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St Augustine's Primary School, Mossman

Locality: Mossman, Queensland

Phone: +61 7 4099 7500

Address: 24 Grogan St 4873 Mossman, QLD, Australia

Website: http://www.staugs.qld.edu.au

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25.01.2022 St Augustine's year 5 students shone at the CES Child Protection Week Launch. Ally Pringle - Central feature in winning design for 2021 Student Contacts Staff polo shirts Georgia Hughes - Highly commended certificate for her contribution. Thanks to Mrs Duncan for providing all students with the opportunity to participate in this experience

25.01.2022 Sunday 7th November marked the start of the First Nations celebrations of NAIDOC week for 2020 with this year’s theme Always Was, Always Will Be. The theme recognises that First Nations people have occupied and cared for this continent for over 65,000 years whilst being spiritually and culturally connected to this country. We know the power of education shapes change and we know meaningful change starts with our youngest minds. Engaging our youth and sharing the rich histor...y of Indigenous Australians, our traditions and our stories, inspires and informs. At Monday morning assembly we had the honour and privilege of hosting Mr Linc Walker present a Welcome to Country/Bubu for St Augustine’s school children and staff to and then performed a smoking ceremony. Sarah Hughes presented the Acknowledgement of Kuku Yalanji country, seas and waterways. Our Yr. 6 Indigenous leaders Leeben Adams and Harry Hughes were joined Jehkiel Cobb, Jonty Baldwin, Billy-Jean Adams, and Francesca Hughs in raising the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander and Australian flags followed by a minute silence. Leeben and Harry represented the school and their respected families by participating in the Mossman Community Flag Raising Ceremony held at the Douglas Shire Council. Thank you to all the students involved and Happy NAIDOC Week. Kind regards Julie Salam St Augustine’s ILO See more

24.01.2022 Today's Cairns Weekend Post: Great Far Northern News section. "Science roadshow delights students" Page 21

24.01.2022 What’s your very best idea for our school? Parents of students at Catholic schools in the Cairns Diocese have been sent an email from CES Executive Director Bill Dixon, asking them to complete a short survey identifying their priorities and ideas for our schools over the next four years. The link to the survey was provided in the email. A key question asks parents: If there is one thing that we could do in the next four years that would make a significant positive difference ...for their children’s education, what would it be? We’d like as many parents as possible to respond to the survey to ensure the voice of our families is heard. Please check your emails to access the survey

23.01.2022 Students from Prep to Year 2 had a hands on experience from our annual Fire Education experience last Friday. Students learnt important safety messages such as Stop Drop and Roll, Get Out and Stay Out and Get Down Low and Go Go Go! They also enjoyed getting to have a turn spraying the fire hose. Thank you to Daniel Favier (Sienna's from Prep - Dad) & Mick who facilitated the education to our school.

23.01.2022 I was very proud of our Saints' students displaying great respect this morning at our Remembrance Day commemoration. The children were able to gain a deeper understanding of the courage and loyalty the men and women of the Army, Navy and Air Force possessed during World Wars 1 & 2, Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Their service to our nation is honoured and never forgotten. Lest We Forget

22.01.2022 We are now at the halfway point in Term 3 and Executive Director Bill Dixon has written to families and school communities with the latest #Covid19 update. Clic...k here for the letter: https://bit.ly/3iyxiTy Click here for more #CathEdCairns Covid-19 information: https://www.cns.catholic.edu.au/news-/coronavirus-covid-19/ #CathEdCairns

22.01.2022 St Augustine's School enjoyed a Father's Day morning with games and school assembly. Many dads enjoyed interacting with their sons and daughters before school. The highlight was a good old fashioned egg and spoon race. There were many smiles and laughter as the various teams lost track of what leg they were on and who was leading. In the end everyone was declared a winner. Happy Father's Day to all dads and men who play a significant role in the life of their children

21.01.2022 Students were involved in a World of Maths at the St Augustine's Maths Enrichment Day. With over 15 interactive colourful maths stations students were challenged to use problem solving skills to explore a variety of scenarios requiring mathematical skills and team work. Activities presented were age and stage appropriate for junior primary and upper primary students. Students enjoyed their sessions as evidenced by the high degree of engagement, conversations and laughter. Saints will continue to provide these enrichment opportunities in future years.

