Dear all families,

I have loved walking through our beautiful spaces - children are displaying such strong learning dispositions - asking questions, following curiosities and being brave learners.

Thankyou to all the families who attend our picnic (SG) and planting night (SS) - it was a wonderful night to connect, meet new families and have a general catch up.

Prep 2024

Do you have a child beginning Prep in 2024 - enrolment forms due now. Please help us spread the word - enrolment forms can be found on our website and/or picked up at the office. LINK to enrolment form

MASS

To acknowledge Ash Wednesday, next week, our Year 3-6 students will join our Parish Mass. Our Prep- Year 2 students will reflect on Ash Wednesday through prayer in Getting Ready to learn. We will begin our Lent period on Tuesday with Shrove Tuesday. Shrove Tuesday is the day of feasting before Ash Wednesday. It's a day when people enjoy rich, fatty foods and sweet treats, such as pancakes, in preparation for Lent. Pancake Day is on a different day every year, always falling 47 days before Easter Sunday.

If you would like you to join your child/s class to make pancakes for this time please see the times below:

Time:	Who:
9:00am - 10:00am	Prep
10:00am - 11:00am	1-2 Hub
11:30am - 12:30pm	3-4 Hub
12:30pm - 1:30pm	5-6 Hub

High school applications

Do you have a child in Year 5 and you are hoping to enrol in a Catholic Secondary school - please contact the school directly for enrolment process. If you are applying for State Secondary school this is completed at the beginning of Year 6. Link

School Advisory Council

Our next meeting is 22/2/2023 at 6.00pm - if you have items you would like discussed at our upcoming meeting please email gemmag@sgreservoir.catholic.edu.au

Victorian Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement

You might have heard in the media that there has been a new enterprise agreement to replace the Victorian Catholic Education Multi-Enterprise Agreement 2018. The new agreement will be confirmed any day now. This will change some of the employment agreements, one that you may notice is the impact to staff out of hours commitment. All educators will receive time in lieu for hours worked in their out of the work week (38 hour week). As a staff we refuse to cancel special occasions such as picnics, camps etc. However we will be giving time in lieu days as a replacement for the extra hours worked. We will be finalising dates and times for time in lieu as events occur. You will notice the day before ANZAC day is a school closure for this reason. We hope you support our want and commitment to continue to hold special events and inturn have school closures to replace this time, we will ensure we try our hardest to make these days the most suitable to families as possible and least disruptive to learning ie: end of school year.

Enjoy the sunny weekend,

Gemma

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Week 4 Term 1, 2023 · 16 Feb 2023

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