From the Wellbeing Leader

Changes to Lutheran Care Counselling Support at St Paul

Last week we farewelled Natalie Schilling at St Paul. We would like to thank Natalie for her wonderful work at St Paul Lutheran School supporting our children in her counselling. This week we welcome Shameela Khambhaita as our new counsellor from Lutheran Care. Shameela (Shame) has extensive experience in working with children, parents and school settings and we are looking forward to working together to continue to support our children at St Paul. Welcome Shameela. 

Term 3 Chapels and Assemblies

Families are welcome to come along to the Church for Chapel on Wednesday mornings from 9am and to the hall for Assemblies on Friday mornings from 9am. Chapel and Assemblies will continue to be livestreamed on our closed group on Facebook each week, if you need help accessing this, please pop in for a chat.

Wednesday Chapel

This term will be exploring the theme of ‘Heroes of the Bible” each week. Thank you to Pastor Matt for leading us in Chapel this morning.

The hosts for Chapel this term are:

Week 5 (23/8) 3 Brokate

Week 6 (30/8) 6 Harris

Week 7 (6/9) Leila Mattner (Grandfriend’s Day)

Week 8 (13/8) 4 Bakewell

Week 9 (20/9) Eve Ormsby from Endeavour

Week 10 Closing Chapel with Pastor Matt

Friday Assembly

Thank you to 1 Huxtable for sharing with us last week.

The Following Classes will be hosting Assembly this term:

Week 4 (18/8) Reception Dixon

Week 5 (25/8) Book Week Parade

Week 6 (1/9) 5 Woodward

Week 7 No Assembly (Pupil Free Day)

Week 8 (15/9) SPLASH

Week 9 No Assembly 

Week 10 No Assembly (Concert Week)

Father’s Day Stall Volunteers

We are looking for registered volunteers who would like to help our at our Father’s Day Stall on Thursday 31 September (Week 6) For more information or to sign up to help, please get in touch with Frances at the front desk: fmooney@stpaulba.sa.edu.au

School volunteers

If you wish to be a volunteer at St Paul Lutheran, you can speak with our admin team and a pack can be emailed or sent home with your child. All volunteers require a valid WWCC clearance and need to complete the Valuing Safe Communities training. If you have any questions, please contact Jess Robinson jrobinson@stpaulba.sa.edu.au Please note that we will be relying on parent volunteers to ensure class excursions can go ahead. If you would like to assist on these days you will need to be a registered volunteer. 

Dr Justin Coulson’s Connected Schools Parenting Workshops

Thank you to everyone who came along to Endeavour or watched these sessions online last week. It was great to be together as a Connected Schools community. We hope that you found the workshops helpful and informative, we certainly did! It has been great to chat to a few people about what you took away from Justin’s talks. Please feel welcome to have a chat if you’d like to share any of your reflections from the sessions, we would love to hear what you thought.