Dear Parents/Carers,

As we draw closer to the end of the year my mind has begun to wander back to how the year has been for us as a community.  One of my personal goals this year was to have our community re-engage with each other again through our social events.  With help from the P&F, parent community and staff we have managed to bring back most of our community events: St Paul’s fete, Grandparents Day, P&F meetings, Athletics Carnival, School Disco, whole school masses and our Christmas story concert, held during the last week of this term.

To make all this happen underpinned by a love and fidelity to our St Paul’s community calls upon what I call a christian vision for work. With this comes more unpaid than paid work being done, both by parents and staff. This is because for us our view of work is the creation of people living in harmony, the dynamic evolution of God’s creation.  If we strive to work with each other as cooperative partners, not as competitors, then we truly contribute to God’s creation. Unless we promote the sacredness of our work together in the creation of community at St Paul’s, the work becomes a list of tasks we just tick off.  The beauty of our work together is that it is largely created in fun, laughter, family and friends time. Our community events assist the school from being “sucked in” to the whirlpool of overscheduling, ad hoc policy focus and external accountability, which are the enemies of creating communities of the heart.

I’m so glad our community events are back!

Go gently, nearly there,

Michael Reardon
Principal

Principal Awards

Congratulations to the following students who have recently received a Principal Award. 

Finley Girotto, Maddox Mascari, Chiara Musico, Domenic Mazzocco, Ryder Suisala, Alana Galluzzo, Isla Korny, Mariah Leahy, Manuel Gabriel, Joel Taylor, Olivia Davies, Giovanni Marra, Luke Murray, Nicholas Brajuha, Tabitha Danjoux, Angela Pisanko, Ella Caudle, Cameron Smith, Liam Oake, Mary Ristevski, Leo Lonergan, Layla Green, Leonardo Santucci, Oliver Morassut, Kristina Galic, William Zaborski, Luka Bobanovic, Ruben Samcam, Summer Yesilada, Romeo Ferreira, Olivia Ravenscroft, Veronica Waltisbuhl, Evie McMahon, Ruby Galea, Harrison Brookes, Michaela Togias, Savannah Bonvini, Jacob Muscat, Bianca Colusso, Savannah Oliva, Emily Chan-Sau, Caleb McInnes, Keiarra Bell, Cooper Smith, Alessandra Saena, Aidan Varghese, Alexcia Vukovic, Harrison Kourembes, Alana Mifsud, Ruby Woodcock, Hunter Suisala, Scarlett Garland, Sophie Vella

Good News Story

My name is Audrey. I’m 11 years old and in year 5. I’ve been growing my hair all year hoping to raise more awareness and some funds to donate to the organisation called ‘Cancer Council #rockthe chop'. I have been fortunate enough to have raised almost $3000 and I will be donating my hair on 10 December, 2022.

Like most people, cancer has affected someone I know, who suffered as a child from leukemia. I am hoping the donations I earn will help those with cancer get better and for my hair to make a little kid with cancer more confident.
If you would like to learn more about this, search

www.ponytailproject.com.au/fundraisers/

#rockthechop.

Thank you and have a wonderful day.

Audrey
Year 5

Parking 

The school asks that you only park in designated parking spaces. There has been incidents lately where parents have parked in driveways and double parked causing neighbours to be unable to leave their properties. As a school community it is important we are mindful and respectful of our neighbours. This is includes the school driveways.

Student Birthdays

A reminder that if your child is celebrating a birthday and you wanted to send in a treat for their class, the school asks that only sealed lollypop's be sent in to share with your child's class. Allen's lollipops are ideal.

With student allergies and the need for parent permission, it is not possible to distribute any other items. 

Attention Year 4 Parents

As previously communicated, your child will be provided with their iPad in Term 1, 2023 and the cost will be split into two equal payments across your Year 5 and Year 6 school fees as listed below. 

(This costing is approximate and is subject to change)

Library Overdues

This week, your child may have received an overdue notice. Could you please double-check if the books are located at home and return them to school ASAP. If you are unable to locate the book/s, please advise your child to visit Mrs Martin or Miss Meek, in the library and we will do our best to locate the books before parents will be requested to pay the replacement cost of the books. 

Canteen Caper Day