Father’s Day

BREAKFASTFriday 2nd September

Father’s Day

BREAKFASTFriday 2nd September

Principal Andrew Mullaly Deputy Principal Carmel Foster School Ph: 9874 1830 Fax: 9872 4968 ww.sjvermont.catholic.edu.au Email: principal@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au Enquiries: office@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au Newsletter: newsletter@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au All correspondence for the newsletter must be in by 4pm Tuesday to be included in that week’s newsletter. Outside School Hours Care Camp Australia 1300 105 343 www.campaustralia.com.au Co-ordinator

Kagen Mildern Mobile: 0423 418 091

Parish Fr Mark Reynolds Ph: 9873 1341

Pastoral Associate Mrs Maree O’Keefe

Ph: 9873 1341 Parish Playgroup

Ph: 9873 1341

“Seeking the Spirit Learning to Love Loving to Learn

Living Life to the Full”

DATES TO REMEMBER September Wed 7 Art Show 3.30pm – 8pm Thurs 8 Art Show 3.30pm – 8pm No 9.15am Parish Mass Parent Engagement on Student Learning Focus Group 9.00am Fri 9 P & F Girls Night Out Sun 11 NO 9:30 MASS/ Art Show open 12:30-2:00 Mon 12 P & F Morning Tea 9am Tues 13 Alpha Course 9 am SJV - TBC Yr 6 Excursion – Immigration Museum

Parent Surveys due back Wed 14 Thurs 15 Parent Engagement Focus Group - Sessions: 9am or 7pm Footy Colours Day Footy Tipping BBQ 5 – 7pm TBC Fri 16 Last day of term 3.20pm finish P & F BBQ October Mon 3 First day term 4 P & F Morning Tea 9am Tues 4 Alpha Course 9 am SJV - TBC Fri 7 School Disco

Newsletter No 29 – September 7 2016

St James Primary School 51 Centre Road, Vermont 3133

Ph: 9874 1830 Fax: 9872 4968

www.sjvermont.catholic.edu.au

Dear Parents, A friend of mine once said, ‘My kids…they colour my world.’ Whilst our children undoubtedly enrich our world, they certainly bring lots of colour to it. Over the next couple of days, enjoy the artistic talents of your children as they share their creations with you. I hope you have the time to talk to them about not only the finished product, but the story that led to it’s creation and the process involved. Art is a brilliant medium for all of us, and especially

children to share their thinking and world with us…’Every Child is an Artist’! It is our creative staff who teach them the mediums to express themselves and I’m sure you’ll agree with me when you see the variety and presentations in our Art Show that we are so fortunate to have the very talented people on our staff who lead and offer the children such skills and directions. Accolades to all who have contributed to this celebration of learning, especially the Art committee, ably led by our Visual Arts teacher, Monica De Leo. Please be respectful of the artworks by not touching them (apart from the interactive area, which encourages everyone to contribute!) and keeping toddlers under control.

Parish News Parish Mission Thank you to all who supported our Parish Mission. We are very fortunate to be part of a vibrant Parish, who offers such enriching opportunities to actually take time to consider big picture questions, build our knowledge and consider our stance on various issues. Special thanks to Fr Mark and Maree O’Keefe and of course Fr Ray Sanchez.

RITE OF CHRISTIAN INITIATION OF ADULTS—RCIA The RCIA is a journey of faith—a journey of seeking, meeting new people and learning about the Catholic faith. St John’s RCIA team are inviting adults who are interested in asking questions about the Catholic faith—and about becoming Catholic to come and join us. Two information sessions have been planned:

Tuesday 6 September &

Tuesday 13 September 7.30pm in the Coghlan Centre at St John’s. (Both sessions are the same.) If you are a Catholic already—you might like to invite family members and friends who seem interested to come along—you may like to accompany them to the information meetings if asked. There is no obligation to continue if you come along. Enquiries: Maureen Campbell 0409 894 328 or Maree O’Keefe 9873 1341

Dinner for 8 If you’d like to be part of this Parish initiative, register your interest by emailing janinecallanan5@gmail.com

Fathers’ Day It was just brilliant to see so many dads enjoy breakfast with their children at school last week – and enjoy the treats they prepared and bought for them….all of this possible because of the commitment of so many. Special THANKS to Maria Abadilla, Kate Ryan and Michelle Hubbard and all who supported the children and our community - organising, preparing and serving breakfast, along with organising and preparing gifts. Thanks also to Suzie Mc Donald for sending in the photos on our front page, which I’m sure will be appreciated by many.

