2025 Newsletter Term 2 Week 6
Letter from the Principal - Brad Toole
Dear Parents,
Father’s Day Brekky & Prayer
You’re all invited to join us for our Father’s Day Celebrations next Friday.
Our Father’s Day celebrations will be held on Friday 5th September from 8am onwards. Year 1 and Mrs Marsh will be in charge of the bacon and egg rolls. We will be shouting coffees in the morning and have a short prayer on the basketball court before we head into class for the day. Please return the form with how many bacon and egg rolls your family will require so we can organise food quantities.
Please come along and join us.
Advanced warning that our 3rd and 4th Pupil Free Days for the year will be held on:
Monday 13th October - Monday Term 4 Week 1 (Students return Tuesday 14th October)
Friday 7th November - Friday Term 4 Week 4
R.E Matters
The theme for 2025 is…
All Hallows - People of Hope
2025 is a Year of Jubilee!
FIRST HOLY COMMUNION MASS – SUNDAY 24th August.
The First Holy Communion Mass was a beautiful celebration for the Parish and especially the two students receiving the Body of Christ for the first time.
Supported by their families and extended school and parish family, Rosie and Kurt received their First Holy Communion and enjoyed celebrating afterwards with a very impressive gathering and cake.
Many thanks to Fr Cong, for presiding at this Sacrament. Thanks also to Mrs Kelly who prepared the class, Mrs Holland for her organising and the Parish community for their support.
Sport
POLDING ATHLETICS
This year All Hallows will be represented at the Polding Athletics Carnival by four students. These students gained selection into the Bathurst Diocesan Athletics team with impressive results at the Diocesan Carnival on Friday.
Congratulations to Brycen Butler on his 1st place in the 800m and 1500m, Braxton Butler on his 2nd place in the 1500m, Aliyah Kosij on her 2nd place in the 100m and Rory Kinsela on his 3rd place in Long Jump. These students will now travel to Newcastle in two weeks to compete at the Polding Athletics Carnival. We wish them well.
Thankyou to Mrs Kelly and the parents for supporting the All Hallows athletes at the Diocesan Carnival on Friday.
POLDING GOLF TRIALS
This week Dylan McKeown participated in the Polding Golf selections in Blackheath. He played 18 holes of golf. Well done Dylan on representing All Hallows at this event.
TOUCH FOOTY CARNIVAL
Mudgee – Tuesday 9th September, 2025.
This is a Gala Day for Year 3-6 students with an information note being sent home yesterday. Those students interested in attending will receive further information via Compass on Friday. If your child wishes to attend the Touch Footy Gala Day and you did not receive this note, please contact the school and let us know. Students will travel by bus, leaving at 9.00am and returning by 3.20pm. The Touch Footy consent and bus levy will need to be completed on Compass by Thursday 4th September, 2025.
School Production - The Amazing Race
Next Thursday we will be presenting:
We will be presenting ‘All Hallows - The Amazing Race’.
We will be hosting performances on:
Thursday 4th September
11.30am - Matinee
6.30pm - Performance
Two weeks ago you received a sheet to order your tickets. There are a limited number of tickets (4) for each show for each family. Please note you don’t need tickets for students at school as they will not require one of the seats.
The Opera House has a capacity of 275 seats and this is to accommodate everyone. You will have up until Friday 29th August to secure your tickets. If we have remaining tickets we will open them up for people to grab extras on Monday 1st September. The night time show is nearly sold out!
Kindergarten 2026 Transition
We look forward to meeting our new friends tomorrow!
We have planned our ‘Koala Club’ transition dates and parent information sessions for people that have students that will be starting in Kinder in 2026.
Key Dates:
Term 3:
- Koala Club 1 - 28th August 9.30am - 12.30pm
- Koala Club 2 - 11th September 9.30am - 12.30pm
- Koala Club 3 - 18th September 9.30am - 12.30pm
Term 4:
- Koala Club 4 - 16th October 9.30am - 2.30pm
- Koala Club 5 - 30th October 9.30am - 2.30pm
- Koala Club 6 - 13th November 9.30am - 2.30pm
- Koala Club 7 - 27th November 9.30am - 2.30pm
- Kinder Readiness / Information Meeting 27/11/25 2.30pm (School Hall)
No Canteen - Thursday 4th Sept
There will be no canteen next Thursday 4th September, the day of our school production.
Please ensure your child has adequate food and drink for the day.
P&F Update
Save The Date
Friday 31st October 2025 5.00pm
All Hallows P&F School Bazaar
P&F Uniform Shop Opening Hours
Our P&F uniform Shop is open on Tuesday mornings 8.30am - 9.15am. Should you need items outside this time please message through the P&F Facebook page and someone from the P&F will arrange a collection from the office for uniform items.
End of Year Presentation
After careful consideration we have made the decision to hold this year's awards ceremony during the school day instead of during the evening. The reason we have made the decision is we want to give all students the opportunity to be at the awards ceremony. We have noticed a trend over recent years of less students attending the night time presentation evening. We will evaluate after the Presentation afternoon this year.
Our Awards Assembly will be held on Thursday 11th December at 1pm at Memorial Hall.
Student Wellbeing
Merit Awards - Wk 5 Term 2
There was no Award Assembly last week. Double merits will be given out this week.
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