St Timothy's School Vermont 2023

Thank you to the School Advisory Committee who met on Tuesday night. A copy of the minutes can be found attached to this newsletter.

Dear Parents

There has been a change to the planned LUNCH ORDER for next week to an OPTION of McDonalds. The  order has been sent home and another is attached to this newsletter.

IF YOU WISH TO ORDER Mc DONALD'S, THEY MUST BE IN BY WEDNESDAY 2ND AUGUST. LATE ORDERS CAN'T BE ACCEPTED. 

It’s time for St Timothy’s Junior Superheroes to bond with their Senior Sidekicks!

MiniBOSS ‘Super Buddies’ is a unique buddy program that centres on building meaningful relationships between junior superheroes and their older buddies (senior sidekicks). Packed with fun ways to communicate, dynamic duo challenges, and a chance to strut their superhero stuff, St Timothy’s students will have a blast throughout this special connection experience.

MORNING SESSIONS

(SEPARATE PROGRAMS FOR JUNIOR AND SENIOR STUDENTS)...

Students launch into the world of superheroes! For the juniors, it's time to take a trip to Superhero HQ, test out some powerful poses, and create a special superhero keepsake to show their Senior Sidekicks. For the seniors, creating clever ways to show hero behaviour while vanquishing villain temptations, all while becoming powerful role

models for their buddies, is the name of the game!

AFTERNOON SESSION (JUNIOR AND SENIOR STUDENTS COMBINED)...

Buddies, it's time to unite! Sidekicks work closely with their Superheroes to strengthen their bond through the creation of a buddy book, a secret handshake and a superhero oath!

Super Buddies is run across a full day in two parts:

MORNING SESSIONS: JUNIOR SESSION (little buddies) and separate SENIOR

SESSION (big buddies)

AFTERNOON SESSION: JUNIOR & SENIOR SESSION combined! (everyone comes together)

Curriculum Links

The Super Buddies incursion is an enterprise education program that fits especially well

with Inquiry Based Learning. The program links to the Victorian Curriculum, supporting

the following curriculum areas and capabilities:

● Critical & Creative Thinking

● Ethical Capability

● Personal & Social Capability

● Civics and Citizenship

● Drama

● Music

● Visual Arts

● Literacy

● Inquiry Skills

All will be on show at our Celebrate the Learning evening!

We were so fortunate this week for our Year 3/4 class to be able to attend the production of Little Women. It was absolutely AMAZING. The children returned very enthusiastic about the performance.

An added benefit was to see 6 of our past St Timothy's students on stage. Five can be seen in the cast here and one working behind the scenes. WOW! How fantastic is that!  Not a bad representation from a small school.

Archbishop Peter Comensoli will be visiting St Timothy’s and St Lukes on Friday 25th August. Unfortunately this clashes with a School Closure Day that was unable to be changed due to the very busy term and long term booking.

We are hoping however to have some children who may be able to attend to represent our school community between 11:30am to 12pm for a play together outside, and an opportunity to meet/ talk to the Archbishop and share stories of reasons why they love their school. They could share their stories of happy experiences, their learning, their friends and their teachers and the importance for them attending a local catholic school like St Timothy’s.

We realise parents may not be able to get their child to school for this short amount of time due to work commitments but thought perhaps they might be able to help each other out so we can have children from across the grades.

A morning tea would be provided for the children and an opportunity to play together. It would be wonderful if a few parents could stay and be with those who attend. 

The Archbishop has a very busy schedule on that Friday but will meet with Fr Gerard and leadership teams from both schools then a brief tour of the school and an opportunity to meet the staff and children.

A form has been sent to complete and return whether your child can attend on the day.

Over the next 4-6 weeks we welcome some International students who are visiting us at St Timothy's for an Australian School Learning Experience. We welcome to St Timothy's Rex, Charles, Jim, Toby, Justin and Yichen

This term we have reached out to Badminton Australia/Victoria to provide specialised instruction in Badminton. At this stage we have booked Thursday 3rd August, 10th August, 17th August and 24th August. We have also purchased badminton bats, smash bats and shuttles for children to continue to use after our clinics. This has been possible due to the Sporting Schools grant. 

