​Today, the ANZ Tennis Hot Shots Racquet Show came to Holy Family Catholic Primary School.
 
Tennis Australia has launched the ANZ Tennis Hot Shots Racquet Roadshow to celebrate a record 80,000 racquets being delivered to primary school students across the country. Holy Family students in the T/1 classes (Room 14 and 15) received one of these tennis racquets.
 
Twenty-two time Grand Slam champion Todd Woodbridge, visited and presented the racquets to Holy Family students. He, along with student from Room 14 and 15, Took part in on-court activities also.
 
I’m not sure if the students, staff or parents were more excited to see Todd! 

​Adam Turley, science teacher from O’Loughlin Catholic College visited us today with two very special guests: Chief Minister Michael Gunner and Member for Karma Ngaree Ah Kit. Mr Turley led our guests through a process of making liquid nitrogen ice-cream. Many lucky students got to have a taste test.

Ngarie Ah Kit, Karama’s local member, visited Holy Family today and spoke to us at assembly. She is wanting to meet and get to know staff, students and families around the community and hear our thoughts on how our local community can become better each day.

Ten students from Holy Family celebrated their Confirmation at Mass on Sunday the 29th of October.  The students have been studying hard over the past five weeks in preparation for their special day.  Bishop Eugene Hurley led the celebration and emphasised that he now shares a special relationship with the 10 candidates.  I take this opportunity to thank the parents of the candidates for their support, Sebastian and Pauline from the Holy Family Parish, Bibiana and Fr Mon who were all instrumental in the journey for these ten special candidates.  ​

​By Hannah Foody

During the prayer liturgy led by Room 15 on the Holy Rosary, handmade Rosary Beads were handed out to classes. These Rosary Beads were donated by Janice Quan and her family and friends. Janice hopes that we use these Rosary Beads to pray the Rosary. ​

In Week 9 and 10 of Term 3, we all went to the swimming pool to learn how to swim. It was a cool time for all.

Congratulations to Rainbows Holy Family Early Learning Centre who came runners up in the Small Employer of the Year category at the NT Training Awards. ​

​The costumes for our Book Week Parade were absolutely amazing this year. Well done to all the families for getting creative and putting together such awesome dress ups. The parade was heaps of fun and the judges had a very difficult job picking a prize for each class. 

The Book Week Parade winners for each class are:
Room 6- Dylan Mende- Greg from A Diary of A Wimpy Kid.
Room 7 – Rory Gillis- the Wizard from Terry Prachett novel
Room 9- Olivia Picone Auld- Tin Man from The Wizard of Oz
Room 10- Madeline MacDonald- Mildred Hubble from The Worst Witch
Room 11- Alex Plews- Mary Poppins
Room 12- Jonas Senga- Mr Strong from the Mr Men books
Room 13- Rhyder Koops- the wolf from Bad Guys
Room 14- Amelia Turnbull- Lucy from Peanuts
Room 15- Amelia Walker- the Gruffalo
Rainbows- Cooper Koops- digger from Construction
Rainbows- Indianna McKean- a witch

​On Fridays at 12.00pm the whole school have been participating in multi-age activities across the school. This has been a great way for students to mix with other year levels and get to know other staff and adults within the school. Some of the activities included basketball games, Rock and Water activities, mindful colouring in, grass heads, drawing, skipping, pet rocks, painting, construction, body movement and many more.
 
A big thanks to all the Teachers, Teacher Assistants, Inclusion Support Assistants, Indigenous Education Workers and parents who led an activity. The students truly had a great time.