21.01.2022 2021 "Drop n' Go Zone" Information It is with great excitement the school can confirm the "Drop n' Go Zone" will be commencing from Day 1, 27th Jan 2021. Signs will be erected on Jack Street over the holidays.... Cars will not be able to park in this zone on Jack Street between the morning hours of 8.00am - 9:30am and the afternoon hours of 2pm - 3.30pm. Although the Drop n' Go will be available at this stage the legal advice is students in Prep and Yr 1 need to be collected by a parent / responsible adult from the Undercover Area or another designated area as communicated by the school. Cars will be permitted to stop in this zone for a period of 2 minutes to facilitate student movement in or out of the vehicle. If the drop off cannot occur in this time the parent will be required to drive around the block so efficient car movements can occur. The Bus Zone will continue to exist on Grogan Street. Students who walk to and from school may enter and depart from any entrance. Children collected by parents may depart from any entrance. A Disabled Car Park will be created at the front of the school at the main entrance pathway. Please pass this information to all friends and other parents in your network so all in the school community are aware of this upcoming improvement to school routines. Regards Mr Rayner

20.01.2022 Click on the video below for The 2020 Cairns Catholic Education Docemus and Spirit of Catholic Education Awards! Congratulations to all Award recipients! Address from Dr Lee-Anne Perry, Executive Director of Queensland Catholic Education Commission: https://youtu.be/GQszMsFgMrk Awards Night video link: https://youtu.be/uPFtboNXTRY

20.01.2022 St Augustine's School - Mossman had a full week of learning and experiences to engage in Child Protection Week. Recognising child protection isn't restricted to stranger danger, the school had a variety of guest speakers who gave talks in areas of life where protection from danger is necessary. An example was the visit on Monday from Ergon Energy representatives who spoke about the uses and dangers of electricity and ways to protect each other from electrical danger. On Mond...ay evening CES officially launched National Child Protection Week with a presentation of awards to students who were successful in designing logos for shirts to be worn by staff who will act as Student Protection Contacts within schools across the diocese in 2021. Year 5 students, Ally Pringle and Georgia Hughes represented St Augustine's at this event. On Tuesday students participated in a Fire Drill so as to have a reminder of ways to stay protected should a fire take hold within school Thursday St Augustine's participated in RUOK? Day. This was a great way to build community as we reminded ourselves to 'check in' with others- family, friends and colleagues. This day allowed us to live out our Mercy Values of Respect, Justice, Courage, Compassion, Hospitality and Service just as Jesus calls us to do. All children were handed bright yellow wristbands to wear all day to help remind them to ask a fellow Saint's community member (classmate, teacher, school officer, parents, guardians and friends) if they were ok! This helps to protect children from social and emotional danger. Staff celebrated with a shared morning tea, surprising each other by hand delivering a personalised cupcake and asking the question RUOK? Although this is only recognised formally on one day each year, we encourage our Saint's community to continue the conversations and open doors allowing us to connect and build positive relationships with each other. The week concluded with the annual "Walk Safely to School Day". Students and parents met at one of three locations and together made their way to the school campus. This activity reminded us all about the need to have rules in place so we can be protected from the dangers of traffic when making our way to and from school. Student Protection Week has been a busy and educational week. Together we have been reminded about a variety ways to stay safe and protected from dangers existing in day to day life. When we look out for each other we can all feel safe and protected from harm. See more

19.01.2022 NAIDOC Week is being held from the 8th - 15th November. St Augustine's school will open NAIDOC week on Mon 9th Nov with a Welcome to Country and Smoking Ceremony followed by the Flag Raising Ceremony. St Augustine's NAIDOC Cultural Day will be held on Thurs19th Nov. Mossman High Indigenous students & Elders will support our school by assisting in the NAIDOC activities.

