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Calendar Dates- What's on.

MARCH

13-18th       NAPLAN - Yr 3 & 5

15th             Assembly 9.00am

21st              Melb International Flower & Garden Show - Whole School Excursion

22nd            Assembly 9.00am

27th             Family Prayer Evening 7.00pm

28th             Easter Prayer Service 9.00am

28th             Last Day of Term 1- 1.00pm Dismissal

APRIL

15th             Term 2 Commences

18th             Yr 4-6 Gala Sports Day

19th              Assembly 9.00am

25th             ANZAC Day - Public Holiday

26th             School Closure Day

PLEASE NOTE:  SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS IS BETWEEN 8.40AM TO 3.45PM ON SCHOOL DAYS. 

PRAYER 

Look with favour, Lord,

on your household.

Grant that, though our flesh be 

humbled by abstinence from food,

our souls, hungering after you,

may be resplendent in your sight.

                                 Amen

From the Principal

Dear Parents and Carers,

Catholic Education Week

Congratulations to Carol C whose art work is being exhibited at the Catholic Education Week Visual Arts Exhibition. This exhibition includes art works from schools throughout the Archdiocese of Melbourne, both Primary and Secondary. The exhibition is currently showing at the Catholic Leadership Centre – 576 Victoria Parade East Melbourne until Sunday. 

Physical Education

Since the start of the year we have had timetable changes for Physical Education (PE). This has been for two reasons, staff changes and the gymnastics program. Next week PE will again be on Monday as we have our whole school excursion to the Melbourne Flower Show on Thursday. From Term Two PE will be taught on Thursdays.

NAPLAN

This week NAPLAN commenced for the students in Grades 3 and 5. There are two tests remaining as indicated in our schedule that follows.

Family Prayer Night

Prayer is a significant aspect in daily life at St Philip’s. Prayer also promotes an opportunity for us to gather as a community and embrace our Catholic identity. A family prayer evening is scheduled for Wednesday 27 March commencing at 7.00pm. All families are invited. 

School Assembly

Everyone is welcome to attend our weekly assembly at 9.00am on Friday and to stay for coffee afterwards. 

Please note as the last day of term is Holy Thursday, we will be holding our Holy Week prayer service in lieu of assembly time. All families are welcome to attend the prayer service at 9.00am.

We will gather in the Hall at 12.45 pm for the drawing of the Easter raffle. This will be just prior to the time when all students are dismissed. 

School Closure Days Semester One

Our second school closure day is planned for Friday 26 April, 2024. The focus of this day is wellbeing and social and emotional learning. 

Warmest regards,

Michelle Worcester

Principal  

CSEF

The Sports and Excursion Fund provided by the Victorian Government is once again available to families where a parent has a valid concession card IE; Health Care Card.

Please get in touch with the office to obtain an application form.

STEM: Design and Sustainability

We are very busy in STEM this term with many different projects incorporating ways to reduce, reuse, recycle and repurpose.

We are collecting the following items for STEM projects for Term 1 if you are able to assist please.

We would like:

• Old/scratched CDs and DVDs that are no longer required
• Empty food tins (no sharp edges please)
• Outdoor art/decorations that the children can restore and reuse.
• Any tools, pots, seeds, cuttings etc that will help us to revamp our vegetable patch.

Donations can be left outside the STEM Room. Thank you for your help.  

Please remember we are still continuing to collect:

• bread tags for Transmutation
• medical foil blister packs for TerraCycle Australia

Collection boxes are in the office.

Thank you all for your help, it's great that we can work together to do our bit for sustainability and the environment.

Michelle Sherriff

Introducing Sustainable and SunSmart Sophie!

Our Grade 2/3 students have created this incredible scarecrow to be entered into the Sustainable Scarecrow Competition at the Melbourne Flower and Garden Show next week. Using recycled, reused or repurposed products the children worked hard during STEM lessons and lunchtimes to create our amazing Scarecrow! Not only is she sustainable but we ensured she was sunsmart too, with her hat, sunglasses and long-sleeved shirt! We are all very excited to see the Sustainable Scarecrow Competition on our excursion to the Flower and Garden Show next Thursday. Congratulations Grade 2/3 students on creating Sustainable and SunSmart Sophie, we think she looks amazing! Well done!

Easter Raffle

Donations to make up the prizes for our annual Easter Raffle can be placed  in the 

 collection box for you/your child to drop off  in your child's classroom. 

We are looking for Easter themed gifts, crafts, decorations as well as chocolates! 

Thank you for your support of our Easter fundraiser. Raffle tickets have been sent home, please return with cash to the school office. More tickets are available at the office.

Noel Jones Real Estate is once again conducting their Easter "Guess the number of Eggs in the Jar" competition. The Jar is located in the office, scan the QR code below to put in your guess. Winner announced 28th of March.

Cake Raffle 

The weekly cake raffle will be drawn at Assembly on Friday mornings. To support this fundraiser we ask for volunteers to provide a sweet treat (eg; cake, slice, cookies, cupcakes etc) to be raffled.    Please sign up for Term 2 to bake using the following link https://volunteersignup.org/ECRFE

All donations of baked goods require a list of ingredients attached.

Raffle tickets are 20c each and sold at the beginning of assembly.

Thank you for your support

Tuck Shop

Clara and Angi will be managing the tuckshop in 2024 - please reach out to them if you’d like to join the tuck shop team.

Clara: 0449 767 020 and Angi: 0431 021 711 

Entertainment books are another piece to our fundraising puzzle. When you sign up you receive 12 months of discounts and offers - and our school benefits - 20% of every membership purchased goes to support our school! 

https://subscribe.entertainment.com.au/fundraiser/9a27151 

COMMUNITY

EMMAUS COLLEGE

Open Day - Thursday 21st March 3.45-6.30pm

Please visit website for bookings - www.emmaus.vic.edu.au

OUR LADY OF SION COLLEGE