Principal's Post
Dear Families,
We celebrated ANZAC Day in a number of ways last week. In classrooms students participated in a variety of activities, reflections, learnings and prayer services. As a whole school we gathered around the flagpoles while our Year Six students lead us in a reflective ANZAC Day service. On Friday morning a number of our Year Six students attended the dawn service at Halliday Park where some students laid a wreath and participated in the readings while Chaarya and Ayush attended the Shrine with their scout group.
Mothers Day Breakfast & Stall
This year to celebrate our wonderful mums and mother figures, a group of dads lead by Jason Barrie, our P & F Team Leader, have organised for a Mother's Day Breakfast to be held in a similar fashion to our Father's Day Breakfast.
There will be two sittings for mums and kids to attend; 7.30am - 8.00am OR 8.15am - 8.45am.
Please access CDF Pay to order and pay for breakfast.
Dads, please use this link to sign up to help out with either set up, food prep, cooking, serving or pack up.
The P & F will be conducting a raffle so please keep an eye out for raffle tickets which will come home later this week. This year tickets are priced at $2 each.
The Mothers Day Stall has been organised by Cate Pigeault and Jess Savoia.
Students can bring along $5 to purchase a gift for mum and possibly grandma should there be gifts remaining.
Election Day BBQ
Our P&F are holding a fundraising BBQ here at St James on Saturday 3rd May to accompany the polling booth. Dan Savoia is coordinating this and still requires some volunteers for the 12pm - 2:00pm and 2:00pm - 3:30pm sessions. Please sign up here if you can lend a hand.
AusKick will run as normal.
A Proud Moment for the Flintoff Family – and Our School Community
We’re excited to share some amazing news with a special link to our school community. Rising cricket star Tess Flintoff has just scored a Cricket Australia contract for the 2025–26 season—and she’s done it before even making her international debut, something no woman has done in the past 10 years!
Cricket Australia announced their list of 18 contracted players last Thursday, and Tess was one of the newest names added, alongside fellow young gun Georgia Voll.
What makes this even more special? Tess is the daughter of our very own Year 4 teacher, Mr. Tim Flintoff, who is absolutely bursting with pride—as are we!
A huge congrats to Tess on this awesome achievement. We’ll all be cheering her on as she takes the next big step in her cricket journey!
Open Day Tours
Our final official school tour is on Wednesday 7 May at 9:15am - 10am. All current families who have a child commencing Prep next year should have filled in an enrolment form by now via our website. Please contact the front office if you have not done this.
Please feel free to share our final open day date with anyone interested in learning more about our wonderful school community.
Wednesday 7th May - 9:15am - 10am
Click here to share a link to register.
House Cross Country
This Friday we will hold our House Cross Country which parents are welcome to come along, watch and cheer for your children as they run the various courses around our St James school grounds.
The times are approximate, depending on many factors so please allow plenty of time either side of the listed time.
Event running time 12pm - 2:30pm
- Yr Prep - 2 running: 12.10 - 1.00pm
- Yr 3 - 6 running 1.00pm - 2.15 pm
See the Physical Education page for full details provided by Catherine Wall who has put a great deal of time and effort into organising this event for our students. This event will help our selection of the St James Cross Country Squad to compete in the District Interschool event on Friday 9 May.
Marathon Club
Marathon club commences this week. We are looking forward to seeing all our runners back and getting some training in ahead of our upcoming Cross Country event.
Belinda and Katrina have done a fantastic job in coordinating the breakfast each Wednesday morning, however they need some help with setting up the tables and seats, and serving breakfast to the students. Please volunteer via this link .
Enhancing Catholic School Identity
As a school community we will once again be administering the Enhancing Catholic School Identity (ECSI) surveys with our staff, students and parents to both compare the results from 4 years ago and get a snapshot of where our community sits at the mo. Unfortunately, the administration period only provides a short window for us. We will be sending our the survey information tomorrow, including details regarding an incentive to complete the surveys. We would appreciate as many families as possible completing these important surveys which are quite lengthy.
School Uniform including Hats Update
From next Monday students are not expected to wear their school hats outside. While we follow, "Hats away in May" in our school's Sunsmart Policy, we will continue to remind students of Sunsmart practices like wearing long sleeved shirts, applying sunscreen, and seeking shade when necessary.
Hats can be brought home to be washed but must be returned to school as soon as possible.
We will transition to our Winter Uniform over the first two weeks of term. The aim is to have all students wearing Winter Uniform from Monday 5 May onwards. Until then students may wear whatever school uniform best suits the weather conditions.
Special Food Day - Pasta Day
It's a Pasta Food Day on Wednesday 14th May. Orders close at midnight on 6/5/25.
House Leaders 2025
Last Friday we announced our House Colour Leaders for this year. While their first role will be to assist with Friday's Cross Country Event, their role is not entirely sport based.
Congratulations to the following students:
Lyons - Finn, Hula
Coughlan - Tahlia , Jett
Dillon - Koray Angelina
Durkin - Elsie , Jack
Out of Hours School Care
Please register your children for this service. It is operating on Friday for families who require this service.
Click here to register
If you have any questions you can email MACSEYE
directly at enrolments@macseye.vic.edu.au
Jake and a few other staff have been doing a great job in coordinating the program. The new coordinator is expected to be appointed within the next two weeks.
Piano looking for a new home
Eastmont Preschool have contacted us regarding a second hand piano which may be useful for a family. Please contact Emir at the office if you are interested.
Other News Items
Our second School Advisory Council meeting will be on tomorrow night 6.15pm - 8.00pm.
Hope you all have a great week ahead
Kind regards,
Dave