Grammar Notes. Early Morning Bugz About! Enterprising Spirits Engaged Thinkers Moral Citizens. Issue 29, 2016 Tuesday 20 September

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1 H P Grammar Notes DIARY: Tuesday 20 September 9.00am Operetta Final Dress Rehearsal, St Margaret s College 1.15pm School closes for the day, No Prep Room or Family Room 7.00pm OPERETTA Performance, Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margaret s College Issue 29, 2016 Tuesday 20 September Early Morning Bugz About! Wednesday 21 September 10.00am School Opens 4.00pm School Closes, No Prep Room or Family Room 7.00pm OPERETTA Performance, Charles Luney Auditorium, St Margaret s College Thursday 22 September 10.00am School opens Friday 23 September Last Day of Term 9.30am Pre-School Graduation parents welcome 1.45pm Prep School Mid-year Sports and Cultural Awards Assembly, hall parents welcome Junior School closes for end of term 3.30pm Prep Schools close for end of term No Prep or Family Room 5.30pm Pre-School closes at normal time Please note inside the important Operetta reporting and finishing times, and information for the remainder of this week. Uncollected tickets can be claimed at the desk on the left hand side of the main entrance to the Charles Luney Auditorium at St Margaret s College. All tickets should be claimed by 6.50pm because the audience must be seated by 6.55pm. The Friends Association are selling ice-creams and water in the foyer before the show and during the interval between shows. This is cash only. Ice-creams may not be eaten by performers until after their performance!

2 P A G E 2 From the Principal s Desk I can t believe I have come to the end of my first term at Cathedral Grammar. It has flown by, I guess it does when you are having fun! Whether through chatting in the playground, meetings, the quiz night, or the parent forums, I have had the opportunity to meet with quite a number of you and I really appreciate the warm welcome you have extended to me. It has been great to begin to build connections and understanding as we plan for the future of our school. The forum results are being collated and we will be in a position to share these, along with the broad plan for the next steps, with you early next term. I wish to clarify that the holiday programme run here at school is for Y1-8 pupils together. I understand that this is a change as the younger pupils in Y1 and 2 were previously in the Pre-School holiday programme, however it has been brought to the school s attention that it is in breach of our Early Childhood License to have school aged pupils together with Pre-School pupils within the Pre-School. This is why the change was made last term. I would suggest that most, if not all, primary schools that offer holiday programmes have their Y1-8 pupils together. This also fits with our family based values and there is an expectation that the older pupils support and encourage our younger pupils during the programme. A lot of them are brothers and sisters! Our ratio during the programme is 1:12, and 1:8 when going on trips outside of school. The decision is yours as to whether this meets your needs or not, but we are not prepared to breach our license. This ruling regarding the mix of the age groups will clearly impact Family Room, so from next term Family Room will be held in the Junior School hall. I do hope you will enjoy Bugz and The Wizard of Oz over the next two nights! The pupils and staff have poured a lot of power, time, energy, skill and expertise into it and I m sure both they, and you, will thoroughly enjoy the performances. Thank you to everyone involved huge team effort! Please take note of the details below regarding the next few days. Have a wonderful holiday (three weeks!) and see you on October 17. Mr Scott Thelning Principal

3 P A G E 3 Key Dates & Times in Operetta Week Please be aware of the different times at which school opens and closes in Week IX and the evening reporting times. Tuesday 20 September 5.40pm 6.20pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.45pm 9.15pm Reporting time for Y3 pupils to St Margaret s Reporting time for Wizard principals to St Margaret s Reporting time for Y2 pupils to St Margaret s Reporting time for Y1 to St Margaret s Reporting time for rest of Prep Schools to St Margaret s Junior School production: Bugz Prep Schools production: The Wizard of Oz Prep Schools production finishes Wednesday 21 September 10.00am School opens late (Staff will be on duty to mind pupils from 8.00am in the library) Junior School closes at normal time. No Family Room 3.30pm Prep Schools close at normal time. No Prep Room Pre-School will be open until 5.30pm for Pre-School pupils only. 5.40pm 6.20pm 6.30pm 7.00pm 7.45pm 9.15pm Reporting time for Y3 pupils to St Margaret s Reporting time for Wizard principals to St Margaret s Reporting time for Y2 pupils to St Margaret s Reporting time for Y1 to St Margaret s Reporting time for rest of Prep Schools to St Margaret s Junior School production: Bugz Prep Schools production: The Wizard of Oz Prep Schools production finishes

