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Grandparents/Special Friends Day
This Wednesday 26 October we welcome families, grandparents and special friends to our school and church.
There will be some parking available on the asphalt from 8:50am, as well as the church car park.
Families are asked to take special care when arriving at school as there will be significantly more cars and people around.
Grandparents/ Special friends can make their way into classrooms from 9:00am. Classes have planned a short activity for our visitors to participate in with students.
Classes will walk to the church with our visitors approximately 9:45am.
Mass will begin at 10:00am.
After mass ( around 11;00am) morning tea will be available for our visitors in the school hall foyer for a cuppa and morning tea.
Students will go out to recess while our visitors have morning tea.
We look forward to seeing you all on Wednesday.
2023 School Uniform
Beginning term 1 next year (2023) all new uniform items will need to be worn by students in Foundation to year 5. We are allowing year 6 only next year to still wear old uniform items in order to save parents the expense of a number of new items in their last year of schooling.
Uniforms can be purchased at PSW Pty.Ltd, 1 Age Street Cheltenham.
The new uniform items are:
Everyday Items
Navy Wool Jumper
Navy Zip Jacket
Navy Beanie
Navy Bucket Hat
Navy/blue panel short sleeve top
Navy/blue panel long sleeve top
Navy spray jacket
Sports Items
Navy sport shorts
Navy sport skirt
Navy tracksuit pants
Navy/blue panel long sleeve top
Students can choose to wear either the plain blue shirt or the navy/blue panel shirt.
Students can choose to wear either the navy jumper or the navy zip jacket.
We are no longer accepting any old uniform items in the second hand uniform shop.
2023 Class Structure
In 2023, we will implement the following class structure.
1 Foundation class
2 year 1-2 classes
2 year 3-4 classes
1 year 5-6 class
Miss Emma Longmuir will be taking the Foundation class, while Maree Hills will be on leave.
Staff to other classes will be appointed later in the term.
Students and parents will know their 2023 class and teacher in the last week of term.
Thank you to our Parents and Friends
A very big thank you to our P & F and all their efforts to organise the Trivia Night for our school families and to raise funds for our school. Both before and after the event there has been such a buzz around our school and a great night was had by all. It takes quite a team to ensure an event like this goes well. Thank you to the parents who collected and sorted donations, picked up and returned tables, organised the bar, decorated tables, cleaned up, etc. Thanks also to Laura Bailey in our school office for supporting the P & F, by counting all the money raised! This event raised significant funds for our school and just as importantly provided a social opportunity for our school community to have fun and build connections with each other.
Special thanks to our parents:
Emma Bugg
Karen Glancy
Matt Casey
Anna Sloan
Toby Sloan
Abie Fitzgerald
Julia Runci
Bernard Laville
Natalie Taffe
Pam Hickey
Abbey Walters
Claire Castrillon
Special thanks also to our P & F ( and to Natalie Taffe for organising) a thank you morning tea for staff on Australian World Teacher’s day this Friday. Staff truly appreciate your acknowledgement of the work they do.
School Closure Day
There is no school for students on Monday 31 October
Our Socktober Kickoff was a wonderful experience for all. The students showed great resilience, collaboration and teamwork making the sock balls and as a team kicking their goals. As a school the students kicked 1402 goals.
Each class made their sockballs from recycled materials ready for the kickoff. Some sockballs lasted the distance, others were not so lucky. The students continued to mend the broken sock balls so they could keep kicking goals. Walking in the shoes of others such as the students of Ethiopia playing with their sock balls each day enables our students to appreciate what they have around them. The winner of the kick off was 3/4MR who will receive some extra play next week as their prize.
Our Year 6 Sustainability and Faith Leaders did a wonderful job advertising and setting up the event on the day. Our Mission week celebrations concluded on Thursday with our prayer liturgy led by our Year 6 leaders. The choir did a fantastic job singing “Just a Little bit” the 2022 Mission week song.
A huge thank you to everyone for your continued support, we raised $152 for the Australian Catholic Missions.
Maree Hills
On the 12th of October the Foundation, Grade 1 and Grade 2 students went on an excursion to Como House in South Yarra. We went in the bus, dressed in our best olden day outfits. It was a very fun day with lots of learning involved! Have a look at what the following students had to say about the excursion…
Mansion Tour by Dom
The mansion was old, expensive and big. Lots of the paint was ripping because the house is over 100 years old. When I went into the playroom the Mum and Dad bought stuff from all over the world. Then I went into the ballroom and the Mum and Dad bought a diamond chandelier, golden mirrors and massive windows. Next I went upstairs and went into one of the kids bedrooms and saw a sink and an old bed. After that I went into the teachers bedroom and saw that there was no fire place and that was surprising because all of the others have them. Finally I went and sat down and played games and ate. I played chess and pick up sticks.
19th Century Games by Abbey
When we went to Como House I played 19th century games. First I played Croquet, it was fun. Then I played quoits and I got one hoop in. Next I did an egg and spoon race. After that I did some skipping and I was pretty good. Finally I played pick up sticks with Juliette, Hannah, Vanessa and Zoe and I won. I really enjoyed it.
Mansion Tour by Alexander
The mansion was so big and it was fun to explore. I liked the Mansion Tour because I saw a porcelain doll.
Congratulations to the following students who achieved their shiroi obi (white belt) for their Hiragana Karate Reading and Writing Challenge.
- George (3/4JB)
- Ben (3/4MR)
- Gus (3/4MR)
- Lachlan (3/4MR)
- William (3/4MR)
- Finn (3/4JB)
- Daraius (3/4JB)
- Dom (3/4JB)
These students are able to read and write the first 10 characters.
Congratulations to our best dressed music idols – Amy Winehouse and Freddie Mercury.
Thanks to the support from our St Catherine’s community, we have raised over $4000 from ticket sales, raffles, games and the silent auction. A massive thank you goes out to our organising committee, whose time and effort was a big part of this achievement.
Coming up next month.....
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For the first time, Holy Trinity Parish is participating in the Combined Catholic Parishes Raffle. This is a major fundraising opportunity. Tickets are just $2, and every ticket sold generates $1.50 for Holy Trinity Parish.
The raffle will run from Sept 16th to Nov 2nd drawn on Dec 3rd, 2022.
The Grand Prize will be a $19,500-drive-away Kia Picanto S Auto, with many good consolation prizes.
There are 10 raffle tickets in each book; books sell @ $20, tickets are only $2.
To order your raffle book, please visit the parish website here and to select your preferred collection point.
Prizes:-
1st Prize: $19,500 Drive away Kia Picanto S Auto. 1.4 ltr Auto, Wireless Apple Car Play & Android, rear parking sensors, 7 Year unlimited km warranty, cruise control and reverse Camera.
2nd Prize: Gift Card to the value of $5,000
3rd Prize: Gift Card to the value of $2,000
4th Prize: Gift Card to the value of $1,000
5th Prize: Gift Card to the value of @ $500 each
6th Prize: Gift Card to the value of @ $500 each
