Dear Parents & Guardians,

This week we celebrate Teacher Assistants & Support Staff Appreciation Week! Our school is filled with wonderful students and amazing teachers…but the glue that holds everything together is our support staff - teacher assistants, office staff, canteen ladies, our librarian assistant, PE trainee, ICT support and our utility officers! These fabulous staff guide, assist, care and look out for us and our school. Our school is so much better because of them and we couldn’t live without them!

Book Week was a wonderful celebration of all things special about reading and engaging with books. Books have the amazing ability to take our readers to places all around the world and all parts of their imagination. This year’s theme is ‘Read, Grow, Inspire’ - something we hope our students achieve every day. Thank you to our families for supporting your child’s love of books and preparing them to participate in our Book Week Parade last Wednesday. We had a very successful Book Fair in our student hub at the start of last week - we thank our families for supporting this initiative. I am forever grateful, as are many of our students, for the joy that books bring!

This week we had the Tasmanian Fire Service attend our Emergency Evacuation Practice. Our recently updated Emergency Evacuation Plan has been submitted and final approval is granted with a practice attended by our local fire brigade. This was an opportunity for them to see our plan in action and occurs once every five years. We will continue to have regular practices throughout the years to ensure all students and staff are familiar with what to do in an emergency. It was pleasing to note we passed with flying colours! Our staff and students did a great job!

Last newsletter I mentioned the successful parent evening we had with Lisa Ford, Clinical Psychologist. We were able to engage such a high-quality presenter through the assistance of the Tasmanian Catholic School Parent Council who generously provided a grant towards the cost of running these sessions.

This week we held our annual Father's Day Stall. The children loved having the chance to select something special for the special men in their lives. I would like to especially thank the parents who have volunteered to run and orgnaise this stall. Without out them the stall would not be possible. I especially thank Linda Perry and Tam Pels for their work coordinating the event. A huge thank you also to Tibballs Nursery for a large donation of plants for the stall. Happy Father's Day on Sunday for all the father's and father figures of our school community.

Tomorrow morning from 7:30am is our annual Family Breakfast! We are very excited to welcome you all to school to share in this special occasion. 

Kind regards

Susan McGann

Why Choose a Catholic School for your Child?

A distinctive mark of Holy Rosary School as a Catholic school is the emphasis we have on community - teachers, staff and parents working together and the wider community to educate and develop the whole child, emotionally, academically, physically, socially and spirituality. Holy Rosary Catholic School has the flexibility to tailor its programs to meet the individual needs of students and its local Parish and community.

By choosing Holy Rosary Catholic School, your child will be nurtured in an environment which engages with the Gospel teaching. We recognise that every child is special and unique and we make every effort to cater for your child’s individual learning needs.

We encourage all families to be active partners with Holy Rosary Catholic School in your child’s education and to involve yourself in the school community, where you are always a valued member. It was especially lovely to see so many families joining us for our Book Week parade on Wednesday, spending hours of preparation time creating amazing costumes and then participating in our Book Fair. Thank you.

We also look forward to this Friday, 1st September to our family Breakfast - a time for us all to gather together and enjoy the unique and welcoming community of Holy Rosary Catholic School.

Thank you to all the students and families who put so much thought into their costumes for our Book Week Parade last week, it was great to see so many different characters.

Here are some highlights from the parade.

Congratulations to Ava Lindquist who was selected in the Tasmanian team to participate in the Australian Cross Country Championships. The championships were held in Canberra last weekend. Ava performed very well and came 31st in the 3km Under 12 Girls race. Well done Ava we are very proud of you for competing on the national stage!

As the 2023 soccer season comes to a close we would like to congratulate our students who participated and from all reports had a stellar season!

We would like to thank all the coaches who made it possible for the teams to compete this year and to Layla Cockerell and Simone Bearham for all their hard work as coordinators. 

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