Principal's Post

Dear Families,

What a wonderful turnout we had for our Mother's Day Breakfast on Friday morning. It was heartwarming to see so many of our wonderful St James Mums being celebrated by their kids. We did not allow the damp weather to dampen our celebrations!

Thank you so much to James Wingate and his team of volunteers, Dan Savoia, David Unkles, Nick Rogers,  Dan Moylan,  Chris Harvey, Dustin Archer, John Soccio, David Boal, Stefan Festa, Tom Wursthorn (and Tobias for setup) Sam Tang, Kenny Tirtawidjaja and David Dean Blom for organising and facilitating the breakfast so smoothly. Thanks to Anita Dell'Orso and Antoinette Moroney and the admin team for decorating the space, Emir and Lisa for all of the back end work with the orders and advertising, to Vanessa Lim for providing the flowers and making it so inviting for our Mums, Mamo House for raffle prize donations and Clemi Kohombanwickremage for organising the raffle (which raised over $1000). What a magnificent team effort!

The Mother's Day Gift Stall was also a great success with all children finding a suitable gift for their mums. Thanks to Jess Savoia and Cate Pigeault for coordinating the gifts, and Clemi K , Prue Bain and Nina Christina for also helping out setting up the stall and helping the students with their purchases.

Congratulations to the winners of Mother's Day Raffle:

1st Prize - Picnic Set and bottle of Wine -Monica Moylan

2nd Prize - Peter Alexander Dressing Gown and Glasshouse Candle - Karen Van Scott

3rd Prize - Peter Alexander Pyjamas - Sarah Haslam

4th Prize - Candle & Heat Pack - Debbie Mills

5th Prize - Flowers - Elissa Pipertzis

6th Prize - Flowers - Alexis Mitchell

Our Preps led us in a wonderful, reflective, reverent and very cute prayer service on Friday afternoon. Their reading, singing and action skills were on display in fine form. It's hard to believe they have only been at school for approximately 55 days!

Thanks to our prep staff who prepared this lovely celebration of our mums.

Cyber Safety Seminar - Wednesday 27th May

PARENT INFORMATION NIGHT - RAISING CHILDREN IN A DIGITAL WORLD

Please read the information below for a very important parent/carer in- person information night on 27th May 7.00pm in the Community Centre. The school will cover the cost of this seminar because it is such an important and relevant topic. We are hoping to have at least one Parent from each family attend. To facilitate attendance, if you are unable to secure child-minding for your child/ren, please email the office and we will arrange supervision.

REAL LIFE - PARENT AND FAMILY SESSIONS

We had over 60 families online at the parent information session last Wednesday evening. This Wednesday, 13 May, we host the parent/child interactive sessions here at St James in the Reynolds Community Centre.

6.00 - 7.00 pm                  Students in Years 2-4 (and parent/s)

7.15 - 8.30 pm                  Students in Years 5-6 (and a parent/s)

Please book via this link https://www.trybooking.com/DKXXX

Winter School Uniform

We have officially changed over to Winter Uniform as of today. Unfortunately there are far too many school jackets in the lost property area. Please encourage your children to look for any missing jackets and encourage the importance of looking after their belongings.

Child Safe Standards

With the importance and commitment that we place on student safety as a school system, please take the time to read and familiarise yourself with the information in the

Child Safe Standard Four Parent/Carer Newsletter.  

NCCD 

The Nationally Consistent Collection of Date on School Students with Disability (NCCD) takes place every year. Please see below information relating to this.

Special Food Day - Subway, Wednesday 13th May

Don't forget if you have ordered Subway, you won't need to make lunch, but do bring Freggie!

Enjoy the sunny weather this week,

Dave