Leadership & Management

Week 3 Term 4

Dear Parents and Carers,

In the Catholic Faith tradition, the Catholic Church dedicates each month of the year to a certain devotion. The month of October is dedicated to the holy Rosary. October includes the Feast Day of Our Lady of the Rosary (October 7th). The best way to celebrate the month is of course, to pray the Rosary.  During this time of lockdown where families are home together might be an opportunity to spend a half an hour a night praying to Mary for all your intentions. 

FOUNDATION RETURN 

Today we welcomed back the first of our students. It was fantastic to see their smiling faces and not to mention the smiles on the parent’s faces! I greeted them with a surprise gift this morning in the yard to help with their transition back to school.

COVID SAFE PLAN –UPDATE 

Last week (October 14th) I published an update and summary of the main points to the latest CECV Schools Operations Guide. However, given the Premiers announcement yesterday, we are awaiting advice and further updates. Once we have received these updates we will revise and update St Fidelis’ COVID-19 Safe Plan. The COVID-19 Safe Plan will then be communicated to all families via SkoolBag and newsletter.

In addition, I would like to inform all the community that we have arranged our cleaning contractor to clean all buildings twice a day. 

SACRAMENTS & WHOLE SHOOL GATHERINGS

Arrangements for such events will be communicated once the latest MACS Advice has been provide. 

STEM MAD------ 

ST FIDELIS' STUDENTS ARE WINNERS AND FINALISTS ONCE AGAIN IN 2021

WOW! Another successful year in the STEM MAD (MAKING A DIFFERENCE)! 

STEM MAD is designed to acknowledged and promote STEM learning initiatives that address real work problems and demonstrate how students in Catholic Schools take action that matters. Student teams were invited to design a product, a service or an innovation to make a difference to others or the environment.

This is a competition where other Catholic Diocese in Australia. The finals will be held in Melbourne in November. In last week's, the Melbourne Archdiocese STEM MAD competition, St Fidelis had a number of students as finalists and even had a winner. 

Huge congratulations to: 

Nakita G – Finalist in the STEMMAD Poster Competition

Sanjay & Lachlan R – In the top three finalists in the category DESIGN ASSISTIVE DEVICES for their prosthetic hand S.A.M

Emily M and Francesco F – In the top three finalists in the category EXECUTIVE DIRECTORS AWARD FOR DEMONSTRATING THE CATHOLIC ETHOS with their positive vending machine

Francesco F and Xavier C – WINNERS in the ENGINEERING DESIGN CHALLENGE SIMPLE MACHNE CHALLENGE – setting a NEW record of 10metres

Isaac P & Harry P – WINNERS in the category MUSEUMS VICTORIA SCIENCEWORKS BEST INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY for their prosthetic Hand (ARMSTRONG) 

Other specials mentions must go to students who were also chosen as finalists by the STEMMAD curators ….

AVA B – Positive Thoughts Box

Hunter F – The Zac grabber Design 1

Ava Brazel – Positive Box and App 

Katherine – The Zac Grabber Design 2 

Sierra P and Luca S – The Handinator 300

Our STEM program is one of the best in the area and the number of our students who made the finalist list is testament to how impressed the judges were. Congratulations to everyone and we await the NATIONAL RESULT! See Mr. Frazzetto's comments and images in the Learning & Teaching page.

Thank you. 

Take care and see you soon,

Manuela