St Luke the Evangelist School Newsletter

Year 5/6

This week Senior parents received a letter and detailed permission form regarding the YMCA Camp Wyuna (Queenscliff) experience from Monday 10th July to Wednesday 12th July, 2023.  We hope to see many families at our Camp Information Meeting on Friday 9th June at 9.15am. 

Year 3/4 

We ask all families to please ‘Save The Date’ for our Middles overnight camp from Monday 7th August to Tuesday 8th August, 2023.  This will be during the middle of Term 3.  Further information will be provided to families. 

This year our Grade Five students are participating in an exciting initiative between St Luke's and Aurora School in Blackburn South.  Aurora offers support to deaf and hard of hearing children, and deaf/blind children, in their Early Education Program and inclusive Community kindergarten, which integrates hearing children from the local community.  Some aims of this program for our students are to develop leadership skills and a greater awareness of diversity and ways of inclusion, as well as making connections in our local community.

Staff from Aurora came to visit us and run a deaf awareness session with our students prior to our first visit, and so far we’ve visited our buddies at Aurora on two occasions. The children have naturally buddied up and interacted easily and happily during both visits.  None of us have wanted to leave and we are really excited for our next visit on June 5th.

Pauline Answerth

Family-School-Community Partnerships

Some of our Year Fives share their experiences of our visits to Aurora:

At Aurora, Emily and I met the preps and took care of them for the hour we were there! We took care of one particular student called Nora, by helping with her subjects like art and play! We had a blasting time playing and learning sign language with our new buddy, Nora. We both found their school very interesting. We can’t wait to go back there!!

Emily and Grace ♥️

All the Year 5 students walked to Aurora School, to become buddies with the preps, who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Our buddy, Eshaan, was very quiet but loved copying the actions we were doing which was very wholesome. Before playing games we all huddled on the floor to read a story for Harmony Day about how even though everyone is different and might be from different places, we can still come together to have fun! Afterwards, we went outside and  played on the tyre swing and drums. We also ran around with Eshaan and made little paper people. It was so much fun to play and interact with the preps and we definitely would love another opportunity to meet the kids again and to see the big smiles on their faces another time. 

April & Camilla ♥️

Going to the Aurora foundation is the best news we have heard yet. This is where the year 5’s got to interact with younger children who were deaf. Doing activities anyone could do felt more special when it was with children who communicate through sign. Some of the activities provided to do were craft, reading, play and much much more. Having the privilege to do things with deaf children is a pleasure, and heart-warmer. Everyone had a blast, and can’t wait to come again. For a ball of laughter and fun for everyone, who participates in this. It was a memorable time for everyone.

Ella ♥️

Term 2 statements were issued via email on 09 May 2023.  If you have not received your statement please contact Debbie in the School Office.

The payment required for Term 2 is one third of your full year school fees and levies. This is due by Friday 16 June 2023.

If you are a parent of children in a Catholic primary or secondary school in the Archdiocese of Melbourne, you are invited to share your voice to contribute to the Digital Ambition Plan for Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS).  Your views are critical to ensure that technology reflects the needs of students and school communities into the future.

Technology is changing at a rapid pace and the plan needs to reflect the changes as well as stay true to the direction of Catholic education. 

Please see the following flyer invitation to have your say either via a survey or to attend an online forum on Monday 22nd May at 7PM, delivered by staff and in partnership with Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools.

Spartan has standardised the weekly school delivery run.  From next week, any online orders placed for delivery to school will be delivered to St Luke's on a Tuesday.

Note: Online orders placed by midday on a Monday will be included in the school delivery the next day.  Any orders placed after this time will be delivered in the following weeks run.

For your convenience, accompanying the newsletter this week is a current price sheet for school uniform.

If you have not completed an enrolment form for your child who is due to join our Prep 2024 intake, please do so immediately. You can visit the school office for a hard copy or contact Debbie via email:  schooloffice@slblackburnsth.catholic.edu.au for a digital copy.

If you know of family or friends who are looking to move into the area OR are considering moving schools for their child OR want to  commence their child at a great primary school, please encourage them to come by for a tour. A quick phone call to Debbie in the office or email via our website will get the ball rolling. 

Children arriving after the bell or leaving early.

As part of our wellbeing care of children at St Luke's, every class engages in a morning routine at 8.50 am.  This quiet, calm time allows children to gather together in a circle, to greet each other by name, to pray and/or enter into some Christian meditation and get ready for the day.  Please make sure you allow enough time to get your child to school BEFORE the student entry doors close at 8.50 am.

If children arrive after the gate and student entry doors are locked, parents/carers are required to walk their child/ren to the school office and sign them in on the VPass iPad.

If leaving early (before the end of the day), parents/carers are required to sign their child/ren out on the VPASS iPad.

WINTER UNIFORMS:

With the colder weather coming on, please make sure your child has his/her school jumper EVERY day. Many children are choosing to wear a rain jacket instead of their jumpers. The rain jacket is for outside use only.