Dear Parents & Guardians,

Welcome back to Term Four. What a fabulous start to the term…the weeks ahead are jam-packed, filled with many opportunities for learning and celebrating the year.

What a fabulous day for our Grade 3-6 Athletics Carnival on Monday! It was wonderful to see the student’s high level of participation and enjoyment. Big, big thanks to Mr Ben Johnson for your work in organising and running the carnival. Thank you to all the staff who assisted with setting up/packing up and the running of the day.

It was lovely to meet with parents from either end of the school during the last week. We welcomed the Kinder 2025 parents to an Information Evening - a great opportunity to find out all the important things to assist their child to transition successfully into school. We also gathered with our Grade 6 parents as we discussed the final plans for our Grade 6 trip to Canberra in Week Four. Very exciting times ahead!

On Wednesday we celebrated Holy Rosary Day with a beautiful liturgy led by our Grade 1 students. We prayed and were thankful for all the things that make our school special. Each one of our students and staff members contributes to and creates our amazing school! We are blessed that each one of them shares their daily lives with us.

Good luck to the two teams from Grades 5/6 participating in the Southern Regional Basketball Tournament this weekend. They have been training hard and preparing to take on many schools from Southern Tasmania. We are very proud of your participation - have a very enjoyable weekend!

Today, Friday 25th October is World Teacher’s Day! How lucky are we to have such amazing and dedicated teaching staff? Today we celebrate our teachers and thank them for all the work they do to educate, inspire and empower our students.

Reminder  - for students wishing to join us in the Myer Hobart Christmas Pageant on Saturday 23rd November, please complete the Google form before November 1st.

A final note - school hats are required to be worn each day when outside. It is also important as the weather heats up that sunscreen is applied before school and throughout the day as necessary.

During Term 4 Students at Holy Rosary Catholic School 

will join together to explore The Scriptures.

From the beginning, the People of God passed on knowledge of God through Stories;

it was written down in the Bible, celebrated in the Liturgy and proclaimed in the Church.

The Bible has two big parts, the Old and the New testament.

It begins with the creation of the world, describes how human beings have come to know God and ends with the coming of the New Heaven and the New Earth.

The Bible is the Holy Book of Christianity.

Our HRS Students will be finding out more about it during Term Four.

• The Bible is God's Holy Book.
• The Scriptures help people to learn about God's love
• We learn from the Scriptures and we pray with them
• The Scriptures tell us about God's love for us
• We can use the Scriptures to help us to pray alone or together.
• Scripture teaches Christians how to live as followers of Jesus

"All Scripture is inspired by God and profitable for teaching and for training in righteousness"

 (Timothy 3:16)

To our wonderful Holy Rosary Teachers,

Thank you for all do for each other, the children in our care, our families and all in our school community.

Together we pray...

God of Love, Thank you for every teacher who notices a child’s special gift. Thank you for teachers who are listeners and gentle guides. Thank you for teachers who expect much and love enough to demand more. Thank you for the special teacher each one of us remembers.

God of Mercy, Sustain teachers who give everything they have. Strengthen teachers who assume the blame for so many problems beyond their control. Help exhausted teachers rest.

God of Strength, Encourage teachers to care and inspire them to nourish. Motivate teachers to keep on learning for the fun of it and to make learning enjoyable for children.

We wonder at teachers who know how to quiet a class of five year olds or help fourth graders be empathetic. We admire teachers who enjoy middle school writers, or teach physics or math of history. Bless the people who are expected to accomplish these miracles and who know how to comfort children when miracles don’t happen.

God of Justice, help and support teachers in their special calling, wherever they teach and whatever obstacles they must face. We pray these things in the name of our great teacher, Jesus Christ.

Amen.

Term 4 is off to a busy start in Prep!

In Maths, we enjoyed being outside to gather some data. We counted cars using tally marks to investigate the most popular car colour. We have also been exploring and comparing the area of different shapes. We used blocks to identify which shape takes up a bigger area, a smaller area, or about the same area.

In Religion we have been finding our friend Jesus all around us! We used our senses of seeing, hearing, tasting, smelling and touching to identify where we find Jesus in our everyday lives. We loved finding our friend Jesus outside in the sunshine, in the clouds and trees around us.

Back to school pre-orders can be collected before the end of the year or in the new year.

If you would like to collect your order before the end of the year, please contact the office to arrange a collection time between the 2/12 - 9/12/24.

If you prefer to collect in the New Year you can do so from Tuesday the 28th January. You do not need to call us to organise a time. 

We will open the uniform shop for back to school purchases on Thursday the 30th of January 9am-12pm. Limits will apply of one of each item and subsequent items can be placed on back order. We kindly ask that one family enter the shop at a time. 

We have a lot of unnamed lost property that is eager to be returned to their families. 

If your child is missing an item, please check the lost property boxes in the foyer of the office building.