Mackellar Buzz

Principal's Report 

Dear Parents, 

Where has the term gone?

This week is the last week of school for Term 1.  Students will be dismissed at 2:30pm on Friday April 4th.  TheirCare is available for families that require after school supervision for their children.

School Lunches

Canteens, Healthy Eating and Other Food Services: Policy | education.vic.gov.au

The DE mandates that schools provide healthy eating options and principles.  The consumption of healthy foods and drinks has a wide range of positive benefits for student health and learning.  Policy states that parents, teachers and students should work together to support a whole-school-approach to healthy eating and build a school culture which supports students to choose nutritious foods and drinks and a healthy lifestyle.  Whilst Mackellar aligns our canteen options with this policy, it does not apply to student lunches and snacks brought from home.  However, we are asking families to consider the nutritional value of foods being packed from home and ask that fast food and sugary drinks be avoided during school hours.

Easter Raffle

Thank you to our wonderful parent helpers that assisted in making raffle ticket booklets and creating easter prize packs.  We are grateful for your time and commitment to our school community.

  • Connie Scarfo
  • Liz Reffke
  • Casey- Lee Cashion
  • Georgia Russell
  • Tracy Romano
  • Raquel Cipri
  • Ioanna Zormpa
  • Mi Moi Puc
  • Nitina (Michail and Sofia's grandmother)

We'd like to thank all the families that donated gifts and easter food to our Easter raffle.  We appreciate your generosity.  

With the help of Connie Scarfo, Tanya Gibbons and Joanne Wood we also secured other donations from Bunnings, IGA, Sugar Gum Hotel, Daniels Donuts, Sweet Treats Caroline Springs and ChaiTime.  

 

Atilla from Morgan's IGA Delahey joined us at our assembly this morning to present a cheque for $1130.91 as part of their community grants program.  We are very grateful to Morgan's IGA for this donation and the Junior School Council will work with Leadership to decide how to utilise these funds.

To those that celebrate Easter, I hope it's a special time for your families.

 

And to all our families, have a safe holiday and we'll see you back on Tuesday April 22nd.

 

Kind Regards, 

Kylie Kennedy

Acting Principal