St Thomas School and Preschool in Goodwood | Primary School

St Thomas School and Preschool

Locality: Goodwood

Phone: +61 8 8177 8100

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25.01.2022 For National Science Week, our senior students hosted a science expo. Throughout the day, every class visited to explore, create and discover the many amazing things that science can do. A day filled with wonder and discovery and many bangs and explosions!

24.01.2022 Today our Children’s University students had their graduation ceremony at school. Well done students for participating in this fabulous enrichment program!

23.01.2022 Our preschoolers have had a very busy and fun couple of weeks investigating, playing and exploring :)

21.01.2022 We are so proud of our beloved barista Celeste Dixon! Thank you for coming to our school and sharing your positivity, strength and determination. Congratulations on continuing to be a part of Australian Ninja Warrior. https://youtu.be/GrIygX5PJdc

20.01.2022 Congratulations to one of our incredible preschool educators - Carreen Long!

20.01.2022 Today our year 6s performed a reenactment of the Nativity story to the year 2s. They both loved deepening their knowledge of the Story this way, sharing lots of ‘I wonder’ questions and discovering the richness of this beautiful piece of scripture.

20.01.2022 What a fabulous two days of filming! Thanks to our very talented and amazing music teacher Susan Czabayski and our film producer and editor Matt Richards Creative Digital Learning. We can’t wait to see the final cut!

18.01.2022 Our year 6s has set up their own business as part of their business and economics unit. They will be selling their home made products at Market Monday tomorrow at 3pm. All profits go to the Breast cancer foundation. Please come along and support this cause. Products range from 50c to $6 We look forward to seeing you all at our marketplace!

17.01.2022 Our after school sport program resumed today with a year 2 & 3 session of dance in our fantastic new facility The Dance Hall.

17.01.2022 Our year ones had a very exciting visit from the police last week. The visit focused on learning about what the police do in our community, how to keep safe and what to do in case of emergency.

16.01.2022 Today the Mayor of Unley, Michael Hewitson came to endorse the beautiful artwork our year Sixes created with Artist in Residence Anna Dowling at our school assembly. The art they created tells the narrative of our school and is now hanging in our main corridor. One is titled The Gathering and the other Community. We are so grateful to the Unley council for making this happen.

16.01.2022 Last night our seniors participated in a Vinnies Winter Sleepout to raise money and awareness for those in need this winter. It was a cold and uncomfortable night which gave us some perspective on how difficult the winter months can be for some people. So far weve raised $3000! Theres still time to donate if you would like to at https://stthomassleepout.gofundraise.com.au Well done to our seniors for living out our mercy values and taking social action to make changes in our world. We are very proud of you all.

15.01.2022 Yesterday all students from years 4-6 participated in the Catholic Schools Cross Country Carnival. Well done to all students - especially Matthew, Nico, Luke, Diana, Max, Sophie, Madeleine, Sam, Maddi and Eden for their high achievements and for placing in the top ten for their age group.

15.01.2022 A huge congratulations also to Sidney Young who won first prize in the Oliphant Science Awards for his innovative model and invention. Well done Sidney!

14.01.2022 A beautiful day honouring Remembrance day and also doing our ‘walk for Justice’ to raise money for Catholic Charities. We ended the day by forming a heart as a whole school with our poppies. Lest we forget.

14.01.2022 The year 4s cooked up a storm in the workshop today making Beef Ragu. Great work guys!

12.01.2022 Well done to our two Oliphant Science award winners who attended the awards ceremony at Brighton High tonight. Congratulations for your innovative winning entries in Posters and Computer Programming and Robotics!

12.01.2022 Today our senior students launched their business and economics project with a meet the experts expo. Thanks to our wonderful parent community who came along to offer some of their knowledge and guidance into the fundamentals of how to set up a business

12.01.2022 A bit of St Thomas history! This is a photo of the first teacher at St Thomas. She is the great grandmother of our current Year Three teacher Gerry Jones. Her name is Margaret Clark. Margaret Street, Clarence Park is named after her. We love the rich history and tradition of our school

12.01.2022 Alice in year 4 was selected to be the weather reporter on Nova this week. Click on the link to hear what a fabulous job she did! https://aus01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/

11.01.2022 Our new receptions reflect on school after their first half of term. Some of the things they like about school include playing, painting, learning, reading and writing and drawing pictures of spiders! We love the energy, sense of delight and curiosity that they bring to our school community

10.01.2022 Our senior students hosted a Biggest Morning Tea to raise money for the Cancer Council. They raised $200! Well done seniors

