Mother Teresa School Harrison
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40 Wimmera St
Harrison ACT 2914
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Email: office.motherteresa@cg.catholic.edu.au
Phone: 02 6241 5604

Principal's Message Term 1 Week 4 - 2023

Dear Parents

As a Catholic learning community,

all at Mother Teresa School are called

to care, to dream, to innovate, to inspire!

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Let's Decode Training
Today we welcomed Associate Professor Lorraine Hammond AM, PhD, CF from the School of Education, Edith Cowan University who led a Let's Decode workshop for a group of 25 staff from several local Catholic schools including Mother Teresa. Let's Decode is part of our Catalyst initiative which is an explicit approach to teaching phonological awareness and systematic decoding instruction. In the early years, students learn to hear sounds in words and are then introduced to a sequence of useful letters and begin to decode works. High frequency words are introduced to enable students to read short sentences. The teachers' skills were put to the test by our amazing kinder children.
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Year 6 Camp Adventure

Our Year 6 cohort has had a fabulous time at camp and I know they will have many stories to share over the weekend and in weeks to come. Thank you to Craig Hart for his coordination and all of the staff involved - Kelly Boyton, Belinda Hicks, Kieran Russell, Jessica Binet, and Sarah Stubbs. I know they will all have a well-earned rest over the weekend.

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School Clubs/Activities Update

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
Before School 

8.20 Ukulele 

Music Room 

Extra Group

Advanced Ukulele

Yrs 3 - 6

 
1st Break Defence Club 

Choir 

Music Room 

Yr 1 - 6 

Sustainable Garden

Defence Club

Dance Club - registrations closed
2nd Break Japanese CLub Chess - registrations closed 

Lots of children have taken up the opportunities offered during lunch or recess breaks. Unfortunately, there are no more places available for the Term 1 chess or dance sessions.  Mrs Curbishley has decided to run an advanced Ukulele group on Wednesday mornings - for more information see the flyer later in the newsl 
School Sport Regional Carnivals and Swimming Selection Trials (including ASC)

Each shool will have winners for each age group from their own carnival or swimmers who have competitive times to compete at the Regional Swimming Carnival. 

Regional swimming carnival for primary students in 2023:  

Region

Date of carnival

Pool

Entries close  

North/Gungahlin

Monday 3 April

AIS

Tuesday 28 March

There are events in 50m in the 4 strokes for all age groups (8-13 years), as well as 100m events in all four strokes.

200m IM and 200m Freestyle – will not be conducted at the regional carnival. Up to four (4) competitors in each age group (10, 11, 12 years) can be entered from direct entries received to the ACT 12&U Swimming Championships.  If you would like to nominate your child for either of these events, please contact Kieran Russell via email kieran.russell@cg.catholic.edu.au by no later than 27th March with all details including student name, age group (the age they are turning in 2023) and the official time (as recorded by your club).

Please note that there are qualifying times that need to be met in order to proceed to regional swimming carnivals.  These times are available on the ACT School Sport website. The 12 year olds qualifying time applies to 13 year old swimmers in primary school.

Uniform Shop Opening 2023
Our uniform shop volunteers have advised that they will be open Monday, Wednesday and Friday mornings from 8.30am - 9:00am. Access to the uniform shop is from the side sliding door (car park side) of the Hall. I would like to give a big shout-out to our mums who run our uniform shop. This is a volunteer service they provide to our community.
NAPLAN Dates for Years 3 & 5 in Term 1

Parents wishing their child to participate in NAPLAN need to note the following NAPLAN testing dates - 15 March to 27 March. More information to follow soon. 

Enjoy the sunny weekend.

God Bless
Carmel Maguire

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