Principal's News
Our theme for this year is
STEP UP! BE MORE!
Dear Parents,
Well here we are again back in the home learning situation. Let's hope it will all be over on Friday and we can get back to school and our normal learning routine. We do need to be thankful for our health and safety and keep those countries doing things much tougher than we are in our thoughts and prayers. It seems it is all smiles for Mira for home learning...for now! (as her mum said).
THANK-YOU!
Another huge thank-you must go to Robyn, who for the past few weeks has been working many long hours to ensure we are ready to migrate to our new fully "Integrated Catholic Online Network" - known as ICON. It was a mammoth task and is not over yet, however we have passed the first stage with flying colours thanks to Robyn's hard work and positive "can do" attitude. For the next 6 weeks all of our office tasks will need to be done manually while the staff at Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) migrate all our data to the new system. Robyn will then undergo training (and I get a bit too) in how to operate the new system. We hope there will not be too many teething problems, (but unfortunately we have heard from other schools that there have been) but we would appreciate your patience as we learn the new system and work through any hiccups we may face.
Parent/Student/Teacher Interviews:
Our Parent/Student/Teacher interviews will take place on Tuesday 22nd June, 3.45 p.m. - 6.00 p.m. and Wednesday 23rd June, 3.30 p.m. - 7.30 p.m. A notice will be sent home this week with instructions for how to book in a time to meet your child's teacher and discuss your child's achievements and goals for the next semester. It is most likely that these meetings will occur online - however we will wait and see what changes to the current restrictions are put in place before we make a final decision. Please book in a time and if we have to do online meetings we will send the instructions for joining a google meet with your child's teacher at a later date.
Public Holiday:
Monday 14th June is the Queen's Birthday public holiday. There is no school on Monday 14th June.
Book Fair:
Our book fair has been postponed to a later date in Term 3. We will let you know the date as soon as it is finalised.
Bread Bag and Tag Recycling at St Kevin's:
St Kevin's school is participating in the Wonder Recycling Rewards – a fun and easy program for Aussie schools to recycle all plastic bread bags and tags that might otherwise go to landfill. We will earn reward points to redeem on new sports equipment for our efforts. The bread bags will be used to create wonderful things like school furniture and play equipment!
For every 5kg bin filled, our school will earn credits redeemable for exciting new sports equipment.
Please start collecting your bread bags and drop them in the box in the school foyer.
To find out more please visit https://www.wonder.com.au/
St Kevin's Feast Day and Sacred Heart Mass:
Unfortunately our Feast Day celebrations were unable to go ahead due to the Covid restrictions and our Sacred Heart Mass will be unable to go ahead this week. We will send all the goods that have been donated for the St Vincent's Winter Appeal to St Vincent de Paul this term.
Covid Reminders:
- You are very welcome to come into the office and direct all inquiries/messages to Robyn, but please do not enter the learning spaces.
- Please ensure you and your children stay home if unwell and get tested
- Continue to practise good hand hygiene
Student Absence Requirements:
2022 ENROLMENTS:
If you are aware of anyone who has a child starting prep in 2022 please encourage them to contact us for an enrolment pack. If you have a child starting school in 2022 - feel free to access the enrolment form on our website or by accessing the link below.
Kindest regards
Frances Matisi
Principal