November 2022

Amber B, Andrew M, Farrah A, Annabelle C, Taigh R, Rebecca J, Jewel J, Jett B, Niklaus T, Kuzivakwashe M, Leaniva M H, Ava G, Jadyn W, Aiden M, Harpreet S, Benjamin S, Grace S, Carys S, Ella T, Mikayla M, Faith M, Isabel P, Darcy A, Dante C

Please keep up to date by visiting our weekly newsletter.

Further information surrounding these events will be distributed within the coming days and weeks. We hope families and students enjoy celebrating and farewelling our wonderful Year 6 students & families.

Families may have recently received overdue notices. Please don’t panic! Send in the books that you can find and please let us know the books you can no longer locate.

Our last week for borrowing will be Week 8. From Week 9 we will be returning our books to the library for a stocktake.

Scholastic Book Club:
Book Club orders will close on Monday 28^th November.

Thank you for your support.

Mrs Hind and Mrs Nelson

STA Colour Run 2022
Friday 25^th November
Week 7, Term 4

Dear Parents and Carers,

Term 4 will see STA yet again take part in our annual Colour Run fundraiser! This will be our 3^rd year of running our Colour Run and obstacle course and it is a fantastic event each year and this year I’m sure will be no different! The date for this year’s Colour Run will be Friday 25th November in Week 7, Term 4.  The Colour Run gives all families a great opportunity to support the school by raising money to improve school facilities.  Relations, friends, neighbours or work colleagues are all great sources of donations! 

Proceeds of our past Colour Runs, have been used for some major improvements to our school and all of these will be of direct benefit to your children.  This year all donations raised from our Colour Run will be used for:

• The next stage of our shade structure on the courts – we need $15 000 for this job!

If we raise over $15 000, we will purchase:

• Decodable home readers
• Sports equipment for break times.

The Route
The route of our Obstacle Course and Colour Run will be around our school oval. We have again hired an obstacle course for the day and all children will be able to run the course and have coloured powder and water squirted on them by the teachers at set points along the course. Any students who do not wish to have powder on themselves or have asthma, will be able to run the course first.

We will be encouraging the children here at school with incentive prizes for raising money.  These will include highest fundraisers in ELC & Kinder, Year 1 & Year 2, Year 3 & Year 4, Year 5 & Year 6. There will also be a prize for the student who raises the most money overall, the family who raises the most money and the class who raises the most money. So, there are lots of reasons to get collecting and support our wonderful school!

The more money we raise, the better for our school.  We are not asking for children to wander around the streets unsupervised or to talk to strangers, but asking family members, relatives, friends, friendly neighbours, etc are all good ways to reach our goal of $15,000 plus!!

Donation Pledge Card
Donation pledge cards have gone home with your children this week.  This card is used to record all donations. Spare cards are available from the Front Office.  We would like the money to be returned before the Colour Run as this allows us to tally final amounts and to present prizes at school as close to the Colour Run date as possible.

Thank you for your support

Dear Parents and Carers

If your child/ren is leaving St Thomas Aquinas at the end of 2022 please advise the school in writing.  This does not apply to students in Year 6 this year.

Attached here is the Student Transfer Notification form which needs to be returned to the school by 10 December 2022.

Thank you

Important Update

With the ease of Covid restrictions, we are very excited to be welcoming families back into the school. As stated in last week's newsletter, parents will now be required to walk their student into the front office if arriving late and sign them in via the Compass Kiosk.

Please note that it is a legal requirement that if a student arrives at school after the starting time of 8:50am that they are signed in by their adult. In the event that a student is not accompanied to the front office we will be required to contact families and request you to attend the office to sign the student in before they can attend class.

We appreciate your efforts in supporting a smooth morning transition for all children.

Charnwood Parish Secretary Part Time

People are invited to apply for the position Parish Secretary for St Thomas Aquinas Parish, Charnwood. This is a part-time permanent position of 12 hours per week (preferably Tues, Wed, Thurs 10am-2pm)

Essential Requirements: Experience with financial & database packages, Strong communication and liaison skills, Strong organisational skills, Ability to work on your own, and as part of a wider team and take direction, Understanding and respect for the Catholic Church and its teaching and Experience in an office environment.

Salary will be subject to equivalent Clerk Award Level 4/5 rates. 

Covering letter addressing the essential requirements and resume to be submitted by 30 November 2022.

Please phone Debbie Hofman 6258 1563 or email charnwood@cg.org.au for a copy of the Duty Statement. 

BRAINways Education, in conjunction with Australian Catholic University, is pleased to invite gifted
and talented students of Canberra to participate in

After its success in previous years, The Summer Camp program is back in 2023.
The Summer Camp has two components: an introductory section and an in-depth investigation.

The 2023 Topics are:

For Stream 1
Playground Mathematics
The Secret Language of Insects
The Science of Invisibility
A World in Multiple Dimensions

For Stream 2
The Psychology of Irrational Decisions
Is This a Dream? A Philosophical Investigation
The Science of Procrastination
Where Do Words Come From?

Based on the research suggesting that gifted students benefit from the availability of choice, the Summer Camp program allows the students to select from the two Streams available. In the first day of the program, each stream introduces the students to four different topics. The extended, uninterrupted engagement with a topic was also demonstrated to be of benefit to gifted students. Therefore, the second day of the program will give the students the opportunity to select one of the four topics introduced and explore it in depth. The Summer Camp program is developed and presented by BRAINways Education.

Program Dates: January 7th – 8th , 2023
Program Times: 9:30am – 2:30 pm (please arrive 15 minutes early for registration)
Place: Australian Catholic University - Canberra Campus
Cost: $88/day or $168/two days

For enrolment and payment please access the registration website at
https://registration.brainways.com.au/summer_camp_canberra/

What to bring: Drink (water only please), morning and afternoon tea, lunch, hat, pencil, the Nomination Letter

SPACES ARE LIMITED SO PLEASE BOOK ASAP TO AVOID DISAPPOINTMENT 

CANTEEN

The Canteen is open from Wednesdays to Fridays - for the first 10 minutes of each break.  We sell a limited selection of healthy canteen approved chips and ice blocks.

SUBWAY

Parents and staff are able to place Subway Orders Online.  Click on the link below to place an order and payment as well. 

Cut-off time is 9:15 AM for same day delivery.
Call on 02 6259 9101 to place your order after this time

Subway Lunch Orders can also be made, via Subway Envelope, at school.  Subway envelopes, including cash, need to be placed in the Lunch Order Subway box, located outside the Front Office,  by 9:30am on the day before the lunch is required.  For example, if you would like a lunch order on Wednesday, the lunch order needs to be manually submitted by Tuesday 9:30am.

Here is a sample of the Subway ordering envelope.  Envelopes are available from the Front Office or the classroom.