Newsletter Term 2 Week 3 (13.5.22)

Dear Parents

Today we welcomed the interim Director of Catholic Schools for the Lismore Diocese, Jenny Allen, to our school. Jenny enjoyed visiting the classrooms and was impressed with how we do things at St Anthony’s and the friendliness of students and staff. Jenny was previously the Director of Catholic Schools in the Bathurst Diocese. Our previous director for the Lismore Diocese, Sally Towns, has now commenced her new role as Executive Director of schools in the Brisbane Archdiocese.

Even though it is raining at the moment, Sunday is still going ahead as planned. If it is to be called off we will send out a message via Compass on Sunday morning. Mass will still go ahead at 9.00am regardless of the weather! It is a Commitment Mass for many students who are preparing for their First Holy Communion so we look forward to seeing many families on Sunday.

This week we have had workers and builders in once again making further assessments on the library. It is currently being dried out. Moisture has impacted the skirting-boards as well as the carpet so more work is required to fix the room than was first thought.  We have been informed that our music room has also been affected so it will require some re-furbishment also. We are hopeful that all will be completed by the end of term and we can have our library back next term. As difficult as it is to be without our spaces, we are still much luckier than some other schools in the Diocese.

Work is continuing on the new playground and I know lots of students are enjoying watching its progress and calculating how long it will take to completion! We thank the Parent Forum for their commitment to helping us with some funds towards this playground. At this week’s Forum meeting plans were being made for some fundraising activities during the year. Let’s all work together to support these once they are known.

We are well and truly into Kindergarten 2023 interviews so if you haven’t booked in a spot for your little one yet please do so soon. We have also been meeting new families moving into the area and looking to move their children to St Anthony’s. I am always delighted when I show prospective families around at how welcoming our students are towards them and how well they promote what we are on about at St Anthony’s.

Congratulations to all those students who have been excelling in their various sports and making it through to the higher levels. Certificates for the top 10 in each age group at the Cross Country at the end of last term received a certificate as a memento of their performance. Well done to all!

The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.

God bless

Lynne

Term 2 - 2022

Sunday, 15th May - St Anthony's Parish School MASS Holy Communion Commitment MASS

Sunday, 15th May - Parish Picnic Get-Together after MASS - in the school grounds

Friday, 20th May - Grip Leadership Twin Towns (Year 6 Leaders)

Tuesday, 24th May - DIO Cross Country Grafton

Thursday, 26th May - MASS: Year 3 & 4

Thursday, 26th May - Tweed Gala Netball Day

Thursday, 2nd June - MASS: Kindergarten

Friday, 3rd June - Assembly: Year 2

Thursday, 9th June - MASS: Year 5 & 6

Thursday, 9th June - MSP School Photo Day

Monday, 13th June - St Anthony's Feast Day - Queen's Birthday NO SCHOOL

Thursday, 16th June - St Anthony's Feast Day - School Celebrations

Thursday, 16th June - MASS: Year 3 & 4

Friday, 17th June - Assembly: Year 5

Sunday, 19th June - St Anthony's Parish School MASS

Wednesday, 22nd June - Orator's Evening @ 6.00 pm

Thursday, 23rd June - MASS: Year 1 & 2

Tuesday, 28th June - Athletics Carnival

Thursday, 30th June - NO MASS

Friday, 1st July - Kingscliff Staff Retreat Day  - NO SCHOOL

Child Protection Policy can be found on our School Website under Information/School Policies: St Anthony's Primary School Website or in the following link: https://www.kngplism.catholic.edu.au/school-policies/

WEEKEND MASS TIMES
VIGIL: KINGSCLIFF 5:00pm
SUNDAY:POTTSVILLE 7:30am
KINGSCLIFF 9:00am

WEEKDAY MASS TIMES
TUESDAY: POTTSVILLE 9:15am
WEDNESDAY: KINGSCLIFF 8:00am
THURSDAY: KINGSCLIFF 9:00am
FRIDAY: KINGSCLIFF 8:00am

RECONCILIATION TIMES

SATURDAY: KINGSCLIFF 4:00-4:30pm
SUNDAY: POTTSVILLE 7:00—7:25am

Current Office Hours: Tuesday - Thursday 9am-3pm

PARISH NEWSLETTER LINK: http://stanthonysparishkingscliff.org/news-events/

Thank you to the parents and students who attended the Sacrament of the Eucharist Meeting last Wednesday evening at School.

Your support and guidance for your child during this preparation time leading to your child’s First Holy Communion is wonderful.

SUNDAY  15th May

ST ANTHONY’S CHURCH, KINGSLIFF

SCHOOL FAMILY/ PARISH MASS CELEBRATION 9:00am

Commitment Mass for children preparing for the Sacrament of the Eucharist/their First Holy Communion

We hope to see many St Anthony’s families at this Mass celebration

At this Mass celebration staff from St Anthony’s will be attending to the ministry duties and there will be children’s liturgy.

COVID Guidelines – Term 2

 Close Contacts Attending School

As previously communicated: students who are close contacts and have no symptoms can continue to attend school if they follow the guidelines below:

• They must notify the school and their outside of school hours care (OOSHC) provider if they are intending to return under this provision.
• They should conduct a daily rapid antigen test (RAT) and return a negative result each morning before attending school for 5 school days.
• Secondary school students must wear a mask indoors (except when eating or exercising). Primary school students are recommended to wear a mask indoors (except when eating or exercising).
• No student identified as a close contact will be permitted to participate in overnight excursions, including school camps.

Testing Remember: Students cannot attend school if they are showing any symptoms of COVID-19. If symptoms occur at any time, students should not attend school and should undertake a rapid antigen test (RAT).

If a student or staff member receives a positive RAT test, they need to:

• record the positive RAT result through the Service NSW website or Service NSW app – please add details of your child’s school when prompted
• notify the school of the positive RAT or PCR test result as soon as possible
• follow NSW Health advice to isolate for 7 days.

Sports News

Zone Cross Country

The Tweed Zone Cross Country was held at the Murwillumbah Showground on Friday 6th May. The runners had to navigate a slippery and muddy course after the recent wet weather. Well done to all our St Anthony’s representatives who participated to the best of their abilities and with a high level of sportsmanship.

St Anthony’s was awarded the aggregate shield for the day which means we achieved the best results in relation to the number of students that participated on the day. This was a great team effort!

Congratulations to the following students who placed in the top 8 of their races and will progress to the Diocesan Cross Country in Grafton later this Term:

William Middleton - 2nd, Claudia Popov - 2nd, Madeleine Preston - 4th,

Zara Christie - 8th, Harper Gallagher - 2nd, Kalani Favaro- 4th

Kynan Behs - 5th, Harper Hutchinson - 4th, Zali Myer - 7th,

Max Caspersz - 8th, Eva Richards - 2nd, Serge Popov - 3rd, Levi Gallagher - 4th.

AFL

Congratulations to Levi Gallagher and Serge Popov who were recently selected in the Polding AFL team. They will travel to Coffs Harbour in Week 5 to compete in the PSSA AFL Championships. Good Luck Levi and Serge!

Rugby Union

Congratulations to Tom Mison and Harper Richards who were selected in the Lismore Diocesan Rugby Union team. They will travel to Forbes at the end of the term to participate in selection trials for the Polding team.

Good Luck Tom and Harper!