St Thomas Aquinas Primary School, West Belconnen in Canberra, Australian Capital Territory | Primary School

St Thomas Aquinas Primary School, West Belconnen

Locality: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory

Phone: +61 2 6258 4077

Address: 25 Lhotsky Street 2615 Canberra, ACT, Australia

Website: http://staquinas.act.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Week 5 is National Science Week. There are lots of exciting activities happening at Lunch (1st Break) for children to explore. Here is a timetable of events for the week.

25.01.2022 Mrs Neiberdings nature journals were a hit at our Science Week lunch club.

24.01.2022 These children designed and created their own marble run at lunch time with Mrs Betterton. What a creative idea!

24.01.2022 What a beautiful morning for our National Walk Safely to School Day and Healthy Bones Breakfast. Weve had lots of fun and loved seeing so many children joining in. Also an extra special thanks to our sponsors Woolworths Charnwood, Canberra Milk and Capitol Chilled Foods for providing cereal, milk and fresh fruit.

24.01.2022 To help keep STA a safe place for all our students, we are moving back to level 2.2 restrictions. Here are the key points that were sent home via email yesterday: What does this mean for our families? Parents and Carers can only come into the school building if you have an appointment with a member of staff or are here to attend a small meeting arranged by the school where adults can socially distance. Parents and Carers can come onto the school grounds to drop off or pic...k up their children, but may not remain on school grounds for a prolonged time. This means that: - once you drop off or collect your child you will need to leave the school grounds as soon as possible. - we request that at the end of the day you arrive as close to the bell time as possible or stay in your car until just before the bell. We will continue to have a staff member at drop off and pick up. However we have returned to one line for afternoon pick up - please be patient. If your child is not able to do up their own seatbelt, please park and collect your child from the courtyard. If your child displays cold or flu-like symptoms you will be called to collect your child as soon as possible. We have been asked to limit the number of volunteers onsite to those who are essential for the running of the school. Whole school assemblies inside the hall will not take place. Students will continue to gather in the courtyard in the mornings and after break times. However parents will no longer be able to stay for the morning assembly. Adult visitors will need to enter through the front office and sign in. Excursions can occur. However numbers are limited. Overnight camps cannot occur at this stage. The Sacramental Program will continue in line with restrictions for Masses and gatherings. Further information will be provided at the formation evening. On-site fundraisers can go ahead with limited volunteer support Thank you everyone for your continued understanding and support during this time

23.01.2022 Some pictures from Year 4s Holy Communion retreat day last week.

23.01.2022 Today classes participated in Feast Day liturgies for Mary MacKillop.

23.01.2022 What a beautiful morning to celebrate First Holy Communion! Congratulations to our students who received Christ in the Eucharist today.

22.01.2022 Congratulations to our final group of Year 4 students on receiving First Holy Communion tonight!

22.01.2022 Year 6 have been working on fitness in sport. This week they prepared and ran exercise routines for their peers.

21.01.2022 Not long to go now until our colour run. Some great prizes up for grabs for students who raise the most. Here are some of the prizes for our lucky ELC to Year 2 students. Lego and Kinetic Sand. Watch this space for more great prizes yet to be revealed.

21.01.2022 Year 4 had an amazing time today at the Recycling Hub and the National Capital Exhibition learning about all the resources needed to build our city and keep it running!

21.01.2022 Friday 11 September is National Walk Safely to School Day. Children are encouraged to walk to school and participate in our Healthy Bones Breakfast. See below for more details.

20.01.2022 Its hard to know if its the kids or teachers that enjoy dress up days the most . Here are some of our teachers getting into the spirit of National Science Week and our Kinder teachers celebrating 100 days of school.

18.01.2022 Here are some handy tips to help keep children safe and keep traffic flowing through the school as safely and efficiently as possible during morning drop offs and afternoon pick ups.

18.01.2022 We would like to congratulate Fr Tom on his 40 Years of Ordination. We had a wonderful day last Friday celebrating with a sausage sizzle and all students created a portrait of Fr Tom as a thank you which we displayed around the school. We are very grateful to have him guiding our school and parish.

