St Pius X Catholic Parish Primary School Unanderra eNewsletter

SCHOOL NEWS

Staff Development Day

The staff will be participating in a STAFF DEVELOPMENT DAY on FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER, centered around Professional Development.

Students will not be required to be at school on this day.

Vinnies Christmas Giving Tree

It is that time of year again. We are collecting food items to be donated to St Vincent De Paul in December.

At present many families in our wider community are facing hardship, particularly with COVID 19. Once again this year to support families in need we will be having our annual Hamper Drive.

Please see below for items to be brought in for each Year group.

Thank you in advance for your kind donations.

Kinder: Lollies, chips, chocolates

Year 1: Biscuits, snacks

Year 2: Drinks, cordial, juice, fizzy drink

Year 3: Christmas pudding/cake, desserts

Year 4: tinned fruit, long life custard

year 5: Breakfast items

Year 6: Breakfast items

Staff: Tinned Ham, Christmas puddings, long life custard

Year 5 Leadership Day

On Monday 16th November, Year 5 participated in a thoroughly enjoyable Leadership Day led by Mr Douglas and Mr Holgate.

The focus of the day was all about "The 3 R's"- Relationships, Resilience and Reflection- and how they can help the students to become empowering leaders.

The activities ranged from Mindfulness to People Bingo and ended with the students receiving a certificate celebrating their ability to participate in activities that are sometimes outside their comfort zones, as well as the achievement of becoming leaders of SPX for 2021!

Congratulations Year 5!

And a huge thank you to Mr Douglas and Mr Holgate for planning a great day and to Mrs Chapman and the other canteen helpers for making sure the students were nourished throughout the day!

Contemplating Connections - SPX SPLICED

Congratulations to the following 11 students, who were successful in this years SPLICED unit:

Year 4: Katelyn H, John C, Xavier O and Maximus O

Year 5: Scarlett D and Savannah T

Year 6: Christian Y, Charlotte O, Bronte W, Ellie C and Bethany C.

These students, along with others across the Wollongong Diocese schools, will have their works published on either the SPLICED Website or in the official SPLICED Publication book (available from our school library in 2021).

A huge congratulations to ALL SPX students who participated in this challenging unit, that began in Term 1. Your dedication, persistence and willingness to be challenged out of your comfort zones, are to be commended.

Official certificates and student copies of the publication will be given out to students early December and they will also have the opportunity to watch the SPLICED launch on December 8th at 7pm with their family.

SPLICED_SPX_1_.pdf

SPLICED_SPX_1 pdf 14.93 MB

Coping with Change

The recently formed COVID-19 Wellbeing Response Group, a joint initiative of Catholic Education Diocese of Wollongong (CEDoW ) and CatholicCare, have developed a number of resources for students and parents during this time of disruption and change. This resource is a brief guide to help parents and carers support their child and access support services if required

Download the Primary "Coping with change"

NAIDOC Week 2020

This week at St Pius X the students have celebrated NAIDOC Week with an in class Liturgy and a variety of art activities.

The Theme for NAIDOC Week is:

Always Was, Always Will Be.

Always Was, Always Will Be. recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years.

Representative Sport News

Congratulations to the students who have recently completed in the Diocesan Sporting Trials.

Kieran P and Ari K trialled in Cricket. Zane K trialled in Tennis and Giorgia T and Addison B trialled in basketball. Well done to these students who represented St Pius X with pride.

Congratulations to Addison who made the Diocese of Wollongong Basketball team. We wish her well at the MacKillop trials next year.