95A Railway Street North, Altona 3018 Principal: David Kelly Phone: 9398 4842 www.smaltona.catholic.edu.au Parish Priest: Fr. Michael Kalka Phone: 9398 2964 [email protected]Dear Parents No.3 16 th February, 2018 It was with great pleasure that we welcomed our new Parish Priest, Fr Michael Kalka to our first school mass on Ash Wednesday. Fr. Michael then joined the staff for morning tea. We look forward to working closely with Fr Michael and benefitting from his guidance, support and experience. OPENING SCHOOL MASS & BBQ: Thursday 1 st March - 6.00 pm. All families are invited to join us for mass in the church. Our new Preps will sing a special Reflection song after communion. All families and friends are then invited to join, Fr. Michael Kalka and school staff in the school grounds for a BBQ and drinks. The Parents & Friends are organising this but they need your assistance. “PLEASE” don’t leave this to that famous person “SOMEONE ELSE”. A note has gone out on Care Monkey to all parents. If you have some time to spare the P & F would certainly appreciate it if you could reply via Care Monkey. Thank you in anticipation for your assistance and involvement and I look forward to seeing you on the night. ANAPHYLAXIS: We have nine students in our school who are anaphylactic, which means they have serious allergic reactions. In our particular case most of our students have an allergy to nuts but also to eggs, shell & white fish, kiwi fruit and peas among other things. If these students eat or in some case, touch, any food products that contain any of these foods or traces of these foods they could be put into a life threatening situation. We are asking for your co-operation particularly if one of these students is in your child’s class, that NO sharing of food takes place. These students are well aware of what they can eat but if you reinforce with your own child that these children are not able to ‘eat’ everything that other children can and to please not share food with them. On special occasion days e.g. birthdays, class teachers will have a ‘treat’ that these students can eat. Daniel Giardina - Prep S. Thomas Yacono - Yr 1/2K. Lucas Giardina - Yr 3/4HK. Daniel Ciavarella & Jamison Lehrer - Yr 3/4M. Oscar Devetak & Samuel Pelns - Yr 3/4V Chloe Zuvela - Yr 5/6C, Grace Moon - Yr 5/6L. PARENTS & FRIENDS: The first meeting of the Parents & Friends Association will be held in the staffroom next Wednesday commencing at 7.30 pm. All parents are welcome especially new parents to the school. Come along and see what is involved - You Might Be Pleasantly Surprised.
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95A Railway Street North, Altona 3018
Principal: David Kelly Phone: 9398 4842 www.smaltona.catholic.edu.au Parish Priest: Fr. Michael Kalka Phone: 9398 2964 [email protected]
Dear Parents No.3 16th February, 2018 It was with great pleasure that we welcomed our new Parish Priest, Fr Michael Kalka to our first school mass on Ash Wednesday. Fr. Michael then joined the staff for morning tea. We look forward to working closely with Fr Michael and benefitting from his guidance, support and experience. OPENING SCHOOL MASS & BBQ: Thursday 1st March - 6.00 pm. All families are invited to join us for mass in the church. Our new Preps will sing a special Reflection song after communion. All families and friends are then invited to join, Fr. Michael Kalka and school staff in the school grounds for a BBQ and drinks. The Parents & Friends are organising this but they need your assistance. “PLEASE” don’t leave this to that famous person “SOMEONE ELSE”. A note has gone out on Care Monkey to all parents. If you have some time to spare the P & F would certainly appreciate it if you could reply via Care Monkey. Thank you in anticipation for your assistance and involvement and I look forward to seeing you on the night. ANAPHYLAXIS: We have nine students in our school who are anaphylactic, which means they have serious allergic reactions. In our particular case most of our students have an allergy to nuts but also to eggs, shell & white fish, kiwi fruit and peas among other things. If these students eat or in some case, touch, any food products that contain any of these foods or traces of these foods they could be put into a life threatening situation. We are asking for your co-operation particularly if one of these students is in your child’s class, that NO sharing of food takes place. These students are well aware of what they can eat but if you reinforce with your own child that these children are not able to ‘eat’ everything that other children can and to please not share food with them. On special occasion days e.g. birthdays, class teachers will have a ‘treat’ that these students can eat. Daniel Giardina - Prep S. Thomas Yacono - Yr 1/2K. Lucas Giardina - Yr 3/4HK. Daniel Ciavarella & Jamison Lehrer - Yr 3/4M. Oscar Devetak & Samuel Pelns - Yr 3/4V Chloe Zuvela - Yr 5/6C, Grace Moon - Yr 5/6L. PARENTS & FRIENDS: The first meeting of the Parents & Friends Association will be held in the staffroom next Wednesday commencing at 7.30 pm. All parents are welcome especially new parents to the school. Come along and see what is involved - You Might Be Pleasantly Surprised.
