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- TUMUT SHOW
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- BLAKENEY LODGE VISIT
- YEAR 11 BIOLOGY
- SOCCER GALA DAY
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- TRIVIA NIGHT
- JOB JUMP
- KIDSXPRESS
- NUTRITION SNIPPETS
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- TUMUT LIBRARY
- TUMUT EAGLES REGISTRATIONS 2024
Dear McAuley families
As many of you will know, I travelled to the United States last week to attend the Digital Learning Conference in Austin, Texas.
Around 2000 attendees took part in the 3 day event which highlighted best practice in virtual learning. I quickly came to understand that millions of students in the US attend school virtually from Kindergarten to Year 12. It was amazing to see the learning and teaching that takes place in the virtual space. The use of virtual reality in the science space is incredible.
It was terrific to be able to to network with leaders and teachers from schools of all sizes and locations (including virtual schools). I came away knowing that even in our early stages we are leading the way at McAuley in virtual learning. Our biology and business studies classes, led by Belinda Schirmer and Heidi Stubbs, are at the fore of lesson delivery and providing subject choice for our year 11 and 12 students and for others in our Archdiocese.
We are also receiving excellent feedback on the work that is happening in our vocational education (VET) area. Our students are achieving outstanding results in their various courses as they progress through their coursework.
Our staff too are working in their own time to enhance their training and qualifications. Congratulations to Cameron Ellison who has received a Certificate III in agriculture. This is a first for our Archdiocese. Jo Dougherty has achieved a Cert I and II in Active Volunteering. These qualifications again are testament to the amazing hard work that is happening across the College in teaching and learning.
Thank you all for your strong and positive family support for us. We are at capacity in all year levels at the College with wait lists in some. These numbers are forming part of an evolving master plan for buildings and facilities which will provide new structures and spaces into the future.
Mary our mother look after us.
Eamonn Moore
Principal
GREAT NEWS! With the help of Wendellie on Wynyard, we can finally reveal that the updated McAuley Crest is ready for embroidery. The Community Council have organised a few options to get these crests on shirts ASAP. Wendellie are making it a priority to get them completed as quickly as possible and are hoping to work with our school community. The community council wish to advise the following options:1. Wait until the school holidays and then bundle all your shirts together, drop them in to Wendellie (Wynyard St, Tumut) and they‘ll call you when they are ready for your collection.
2. Wendellie are planning on doing a collection of shirts on the 11/3- and subsequently every Monday (except Easter Monday) until the end of term. Shirts will need to be bagged as a family, and dropped into the school office. Bags must be labelled with name and class, so the shirts can be returned. Wendellie are committed to picking the shirts up on Monday, and returning them no later than Tuesday afternoon. So you may need to drop shirts in over a couple of weeks to get all your shirts embroidered. Remember if you use the option, the whole school cannot get all shirts completed on the first Monday. Please take into consideration that our new families to the school (kindergarten, year 7 and all new students) may have no shirts with any logos. So please be patient.
3. You can take them directly to Wendellie, but please bear in mind that Wendellie are committed to our pick up Monday/drop back Tuesday deal, so your shirt may take a little longer if you drop them in on a Monday morning or Tuesday. We hope that with these three options all shirts will be embroidered ready for photos on the 6th May. We hope you are happy with the outcome, we think the Crest looks great. We are also happy that the new crest design will not look vastly different from the old shirts, with the major update being the change of name. The Community Council would like to thank the school community for their patience.
This is just for uniforms without the current Logo/emblem, students can still wear their existing uniform until new ones are needed.
There is no cost for the embroidery as this was covered in the initial purchase price.
Catholic Education distributed Term 1 fee statements to all families last Friday 1st March, they apologise for the delay in sending them out.
Please follow the link below for our 2024 Fee Schedule for you to refer to. Please utilise your BPAY Reference details on your fee statement to make payments.
If you are not paying by the Term and require assistance in calculating your weekly/fortnightly/monthly payments please send an email to tricia.taylor@cg.catholic.edu.au
NSW SCHOOL VACCINATION PROGRAM
NSW Health will be coming to McAuley on 27 March to conduct the NSW School Vaccination Program. If there are any students in Years 8 & 11 that missed the vaccination program last year and would like to participate, please complete the online registration and consent.
In 2024 the following vaccines will be offered:
- Year 7 students: are offered free vaccines for diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis (dTpa) and human papillomavirus (HPV).
- Year 10 students: are offered free meningococcal ACWY vaccine.
If your child is in Year 7 or Year 10 this year, you can now provide online consent for their routine school vaccinations.
