Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Year 8 and 10 Parent Meeting

There is an important parent meeting to be held at the school next week Thursday from 5:30pm for parents / carers of all year 8 and 10 students. Year 8 and 10 students are required to attend the meeting. All aspects of preparation for the upcoming year 8 and 10 National exams will be discussed.

School Photos

School photos will be on Friday 18 July (term 3 week 1).  

LIS PNG Independence Celebrations 2025

Thanks to those parents who attended the initial meetings; there will be an update provided at this afternoon’s Independance Meeting.

Media Consent Forms

Please continue to complete and return Media Consent Forms that went home last week. Please advise your child’s classroom teacher if your child did not receive one.  

Parents and Wantoks

The Parents and Wantoks Committee met on Tuesday; thank you to those who attended. Please keep an eye out in our toksave for upcoming events.

School Council

The School Council Meeting for Term 2 will be held on Thursday, 15 May; this meeting is for all School Council Members.  If you would like to know more about the functions of the School Council, please make an appointment to see the principal.

A Good Night’s Sleep

It is important for children to have a good night’s sleep. There is no magic number for exactly how much sleep we need, but the Australian Centre for Education in Sleep (ACES) suggests the following as a guide:

Primary school: 10-12 hours per day

High school adolescents: 8-10 hours per day

Adults: 7-9 hours per day

Term 2 Parent Calendar

Please download the term 2 calendar below. 

Regards,

Mr Kevin Collins

SCHOOL HOURS Prep - 6

Official school times are:

8.10 Bell rings

8.10 – 8.15 Home room (Assembly on Friday)

8.15 – 10.35 First session

10.35 – 11.05 Recess (15 minutes eating followed by 15 minutes play)

11.05 – 12.35 Second session

12.35 – 1.20 Lunch (15 minutes eating followed by 30 minutes play)

1:20 – 3.00 Third Session

3.00 End of school day

SCHOOL HOURS 7 - 10

Official school times are:

8.10 Bell rings

8.10 – 8.15 Home room (Assembly on Friday)

8.15 – 10.05 Two periods

10.05 – 10.35 Recess (10 minutes eating followed by 20 minutes play)

10.35 – 1.20 Three periods

1.20 – 2.00 Lunch (10 minutes eating followed by 30 minutes play)

2.00 – 2.55 Third Session

2.55 – 3.00 Home room

3.00 End of school day

2025

Term 1 Monday 27 January to Thursday 3 April

Term 2 Tuesday 22 April to Thursday 19 June

Term 3 Monday 14 July to Thursday 18 September

Term 4 Monday 6 October to Thursday 4 December

This week in Hospitality class, our year 8 students were shown how to use the school's coffee machine under the guidance of Robin from the Club coffee shop. The students really enjoyed learning how to make different drinks and we want to extend our thanks to Robin for taking the time to work with our students. After today's assembly, students put their learning into practice and made coffees for parents and wantoks who attended this week's assembly.

Week 3: Thursday - Year 8 and 10 parent information session - 5.30pm

Week 4: Thursday - School Council Meeting at 6.00pm

Week 6: Wednesday - Primary Student-led Conferences

Week 6: Friday - Wellbeing afternoon

Week 7: Thursday - Year 7/8 Cairns trip depart

Week 8: Friday - Year 7/8 Cairns trip return

Week 8: Friday - Kindy Athletics

Week 9: Wednesday - Athletics Carnival

Monday and Tuesday afternoons: Year 8 and 10 Maths and English remedials for selected students at STM

Monday: Teeball with Ms Dovaston and Mrs Collins - 3.10-4.00pm

Wednesday: year 3/4 Homework class with Ms Tukata; high school supervised study

Thursday: year 5/6 Homework class

Athletics Week

Unfortunately, our scheduled Athletics Week for next week has to be postponed to later in the term. We will advise parents when this will be taking place. Our Athletics Carnival is scheduled for Wednesday of week 9, the 18th June.

Afternoon Activities

Primary students have the opportunity to participate in tee-ball over the next four Monday afternoons from 3.10-4.00pm. Students need to return a permission note in order to take part. This note was sent home on Thursday of this week and needs to be returned by Monday.

Mrs Romaso-Daimol and Mrs Laien will also be taking Netball training for our year 5/6 and high school girls.

Mrs Baiwan will be running some Science STEM activities for interested high school students.

Kind regards,

Miss Meauri (Sports Co-ordinator) 

Daily Reading

All students from Prep should be reading each day as part of their regular homework routine. Older students are encouraged to read their library books after progressing through the reading levels. Please remind students to be borrowing from the library each week.

Thank you to parents who have again started reading with students at school at the start of each day to help support our reading program. If you would like to help with reading, please see your child's teacher.

Year 8 and 10 Exam Prep - Saturday classes

Parents and carers of our year 8 and 10 students have been advised that Saturday morning remedial sessions commence this Saturday. These sessions are compulsory for our year 8 and 10 students (except for students with religious beliefs) and it is important that students arrive on time. If your child is unable to attend a session due to illness or other reasons, please contact Ms Yip to explain their absence. Thank you to our STM staff for running these lessons.

Wellbeing Matters!

This term, we continue our rollout of 'The Resilience Project' program across all classes from Prep to year 10. As part of our Wellbeing program, this term Mrs Amanda Amidy will be taking our year 7/8 and 9/10 classes for some mindfulness and meditation. The primary classes will have mindfulness sessions with Amanda in either term 3 or term 4. We thank Amanda for her enthusiasm and support of our students. 

This term, we will also hold another Wellbeing afternoon and we thank the P & W for funding a healthy fruit snack for all students on that day to promote the benefits of healthy eating. 

Student folios

We ask that students folios are returned if they have not yet been bought back to school.

Friday assemblies

Each Friday, we hold a short assembly in the basketball court and parents and wantoks are welcome to attend. Today was the year 5/6 assembly and next week it will be the year 3/4 assembly. Friday assemblies commence at 8.10am.

Kind regards,

Ms Langusch.

Work Ready Program

Our Batch 2 Work Ready Program for this year commenced on Monday as scheduled.  There are 20 trainees in total: 9 females and 11 males. All trainees have completed the minimum requirement of Grade 10 & 12 education with additional studies in Vocational Training Centres as well as Colleges and University.

A reminder again that, towards the end of last year, we put a temporary stop to accepting new Work Ready applications and this is still in effect. A Toksave will be sent out by mid-this year announcing when, new WRP applications will be accepted.

FODE

The FODE program has commenced again this term and students are working at their own pace with guidance and assistance from STM staff.

 Afternoon Remedials / IT / Exam Prep

Monday / Tuesday Remedials, Thursday IT (Computing) and Saturday Exam Prep will continue at STM.

Kind regards, 

Mr. David Wengip