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From the Principal

59 MOORES ROAD MONBULK VICTORIA 3793 TEL: (03) 9756 7201 FAX: (03) 9756 7544

Web: www.spmonbulk.catholic.edu.au Email: [email protected]

Newsletter 2018 The Year of Youth

(Australian Catholic Bishops Council)

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er Active in the Spirit

Journeying in God’s love

Striving for success

Reaching out to all

Thursday, 8 2018

Term 1—Week 6

No. 6 of 2018

MARCH Thursday 8—THIS AFTERNOON Working Bee 3.30-6pm Friday 9 SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY Monday 12 PUBLIC HOLIDAY—Labour Day Tuesday 13 St Paul’s Family Welcome Night—6.30pm Wednesday 14 OPEN DAY Year 4—Taster Day Friday 16 Year 5—Taster Day Year 6—Excursion to

St Patrick’s Cathedral Monday 19 Prayer Gathering/Assembly—2.10pm ———————————————- School Supervision Times: 8:25am—3:15pm Please ensure that children are not dropped off at school prior to 8:25am and are collected from classrooms by 3:15pm

—————————–———–— Next School Advisory Board Wednesday 21 March—7pm —————————————— Working Bee Thursday 8 March: 3.30 to 6pm Price, Conway-Lee, O’Grady, Barnard, Van Kampen, Czaja and Glenn ——————————————— UNIFORM SHOP CONTACTS Uniform Shop Mariske de Wit—0418 516 464 Secondhand Uniform Tanya Hammond—0400 421 300

IMPORTANT DATES

Dear Families, As a Catholic school we place a strong emphasis on teaching students the meaning of Lent and its important characteristics in our daily lives. Lent is a time of praying, fasting, forgiving both yourself and your peers, and to grow closer with God. Throughout Lent students are encouraged to reflect on their relationship with God and with each other as well as with the world around them. We open up dialogue with students around how to be the best people they can be. This week we welcomed our Prep students to school, FULL TIME, for the first time! They have all settled in very well, and we are extremely proud of each and every one of them.

LANGUAGES EDUCATION - ITALIAN At St Paul’s we pride ourselves on delivering an Italian program that is of the highest standard. In a globalized world learning a language is a wonderful benefit. Not only does it help when travelling, it is also a great advantage for studying in general and for career prospects. Learning a second language has been linked to benefits that include improved memory and enhanced decision making skills. Learning languages opens up personal, social, cultural and employment opportunities throughout our connected world. Learning a language makes a person more conscious of the grammar in their own language, which often leads to improved first language skills.

Studies show that the benefits of learning a language include stronger results in maths, reading comprehension and vocabulary by multilingual students. Language skills boost your ability to do well in problem-solving tasks across the board, a fact recognized through compulsory foreign language learning curriculum in schools.

REMEMBER: NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS TOMORROW

SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY

From the Principal (continued)

St Paul’s School Newsletter

SCHOOL Phone 9756 7201 Fax 9756 7544 Email [email protected] Web www.spmonbulk.catholic.edu.au

Banking Details Account: St Paul’s Primary School Bank: NAB BSB No. 083 347 Account Number: 671116274

Office Hours Monday – Thursday 8.30am to 4.00pm Friday—8.30am to 3.30pm

Principal Mr Michael Watt Deputy Principal Mr Denham Harvie Business Manager Mrs Helen Dinkgreve

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PARISH Phone 9754 2141 Fax 9754 4118

Parish Priest (Administrator) Father Geoffrey McIlroy Parish Secretary Mrs Helen Surman Email [email protected]

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SCHOOL ADVISORY BOARD Parish Priest (Administrator) Father Geoffrey McIlroy Principal Mr Michael Watt Board Chairperson Tarnia Hiosan Vice Chairperson Kylie O’Grady Secretary Brad Trinnick Staff Representative Mr Denham Harvie P&F Representative Sally Zylinski Grounds Committee Representative Tanya Hammond Uniform Shop Representative Mariske de Wit General Members Steve Hooper Mary Larkin

