Acting Principal's Message 

Dear Families,

Students in Years P-2 will complete their swimming program on Thursday, wrapping up a successful swimming program for our youngest students at Aquastar! Thank you again to all of our teachers, support staff and amazing parents for supporting our students to have this opportunity. 

Right to Disconnect 

Communication between school and home comes in many different formats but one of our major forms of communication is via email.

Our wonderful and dedicated school staff are very good at communicating with parents about concerns or information about our students as needed.

As some of you may be aware, Fair Work Australia as of the 26th August will be introducing a new act that gives employees the Right to Disconnect outside of their designated work hours. This is a great step forward to ensure the wellbeing and mental health of all workers in Australia.

As a result of the Fair Work Act, St Andrew's will now be implementing email and communication policies in line with this. As a school, our policy on returning emails is that emails are responded to within a 48 hour time frame and within the hours of 8.00am-4.45pm. This will be added to the email signature of staff as a reminder. 

This will apply to our school staff as well, when communicating with each other.

We know there are many times that parents need to email school staff due to many family and work commitments, which can continue as normal, but please allow staff 48 hours to respond, between the designated hours. With this new act, as a school we will be enforcing this with our staff, so we thank parents for your continued support as we transition to this change. Policies will be added to our school website, under the Policy tab, when finalised. 

Confirmation Information Night

Thank you to the 5/6 team for supporting the preparation of our Confirmation candidates on Wednesday evening with the Information night, led by Mr Ange Virgona. This was the first step in the journey of our Catholic Year 6 students as they prepare for the sacrament of Confirmation. 

School Improvement Survey - MACSSIS

Some families may have received an email from school on Monday inviting them to participate in the MACSIS school improvement survey. To complete the survey, please access the link in your email.

As part of our continual focus on school improvement, catholic schools across the Archdiocese of Melbourne participate in an annual survey seeking perspective about school culture and processes from families, students and staff.  The data collected is one source of information the leadership teams use when considering and evaluating our priorities and direction. 

If you would like more information, please feel welcome to contact me at nblack@saclaytonsth.catholic.edu.au

Parent/Child/Teacher Interviews on Monday 16th September - All grades except Prep R and 3/4T

Parent/Child/Teacher interviews will be held on Monday 16th September.   Interviews will be 10 minutes and held in the School Hall between 2.30pm and 7.00pm.

We encourage all children to be active participants in the 10 minute interviews.    This provides an opportunity for children to share their learning journey and successes with their family and to also be active responsible participants in their own learning.  

If you have had a PSG or have an upcoming PSG appointment  with the classroom teacher, then there is no need to book a Parent Teacher interview.

Optional Child School Attendance – Monday 16th September  - 1.35pm-3.15pm

Teaching staff will be released on the afternoon of Monday 16th September to commence their interviews’.   Children remaining at school for the afternoon block will be grouped in levels and supervised by staff who are not required at these Interviews.  

Parents attending interviews may collect their child/ren from these level gatherings. 

Parents do have the option of collecting their child/ren from their classroom at 1.25pm.

Collection of children assists staff by reducing the number of children being present in the afternoon block.  

Prep R and Year 3/4T 

Your  interviews will be held at the start of Term 4 when Rose and Tahira return from leave.

Students not returning in 2025

As we plan ahead for 2025 classes, we ask any families who know that they will not be returning to St. Andrew's in 2025 to inform the school as soon as possible by clicking on the button below and filling in the form or email me at nblack@saclaytonsth.catholic.edu.au 

2025 Prep Enrolments

HAVE YOU ENROLLED YOUR CHILD FOR PREP 2025? 

If you have a child ready for Prep 2025, we encourage you to please put in an enrolment form as soon as possible. This will help us with organisation purposes. To access an enrolment form:

• Visit the enrolment section of our school website and download an enrolment form 

• Drop into the school office to collect an enrolment pack
• Email office@saclaytonsth.catholic.edu.au 

2024 School Calendar 

The 2024 School Calendar is available on the School Website. It can be found mid-way down on the front page under the heading ‘WHAT’S ON’.   We will endeavour, where possible, to remain true to the dates on the 2024 calendar. We recommend that parents regularly visit the school website to see updates on all school events.

Mrs Nicole Black

(Acting Principal)