News from around the school
TERM 4 WEEK 9
Parish celebrations
The girls were amazing in their choir for our parish celebrations.
Sunday the 20th of November marked the feast of Christ the King (the name of our church in St. Mel's Parish). The Feast of Christ the King marks the end of ordinary time in the liturgical calendar and we move into the season of Advent and begin the new liturgical year.
The parish celebrated with a wonderful community event, with around 150 people attending, it was fantastic to gather together and share some delicious food and conversations and enjoy the magnificent entertainment.
Thank you to all those who contributed to the success of the day, from the PPC members who coordinated the event, the brave who got up on stage, those who donated and for the food offerings and cooks, and the crew behind the scenes.
What a great community we have here at St Mel’s.
Congratulations to all.
Writing Award Winners
Our ESO Graduates, Congratulation Lili & Ayva
Our Labyrinth Day Helpers Presentation Certificates
Our ICAS Maths and Writing Participants
Fire Carriers Commissioning Ceremony
Congratulations to all our Upper Students who were commissioned as FIRE Carriers yesterday. It was a beautiful celebration. A big thank you to Michael Chisholm & Troy Firebrace from CES Limited and to Sharleese Walker a past student & FIRE Carrier who came and helped to lead our ceremony.
St. Mel’s is a FIRE Carrier School, FIRE stands for Friends Igniting Reconciliation through Education.
The FIRE Carrier Project is a joint initiative of the Aboriginal Catholic Ministry Victoria and the Opening the Doors Foundation with Catholic Education Sandhurst. It seeks to keep the Reconciliation flame alight in schools, educating and encouraging reconciliation both within and outside of the school community.
CARITAS LEADERSHIP DAY
Eight of our Year 5 students attended Sandhurst Caritas Just Leadership Day on Friday 11th November, 2022. The day focused on leadership skills, social justice and the importance of working together as a community. Kerry Stone from Caritas Australia led the day with lots of interactive activities throughout the day.
Indi, Rory, Kai, Luka, Stejsi, Deeman and Liv all represented our school with pride. We are in good hands with our student leaders.
Arya's Lemonade Stand - 5th December
Dear Parents,
My name is Arya. I am a Grade 2 student that is in ½ LE [ Laura Emanuelli].
I am doing a Lemonade Stand on Monday Dec 5. The Lemonade will only cost $1.
There will be no money back guarantees.
I shall be giving half of the money to the school and the rest to charity.
The Lemonade stand will be opening at lunch play and at the kiss and go zone.
Could you all please support our efforts if you can?
Thank you,
Arya Banning
BREAKFAST CLUB
Next Friday 9th December will be our last Breakfast Club for the yeaer and is offered to ALL students in the school hall on Friday mornings. A menu of cereals and toast, juice and milo will be offered. Our student leadership teams will be on hand to help our staff and parent volunteers serve breakfast to our children. Everyone welcome.
Thanks to Foodshare for their generous donations to St Mel's School.
New - Foundation Area News
Prep Transition Days
Our Prep Transitions continued on 25th November and was lovely to see the children back and starting to feel comfortable in the learning spaces. We had lots of fun, singing, and stories. We sure do have some very creative preps coming next year. We can't wait to see them again on 13th December.
13th - Statewide Transition Day - Compulsory day for Preps to attend
New -Early Years Learning Area
New - Lower Years Area News
3 / 4s Mission Mart of Foodshare
Missions Fair for Foodshare!
After what seemed like forever, after weeks of planning, gathering, organizing and hard work, the Grade 3/4 Missions Fair for Foodshare arrived!
The day was filled with buzz and excitement across the school. Was it for the exciting games and treats, or was it to duct tape a certain principal to a wall?
It was wonderful to see the hard work and planning of the 3/4 students come to life. We saw joy everywhere we turned during the Fair and were ever so impressed by the independence and leadership shown by the 3/4 children.
The fun of the day ticked one goal of the 3/4 students, to make an exciting event for their peers.
The second goal, the one that brought this idea, raising money for Foodshare.
It is my pleasure to announce that in total we raised $3473.20! A giant effort, on which we can only thank our amazing school and community donors for!
Our day had only been successful through the generosity of our school community, from the 3/4 families to staff in our school, donating to our prize pool and stall equipment.
We also have many local businesses to thank, that either financially supported us or donated products and prizes!
Cyndilee Watson, on behalf of the '3 / 4 Area
Thank you to;
Our business donors;
Oliver Ladd at Chalmers Private Wealth
Ineka Rowe at The Little Gourmet Food Company
Jamie Lea at JL Production Hire/The Secret Garden Gigs
Archana Deo at Amcal Pharmacy
Nanna Marce
The Last Straw
Hunters
Sister Pam
Wild Life Brewing Co
Village Cinema
Claudio Borzillo at GV Signmakers
Shepparton Skin Aesthetics
John Crawford Painting/Dulux Trade Centre
Rachel Clarke at Shepparton Conveyancing
Rachel Young at Lockwood Rd Takeaway
We would also like to thank the parents and family that came along on the day to support the students with their activities, Ashley Johnson, Jacinta Lawless, Rachel Young, Preet Kaur, Rachel Clarke, Marilyn Nugent and Sarah Jones.
Finally, the biggest thank you to the 3/4 students and teachers for their hard work to bring this all together! So many things went on in the background to make this day amazing, everyone’s hard work and contribution had been incredible!
There were lots of fun photos taken during our Mission Mart, here are a selection of a few.
New - Upper Years Area News
Some of our upper students at Caritas Leadership Day
