Dear Families,

Our Mini Mission Fete was a great success on Friday, despite the icy wind and baltic conditions, the stall holders, staff and parent volunteers soldiered on. We are delighted to announce that we have raised over $6000 for Kidney Health Australia.

A huge thank you goes out to our entire St James community, especially our Year Five/Six Team who have spent many hours planning and preparing for the stalls and what wonderful stall they were. It was such a great display of creativity and interactive fun. Keep an eye out in next week's newsletter for a full Mini Mission report.

The day started in lovely fashion with a reverent and special mass to celebrate St James' Feast Day. Fr Maurie Cooney lead our celebration in Dispin's absence and quickly endeared himself to the congregation.

This week's Events/happenings

Monday: Yr 4 Interschool Basketball tournament, SRC Badges presented at morning Assembly. Congratulations to our Semester 2 Student Representative Council. We are confident you will do a great job.

Tuesday: Welcome back Mrs Anita Dell'Orso, we missed you!!

Wednesday: Yr 4 & 5 attending Emmaus concert production, Yr 6 attending Aquinas concert production, some Yr 5/6 boys in AFL 9s Division event

Thursday: Celebrating Preps 100 Days at school - brief parade at 8.55am for all to view & Prep Parents Assembly at 2:45pm

Friday: Yr 6 Confirmation Retreat Day at St John's church and school

Naplan

Naplan reports for our Year 3 and Year 5 students went home last week. If you have not seen them yet, please check your child's bag.

St James Concert Production -

Our preparations for our concert ‘A World for Everyone - The Journey of a Magic Suitcase’ are coming along really well and the excitement is certainly building! Please refer to the information below for details that are important to note for the concert evenings.

Ticket Sales

Ticket are on-sale now via the following link https://www.trybooking.com/DCZUX
We have sold approximately 1,050 of the 1,500 seats available so far. Additional seat sales will be released next Monday if they remain.
The cost of each seat will be $25.00. Of course St James students are not required to purchase a ticket because we will be supervising them as they sit in our designated audience area.
Next Monday 4 August is our whole school dress rehearsal here at school. All students need to have their costume here ready to change into.

Save the Date - St James Disco Party

Thursday 28th August

Prep-2: 5-6pm

3-6: 6.30-8pm

We need some volunteers to help make this event a success. Please sign up here if you can help out in any way - https://volunteersignup.org/M37T7

Tickets will go on sale next Monday. Please look out for the link in the newsletter.

Farm

We are still in need of some families to volunteer for farm duty this term.

If you are available on any of the weekends below please email Jo on joanne.magnik@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au

Sat 9th & Sun 10th August

Sat 30th & Sun 31st August

Sat 13th & 14th September

Message from the St James P&F committee

St James Major Social Function – This Saturday Night !!!!

Our major social function is this Saturday night and there are still a few tickets remaining. Tickets are available via the link below:

https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1415306

Also, the team need volunteers from 1pm on Friday 1st Aug to set up tables and decorations. Please sign up via the link below to help make this event a great success.

https://volunteersignup.org/FKCX4

And finally, thanks to some wonderful contributions from Parents and Local Business’s, we have some Auction items available via a Silent Auction. This will be running from Tuesday 29th July at 4pm through to Sunday 3rd August at 7.00pm. There is a wonderful array of items, so please feel free to bid and grab a possible bargain. Auction link is below:

https://www.32auctions.com/wildwestnight

Wine Drop off – someone from the Grade 2 will be out the front of the School accepting bottles of win for the Fundraiser at the start of the School day every day this week.

Friday Treats

Friday Treats are back this week, and Lamingtons are just 3 for $1.00. We are in need for Volunteers for the term, so if you can spare the time, that would be great – it’s from 1.50pm to 2.30pm. It is a great way to be involved, with little impost on your time. Please sign up at

https://volunteersignup.org/7J3FX

Other Important Items:

Marathon Club starts back this week for any interested yr 3 - 6 students on Wednesday morning 7.45 - 8.15am followed by breakfast. Please send along $15 per Semester in an envelope with student's name and class.
School Fees - families not on a payment plan should have either made part contributions or had a conversation with Lisa or myself regarding the timing of your payment. It is expected that fees will be paid in full by end of Term 3 if you are not on a payment plan.
Our next School Advisory Committee Meeting is on Tuesday 5 August.
Our Important Dates page now has a live Calendar to assist with your life admin.
The annual Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools - School Improvement Surveys will be administered during the first few weeks of September. Please read the attached information and stay tuned for further action.

Hope you all have a great week, only 14 more sleeps to the concert!

Dave

Year Level & Specialist Curriculum

Term 3, 2025 Year Level Curriculum Newsletters