ATTENDANCE 

I have noticed quite several children arriving late at school this term. Our school start time is 8.45 (first bell) and finishes at 3.05pm. Children arriving consistently late are missing out on crucial learning time in the English block which is the basis for all our learning. 

Please use the Compass app to notify the school if children are ill or have a medical appointment that cannot be made outside of school hours. If you want to take extended leave, you must complete and application form that must be approved by the Principal. 

If children are absent from school for more than 3 days unaccounted for, we have to follow the formal CSO Attendance procedure. 

We also need to lock the gates securely each morning at 9am. 

ROAD SAFETY 

Lot’s of parents are still parking on the grass at the Baptist Church in Carawa street at afternoon pick up time. THIS IS NOT A CARPARK. Please park in Carawa, Maneela or Cross streets to collect your children from the back gate in the afternoons. The Kiss and Ride area is available to drop children off before school. 

SPORT 

Sport Captains 

Our Sport Captains for 2021 are: 

Sports Captains 2021 (Alexis absent) 

Regional Swimming 

Last Wednesday, myself and Mrs Stephens travelled to Gloucester Pool for the Manning Region Swimming Carnival. The HNS team was very strong and we took out the carnival point score by over 200 points. Holy Name teams also took out all 4 relay events. 

Several of our students were successful in their age divisions: 

The Diocesan Carnival will be held at Lambton Pool on Thursday, February 25th.  The majority of the Manning Team will be made up of Holy Name swimmers. The children have their notes and will be accompanied on the bus and during the carnival by Lynn Redding as the Team manager. 

Thank you Mr Gordon Cooper for taking these fabulous photos, the Manning Region were lucky that you attended and took photos for all of the schools!

SRC 

The Holy Name School SRC meets every second Friday. Every student in Year 6 is part of the school Student Leadership team in our new model and on Friday the children all organised themselves into their working Teams. Each team is led by one of the elected members of the Student Representative Council.

Our wonderful Year 6 Leaders

Year 6 Student Representative Leaders (Baran absent) 

Each fortnight the children will focus on areas of action within their teams. We will also be discussing and practicing Leadership skills such as time management and public speaking. Some of the initiatives we will be working on are reducing the carbon footprint of HNS, continuing our partnerships with the Parish Community Kitchen, Take 3 for the Sea and Landcare. We will share anti bullying and behaviour messages at assemblies. The technology team will be learning and teaching the wider school community the use of different educational apps and the Arts and Sports teams will be creating some alternate lunch activities once a week. 

This is just a taste of things to come... 

PBL 

Mrs Maloney, Mrs Mullen and I are working together on an exciting new project at Holy Name. Positive Behaviour for Learning is a whole school framework for behaviour management and rewards systems. Very soon you will start seeing some changes around the school with our new behaviour expectations displayed on surfboards. Further into the journey, the children will receive “gotchas” for displaying positive behaviour which can be cashed in for a reward. 

We are after 6-9 surfboards to paint for this new project. If anyone has a surfboard lying around in a fair condition we would love to have them.