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Today we celebrate the Feast of the Sacred

Heart. The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus

falls 19 days after Pentecost, on a Friday

every year.

On this day we remember that Jesus loves us and his Sacred Heart shows us how we should love others too.

Religion

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

Mary’s

Message

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Important

Dates

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Birthdays 6

Student

Learning

Awards

7

School

Photos

8

Sport 10

Library News 11

Grade 1/2C 12

SPAN’s Got

Talent!

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Community

Advertising

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B U S I N E S S N A M E

N E W S L E T T E R D A T E

SPAN NEWS St. Paul Apostle North Primary School

76 Mossgiel Park Drive, Endeavour Hills VIC 3802 Phone: 9700 6068 Fax 9706 2756

Email: principal@spanhills.catholic.edu.au Website: www.spanhills.catholic.edu.au

Term 2 Issue 5 “Listen to What the Spirit is Saying” Friday 19th June 2020

In the words of Pope Francis: God is the first to love “It is not us who first loved God, it's the other way around. It is He who loved us first. God is the first to wait for us, the first to love us, the first to help us,” he said. According to Pope Francis, “This means we need to carry on God’s work in our own small way, like feeding the hungry and visiting the sick. These works of mercy, show the love that Jesus teaches us and is like God’s great love or us!”

LAST DAY OF TERM—26th June

Staggered Finish -

• 1:20 pm

• 1:30 pm

mailto:principal@spanhills.catholic.edu.au

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Sacred Heart of Jesus, I place my trust in you. Help me to love God. Help me to love others as a child of God. Help me to love myself as a child of God.

Sacred Heart of Jesus, Pray for us. Amen

Prayer

Sacramental Programs

UPDATE

At this point in time, we do not have any further information on when Church services and programs will begin again. We will keep you informed of any changes and in the meantime please continue to celebrate mass via Live stream Masses:

Saturday 6pm Sunday 11am

Please go into the website: stpaulapostle.com.au

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As a way of showing our love for others... Our school will be collecting non perishable food items and personal hygiene products for people in Endeavour Hills, who need our help. All donations will be distributed by the St. Vincent De Paul parish group. Please send any non perishable items to school with your child next week. These could include dried pasta, tin foods, biscuits, deodorants, soaps, shampoo, feminine hygiene products.

St Paul’s Day

This year we will be celebrating the feast of our Patron saint,

St Paul, with a live streamed Mass with Father Brendan next week.

We will confirm the day and time as soon

as possible. Father has invited 20 student

representatives from both the north and

south schools to attend the Mass. We will

share the link and further information about

the day on Monday 22nd May.

We look forward to an enjoyable day as we

remember our role model, St Paul.

Helping the Community

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Mary’s Message Thank you everyone, once again for an amazing transition back to school. Our Middle and Senior students have come back with more self assurance and a renewed and increased knowledge of themselves as learners. As with the Junior students, our children, on the whole, seem much more independent. They know that they have the ability to learn within themselves and that they know when and how to ask for assistance. They are becoming true problem solvers and independent thinkers. As a school, we value this and want to harness this independence to help our students to set ever higher goals for themselves as well as to take their learning to another level. We want to challenge their curiosity and their creativity as we ignite their thirst for learning.

Our academic results have risen quite dramatically over the last few years according to our last year’s NAPLAN results and the results we ourselves keep internally. Our Maths results, in particular, are something we are very proud of. More importantly, we have achieved these results through engaging our children in their learning. Our teachers are passionate about their teaching and this flows to our students. We really want to capitalise on this and use the successful things we have learnt from Remote Learning to achieve even more.

We are very aware, however, that children cannot learn to the best of their ability unless they are mentally and emotionally well and feeling secure. I am very aware that this pandemic is still with us and that many of our children are worried and insecure about this. Our Wellbeing Programs and all the Berry Street training our staff have undergone over the past two years will hold us in good stead during this time. Please reach out to the school if your child is feeling anxious and let us work together to support them.

Next term, the staff will undertake a series of online professional development units to support our own wellbeing. Many staff members have worn themselves very thin over the last term supporting everyone around them and we recognise that we cannot continue to support the wellbeing of everyone else if we, ourselves are not at our best. “You can’t draw from an empty well” as the saying goes. Wish us luck and chat to us about what we are learning each week. I would also suggest that you, as parents, seek professional help if you are feeling drained from always being the support person for others. You can’t continue to give if there is nothing left to give.

How we move forward from Remote Learning will be critical. If you feel your child is not as engaged as you would like or if you feel they are not progressing as you had hoped, please make an appointment to speak with me or the class teacher.

Reports should be ready to view online by the end of next week. If, however, we are not able to get the new system up and running in time, they will be posted online during the holidays and we will keep you informed. Parent meetings will be held at the beginning of next term and will probably be conducted via Google Meets. Again, we will keep you informed as the restrictions are updated from the Health Department.

Welcome to our SPAN community

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Welcome to our SPAN community

We have a number of new students joining us this week. Please welcome: Koda - Grade 1 Anastasia - Grade 1 Muay - Grade 3 Caitlin - Grade 3 Damian - Grade 5 Anjila - Grade 5 We will also be welcoming some more students at the beginning of next term. I will introduce them in the next newsletter. The word is out! SPAN is a school on the move.

