Dear families,

I would like to wish all mothers, grandmothers and those who have a mothering role, a very Happy Mother's Day

“The art of mothering is to teach the art of living to children.” —Elaine Heffner

A huge thank you to the PFA for the Mother's Day stall and Mother's Day breakfast. Both events were very successful and well supported. Thank you to the dads who helped with the breakfast, it is always great to see dads in aprons.

District Cross Country

Congratulations to our Cross Country team who competed in the District Cross Country today. Thank you to Mr Andrew and the staff who have been training our cross country students and went with them today.

Ist in 9/10 and 11 girls

2nd in 9/10 and 11 boys

Lots of top 5 finishes and the top 10 in each age level will go onto Division level.

Working Bee

Tomorrow we have our first working bee and we have lots of jobs to do. I look forward to seeing as many families that can give some time. A sausage sizzle will be provided.

Assembly on Monday 9 May .

Yr 5CP & 5MO will be presenting on Monday 9 May at 2.30pm.

Moving Team kids

This weekend at the working bee Team kids will be moved from rooms 1 & 2 and down to the down purpose room in the prep area. Team kids will be notifying families about the arrangements as to how to drop off and collect.

Building update

We have 6 builders who are putting in a tender option and the final date for the tenders to be submitted is the 26 May . Hopefully the Administration building will be demolished over the term 2 holidays. I will keep you updated on the builder we employ and the timeline of the building starting.The Administration staff and the Leadership team will be relocating to Rooms 1,2 & 3.

Musical announcements

The school musical will be at Kilbreda College Mentone, over four nights. Each grade will perform on one of these nights. I will publish the nights and grades in next week's newsletter.

NAPLAN

NAPLAN starts next Tuesday and runs over 2 weeks. Y3 and Y5 will participate in this National Assessment program for literacy & numeracy.

Please find the timetable on the Learning & Teaching page of this newsletter.

Traffic Meeting

On Monday I had a meeting with Tim Richardson (State Member for Mordialloc), Jodie Dixon ( Parent at St Louis) and Julian ( Traffic team member from Kingston Council) about traffic conditions in Sanctuary Place and an area for a bus to park at the school.

We have an immediate plan to map the travel direction of our students and to look for alternative drop off points that will ease the congestion in Sanctuary Place and Dolphin St. Tim Richardson is making initial enquiry with Melbourne Water and Vic Roads as to the feasibility for a parking solution directly off Wells Rd

A bus solution was found. The handicap signs near the crossing, are to be removed as they are no longer compliance and a bus can park in the space and the solid line will be changed to a broken line so cars can pass the bus when it is passed.

School closure days for 2022

It has been on the calendar that the first day of Term 3 will be a school closure day but as we have been able to secure a second camp for Y5 students, that day now clashes with camp preparation.

Friday 10 June

Monday 31 Oct

Monday 19 Dec

Have a lovely weekend

Carmel Stutterd

Mothers Day Breakfast