St James' Primary School Yamba eNewsletter

What is On?

Tuesday 17th June - AFL Carnival Iluka-S3 teams

Tuesday 17th June- Community Conversation #11

Tuesday 17th June - S2 Class Mass and visit with Fr Roland, 10:15am – 12:15pm

Wednesday 18th June - Diocesan Rugby 10s Carnival-S3

Friday 20th June - School Athletics Carnival

Tuesday 24th June- ES1 & S1 Mass / S1 class visit with Fr Roland, 10:15am – 12:15pm

Thursday 26th June - Maclean Eisteddfod(choir)

Wednesday 2nd July - Zone Athletics Carnival- Coffs Harbour

Thursday 3rd July - Last Day Term 2 for Students

Friday 4th July - Staff Professional Learning Day - Foundation Day- Pupil Free Day

Term 3 2025

Monday 21st July - First Day Term 3 for Students and Staff

Friday 25th July- Foundation Day - Feast of Saint James

Tuesday 29th July - Reconciliation - St James Church, Yamba

Saturday 30th August - First Holy Communion-St James Church, Yamba

Friday 5th September - Father's Day Breakfast 7am -9am (more details to come)

Thursday 25th September - Last Day Term 3 for Students

Friday 26th September - Staff Professional Learning Day - Curriculum - Pupil Free Day

Term 4 2025

Monday 13th October - First Day Term 4 for Students and Staff

Monday 3rd – Friday 7th November - Stage 3 Camp- Canberra

End of Year Final Awards Assembly - Thursday 11th December - Yamba Bowling Club 10:00 – 11:00am

Wednesday 17th December - Last Day Term 4 for Students and Staff

Dear Parents and Carers

Today has been a big day for me at Saint James.

Today I walked across the playground to the northern fence! I have forgotten how nice the yard is when the weather is nice. If you check instagram, you may see myself and some boys checking out the space. The children will spread back out there soon, I am sure.

Lots of children and staff have been out with sport this week and next week there is more to come (read on friends, read on).

Choir is hard at work preparing for the eisteddfod and I am hard at work trying to also learn my words! We will be ready!

On other fronts. Have you heard me speak of the DLCSL Growth Strategy? Well... (trumpet sounds)... this morning we had a site meeting. Here we go ... after 10 years of discussing... MONDAY is the beginning of the rest of our lives. Sounds dramatic I know but it has been quite the journey and we are here. The relocatable learning pod is to be installed before the end of the July school holidays in preparation for fit out, landscaping and 'zhuzhing'. There will be minimal impact on the school when in operation.

The eastern end of Kiss and Drop is where the äction will take place. Exclusion fencing goes up next week, ground works to follow and I expect the uplift in the first week of the school holidays. We are about to start talking in trade language so get ready for that. (A little knowledge is a dangerous thing!)

Community Conversation #11 is on Tuesday evening. All are welcome, all belong. (read on, read on)

Have a lovely weekend. See you next week at the Athletics Carnival.

Ann

Sport News

Cross Country

Congratulations to our Cross Country representatives Iyla, Chase, Lenny, Jackson and Athena who competed at the Polding Cross Country Championships in Sydney on Wednesday. In some very chilly conditions against some high quality competition they all raced extremely well and were great representatives for our school. Chase, Lenny and Jackson were members of the Lismore Diocese team that won the 9yrs boys team event which was a great effort. Special congratulations also to Chase who has now qualified for the NSW PSSA Cross Country Carnival which will be held in Sydney at the start of next term. Good luck.

Polding Results

9yrs Boys - Chase 4th, Lenny 10th, Jackson 27th

9yrs Girls - Athena 30th

11yrs Girls - Iyla 14th

AFL

A reminder to Stage 3 students that the Paul Kelly Cup is being held in Iluka next Tuesday 17th June. Please check Compass if your child is involved in this event for all the details regarding the day.

Rugby Union

St James has entered a team into the Stage 3 Diocesan Rugby 10s Carnival being held in Coffs Harbour next Wednesday 18th June. A big thanks to Scott Moore who is running some training sessions at school with the team in the lead up to the event. If your child is involved in this team please check Compass for details regarding the event and to give your child consent to attend the day.

The Diocesan Rugby Union trials were held at Wollongbar yesterday. Well done to Dean and Ashton who were selected to play for the Clarence Zone team at this carnival. Both boys played well and enjoyed the day and Ashton has now been selected in the Lismore Diocesan team to attend the Polding Rugby Union Carnival in Forbes on the 30th of June. Well done Ashton and good luck!

Athletics

Just a reminder that our school Athletics Carnival will be held next Friday 20th June at the Rugby League Field at the Yamba Sports Complex. This carnival is for all students from Kinder to Year 6. Shot Put and Long Jump events will be held at school next week for the Junior, 11yrs and Senior age groups and then all the Track events will be held at the carnival on Friday. It's always an enjoyable day and we look forward to seeing everyone there running and cheering on their house.

Stage 2 News

Science

In Science, we have continued our study into states of matter and how matter can change with the addition of heat. We have been representing our understanding of these states in various forms. While we are beginning to wrap up our unit, we are looking forward to our final experiment where we will be making candles and watching as the elements change state.

English

In English, we have continued to explore the concept of Genre. We are at the exciting part of the unit where we get to use the skills we have learnt and create our own text. After exploring the texts ‘Iceberg’ and ‘Earth’s Incredible Oceans’, we have taken some facts from an informative text and made them into a multipurpose text. After exploring ‘Deadly Science: The Solar System’, we created a multimodal text, experimenting with all different modes.

Religion

In Religion, we have started to look at what Reconciliation is, in preparation for the students completing this sacrament early next term. We have looked at what is and the four important Stages. Stage 2 students had the opportunity to create a poster on the computer, or on paper.

Community Conversation #11

Community Conversation #11 is on Tuesday evening. Please come along to join us in future dreaming in the school. Booking link below. Pizza for dinner and babysitting provided.

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ALL ARE WELCOME ALL BELONG

Traffic Survey - a message from the CVC

Clarence Valley Council is planning safety improvements, particularly around the busy Yamba Road to support students walking and riding to school. As part of this planning, we’ve developed a short survey to capture input from school families to find out where improvements are needed and what would help them feel safer getting to school. We are writing to you to ask if you would be able to share this survey through your newsletter and social media/parent communications. On previous projects, this data has helped us to design and acquire funding for improvements to infrastructure to help children get to school. Closes 20/06/2025.

Link to Yamba School Survey