We started the week with our seniors heading off to John Paul College for the Lightning Premiership games, where they had a fabulous day of sport and fun. A big thank you to Reagon Haines for organising the entire event in collaboration with JPC and our neighbouring Catholic schools.

On Tuesday, we held our annual Mini Vinnies Fete and raised an incredible $2,743.50 to support the wonderful work of St Vincent de Paul. It was a fantastic community event, led by Zeeta Andrew and our dedicated Mini Vinnies team. The students and staff did a brilliant job, and it was wonderful to see so many families come along to enjoy the afternoon. Today, some of our lucky raffle winners from the fete enjoyed their prizes: a free dress day, extra playtime, special games for their class or lunch in a different classroom!

Signora Colaciello is busy preparing for Italian Day on November 21. It will be a dress-up day, so students have a few weeks to plan their outfits!

We also have poppies for sale in the office leading up to Remembrance Day on November 11. Students can purchase these before and after school.

This week, we also launched our Colour Fun Run, proudly organised by our Parents and Friends. We hope all families have registered online. Each student has received a wristband with a unique code that can be entered on their profile for a chance to win $500! Excitement is already building for this colourful event!

• Monday 3rd November  -  School Closure Day 

• Tuesday 4th November  -  Melbourne Cup Day 

• Friday 21st November  -  Italian Day 

• Friday 28th November  -  School Fun Run 

• Friday 5th December  -  Christmas Assembly 1 (afternoon) 

• Tuesday 9th December  -  Year 6 Mass / Graduation 

• Friday 12th December  -  Christmas Assembly 2 (afternoon) 

• Tuesday 16th December  -  End of Year Awards Ceremony / Students Last Day

Finally, we wish everyone a wonderful long weekend. Please remember there is no school on Monday. Stay safe if you are travelling. 

Irene 

Mini Vinnies Fete 2025 – A Huge Success!

A heartfelt thank you to everyone for your wonderful support of our Mini Vinnies Fete. It was such a joy to see our school community come together in generosity, spirit, and friendship.

We extend our sincere thanks to all the parents and families who kindly donated baked goods, uniforms, toys, books, and games. Your contributions helped make the day both special and successful. Your kindness and participation truly reflect the caring heart of our community.

Thanks to everyone’s amazing effort and generosity, we were able to raise $2,743.50 (from the fete and additional generous donations), which will be donated to the St Vincent de Paul charity. 

Thank you once again for being the heart and hands of Christ in our community.

With gratitude and blessings,

Mini Vinnies Team & Ms Andrew

Children and teachers prayers for this weeks rosary. 

SHJ’s Liturgy of the Word- Thursday 30th Oct.

(The Commemoration of All the Faithful Departed)

(All Souls' Day)

Mass Reflection:

Welcome to our Grade 5/6 Liturgy. This coming Sunday we celebrate All Soul’s Day where we remember our family and friends who have departed and are now in a beautiful, safe place with God in heaven. 

In today’s Gospel, we hear how Jesus brought a young man, a widow’s only son back to life. As a class we explored how Jesus is full of compassion — he sees the widow’s deep sadness and responds with love and care. Through this miracle, Jesus showed his power over life and death, reminding us that God can bring healing, hope, and new life even in the darkest times. We also discussed how this moment reveals God’s true nature — loving, merciful, and always close to those who are suffering.

Prayers of the Faithful:

We pray that we may remember those who have died and keep them in our hearts. 

Lord, hear us.

We ask that you forgive the wrong things that we have done, and help us to stay close to you. 

Lord, hear us.

We pray that we may one day share the joys and blessings of eternal life with God. 

Lord hear us. 

We pray for our family members and friends who have died that they will remain in God’s love forever and ever. 

Lord hear us.

Dear God, help us to be kind and compassionate like your Son Jesus bringing peace and love in our daily interactions with others. 

Lord hear us.

Everyone has come back to Term 4 ready to learn and use their creativity in Performing Arts.

We are looking forward to our 2 Christmas Assemblies which will be held on:

Friday 5th December and Friday 12th December at 2pm

7 classes will be performing a Christmas Song in each assembly. We will let you know which classes will be performing in which assembly in the next newsletter.

Sophia and Asher, our two Performing Arts captains have been busy painting and putting together a new display to help brighten up the area outside the Music Room. It will be on the wall very soon.

The year 6 students are starting to put together their plans for the Graduation Video which will be shown at the Graduation ceremony. Filming for the video will take place on MONDAY 24th NOVEMBER. It is important that all year 6 students are at school on that day dressed in sports uniform. 

Our senior students have been working hard learning to play the ukulele during the Performing Arts lessons this term. 

The Foundation children are learning to log onto the Chromebooks 

This week the Year 3 students to have been learning it about probability. 

This week the Year 3 students have been learning about probability. On Thursday they conducted a chance experiment where they investigated the concept of whether whispering “roll me a 6” to the dice would increase the chance of the dice landing on a 6.

Juniors Excursion to Moonlit Sanctuary