Community Engagement

What a night of Celebration!  

Last Tuesday night saw the very best of our students performance skills on stage at Crossway Centre, with a little cameo appearance from staff as well!  We could not have been more impressed with the students commitment, effort, focus and support of each other in their various roles and performances on the night. The whole performance written, produced and led by our highly talented Perming Arts teacher Trish O'Gorman and supported by all staff was inspiring. For a proud, small school it was a BIG show with huge talent! 

As a staff, we were in a priviledged position to see each students performance skills develop with practice and guidance over the past 17 weeks. We witnessed enormous growth in the students as they developed their use voice, facial expression, movement and space to imagine and establish their roles within the production, not to mention their singing skills. We hope you enjoyed the snippets you heard over the weeks in the lead up. Parents said at the end of the night that each of those snippets made sense once the whole story was told.  

There was plenty of magic and magnificence in the auditorium on Tuesday evening as we welcomed parents, grandparents, siblings, aunties, uncles, special guests, past students and members of our St Roch's community to the performance.  Our students were bubbling with excitement to show you what they had created after many weeks of rigorous and fun rehearsals. Thank you for your support, attendance and joy on the night as you encouraged and helped to bring the magic of Melbourne to life. 

Year 6 Mecwacare Aged Care Visit 

Our Year 6 students along with Miss Allen and Mr Pinchbeck will be visiting visiting Mecwacare next Monday.  And the residents are in for a real treat as the year 6 students perform pat of their performance item! 

A Surprise Visit from a Past Family

We were so happy to have the McPherson family, Susie and Angus and their three daughters Annabelle, Georgie and Katie pop in to visit us recently while they were in Melbourne visiting friends.  Annabelle and Georgie McPherson were students in Year 2 and Prep in 2020 before they relocated to Sydney. They toured the new building and were so impressed with our very stylish renovation and were full of praise for how incredible the whole school looks. They send a big hello to everyone.

Open Days in Term 2 

We have an open morning this Wednesday 11 June at 9.15am and we look forward to welcoming prospective families to our school. Please com along if you would like to se what this great school has to offer.  We are so proud of our school leaders who tour families with confidence, highlighting what they love about St Roch's. 

ICAS Assessments 2025 

We are excited to be offering our students the opportunity to participate in the world-renowned ICAS Assessments again this year in August. This online academic competition is designed to assess students’ higher order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics, Science, Writing and Digital Technologies and supports our enrichment program at St Roch’s. 

The English, Mathematics, Science and Digital Technologies assessments are open for students from Year 2 to Year 6 and ICAS Writing is open to students from Year 3 to Year 6. 

Further details about the ICAS assessments including information about how to enrol your child on the portal will be sent to families this week. 

Surprise Visit 

We were so happy to have the McPherson family pop in recently for a vist 

Term 2 Chess Club   

Chess Club is on every Wednesday at 11.00am for all interested students. Please consider registering your child for this great lunchtime club. See details about registering in the Extra Curricula page of the newsletter. 

Gardening Club

Gardening Club is held every Wednesday at 1.50pm and is open to all students from Prep - Year 6. This is such a beautiful time for our students to increase feelings of wellbeing while learning about science as they dig in the soil and tend to the garden. 

Recently, in Gardening Club, we have been planting and tending to the beans and peas. There is also lots of parsley, nasturtium, marigolds and strawberry plants that need regular watering and weeding. We have also explored the ‘colours of Autumn’ using found nature items and some paint chips. Some children were involved in an activity to compare and contrast and make observations on the changing colours of leaves in Autumn. 

We look forward to watching the students and Mrs Meseha's  autumn vegetables growing in our veggie patches.

Dance Club

Dance Club with Maddie from Dance Fitness Victoria is held every Thursday at lunchtime. Dance Club is open for all students from Prep to Year 2. Registrations for Term 2 are now open. 

Art Club

Art Club is being run by our very own Arts Leaders Michael and Evie and our Art Specialist teacher Ms Boers. This week there will be an activity especially designed for students in Year 3 - 6 with art activities on offer for students in Prep to Year 2. There is always a lot of fun being had in the Art Room. 

Icy Pole Friday  

Icy poles will be on sale at 3.30pm on Fridays after school.  Thanks to our school and vice captains and to Miss Allen and Mr Pinchbeck for supporting this initiative.  

Nadine Bolton 

Deputy Principal, Learning Diversity Leader and Student Wellbeing Leader