WALK / RIDE TO SCHOOL – WALKING SCHOOL BUSES: Thanks to those who have replied to say they will join our Walking School Buses on Thursday 22nd
February. Unfortunately at this stage we do not have enough supervisors for either of the buses. If you can help us out, can you please complete the Google form (linked through the newsletter email or website home page) or simply contact Marg Masseni via the school office or via email - [email protected]
SCHOOL EDUCATION BOARD: The first meeting for the School Education Board will be held on Tuesday 6th March in the school staffroom commencing at 7.30 pm. SPAM: It has come to our attention that many Care Monkey and school emails are arriving in people’s SPAM folders. We are aware of the issue and are working to find a solution. In the meantime can we ask that you check your SPAM folders and if you find any Care Monkey or school emails in there, simply mark them as ‘NOT SPAM’ We hope that this will help you receive all important emails to your inbox.
CONGRATULATIONS: Congratulations to the Smith Family on the arrival of a baby sister for Charlotte in Prep D
David Kelly Principal ONE DAY ONLY BOOK FAIR: As part of a new reading rewards program St Mary’s is starting called Star Reader, we are having a ONE DAY ONLY Book Fair on Monday 26th February. It will be held in the school hall starting straight after assembly and finishing at 4pm. This is a great opportunity to see some of this year’s new books and encourage our kids to be reading. Our school library and literacy areas will also benefit from a percentage of the total sales. NEWS FROM THE CHOIR: What a great choir we have this year!! Only the start of week 4 and the choir have already sung at two masses. Very impressive - especially for our new members. This year our experienced choir members are buddying up with our inexperienced members. So choir people, keep a look out for your buddies on Wednesdays at lunch so you can come to rehearsals together. EMMANUEL COLLEGE NEWS: Congratulations to our Year 7s on their excellent start. Books are safely stored in lockers, subject timetables recorded and their new laptops are being well utilized. Homework has begun and the three-day camp program at Portsea commences next week. Students are very much enjoying their Maths Pathway, Life to the Full and Instrumental Music programs. It was great to welcome their parents to this week’s presentation by the Year 7s on Project Based Learning. Congratulations to our 2017 VCE High Achievers; Thien Nguyen, 92.25, Bachelor of Communication Design (Honours), Swinburne University; Thien Nguyen is an ex-student of St Mary’s School. We wish Thein all the best in his future endeavours.
PRINCIPALS AWARDS WEEK BEGINNING 12TH FEBRUARY 2018
PREP D Ava S for her great participation during Maths Harry M for being a hardworking and caring classmate
PREP S Max T for listening attentively during class discussions Claudia J for answering questions during class
YEAR 1/2G Judah D for being eager to learn and a helpful classmate Amelie C for taking pride in all she does
YEAR 1/2S Anika M for being a great help to her new classmates Liam T for working well to complete all tasks
YEAR 1/2K Tiana M for being a helpful and friendly member of our class Charlie W for following directions and using her initiative to help others
YEAR 1/2D Isabelle M for being such a welcoming and inclusive friend Lorenzo J for persevering each day to be a superstar student and reach the top of the peg chart
YEAR 3/4M Saxon A for his excellent snapshot writing piece Tilly D for being a wonderful helper to her peers
YEAR 3/4HK Xavier B for showing great persistence with all his work Christian G for making an excellent start to Year 4
YEAR 3/4V Keely W for displaying persistence when solving STEM problems Levi M for his sensible behaviour and gentle manner
YEAR 5/6C Thomas P for his positive attitude towards all areas of his learing Keiana C working hard and striving to achieve her best
YEAR 5/6L Gab A for her enthusiasm during reading responses
YEAR 5/6H Noah L for settling into the year so smoothly and being a positive classmate Bianca S for demonstrating a high level of organisation and for being a kind and thoughtful classmate to her peers
CLASS NEWS: PREP Preps have been listening to stories about Jesus and learning all about his life. We have met some of Milo Monkey’s friends and been busy writing and drawing lots of interesting things. YEAR ONE / TWO Grade 1/2s are beginning their integrated unit about working together as a group. We are continuing to work on personal recounts in writing and we are working hard to learn about three digits in Maths. YEAR THREE / FOUR The Year 3/4s are beginning their unit on Narrative writing, focusing on the structure of fables. We are looking at Ash Wednesday as the beginning of Lent in Religion and beginning to work on strategies for solving addition problems in Maths. The Year 3/4s are looking forward to Bike Ed. YEAR FIVE / SIX In Maths Year 5/6s are completing lots of activities with Place Value: identifying and describing multiples & factors, rounding numbers and solving problems with multiplication and division. In Religion we will look at Lent as we celebrated its beginning with a whole school mass on Ash Wednesday this week. We reflected on our efforts to grow and change during this special church season.
TUCKSHOP HELPERS Week beginning 19th February 2018
Monday Tuesday
Wednesday Thursday Marylinda Abate Friday Anne Cooper Manager: Eva Coppola Tel: 9315 0799
New Tuckshop list and prices are on school website - Please take note of the new prices