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PARENTS & FRIENDS President—Jacqui Hooper Banking Details St Paul’s Parents & Friends Bank: Bendigo Bank BSB No. 633 000 Account Number: 147509038

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After School Care Program

After The Bell Program Leader Kate Hart Program Contact Phone 0488 112 613 Bookings & Enquiries 9758 6744 [email protected]

The Victorian Curriculum states that learning languages: contributes to the strengthening of the community’s social, economic and international

development capabilities extends literacy repertoires and the capacity to communicate; strengthens

understanding of the nature of language, of culture, and of the processes of communication

develops intercultural capability, including understanding of and respect for diversity and difference, and an openness to different experiences and perspectives

develops understanding of how culture shapes and extends learners’ understanding of themselves, their own heritage, values, beliefs, culture and identity

strengthens intellectual, analytical and reflective capabilities, and enhances creative and critical thinking.

ITALIAN DAY Our students are very fortunate to experience such a high quality languages program. Last Monday, 5 March we had an extremely engaging Italian Day. We celebrated our Italian language learning with a “Big Pocket Educational Incursion”. Students made their own jar of Italian Tomato Sauce: Passata di Pomodoro. This workshop was a fully hands on learning experience which celebrates the annual coming together of the Italian family to make their year’s supply of passata. In classrooms our students enjoyed activities that focussed on Pinocchio, and in the afternoon we celebrated our day together with a slideshow of photos and we sang Happy Birthday in Italian. Thank you very much to all of our wonderful students for their participation and the respect they showed our visitors. We say a huge thanks to Signora Maria Cook for all of the effort that went into the day, as well as Melissa Tyquin for the hot lunch, Signora Anita and the St Paul’s staff.

ANDREW CHINN CONCERT Last Thursday we hosted Andrew Chinn and it was sensational! The day and night was a wonderful experience for our whole school community. All of our children enjoyed the sessions with him during the day, including our school choir. The highlight of Andrew’s visit was our evening concert in the Church. It was wonderful to see parents, children and past students enjoying the music and jokes throughout the evening. Thank you to Mr Denham Harvie for organising Andrew’s visit. We also thank our wonderful staff for their support during the day attendance at the evening concert.

WORKING BEE - TONIGHT! We are looking forward to tonight’s Working Bee. We begin at 3:30pm and conclude at 6:00pm. We are very grateful to those families that will be attending.

2018 PREP and NEW FAMILY WELCOME NIGHT - TUESDAY 13 MARCH 6:30pm To welcome our Prep and new families we will hold a special Information Night for our Prep families and we encourage new families from other year levels to join us. The evening will be held on Tuesday 13 March at 6:30pm.

SCHOOL IMPROVEMENTS - BUILDING ARRANGEMENTS This week we relocated our Year 2/3 and Year 3/4 classes into the hall. Work will begin on those classrooms shortly. Alayne has worked tirelessly to organise the library resources to be packed up. Work on the library will also begin shortly. After School Care will relocate to the Meeting Room/Foyer Area as of this Tuesday 13 March. We have purchased a Shipping Container to house resources for the duration of the project, as well as storing large items following the completion of the project.

We also have tradespeople working at school on the Year 5/6 building. The decking at the front of our Year 5/6 classrooms needs to be fully removed and replaced. The Year 5/6 decking replacement work began earlier this week and will be a much safer, stronger decking when complete.

MONBULK LAWN BOWLS Currently all students are engaged in a Physical Education Unit learning about Lawn Bowls. The students will spend time over the next couple of weeks visiting Monbulk Lawn Bowls Club and developing their skills on the greens. Thank you to Emma-lee Curwood for providing this opportunity for the students.