17.01.2022 Congratulations Abop!!! Abop is a former STA student has received an early offer for ANU next year. In a year of many challenges, its great to hear such good news.

17.01.2022 Please check out the details of our Parent Information Evening with Ian Luscombe. Please note numbers are limited due to restrictions. As a school we are really enjoying working with Ian and know this will be a night worth attending.

17.01.2022 A lovely message from our principal Leah Taylor and Sr Colleen Howe. How lucky we are to be a part of such a great community here at St Thomas Aquinas where we work together and support each other.

17.01.2022 Today was National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Childrens Day. 6G celebrated by creating an artwork collage of Australian animals.

16.01.2022 Kinder have been working on teen numbers. Theres lots of concentration happening in there pictures. Keep up the great work Kinder!

16.01.2022 Congratulations to the students who celebrated 1st Holy Communion this evening during the Vigil for the Feast of the Assumption.

15.01.2022 Today 2G had a shared meal experience of traditional Judaic foods as part of their conceptual inquiry unit about the traditions and rituals of Jesus.

15.01.2022 Next week is National Science Week. Here are some of the activities that will be happening throughout the week.

13.01.2022 Only 3.5 weeks until the STA Colour Fun Run.

13.01.2022 Nikki has been learning about hardware and software with Year 2 today. Such great whole body listening!!!

13.01.2022 Dont forget about our dress up day this Friday!!

12.01.2022 More STEM day fun for our Year 3's.

12.01.2022 Today we celebrate the Feast of the Assumption as well as Fr Toms 40th Anniversary of his Ordination. Congratulations to Fr Tom and to the Year 4 students who celebrated their First Holy Communion this evening.

11.01.2022 Lots of design and construction happening in Year 3 this week. Some future engineers in the making.

09.01.2022 Its been a busy week celebrating National Science Week! On Monday we participated in the Satellite Selfie. Hopefully it wasnt too cloudy and the satellite was able to get our picture! #SatelliteSelfie

08.01.2022 Nikki our Educational Support Dog was very pleased to receive her school photos yesterday

08.01.2022 Weve had lots of science clubs at lunchtime this week. Here was our floating challenge where challenge children created boats out of paper and natural resources.

08.01.2022 Happy Fathers Day! We hope you are enjoying this beautiful day. On Friday we celebrated our Fathers Day Prayer Celebration sharing the things we love about the special people in our lives.

07.01.2022 Congratulations to our science challenge winners and to everyone that participated in our homework, colouring and dress up activities. Its been wonderful to see everyone getting so involved in National Science Week.

07.01.2022 Next week STA is hosting the ScholasticBook Fair. Due to current restrictions the shopping will be a little different. Please watch the short video for details of how to shop for books.

06.01.2022 Celebrating NAIDOC Week at STA through exploring symbols and stories of our land! Always was, Always will be.

06.01.2022 There are magicians in 1B today working on their number facts

05.01.2022 What a beautiful day for the Satellite Selfie to fly over again this morning after heavy cloud cover last week. Cant wait to see our school from space! #satelliteselfie

04.01.2022 Dont forget the Scholastic Book Fair is on this week. Due to restrictions this event is not open to parents. Details of how to shop can be found in Mrs Noacks short video message https://youtu.be/9vmqLJRV6GE

03.01.2022 Today we had a beautiful prayer celebration hosted by our Year 5's for remembrance day. Lest we forget.

02.01.2022 How exciting is this!!!! We are well past our Book Fair goal with one more day to go. Thank you everyone for all your generosity and for supporting our school. We hope the children are enjoying their new books and/or stationary

02.01.2022 Year 2 reading aloud to partners to work on their reading fluency and expression

01.01.2022 Lots of children have enjoyed participating in the ocean activities in the Library at lunchtime. These have included coding, colouring and watching an ocean documentary.

01.01.2022 The children have really enjoyed viewing all the Science Week homework tasks. There is lots of variety and creativity across all year levels.

01.01.2022 Here are some images of the books available at the Book Fair this week! Thank you to everyone that has been shopping and supporting our school already.