Acting Head of Junior School 

We warmly welcome everyone back to the Junior School for Term 2 and what a wonderful start to the term the boys have had. It was so nice to see the boy connecting with their friends from all year groups. Term two is shaping up to be a very busy term.

Edmund Rice Feast Day

Since 1872, Catholic Schools in the Edmund Rice Tradition have been educating young Australians in every state and territory. St Virgil’s College aims to offer a Liberating Education, based on a Gospel Spirituality, within an Inclusive Community committed to Justice and Solidarity. Edmund devoted his life and fortune to educating the poor and the marginalised, ensuring that those he helped developed the necessary life skills of confidence and compassion. On Edmund Rice Feast Day we celebrate all that Edmund Rice has taught us.

Today the Junior School boys travelled to the Austins Ferry Campus for a whole College Mass, sausage sizzle lunch and House activities.

Friday Afternoon Activities

With great anticipation and excitement, we commence Friday Afternoon activities on 12 May. Your son has selected an option from this extensive list of activities: gardening, bushwalking, drama, cooking, E-sports, Lego/construction, art, bowls, chess and board games, tinkering, loose parts play, robotics and cricket skills.

For those students who have enrolled in bushwalking and bowls you will receive EdSmart notification. 

Donations

If you have any of the below materials which you can donate for our Friday activities, it would be greatly appreciated.

Loose Parts - used/recycled CLEAN materials only please, nothing new.

• PVC pipes, downpipe offcuts, solid cardboard tubes
• electrical wire reels
• paint brushes and rollers
• baskets & crates (e.g. washing baskets, caneware, etc)
• kitchen items such as pots, pans, cake tins/trays, cooking utensils (e.g. ladles, spoons, NO GLASS, CERAMICS, KNIVES OR ANYTHING SHARP), rolling pins, trays, mortar & pestles, plastic bowls, plates & cups, cookie cutters, etc., 
• containers for filling, storing, transporting, pouring e.g. buckets, jugs, bowls, large tins
• garden hoses, irrigation pipes
• tree stumps (of a size and weight that can be lifted by one or two students)
• rope
• tarpaulin, bed linen, blankets
• cable ties
• timber pieces (e.g. offcuts, dowels,) - ensure all nails/screws etc have been removed
• sandpaper
• air conditioning/ducting hoses (e.g. flexible aluminium hosing)
• nails, screws
• hammers and tools

Tinkering

Anything that can be pulled apart. No televisions as these have harmful components in them. Please remove any button battery type components from inside the object and anything sharp.

• DVD players 
• laptops 
• sewing machines 
• laminators 
• printers
• keyboards
• radios
• landline telephones
• nuts, bolts, screws, nails
• tools (e.g. hammers, screwdrivers, pliers, etc)
• safety goggles 

Cross Country

On Thursday 11 May Year 3-6 will be travelling to the Austins Ferry Campus to participate in the Cross Country.  Please see the Consent2go message for details regarding the day.  Boys will be required to wear sports uniform and house tops. 

The early years cross country for kindergarten to year one will be run in Term 3.

P&F Mother’s Day Raffle

We will be holding a Mother’s Day Raffle which will be drawn at our Mother’s Day breakfast. Raffle prizes have been finalised along with a Lucky Door Prize for a beauty treatment for Stella Arden Beauty valued at $200.

Mother’s Day Breakfast and Stall

On Friday 12 May we will be holding our annual Mother’s Day stall. Boys will be asked to bring along $5.00 to purchase a gift for their mum, or significant female relative in their life. Proceeds go to the P&F. 

Mother’s Day Afternoon tea for our Kindergarten families is on Wednesday 10 May.

A Junior School Mother’s Day Breakfast is on Friday 19 May. Please RSVP via EdSmart.

Parent Teacher

Thank you to all the families who celebrated their sons learning journey with their teacher on Monday last week. Your time and support is very much appreciated and has a significant influence on your son’s education. Thank you also to our dedicated staff who provide targeted and engaging learning programs for all our boys.

Nude Food Wednesdays

Thank you for your ongoing support of this initiative. We have had some fabulous and innovative examples of lunches which support the Nude food concept and sustainability. 

Stations of the Light

The Season of Easter and the resurrection of Jesus is the most important time in our Church year.  One way that we can celebrate this joyous time of the year is the Stations of the Light.

The Stations of Light, also known as the Stations of the Resurrection, are a Catholic devotion modelled on and complementing the Stations of the Cross. Instead of remembering the events leading to Jesus’s crucifixion, they remember the key events that happened following his resurrection. This is a relatively new devotion; first suggested in 1988 and officially sanctioned by the Vatican in 2001. There are generally 14 Stations of Light; echoing the 14 Stations of the Cross.  

This year, instead of liturgies based on the events of Holy Week, each year level has prepared a liturgy around a Station of Light.  

Last term on Holy Thursday, Year 6 presented a moving Stations of the Cross to the other classes. This term, different classes are leading a reflection on:

• Stations 2 and 3: The empty tomb and Jesus appearing to Mary Magdalene, presented by Prep.
• Stations 4 and 5: Jesus appears on the road to Emmaus and is known in the breaking of bread, presented by Year 3. 
• Station 8: Jesus strengthens the faith of Thomas, presented by Year 1. 
• Stations 11 and 12: Jesus commissions his disciples and ascends into heaven, presented by Year 5. 

It has been a wonderful learning experience for our students to know about the events following Holy Week – while the suffering death of Jesus is fundamental to our faith, it is only half of the story, and we must never forget that he conquered death and rose to glory. 

We thank Miss Daun for organising this wonderful way to celebrate the Season of Easter.

Saturday Soccer

SVC Green Under 5 V St Aloysius Lime

Great game first up for the Kinder boys. Everyone had fun and enjoyed the game. I’m sure we will see continued improvement as the season progresses and more games are played.

Player of the Week: Auden Murphy for great enthusiasm and participation.

SVC U12 V Immaculate Heart

A great team performance by the boys with a strong win over their opposition. 

Results: 14-0.

Player of the Week: Parker Fraser-Gray.