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Father's Day can hold many emotions for both men and women - those who had a loving father that passed away, those who never knew their dad, those expectantly waiting to become a dad soon, and countless other situations surrounding the father-child relationship.
God can use this special day to draw us closer to Himself - the one true Father who remains faithful and full of unconditonal love. As we move from celebrating Father’s day yesterday do not forget the power of prayer as we pray to our Father for all fathers. Keep them in your prayers constantly.
DAD’S FOOTBALL
Congratulations to our dads for putting up a good fight in their game against St Pauls’ dads on Saturday. Despite our best efforts we did not come away victorious. However it was a wonderful community event enjoyed by all who attended.
A huge thankyou to all the dads for participating and for the huge amount of work that goes into preparing for this event. I encourage the dads to keep their eyes out for the next dad’s event.
FATHER’S DAY BREAKFAST AND STALL
On behalf of the dads and our children a massive thankyou to our Parents and Friends for organising last week’s Father’s Day Breakfast and Stall. Breakfast was a wonderful celebration and the amount of planning and work required is huge. I would like to also thank Justin McCarthy for all his work in helping with the organisation and the staff who arrived bright and early to assist with parking and supervision duties.
This was then followed with a very successful Father’s Day Stall on Friday. I know our students enjoyed shopping for dad and I hope our dads enjoyed receiving their gifts.
5 KMS SPEED LIMIT ON FRONT CAR PARK
The speed limit on the front car park off Centre Road is 5 kmh, slower than walking speed. This applies at all times in this car park, pick up and drop off from school, OSHC, Fedpas, Basketball training or while visiting school at any time. Keeping our children safe must always be the number one priority.
PARENT TEACHER INTERVIEWS
Bookings for our second round of Parent Teacher Interviews are now open. Interviews will take place on Thursday, 7th September between 2:00pm and 7:30pm. School will finish for students at 1:30pm on this day. OSHC will be operating from 1:30pm. All students not booked into OSHC need to be picked up at 1:30pm. This round of interviews is not compulsory and if you feel that you do not require an interview you do not need to book an interview.
There may be occasions where you do not require an interview but your child’s teacher would like to meet with you. If this is the case you will be contacted separately.
END OF TERM MASS / END OF TERM
We will be celebrating the end of Term with Mass at 10.00am on Friday, 15th September. All families are welcome to attend.
The last day of Term Three will be Friday, 15th September with students being dismissed at 2:30pm.
START OF TERM FOUR
The first day of Term Four will be Monday, 2nd October.
PUPIL FREE DAY
Our next Pupil Free Day will be this Friday, 8th September where we will focus on the Teaching of Religious Education. Included in this day will be a session with Fr Elio Capra. There will be NO school for students on this day. OSHC will be offering a full day program.
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WEEK 9
Tuesday, 5th September - Australian Girls Choir Workshop - For Registered Students / Foundation 2024 Interviews
Wednesday, 6th September - Foundation 2024 Storytime - 9.15am - 9.50am
Thursday, 7th September - Parent Teacher Interviews - 2.00pm - 8.00pm - Students Finish at 1.30pm / No FedPas / No Canteen
Friday, 8th September - PUPIL FREE DAY
WEEK 10
Monday, 11th September - P & F Sausage Sizzle & Casual Day - Footy Colours
Tuesday, 12th September - Foundation 2024 Interviews / YEAR 5 LONG WALK TO WATER - 9.00am - 11.00am / Year 1 Performance - 6.00pm / Year 2 Performance - 7.00pm
Wednesday, 13th September - Bento Box Lunch - Year 6 / Foundation 2024 Storytime - 9.15am - 9.50am
Thursday, 14th September - Write a Book in a Day Competition - Selected Students / FEDPAS - 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Friday, 15th September - End of Term Mass - 10.00am - All Families Welcome / Term 3 Ends - Students Finish at 2.30pm
TERM 4
WEEK 1
Monday, 2nd October - TERM 4 BEGINS / NEWSLETTER
Tuesday, 3rd October - Year 4 Excursion to Half Moon Bay - Black Rock
Wednesday, 4th October - Year 1BR & 1MH Excursion to Ripponlea
Thursday, 5th October - Year 1SH & 1BE - Excursion to Ripponlea / FEDPAS - 4.00pm - 6.00pm
Friday, 6th October - P & F Foundation to Year 2 Disco - 5.00pm - 6.00pm / P & F Year 3 & Year 4 Disco - 6.20pm - 7.20pm
Book Fair
We held a very successful book fair during BOOK WEEK in Week 7. As a result of your support of this initiative, the commission we made was $2652.30. Karen Young and her band of volunteer staff members enthusiastically encouraged our young readers to select appropriate choices to purchase. Karen is now busily selecting new books for our library and we are all most grateful to have this money to spend. Watch out for all the new additions on our library shelves.
