Monday Cream of cauliflower soup served with fresh sourdough bread and butter
Tuesday Quattro formaggi ravioli topped with fresh herbs
Wednesday Cheese and spinach vegetable rolls served with tomato chutney
Thursday Salad wraps lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrot and cheese in a tortilla wrap
Friday Egg and vegetable fried rice with tofu shallot and chili
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On the vegetarian lunch menu for Week 9
Monday Thai style pumpkin and chickpea curry served with rice pilaf
Tuesday Salad wraps, carrot, cucumber, tomato, iceberg and cheese in a tortilla wrap
Wednesday Tomato and basil penne pasta topped with fresh herbs and parmesan
Thursday Cream of tomato Basil soup served with sourdough and butter
Friday 4 cheese and tomato puff pastry slice
(Chefs’ selection of fruits and vegetables provided daily)
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Deputy Head of School’s Comment
This term we have focussed on the School Value of Courage. On Wednesday U1st and 2nd class children will participate in the Infants Public Speaking Competition. Public speaking is recognised as one of the greatest fears that adults face, so our children are fortunate to be given a number of opportunities to step up to this challenge from an early age. It never ceases to amaze me that the children rise to this occasion with such poise and focus. One can only imagine the courage that they are building. It will stand them in good stead.
Di Renshaw
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Head of School’s Comment
This week I had the pleasure of attending the Independent Primary Schools Association 2025 Performing Arts Festival at Town Hall. Our students participated with distinction, both in the John Colet School choir and orchestra performances, and as part of the combined schools ensembles.
While every school presented impressive work, the richness of the repertoire, together with the composure, focus, and artistry of our students, was truly outstanding.
Congratulations to all our performers, and sincere thanks to Mr Miller for his dedication and leadership.
Julian Wilcock
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Fascinating tessellations
In Maths this week Fourth Class have begun a review of 2D shapes focusing on how shapes can be joined to create new shapes, reflecting, rotating and translating shapes, and identifying which shapes will tessellate. The children really enjoyed using software to manipulate shapes, use shapes to make different 2D shapes, and create tessellating patterns:
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On Wednesday, 3 September, 16 of our students from 3rd and 4th Class participated in the Todd Woodbridge Cup at Evolve Tennis, Collaroy. They played doubles and mixed doubles matches against teams from Pittwater House and St Kevin’s Dee Why.
We entered two teams in the competition, both of which competed brilliantly throughout the day. Team 1 emerged as the winners, while Team 2 secured an impressive third place.
This is a fantastic achievement and a true testament to our students’ effort, teamwork, and sportsmanship throughout the competition.
A big thank you to Yanlong Z for her support throughout the day.
Anika Davey
Physical Education Teacher
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On the vegetarian lunch menu for Week 8
Monday Cheese and tomato pizza topped with basil and mozzarella
Tuesday Salad rolls, lettuce, tomato, carrot, iceberg and cheese served in a lunch roll
Wednesday Vegetable puff pastry rolls served with a tomato chutney
Thursday Cauliflower and sweet potato paneer curry served with rice pilaf
Friday Penne Boscaiola topped with fresh herbs and parmesan
(Chefs’ selection of fruits and vegetables provided daily)
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Deputy Head of School’s Comment
During my absence recently, both 3rd and 4th class and 5th and 6th class went on their respective school camps. It was wonderful to hear on my return that on both camps, the camp instructors and other people who managed activities all made a point of commenting to our teachers about the behaviour of the children. In each case, the children were commended for their manners, for their interest and thoughtful questions and for the way they conducted themselves in general. They were also commended for the way they left their rooms at the end of the camp. This is a true measure of the School Values in action. It goes without saying that we are very proud of the way that the children conducted themselves and represented John Colet.
Di Renshaw
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Head of School’s Comment
We were delighted by the unexpectedly large turnout for our biennial Grandparents Day this week. Please pass on our sincere thanks to all who attended for their patience with the parking limitations and the tea and coffee service. Despite the logistical challenges, the event was a remarkable success and a wonderful celebration of our community.
Looking ahead to Monday, we will be welcoming Trevor and Jerry Daniels from 2nd Class, as our Acting Headmasters for the day — a prize they won at our Gala Ball earlier this year. They will be kept very busy with a full schedule of activities, including plenty of handshakes and meetings, though fortunately for them, no emails!
Julian Wilcock
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The week in 3rd Class
In English we practised reading fluency, focusing on using the tone of our voice to reflect characters’ emotions in dialogue. We also practised strategies to read long and unfamiliar words, including breaking them into syllables, applying our knowledge of affixes (prefixes and suffixes), letters, and sounds. We completed sentences and a quiz using vocabulary words. We started looking at short biographical texts to discover what type of information is included. Next week we will explore the structure of these texts in detail and discuss what information is relevant to include when writing biographies.
In Maths we used multiplication and division fact families to generate number sentences. We used terms such as ‘product’ and ‘factors’ to explain the relationships between the fact family numbers. We practised problem solving using our multiplication and division skills, and we also did speed tests with the x 2, x 4, x 5 and x 10 tables.