School News
Congratulations
Congratulations to Jay B for achieving Honors in Grade 1 Piano (Comprehensive) with AMEB Certificate.
Congratulations
Today some outstanding writers from Year 1 visited Mrs. Burns. They all wrote beautiful procedural texts about how to be a good friend.
Junior Athletics Carnival
Last Friday students from Prep to Year 2 participated in a junior Athletics Carnival at Murphy Reserve. It was a fun day where students were encouraged to try their best at a range of different athletic events. We thank parent volunteers, teachers and Mr. Greene for making this day possible for our students.
Speak with Power
Speak with Power is a public speaking program for Year 5 students run by Ron Thomas. Our Year 5’s participated in a number of sessions with Ron learning how to construct a speech and present it confidently to an audience. It was wonderful to watch the students progress through the program and perform their final speeches with confidence. The Speak with Power program has been running at Galilee for a number of years in Year 5. We can see the difference it makes when our students are in Year 6 and are often asked to speak to audiences or conduct school tours. Thank you to Dan and Adrian, our Year 5 teachers, for organising this program for our students to participate in.
STEM National
Today a group of Year 2 students and a group of Year 6 students represented Galilee at STEM National. STEM National is a prestigious STEM competition for Primary and Secondary Catholic Schools across the Nation. Only select teams are invited to participate. Two student teams from Galilee were chosen, from thousands of applications, to present their work at STEM MAD last month. Both of our student teams made it through to the finals, STEM National. We are very proud of our students and would like to thank their teachers for giving them the opportunity to engage in rich STEM learning. STEM has been a focus at Galilee for the past two years and we are excited to see our students doing so well in their area.
Galilee Swimming Carnival
On Friday 17th November, 2023 we will be having our school's annual Swimming Carnival at Melbourne Sports and Aquatic Centre (Outdoor 50m pool). We will be busing to MSAC but walking back after the carnival. The bus will be leaving Galilee Regional Catholic Primary School at 8:30 am and returning back to school at approximately 2:30pm. Please be at school no later than 8:15am
Grade 5 and 6 will go first, then Grade 3 & 4, followed by Grade 1 and 2 and then Preps
Students will need to wear their school sports uniform, with appropriate swim wear underneath and bring along bathers, goggles, towel, sunscreen and school hat, trackpant, rugby top / jacket. Students will be provided with a GSM swimming cap on the day but can wear their own underneath. Children will also need to bring snacks, lunch and drink bottles.
Please feel free to come and support your child(ren). We ask that if you do wish to come along to the event that you watch from the grandstand are not permitted to be in front of the ‘barriers’ or to congregate around the finish line or recorders table. We will not be timing the students on the day.
The students in Year Levels 3,4,5,6 will be swimming from 9am -11am, the students in Year levels Prep, 1 and 2 from 11am -1:30pm.
When the students in Prep - 2 are swimming we will have students in the water to help support them make the distance. It is no further than 25m.
If you wish to help out on the day, please email Seb: sgreene@gsm.vic.edu.au with your current WWCC attached and you can meet us there.
D.O.G.S Camp
This weekend we have a large number of Dad's and their children attending the annual Galilee D.O.G.S. Camp to Queenscliff. We wish them well and we can't wait to hear all about their adventures when they return to school on Monday. Thank you for our outstanding D.O.G.S. committee for organising this opportunity for our community.