Child Care now costs about $105-125 per day….WOW ! It is expensive. That’s about $550 or more per week per child. No wonder so many families struggle financially ! What if…... when they come to St Aidan’s, your child’s education was charged at the same rate? HOW MUCH WOULD IT COST? If each of our class teachers has say 30 students at say the same cost of $105-$125 per day….. That’s 30 x approx $110= $3,300 per day per class if we had the same rate….. That is $16,500 per week per class. We have 14 classes at St Aidan’s……. so 14 x $3,300= $231,000 coming into the school in fees each week!!! Per term, at the same rate: $231,000 x 10 weeks= $2,310,000 and for the year, it would be NINE and a QUARTER MILLION $$$$$. Of course, school fees are nothing like the Child Care rates mentioned above…. Luckily….. But think about the quality of education your child is receiving here at St Aidan’s at a hugely reduced rate !!
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St. Aidan's Primary School
Term 3 Week 4
NAPLAN ONLINE READINESS Next week, our Years 3 & 5 students are testing our school’s ability to do NAPLAN online next year. No results are published in this short assessment but next year, every student will be doing their NAPLAN testing online. NAPLAN 2018 results should arrive in the next week or so. School Photos These should arrive in the next week or two. The arrival date was delayed due to proofreading of names, etc. We will send them home as soon as they arrive. Remember our fence?
PARENT LEARNING FORUMS- Next week If you remember from the newsletter last term, we had a good number of parents come to the daytime meeting but minimal attendance at the evening meeting. With so many commitments and pressures on parents nowadays, we have changed meeting times to better suit families. Some points of discussion next week: NAPLAN Father’s Day plans Tracking student progress- data walls ‘Hoedown’ at St Aidan’s - Literacy/Numeracy wk 7 (linked to BuyABale) Gymnastics term 4 Action Plan meetings (linked to our school goals) Times/ Venues Mon 20/8 8:45am Parent Learning Forum in the staff room Thurs 23/8 1:50pm Parent Learning Forum in the meeting room next to Kinder
* Wednesday 29th August * * Kindergarten 2019 Parent Meeting 7:30pm *
DISNEY DAY IN YEAR 2!!!
Voice of Youth Congratulations to : Paula El-Ghossein whose speech regarding 'Homelessness' won the prize for Social Justice! Well done to Anjali Sharma who made a speech about 'Winter'. The girls were very worthy representatives of St Aidan's School. Thank you also to Amire Gorgise who was our Reserve on the day. The three judges were complimentary of all the students who participated. They were particularly pleased with the wide variety of techniques that all children incorporated in their speeches. We are very proud of their outstanding efforts!
Zone Athletics Carnival Results
Congratulations to all the students who participated in the Blacktown Zone Athletics Carnival on Tuesday. They were a credit to our school and to their families. Special congratulations to Megan Fuimaono who achieved 11 year old Girls Champion runner up! Congratulations to the following students who are continuing on to represent Blacktown at the Diocesan Carnival next week: Isabella Bell, Isabella Gatmaitan, Andrea Plaatjes, James Schofield and Megan Fuimaono.
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STAGE 2 EXCURSION TO BOTANY
Farmers in Queensland and Northern NSW need our help to keep their cattle, sheep and horses alive through one of the worst droughts in living history. Year 5 will be collecting money from the Return and Earn recycling stations to donate to the Buy a Bale rural aid initiative. This money will be used to buy hay to feed the animals, helping them survive this terrible drought. Our goal is to raise $9500 so we can buy 95 bales of hay to fill a whole semi-trailer. Every day at recess and lunch, containers will be collected by the Year 5 students. We also ask for the students to bring containers from home that aren’t crushed to help us achieve our goal. You can donate your glass, plastic, aluminium, steel and liquid cardboard containers. These include many items such as cans, drink bottles and poppers but unfortunately not milk bottles and juice containers over 1L. Hopefully we can work together as a community to support all the farmers in Queensland and Northern NSW. Good luck and start collecting!
Year 5 Buy a Bale Recycling Initiative
Dear Parents, If you order Recess online or send a Recess order for your child, would you please remind your child to collect their order from the tuckshop at the start of Recess. Thank you, Michelle, Tuckshop Lady.
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Canteen Campaign to encourage students to 'Eat fresh and Win!' Lots of prizes! 1st Prize - Roar and Snore at Taronga Zoo (2 adults & 2 kids valued at $1,200) 2nd Prize - Garmin Vivofit Jr. Fitness watch (valued at $129) 3rd Prize - Faber Castell Packs (valued at $75) 4th Prize - Tupperware Lunch Prize pack (valued at $69) Bonus Prize - XBox One X (valued at $649) Major School Prize - Gameday Mouthguards (valued at $897) Canteen Prize - Modular Mate Bakers Dozen Set (valued at $356) Plus $100 EFTPOS voucher for Canteen Manager How to enter: 1. Choose an option from the canteen that contains fresh fruit or vegetables and receive a sticker for your entry form. 2. Collect 2 stickers for your entry form and receive a trading card (7 to collect). 3. Submit your completed entry form to your school canteen by Friday 21st September 2018 for a chance to win!
