Principal's Report 

Division Cross Country

Congratulations to the students in Grades 3 to 6 for the way the competed in the Regional Cross Country Championships last week.  Sienna Bayliss, Abby Colt, Elijah Willits, Emma Colt and Charli McConvill.

Grade 4 Camp

Well done to all of our Grade 4 students who had a very enjoyable experience in Swan Hill last week. They spent two days taking in all of the activities at the Pioneer Settlement. A special thank you to all of the staff who attended the camp, making it a great success.

Bendigo Writers Festival

Students from Grade 1, 3, 5 and 6 enjoyed their time at the Bendigo Writers Festival last Thursday. It is great to get out and about in Bendigo and enjoy these experiences together.

Bendigo Highland Pipe Band Incursion

Bradley Saul, Piping Director of the Bendigo Highland Pipe Band, and his band taught the students all about the bagpipes, drums and a pipe band on Monday.  It was an extremely interesting and engaging incursion with many students trying the instruments.  Thank you Bendigo Highland Pipe Band.

Prep Enrolments 2024

The process for enrolling new Preps for 2024 begins this term. As always, we look forward, with great excitement, to welcoming new members into the St Kilian’s community. A reminder to current parents that if you have a child/sibling who will be starting Prep in 2024 to please collect an enrolment form from the office and return it as soon as possible.

Mother’s Day

This year we will be celebrating our mothers and special friends on Friday 12th May with ‘Muffins with Mum’.  All mothers and special friends of the school are invited to attend the Mother’s Day ‘Muffins with Mum’ from 8:30am.

Mother’s Day Stall

Our Mother’s Day Stall will be on Friday 12th May.  Our Parents & Friends have organised a range of gifts for all students to purchase for their mothers or special friends.  Students are asked to bring $5 to purchase a gift.

Bendigo Winter Night Shelter 2023

This is a program coordinated by Churches in Bendigo, providing ‘shelter, food and dignity’ for homeless individuals in our area.  Please google www.bwns.org.au for more information.

The St Kilian’s Parish will again be ‘host’ for this every second Wednesday at the designated venue. Each year parishioners have volunteered their time and talents to support this ‘outreach’ program in many different ways: cooking, kitchen hands, shift workers...  Can you help out? particularly with meals. You may be great at making desserts, or love making soups, or pretty good with pasta - no one person is expected to provide a whole meal.  If you are interested in supporting in any way please contact the parish office on (03) 5441 6244.

Friday Afternoon Assembly

We are excited to celebrate student learning through our Friday afternoon assembly commencing Friday 12th May with PrepJW. During the assembly the students will showcase their learning through a presentation. Assembly will take place in the school hall and we invite the parents of PrepJW to attend.

We will start promptly at 3pm.

School Uniform

All students are now expected to be wearing the full winter uniform; this includes long grey pants for boys.

There has been a slight delay in the delivery of some items, which we hope will occur in the coming week or so. Please ensure you contact me or your child’s teacher if they are not able to wear the correct school winter uniform.

Catholic Secondary Schools

A friendly reminder that Year 7 enrolments are due shortly for Catherine McAuley College and Marist College Bendigo.

CMC Enrolments close: Friday May 12th 

Marist College close: Friday May 26th

Please contact your child's teacher if you have any questions about transition to high school.

Lisa Chesters visit

On Monday morning Lisa Chesters, Federal Minister, will be joining us for assembly on Monday morning to present our Grade 6 students with certificates acknowledging their participation in the Grade 6 camp to Canberra.

Unit Masses

Next week unit masses commence for our students with the first unit being grade 5s, Thursday 18th May at 9am.  Keep an eye out on the newsletter for details on when your child’s mass will be because we LOVE parents and special friends to join us for these masses.

God Bless 

Kimberley McSweeney 

Principal