Principal's News

    24/10/23

Dear Parents and Carers,

‘The 3 Doors’  Performance 

What a fruitful week and so much to be grateful for! Congratulations to the best students in the world, the St Kevin’s students for being courageous and stepping into the unknown, persevering when things got tough and giving it their best.  We are all so proud of you and your efforts!

Congratulations to Sun Pezzimenti on modelling and coaching our students, taking risks and trying a new adventurous pathways to script creation.  We appreciate all the work, time and effort you put into supporting and coaching our students and staff!

Thank you Sharon McCorie for your work assisting with the choreography. You have done an amazing job allowing our students to shine. 

One of our goals in our AAP (Annual Action Plan)  is to  engage students in learning via passion projects.  Congratulations to Suzie Twinings for writing the script for ‘The 3 Doors’ and Renee White for co-writing ‘The 3 Doors’.  It is a real joy to see students creating and using their skills to benefit others in this context.

Thank you to Eva Tomazos and the Leadership team for being problem solvers and supporting each other and the staff.  

Thank you to all our whole staff for supporting each other, being open to change and giving of their time and effort to ensure our students succeed and participated in an aspect of performance.

Thank you Selena, Tina and Fiona in the school office for assisting all with questions and directions.

Thank you to all Parents and Carers for supporting us, for responding when we called out for help and continually being our loyal supporters.

Thank you Jane Menon for working on our promotion material and leading our advertising campaign.

Thank you Mira for creating and assisting with the promotional material.

Thank you Gina Zammit, George Park, Angela Scarcella and Aurelia Zardo for costume construction and coordination.  

Thank you to Sun’s husband, her beautiful girls and dad for their help and work with different aspects of the performance.

Thank you to Suzanne Connelly (PFA) and Mary Nitas (PFA) for selling treats during interval and assisting with ticketing.

Thank you to Asher George, JR Giammario and  Clear System Sound and Lighting

for assisting with sound, lighting and digital backdrops.

Through this school performance we have created precise St Kevin’s memories. Treasure these and share them to keep them alive. 

Referendum Day Sausage Sizzle and Cake Stall 

A massive thank you to Suzanne Connelly and Laura Mangiavilliano for leading the Democracy Sausage Campaign. These ladies are meticulous and put in so much work. There are such amazing leaders and spectacular organisers! We are a small school in numbers that does not mean that we are small when it comes to generosity of time and donations.  

I enjoyed speaking to parents and getting to know more about their vision for the school while serving our customers.  My only wish is that more of our parents get involved in  future events and in doing so, get to feel the joy of service and commitment to school improvement.  We raised $780 and these funds will go towards mending seats in the school playground. 

A big thank you goes out to each and every customer who purchased goods - so many were generous with donations.  

Thank you to volunteers that helped on the day are:

Anthony Crimi, Laura Mangavilliano, Morgan Decker, Suzanne Connelly, Ronny Vercauteren, Caroline Geerlings, Jenni McKelvie & Fiona Crimi.

The families that contributed towards the day (money to purchase supplies & cake stall contributions) are:

Harman, Zhu, Twining, Diamente, Young, Mahmoud, Santoro, Marziale, Nitas, Menon, Tsiotinas, Harrison, Young, Carbonara, Zammit, Crimi & Lane

MANY THANKS!

School Assembly in Term 4 

25th October, 2023   Whole School Assembly -  in the School Stadium 2:30pm – 3:15pm

15th November, 2023 Whole School  Assembly - in the Church 2:30pm – 3:15pm

6th December, 2023 Whole School Assembly -  in the Church 2:30pm – 3:15pm

15th December, 2023   Last Day Whole School Assembly Farewell to Year 6 Students - in the Stadium 1pm - 1:30pm

Congratulations to the following students

PBL in Term 4  

This term we will have a greater focus on the school values of being Responsible and demonstrating resilience.  

The expected behaviour for the next two weeks will be

• I get permission before entering or leaving a learning space

Thank you to our whole school community for your continued support as we implement PBL into our school.

Seesaw

Congratulations 4CC you were the top class for Week 3.

Preps 2024 News

The ‘Preparing for Prep Night’ for all 2024 Prep Parents will be held on Wednesday 25th of October at 7:30pm in the Library.

Italian for the Term 4 Week 4 

In the previous weeks, the students revisited the vocabulary from Term 1 until Term 3, and they are now ready to move on with new vocabulary! 

In Week 4 the students will be learning about school activities: 

• giocare fuori (to play outside)
• giocare dentro (to play inside)
• fare sport (to do sports)

By retrieving the language learnt previously and adding the new one, they will be able to make sentences such as:

- Ti piace giocare fuori? (Do you like to play outside?)

- No, non mi piace giocare fuori. Mi piace giocare dentro. (No, I don’t like to play outside. I like to play inside)

- Non mi piace fare sport perche’ e’ difficile. (I don’t like to do sports because it’s difficult)

School Fees and Levies 2024 

After consultation and approval from the St Kevin’s School Advisory Committee and our MACS Business Partner Hesti Renato.  The following fees have been confirmed for 2024.

Staff Update 

Francesca Pizzo has decided to make the move to Canada so she will be concluding her work at St Kevin’s at the end of the year. 

Francesca has been instrumental in the transition of teaching Italian to our students and teachers.  

She has worked with MACS coach Linton Roe to implement practices and support all learners.  We are so grateful to have had Francesca at our school.  She is such a quiet yet productive and active member of staff and we wish her the best in her next adventure.  Grazie Francesca!                    The position of Language assistant has been advertised.  

Every blessing, 

Gabee Leone