Dear Parents and Families,

We hope this message finds you well. As we move forward through a new term, we want to take a moment to thank you for your continued support and partnership. Your involvement is crucial to the success and growth of our students, and we are truly grateful for the opportunity to work together.

We have many exciting events coming up this term, and we would love to share them with you. We encourage you to attend as many as you can, as your presence makes a meaningful difference and helps strengthen our school community.

Monday 5th May Mother’s day stall:

Celebrate the special women in your life. Join us for a heartfelt stall offering a variety of gifts to make this Mother’s Day special for mothers, grandmothers and all the other wonderful women who have made an impact in your life. Gifts range from $2 - $10 and each student will be provided with their own gift bag.

Date: Monday 5th May

Please remember to bring money to school on Monday 5th May in order to participate.

Friday 9th May Mother’s Day breakfast:

This year to celebrate our wonderful mothers we are inviting mums, or a mum figure, to a special Mother’s Day Pancake Breakfast followed by our Mother’s Day raffle!

Date: Friday, May 9th

Time: From 7.00 am to 8.50am

Venue: Parish Hall

Food: pancakes, ice cream, various toppings inc strawberries, hundreds and thousands, maple syrup etc

Please note that supervision on the yard is from 8.30 am onwards. If mums need to leave prior to that, please ensure children are registered with OSH club for care as no supervision is available before 8:30am.

We look forward to seeing many of you at this event, enjoying a lovely brekky with your children!

Log in to the parent portal and fil in your RSVP (under forms).

Sunday 11th May: Wishing all of our Mothers/Step Mothers/Carers a very happy Mother's Day. May you have a beautiful day with your families. Thank you for all that you do on a daily basis for your chidren. We appreciate you!

Sunday 11th May: Good Shepherd Sunday! You are all invited to celebrate the beginning of our year long 50th celebrations!

Don't forget to send in your logo!

Monday 12th May Combined Parish Feast day:

Our yearly celebration will begin with the arrival of the year 5/6 students from St Carlo and Mary Queen of heaven. We look forward to sharing various activites with them, organsied by students from Ave maria college. Our senior students will then have the opportunity to eat lunch together, attend mass together and then hear from guest speaker Ezekiel Bartlett JUSTONE

Friday 16th May Whole School Celebrations:

What a jam packed day for our students as we celebrate our Parish Feast Day! The students will be learning about our history and taking part in classroom activities. We also have a company called KABOOM coming to run tabloid sports and games for our students in sessions 3 and 4. And what better way to end our celebrations than with our DISCO NIGHT!! Tickets are now on sale and can be purchased through trybooking. Access the link and all information necessary on our Parent Portal.

IMPORTANT- SCHOOL COMMUNICATION PLATFORM

Please note, we will not be using Audiri any longer. Please follow the instructions and have NFroma Parent Portal ready for Term 2.

The nForma Parent Portal App

We are now beginning to roll out new features on the Parent Portal, including the Absent module, Notices module and Forms module. From Term 2 we will begin phasing out Audiri, so please reach out if you are not sure of how to get onto the Parent Portal.

1.Download the app “nForma for Parents” from the App Store or Google Play (many families will have already downloaded the app to access children’s reports last year).

2. Log in using the email address you have registered with the school. If you are not sure of what this is, please email the office at info@sogsgpark.catholic.edu.au and we can check which address is on file.

3.Ensure that you have notifications switched on so that you will know when there are updates on the app.

4.Please complete the Chromebook Policy and Mobile phone/Smartwatch Policy if you have not already done so (we need this to be completed for every child as soon as possible).

Please don’t hesitate to reach out if you are unsure of any of these steps.

Elizabeth Sarpa Michelle Peel

esarpa@sogsgpark.catholic.edu.au mpeel@sogsgpark.catholic.edu.au

Have an amazing fortnight!

Carmela D'Amato

School of The Good Shepherd

BELONGING, COMPASSION and GROWTH

Issue 6 · 02 May 2025

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