10.01.2022 Oliphant Science Awards 2020 During the year 70 students from St Thomas entered the Oliphant Science Awards. Our students achieved fantastic results, and we would like to acknowledge: Winners ... Sidney Young Models & Inventions Yr R-2 Kaylah Talbot Posters Yr 5 Blake Hoendervanger Computer Programming & Robotics Yr 6 Highly Commended Ian Barreto Posters Yr R-2 Linus Davies Models & Inventions Yr 5 Milla Weeks Models & Inventions Yr 5 Madison Humphry Posters Yr 5 Sacha Parham Models & Inventions Yr 5 Micaela Jaksa Photography Yr 5 Ruby Gosnell Photography Yr 5 Katiya Hand Games Yr 5 Heidi Melegh Multimedia Yr 6 Congratulations to students who participated in the competition and their hard work since the start of the year. To all at St Thomas, well-done. Chris Rampazis

10.01.2022 Our senior students are having a Vinnies winter sleepout to raise money for the homeless. Here is the link to our fundraising page if you would like to donate. https://stthomassleepout.gofundraise.com.au/

10.01.2022 Today our Year Twos had an art lesson with Little Picasso’s in our workshop. They created some beautiful art!

09.01.2022 It was a beautiful sunny winters day yesterday as all our Year 4-6 students participated in the SACPSSA Netball Carnival. A huge thanks to the parent & grandparents that came along to coach.

09.01.2022 Our eco warriors got busy today planting out the entrance to our school and some zucchini ready for Spring

09.01.2022 The seniors held a very successful Market Monday today! Their products, stall design and customer service were all fabulous. Such a fantastic community event, thanks to all who came along to support them

09.01.2022 Congrats to our year 3s for their participation in the SACPSSA tennis hot shots carnival last week! A fun day of tennis and one of our teams won and made it through to the state championships later in the year!

08.01.2022 Our elite touch footy teams have been training hard in preparation for the upcoming carnival. The captains were announced on Friday. Well done Ilona and Isaac!

08.01.2022 Our year 3 students using the workshop to make cookies today. They smelt delicious!

06.01.2022 Catholic Education is reviewing its Students with Disability program to learn - what it is doing well; what it should do less of; and what it should do better. Our surveys are closing on August 3 so please have your say. www.cesa.catholic.edu.au/SWDReview

06.01.2022 Today for our pupil free day we spent the day learning about Educator Wellbeing and how to best nurture ourselves so that we can continue to nurture our students and community. Thanks Madhavi Parker from Positive Minds Australia for leading such a fantastic day of learning.

05.01.2022 Lunch play in the Early Years!

05.01.2022 One of our students using the 3D printer to create a part for his Oliphant Science Awards entry. Each year many of our students enter this competition to extend their application of science, technology and mathematics. Some students also enter the writing section too! What a great initiative.

04.01.2022 Our Year 3 girls started their four week social and emotional intelligence program this week with Madhavi Parker from Positive Minds Australia. Such a rich learning session

04.01.2022 Our year 5 students enjoyed their camp at Mylor Baptist Adventure camp last week. A fantastic time was had by everyone!

04.01.2022 On Friday, our year 6 Future Coaches hosted a future coaching leadership day. 60 senior students from schools around the state came to learn from our PE teacher and our students about leadership in sport. It was a fabulous day!

03.01.2022 All students from years 4-6 participated in the touch football carnival today. Congratulations to all students, in particular the senior girls and boys teams who won the carnival and took home the trophy! Two years in a row

02.01.2022 Today we had a whole school casual clothes day and can drive to support the Vinnies Winter Appeal. A huge amount of food is heading to those in need in our community. Thanks everyone for your generousity

02.01.2022 The year 4s working outside in groups today on a measuring task

02.01.2022 Some of our senior students working with the preschoolers to develop their batting technique in tee ball today

02.01.2022 Sneak peek...Susan and Matt have transformed the Mercy Hall into a recording studio! Thank you everyone for your patience, understanding and keeping up with our plans. This is going to be incredible!

01.01.2022 Weve had a very eventful and fun start to the term! Highlights have been - learning and sharing our learning in class, joining for assembly together again, science incursions, cooking and lunch clubs such as slime making and yoga!

01.01.2022 A huge congratulations to Charlie and Edie who were both state finalists in the National History Challenge! A special congratulations to Charlie who was a state winner, achieving the title of Gold Young Historian!

01.01.2022 Thank you to the incredible Anna Dowling and the City of Unley for allowing us to be involved in the inaugural Artist in Residence program.

01.01.2022 School soccer returned this morning at the Orphanage. Its wonderful to have so many teams in our inclusive sport program. Congratulations to Senior students Ben Grauso & Eamonn Billing who were appointed school soccer captains for 2020.