Dear Families,

Yesterday was a lovely celebration of our St James school community as part of our St John's parish. There were well over 30 current preps in attendance to welcome over 30 of our new preps to our parish. Our 2024 Prep teachers; Amy Darvell (Prep D) and Deborah Butler ( Prep B Mon - Thurs)/Bernadette Broderick (Prep B Fri) were also in attendance. Our current preps presented our new preps with a copy of our St James school prayer.

In his homily, Fr Dispin made special mention of being proactive and preparing for the coming of Jesus, rather than sitting back and just waiting for him. Apart from physical deeds we have done and can do, the very generous donations to our food hampers and gift cards from our St James community has been very much appreciated. Last Friday we raised $441 to put towards purchasing gift cards to give to St Vincent de Paul who will distribute them to families in need.

We said farewell to Molly Masters on Friday afternoon as she commences her maternity leave. We wish Molly and Rhett all the best on the upcoming birth of their second child.

We also had a celebration for Josh Crowe and his wife because Laura who was due to give birth mid-January. Over the weekend Josh's lovely daughter arrived a little early both Laura and baby Grace are doing well.

School Advisory Council 2023 - 2024

Our 2023 SAC members represented our St James community by providing feedback and advise on a number of school related issues such as; our building program, Time in Lieu hours for staff resulting from the new union award, school fees and working bees.

With a few members moving on after their three years on the SAC, we are calling for new members from our school community to join.

We usually meet 6 - 8 times a year 6.15 - 8.00pm. If you are interested please email me

principal@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au

Farm Help

We are looking for wonderful helpers to help with the chickens on the school holidays - 4 day shifts. We still need several spots to be filled. If you are available, please let Vic know ASAP with your preferred date - victoire.gibson@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au

Thank you

Family	Dates
Brockhoff	Fir 15th, Sat 16th, Sun 17th, Mon 18th & Tue 19th Dec
Barrie	Wed 20th, Thur 21st, Fri 22nd & Sat 23rd Dec
Williams	Sun 24th Dec, Sun 25th, Mon 26th & Wed 27th Dec
?	Thur 28th, Fri 29th and Sat 30th Dec
?	Sun 31st Dec, Mon 1st, Tue 2nd & Wed 3rd Jan
?	Thur 4th, Fri 5th, Sat 6th & Sun 7th Jan
?	Mon 8th, Tue 9th, Wed 10th & Thur 11th Jan
Wingate	Fri 12th, Sat 13th, Sun 14th & Mon 15th Jan
?	Tue 16th, Wed 17th, Thur 18th & Fri 19th Jan
?	Sat 20th, Sun 21st, Mon 22nd & Tue 23rd Jan
Height	Wed 24th Jan, Thur 25 th, Fri 267th & Sat 27th Jan
?	Sun 28th, Mon 29th, Tue 30th & Wed 31st Jan

Jo Magnik will be taking over as our farmyard coordinator as Vic Gibson moves into her classroom teaching role at Our Lady's Ringwood for 2024.

Thanksgiving Mass

This Thursday here at St James in our Reynolds Community Centre 7pm. This is a great opportunity for us to farewell our departing families from our St James community.

Assessment Days 2024

Booking information for Tuesday 30 and Wednesday 31 January will be sent home next Monday afternoon. We ask you to book in by Wednesday 13 December please.

Have a great week.

Dave

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