Primary Update – Term 3, Week 6

Jenni Vile on 23/08/2024

Pre-Primary Blue Assembly

This week, the Pre-Primary Blue class shared with us a wonderful Assembly, focusing on the 鈥楳agic of Reading鈥� which tied so beautifully into our Book Week celebrations this week! Pre-Primary Blue started their assembly with a beautiful prayer song, reminding all of us to 鈥楲et our Light Shine鈥�. The class then reminded the Marian Campus of the importance, magic and wonder that books bring to our lives! Thank you Pre-Primary Blue for reminding us just how amazing books can be!

Book Week

This week was filled with the celebration of all things to do with reading! We had a range of activities happening across the primary campuses, including author visits and competitions, and culminating in the sensational book week dress up parades! It was so wonderful to see all of our students (and parents) and teachers put in so much effort, dressing up as a wide range of book characters to tie in with this year鈥檚 theme 鈥楻eading Is Magic鈥�. A huge thank you to our Library staff; Mrs Le Dan, Mrs Bailey and Miss Hall for their coordination and organisation of our Book Week celebrations!

秀秀直播 Norms / Medals of Marcellin

Our new 秀秀直播 Norms are now on our website and I encourage you to have a look at these expectations for our Primary students 鈥� 秀秀直播 Norms 鈥� 秀秀直播. Each week our staff and students will focus on 1 Norm, to discuss and unpack what that norm means for our students in their day-to-day school life.

Recently Lucas (Marian) and Billie (Lavalla) were drawn out of the raffle for demonstrating our 秀秀直播 Norms. Congratulations to all students who received a raffle ticket in the past fortnight. We are over halfway through our term and the competition between factions is very close!

URSTRONG 鈥� Lesson 7 Upcoming

Lesson 7 will be rolled out across the Primary next week. The areas of focus for this upcoming lesson are:

Pk-2: This session highlights hot topics for this age group including: playdates & birthday parties, how to say 鈥楴o!鈥� in a kind way, and how to respond to feeling bossed around.

Yr 3 & 4: This session highlights hot topics for this age group including: birthday parties, how to kindly decline, feeling caught in the middle, following & copying, and 鈥榮tealing鈥� friends.

Yr 5 & 6: This session focuses on the powerful influence of friends and the importance of strong boundaries. Students reflect on the difference between fitting-in vs belonging and quality vs quantity.

A reminder parents have access to a . We hope that as a URSTRONG Family, you will reinforce the important messages of empowerment, self-compassion, & kindness at home.

Father鈥檚 Day

I look forward to celebrating Father鈥檚 Day on Thursday 29 August for Lavalla (Mass), and Friday 30 August for Marian (Liturgy). Please refer to SeeSaw for details which were posted end of last week.

Primary Disco

Save the date 鈥� the Primary Disco will be held on Friday 18 October (Term 4, Week 2). More details will be provided to families in the coming weeks.

Ryan von Bergheim

HEAD OF PRIMARY