Sky Country 2025 Expo

27 Aug 2025

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🌏 Sky Country Expo – Solidarity and Hope: Learning Together Then, Now and Always 🌏 📅 Friday 12th September We warmly invite our school community to join us for this special event. ✨ Check your Compass portal for all the details. We look forward to seeing you there!

26 Aug 2025

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Jarara Aboriginal Cultural Immersion Day Last Thursday, Aunty Carol and our Jarara Aboriginal Cultural Team delivered a wonderful day of cultural immersion and grassroots connection for our students. We explored the meanings behind symbols in art and had the chance to create some of our own. Students also learnt about Aboriginal Kinship which shapes a person’s identity, relationships, and responsibilities to their family, community and Country. It is through these special bonds that strength, love, and connection are shared across generations. St Canice's Sky Country theme 'Learning Together, Then, Now and Always' is all the richer thanks to Aunty Carol and Jarara's generous support. Each child also began a weaving piece that will be proudly displayed at our Expo Day on Friday 12th September. ✨ Save the Date—we’d love for you to join us!

25 Aug 2025

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23 Aug 2025

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🌟 St Canice’s Term 3 Food Drive 🌟 This term, St Canice’s is supporting our local St Vincent de Paul Society by collecting non-perishable food and essential items. 💙 If your family is in a position to donate, we would be so grateful for your support—every little bit helps those in need within our community. 📦 Suggested Donation Items by Week: Week 5 – Small tins of Tuna / Salmon Week 6 – Sweet Biscuits Week 7 – Savoury Biscuits Week 8 – Drinking Chocolate / Milo Week 9 – Small tins of Spaghetti / Baked Beans Week 10 – Small Tinned Fruit Thank you for helping us make a difference! 💛

22 Aug 2025

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📚✨ What an incredible response to our Book Fair! We will be opening the fair again this afternoon—so if you get a chance, pop in and have a browse. The Book Fair will also be open Monday and Tuesday mornings next week. A big thank you to Ms Sarah, our Librarian, and Ms Barnes for all their organisation and planning, and to our wonderful families for purchasing books. ❤️ Thanks to you, we’ll receive a portion back to help us fill our library with even more amazing books for our students to enjoy!

22 Aug 2025

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✨📚 Highlights from St Canice’s Book Week Celebrations ✨ This year’s theme, “Book an Adventure”, brought so much joy, imagination, and creativity to our school! From colourful costumes and exciting story times to fun activities and adventures through books, our students truly embraced the magic of reading. 💫 Thank you to our staff, parents, and carers for helping make Book Week such a memorable celebration! ❤️ #BookWeek2025 #BookAnAdventure #StCanices

21 Aug 2025

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📚✨ Book Week 2025 – “Book an Adventure at St Canice’s!” ✨📚 🎉 BOOK PARADE - TOMORROW 📅 Friday 22nd August 🕘 9:00am 📍 Upstairs Open Area Come dressed as your favourite book character and show off your love of stories in our fun and colourful Book Parade! 📖💫 👨‍👩‍👧 Parents and carers are warmly welcome to stay for the morning session and enjoy recess with your child afterward. 🛍️ BOOK FAIR Discover exciting new reads and help support our school library! 📅 Open Dates: Friday 22nd August Monday 25th August Tuesday 26th August Let’s make this Book Week an adventure to remember! 🚀🌈 📚 Ms Sarah Librarian #BookWeek2025 #BookParade #StCanicesReads #BookAnAdventure

21 Aug 2025

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🌧️ It may have been wet, but that didn’t dampen the spirits of our amazing athletes who gave it their all at the Nepean Zone Athletics Carnival! 🏃‍♀️🏃‍♂️💪 A huge congratulations to everyone who competed – your determination and resilience shone through despite the weather. We're so proud of you all! 👏🙌 #NepeanZone #AthleticsCarnival #ProudMoment #RainOrShine

19 Aug 2025

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On Friday Kindergarten to Year 6 enjoyed a sunny cultural day down at Garguree, The Gully. We began with Jo Clancy leading us in a gentle acknowledgement song to the Dharug and Gundungurra ancestors to let them know that we were coming peacefully onto their country. Jo explained that many dances have been danced on country at The Gully over thousands of years, we then danced all together. Jo taught us that The Gully continues to be a place that can love all of us together. Stages 2 and 3 went for a walk with Paul where they selected their own message stick to use for their Expo dance. They spent time sanding and getting to know their own piece and over the coming weeks the children will paint their own designs onto their message stick, inspired from their experience on country at The Gully. Kindergarten and Stage 1 went searching for bees with Jo rehearsing the song as they went before enjoying dancing with bare feet on the soft grass practising the kangaroo and bee dance ready for the Expo. Our shared time at The Gully allowed us the time to focus our senses on what we could see, smell, feel and hear. Students worked together in small groups and also spent time listening to stories about the history of The Gully. Please remember to Save The Date for our Sky Country Expo on Friday 12th September where you can see your beautiful children perform and showcase all of their learning from this immersive term of Indigenous perspectives.

17 Aug 2025

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💙 Father’s Day Liturgy & Afternoon Tea 💙 📅 Wednesday 3rd September 🕑 2:00pm We warmly invite all dads, grandads and special father figures to join us for our Father’s Day Liturgy, followed by a delicious afternoon tea. We can’t wait to celebrate with you!

16 Aug 2025

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🌟 A Big Week at St Canice’s! 🌟 🍳 Brekky Club – Thursday 8:20am–8:40am in the hall Fuel up for the day with a yummy breakfast! 🥐☕ 🎉 Book Week Parade – Friday 9am Come dressed as your favourite book character and join the fun 📚✨ 🥫 Food Drive Reminder – This week we’re collecting small tins of tuna or salmon for St Vincent de Paul. Every tin helps someone in need 💙 Thanks for your amazing community spirit! #BookWeek2025 #BrekkyClub #CommunitySpirit #FoodDrive #StVincentDePaul #Week5Update

14 Aug 2025

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A reminder for families to check your compass parent portal for details of our whole school excursion to Garguree – The Gully 🖤💛❤️ Guided by Jo Clancy and Aunty Carol, our students will deepen their connection to this ancient place as they continue learning a Dharug Cleansing Dance — a dance inspired by the spirit of The Gully itself. 📅 Save the date: Friday 12th September 🌌 Sky Country Expo – come and see our K–6 students perform this special dance and share their learning. A beautiful celebration of culture, connection, and Country. 🌿

14 Aug 2025

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More exciting news from Stage 1. The Magic Mailbox has mysteriously delivered letters to all Stage One kids. How Magical! The Stage 1 kids have taken their letters home to read them with their parents. I wonder what other mysterious and magical letters may appear in the magical mail box?

14 Aug 2025

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Last Friday, during our dance, Jo Clancy, our amazing dance teacher, shared the special meaning behind the ochre we wore. For boys, Jo painted three lines; for girls, three dots. Each symbol represents: ✨ Connection to your own Spirit – the strength and light within you. 🌏 Connection to Country – wherever you were born, linking you back to the land. 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Connection to Family – your parents, grandparents, great-grandparents, and all those who came before you. A beautiful reminder that we are always connected — to ourselves, to the land, and to our people. ❤️

13 Aug 2025

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🌞 What an incredible morning at our Community Open Day! 🌟 We had an outstanding turnout for a delicious BBQ breakfast and a wonderful showcase of learning in our open classrooms — featuring science, art, and music. 🎨🔬🎶 Our Little Lyrebirds and Little Lyrebird Learners had an extra treat with a jumping castle 🏰💛 A huge thank you to everyone who came along and made the day so special! 🙏✨