19.01.2022 The Beatles Concert was amazing!! So much fun and great participation from all students (and staff). More images & video to follow.

18.01.2022 https://www.facebook.com/100023976045904//804455037030357/

17.01.2022 St Augustine's Celebrating Child Protection Week 6 - 12th Sep 2020 For more information visit: https://www.napcan.org.au/

17.01.2022 Cairns Post Today Wed 16th Sep 2020. My First Year 2020 - St Augustine's Prep's feature on page 14. https://www.cairnspost.com.au//7a5988c783e533f591e5dd31dab

15.01.2022 Catholic Parish Mossman-Port Douglas weekend bulletin & readings Located on the St Augustine's Website: PDF links attached to this page https://www.staugs.qld.edu.au/st-augustines-way/parish/ God Bless you Fr. Joby assisting... Catholic Parish Mossman-Port Douglas Web: catholicdouglas.org.au See more

14.01.2022 This week Our Executive Director visited St Augustine's Primary School, Mossman for his annual visit. He was welcomed by Principal Mr Paul Rayner, visited a num...ber of classes, and watched Yr 3A present an enthusiastic rendition of 8 Days a Week. Mr Dixon acknowledged Mrs Leah Houghton for her 20 years of continuous service in Catholic Education at the school. Well done and thank you Mrs Houghton!

13.01.2022 FEAST OF MARY MACKILLOP - MASS LIVESTREAM SATURDAY 8TH AUGUST, 11AM An invitation from the Sisters of Saint Joseph: "All are welcome to join in the liturgy bei...ng held in our Chapel at Kensington in South Australia. The chapel would normally be overflowing on August 8th with people gathering for Mass to celebrate Mary’s feast. With COVID-19 restrictions in place, only small numbers can attend. We are fortunate, though, to be able to utilize the resources of our Archdiocese to live stream this Mass on Saturday. Our new Archbishop Patrick O’Regan, who only took up this role in May, will be leading this celebration. We warmly invite you to link into the website of the Adelaide Archdiocese to ‘gather online’ with others across Australia, New Zealand and beyond to celebrate this feast day." Click on the link to join mass on Saturday 8th August at 11.00am: https://adelaide.catholic.org.au//coronavirus-updat/videos This Mass will be celebrated at 10:30am Australian Central Standard Time. (For Eastern states, this will be 11am, WA: 9am, NZ: 1pm; Peru: 8pm Friday) Some video images of the chapel and the Mary MacKillop Museum will also feature in the telecast. (For those who can’t access it at the set time, the Mass will remain on the website to be viewed later.)

13.01.2022 Newman Catholic College is a 'GO' with funding formally announced today by Craig Crawford MP on the site of James Cook University Cairns Campus. Shovels should... hit the soil later this year to start the construction of the first secondary College in Australia to be co-located with a university. The new vertical College will offer state-of-the-art facilities and fantastic tertiary opportunities to students at Newman Catholic College and all Catholic Schools in the Cairns Diocese. For details, go to https://bit.ly/2ExtOCu and check out ABC Far North's coverage of the announcement here: https://ab.co/34DkQhG Holy Cross, Trinity Park Queensland Department of Education Annastacia Palaszczuk MP #expandingCathEdCairns #CathEdCairns #BestSchools

13.01.2022 St Augustine’s School, Mossman 1934 The original St Augustine’s School, consisting of two rooms and housing 70 children, church and convent buildings were opened in 1934 under the care of four Sisters of Mercy. Due to the wet season, the school and convent were not completed on time so classes were initially held under the Presbytery where the Sisters lived. A distinctive feature of St Augustine’s has been the quality of renovation and refurbishment of these original buildings. They are currently being used as classrooms, administration block, staffroom and Parish Centre #CEW2020 #175Years

12.01.2022 As part of our celebrations for NAIDOC Week, the school was honoured to host Mr Roy Gibson from the Mossman Gorge Community.