Book Week Activities
Although we only have a Book Parade every second year, we do celebrate Book Week each year by reading some of the Children’s Book Council Australia short-listed books and doing activities in our classes. On Friday 25th August, we had some very impressive guest readers visit our classes to read one of these short-listed books. The children loved the engaging way that these guest readers presented the stories to them. A huge thank you to those readers who supported us.
Lightning Room by Ollie
The scariest but most fun place at Scienceworks was the Lightning Room! It was so good, a man named Doug told us all about lightning and how it was made. A boy named Michael from my calls got to help Doug making cool cloud in a bottle. Near the end of the time Doug showed us how to make a rainbow. At the end Doug’s assistant Dee turned the tesla coil on and told us what would survive a lighting strike. For example, a car would survive a lighting strike.
General Viewing Room by Gemma C
I completely loved the General Viewing room. It was the most exciting place. You could see things you would not see every day, even C-P30! A lot of people lined up to race Cathy Freeman and a lot of people wanted to try boogie boarding in the snow as well. There was a game where you had to get a car, truck, bus or any vehicle to a certain destination.
Lightning Room by Hugo P
The Lightning Room was so cool! I loved seeing the lightning bolts hitting the guy with the golf club. We had to cover our ears but some people did not and it was really loud!
Planetarium by Marley
The planetarium was the best part of our excursion because there was a huge screen on the roof and we got to watch a movie. The movie was called Tycho goes to Mars. I felt like we were in the movie and it was incredible. We also got to learn about the night sky. We learnt that there are different constellations and one of them is the line constellation. It was sooo fun!!!
Planetarium by Eddie
The planetarium was by far the best thing at Scienceworks. We got to lay on these really comfortable chairs and relax. We watched a movie called Tycho goes to Mars. It was about a dog who gets a new play house that turns into a rocketship and flies him to Mars. It was so good! At the end we got to see the beautiful night sky of Melbourne and learn about the stars.
Planetarium by Ethan
On 31st August, the Year 2 students went to Scienceworks. The best bit was the Planetarium because we got to lay back and watch the world’s best movie Tycho goes to Mars. It was about a dog going to Mars and finding water on Mars to fuel up his rocket. At the end they showed a light show, and also told us if we were lost in the night to look up and find the cross. Count four bumps ahead and then you will be pointing to the south.
Lightning Room by Eve
The Lightning Room was the best because the guy that was talking to us was really funny. We had to block our ears at one point and watched the lightning go across an aeroplane, a car, a guy waiting for the bus, a guy under a tree and a guy with a golf club in his hand. It was satisfying but there was more to it. He got people to do stuff with funky hair and put balloons in their hair. That’s all for it for the Lightning Room.
On the 31 of August St Peter’s and 6 other schools competed in the Bentleigh District Athletics Carnival at Duncan MacKinnon Athletics Stadium. Everyone competed in different field and track events such as discus, shot put, high jump, long jump, triple jump, sprints, long distance running (400m, 800m 1500), relay and golden baton. All students did very well in their events.
The last events of the day were relays - Macy C won the girls race by a tenth of a second!! It was a photo finish, no one knew who had come first. However when the team heard Macy had won they were very excited!!
In the golden baton relay- 4 Year 6s Jake R, Nic S, Sid N, Macy C - all ran well and came third after almost chasing the other schools down!
Over all St Peter's came 4th out of all the schools.
A big thanks to Mr Cav, Mr Porter, Mr Hurst, Ross, Miss Bryan, Sarah, Mr Mac and Mr Hanney for the support and organisation of the day.
BUCKET FILLERS - TERM 3 - WEEK 8
STAR AWARDS - TERM 3 WEEK 8 - FRIENDSHIP!!
JUNIOR SCHOOL - For Using Kind Words and Gentleness in Communication with Others!!
Jessica Lee, Georgia Greco - FHK / Remi Kalinowski, Millah Pavlou-Eyckens - FMS / Chloe Karisson, Maeve Dillon - FSS / Ava Azzopardi, Ashton Trathen - FMR
Isaac Schreurs, Herbie Winterton, Evangelina Mavroudis - 1BR / Alice Grypych, Eliza Nougher, Caydence Francis, Ethan Luong - 1SH / Harrison Haralambous, Amali Tisseverasinghe - 1MH / Charlie England, Ana Mijajlovic, Jai Sharma - 1BE
Imogen McGivney, Hugo Neeson - 2OP / Elena Abbondanza, Anthony Caminiti - 2MK / Sebastian Van-Bernadi, Tilly Recupero - 2RN / Sebastian Peluso, Ottavia Vithoulkas - 2GP
MIDDLE SCHOOL - For Being Able to Relate Well to Others and Making Up When Things Go Wrong, to Maintain the FRIENDSHIP!!
