Principal's News
All students attending St Louis de Montfort's Aspendale have the right to feel safe. The care, safety and wellbeing of children and young people is a fundamental responsibility of all within our school.
Good afternoon families,
I was blessed this week to have another grandson born on Valentine's Day. Felix David is our 10th grandchild.
Congratulations to Thomson and Taft Wood, on the safe arrival of their second child. Joshua Charlie was born on Monday 12 February.
Thank you to the many parents who volunteered on Shrove Tuesday to help with giving our students their delicious pancakes.
Thank you to Lisa, Anne and Braden for cooking sausages for the Welcome Picnic. It was wonderful to see so many families at the picnic especially all the new families. Thank you to Mrs Stefanec and the Year 6 students who helped with the games.
Happy birthday to Father Andrew, he will be 60 on Monday 19 February. We wish him lots of celebrations and many memories.
Thank you Father Andrew for celebrating with us the beginning school mass. Our staff were commissioned and the Year 6 leaders received their leadership badges.
Last week we had Kingston Council run a Road Safety incursion for the 4-6 students. This week Tara will return and work with the P-3 students. It is a great opportunity for all our students to learn/ be reminded about being safe on our roads.
Lent
This week we started Lent and all students came home with a Project Compassion box. Please encourage your children to give some of their money to Caritas. Caritas is a charity that helps poor communities across the world with obtaining fresh water, educating children, supporting the growing of crops and many more wonderful projects.
Prep Welcome Mass
On Sunday 18 February we will celebrate mass with our prep families. It is at Braeside park at 10.30 am. More details on the RE page of this newsletter.
Year 5 Camp
This week half of our Year 5 students are going on camp to Phillip Island. They will be camping and participating in many fun activities.
Swimming training
We have 4 more swimming training sessions before the District sports. It would be great to see as many students who are interested in swimming attend these last few training sessions. monday 7 am at Toby Haennan in Chelsea Heights and Thursday 7 am at Mentone Aquatic Centre.
School Tours
Our school tours for prep 2025 begin this week.
9 am Tuesday 20 February
2.30 pm Thursday 22 February
2.30 pm Thursday 7 March
9 am Tuesday 12 March
Enjoy your weekend
Carmel Stutterd