Dear St Anne's Community,

I hope that you are all well. 

Today, I had the pleasure of welcoming Mrs Louise Grant to St Anne's. As you know, Louise will be my replacement from 2025 onwards. Staff had the opportunity to meet with Louise in the staffroom for an informal lunch, before Louise and I went for a walk around the school. Louise was very impressed with the school and the students. There will be other opportunities over the next term and a half for students to be formally introduced to Louise. Louise is very excited about starting at St Anne's next year. 

School Supervision

We kindly ask that students do not enter school grounds before 8:30am of a morning. The one exception to this is the early bus. Playground supervision does not start until 8:30am. 

Father's Day BBQ & Touch Game

Thank you to all the dads, granddads and friends who joined us for our annual Father's Day BBQ and touch football game. It was impressive to see that the dads still have the agility, speed, and skill to beat the Year 10 students. 

Showcase

Thank you for your ongoing support with finding bits of costume or props for the upcoming showcase, it is appreciated. 

SCC Meeting

This week, the School Community Council (SCC) met for its Week 7 meeting. We spoke about the Canapes in the Canola event and Garden Viewing. Tickets are still on sale for the Canapes event, and we encourage you to attend this event if you can. 

School Prayer and School Song

At this week's staff meeting, our staff worked in two different groups. Our Religious Education teachers worked with Mrs Collins on curriculum items and the Non-RE teachers worked with me on different ideas for a school song and prayer. Hopefully, we have a prayer and song in place before our presentation events next term. 

Staffing

I currently have a PDHPE/Maths teacher position advertised for secondary. 

Take care,

Grant Haigh

Principal

Pope Benedict XVI (2008)

"Life is not just a succession of events or experiences; it is a search for the true, the good and the beautiful. It is to this end that we make our choices; it is for this that we exercise our freedom, it is in this - in truth, in goodness, and in beauty - that we find happiness and joy."

St Anne's is currently looking for a School Cleaner. Hours required are:

Mornings from 6am - 8.30am and afternoons from 3.30pm - 6pm. 5 days per week during school terms. Paid holidays.

All enquiries can be directed to Grant Haigh (02) 6977 1011

We are very fortunate to have a new artwork created by one of our Teachers Ms Kristie Winkley. It is now on display at the school entrance. We thank Kristie for all her hard work in creating such a wonderful piece. 

Week 5

Kinder: Libby Ghioni, Lucas Oliver, Ashton Coddington

Year 1:  Callum Roberts, Reed Gray, Ruby Mitchell

Year 2: Hunter Chown, Spencer Lynch, Leo Jayawardene

Year 3: Ruby Crawford, Rylee Overs, Riansh Kapoor

Year 4: Hayden Pham, Olive Coddington, Audrey Wallace

Year 5: Jack Crawford, Will Tillman, Annabelle Gray

Year 6: Kayde Brace, Michael Macauley, Charles Minchin

Week 6

Kinder: Stella Boller, Alba Kite, Maggie Breust

Year 1: Pippa Hale, Nick Martinez, Leni Reid

Year 2: Olivia Perry, Gus Reardon

Year 3: Winfred Puertos, Ella Hartwig, Harrison Pham

Year 4: Olive Coddington, Hayden Pham, Quinn Crawford

Year 5: Lucy Taylor

Year 6: Angus Oliver, Riley Gilchrist, Hannah Pham, Eliana Adeyemi, Michael Macauley

Year 7: Jadah Cotton - Her contributions to discussions in Religion, Georgia Gibbs - Great recall of the time and subjects in French Olivia Roberts  - Working conscienctiously and improving her recall in French  Clementine Tillman - Her effort and application in Religion

Year 10: - Jaicie Blachut  - An amazing Heywire story, Max Swavley - His authentic Heywire story,  Rommy Wilesmith  - Her insightful Heywire story

St Anne's students had a wonderful day at the recent Diocesan Athletics Carnival. There was a lot of sucess on the track with quite a few of the students making it to the next level of Mackillop and CCC events in Sydney later this year. As a collective, St Anne's also came second in the Champion School Handicap, a great effort by all our students.

There were 20 individual students walking away with at least 1 ribbon and more who achieved personal bests on the day.

A special mention must to to students who broke records on the day:

Zephanie Lancaster: 11 year girls 200m & 800m 

Grace McCrone: 12-13 year girls (Primary) High Jump

Joey Cotton: 12 year boys (Secondary) Javelin

Lani McCrone: 12-15 years girls Triple Jump

The following students also accrued enough points across the carnival to be awarded Age Champion or Runner-Up Age Champion. 

Zephanie Lancaster - 11 years girls Age Champion

Barney Taylor - 12 years boys (Primary) Runner-Up Age Champion

Joey Cotton - 12 years boys (Secondary) Age Champion

Lani McCrone - 14 years girls Runner-Up Age Champion

Year 10 Challenge

AFL

On Tuesday 10^th September, St Anne's will play the High school in boys and girls AFL at Nixon Park. 

These are the game times:

Girls AFL

4.30pm start

2 x 20min halves 5 min half time

5.15pm finish
 

Boys AFL

5.30pm start

2 x 20min halves 5 min half time

6.15pm finish

Rugby League/Tag

St Anne's will then play the High school on Thursday 12^th September, at Nixon Park,  in rugby league and leaguetag.

Game times are:

Girls LT

4.30pm start

2 x 20min halves 5 min half time

5.15pm finish
 

Boys League

5.30pm start

2 x 20min halves 5 min half time

6.15pm finish

This is an after school event. Students will make their own way to the gound and home.

Come along and support both fixtures

NSW Cup Netball Phase 2 Finals

St Anne’s had two teams qualify for the phase 2 finals in Wagga last Monday 26th August. Both teams recorded one win and four losses each in their respective pools. They then played each other for minor places overall with St Anne’s Black defeating St Anne’s Yellow 8-6. The two senior St Anne’s umpires, Amber Haigh and Ava Derrick had the pleasure of umpiring this game. Thanks to these two umpires who did a fantastic job all day. Thanks also  to Kath Derrick for driving the bus and coaching the black team and Rachael Gray for coaching the Pink team. 

Our Secondary boys had a great day out at the Netball NSW Schools Cup Riverina finals. 

The 9/10 boys played well all day (with no subs) and never stopped trying. 

The 7/8 boys made it all the way to the grand final but were beaten by a strong Xavier side. 

A big thank you to Ahlia and Adelaide for umpiring.