Principal's Message

Dear Families,

As we head into the mid year break, I would like to thank all community members for a very successful Term 2. I would like to acknowledge the dedication of the St. Finbar's Staff and the hard work of our students. We have managed to complete most allocated activities for Term 2 with only a slight reshuffling of events to Term 3 from the 2 week lockdown. I would encourage all families to use the mid year holidays to enjoy time together and recharge the batteries for a busy second half to the year. We have our school production coming up at the end of Term 3 as well as Year 6 Confirmation, Year 4 First Eucharist, Year 4 Bike Ed Camp, Football, Netball and Soccer Lightning Premierships and the P & F Student Disco to name a few.

Thanks also to the community for your incredible generosity in supporting our Winter appeal. The St. Vincent de Paul society will put your donations to good use, supporting the less fortunate in our community.

Mid Year Student Reports

The student mid year reports were made available to all families on Monday this week. If you are unable to access your child's/children's reports please contact the office and we will assist you.

Sex Ed and Protective Behaviours

The St Finbar’s Family Program will be held on Wednesday August 4th

Session 1: Families, Bodies and Babies 6-7pm

Session 2: Puberty: Growing and Changing 7:15 - 8:15pm

Please use link below to register: https://www.trybooking.com/BQZZF

Any questions or queries please forward to cath.mccallig@gmail.com

Generally, Session 1 is suitable for Years 3 & 4 Students whilst Session 2 is suitable for Years 5 & 6 students. Please refer to the attached brochure for additional information. The try booking link will be open from 2nd of July.

During Term 3 we will also be providing a 1 hour session during class time for all students at St. Finbar's regarding keeping ourselves safe. Cath McCallig will also run these sessions. Please see attached for additional information.

School maintenance work over the holidays

These holidays the School adventure playground update will be happening. Keep an eye out on Instagram and Facebook for updates! We will also be completing our new electric front doors for the school foyer. The elevator project is progressing well with a submission for planning to local council imminent.

Dads Footy Match

Dear St Finbar’s Community

Footy’s back! We will be playing our yearly Dad’s football match this year against St Joan of Arc on Saturday 28th August. Further details to come.

Important to note:

The emphasis of the day will be social (e.g., ‘masters’ AFL rules will apply)
We will run a number of joint training sessions for all players in the lead up to the game. The aim is so we all get know each other and have fun on the day
St JoA pride themselves on a history of minimal injuries so there will be some structured training in place (e.g. stretching and more stretching..)
Everyone is welcome regardless of whether you have played or not
The day has proven to be a great fundraiser with a raffle and other activities. Proceeds are split 50/50

In readiness for the big day and proper training, we have started some Sunday kick to kick sessions at 4pm at Elsternwick Park – Just off New St. Bring a footy, drinks and the kids.

If you are keen to play on the big day, or turn up for some kick to kick action, please contact James, Shane and Alan or register below. You will need to train to play. We really need to finalise numbers so please register so you’re name appears in the 2021 Footy Record.

Register here

iOS: https://www.teamapp.com/ios-app - search for St. Finbars Dads 2021 AFLAndroid: https://www.teamapp.com/android-app - search for St. Finbars Dads 2021 AFL

If you’d prefer the website version please click here: https://stfinbarsdads2021afl.teamapp.com?_webpage=v1

Team of 2019.

Cheers

Alan, James and Shane

shane.mcgrath12@gmail.com

jamesrdavies1977@gmail.com

Alan_contreras@hotmail.com

P & F Student Disco

I am very pleased to announce that we have rescheduled the Student P&F Disco to Friday 23rd July.

Here is the Volunteer link if you are available to help volunteersignup.org/FYAQD

Thanks to Tiffany Clark and the P&F for being so flexible and supportive during this time.

P & F Major fundraiser and Social Evening

We have moved our P & F Fundraiser and Social Evening to Saturday 13th November. Please save the date. More information will follow later in the year.

God Bless,

Pat Berlingeri

Principal

Visual & Performing Arts