News from around the school
Events & Reminders
Whole School Athletics
Our whole school Athletics will be held on Friday 23rd, busses will leave school at 9am, we ask all students to be at school on time to ensure activities for the day run to schedule.
Events will begin at 9.45am and will conclude with Relays, before students returning to school by 3pm.
Students are asked to wear house color t-shirt/jumper and black bottoms, school hat, bring a water bottle, lunch and snacks for the day.
Families and friends are most welcome to join us on the day to help cheer along the children on the day.
Please see the program schedule below for approximate event times for the day.
REMINDER - Subway Lunch Orders
Orders will be delivered Thursday this week as Friday is Athletics Day in Shepparton and orders will not be delivered to students at Athletics.
Paper subway orders are to be placed in Subway Tub Thursday's for delivery Friday. We ask for late orders to be submitted to Subway Store before close of business each Thursday, please avoid dropping them in Friday mornings.
For orders via CDFpay, please place order before 2.45pm Thursdays. Scan the QR code beside and register your details if you haven't already done so, and use the Subway menu to place an order. If you do not have a CDFpay account please follow the directions in the Instruction sheet below.
Reminder - School Uniform
Students are to wear winter uniform for terms 2 & 3.
Sports uniform is to be worn for students PE day and all students are required to wear black basketball shorts or black tracksuit pants.
REMINDER - bike shorts are not school uniform.
New - Grade Prep / 1 / 2 Swimming
Prep /1/2 Swimming Program will be held Week 7, Monday 26th - Friday 30th August. Students will attend Aquamoves in their classes for a 45 minute lesson during the week long program.
Permission note and further information will be sent out in the next week.
Grade 1/2 Excursion
Our Grade 1/2 students have an excursion to the Melbourne Zoo on Wednesday 4th September. Permission note and excursion details will be made available in the coming weeks.
School Happenings
Book Week in the 5/6 Area
In the 5/6 Learning Area all classes have been reading a great novel by Australian author Craig Silvey called Runt. Listening to Runt is often the highlight of our day. We were all delighted to see Edie from Grade 5 dress up as the main character Annie Shearer with her best friend Runt!
Our annual Book Week Parade was held on Friday and as always our students and families did a fantastic job of dressing up as the book characters. Check out some of the great costumes & characters our grade 5/6 students dressed up as for Book Week.
Special mention goes to our Support Staff, Billy and Kobie who looked fantastic as Carl and Russell from Up!
Assumption of Mary Mass
On Thursday last week, we celebrated The Assumption of Mary with a whole school mass. Our mass was celebrated by Fr. Addin who we warmly welcome to St Mary's Parish as our new Assistant Priest. Welcome Fr Addin!
Italian
Last week the 3-6 students continued their Italian food theme with pizza dough. Thanks for all students for ‘rising’ to the occasion. Bravo Students!
Prep Learning
Last week in preps we learnt about Australian birds.
Our students experimented making their own bird beaks, bird nests and painting with feathers.
Italian Cooking with Nonna Mary
Recently we were very lucky to have Nonna Mary (Mrs D’s mum) come and make pasta sauce with the 3-6 students for Italian. The kids got a great experience making the pasta sauce and getting to take their own jar home! Grazie Nonna Mary! Next on the menu is - pizza dough as Mrs D continues our Italian food theme this term.
Bus Travel in 2025
Shepparton/Mooroopna School bus applications for the 2025 academic year are now open for all year level students requiring travel on a country bus (not town bus).
The Shepparton/Mooroopna School Bus website has developed a new and more efficient process for the School Bus Program bus applications.
Moving forward, parents can easily access and submit bus applications via Microsoft Forms. We believe this will help parents and ensure a smooth transition to the new process.
Simply click on the link below to complete the Bus Travel Application Form.
If you have any questions or require further details, please feel free to reach out.
Regards,
Linda Piastri
Student Transport Coordinator – Shepparton Region
Hours: M, T & 9am-3pm & Thurs 9am-4.30pm
bus@gssc.vic.edu.au
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