St Colman's School - Home Hill eNewsletter

Acknowledgement of Country

We would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of this land the Birri-Gubba Juru people and pay our respects to the elders past, present and future for they hold the memories, the traditions, the culture and hopes of Indigenous Australia.

Principal & Teaching and Learning Update

2022 Pupil Free date

Friday 2nd September

Class Assemblies

Year 5/6 - Week 7 - Friday 26th August
Year 1/2 - Week 8 - Thursday 1st September
Year 3/4 - Week 9 - Friday 9th September
Prep - Week 10 - Friday 16th September (Part of Grandparents Day)

Father's Day Celebrations

Due to a large amount of our dads working during the crushing we have realised that most will be unable to attend a Father's Day breakfast. To still celebrate our wonderful dads and the importance they are in our life we would like to host the following for them:

Friday 21st October (Week 3 Term 4)

5.30pm - Pizza and drinks ($5 per person)

6.30pm - Disco ( Dad can stay and chat or dance or come back to pick up the kids)

7.30pm - End of disco pick up time.

School Uniform

Please ensure that your child is wearing the correct uniform to school.

Socks are to be white.

Support officer- Welcome

Congratulations to Kellie Swaffield who was successful in gaining the Support Officer position at St Colman’s School. Kellie comes with vast experience in the area of a Support Officer working in Mt Isa before coming to the Burdekin. We welcome Kellie to our staff. Kellie will mainly be working in Year 5/6 4 days a week.

Eco Warriors

Congratulations to the following students who have been selected to represent St Colman's School at Eco Warriors. I thank you for the letters which were of excellent quality and convinced me that the following students will be outstanding Eco Warriors.
Noah Totorica Harmony Dale

Miley Totorica Eden Godfrey

Eco Warriors’ Day 2022 will be held at St Clare's Catholic School on Tuesday 13th September from 9:30am - 2:00pm. Well done!

Three Way Conferences

Three Way Conferences will take place in the class room from Monday 5th September to Thursday 8th September.

These meeting are a very important part of your child's education. Please make an appointment on the Compass system. Your child will prepare for this meeting in class. Every one should come to the meeting.

The interview schedule consists of 15-minute time slots. The interview system is now open to parents/carers to make bookings in Compass. Should you need to make any last/minute cancellations or changes, you will need to contact Reception on 47822030.

If you are using your phone to make your interview bookings, please ensure that you are using the latest version of the Compass App to ensure you have all the features that have recently been added. (You may need to update the Compass App on your phone if you haven't done this recently.)

It is also important that you close the App and re-open it prior to doing your bookings or going to the App to change a booking. This ensures that any changes that we make to the settings or schedule for Parent/Teacher Interviews transfer through to your phone.

If you are experiencing difficulty booking, please call Reception and they will assist you.

The Cowboys Resilence Project - St Colman's will be joining !

The Resilience Project helps to build resilient, positive and mentally healthy primary and secondary school communities through its school-based program.

The Resilience Project delivers emotionally engaging programs to schools providing practical, evidence-based, positive strategies to build resilience and happiness.

Through a combination of presentations, wellbeing journals, school curriculum, teacher diaries and their App, The Resilience Project is based on a scientific approach to studying human thoughts, feelings, and behaviour with focus on:

Strengths instead of weakness
Building on the good in life, instead of focussing on the bad
Taking the lives of people experiencing reasonable mental health up to 'great'

The focus of the project is on acting in a preventative space, as well as providing intervention for those struggling.

Wednesday 12th October

Cowboys Resilience Program Parent Information Session

Religious Education News

School Mass

Today we celebrated Mass together as a school. Our theme was Two great Mary's - St Mary Mackillop and Mary, the mother of Jesus. August has two special days for these two special saints - Feast day of Mary Mackillop 8th of August - Feast of the Assumption of Mary 15th August

Both women had a very strong faith and stood up to many challenges and hardships trusting in God's word. Just like these two women we are called to stand up against injustices in our local community and our world. We should encourage our children to speak out when they see their fellow classmates treated unfairly.

St Mary of the Cross MacKillop's motto of

‘never see a need without doing something about it’

continues to call us forth to action.

Book Week

Thank you to Mrs Venera Pont for organizing our Book Fair. The fair will be open before and after school till Thursday afternoon.

The book parade was wonderful and it was especially great to have C & K Kindy join us. Thank you to all parents who helped dress their children up for the day. Making reading a fun part of our daily routine is so important for children to learn.

Sports News

Burdekin District Team

Congratulations to Zachary Dale (800m) and Raysean Conway (Long jump) for being selected to represent St Colman's and the Burdekin District in Townsville. We wish them all the best and well done for being selected.