Parish Priest: Fr Florentino (Boy) Galdo
Acting School Principal: Mrs Rachael Spooner
Acting Deputy Principal: Mrs Helen Howden
School Email: admin@smfawknernth.catholic.edu.au
School Phone: 0393595423
St Matthew's Primary School is committed to creating an environment where the safety, wellbeing
and participation of all children within our care is paramount.
Dear Parents and Carers,
We have been very fortunate to have had some lovely sunny weather lately, however, the air is getting much cooler. The children are now all expected to be in their winter uniform. The winter uniform includes the school beanie. If your child would like to wear a beanie they will need to wear the school beanie. If your child would like to wear a jacket or coat when they are outside, they can either wear the school jacket that can be purchased from the uniform shop or any other dark coloured jacket.
Thankyou for your support with ensuring that your child/ren are in the correct uniform.
Watches
We have had a few students wearing electronic watch devices to school. These devices need to be for telling the time only. Please do not send your child to school with a smart watch or similiar that has the ability to play games or send and receive messages.
Safety along our fenceline
The students have been reminded that they are not to speak to anybody through our fences. Can I please ask parents to not speak to the children through the fence as well? If you have a message for your child/children you must contact the office and we will get the message to them.
Drop off and pick up
When dropping off or picking up your children could I remind parents of the following:
End of Term 2
Term 2 will finish on Friday 23rd June at 1.00pm. Please note the change to the finish time.
Illnesses
As we start to get into the colder weather, many people will develop colds or COVID symptoms. If your child is unwell please keep them home and notify the school of their absence. You can call the school or complete the absence form on Audiri (Skoolbag). If we do not hear from you Almoza will call you to find out why your child is away.
Rachael Spooner
Friday May 26th - National Sorry Day
Monday May 29th - Reconciliation Week
Monday June 12th - Public Holiday (No school)
Saturday June 17th - Confirmation Commitment Mass 5:30pm (Year 6 students)
Wednesday June 21st - Semester 1 Reports home
Friday June 23rd - Whole School Mass 11.45am
TERM 3
The teachers are in the process of preparing the Semester 1 Reports. The reports will be completed and sent home via the nForma parent portal in the last week of this term. We have many staff members who will be on long service leave at the end of this term so we will be having Parent/Teacher/Student conversations in Week 2 of Term 3 (Wednesday 19th July). More information about this will be shared with you towards the end of the term.
On the 18th of May St Matthew's Students in year levels 3-6 participated in the annual Glenroy District Cross Country that was held at Boeing Reserve, Strathmore.
This annual competition is when we compete against other schools in the district area in long distance running, with over 200+ students competing on the day. The competition is a long distance race for children aged 9/10, 11 and 12/13. The 9/10 students ran a total of 2km (2000m or 2 laps) and the 11-12/13 year olds ran a total of 3km (3000m or 3 laps).
The St Matthew's students took this head on with great spirit and enthusiasm with some students polling in the top 20 and top 10 of their division.
A big shoutout to our Grade 6 student, Sebastian, who you can see in the picture, finished 1st in his 12/13 year old race, which was a mighty effort for all to see against a total of 50 boys.
