Dear Families,

Final Reminder

We have Teeth On Wheels visiting our school again for dental check-ups and oral health education on Apr 3rd 2025.

Click the link below to sign your child up - IT MIGHT BE FREE!

https://teethonwheels.com.au/consent-forms/consent-eform/

Please complete your form today and the Teeth On Wheels team will be in contact to schedule your child’s appointment and notify you if your child’s eligible for FREE dental care through the Child Dental Benefit Schedule.

CUT OFF DATE FOR COMPLETING YOUR CHILD'S FORM IS ON THE 14TH OF FEBRUARY 2025

Any further questions, please contact the Teeth On Wheels team on (03) 9338 1191.

Kindly Press Here for a step-by-step instruction on how to sign-up

School Hours

8.30am - Gates Open

8.40am - First Bell

8.50am - Second Bell

8.50am - 10.50am - Learning Block One

11.00am - Lunch Break

11.40am - Learning Block Two

1.40am - Recess Break

2.10pm - Learning Block Three

3.15pm - Dismissal

3.30pm - Gates Closed and staff stop supervision duty

SCHOOL MASTER TIMETABLE

A copy of the School Timetable is included below so that you know what is happening each day. This may assist you when booking medical appointments that you child may have to arrive late, depart early or be absent for an entire day.

2025 Curriculum Topics

Below is the Curriculum Cycle for this year. This will provide you with a broad overview of what the students will be learning across the year.

2025: Cycle B (Odd Year)

	Term 1: Inquisitive Stories	Term 2: Geography: Cultural Diversity	Term 3: History: Celebrations & Remembrance	Term 4: Biological Sciences
Prep	My story	1.Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander 2.Location of of places	Celebration	Farm to family
1/2	Your story	Features of place	Australian Celebrations	Living things change
3/4	Australia’s story	1.Introduction to Australia 2.Australian Continent	Celebrations & Commemorations around the world	Life cycles
5/6	There’s more to the story	The World’s Cultural Diversity	Contributions to our development	Living things in the environment

STEM 2025: Cycle B (Odd Year)

	Physical Science	Earth & Space	Digital Technology	Chemical Science
Prep	Moving objects	Changing environments	1.Digital systems 2.Sequencing instruction	1.What are things made of 2.What are things made of design & technology
1/2	1.Forces & Energy 2.Forces & Energy in Product design & technology	Earth’s resources	1.Understanding data 2.Algorithms	1. Materials & their purpose 2. Materials & their purpose: design & technology
3/4	1.Forces 2.Forces: Design & Technology	Earth's changing surface	Visual programming	1.Using materials for a purpose 2.Using materials for a purpose: design & technology
5/6	It’s electrifying	Sudden & extreme changes to earth’s surface	1.Digital systems & networks 2.Designing digital system	Properties of materials

Please see below The Annual Report to the School Community for 2023.

SCHOOL UNIFORM

The main (everday/regular) school uniform is to be worn three days per week. On Mondays and Thursdays all students will be wearing their main school uniform, which includes black shoes.

SPORT UNIFORM

Students are to wear their Sport Uniform twice a week. On Tuesday or Wednesday when they have their Physical Education Class and on Friday. They also wear their House Colour T-shirt on Fridays. The House Colour T-Shirt must be a plain colour with no other prints or designs such as animals, dinosaurs, cars or cartoon characters. Basketball singlets, soccer or footy tops are not acceptable.

SCHOOL ABSENCES

If you know that your child will be absent or has an appointment, please email your child's class teacher, as well as the office email: office@sayarraville.catholic.edu.au

SCHOOL UNIFORM SHOP

The Uniform shop is open Fridays 8:30 am - 9:00 am. All items are $5.00.

LUNCH ORDERS - Wednesday & Thursday

Wednesday: Classroom Cuisine

Thursday: Lunchbox 3013

Traffic Conditions

There are parking restriction changes in Pentland Parade, near the school with the opening of the new Birmingham park and new infrastructure in place.

The kerb outstand and the speed hump have reduced the width of the road to allow for a parked car and through traffic. To address safety along this section and provide safe crossing for bikes across the speed hump to connect the bike lane on Pentland parade and onto the new bike path within the Birmingham park, council will install ‘No Stopping’ signs as shown in red below.

Please read the attached two articles from the Maribyrnong Council about Parking Responsibilities and the Active Paths Program.

Important Dates 2025

Term 1 2025

Monday 3rd February	Students Start Term 1
Thursday 6th February	Whole School Opening Mass	9:15 AM
Wednesday 12th February	Learning Conversations	3:30pm - 5:00pm
Wednesday 12th February	Prep Parent Wine and Cheese Night	5:30pm - 7:30pm
Thursday 13th February	Learning Conversations	1:30pm - 7:00pm
Wednesday 19th February	Family Picnic	5:30pm - 7:30pm
Friday 28th February	School Closure
Tuesday 4th March	School Photo's
Tuesday 4th March	First Reconciliation Workshop (at Annunciation)	7:00 PM
Wednesday 5th March	Ash Wednesday Mass	10:30 AM
Monday 10th March	Labour Day Public Holiday
Friday 14th March	School Closure
Thursday 20th March	First Reconciliation (at Annunciation)	6:00 PM
Friday 21st March	Colour Run
Saturday 22nd March	Open Day	12:00pm - 3:00pm
Thursday 3rd April	Teeth on Wheels
Friday 4th April	End of Term 1	1:15 PM

Footy Tipping 2025

We will be running our annual St Augustine’s School Community Footy tipping competition again this year. Best of luck this year!

You can access/join our footy tipping competition via https://footytips.com.au/

If you were part of the competition last year, you can simply re-log into the app/site and get tipping (or remove yourself from the competition if you would no longer like to be part of the tipping competition).

If you would like to join, please click the link below and enter the password: footy1

https://www.footytips.com.au/comps/st_augustines_footy_tipping_2025

Alternatively, you can search for our competition on the app/site “St Augustine’s Footy Tipping 2025” & join with the password: footy1

If you need any help joining our 2025 competition please see/email Natalie (nlibrizzi@sayarraville.catholic.edu.au)

Happy tipping & go blues!!

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