St Paul's Newsletter: Thursday, 16 June 2022
2022 St Paul's Newsletter - Term 2, Week 8
From the Principal
Dear Families,
The Sacrament of First Reconciliation was held last Tuesday 14 June. We had seven students receiving this Sacrament this year. The Catholic Church requires that a child receives the Sacrament of Reconciliation before receiving the Sacrament of First Eucharist.
Reconciliation is the act of re-establishing friendship between God and a human being, or between two people. This Sacrament is designed to restore one's relationship with God. Also, since all Christians are connected together through the body of Christ this Sacrament reconciles one with the Church.
As members of the Catholic Church, we believe it is important that a child's image of God remains a loving God and that the experience of reconciliation be a positive experience where the child knows that he or she is greatly loved by God and valued by the Church community. We thank the families, Cathie Vermeer, Julie Dietrich and Irene Haritos for preparing these young people for this special occasion.
Congratulations:
- Isabelle
- Alex
- Ben
- Sarah
- Heidi
- Annalise
- Lexi
Regional Cross Country - Congratulations!
Congratulations to Evie on her terrific efforts at last Tuesday’s Regional Cross Country event at Yarra Glen Racecourse. Evie represented our entire Eastern Region, what a magnificent achievement. Tom also won through to Regionals, but was unfortunately unwell on the day. There were many state and national champions running on the day. Well done to both of our students on achieving such a high level of competition.
Catholic School Parents Victoria (CSPV)
CSPV want to find out about parents’ attitudes to swimming lessons via a CECV survey :
https://www.surveymonkey.com/
The St Paul's school community are encouraged to complete the survey at the link above so that CSPV can build up an accurate picture of parents’ attitudes, knowledge and needs around swimming and water safety education.
Important School Car Park Update
Please remember that children and adults are on the move through car parks - ensure cars are moving at walking pace.
Please keep your children with you/next to you at all times when moving to your car after school.
Car Park Safety
The importance of observing the parking and traffic regulations that are in place for the school car park cannot be over-emphasised. These regulations exist to ensure the safety of all children and adults within the car park area.
The asphalt car park (basketball court) is the preferred car park of use by parents. The car park at the front of the school, right outside the administration office, is primarily designed for staff use and visitors throughout the school day. It is preferred that parents not use this car park at pick up times.
The following rules are extremely important:
- Observe correct procedures for using the car park as stipulated in the plan below
- Driving speed inside the school grounds is to be that of walking pace
Children, regardless of age, must always be accompanied by an adult when walking through the car park to the school or vice versa (in other words, hold the hands of young children, older children should never be more than 1 metre away from an adult.)
Members of our community have reported seeing students running away from parents after school and, at times, moving between cars. At the conclusion of the school day, when children have been collected from their classroom, they should never be allowed to go to their vehicle unaccompanied by an adult, regardless of their age.
This is extremely concerning, and we remind parents to keep their children right next to them at all times when walking to and from your parked car.
If you have young children or toddlers, never let them walk around or behind parked vehicles. They should remain next to you at all times.
FRONT OF SCHOOL/ADMINISTRATION CAR PARK:
While the asphalt car park is the preferred car park of use, some parents require the staff/parish car park when visiting during school hours. Should this be the case, the same rules apply with the addition of the following:
- Vehicle traffic flow is one direction only. Cars should enter the car park from Moores Rd and exit via Prices Rd
- Driving speed = walking pace
Vehicles must always reverse park carefully
Children, regardless of age, must be accompanied by an adult. Children are never to walk through the car park by themselves
If the car parks are full, please do not park in the driveways. Cars will have to be parked safely in Moores Rd, Prices or Mt Pleasant Roads, giving due consideration to the residents in the area and the school bus.
Please also note that our school bus collects children from the Prices Rd driveway and we are walking children to the bus at 3:00pm.
Cars must not be moving through the car park while children are approaching the bus.
When using one of the school car parks it is important to remember that the safety of our children and adults is of utmost importance. A lapse in concentration or disregard for the rules can be a costly mistake that can haunt us for the rest of our lives.
For the safety of everyone, particularly the children, we must work together and follow these rules. Complacency is a recipe for an accident.
School Closure Dates - Term Three
Please note that our Term 3 School Closure days are scheduled for Thursday 15 and Friday 16 September. Our school closure days provide professional learning for our whole staff aligned with our school improvement plan. These dates are strategically planned and we appreciate the need for parents to have advance notice. The dates are on our school calendar.
Student Reports & Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences
Just a quick reminder that:
- Reports will be forwarded home on Monday, 20 June.
- Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences will be held on Wednesday, 22 June.
Parent-Teacher-Student Conferences will be held in person (face to face) in your child's classroom.
We ask our Year 2-6 students to attend. Students in Prep and Year 1 are not required for the conference.
School will finish at the normal time of 3:00pm on Wednesday 22 June.
Can you assist?
Call for BROWN LIDS!
We are creating a giant mural by re-purposing plastic bottle top lids.
We are running short of brown lids! We ask our community to drink up that "Dare Iced Coffee" and "Chocolate Big M" so that we can collect your lids!
Please keep an eye out for brown plastic lids and if you can collect them and pass them on to us we would be most grateful.
Whole School Excursion: Train Like a Vixen
We are very excited about our Whole School Excursion to "Train Like a Vixen" tomorrow. This will be a fantastic experience for our students. Thanks to Emma-lee Curwood and all of the classroom teachers for organising this experience.
