Dear parents, students and families,

You will have noticed that the build with the framing happening this week, the roof planned for Monday and with it expected to be closed up by Melbourne Cup weekend and the plastering to commence. This is the progress I am sure we have all been looking forward to.

On Tuesday we had a basketball team progress through to the regional finals to which Mrs Ary took them. They are a pretty classy team and played very well together but ran into some teams that were predominantly Year 6 students, which ours weren't. Congratulations to them all.

Last night our Leadership Team, current Foundation staff and our incoming parent cohort for our Foundation 2026 parent dinner joined together for a social occasion. This opportunity was provided to this group of parents to form the connections that belonging to a school and faith community are all about. We felt it was both a lot of fun and a success for our parents to connect and I thank them for their attendance and the staff who supported the event.

As you would be aware this is a Year of Jubilee for our Church. We have acknowledged this many times throughout the year. Tomorrow we are joining together for a Jubilee Spirit Day commencing with Mass followed by a day of sporting activities lead by the Kaboom Sports company. Thank you to Mrs Winduss, Mrs Ary and the Our House Spirit Team for organising this.

Next Tuesday we have our Fire Carrier students on an excursion to the MCG Sports Museum and also have the Year 1/2 excursion to TwistED at Moorabin as part of their classroom studies. On Wednesday our senior students will be at John Paul College playing sport against all of the other local 'feeder' Catholic schools as part of the annual Lightning Premiership. Next Friday 24 October students are asked to bring Lucky Jars and wear casual clothes as part of our preparations for our Market Day. The week is very full of great experiences for our students.

God Bless

Rod Shaw

Principal

School Attendance and Unexplained Absence

Please contact the school if your child is going to be absent by leaving a message on

9786 4736 and press 1. Please give details of your child’s name and class with a reason for their absence such as: unwell, appointment, holiday or family reasons. Alternatively an email can be sent to office@saseaford.catholic.edu.au with cc to the child’s teacher.

If you are running late, (after 9:00 am) please attend the office to sign your child into school.

If you are picking up your child early you will need to collect them and sign them out from the office.

As per our policy this will be our morning routine for absences:

Parents will be contacted as soon as practicable on the morning a student is absent via a text message.

If parent does not contact the school after receiving the text message, the school will contact the parent by phone. If the parent is unreachable the emergency contacts will be contacted by the school.

If there is still no response, and the school feels that the child is in danger, the police will be contacted.

Ongoing unexplained absences or lack of cooperation regarding student attendance will result in a formal conference being organized. Unresolved attendance issues will be referred to D.H.H.S.

This is a legal requirement.

Democratic Principles

The six (6) principles of Australian democracy include:

(a) elected government; and

(b) the rule of law; and

(c) equal rights for all before the law; and

(d) freedom of religion; and

(e) freedom of speech and association; and

(f) the values of openness and tolerance

Wellbeing

House Spirit fun and connection!

Did you see the flow time photos from last week?

Look at all the fun!