St Pius X Catholic Parish Primary School Unanderra
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Cummins Street
Unanderra NSW 2526
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Phone: 02 4271 3550
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SPX NEWS

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TERM TWO      24 APRIL – 30 JUNE

JUNE

Monday 26th-30th

Parent Teacher Interviews

Friday 30th

ACE Awards Assembly 2.00pm in the hall

Friday 30th

Last day Term Two

TERM THREE 17th JULY - 22 SEPTEMBER

JULY

 

Monday 17th 

First day Term Three

Wednesday 26th

G Day – Grandparents, Godparents and Good Friends! 

All welcome at 9:30am

AUGUST
Monday 14th

PUPIL FREE DAY

SEPTEMBER

 

Friday 1st

Father’s Day Breakfast - 8.00am followed by Year One assembly at 9.15am

 

Friday 22nd

Last Day Term Three

 

TERM FOUR  9th OCTOBER - 15th DECEMBER

OCTOBER

 

Monday 9th 

First day Term Four

Saturday 28th 

Proposed GALA night for parents at WESTS.                  Further details to follow 

NOVEMBER 

 

Monday 13th-Wednesday 15th

Year 6 Camp

 DECEMBER

 

Thursday 8th

Christmas Celebration Day - Further details to follow

Monday 11th

Year Six Graduation WESTS

Friday 15th

Last Day for students

Year Six Final Assembly and rining of the bell 2.30pm

Monday 18th

PUPIL FREE DAY

Tuesday 19th

PUPIL FREE DAY

END OF TERM AWARDS CEREMONY

 

This Friday 30th June, we will whole our end of Term whole school assembly to present the following awards.  

  • Athletics ribbons and Age Champion medals
  • Principal and MacKillop Awards
  • ACE Awards.
  • NAIDOC week colouring competition winners

The assembly will begin promptly at 2pm.

We look forward to celebrating these achievements with our families.

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STEM

Last Wednesday 12 students from Year 5 participated in a VEX Robotics day at St Joseph's Catholic High School. The day was a development day for children from across the diocese to compete in a competition and work with other teams. Teams that participated came from Albion Park, Kiama, Moss Vale, Narellan Vale and Unanderra.
Each round of the competition saw two teams from different schools working together to score as many points as possible. Over 4 rounds these points added up and at the end of the day a St Pius X team walked away with the win. Our other two teams also managed to finish in the top half of the 17 teams.
An amazing effort for only their second competition.
The main idea of this day was to help the students improve their skills within the VEX robotics structure and get them to understand how an individual team can not dominate unless the teams they work with are also competitive. 
It was great to see our students communicating with the children from the other schools and also chipping in to help them fix or reprogram their robots when things weren't going as well as they'd hoped.
Congratulations to Isaac, Joshua, Sienna, Pj, Sharbel, Kyas, Orlando, Liam, Hudson, Eli, Vitaliy and David on a great day representing St Pius.
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CANTEEN UPDATE

We here at St Pius X are lucky enough to have Canteen Kat providing lunch and snacks for our children. Please see the attached note from Canteen Kat explaining the necessary changes that need to occur in order to remain viable. A service such as this requires the support of the school community.

CANTEEN KAT ANNOUNCEMENT

Thank you for having Canteen Kat in your school to provide your canteen service. There will be a few changes in the new financial year. In light of the increased wages and super and high increases in suppliers' costs etc, there will be a price increase on some items on the menu.

Unfortunately, there will be a large number of other schools in Term 3 with no canteen due to other canteen operators closing their canteens altogether. However, all Canteen Kat schools will remain operational as I am taking a different approach and reducing days with my affected schools. St Pius X is NOT an affected school at this time. I thank you for your ongoing support as I make hard decisions for the business, my staff, and your school community to keep the canteen open.

Price increases:

Rainbow fruit/vegetables/combo cup $1.50 to $2 

Slinky Apple $1 to $1.50

Cheese and rice crackers $1.20 to $1.50 

Hummus and rice crackers $1.20 to $1.50 Tomato/barbecue sauce portions $0.30 to $0.40

Red Rock Deli Sea Salt Chips $1.80 to $2.00

All other menu items remain the same price.

Online ordering discounts still apply.

Please follow/like Canteen Kat Facebook page 

https://www.facebook.com/canteenkat

NAIDOC WEEK

This week, as a school,  St Pius X will celebrate NAIDOC Week. This year's NAIDOC 2023 theme is For Our Elders.

Across every generation, our Elders have played, and continue to play, an important role, and hold a prominent place, in our community and families. They are cultural knowledge holders, trailblazers, nurturers, advocates, teachers, survivors, leaders, hard workers and our loved ones. They guide our generations and pave the way for us to take the paths that we can take today. They influence and inspire us to work for the equality and hope that they fought for.

During NAIDOC, we remember the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples of our country and celebrate their rich cultures and inspiring contributions to Australia. The students participated in a Colouring-In Competition, with the winners being announced at the ACE Awards ceremony on Friday. Congratulations to the winners! 

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