FATHERS’ DAY RAFFLE WINNERS were…

Ist Prize –Brendan Kavanagh

2nd Prize –Ross Williams

3rd Prize – Nicholas Everett

4th Prize – Martin Bruni Planning for 2017 If your child from Yr P – Yr 5 is not returning to St James can you please place this in writing to myself – amullaly@sjvermont.catholic.edu.au. We do have some prospective families making enquiries for enrolment.

Parent Survey – School Strengths and Areas for Focus Insight SRC

Last week 90 families received a hard copy of a Parent Survey (via the eldest child). Your feedback is vitally important to us, so if you received a survey please complete it either online or in hard copy. If you complete a hard copy, there is a box for returns in the office. All surveys are confidential. If you received a survey and DO NOT wish to participate please return it to the office so we can distrube it to another family. Every year the school undertakes to survey ALL STAFF and a distribution of PARENTS AND

STUDENTS to ascertain the school strengths and areas for improvement. The surveys are designed by the Insight SRC and Catholic Education Melbourne office (CEM) and are completed anonymous ly and are confidential. These surveys aim to identify factors that contribute to the organizational health of our schoo l and provide valuab le information about future planning and ongoing improvement. The survey results provide key sign posts that can be used with other schoo l performance data to guide and inform conversations that are essential in reviewing our school and determining the best strategy for maintaining good practice and for bringing about improvement.

YOUR FEEDBACK AND SUPPORT IS APPRECIATED!!

Student Wellbeing News

Asking for Help is a Step Forward

Today we launched our new student online help tool, SJV HELP. This tool is accessible to students through the Student Landing Page. We encourage all students to first seek support for any issues of concern; be it the playground, classroom or online from teachers and parents. This tool is another way students can seek help when they feel in need of further support. Classroom teachers have familiarised students with this tool and we encourage all parents to also have a discussion about it.

FOOTY COLOURS DAY A great way to enjoy the footy season, especially with the Finals happening over the holidays. Everyone is invited to waer colours of their footy team next Thursday 15 September. Please leave football boots at home – too dangerous!

ICT UPDATE A FEW IMPORTANT REMINDERS…

1. School google accounts can be accessed by staff and the ICT leader for monitoring purposes.

2. Your child’s school google account is for educational purposes only and should not be used to

subscribe to sites such as…eBay, Pinterest, sporting clubs, etc. It is easy to set up a free

personal G-Mail account for these purposes. Any non-school subscriptions using the school

google account should be deleted immediately and a new account created with a personal email

account. The school will be blocking/deleting these subscriptions if necessary.

3. We continually urge parents to supervise children’s online activities. Check social media

accounts to make sure children are being safe, responsible and respectful. It is also wise to

check browsing history.

4. Our school filter system (provided by CEO) only works at school. At home, it is recommended

for parents to install their own filters to limit exposure to inappropriate material.

FOOTY TIPPING BBQ Thursday 15th September 5-7pm.

All tippers in this years’ competition are invited to an end of season BBQ on Thursday 15th September where our

winners will be announced. (This is also Footy Colours Day) Please RSVP by text to Vanessa Burnie (0414 494 907)

by Tues 13th September with family name and number of attendees. It will not go ahead if there are low numbers.

Watch for a school bag app to confirm arrangements.

RIO PARALYMPICS – Maddy Hogan The Rio Paralympics begins tomorrow, Sept 8th. Keep an eye out for Maddy Hogan who recently visited our school as a guest speaker. Maddy will be competing in the Javelin competition. This is her third Paralympics. Go Maddy!!

Achievements Congratulation to Victoria (5F) who received the Pam Lang Junior Award from Ringwod Ballet.

Happy Birthday Happy Birthday to the following people who celebrate birthdays this week– Samuel (1M),Hayley (4N), Amy (5o), Leroy (1M), Seriana (2C), Tiffany (4N)and Sarah (6F)

Regards, Andrew Mullaly Principal

RIDE2SCHOOL

It is great to see our participation for Ride2School days and Wacky Wheels Club increase as the weather is

improving. Our overall school participation rate for our September Ride2School Day was 69%.