Sophie Martin, Costa Mihelis, Monty Winterton - 3EM / Adelaide Baker, Alexander England, Natalia Nigro - 3AM / Annalise Baratta, Tess Budic - 3GG / Camille Bottomley, Sian Douglas, Elena Simonetta - 3IK
Maverick Voukelatos, Amelie Francois, Archer Francis, Mila Caon - 4KG / Robert Koenig, Chase Hutcheson-Barth - 4MM / Noah Siegert, Isabelle Van Eeden - 4GS / Bastien Mayol, Milana Romanelli, Timothy Xenos - 4MH
SENIOR SCHOOL - For Demonstrating the FRIENDSHIP Trait of Empathy by:
- Identifying Others' Feelings
- Understanding Another Person's Perspective
- Having the Ability to Respond Appropriately
Alexia Davis, Joseph Sarkis - 5HU / Phoebe Pica, David Salasinski- 5AC / Mason Stephen, Joshua Dudeja - 5PC / Rochelle Brown, Lily Beare - 5HG
Alice Bottomley, Marcus Alkhouri - 6LM / Leo Trojak Nyamuka, Harrison Galitos - 6SH / Liam Martin, Giuliana Nigro - 6KM
Congratulations to the Class Winners of the Walk/Ride to School Day on Friday, 1st September
Foundation to Year 2 - 1MH
Year 3 to Year 6 - 6SH
Our next Walk/Ride2School Day will be on Friday, 27th October.
In the meantime keep Active by Walking, Riding or Scootering to school whenever you can!!
Don't forget to have your cards clipped whenever you walk, ride or scooter to school and return your completed cards to the office to receive a new one.
Father's Day Breakfast - Wednesday, 30th August
Thank you to all the Mums that treated our Dads to a scrumptious breakfast last Wednesday. Around 250 dads and their children attended. It was a very busy morning and we were extremely lucky to have so many wonderful parent volunteers helping out to ensure the breakfast ran smoothly.
Special thanks go to Martha Pavlou for coordinating the morning and to Justin McCarthy, the Year 6 students and volunteers who helped set up the night before and helped pack up after the breakfast.
Father’s Day Stall - Friday, 1st September
Thank you to all the Mums who helped out at the Father's Day Stall. What a fun morning we had with our super shoppers. Hope all our dads enjoyed their surprises on Father's Day !
NEXT P&F Meeting - Monday, 16th October 7pm
ONSITE AT SCHOOL
Come along to our next P&F meeting, which will be held on site at school. Hear updates on what's been going on at our school and meet some new and existing parents for a chat over a glass of wine and cheese. We look forward to seeing both new and existing members of the P&F. All parents are welcome!
If you haven't already received an invite to attend, please email
pnf1@spbentleigheast.catholic.
Sausage Sizzle & Footy Colours Day
Monday, 11th September
Wear your footy colours and enjoy a yummy Sausage Sizzle lunch.
Mango Fundraiser Drive
Orders open end September / Delivery November
More information and how to order to follow soon.
TERM 4 EVENTS:
Junior School Disco
Friday, 6th October
5pm - 6pm - Foundation - Year 2 Disco
6.20pm - 7.20pm - Years 3 and 4 Disco
Get ready to show off your dance moves kids !
Free Entry, no RSVP required
Bring your water bottle, but NO food please.
Supervised by teachers and P&F.
Front carpark will be open.
Parents just need to drop off their children and remember to pick them up !
Colour Fun Run
Friday, 1st December
Put this date in your calendars and get excited !!
More information to follow in Term 4.
Sausage Sizzle & Casual Day
Monday, 4th December
Last Sausage Sizzle for the year. Dress up and have some fun !
Saver Plus is a free matched savings and financial education program that matches participants’ savings, dollar for dollar, up to $500, for education costs such as uniforms, books, excursions, sports fees and laptops.
Over 55,000 participants have benefitted from Saver Plus and it would be great to chat with you about how we can work together to inform the families at your school about the benefits of this program.
With the increasing cost of living impacting so many Australian families, helping to ease the financial strain for low-income earners where able, is important to our team at Berry Street. The advice provided through our Money Minded program is intended to not only assist families to achieve their saving goal of $500, but to develop lifelong financial skills and habits as well as build their financial confidence.
About Saver Plus
Saver Plus was developed by Brotherhood of St Laurence and ANZ in 2003 and is now delivered nationally through Berry Street and The Smith Family. The program is funded by the Australian Government Department of Social Services and ANZ.
Participants set a savings goal for education costs, make regular deposits into a savings account over 10 months, and attend financial skills workshops. At the end of the program their savings are matched by ANZ, dollar for dollar, up to $500, to be used for education costs such as uniforms, books, excursions, sports fees, and laptops.
Participants are also supported over the 10 months by one of our dedicated Savings Coaches who will stay connected with the participant to guide them through the program.
Parents are eligible to join Saver Plus if they meet all the following the criteria:
- be over 18 years old.
- have a Centrelink Health Care or Pensioner Concession card.
- be in receipt of an eligible Commonwealth social security benefit, allowance or payment.
- have some regular income from work (themselves or their partner) including casual, part-time, full-time or seasonal employment; and
- have a child enrolled at school (or enrolled to start school) or attend vocational education themselves.