St Anne's news: Wednesday 20 November 2019

Welcome to the St Anne's newsletter. Here's everything that's happening around our community this week.

• Reflection
• Greg's Message
• Term 4 key dates
• Sports
• Library News
• Student Representative Council Initiative
• Student Wellbeing
• The Evidence
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• School Disco
• Cybersafety
• Parish News
• Christmas Mass
• Graduation Dinner
• Parents and Friends
• Community News
• Enrolments, uniform and school fees
• Our calendar, advertise here
• School hours
• Out of School Hours Care (OSHC)
• Term Dates

Prayer of Peace
God of Peace,
We pray for peace around the world.
Where there is hatred, sow seeds of calm.
Where there is destruction, help us to rebuild.
Where children are crying, bring an end to tears.
Shelter your people and protect them.
Guide them and keep them from harm.
Amen.

Hello Parents and Friends of St Anne’s
Last Sunday was a busy, but most satisfying day for many families of St. Anne’s. It began with the Foundation 2019/2020 hospitality mass. This mass was extremely well attended by 2019/20 Foundation families. I thank the families, staff and Fr. Toan for their participation in the service. As this was our final hospitality mass for the year, I’d like to take this opportunity of thanking the families and staff who have supported our hospitality masses this year. Further thanks to Fr John and Fr Toan for their wonderful support. It has been great to observe the children’s participation in the readings, gifts, singing and altar serving.

Working Bee
Sunday afternoon saw our final working bee for the year, and it too was well attended. Jobs completed included the following: new mulch for the junior playground, replacing a broken toilet seat, fixing broken wire on a cyclone fence, digging over vegetable beds, weeding, painting skirting boards, cleaning out grates in the staff car park and reorganising/tidying up of hall plates, cutlery etc. To those people who have assisted us at the working bees this year, I thank you sincerely. Your voluntary work and generosity of spirit has assisted the school enormously. Special thanks to Syl Longo and Clare Bellio who have coordinated and prepared four successful working bees this year.    

Foundation Orientation Program
Last Thursday we enjoyed a social evening as 2020 Foundation parents mingled with each other and staff. Many thanks to the parents who set up and served the food and drinks. Our 2020 Foundation Orientation Program concludes on Tuesday 10th December. This session (2:30pm-3:15pm) will see our Foundation students meet their year 6 buddies.

School Fees
We still have a significant amount of school fees outstanding. For those concerned your attention to this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you. 

School Closure Day
A reminder that there will be no classes for students on Monday 25th November as staff undertake a 2020 planning day.

Sexuality Education
A reminder to all year 5/6 families that tonight at 7pm in the hall we are having a Sexuality Education night. This session will be run by Jacinta Holland and it is expected that all 5/6 families will avail themselves of this valuable opportunity. 

Congratulations
Congratulations to Craig Rodda and Mirella Grimaldi on their wedding last Sunday. We wish you continued happiness. 

NOVEMBER

• Wed 20:    Sexuality Education Year 5/6, 7pm
• Fri 22: 5/6 Battleball
•                  School disco 4:30pm
• Mon 25:    School closure day
• Tues 26:   Assembly 9am, Pablo’s musicians to play
• Wed 27:   Parish Annual General Meeting 7:30pm
• Thu 28:    Pop-Up! Art show 7pm

DECEMBER

• Mon 2:      Swimming
• Tues 3:     Swimming;
                   Parents and Friends dinner 7:30pm
• Wed 4:      Swimming,
                   Parish Pastoral Council
                   Parish Education Board  7:30pm
• Thu 5:      Swimming
• Fri 6:        First Friday mass 10am
• Mon 9:     Swimming
• Tues 10:   Swimming, 2020 Buddies meet and greet                  2:30pm
• Wed 11:   Swimming; Parents and Friends 7:30pm
• Thu 12:   Swimming
• Mon 16:  Big day out (year 6)
• Tues 17: Graduation mass/dinner 6pm
• Wed 18:  End of year school mass 10am
•                Dismissal 1pm

Battleball
All of our Year 5/6 students will be involved in the eagerly awaited annual North Balwyn District Battleball day on Friday 22nd November at Boorondara Sports Centre.  Please sign permission forms on skoolbag as soon as possible. Students need to be at school at 8:45am, as we are leaving at 9am.

Basketball
Our final basketball clinic will be held on Wednesday 27th November. Remember to wear your sports uniform.

Please return all outstanding books to the library by Wednesday 27th November so we are able to complete our yearly stocktake.

Thank you

Library Captains

This Friday, 22nd November will be the last official day for collecting plastic lids for donation to Envision Hands. We have collected two Reflex Paper Boxes filled with lids so far and the SRC are very proud of the efforts families have made.
So if you have not been collecting Code 2 and 4 lids up until now please help us to fill another box before Mrs Morsley delivers the lids next week.