Mary Lucas

Principal

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Calendar of Events

JUNE

Date to be confirmed St Paul’s Day

Friday 26th Online Assembly

Last Day of Term 2—Staggered

Finish from 1:10pm

JULY

Monday 13th School Resumes for Term 3

Wednesday 15th School Photos

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Prep

5/6 3/4

Celina, Heath,

Rosie Jaelah

Samantha, Levi,

Agampreet

Gianna, Angelo,

Aaryan, Christopher

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Student Learning

Awards

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Congratulations to the following students for receiving

SPAN’s Learning Awards!

Prep – Celina, Saranya, Heath, Savannah

1/2B – Ali, Ella, Mesandi, Sana

1/2C – Liana, Harnav, Bevan, Anna

1/2G – Jesse, Aaron, Gloria, Nelson

3/4K – Christoph, Lily, Muay, Caitlyn

3/4R – Angelina, Sushant, Aadi, Aiden

3/4S – Janos, Jenica, Phoenix, Crystal

5/6M – Samantha, Rhys, Ria, Andrya

5/6O – Alyssa, Ronny, Angelo, Beulah

5/6P – Alana, John, Tishan, Ava

SPECIALISTS - Grade 1/2—Harnav, Jude, Helena, Lucas

A special mention and congratulations to

Daniel in 1/2B and Jason in 5/6M for

receiving last week’s very special

Principal’s Award!

This week, we congratulate Christoph in

3/4K and Shanaya in Prep for receiving

this week’s very special Principal’s Award!

You are superstars!

What an AMAZING effort!

Well done!

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School Photos

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The school photographer will be coming to SPAN on

Wednesday 15th July. Personalised order forms were

sent home last week.

If you would like a sibling photo, order forms can be

collected from the office.

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To all the children who will begin Prep at St Paul Apostle North

in 2021,

We are very excited to let you know that our pre-schooler

hoodies have arrived! These will be just the thing to keep you

nice and warm over the coming winter months.

Please call into our office and collect your free hoodie when

you hand in your enrolment form for 2021.

We look forward to welcoming you into our SPAN family.

2021 Preps

Get

Your

Free

Hoodie,

Now!

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Sport

If anyone is interested in participating in a virtual cross country competition, tap on the link below from Sport Victoria for more information.

It is totally optional but if there is anyone who was upset that they missed the cross country this year, you might like to try out.

You can set up your own course for the distance allocated for your age group and then enter your time once it is completed.

If you want to partake, remember to make sure than an adult can supervise you and that you warm up before you start.

Happy Running,

Ms Morgan

https://www.ssv.vic.edu.au/Pages/VirtualCrossCountry.aspx

VIRTUAL CROSS COUNTRY

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Library News

READING AT HOME WITH YOUR CHILD IS ALWAYS A SPECIAL

TIME

Reading to and with your child can be a very special time, each day or at bedtime. Children learn to love the sound of language when they are babies even before they notice printed words on a page. Reading books aloud to children helps to stimulate their imagination and expands their word vocabulary and their understanding of the world. It assists in their development of language and listening skills. Reading together creates a fun atmosphere for your child to learn in. Volunteers

Volunteers from our school community are always welcome in our library. Our new books need covering. Even just an hour or two once a week or fortnight will mean our new books can reach our the shelves quickly. We also need parents to help keep our shelves in order so that

our books are readily accessible. Please call the school or email Karen if you can help us in any way. karen.unwin@spanhills.catholic.edu.au

Karen Unwin

Librarian

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1/2C This week we have been learning to read clocks in Maths. We went outside and practised creating clocks and writing o’clock, half past, quarter to and quarter past times.

Fabulous Effort, 1/2C!!!

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Hey, SPAN Community...

WHAT IS YOUR TALENT???

Can you dance, sing, play an

instrument, perform magic?

Do you have another talent?

SPAN’s Talent Show is on again!

Here Are Some Ideas!

• Dancing

• Singing

• Comedy

• Magic

• Musical Instrument

• Juggling

• Yo Yo Tricks

• Hula Hooping

• Mimes

• Acting During Week 3, next term, we will be holding our auditions.

You can send a one minute video to your teacher showing your talent or bring your talent to school. All parent/toddler acts must be videoed and sent to your child’s class teacher.

Talent Sections

• Prep - 2 Students

• Grades 3 - 6 Students

• Parents & Toddlers

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Prep 2021 & 2022

We are currently accepting enrolments for Prep 2021 & 2022. Please spread the word if you know anyone that is looking for a dynamic and welcoming small school option.

2020 - TERM 2 13TH APRIL – 26TH JUNE

SCHOOL SUPERVISION TIMES 8.30am-3.40pm Supervision before school commences at 8.30am. Children should not

arrive at school before this time. Students need to be at school by 8.45am for 8.50am start. School finishes at 3.20pm.

Teachers are on duty until 3.40pm. Students need to be collected by 3.40pm. The school has an Out of School Hours Care

Program to assist parents who work or cannot make it to the school by 3.40pm.

SCHOOL GATES Please note that, for the safety of your children, the school gates will be locked between 9.00am and

3.10pm every day. The gates will be opened around 2.20pm on a Friday for parents wishing to attend Assembly. The gates

will be locked again from 3.40pm. Please ensure that you do not park at the back of the school after this time as you will be

locked in.

CANTEEN The canteen operates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Please go to the school website for the current

price list and ordering procedures.

UNIFORM SHOP The Uniform Shop is open every Wednesday from 8.30am-10.00am in the Specialist Block. Uniforms can

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Community

Advertising

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