Where everyone is Welcome!
Calendar Dates- What's on.
AUGUST
22nd Yr 4,5,6 - Hooptime
23rd Aust Girls Choir Workshop
27th Book Week Parade - 9.00am
28th Father's Day Breakfast 7.45am
30th Father's Day Stall
SEPTEMBER
9th School Closure Day
10th District Athletics
10th STEM MAD
11th Art Show
20th End of Term 3 - 1.00pm Dismissal
PLEASE NOTE: SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS IS BETWEEN 8.40AM TO 3.45PM ON SCHOOL DAYS.
PRAYER
Father in heaven,
all creation rightly gives you praise,
for all life and all holiness come from you.
In the plan of your wisdom
she who bore the Christ in her womb
was raised body and soul in glory to be with him in heaven.
May we follow her example in reflecting your holiness
and join in her hymn of endless love and praise.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen
From the Principal
Dear Parents and Families,
Today we recognise the Solemnity of The Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. When we contemplate Mary in heavenly glory, we understand that the earth is not the definitive homeland for us either, and that if we live with our gaze fixed on eternal goods we will one day share in this same glory and the earth will become more beautiful. Consequently, we must not lose our serenity and peace even amid the thousands of daily difficulties (Pope Benedict XVI).
Bullying No Way
This week is the national week of action against bullying. The focus is prevention against bullying with the aim to develop students’ understanding of what they can do to prevent bullying. Purple is the ‘hero’ colour and the theme, Everyone Belongs. Students have engaged in learning skills and strategies, with emphasis on the concepts of community and belonging. Students gathered for a special morning tea this morning, and each were given a cup cake with purple icing, symbolising the hero colour.
Book Week
The theme for book week this year is ‘Reading is Magic’. Students will engage in reading the shortlisted books and associated activities during the week. Our Book Week parade is scheduled for Tuesday 27 August at 9.00am. Students are invited to dress-up as their favourite book character, super hero, or theme on this day. Parents and friends are invited to join us in the hall for the parade.
Father’s Day breakfast
Fathers, grandfathers and special friends are invited to our annual Father’s Day Breakfast on Wednesday 28 August from 7.45am in the Fr Arnold Centre. This is an opportunity for special family time and to share time with others within the community. Bookings can be made using the trybooking link: https://www.trybooking.com/CULPY
Deputy Conferene
Mrs Elena Salvana is attending the Eastern Region Deputy Conference today and tomorrow. The conference is an opportunity for Elena to engage professionally with leaders from other Catholic schools in the Eastern region, and bring new learnings back to our school. Areas of focus during the conference include: regulation, dis-regulation and co-regulation, and associated impact.
Principal Conference
In September I will be travelling to Spain with other principals from the East Central Zone Principals’ Network. The reason for our travel is spiritual formation. Formative experiences have a long history in the Tradition of the Catholic Church. Our formation involves walking the Camino de Santiago, or Way of St. James. Our pilgrimage will begin in Madrid and we will walk to the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela in Galicia, a journey of approximately 115 km. We leave during the school holidays and return for Week 2 of Term 4.
Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools School Improvement Surveys (MACSSIS)
Part of our school improvement process involves the annual collection of data through the MACSSIS. All cohorts, staff, students and families, of the school community are invited to participate in the surveys. In the next few weeks families will receive a unique code and login details via email sent from the school office. We encourage all families to participate in the survey as the data is used to determine where improvement is needed across all areas of our school.
Art Show
Our annual Art Show is scheduled for Wednesday 11 September. More details will be provided in the near future.
School Closure Day
Our next school closure day is planned for Monday 9 September. The focus of this day is Religious Education.
2025 Enrolments
Enrolments for 2025 are open. If you are aware of anyone who has a child who will be commencing in Prep in 2025, please encourage them to apply.
Warm regards,
Michelle Worcester
Principal
PREMIER'S READING CHALLENGE
All of our students have been registered for this years challenge.
If you are participating, please logon with the details you have been provided
and record the books you have completed. We will then verify them online.
The Challenge ends on September 6th, continue reading and registering your completed books online.
Happy Reading!
MINI OLYMPICS
Our Mini Olympics day was a huge success and lots of fun. We had a fabulous day
participating in the glorious sunshine.
Vegetable Garden Update
On Monday we were very excited to have a special visitor to St Philip's. We warmly welcomed Mary, a gardening expert from Bunnings. Mary is going to help and guide us over the coming weeks to revamp our school Vegetable Patch where we will plant and grow new produce. We are looking forward to learning new ideas and working together to make our garden flourish! Please stay tuned for further updates on the progress of our Vegetable Garden, we look forward to sharing our produce with you.
AUSTRALIAN GIRLS CHOIR
The Australian Girls Choir are visiting our school to conduct a workshop for interested students on the 23rd of August at 2.30pm. Please register if you are interested in participating.
Art Room
We are seeking donations of glad wrap/foil cylinders and strong boxes, Shoe box size and strength would be great, no cereal boxes please.
Please drop off items to the office.
Thank you.
Cake Raffle
We appreciate our families volunteering for cake raffle bringing joy to the children at assembly every week. The weekly cake raffle will be drawn at Assembly on Friday mornings. To support this fundraiser we ask for volunteers to provide a sweet treat (eg; cake, slice, cookies, cupcakes etc) to be raffled. Please sign up for Term 3 to bake using the following link https://volunteersignup.org/PDHLA
Baker required for tomorrow 16th August please.
All donations of baked goods require a list of ingredients attached.
Raffle tickets are 20c each and sold at the beginning of assembly.
Thank you for your support
Tuck Shop
Tuckshop is without a doubt the highlight of the week for the children. This would not be possible without our small team of committed volunteers showing up week after week. We need one extra mum or dad to add to our amazing team of volunteers to help with only one Friday per term from 11.30am - 2.30pm. Please reach out to Clara on 0449 767 020 or Angi on 0431 021 711 if you can help.
We appreciate your support.
Entertainment books are another piece to our fundraising puzzle. When you sign up you receive 12 months of discounts and offers - and our school benefits - 20% of every membership purchased goes to support our school!
https://subscribe.entertainment.com.au/fundraiser/9a27151
COMMUNITY
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