11.01.2022 All are invited to join in viewing Catholic Education Diocese of Cairns' Awards night tomorrow at 5pm via live stream.

10.01.2022 September 3 Newsletter Welcome to the latest edition of our Schoolzine eNewsletter! Visit the link below to view your newsletter: https://staugs.schoolzineplus.com/news?nid=24 Regards,... Paul Rayner Principal See more

09.01.2022 Catholic school students across the Far North have turned into fashion designers! Well done Ally Pringle & Georgia Hughes.

09.01.2022 Congratulations 2020 Saints Got Talent participants. Over 20 student groups were nominated. The following students got through to the finals :Georgia on Piano, Sienna on Piano, Nova and Mietta - dance item, Kai & Beau -Duet on guitar and vocals, Amelia, Lucia & Lucy - Dance item, Milla & Anastasia- Singing, Lindon - singing, Shiloh on piano, Reef and Bradley - Song/dance, Tully - dance (judged on performance on iPad). Thank you to our judges, Ms Threlfall, Fr Joby Jose & ...Nathan Sayed. The winner was Tully with a dance item, 2nd place was Milla & Anastasia singing & 3rd place was Mietta & Nova performing a dance item to "Do the Mermaid" The whole school enjoyed the performance in the last week of Term. See more

08.01.2022 Save the dates for 2021 Prep Enrolments. Enrol Online: https://www.staugs.qld.edu.au/enrolling/enrolment-procedure/

08.01.2022 R U OK? Day is today, Thursday 10 September 2020. It's our national day of action when we remind Australians that every day is the day to ask, Are you OK? St Augustine's School community will be sharing this day to remind ourselves to check-in with friends, family and co-workers and community members. Asking "R U Ok?"

07.01.2022 Today is All Saints Day Spirit of life, we thank you for all the saints whose witness has paved a way ahead for us. Help us to imitate their courage, passion and hope.

07.01.2022 St Augustine's School Mossman, has prepared for the season of Lent by burning leaves from Kuku Yalanji country to make ashes, participating in Shrove (Pancake) Tuesday and distributing ashes at the Ash Wed Liturgy. The school community is now focused on raising funds to support the Caritas Charity through Project Compassion.

06.01.2022 St Augustine's School, Mossman has a number of projects in the pipeline and the School Leadership invites all interested parties to tender for one or more of the following projects. A] Removal of stairs and re-face B-Block. B] Widening of concrete path from Prep classroom to Jack St entrance. C] Removal of existing concrete path and replacement of new wider concrete path from B-Block to Grogan Street.... D] Repair of concrete path from C-Block to Parish driveway. All enquiries directed toward Paul Rayner, Principal. St. Augustine’s School at [email protected] or by phone during school hours on 4099 7500 to arrange an on-site inspection. Tenders close 3.00pm Wednesday 9th September, 2020.

06.01.2022 This week Mr Bill Dixon - Executive Director of Catholic Education Services visited the school for his annual visit. Mr Dixon observed a number of classes and watched Yr 3A present an enthusiastic rendition of 8 Days a Week. A presentation was made to Mrs Leah Houghton to recognise her 20 years of continuous service in Catholic education at St Augustine’s School. Well done and thank you Mrs Houghton.

05.01.2022 Our Saints School Community enjoyed celebrating our End of Year Mass with Fr Joby on Tuesday. It was held in the McAuley Centre. Thank you to the parishioners and family members who were also able to celebrate with us.