Term 3

August 4th: Marie Capewell ( Chiara & Alexander)

August 11th: Mariafe Bonilla ( Natalia) August: Lidia Salakos ( Noah)

 August 25th  - School Closure - No Raffle

September 1st - School Excursion - No Raffle

September 8th Carla Hayes( Tommy)

September 15th Anne Maree Jones  ( Footy Day Theme)

During Term 3 we will  be having Assemblies EVERY SECOND WEEK. 

Week 3: Friday 28th July

Week 5: Friday 11 August

Week 7:NO ASSEMBLY

Week 9: Friday 8th September

You can order online each Wednesday  and the lunch orders will be delivered to school. If you haven't ordered previously you will need to create an account.

Orders MUST be placed prior to 8:30am.

To place an order www.classroomcuisine.com.au.

Parish Newsletter Saturday 29th July and Sunday 30th July

The twin parables of today’s gospel – the treasure in the field and the pearl of great value – reveal a paradoxical truth about the kingdom of Heaven. Throughout the gospels, Jesus presents the kingdom as ‘now but not yet’; as ‘present but future’. This paradox is captured in these twin parables. In both cases, the kingdom is likened to something of great value that is discovered but cannot be immediately grasped. In both parables, the finder must go away and sell everything so that they can eventually come to possess the treasure they have discovered.By comparing this experience with the kingdom of Heaven, Jesus suggests that most of us can only ever catch glimpses of what it means to live in the kingdom. For most of us, only in the future reality of heaven will we ever fully come to understand the kingdom. However, those glimpses that we catch – those moments of inspiration and connection with God and with one another – are like the treasures of the parables. They are enough to inspire us to do what it takes to make sure that we will one day enter into that kingdom reality. The third parable of this gospel passage reveals yet another truth about the kingdom. The dragnet thrown into the sea is like the message of Jesus – it is flung far and wide and does not discriminate about where it falls or on whom it falls. This parable rounds out the chapter that began with the parable of the sower and the image of casting the net is a neat parallel to the indiscriminate casting of seed. It is not up to the one who casts the net, the seed or the Word. Rather it is up to each individual to determine how they will respond to receiving the Word.

Week 1

● Tuesday 11th July Parents and Friends Meeting (TBC)

Week 2

● Tuesday 18th July - 5/6 Confirmation Parent Evening

● Anne Maree away in Darwin ( Principal’s Conference)

● Friday 21st July -Year 3 - 6 The Smoothie Bar Incursion (Full Day)

Week 3

● Tuesday 25th SAC Meeting (TBC)

● Wednesday 26th July - 3/4 Emmaus Musical Performance Excursion

● Thursday 27th July - 5/6 Confirmation

● Friday 28th July - 100 Days of Prep

Week 4

● Friday 4th August- Whole School -The Superhero Incursion

● Friday 4th August -Hot Potatoes & Topping Lunch

Week 5

● Friday 11th August - Prep - 2 The Chocolate Shop Incursion (Half Day)

Week 6

● Tuesday 15th August Assumption Mass

• Wednesday 16th August - Book Week Celebration
• Friday 18th August  National Day of Action Against Bullying and Violence
• Friday 18th August Good Start Kinder Visit ( Year 5/6) new

Week 7

● Thursday 24th August- Movie Night ( Parents & Friends?)

● Friday 25th August - School Closure First Aid

Week 8

● Tuesday 29th August - Talent Quest- Year 6 organised- Lunch time event

● Thursday 31st August - Father’s Day Stall

● Friday 1st September - Whole School Excursion - Healesville Sanctuary

Week 9

● Monday 4th September - Parent Teacher Interviews

● Thursday 7th September - Year 3*(age) - 6 District Athletics

Week 10

● Thursday 14th September - Celebrate the Learning Showcase Evening

● Friday 15th September - Footy Day

SPORTING SCHOOLS- BADMINTON

Proposed Dates: Thursday 3rd , 10th, 17th 24th September TBC