St Timothy's School Vermont 2023

What a wonderful night the children had last night at the Movie Night. A very simple night, but one where the children were able to relax with friends and enjoy just being together. A special thanks to the Rossi family for donating the popcorn. Not only did they bring the amazing machine but they also provided the popcorn and bags and cooked the popcorn. It was great to be able to see, hear and smell the popcorn cooking! What a great atmosphere this created for a movie night!

Thanks also to the many hands that helped with helping serving the children the pizza, ice cream and drinks.

It was also great to see the parents gathering together for a catch up while their children were watching the movie. Looking forward to repeating in 2024!

Today all our staff completed a general First Aid, Anaphylaxis and CPR course.The teachers had lots of hands on practice and lots of laughs. They previously had to complete a 2 hour online assessment and complete the hands on course achieve 100% on the test to be granted a pass. These courses are completed each year to meet the duty of care expectation for MACS schools.

On Friday 1st September, all students will participate in a whole school excursion to Healesville Sanctuary (Glen Eadie Ave, Healesville VIC 3777). We will be traveling by bus (with seatbelts) and leaving school at 9.10am  and returning to school at approximately 3pm for normal pickup. Due to planned lessons at Healesville we need to leave on time. 

All students will be given time to explore the 4 different tracks located within Healesville Sanctuary as well as the Spirits of the Sky show. Students will also participate in an additional educational session:

• Prep - Year 2 students will participate in a Habitats and Life Cycles Education Session

• Year 3 and 4 students will participate in Australian Animals Education Session

• Year 5 and 6 students will participate in STEM for Endangered Species Education Session

We are lucky enough to be taking 9 staff members including Anne Maree Jones and Gail to ensure lots of supervision for all students. 

Students are required to wear their full sports uniform. We ask that students bring their morning tea, lunch and drink bottle in a small backpack. 

We look forward to a fun and energetic day!

Please return the permission form that was sent home ( or the one attached to Newsletter) to your child’s teacher by Thursday 24th August. 

Our Term 3 Parent Teacher Meetings are on Monday 4th September.

Please book a time to see your child's teacher. It is a great opportunity to hear about your child's strengths and challenges in their learning. Then you will be able to see samples of their work at our Celebrate the Learning evening.  Book here   or

Online: https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code/hzbyf  

This term we have reached out to Badminton Australia/Victoria to provide specialised instruction in Badminton. Our final session is Thursday 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. 

As a part of my trip to Darwin we visited Bathurst Island in the Tiwi Islands. Whilst there we got to meet with Sister Anne (92) who is still working within the community. 

We had the pleasure of visiting the little cypress pine mission church which is in serious need of renovation. It was built in 1941by Peter De Hayr.

Every log was put through the mill. No fancy finishes, except the curved timber to give the added beauty to the ceiling. Not one piece of planned timber exist in this beautiful old mission church.

Peter realised that white ants were the number one worry when he begun constructing the church. He found ironwood, cut it into beams and 82 years later those iron wood uprights have saved this beautiful monument that we want to restore to its pristine beauty.

The East Central Zone schools are all conducting a fundraising events to provide funds towards the renovation of this mission church.

I am hoping that St Timothy's can contribute with other East Central Schools with a gold coin or greater donation on our Celebrate the evening night.  Interested to know more ? - See Slideshow including videos ( some shorter than others)

Term 3

September 1st - School Excursion - No Raffle

September 8th Carla Hayes (Tommy)

September 15th Anne Maree Jones  

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

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 26th & Sunday 27th August

Like last week’s gospel, this week’s story takes place in a region that was outside predominantly Jewish territory. Caesarea Philippi (north of Galilee and in the region of modern day Syria) had long been a centre of pagan worship. It was used originally by the Canaanites as a site of worship; the Greeks built a temple to one of their gods there; in 20 BCE Herod the Great built a temple to Caesar Augustus; and after his death, Herod’s son, Phillip, renamed the city Caesarea Phillipi after Tiberius Caesar and himself. It is intriguing that Matthew’s gospel chooses such a site as the location for such a significant revelation of faith. Jesus asks the disciples who people say he is. They report that people associate Jesus with one of the great prophets of Jewish tradition. By people identifying Jesus with other great prophets they were projecting Jesus into the same mould as that prophet. What they were saying was that Jesus will be a great leader in the style of John the Baptist, or Elijah or even Jeremiah. The expectation of a messiah was running very high at the time of Jesus and everyone had their own idea about what that messiah would be like – usually aligned with some previous leader. They didn’t seem to understand that Jesus was breaking the mould and was not going to fit in with any of those expectations. To see him as one of the great prophets come again is always going to be an inadequate understanding of Jesus as messiah. When Jesus pushes the disciples for their own ideas, it is Simon Peter who speaks up and identifies Jesus as being the Son of the living God. Making a play on Peter’s name (in Greek, petros = Peter and petra = rock), Jesus states that hereafter, Simon Peter will be known as Peter and upon the rock of his profession of faith the church will be built.  

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