Being a Whole School event, all teaching staff, as well as most of our support staff, are attending. This means we do not require parent assistance, however, we are always very grateful to those parents that offered to assist - thank you!
Please note the following last-minute reminders:
- What to bring: Drink bottle, snacks and lunch. Students can also bring a sweat towel if they wish.
- What to wear: Sports Uniform with comfy, supportive runners.
- Food: Lunch and snacks must be brought. There will be an allocated morning tea & lunchtime, depending on the length of the clinic.
Please note, that no nuts or nut products are to be brought and sharing of food is strictly prohibited.
- COVID-19: With the growing number of cases in Victoria, the venue has respectfully requested to ask if your child wakes up and is not well or has symptoms, please keep them at home.
- Photo consent: The venue will have a photographer coming out for an hour on Friday to capture some photos. Students that do not have parent consent will be given a wristband to indicate this.
Time of departure: 8:50am - don't be late for school tomorrow!
We will return by 3:00pm.
Warm regards,
Michael Watt
SAVE THE DATE: “WONDER IN ALICELAND” - FULL SCHOOL MUSICAL!
THURSDAY 1 SEPTEMBER - Burrinja Cultural Centre
The students of St Paul's have begun preparing "Wonder in Aliceland", our full school musical for 2022. All students will be involved, and therefore we expect all students to attend.
School Closure Days 2022
We ask that parents take note of these dates and put them in their calendars:
SCHOOL CLOSED - Thursday 15 September:
SCHOOL CLOSED - Friday 16 September:
SCHOOL CLOSED - Monday 31 October (Cup Eve)
*Please Note: Friday 16 December is the conclusion of the school year for St Paul's students.
From the School Office
Sushi Day - Thursday 23 June
Sushi Day is next Thursday, 23 June.
Orders can now be placed via CDF Pay until Monday, 20 June at 10pm.
Please note that no late orders can be accepted after this time as orders will be placed with the supplier first thing on Tuesday morning.
Call for Support from our Year 4, 5 & 6 Students
If you have a business and would like to support our Year 4, 5 & 6 students in reaching their goal of $10,000 to build a library for a school in Tramri, Pakistan, please consider the advertising opportunity below and contact the school office prior to 30 June.
RH Sports - Temporary closure for stocktake
Please note RH Sports will be closing their retail stores on the 27 June and reopening on Friday 1 July (first week of school holidays), in order to complete their annual stocktake.
NCCD Information for Families
School Car Park Procedure
With regard to safety within the school car park, please note the following:
- Children, regardless of age, must always be accompanied by an adult when walking through the car park to the school or vice versa (In other words, hold the hands of young children. Older children should never be more than 1m away from an adult.)
- Children and adults should always use the designated pathways - please do not stand and talk on the asphalt basketball court before or after school when it is used for parking
- Please stay with your car if you stop in the drop off zone (under the basketball rings - quick drop off only)
- At the conclusion of the school day, when children have been collected from their classroom, they should never be allowed to go to their vehicle unaccompanied by an adult, regardless of their age.
These regulations exist to ensure the safety of all children and adults within the car park area.
In summary, the following changes have been made to our asphalt area:
- Car park bays at the centre and edges of the court are painted in blue
- Crossing/walking paths have been painted to indicate safe walking areas (note: some of these paths are being finished off in the coming days/weeks, weather dependent)
- There is now NO REVERSE PARKING at the bottom of our asphalt area - this has been removed in the best interest of safety.
Lunch Clubs are BACK!
Our lunchtime clubs are back up and running. They are held in the library/open learning space 1:30-2pm, on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays.
Uniform Shop
Ross Haywood Sports - Update:
St Paul's Online Uniform Shop
https://www.rhsports.com.au/product/school_wear/st_pauls_monbulk_ps
For in-store purchases RH Sports are located at 12/100 New St, Ringwood (subject to any COVID restrictions in force at the time).
The store is now a CASHLESS STORE, EFTPOS transactions will be the only acceptable method of purchase. Recent changes to improve the health and safety of staff and customers include perspex screens at the registers and the supply of hand sanitiser. We ask that customers please apply this on entry to the store.
Online ordering continues as normal with all delivery options available including contactless pick up. Please phone the store on 9870 1377 if you have any further queries.
Secondhand Uniform Shop
Our secondhand uniform shop is managed by Carla Rademaker with items being purchased by gold coin donation. Payments can be made via CDF Pay. If you are looking for items of secondhand uniform please feel free to text Carla on 0409 866 901 with your wish list. Items will usually be sent home via class tubs or collected from the school office by arrangement.
The secondhand uniform shop welcomes donations of St Paul's current school uniform items which are still in good condition. We do not accept the old St Paul's round neck jumpers, yellow shirts or non-St Paul's items. If you have any current uniform items you no longer need please feel free to leave your donations at the school office.
OSHClub
Out of School Hours Care: OSH Club
Enrolments, Bookings and Enquiries
Parents will need to enrol with OSHClub. Please visit https://www.oshclub.com.au/ and click on "REGISTER". You will need to enrol with the Monbulk Primary School service.
Community Notices
Transition Information
Catholic Education Guide 2022
To assist your decision making in relation to your child's education for 2023 and beyond, please find below a link to the 136 page 2022 edition of the Catholic Education Guide.
CLICK HERE: https://victoriaschoolguides.starcommunity.com.au/catholic-education/
COMMUNITY DIRECTORY