Grade 1M had the highest participation rate in the Junior school with 84%, Grade 4J had the highest

percentage in the Middle school with 83% and Grade 6F with 86%. Well done to all who participated. Bravi!

Every Wacky Wheels member gets a point for their house colour every time they ride or scoot to school.

Remember to mark off your rides.

Cumulative house points tally for Ride2School Program 2016

House Points

Lyons 486

Dillon 676

Coghlan 608

Durkin 491

FARM NEWS: Family on Duty

Kavenagh Family (2C)

EGGS THIS WEEK: Anyone who would like to place an order.

FROM THE OFFICE Families paying in instalments Final reminders were sent out yesterday to families who elected to pay their school fees in three instalments. The outstanding balance is now due for payment by Friday September 9. Families payment by payment plan An up to date statement including all payments made up to the end of August was also been sent home yesterday for your information only. Please call Maree in the office with any queries.

Education in Faith…From Carmel Foster (REC)

A LIFE OF SERVICE

No doubt you’ve heard about this one this week….

Pope Francis declared Mother Teresa as Saint Teresa of Calcutta.

Her legacy fits neatly with Pope Francis's vision of a church that strives

to serve the poor, and the ceremony was undoubtedly a highlight of his

Holy Year of Mercy, which runs until November 8.

The Missionaries of Charity and Mother Teresa, a Nobel Peace Prize

winner, are known for their commitment to caring for the dying, the

homeless and orphans gathered from the streets of India.

Kolkata Archbishop Thomas D'Souza acknowledged that Mother Teresa

was loved and respected by people of other faiths in India.

"Mother is certainly not a goddess to them," he said. "But she is deeply venerated and people -

cutting across caste, community and creed - are respectful to her work."

‘Let us imitate Mother Teresa who made works of mercy the guide of her life,' tweeted Pope Francis.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace: where there is hatred, let me sow love;

where there is injury, pardon; where there is doubt, faith;

where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy.

IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOU…

• NO 9:15 PARISH MASS TOMORROW – Thursday 8th September • Saturday / Sunday 10, 11th September @ 6:00pm, 9:45am – Year 2 Level Masses

• No 9:30 Mass at St James

Loving God, with hope and faith we ask you to open our eyes, our hearts and minds to see first the needs of others. Help us to be models of compassion and mercy so that we, like Mother Teresa, may show

God’s tender love to all those we meet.

Amen

Parents & Friends NewsWednesday 7th September

ST JAMES

Dates for your diaryFriday 9th September 50c Cookie & P+F Girls Night OutMonday 12th SeptemberMorning Tea, Tupperware fundraiser Friday 16th SeptemberEnd of Term BBQMonday 3rd OctoberWelcome Back Morning Tea in Community CentreFriday 7th OctoberP&F School Disco (for the kids) Friday 25th NovemberParent Party Night

NEW!!ALL

WEBLINKS &EMAILS NOW CLICKABLE!

P&F 2016 SURVEY We’d love to hear what you have to say:The P&F have had a fantastic year of fundraising and bringing everyone in our community together – BIG thanks to the many wonderful parents in our school community who choose to help us when they can. We’re now looking for some feedback on the St James P&F, including what you did and didn’t like this year. Ultimately the school decides where the money raised is spent but we would like to hear your ideas so they can be fed back to the school.

Please take the time to fill out this very short survey click here: http://svy.mk/2brwdOg

FATHER’S DAY WRAP UP!

Our Father’s Day Breakfast was a great success and am sure all families that could attend enjoyed the morning celebrating with their wonderful Dads and Grandads.As always these things don’t come together without a lot of hardwork from people within our small community at St James.

So a very big thank you to these mums who made it out to school bright and early last Friday to help at the breakfast, set up, serve and pack up: Kylie Brooks-Verberne, Dee Dew-Kovacevic, Sandra Alkemade, Mary Brockhoff, Mel Seadon, Vicki Napier, Carolyn Gorry, Kel Mascitti, Catherina Punturere, Daniela Migliorati, Cath McKenzie, Christa Beavis, Yeng Dawson, Winnii Gee, Michelle Hock, Carolyn Gorry, Monique Szwadiak, Kate Ryan, Sunila Forsyth, Fiona Collins , Kathryn Levi and Suzie MacDonald for taking photos. We even had some very generous helpers from Grade 5 come and give us a hand: Hayley Stagg, Lauren Barclay and Isabella Wallace. Special thanks to the fantastic Maria Abadilla for working so hard to co-ordinate this event and Kylie Brooks-Verberne for being such great help. Thank you.

