Dear St Anne's Community,

Welcome back!

The students have returned to school in a great way and it was nice to welcome our new kindergarten students and new students right across K-12. A warm welcome to all of the new families joining us this year as well. We welcome 34 new students to St Anne's this year, increasing our numbers from 245 to 279. 

We have a number of new staff members this year. Mrs Sharee McKelvie is our new canteen manager. Miss Meaghan King is working with us as a Classroom Support Assistant and Lisa Morton is our new Student Wellbeing Officer. Mrs Tracy Harper will be joining St Anne's later this term as an English/HSIE teacher in secondary. I will be able to inform you about the Cleaner and Maintenance positions in the next newsletter. Thank you to Mrs Claire Maxwell and Mrs Nikki Taylor for joining our secondary team this term. They are valued members of our community. 

I would like to thank Miss Michelle Jamieson for her support over the holiday period as we negotiated various staffing arrangements and timetabling changes. 

Congratulations to all of our elected Captains, Prefects and SRC representatives, I look forward to working alongside you this year. 

Thank you to our community for attending the Opening School Mass, Leaders Induction and Name Change Ceremony today. It was a very special occasion and we appreciate your attendance. We are now officially known as St Anne's Catholic College, Temora and we have a full cohort of students from K-12. Thank you to Mrs Collins and all of our helpers who prepared the town hall for this occasion. Thank you to our office staff for their work in preparing the morning tea. Our theme for 2024 is drawn from our identity statement of Courageous in our Faith and the scripture theme is "Be strong and Courageous for I am with you." Joshua 1:9.

I hope that you are able to join us for the Open Classrooms and BBQ night next Wednesday. 5:30pm-7pm. The BBQ is provided free of charge.

Playground supervision begins at 8:30am Monday-Friday and finishes at 3:30pm of an afternoon. 

The portable classrooms and toilets arrived in the holidays. They have integrated well around the existing buildings. We are making a few changes to the playground to account for the reduction in space. Years 1-12 are now permitted to go over to Fr Hannan oval during breaktime. The school library will also be open both breaks every day. The toilet blocks will become operational next week, with our 7-12 students utilising the 12 new toilet cubicles. 

Thank you to our working bee helpers last Wednesday afternoon. We achieved a lot in a short amount of time. 

The next Community Council meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 13 February. We will be holding our AGM at this meeting and we welcome anyone who is interested in being a part of this great committee. 

I wish you and your families a happy and successful 2024 and I look forward to seeing you in the near future. Please do not hesitate to contact me, should you have any questions or concerns. 

Take care,

Grant Haigh

Principal

RE News

Thank you for today’s Mass

Thank you to everybody for your participation, in celebrating such a beautiful Opening School Mass and commemorating the first year of K to 12 at St Anne’s Catholic College. Congratulations are also extended to all of the school leaders who were celebrated today. Thank you also to Jett Nguyen and Harvey Drumore for their assistance as Altar servers and thank you to Lillian Oliver and Jaicie Blachut for operating the Powerpoint. We also extend our thanks to the senior students for their assistance setting and packing up the hall and to Mr Hughes and Guy Piltz for coordinating the sound system. Many hands make light work!

Upcoming dates for your calendar:

13th February - Shrove Tuesday/Pancake day

14th February - Ash Wednesday Mass 10:15am celebrated in Sacred Heart Church

First Reconciliation for Year 3 students begins in March

Dates will be sent home to Year 3 families next week in a hardcopy letter and via compass. Any families who are interested in their children (Year 4 and above) who are baptised Catholic and are interested in them joining the program, (or may have missed out on the Sacrament) please contact Mrs Collins on jacqueline.collins@cg.catholic.edu.au to make arrangements and ensure that you receive all communication.

Year 8 & 9 SHINE Youth Ministry Conference in Cootamundra

Year 9 on Tuesday 12th March & Year 8 on Wednesday 13th March.

Further details will be sent home to families via compass in the coming weeks.

Week 2

Wednesday 7th February

- 5.30 -7pm Open Classrooms & BBQ for whole school 

- 6pm - Yr 10 Information session

- 6.30pm - Yr 11 Information session

Thursday 8th February

- 8.45am - Yr 7 overnight camp Trungley Hall 

Week 3

Tuesday 13th February

- Shrove Tuesday/Pancake day

Wednesday 14th February

- Ash Wednesday Mass

Friday 16th February

- Swimming Carnival 

- Yr 7 Parent Social Night 6.30pm

Week 4

Thursday 22nd February

- W R Swimming Carnival Cootamundra 

Friday 23rd February

- Kinder Parent Social Night 6.30pm

During the holidays, two portable classrooms were delivered to our school along with two toilet blocks. Each toilet block has 6 toilet cubicles in them. The portable classrooms come with air conditioning and we have equipped them with new furniture and interactive tv's. The classrooms and toilets will be used by staff and students in years 7-12. 

Library News

Break Times

This year the Library will be open for students during both break times once they have finished eating. Students are welcome to attend the Library during these break times to participate in quiet activities such as reading, borrowing and returning books, colouring/drawing, playing cards/chess/board games, and quietly talking to each other.  

Library Days for 2024

Primary sport dates:

St Anne's swimming carnival - Friday 16^th February (Yr 3 - Yr 12). 

Swimming for sport in term 1 each Monday - Please complete consent and pay if required on Compass.

AFL Visit - Monday 26^th February for K-6 - timetable for the visit is: Kinder to year 2 from 12.50pm until 1.20pm, Year 3 and 4 from 1.20 until 1.50  and year 5 to 6 from 2.20pm until 3.10pm.

St Anne's cross country 8^th April (or possibly in PE time)

Stephen Bleyer cup rugby union Year 5/6 boys Friday 12^th April. 

Term 1 Representative sport for Primary. If your child is interested in trialling for these sports, they must be capable of playing at a high level and registration is on the CG sport website:

Canberra Goulburn Tennis 21^st February Rockdale Sydney, Basketball trials Wollongong 23rd February, Netball and rugby league Canberra 12^th March, soccer 9^th April venue TBA