St Laurence's Parish School Forbes in Forbes, New South Wales | School

St Laurence's Parish School Forbes

Locality: Forbes, New South Wales

Phone: +61 2 6852 1918

Address: 2 Dalton St 2871 Forbes, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.forbes.catholic.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Sunshine on the primary playground today. Looking great in your new shirts Year Six!

24.01.2022 Year 6 are on the road! A day of fun ahead after a big year for our big kids.

23.01.2022 It is always great to share in learning moments across our classrooms and celebrate with students as they achieve their learning goals. Great work during literacy time in our K-2 classes today.

22.01.2022 Last week 2H and 3/4W caught up for their buddies session during buddies week. Every three weeks our buddy classes from across the school connect and spend time together. They look pretty happy to have caught up with each other.

22.01.2022 A sensational afternoon of talent for our 2021 St Laurence's Got Talent grand final! A big thank you to our SRC for coordinating this school event and congratulations to all of our finalists.

22.01.2022 We held our second Zoom Assembly today. Great to see all the smiling faces, thumbs up and waves at one time. Creatively sharing messages and celebrating success as a whole school.

19.01.2022 An exciting virtual excursion for 5/6N with Questacon, exploring "Foldable Flight".

18.01.2022 Introducing our Capatin's Catch-Up! Have a great weekend.

18.01.2022 We are very proud of the students across our school and the resilience they have shown during this term. It was fantatsic to see happy, focused learners in classrooms today. Great job!

17.01.2022 Bishop Columba made a special visit today to see our new RE curriculum, Educating in Chirst, in action. He was able to observe all elements of the RE lesson and hear some personal and very meaningful connections and responses too. Bishop was very proud of all that he encountered today.

16.01.2022 Educating in Christ. It was an honour for our school community to play a special role last week, as our new Religious Education Curriculum was launched.

16.01.2022 God bless our Kinder crew who were so excited to celebrate a very special liturgy back in our parish church today. They have been waiting for their turn and KC and KW loved celebrating with Father Simon.

16.01.2022 Presentation Assembly 2020. Today we celebrated together and we congratulate all of our award winners.

16.01.2022 Appreciation week for this amazing team of teacher assistants. Incredible individuals who bring unique gifts to create a dedicated and supportive team. Thank you! We appreciate you all, so very much. #TA Appreciation Week

15.01.2022 Great work and a wonderful gesture from our local Forbes CWA. Thank you!

14.01.2022 This year we have launched a new Religious Education curriculum across our diocese. We have witnessed many powerful moments of faith formation and learning through the use of new materials across the school. Thanks for sharing your Religion lesson 3/4W!

13.01.2022 Last night we celebrated a very special Year 6 Graduation Mass and Year 6 Presentation Evening with our school leaders and their families. We are very proud of our Year 6 students and thank their families for sharing in a wonderful celebration of their primary school years.

12.01.2022 A fantastic Sports House Fun Day today! Great cheering, great house and school spirit, great participation and great fun was had by all. Congratulations to Lachlan our overall point score winners! A few photos but more to come....

11.01.2022 2H and 2B have been very resourceful in building fantastic shelters, which were inspired by their learning during NAIDOC week.

11.01.2022 What a wonderful day Mrs Leadbitter has had for National Primary Principal's Day. Many beautiful surprises including a morning tea with staff, special school assembly, cards and flowers too. Our school leaders also took Mrs Leadbitter on a very special school tour to every classroom with more surprises along the way. Each class prepared a special 5 minute experience including dancing, singing, videos, learning walks, skits, chants, drumming, Q & A, games and special poems to name a few of the class activities. What a wonderful day! Mrs Leadbitter's heart is full.

11.01.2022 Sport day means high jump for Year 3/4. This year we haven't been able to hold our normal athletics carnival but we have been able to focus on the skills involved and have some fun too.

10.01.2022 Congratulations to our HOME STEM challenge winners! The challenge guidelines required a strong 40cm bridge and both 'glue' and 'non glue' categories resulted in bridges that held over 70 kgs and 20 kgs respectively. Incredible! Well done to all entrants, just a few of the 76 are shown in our photos.

10.01.2022 The Zones of Regulation is an important part of the way we support and talk about emotional regulation at St Laurence's school. Today in our Hive we opened and played an amazing new Zones game! It will be great for our students across the school to have the opportunity to play!

10.01.2022 An exciting delivery for Kinder today. Stage 3 students have made 3D streetscapes as part of their recent mathematics learning. These streetscapes are heading to Kinder to be used as maps for our Bee-Bot robots. Watch this space!

09.01.2022 This is wonderful news! If you have family members or neighbours who may not have access to Facebook or social media could you please share this information with them. Spread the news.

09.01.2022 As we come to the end of the first week of term three, there is much to be grateful for. Rich learning across our classrooms and the joy of being with each other again. Great job everyone on a wonderful week one!

08.01.2022 Enrolments Now Open for Kinder 2021!

08.01.2022 It's Captain's Catch-Up time. Episode 2!

08.01.2022 Howzat handball and basketball relays with Stage 3!

08.01.2022 3/4K enjoy their class visit with Father Simon today!

05.01.2022 Launch day for Compass online canteen ordering! Thanks Mrs Sydney, you are a canteen rockstar.

05.01.2022 All the best Year 6! We will miss your smiling faces but we know that great adventure is ahead for you all.

04.01.2022 Enjoy learning more about our school community over the coming weeks.

04.01.2022 Come and See - A Supportive, Safe, and Flexible School Environment!

03.01.2022 Ta-da! Amazing milk bottle masks are complete and look fantastic. Creative design thinking in action and lots of fun too. Great job everyone!

03.01.2022 Virtual excursion time today with a special 'Milk Bottle Origami' session with artist Jane Gillings. A fantastic creative opportunity.

03.01.2022 Learning is the work! Building stamina for learning and feeling proud in Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2 today.

03.01.2022 This term our students have been creating amazing artworks as part of our creative and practical arts program. We made the decision to create our own virtual art show, even though we couldn't enter our artworks in the Forbes show this year. Please enjoy our amazing 2020 art!

02.01.2022 5/6N celebrated a beautiful class Mass today. Thank you Father Simon, for walking with us at this time.

01.01.2022 A beautifully colourful and creative 'Milk bottle mask' update! Almost done and looking great.

01.01.2022 Today, Year 6 had a special visit from Mr Stephen Dwyer, Principal of Red Bend Catholic College, along with Mrs Danielle Scott the Year 7 Student Advisor. Our students enjoyed hearing about the college and the adventure that awaits as they prepare for secondary school in 2021. It was fantastic for our students to be able to ask many questions and be both informed and reassured. Thanks for coming to us and sharing a great information session, which was a very important step in the school transition process.

01.01.2022 What a great term of debating and public speaking for our stage 2 students. During the term our students have refined their persuasive writing, speaking and debating skills. A stage 2 school based competition concluded today with amazing speaking and debating on show. Congratulations everyone!

01.01.2022 A group of very talented 'creatives' have commenced a unique experience this term and are creating Milk Bottle Masks as part of a creative and practical arts enrichment experience. We can't wait to see the finished product. Our students have been inspired by an online workshop with artist Jane Gilling.

01.01.2022 Today, our staff team participated in a Religious Education professional learning and faith formation day. Our RE Education Officer Luke Burton delivered a great day of learning, centered on the Sacraments of our Catholic faith.

01.01.2022 Today our Year 6 students enjoyed a beautiful retreat day together. A day to reflect, express gratitude and prepare for the next step on their journey.