Thanks to Kate Ryan for co-ordinating yet another fantastic Father’s Day Stall and to all of her helpers who helped prepare and package all the gifts and work on the Stall: Tracey Warren, Vicki Napier, Lena Zappia, Kylie Brooks-Verberne, Christine Lagos, Monique Szwadiak, Carolyn Gorry, Lena Zappia, Mary Brockhoff and Vanessa Burnie.

FATHER’S DAY RAFFLEAnnouncing our Winning Dads from the Father’s Day Raffle:1st Prize: Brendan CavanaghHas won a Garmin Vivofit 3 Activity Tracker Valued at $159

2nd Prize: Ross WilliamsHas won a Total Tools Milwaukee drills and Bosch screwdriver bit set Valued at $85

3rd Prize: Nic Everett Has won a $50 Rebel Voucher

4th Prize: Martin Bruni Has won a $25 Dan Murphys Voucher

Thanks again to everyone that bought tickets and came along to the breakfast!Thanks you to Daniela Migliorati and Michelle Hubbard for making yet another raffle happen!! Amazing.

HAVE YOU FILLED

OUT OUR SURVEY?

End Of Term BBQ - Next Friday 16th September!And with only TWO weeks left of Term [YIKES!] we are in DIRE need of a Co-ordinator for the End of Term 3 BBQ (next Friday 16th September) and other helpers as Sandra Alkemade will be away. If you can help as a co-ordinator or cooking on the BBQ or cash handling please sign up to the Volunteer sheet at this link:www.volunteersignup.org/TY8RK

Friday Treats - 1 still needed for this Friday 9th SeptemberAnzac biscuits will be on sale again this term at 1.50pm for 30 mins. Please sign up to help at www.volunteersignup.org/WRFKX

Help Needed!! Click on the links below to sign up!

Parents & Friends NewsWednesday 7th September

ST JAMES

WHEN THIS Friday 9th September6.30pm till late.

WHERE Shangri-La Inn Chinese Restaurant 37/39 Brentford Square, Forest Hill.

COST $30 per head for a set banquet menu.BYO BYO Wine or beer.RSVP RSVP date was yesterday but if you’d still like to come along please text Nicole Spezza or Chrissy Lagos and arrange to have your money to them ASAP.

GOT QUESTIONS?Nicole Spezza 0407 332 901nicolespezza@gmail.com Chrissy Lagos 0410 283 160chrissyl555@optusnet.com.au

ARE YOU

COMING?

P&F MEMBER SPOTLIGHTThere are just SO many inspiring people out there that are always actively contributing their time to the P&F and our school. We think it’s about time we introduce you to some of them. Each week you’ll get to meet and hear from some of these very generous parents.

NEW!!ALL

WEBLINKS &EMAILS NOW CLICKABLE!

Name: Kate Ryan

Kids names: Declan Grade 6, Scarlett Grade 4 and Olivia Grade 1.

How long have your kids been at St James for? 6 years

P&F Role this year? Mothers Day stall and Fathers Day stall co-ordinator (Have been in this role about 3 years, possibly 4)

What sort of events and activities have you been involved in since joining the P&F? Um, lots??? Most of the Parent Nights, various BBQ’s, Disco, the list goes on.

Why did you choose to get involved in the P&F? I felt it was a good way to get to know other parents, as although I had established friendship groups at the school, I wanted to know the parents in my childs grade/year level.

What’s the best thing about being part of the P&F? It’d have to be the laughs we have getting things done! The other parents on the P&F who regularly help out are a hoot. The feeling of giving back to our awesome school is great too, I love St James!

What would you say to parents out there who are thinking about volunteering for the P&F? Do it! It’s fun, you meet people you wouldn’t necessarily if your child/ren are in different year levels and it is not a big time commitment. You can choose to be involved in an event or not and my kids love that I’m involved. It’s totally worth it just from that point of view!