DEAR MONBULK PROJECT 6 of our Year 6 School Leaders are part of an exciting community project, working with the MADCOW Monbulk Township Group (Monbulk and District Community Opportunities Working Group: MADCOW). The project is a short film: "Dear Monbulk - a love letter to Monbulk" . It is being made to celebrate the assets of the Monbulk community and the organiser of the project is Jeanette Pritchard. Jeanette is the secretary of the MADCOW group and is a past educator with many years of experience.


From the Principal (continued)

The project involves students from all the schools around Monbulk and it will involve students interviewing community members who were part of the history of Monbulk, those that are involved in community projects in the present, and those who can imagine for the future. Students in the project will be trained in the different areas of filming by professional film makers. There will be a wonderful community event to launch the film. We say a huge thanks to Paula Hogan for representing St Paul’s on the MADCOW committee and for supervising the students involved in this project.

2019 PREP ENROLMENTS - DO YOU HAVE A CHILD STARTING PREP NEXT YEAR? We have already begun collecting enrolment forms for 2019 Prep students. I have visited our kinders and distributed materials. I have been contacted online by prospective families. In order for us to effectively plan for the future, I respectfully request that if you have a child beginning Prep at St Paul’s in 2019 that you email or call the office to let us know. It would be most helpful if parents were able to complete an enrolment form ASAP for Prep 2019. We appreciate your support on this matter.

ADVISORY BOARD - CALL FOR NOMINATIONS We are fortunate to have an effective governance structure that is well supported by our parent community at St. Paul’s. I actively encourage any parent that is thinking about joining our Advisory Board to nominate.

The primary aim of the St. Paul’s School Advisory Board is to advise the School Principal, who is responsible for the implementation of the School policy decisions and the day-to-day management of the School, including to:

Promote and support the Catholic ethos of the school and to support the Religious Education programs Act as a forum for informed discussion on matters concerning education in the school Provide informed and responsible advice on: School development and welfare of the students Realising the vision, mission and Action Plan of the school The development and review of school policies Budget planning and finance related matters To nominate for the Advisory Board please come and see me in the office or alternatively, email [email protected] with your name, child/ren’s name and your child/ren’s class. Nominations close at 3:30pm Wednesday 14 March 2017 and ballot forms will then be available.

2018 SCHOOL CLOSURE DAYS The following days in 2018 are PUPIL FREE. This means there is no school for students on:

Friday 9 March

Friday 18 May

Friday 10 August

Monday 5 November

Friday 30 November

PRAYER GATHERING/ASSEMBLY On a final note, in the last week of term, there will be no Prayer Gathering on Monday 26 March. The Prayer Gathering for that week will be held on Holy Thursday - 29 March. This Prayer Gathering will focus on the Stations of the Cross and will be held in the Church at 2:10pm.

Have a terrific long weekend and we will see you back at school on Tuesday 14 March! Kind Regards,

Michael Watt Principal

Messages from the Office … Fee Statements were emailed out yesterday, please contact the office if you did not receive yours. Thank you to

families who have already paid the school levy portion of their fees. Please note these were due to be paid by 23 February. If you have not already so, your prompt payment would be appreciated.

Email: [email protected]

mailto:[email protected]

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St Paul’s AFL Footy Tipping

2018 All Welcome ...

Students, teachers, parents,

past students, siblings

To Join

Login to: www.footytips.com.au Comp Name: St Pauls CPC No Entry Fee—Just for fun!

If you have any queries,

please contact:

Brad Trinnick

Mobile: 0409 031 976

http://www.footy

http://tips.com.au

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Mount Lilydale Mercy College

OPEN DAY

Wednesday 14 March 2018

11am to 5pm

You are welcome to join us as we open our doors and

provide a warm welcome to prospective students and their

families. Guided tours will be run throughout the day.

Please see flyer attached.

Year 7 2020 Enrolments

Is your child in Grade 5 this year?

Applications for Year 7 2020 at Mount Lilydale Mercy College are due

on:

MONDAY 30 APRIL 2018

Year 7 2020 Enrolment Information sessions will be held for new fami-

lies. If you wish to learn more about the enrolment process please

attend on one of the following dates:

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