4 P A G E 4 Key Dates & Times in Operetta Week IX Thursday 22 September 10.00am School opens (staff on duty to mind pupils from 8.00am) Junior School closes at normal time 4.00pm Prep Schools close at normal time (after sport) Prep and Family Rooms are open until 5.30pm 5.30pm Pre-School closes at normal time Friday 23 September 8.00am 9.30am 1.45pm 3.30pm 5.30pm School opens at usual time Pre-School Graduation parents welcome Prep School Mid-year Sports and Cultural Awards Assembly, hall parents welcome Junior School closes for end of term (please note that there is no Junior School assembly today.) Prep Schools close for end of term No Prep or Family Room (Pre-School open for Pre-School pupils only) Pre-School closes at normal time

5 P A G E 5 Prep Schools Operetta Make-up For those pupils who are not principals Please apply the make-up detailed to your child s face at home, before they report to St Margaret s College at 6.30pm on Tuesday 20 and Wednesday 21 September. The make-up is essential to prevent sweating under the hot theatre lights and also to add colour to your child s face, as the lights make actors appear very pale. So apply liberally! Do not apply moisturizer - the make-up will slide off under the heat! Please also place your child s lipstick in a named, re-sealable plastic bag to be brought to the theatre so that their lipstick can be reapplied during the show as it is inevitably chewed off. Those girls who have long hair must have it secured in a high pony tail, a plait or bun that will not work loose while dancing energetically. Year 4G, 4B, 5G, 5B, 6B, 7B, 8B darkish tone foundation blusher darkened eye brows brown tone lip colour Year 6G, 7G darkish tone foundation blusher darkened eyebrows eyeliner any eye shadow matching costume, bright pink, orange or red lipstick Year 8G darkish tone foundation blusher darkened eyebrows eyeliner green eye shadow brown tone lipstick

6 P A G E 6 General & Co-Curricular Notices No Prep or Family Room Due to the early closing hours for the Operettas and then the end-of-term, there is NO Prep Room or Family Room for Prep and Junior School on Tuesday, Wednesday or Friday. Pre-School will remain open until 5.30pm as usual on these days for Pre-School pupils only. NO After-school Clubs There are NO after-school Junior or Prep School clubs during Operetta Week. Mid-Year Sport & Cultural Awards Assembly This Prep Schools awards event, celebrating achievements to date in the year, takes place on the final day of term (23 September), and parents are most welcome to attend. The assembly starts at 1.45pm and should conclude about. All pupils will be available for collection at the usual time of 3.30pm after their final Home Room tidy up and the Deans Dismissal. End-of-Term Next Week The school term finishes on Friday 23 September. Please note that there is no Family or Prep Room on this day. 3.30pm 5.30pm Term IV Dates Junior School closes Prep Schools close Pre-School closes School opens on Monday 17 October. Please note that this holiday is a three-week break. Also, please note that with Easter having been in term-time, our Term IV dates are out of kilter resulting in the Labour Day and Show Weekend holidays falling a week earlier in our term than usual, ie: Labour Weekend is at the end of Week I, and Show Weekend at the end of Week IV. Athletic Heats, Week I, Term IV For your diary, the Prep Schools Athletic Heats are the first Tuesday of Term IV at Christ s College. Tuck Shop will not be available for Prep pupils on this day. All pupils should come to school in summer PE uniform (House shirts and white socks) and full tracksuits. In their sports bag, they require a warm fleece and/ rugby jersey and/or jersey/ guernsey, beanie, sunhat, sunblock, morning tea snack, lunch and a drink bottle.