Next Monday 12th September we will be having our last Morning Tea before the Term finishes. Please join us for a cuppa and a catch up! Jodie Benson one of our mums will be there introducing you to our P&F Tupperware Fundraiser that will be running for the next few weeks. See all the information for this fundraiser on the next two pages. Jodie will have a range of Tupperware items, order forms and catalogues for you to peruse through. Thanks to Nicole Spezza and Chrissy Lagos for co-ordinating this.

MONDAY 12TH SEPTEMBER MORNING TEA & TUPPERWARE FUNDRAISER ART SHOW

RAFFLE

ST JAMES P&F

Ticket Books were sent homeon Monday via school bags.Please have them returnedby this Thursday 8th via class buckets OR you can put them in an envelope labelled ‘Art Show Raffle Tickets’ with correct money and hand them in at the Welcome Desk at the Art Show on Wed 7th, Thurs 8th or Sunday 11th. Prize winners drawn next Monday 12th September.

Dates: 1st September 2016 – 25th September 2016.

How will it work?10% of all sales from the Tupperware current range items will be donated to St James P&F along with $10 for every Tupperware party booked and held within the next 42 days.

Catalogues and Brochures:

The current range catalogues are available online at the following links, which can be forwarded to your friends and family. There will be a prize for the person who collects the most orders (total value) from friends and family.

Click on these Online Links for Current Range for this Fundraiser:

1. http://tupperware.ipapercms.dk/Tupperware/Australia/2016/SeasonalPreviews/SS16SeasCat200816/?ref=fb

2. http://tupperware.ipapercms.dk/Tupperware/Australia/2016/MonthlyPreviews/SeptPrev170816v1/

We have included a PDF of the Order form on the next page (please note $3 admin fee for each order)

Morning Tea: In addition, a Morning Tea will be held on Monday 12th September 2016 in the Community Centre. A display of Tupperware items, order forms and catalogues will be available for perusal.

Placing Your Orders: Orders can be submitted with credit card details at any time up until Midday 25th September 2016. All orders do need to include payment details via credit card or cash is acceptable.

Orders can be emailed directly, or left in an envelope with cash at the office for collection by Jodie Benson. Please ensure you leave your contact details, child’s name and class. Email: jodie.benson.home@gmail.com Mobile: 0423 460 559

Delivery Date/s: Your items will be available for collection within approx. 14 days of placing the order. All orders will be individually packed and identified with your name and childs name and class. They will be available for collection at the school office, or directly from Jodie. Jodie will give you a call to advise you that your orders) are ready for collection.

Party Bookings: I am quite flexible, and happy do ‘catalogue’ parties (where you email out online catalogue links and collect orders from your friends) but you still qualify for host gifts. I can also do the standard in-home parties, take general orders for one off items, or can chase up non-current Tupperware items to see if my colleagues have them available.

Facebook Page:If you would like to be kept up to date with monthly specials brochures etc, please ask to join my Facebook page (closed group) “Tupper Me Up”.

Warranty claims for existing items: Please note that this is no longer conducted via Consultants. Tupperware have launched a seamless self-service system and world first for the brand that enables Consumers to manage the Tupperware lifetime and Q product guarantee claims online.

http://www.tupperware.com.auwarranty.tupperware.com.au

Australia 1800 805 396

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Holiday Clubs

Another term is almost over which means Holiday Club bookings are now open. There are heaps of fun things happening during these holiday clubs. Please log onto the holiday club webpage to find the program that is best suited to you.

The closest holiday club is Antonio Park in Mitcham. I have printed out the program so please come and grab one from our room if you are interest. I am not working over the holidays but Rose will be working a few shifts at Antonio Park. Please be sure to book your children in for care sooner rather than later to confirm their spot and to make sure we remain in ratio.

Preps

Over the rest of the term I will be encouraging the preps to begin to make their way to and from OSHC on their own to prepare them for next year. I will be following up and looking for them if they have not arrived within 5-10 mins. If you have any questions or concerns about this, please come and speak with me.

Hats!

With the start of term 4 approaching this means ALL children must wear hats at After School Care. Camp Australia follows the sun smart policy, which means all children need a hat and sunscreen to play outside. If your child attends OSHC on a regular basis, you can leave a hat in the OSHC room for them to use when attending.

Kagen