ENewsletter

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.

Acting Principal's Message

Dear Parents and Carers,

Congratulations to our First Communicants

This past Sunday, June 4th we celebrated the First Communion of some of our Year 4 students. It was a lovely mass. I would like to thank Mr Kavanagh, Ms Vago, Mrs Sozzi and Mrs Howden for their preparation of the students. We had a small number of students from other classes who represented the school as our choir and the violin students also played during the mass. Thanks to Mr Travers and Sarah De Bono for their preparation of these students. Congratulations to the students who received the Eucharist for the first time. May the Lord bless you and may your relationship with Jesus continue to flourish.

Letter Box Drop

As part of our promotion of the school Mr. Brown arranged for some postcards to be created that advertise our school and inform the community of our 2024 enrolments. We were hoping to be able to deliver these postcards via a letterbox drop. If any families would be able to assist us with delivering some of these postcards in your street or local area, please contact the school office and Almoza or Natalie will be able to provide you with some postcards.

Interschool Sport - Friday 9th June (beginning at12.30pm)

The Year 6 students (with the support of some Year 5 students) have had a successful winter season of Interschool Sport. This coming Friday June 9th we have 3 teams involved in semi-finals.The details are below:

FOOTBALL - to play against Oak Park @ JP Fawkner Reserve 1A Francis Street, Oak Park

SOCCER - to play against St Francis @ St Matthews Primary School

NETBALL - to play against Oak Park @ St Matthews Primary School

We are extremely proud of all of the students who have participated this term. I wish all of the teams the best of luck for their games on Friday.

Casual Clothes Day - Thursday 22nd June

To celebrate the end of Term 2, the Parents and Friends Association will be holding a casual clothes day for all students. Students are invited to wear casual clothes and provide a gold coin donation.

End of Term 2 early finish - No After School Care available

School will finish at 1pm on the last day of term, Friday June 23rd. After school care will not be available from 1pm.

Dates To Remember

Monday June 12th - Public Holiday (No school)
Saturday June 17th - Confirmation Commitment Mass 5:30pm (Year 6 students who will be receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation next term)
Wednesday June 21st - Semester 1 Reports home
Friday June 23rd - Whole School Mass 11.45am
Friday June 23rd - End of Term 2 - students will finish at 1pm

TERM 3

Monday July 10th - Term 3 begins
Wednesday July 12th and Thursday July 13th - Prep 2024 Interviews
Friday July 14th - Whole school mass at 12pm
Tuesday July 18th - Confirmation Faith night (with sponsors) for Confirmation candidates
Wednesday July 19th - Parent/Student/Teacher conversations - Students finish at 1.00pm
Friday July 21st - Sacrament of Confirmation at 6.00pm

PRAYER FOR THE WEEK

PRAYER FOR OUR HOLY COMMUNION RECIPIENTS

Lord Jesus Christ,

Bless the children who have received Holy Communion for the first time.

May this day be the step toward a life-long love of the Eucharist.

Give them a hunger for this sacred food so that they turn to you for comfort, guidance, and wisdom as they grow into full discipleship.

Thank you for their innocence and goodness.

May their hands, extended in anticipation of your body and blood, inspire all of us to cherish this sacred Sacrament.

Amen.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION

Congratulations to the children in Grade 4 who participated in their First Eucharist on the weekend. We also wish to thank their classroom teachers for their preparation and support of the children during this term.

Congratulations to:

Annika Taylor, Archer Storti, Emily Pileggi, Giacomo Monforte, Jeffery Proud, Levi Rogers, Marc-Anthony Minutolo, Marios Yalda, Mary Matta, Nick Tita, Rex Carandang, Seth Tahir, Taylah Rogers, Valentino Serra and Jacob Khawaja.

Lord Jesus,

Bless the children who are coming forward to receive

Holy Communion for the First time.

May this day be an initial step into a lifelong love of the Eucharist.

Give them a hunger for this sacred food

so that they can turn to you for comfort,

guidance, and wisdom as they grow into

full discipleship.

Thank you for their innocence and goodness.

May their hands extend in anticipation of your Body and Blood.

inspire all of us who cherish this sacred sacrament,

AMEN

CONFIRMATION

Reminder: Grade 6 Confirmation students have a commitment mass coming up on Saturday 17th June 5.30 pm. No sponsors need to be there, but of course they are most welcome.

Sponsors need to be 16 years of age at the time of Confirmation and they need to be baptised. The Confirmation workshop is on Tuesday 18th July, Sponsors do need to be there and then on Friday 21st July, Confirmation will commence at 6pm.

hhowden@smfawknernth.catholic.edu.au

LEARNING AND TEACHING

Semester 1 Reports and Parent/Teacher/Student Conversations

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.

COMMUNITY NEWS

Resource Smart Schools Program

St Matthews Fawkner have recently joined the Resource Smart Schools Program. Resource Smart Schools is a free program offered by Sustainability Victoria that supports Victorian schools to embed sustainability across the school facilities, community and curriculum, while saving resources and money for the school.

We are working towards becoming a 5 star sustainable school and are almost ready to submit for our first star. We have even been invited to present our sustainability initiatives at the ResourceSmart School awards on 15/6/23 at the MCG.

Great work St Matthews!