Dear Parents,

Welcome back to a much cooler Term 2. I hope all families had a restful and relaxing break over the school holidays and enjoyed a happy Easter with family and friends.

Our first week back at school this term was a busy one, with students visiting the chapel for Easter meditations, our Year 3 and 4 students attending camp at Flinders, and finishing the week with a special paraliturgy to remember and honour the service and sacrifice of the ANZACS on ANZAC Day.

Thank you to parents and students who attended the First Eucharist preparation/information session on Monday evening this week.  Students are now working through their sacramental work books, as part of their ongoing preparation to receive the sacrament of First Eucharist at one of St. Anne’s parish Masses in August.

We are continuing to receive strong interest in Foundation enrolments for 2026. At this stage we have 27 siblings, with a number of interviews of new families completed, and more to come.

Best wishes to our Middle students for their Dream City STEAM incursion next Monday. I look forward to hearing more about their exciting learning. 

Please note the following forthcoming dates in your diaries:

All of our wonderful mums are warmly invited to come along and enjoy a delicious hot breakfast with their child/ren at our annual Mothers’ Day breakfast next Friday (9th May) starting at 7:30 a.m. in the hall. We will also be running a Mothers’ day stall on Friday 9th May. A huge thank you to our amazing Parents and Friends group for their organisation and running of these 2 important events, to say thank you to our mums for the many fabulous things they do for their families and our school.

Cross country trials for interested students in Years 4 – 6 will take place at school next Friday 9th May from 11:15 a.m. onwards. Students involved in the trials are asked to wear their sports uniform on this day.

On Monday and Tuesday 19th/20th May eight of our staff members will complete their professional learning on the Berry Street Education model. Berry Street training provides a suite of trauma-informed, strengths-based strategies for engaging all students with learning.

Some advance notice that our Year 3 and 4 swimming program will commence on Monday 26th May and run from Monday to Thursday over 2 weeks. The last day of swimming is Tuesday 10th June. Swimming will be held at Paul Sadler Swimland on Hall Road and students will bus to and from the venue.

Our Year 5 / 6 students are really looking forward to their outdoor adventure camp at Camp Adanac in Yarra Junction. Students will leave for camp on Wednesday 28th May and return to school on Friday 30th May (3 days, 2 nights).

A reminder that the Sacrament of Reconciliation for our Year 3 students will be held on Saturday 31st May at 3:00 p.m. at St. Anne’s Church.

Our pupil free/school closure day this term will be held on Monday 16th June. On this day staff will be working on behaviour management and student engagement strategies.

Regards,

Paul Dwyer, Principal

As part of the Visual Arts program the students are required to wear an ART SMOCK for all the messy and painting activities. An art smock can be an old shirt, apron or old tshirt.

No art smock= No painting.

Please ensure your child has a labelled art smock at school.

Many thanks for your support and assistance with this.

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Assembly Awards

FRF

Maisie for being a kind, considerate and helpful class member.  You are awesome!

FRF

Grace for working hard at forming her letters correctly.  Superstar!

FRZ

Tahlia for her excellent attitude to all her learning tasks. Well done. 

FRZ

Ashton W for being a great listener and for always starting tasks straight away. Sensational!

JSE

Brooklyn for correctly writing an orientation sentence for her holiday recount.

JSE

Link for confidently matching tens and ones using MAB. Super effort!

JMR

Scarlett for partitioning numbers to 20 into 2 parts

JMR

Willow for working incredibly hard at completing her work - super effort.

JTA

Lachlan for reading and writing four digit numbers - well done!

JTA

Allistair for using interesting adjectives to describe your holiday picture.

JDB

Trinity for writing a descriptive recount about the Easter Holy Week story - Well done!

JDB

Aditri for trying really hard to understand that each number has a place value especially with thousands

MNG

Flynn - for giving your best effort in all camp activities and encouraging your team mates.

MNG

Indyana - for having a positive attitude towards all camp activities and being a supportive team member. 

MSM

Magi - For having an amazing attitude on camp and for giving all activities a go.

MSM

Briana - For getting out of her comfort zone whilst on camp.

MLR

Gabby - For going above and beyond as our duty monitor at camp

MLR

Chelsea - For going above and beyond as our duty monitor at camp

MLR

Aria - For going above and beyond as our duty monitor at camp

MYK

Stassi - For going above and beyond as our duty monitor at camp

MYK

Lexi - For going above and beyond as our duty monitor at camp

MYK

Eva - For going above and beyond as our duty monitor at camp

MYK

Victoria - For going above and beyond as our duty monitor at camp

SLN

Rupert for the way he inspires and interacts with younger students in a supportive and caring way - an excellent role model

SLN

Xavier for his positive attitude to learning where he always gives 100% - well done!

STC

Sofia for writing a fantastic holiday recount full of great detail and sharing this with the class.

STC

Charlotte Ware for her exceptional artwork inspired by The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe excerpt. Charlotte’s illustration demonstrated remarkable attention to detail.

SWD

Logan for creating a reflective and visually beautiful art piece after taking part in our class practise of Dadirri.

SWD

Kylah for working hard to master converting a mixed numeral into an improper fraction.  Keep it up Kylah!

SHJ

Nevaeh for including detailed information and using time connectives to order events in her holiday recount.

SHJ

Dominic for using the correct structure to write an interesting recount of his holiday.

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