Listed below are some important dates for Term 1.

Kinder Red     Mrs Brown Kinder White Mrs Ellul

Year One Red Mrs Ollerton

Year One White Mrs Knight (Wed-Fri) Mrs O’Brien (Mon-Tues)

Year Two Red Mrs Everton  (Mon-Wed) Mrs Campbell(Thurs-Fri)

Year Two White Miss Romeo

Year Three Red Miss Pace

Year Three White Miss Di Domizio

Year Four Red Mrs Godden

Year Four White Mrs Spiteri

Year Four Blue Mrs Sookee

Year Five Red Miss Downs

Year Five White Mrs Newton

Year Six Red Mrs Manning

Year Six White Mrs Thorp

Library (TPP) Mrs Cordingley

Kinder-Yr2 (TPP) Mrs Campbell

Literacy Support Mrs Bull

Yr3-Yr6 (TPP) Mrs Burgess-Gorrie

Learning Support Mrs Hile

Assistant Principal Mr Crawford

Principal Mr Devlin

We would like to acknowledge our School Captain, Nash Moody, who represented the school at the Picton Australia Day Ceremony. Nash was responsible for reading the Australia Day prayer. He was a credit to our school and the Wollondilly Council have passed on their appreciation.

At the end of Term 4 2019 we hosted a cupcake stall and students brought in a gold coin donation to raise money for the bushfires. We are delighted to announce that with your help we raised $1000.00, which was donated to The Oakdale RFS.

The Sisters of St Joseph's made a generous donation, which will be used to support families in the local area over the coming month.

In the school holidays St Anthony's held a Donation Drive to assist families who had been affected by the bushfires. Thank you to everyone for your support and the enormous amount of household items that were donated.

Listed below are the details of where the donations went:

Our School Mass will be on Friday 14 February at St Anthony’s Parish Church, Tahmoor commencing at 10:00am. The children will be transported to and from the church by bus. At this opening school mass, Year Six students who have nominated to be a part of a leadership group will be presented with their leadership badges. I look forward to the whole parish community coming together to worship and celebrate a wonderful start to the new school year.

Grade Mass 

Opening whole School Mass Friday 14 February, 10:00 am at Tahmoor Church.

There will be no grade Masses until after our Opening Whole School Mass.

Assembly

Assembly on Friday 7 February at 2:15 pm in the school hall.

On Thursday 6 February staff, students and families will welcome 55 Kindergarten students for their first day of primary school at St Anthony's. Kindergarten students are to wear their full school uniform on Thursday. After parents and grandparents have said goodbye to their child, you are welcome to join us in the school hall for morning tea from 9:15 am.

Uniform Notifications

My sincere thanks for your efforts in ensuring that your children are wearing the correct school uniform and are equipped ready for the school year. We have received many positive comments regarding how smart the students look in their uniforms. I would like to acknowledge the dedicated work of our uniform shop volunteers who give so generously of their time. Last week the shop was open Wednesday, Thursday and Friday due to the wonderful support of our dedicated parents.

Attached to this newsletter is our Uniform Guidelines. The key aspects of the school uniform that I would like to highlight are:

Haircuts

Students are required to wear their hair in a neat and tidy manner. Haircuts should be of an even grace. Hair should be well brushed and combed and it is assumed that hair will not be in such a condition as to invite comment, as per our policy.

School Shoes

Students are required to wear black leather shoes (not black canvas shoes or boots) and during sport days, joggers that are predominantly white.

Socks

Students are required to wear grey socks and during sport days white socks that are worn just above the ankles (not anklet socks). Please note that in preparation for the winter uniform in Term Two, girls will blue permitted to wear long blue socks or stockings. The socks will be able to be purchased from the school uniform shop.

Smartwatches

With the ever evolving technology that we now have access to, the use of Smartwatches is a matter that we need to address. If your child is wearing a smartwatch to school, the protocols will be the same as per our student phone guidelines. Students will be expected to place their watch in the designated box in the classroom at the beginning of the day and be able to collect the watch at the end of the day.

Sports day for all students (K-Yr6) will be on Tuesday and Thursday.

Library day for students will be as follows:

Tuesday Yr1, Yr2 and Yr6R

Wednesday Yr4 and Kinder

Thursday Yr5, Yr3 and Yr6W