Principal's Message Term 1 Week 7 - 2023
Dear Parents
As a Catholic learning community,
all at Mother Teresa School are called
to care, to dream, to innovate, to inspire!
Parent Teachers Interviews - Week 9
Teachers will be holding Parent Teacher Interviews/Conferences in Week 9 either before or after school. Information will be released, early next week for parents to make a booking, via Compass. This is a great opportunity to discuss your child's current progress and set goals for Term 2.
As many Kinder parents have regular contact with their child's teacher, formal interviews are not required - except for Kinder Crimson. Our beautiful Mrs Sarah Campbell will be leaving Mother Teresa School at the end of the term.
X Country Results
Congratulations to our Cross Country competitors and the Jackman (Yellow) Sporting House, who were overall winners on the day. Thank you to Kieran Russell, staff and parents for making the morning run so smoothly.
Place winners for each competitive age group.
Sri Chimnoy Peace Run Visit
On Thursday students from Years 2 and 4 had the opportunity to meet the Sri Chinmoy Oneness-Home Peace Run team as they completed the global torch relay leg through Canberra having begun their Australian journey in Brisbane on February 23. Since its founding in 1987, the Run has visited almost every country on earth - over 150 nations and territories.
Mother Teresa School would like to extend our thanks and appreciation to Stacey and her fabulous team of runners who shared their unique experiences and important message of Global Peace. A very timely visit with Mother Teresa School celebrating ‘World Harmony Day’ on Tuesday, March 21.
Netball
Congratulations to our Year 3/4 netballers who attended the netball gala day on Tuesday. A huge thanks to parents and staff who have attended.
Community Council - Open Meeting Tuesday 21 March 6pm
Next Tuesday (21 March) there will be a Community Council open meeting for anyone who would like to come along. It will be held in the staff room so please enter via the main office building.
Community Council - Position Vacant Treasurer
The Mother Teresa School Community Council is urgently looking for a parent volunteer to manage the day to day financial activities of the Community Council accounts. This includes receipting money from fundraising activities including the uniform shop, parent community events and then arranging payments as required. A monthly Income and Expenditure report must be prepared for Council meetings and end of year documentation prepared for Catholic Education in December.
Book keeping or accounting skills are required. A detailed handover will be arranged as our current Treasurer no longer has a child in the school.
If interested or for more information please email carmel.maguire@cg.catholic.edu.au as soon as possible.
A reminder to all Year 3 and 5 families that NAPLAN continues next week.
Students are required to:
- arrive at school on time each morning.
- have their BYOD device (Year 5 students only) fully charged.
- have their headphones at school (preferably wired headphones) for the entire NAPLAN.
- Ensure they have the NAPLAN 2023 Locked down browser app installed on their iPads before next week.
- bring their old iPad to school (with the NAP 2023 app installed) if they are a Year 5 who currently has a Chromebook as their BYOD.
|
Date |
Session Time |
Year Level |
Test |
|
Mon 20/3 |
9:15 - 10:15 |
5 |
Numeracy |
|
Tue 21/3 |
9:15 - 10:15 |
3 |
Numeracy |
A big thank you to the families who have endevoured to follow the car park flow indicated in the diagram below. As the gates at the oval end of the fence that divides the basketball courts will be open to allow for a better flow of traffic both morning and afternoon. Please do not park in front of the gates and block the traffic flow.
Uniform Shop Opening 2023
Carmel Maguire
Principal
