 2025 it is important for the school to have accurate enrolment projections. We would ask you to contact the front office or myself if your family will be posting out of Canberra, moving interstate, or has made the decision to choose another school for your child in 2025.
Luke Donnelly
Principal
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Congratulations to the following students who will be presented with a certificate which reflects an affirmation from their teacher. These affirmations will highlight their applications to their learning as well as affirm how they have been a person of Wisdom, Courage, and Peace. Affirmations will be handed out at 8.50am on Friday morning. Parents are welcome to attend. |
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| Week 1 | Centred in Learning | Centred in Faith |
| Kindergarten | Edward Jackson-Hope | Imogen Carney |
| Year One | Georgia Ramsey | Christopher Harvey |
| Year Two | Sophie Padman | Grace Van der Vloet |
| Year Three/Four Green | Charlie Pinkerton | Grant Henderson |
| Year Three/Four White | Skyla Lavery | Charlotte Khalil |
| Year Five/Six Green | Lachlan Ridgway | Bianca Manna |
| Year Five/Six Green | Charlotte Harvey | Isabella Jones |
| Year Five/Six White | Cooper de Wiljes | Gryffin Huby |
| Year Five/Six White | Violet Nelson | Sophia Austin |
| Principal's Affirmation | Mabel Young | Isabella Hazelwood |
| Principal's Affirmation | Hannah Kiely | Louis Damyon |
| Wednesday 16 October 5.45pm to 7.00pm | Dance Display |
| Friday 18 October | Year 6 photos |
| Friday 25 October | Boorowa Netball & Touch Carnival |
5.6 Green have had a great start to Term 4. We have begun looking at poetry and have commenced our new class novel, Can you See Me? We are looking forward to Dance Display tonight and working with the Cartesian plane in Maths.
Our library learning space has had a facelift! It is a very warm, inviting space to Xplore, read, learn and grow. New shelving, shelf labels and desks have been purchased with allocated funds from the 2024 school budget.
There is so much MORE to our library now where we can Xplore the resources to Make Our Responses Elevated.
Scholastic Book Club order cut off date is 31 October.
All orders are to be completed and paid for online. Details in the current catalogue.
It's time to pop on those CREATIVE hats...?
TeamKids is bringing back our Gingerbread Village Building Competition!
Build the most SPECTACULAR Gingerbread Village and you'll WIN an EPIC End-of-Year Christmas Party for your venue ?
Who'll make the SWEETEST village? Let the gingerbread MAGIC begin! ?
Join in the FUN – www.teamkids.com.au/venues