St Timothy's School Vermont 2024

As I am sure you are aware their are many 'bugs' out there at the moment including the Flu Virus and COVID.

Both are making people quite unwell. 

We ask that everyone be vigilant in watching for symptoms and if unwell, we ask for students to stay home.

if COVID is in the household please wear masks when picking up or dropping off children if still contagious.

We will continue to use our air filters at school, use disinfectant wipes on tables and encourage the washing and sanitising of hands.

Children are asked to have tissues/ hankies and dispose of the appropriately.

We are only at the start of winter and already have had cases within most schools and the wider community. 

Dear Parents

We are seeking Parent Volunteers to provide a cake, biscuits or slices for our weekly cake raffle fundraiser. If you can help out please send Anne Maree Jones or Gail Rich your name/ preferred date/week (if you have one ) to be added to our list of volunteers.

Week 10 - 21st June Wiluppa ( Julia)

Week 11- 28th June Sophie ( Iris) 

Looking for Term 3 Volunteers

Term 2 Assemblies

Week 3,5,7 and 9 at 3pm

• Friday May 3rd
• Friday May 17th
• Friday May 31st
• Friday June 14th

St Vinnies Winter Appeal

Friday 7th June is the Feast of Sacred Heart.

Traditionally at this time each year we ask families to donate non perishable items for the St Vinnies Winter Appeal.

For example:

Canned Foods: Soup, tuna, salmon, baked beans, tinned fruit, fruit juices

Bottled foods: Spaghetti sauce, mayonnaise, bottled sauces, eg Chicken tonight

Sealed foil/plastic foods; chips, nuts, sauces, rice

Toiletries: toothpaste. soap, hand cream, body cream, body wash, hand wash, toothbrush, nail brush, nail scissors, shampoo, conditioner.

Special Treats: Chocolate, coffee, tea, hot chocolate/milo, cake mix

Baby Needs: nappies, bibs, bottles, clothes, wipes

Winter Goodies: Hats ,scarves , beanies, socks

Good Quality clothes and shoes

 We will set up baskets in each classroom and Open Learning Space.

If you can assist us it would be greatly appreciated.

Parish Newsletter Saturday 15th June and Sunday 16th June 2024Tree of Righteousness

In the cryptic message of the prophet Ezekiel, long centuries before the Lord’s coming, God gave His people reason to hope. Ezekiel glimpsed a day when the Lord God would place a tree on a mountain in Israel, a tree that would “put forth branches and bear fruit.” Who could have predicted that the tree would be a cross on the hill of Calvary, and that the fruit would be salvation?

Ezekiel foresees salvation coming to “birds of every kind”—thus, not just to the people of Israel, but also to the Gentiles, who will “take wing” through their new life in Christ. God indeed will “lift high the lowly tree,” as He solemnly promises.

Such salvation surpasses humanity’s most ambitious dreams. And so we express our gratitude in the Psalm: “Lord, it is good to give thanks to you.” It is indeed good, and better still to give thanks with praise. The Psalmist speaks of those who are just upon the earth, but looks to God as the source and measure of justice, of righteousness. Like Ezekiel, he evokes the image of a flourishing tree to describe the lives of the just. The image, again, suggests the Cross as the measure of righteousness.

The Cross is a sign of contradiction to those who would rather “flourish” in worldly terms. As St. Paul emphasizes to the Corinthians, we need courage.

Our faith makes us strong, and it is proved in our deeds. He reminds us that we will be judged by the ways our faith manifests itself in works: “so that each may receive recompense, according to what he did in the body, whether good or evil.”

God Himself will empower the works He expects from us, though we freely choose to correspond to His grace. In the prophetic oracles, He scattered the seed that sprang up and became the mustard tree, large enough to accommodate all the birds of the sky, just as Ezekiel had seen. He gave this doctrine to His disciples in terms they were able to understand, and He the grace of faith and the courage we need to live in the world as children of God.

Scott Hahn