Our Term 4 Parents and Friends met on Tuesday night, to plan for Term 4. You can find the minutes of the meeting attached to this Newsletter.
Now is also the time to consider joining out Parents & Friends team for 2024. Many hands make light work. If you would like to join the team to organise fundraising and social events please see Anne Maree or Gail, or contact a current Parents and Friends member.
The Parents & Friends - CHILDREN'S DISCO- is planned for Friday 1st December. Please put the date into your calendar. Christmas time is notoriously a very busy time of year and we have several school events. The dates, times and event info will be forwarded soon as confirmed.
Our Friday tuckshop returns next week - Friday 20th October.
Order forms were sent home today.
Friday 20th October: Renee (Milton)
Friday 27th October: Daina (Savannah & Grayson)
Friday 3rd November: Belinda (William & Hailey)
Friday 10th November: Lisa (Hudson)
Friday 17th November: Beth ( Abigail & Ethan)
Friday 24th November: Kath (Harry)
Friday 1st December: Renitha (Adriana)
Friday 8th December: Kitty (Bella)
Friday 15th December: Karen (Daniel)
Assemblies will be every second week in Term 4.
Friday 6th October & Friday 20th October
Friday 3rd November & Friday 17th November
Friday 1st December
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 14th and Sunday 15th October
Who you ate with in Jesus’ time was very important – it reflected your own status. To share table with people who were regarded as ‘lesser’ by nature of their lifestyle or illness was seen to lessen the status of other participants. Sharing table was as much a political action as it was a social one. This week’s gospel is an important one for understanding Jesus’ message of an inclusive kingdom. The king invites all the ‘right’ people to attend his son’s wedding banquet but they shame him by refusing his invitation and murdering his messengers. This would have been an extraordinary action in Jesus’ time. An invitation to the table of your social superior would not be rejected lightly. To try to save face and regain some honour, the king sends his servants to bring in people off the street – the poorest and least socially acceptable people. The invitation to the people off the street, ‘bad and good alike’, is a reflection of Jesus’ own attitude to sharing table. Jesus ate with those who were regarded as unworthy: tax collectors, prostitutes and sinners. It was one of the harshest criticisms of Jesus made by the Pharisees and Scribes: ‘He eats with tax collectors and sinners!’ One of Jesus’ strongest messages was about the inclusive nature of the kingdom and he lived it day to day. His inclusive table fellowship was a powerful statement about the fact that the kingdom is an invitation to all – rich and poor alike, regardless of status in this world. This parable highlights the invitation to join in the kingdom of God that has been rejected by the Jewish leaders but taken up by the ‘lesser’ people of society. The wedding banquet is a metaphor for the kingdom of God.
Term 4 is Summer Uniform
From Week 3 it is expected that all children wear :
Summer uniform on Monday, Wednesday, Thursday (except during netball clinics) and Friday.
Sports Uniform : Tuesday and during Netball Clinics Thursday 9th Nov, 16th Nov, 23rd Nov and 30th November
Once again we have been able to access additional funding through Sporting Schools and this term will run Netball Clinics for Prep (Foundation) to Year 6.
The dates are: Thursday 9th October, 16th October, 23rd October and 30th October. The children are asked to wear Sports Uniform on these days.
We are also lucky enough to be able to purchase some additional netball equipment.
It is a great bonus to be able to access Sporting School funding for additional support.
School Returns Monday 2nd October
More dates to come
Monday 2nd October- Friday 13th October Swimming
Friday 27th October -Billy Cary Building 9 Whole School)
Monday 6th November -School Closure day
Tuesday 7th November- Melbourne Cup Holiday
Thursday November 9th ,16th, 23rd & 30th Sporting School Netball Clinics
Monday 11th December - Whole School End of Year Celebration
Thursday 14th December- Year 6 Graduation Mass and Dinner
Friday 15th December- Whole School finish