As part of our Healthy Bodies, healthy minds Inquiry unit that is being taught across all levels,  we have been promoting the idea of creating something before switching on a screen. Children have been ‘strongly’ encouraged to make or create something before turning on the iPad, computer, xbox, iphone etc. It could be a drawing, a painting, a dance , a song, a lego construction , a box creation, a cake. The possibilities are endless. This week some of the children brought their creations to school to share at assembly. They were very proud and excited at what they had been able  to do.

Creating things and being productive makes us happy.  Sadly the research is telling us that some children are spending up to 5 hours a day on screens. This is a horrendous statistic. Not only are children not playing or communicating with their families they are watching things that are inappropriate and dangerous for their developing brains. It's beneficial for us adults as well, to be  more engaged and connected with those around us too.
We are very much looking forward to next weeks assembly to see what has been created.

Resilience Project
On Monday night eight of the staff attended The Resilience Project at the Melbourne convention centre. Hugh Van Cuylenburg spoke about finding Happiness through Gratitude, Empathy and Mindfulness.  At St Anne's we already practise Mindfulness daily. Next year our focus will be Gratitude. We can all start this at home by shifting the question from "What did you do today" to “What are three things that went well for you today”?

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED: SCHOOL DISCO

The P&F would love some more help at the Disco on Friday afternoon, if you can help in one of the following areas, please sign up at volunteersignup.org/KCDFD

• Supervisors 4:30pm - 6:00pm x 4
• Drinks/Chips Stall 4:30pm - 6:00pm x 1
• Sign-out Desk 5:50pm - 6:10pm x 2
• Clean Up 6:00pm - 6:45pm x 3

The government website has updated their parent support and added a young people section to help guide with online security and social media use. It is well worth a look even as a prompt to start a conversation at home.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents
https://www.esafety.gov.au/young-people

SACRAMENTAL PROGRAMME 2020-2021
The parish has revised its sacramental programme to allow a better spaced  celebration of the sacraments, which will allow more time for preparation.

The programme will run as such:

• Gr.3   Reconciliation
• Gr.4   First Communion
• Gr.6   Confirmation

For children who are not in the parish primary schools, there will be an Introductory Module on the basics of Catholic faith and practice in the first half of Grade 3.

The timetable for the next cycle is:

• Reconciliation      St Bede’s - 20th October 2020                                     
                             St Anne’s - 27th October 2020
   
• First Communion  Whole parish 1st & 2nd May 2021                               
                              Whole parish 8th & 9th May 2021
   
• Confirmation        St Patrick’s Cathedral - 9th August 2020, 2pm

Year 6 Graduation Dinner: Tuesday 17th December 2019

A reminder to Year 6 parents to please RSVP via Paperless Post to confirm your attendance at the graduation dinner and to book parent tickets via TryBooking https://www.trybooking.com/BGLPU. The ticket price includes a Graduation Year-Book.

P&F News

Last Wednesday’s P&F AGM was a successful meeting and we wish to thank all those who attended, expressing their support for the P&F Committee. The Reports delivered by our committee President Richard Clancy, Treasurer Becky Ellis and Principal Greg James each acknowledged and affirmed the important work conducted by the P&F in supporting the St Anne’s School Community throughout the 2019 school year.

President's Report

Treasurer's Report

Principal's Report

Part of the evening’s proceedings included the resignation of two very substantial contributors to our P&F Committee and St Anne’s Community. We extend our gratitude to Treasurer Becky Ellis & Class Rep Co-ordinator Anne-Marie Moir for their willingness to give us their time and talents.

Our new 2020 P&F Committee was then elected and we are very pleased to announce as follows:

• President: Richard Clancy
• Treasurer: Vacant
• Vice President: Kathleen Sexton
• Secretary: Lisa Hodgkinson
• Class Rep Coordinator: Vacant
• Working Bee Coordinator: Sylvestor Longo
• General Committee: Sam Lovrich, Liz Neuwirth, Jacinta Cleland, Melina Panaouris, Sue Wuttke, Jocelyn Elliott.

The first meeting of the new P&F Committee will take place on Wednesday 11th December 2019 at 7:30pm in the School Staff Room where plans for 2020 will be discussed.

If anyone would like to contribute by taking on either of the roles of Treasurer or Class Rep Co-ordinator or join the General Committee, please contact Lisa Hodgkinson lis_burns@yahoo.co.uk.

School Fees 2019

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Kew East Primary School Out of School Hours Care can be contacted on           
Ph: 03 98596052

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• Term 1   30/01/2019 to 05/04/2019
   
• Term 2   23/04/2019 to 28/06/2019
   
• Term 3   15/07/2019 to 20/09/2019
   
• Term 4   07/10/2019 to 18/12/2019