Vaccination will only be provided at school if consent has been received.
How to Provide Consent:
- To complete online consent for your child’s school vaccinations, visit: https://engage.health.nsw.gov.au/engage
- For detailed steps on how to provide consent please refer to the NSW Health webpage: How to Provide Consent.
- Follow the steps to log in to your existing ServiceNSW account. This is the same account you may already use to renew your driver’s licence. If you don’t have a ServiceNSW account, refer to ServiceNSW to create one.
- Update or confirm your personal details in ServiceNSW as required.
- Complete the School Vaccination Consent Form for your child/ren. You will need to:
- Enter your child’s personal details.
- Provide the Medicare card details for you and your child.
- Read the linked Parent Information Sheet and privacy statement. Translations available in 27 languages.
- Provide consent.
If you or your child do not have a Medicare card, or you are not able to provide consent on-line, consent can still be provided by requesting a paper-based consent form directly from your child’s school office.
The benefits of providing consent online:
- easily update your child’s details.
- receive SMS and/or email notifications when vaccinations are given.
- faster upload of vaccination records to the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR).
If you require assistance to provide on-line consent, please contact Albury Public Health:
- Phone: 02 6053 4800 and press option2 OR
- Email: MLHD-Immunisation-PHU@health.nsw.gov.au with your child’s name and your contact details and we will call you back.
If you require information in your language, please visit: www.health.nsw.gov.au/immunisation/Pages/school_vaccination_language.aspx
There are some useful files attached that will assist you with registering for the vaccination program.
If you have any questions, please contact the school office.
Congratulations to Sierra, Alliena and Cybella Roddy who all trialled for the Canberra Goulburn Wagga combined Archdiocese Touch Football team in Wagga. All girls played extremely well! Congratulations to Alliena who was chosen in the team to compete in the Combined Catholic Colleges touch selection trials.
This year some of our McAuley primary classes entered decorated in the prestigious decorated pumpkin section at the Tumut show. Ms Place and the students in Library decorated an amazing butternut bee to take out the winning prize. Kinder created a 'Bogtrotter' Queensland blue and received second place. 5/6 classes created 'Dory', a rocket ship and 'Rivet Boy' bridge to receive highly commended awards. We hope you enjoyed out school display presenting McAuley then and now along with some student artworks.
Our radio presenters this week were Aylah and Isabella. Tune into 96.3 Sounds of the Mountains every Wednesday at 9.30am for all the latest news from McAuley.
Our beautiful Year 4 students enjoyed visiting the Blakeney Lodge residents on Wednesday. They loved listening to their interesting stories about their childhoods. It was lovely to be able to visit again.
In Week 4 the Year 11 Biology students used cake decorating materials to make a 3D representation the fluid mosaic model of a cell membrane.
McAuley participated in the Soccer Gala Day hosted by the Tumut Eagles on Thursday. All students from year 3 to year 6 took part. This gala day was about participation. The emphasis was about exercise and fun, not winning. This was also an opportunity to introduce soccer to boys and girls who may not have had the opportunity to play before.
A huge thank you to our senior students who volunteered to coach and help out on the day.
Exciting news! KidsXpress hosting a free foundational parenting workshop for local parents & carers in the Tumut community. This is a collaborative effort between KidsXpress, LEAD Professional Development Association and the Australian Childhood Foundation to provide an opportunity to absorb insightful, specialised knowledge around the topics of nurturing relationships and understanding why children behave the way they do.
Catering is provided for morning tea and there is no cost for the workshop, catering or materials - we just ask that attendees RSVP so we can cater accordingly (see RSVP details below). Here is the key info about the upcoming workshop for parents & carers:
'Bringing Up Great Kids' - Hosted by KidsXpress (Sydney/Tumut) & facilitated by the Australian Childhood Foundation (Sydney)
This 3-hour foundation workshop focuses on building positive and nurturing relationships between parents and their children. The program aims to support parents to review and enhance their patterns of communication with their children, to promote more respectful interactions and to encourage the development of children's positive self-identity.
More detailed info about the workshop can be found on the 'Workshop Overview' document attached and on the ACF website here: https://professionals.childhood.org.au/bringing-up-great-kids/
Cost: Free w/ catering provided
Location: Tumut Library (courtyard), 169 Wynyard St, Tumut.
Date: Wed 13th March 2024
Timeslot: 9:30am - 12:30pm
RSVP: To save a spot in one of the workshops, RSVP via this online form, or by contacting the Projects Coordinator, Belinda Long at 0434 880 364 or belinda.long@kidsxpress.org.au
Follow the below links for some great receipe and lunchbox ideas.
