College Updates Term 3 Week 3 - 7 August 2025

Reminders:

Bookweek Celebrations - Friday 22 August 

Primary Learning Journey - Tuesday 2 September

Lumen Day - 3 September

These dates may be subject to change at the discretion of the College. Any changes will be advised to parents and carers via Schoolzine.

An audible waterfall trailing past a campsite with hidden native reptiles and amphibians has sprung up in the Lumen library! It must be Book Week very soon… in fact, it’s just a few weeks away!

All of Week 5 this term, primary students will be celebrating CBCA Children's Book Week. The theme for Book Week 2025 is "Book an Adventure.”

Book Week celebrates literacy and a love of reading, books and book characters. It is a week that students come together and enjoy sharing their favourite books and characters with their peers and the wider college community. We also celebrate the CBCA award shortlist and read the celebrated books in class. The shortlist and many of the notables, are currently on display in the library… and there are many!

This year we have two visiting authors, timed to celebrate Book Week. Sofie Laguna will work with some of the students in years 5 – 12, and Catherine Meatheringham will visit K – 4. Such visits further enhance our wonderful literacy work across the school.

Book Week will culminate on Friday 22 August at 9:15am in the Lumen Hall with a Character Parade. Primary parents and carers are welcome to come and watch the parade. K – 6 students from each class will introduce their character and the book that it comes from (which they do not have to bring) and parade their characters past the audience.

Robert Irwin from Australia Zoo (or someone trying to look like him), will be visiting to help award prizes for Most Creative, Best Effort and Most Bookish. We are looking forward to another fantastic Book Week and seeing all the wonderful characters that students portray on the day. 

Southern NSW Health are holding an Immunisation catch up clinic at the College on Wednesday, 3 September 2025, for students who have missed out on their Yr 7 or Yr 10 Immunisations.

Please ensure consent for your child has been completed before Wednesday, 3 September. Consent for vaccinations are to be completed online via your Service NSW account, please see below flyer for further details. For parents who are unable to provide consent online, paper consent forms are available at the Front Office.

A message from 2025 Eden Whale Festival Committee

We would like to invite participation in the 2025 Eden Whale Festival.  The Festival date this year is 3rd - 5th October. We have photography, woodworking and art competitions so I have attached all the application forms for these  -  would you please pass to the appropriate class teachers for them to perhaps discuss with their students, as some of them might like to enter as individuals and not necessarily through the School, however what ever works best is fine. All details for entry and rules are attached to the forms We also have a Street Parade on Saturday 5th which might be of interest to some teachers/students We look forward to participation by students.