05.01.2022 Jamie Gosling Football Acadamey invited the FNQ Schools to a Football Tournament at Holloways Beach from Primary School through to High School ages. Seen the the Douglas Shire schools were unable to form their own teams, Renae Marano from Mossman State High School set about contacting parents to form a Douglas Shire Team comprised of students from Julatten, Port Douglas, Mossman, Miallo and St Augustine's schools. U10's day was Tuesday 1st September. They ran and tackled the...ir way to place 3rd overall out of 9 teams. They worked seamlessly as a team and were fair and honest players. An amazing day had by all. U12's day was 2nd September. This team came 2nd. The semi final was gut-wrenching, nail-biting stuff with a 7 kick penalty goal shoot off to sort the tie! These kids absolutely believed they could, their positivity and love for the game showed and of course got them the silver medal. Both teams have said they will back next year to defend their titles and cannot these 8 children there was team spirit, resilience and digging deep when it was tough. They were playing with friends or new players from other teams/schools and learning new skills and about themselves. They have created fond memories that will last a lifetime! Congratulations! U10''s players were Jacob Collinson, Brody Collinson, Reef Lewis, Targa Jenkins and Banjo Jenkins U12's players were Rhys Govorko, Lindon Warland and Banjo Jenkins

05.01.2022 Last Friday we celebrated as a school community, with fourteen Year 6 students and their families, as they completed their journey at St. Augustine's. It was a beautiful ceremony that began with the Preps solemnly walking their buddy down the plant lined red carpet and ended with the cutting of a yummy chocolate cake. The students enjoyed talking about their fun times at school and laughed at the movie shot at camp, the swimming carnival and Low Isles. St. Augustine's wo...uld like to acknowledge and thank Vic's Nursery for the extremely kind donation of plants, and Targa Jenkins for the chair covers that made the event look even more amazing and special. A very big thank you also to the Year 5 students and parents who provided the food and served the morning tea that the Year 6 and their parents thoroughly enjoyed. We wish Year 6 2020 the best that life can offer and hope they never forget the special times they had at Saints

04.01.2022 At 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month each year we remember the moment in 1918 when World War I came to an end. Our schools will pause today as we honour th...e memory of those who have laid down their lives for Australia. We wear a poppy as a symbol of remembrance, as they were part of the landscapes of the War. #lestweforget #wewillrememberthem #remembranceday : Australian War Memorial

04.01.2022 Catholic Parish Mossman-Port Douglas Please find attached links to the weekly bulletin, Sunday Readings, and praying with children for 1st Sunday of Lent https://www.staugs.qld.edu.au/st-augustines-way/parish/ Fr. Kenny Catholic Parish Mossman-Port Douglas

03.01.2022 Please find the attached parish weekend bulletin & readings Located on the St Augustine's Website: PDF links attached to this page https://www.staugs.qld.edu.au/st-augustines-way/parish/ God Bless you Fr. Joby assisting... Catholic Parish Mossman-Port Douglas Web: catholicdouglas.org.au See more

01.01.2022 Last Friday evening, Saints students were invited to participate in the St Vincent de Paul Virtual Sleep Out. The purpose was to raise awareness that many young people are homeless and do not have a comfortable and safe place to sleep each night. One of our Saints' families had a discussion about homelessness. The children decided to couch surf which is another form of homelessness which many kids experience. They understood that couch surfing is defined as staying temporarily in different homes - typically making use of any type of sleeping arrangement. This form of homelessness sometimes can be very unsafe as it leaves the young person vulnerable to assaults and other forms of violence. 116 000 Australians experience homelessness each night.

01.01.2022 Please find the attached parish weekend bulletin, readings and parish social profile based on the 2016 Australian Census. Located on the St Augustine's Website: PDF links attached to this page https://www.staugs.qld.edu.au/st-augustines-way/parish/ God Bless you Fr. Joby assisting... Catholic Parish Mossman-Port Douglas Web: catholicdouglas.org.au See more

01.01.2022 St Augustine’s School - Mossman participated in Science Week with a visiting science show called 3 Experiments That Changed The World. Students were entertained by scientific facts regarding the biological evolution of Galapagos Islands finches, Isaac Newton's Third Law of Motion physics and the mysterious chemistry between oxygen, water, aluminium. Ms Usher, the school STEM Teacher said All were thoroughly entertained and maybe it will encourage more children to develop a passion in the sciences.