Week 7 Term 1

Well done everyone for a tremendous effort at the triathlon today and thank you so much parents for helping us have our biles at school last week and again at the pool today. Thanks also to the parents who assisted as marshals at various spots around the course. If it wasn't for your support we could never run an exciting event like this for our students. Thank you Mrs Waldron for the fantastic photos of us giving 100% to this race. So proud of how you all stepped up for this challenge, especially when it was so hot.  Lost Property: from this event is in a plastic bag in the lost property box.  Lars, I have your blue goggles.
St Patrick's Day = Thursday. Our cultural leaders have some exciting things planned to mark this day.  Please wear green (not necessarily your uniform), and celebrate this Patron Saint of Ireland.  Please bring a gold coin donation to support the CARITAS appeal which will provide support for Cambodia.
Friday will see us making our leprechaun traps which we are designing as part of our poetry this week.  The plans will be in homework books by Wednesday. Make sure that you have collected all the bits you need - we will start making after we have tested our spelling on Friday. There is a very creative bunch in Room 3 so I can't wait to see what your amazing brains come up with.
PTA AGM: the 2 parents who I am aware are representing Room 3 are Loretta Fonseca and Maria Shea - they also have children in other classes where there are not 2 representatives. If you would like to be a Room 3 representative on the PTA please don't hold back - it may mean that either of these mums can represent their other child's class.  Please support this amazing group as they work to change how the PTA works and establish "Friends of the School".
Spelling this week will come home on Tuesday night. We are still to test last week's list and tool our list for this week.  So good to see so many people really polishing their tooling skills and listening carefully to the sounds, then writing them in order.

Homework

• Reading 'the more you read, the more you know'
• Spelling
• Study Ladder
• Eisteddfod - Scripture Reading great to hear that some people have already chosen the story they want to present.