The Way Weekly Recap I Monday 6 September 2021

I hope and pray that you are travelling well during lockdown.

We have just completed our 8th week of online learning. Last week’s news was reason for optimism and we are greatly looking forward to seeing students back onsite in accordance with the NSW Government's return to school guidelines with Prep, Kindergarten and Year 1 being the first grades to be back onsite, potentially from the 25th October. This date is obviously dependent upon whether or not Level 4 restrictions are still in place in our local area.

Over the last month, we have introduced a number of new initiatives. Among them are Wellbeing Wednesdays, which is designed to have less screen time and be more creative with that time. I have seen and heard how good that has been for some students to improve their wellbeing.   

We are now hoping to receive some feedback from parents and students about how you are doing with your child’s online learning. Therefore over the next two weeks, we are having Wellbeing Catch-ups. We believe It is a time to have a conversation with the class teacher regarding your child’s wellbeing while learning from home. You will be able to select a 15 min time slot and it is hoped that you will include both yourself and your child in this meeting. These meetings will occur on weekdays from September 6th – 16th, however the dates and times available for each student will differ based on the availability of their class teacher.

We hope you enjoy this edition of The Way, including some great images of our Kindergarten students dressed up for Farmer Friday.

 
 

The Study Centre is now online

Zoom Tutor Rooms are open each week as follows :

Tuesdays - 2 - 4pm and Thursday 3 - 5pm

We encourage students in Senior School to utilise this service.

The link will be provided to students. 

We look forward to hearing the feedback.

In the Senior School we have sought to adopt and embrace the mantra and mindset of ‘Growing through Challenge’.

There are numerous challenges confronting all of us right now in the College Community and it’s important to acknowledge and appreciate those. However, it also important to seek ways to grow through them and be mindful of the challenges, but not defeated by them!

On Thursday 2nd of September, students from Years 7-10 swung into action for the Growth Challenge Day. This was an intentional day for all students in these year groups to step away from the screens, down the ‘normal’ tools of learning, and connect and engage with activities of a different kind. The activities on offer were drawn from a broad range of wellbeing-inspired concepts and sought to challenge the students to:

⇒ Get Active

⇒ Get Connected

⇒ Get Grateful

⇒ Get Mindful

⇒ Get Thoughtful & Kind

⇒ Get Devotional

Many of the activities on offer also contributed to House Points. Students were able to upload evidence of their activities, and we were pleased to see many, many entries in this area! Well done students!

Focusing on our wellbeing is critical at this time, for students, staff and all families. We certainly hope that for many students and families, yesterday was a nice change of pace. But also, we are reminded that looking to the needs of others is also very important at this time. Pausing to consider how we can invest in and care for other’s needs is a fundamental building block of our whole community’s wellbeing.

Of course, we would really appreciate hearing your feedback on the day. We indeed hope that this won’t be the last Growth Challenge Day!

Click here for some student submissions Growth Challenge_2021 I Student Submissions.pdf

All the best,
Mr Stuart McCormack
Director of Student Wellbeing (Senior School)

To celebrate the Paralympic Games, Year 4 were challenged to create their own torch relay.

Students had a great time participating in the relay.

We hope you enjoy it as much as we did. 

Miss Ashleigh Hackfath
Stage 2 Assistant Coordinator- Year 4A

 

Congratulations to all Prep - Year 12 students who submitted an entry in the first full week of the House Sport Challenge.

Some events were hotly contested and it was wonderful to see students having a go to earn points for their House.  

To view the results and also submit entries, visit the House Sport Challenge home page - https://sites.google.com/thac.nsw.edu.au/housesportchallenge/home

The House Sport Challenge is running until the end of Term 3, so get involved and earn points for your House.

You can submit your best entry for all 7 challenges for your year group.  Make sure you include the video of you participating in the Challenge.

Congratulations to Carmichael on placing first this week in the overall College House point score:

1st  -   Carmichael - 527.85 points
2nd -   Wilberforce - 475.32 points
3rd -    Lewis - 438.83 points
4th-     Liddell - 355.17 points

Which House will be in the lead at the end of Week 9?  Entries for Week 9 close Thursday 3pm.

Mr M Fox and Mrs S Evans
Sport Coordinators