St Anne's news: Wednesday 24 April 2019

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

• Reflection
• Greg's Message
• Religious Education
• Term 2 Key Dates
• Co-curricular activities
• Sports
• Learning and Teaching
• Parents and Friends Association
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• Enrolments, uniform and school fees
• Our calendar, advertise here
• School hours
• Out of School Hours Care (OSHC)
• Term Dates

“To be true followers of Jesus today also includes embracing his teaching about nonviolence.”
Pope Francis, 1st January 2017

Hello Parents and Friends of St. Anne’s
Welcome back to term 2. I hope that all families enjoyed their Easter break together. Many, many thanks to the families who supported us at our special working bee during the holidays. The removal and dispersal of the back court surface has saved the school a considerable amount of money; things are on track for the works to be completed after our dinner dance on June 15th.  Special thanks to Tony Taouk for organising the delivery and removal of the bin.

Before and After School Care
We have been advised by KEPS that the before and after school care program will not be running on Friday 26th April as Kew East Primary has a Curriculum day.

Year 3/4 AFL
A special year 3/4 AFL lightning premiership will be held this Friday 26th April at Gordon Barnard Reserve. We will be fielding a boys team and a girls team. All online permission forms must be returned by tomorrow. Participating students must be in the hall at 8:45am for a 9am departure. Students will be back at school at around 3pm.  Children are to wear their school sports uniform. Regarding footwear, children are to wear football boots or soccer boots or runners. Mouthguards, available from chemists, must be worn. Students are to bring along a backpack, snack, drink and lunch. Parents, if you can, come along and support the teams.

School uniform
We are currently in a uniform “transition” stage. Until Monday 13th May children may wear either summer or winter uniform. As from 13th May, students are required to wear their winter uniform.

Arrival to school
A reminder that children are supervised in the school yard from 8:30 onwards, and no children should be “dropped off” prior to this time. We do offer before school hours care from 7am at Kew East Primary school. Thank you.

Condolences
Our prayers and thoughts are with the Stamoulis family. Max’s grandmother (Alex’s mum) passed away during the holidays.

Easter is not magical. It is transcendent. Jesus is not somewhere else. Christ is everywhere—through him all creation holds together. He lives and breathes through his body, the Church.

What does it mean to live as Easter people? It means we live as a people, all parts of Christ’s Body working together toward a single purpose: love.

—Vinita Hampton Wright

School Mass
On Friday May 3rd at 10am all Year 3/4 students will be attending mass. Families are most welcome to come along.

SACRAMENTS 2019

Year 3: First Eucharist -  Sat May 25th, 5pm;
                                       Sun May 26th, 10:30am

          First Eucharist -    Sat June 1st, 5pm
                                       Sun June 2nd,10:30am

Year 6: Confirmation -    Sat August 17th, 3pm.

April

• Thu 25th Anzac Day
• Fri 26th 3/4 AFL day

May

• Wed 1st:    AFL clinics: whole school
•                   7:30pm: Parents and Friends
• Thu  2nd:   Book Fair
• Fri    3rd:    Book Fair
•                   First Friday mass 10am: Year 3/4
• Mon 6th:    Book Fair
• Tues 7th:   Book Fair
•                   7:30pm Eucharist Faith night
• Wed 8th:    AFL clinics: whole school
•                   Parish Pastoral Council 7:30pm
• Thu 9th:     Mothers’ Day dinner
• Fri 10th:     Mothers’ Day stall
• Sun 12th:   Mothers’ Day
• Wed 15th:  AFL clinics: whole school
•                   Parish Education Board 7:30pm
• Fri 17th:     Cross country
• Wed 22nd: AFL clinics: whole school
• Sat 25th:    Eucharist 5pm
• Sun 26th:   Eucharist 10:30am

June

• Sat 1st:      Eucharist 5pm
• Sun 2nd:    Eucharist 10:30am
• Fri 7th:       First Friday mass 10am
• Mon 10th:  Queen’s Birthday holiday
• Fri 14th:     Year 5/6 hockey day
• Sat 15th:    Dinner dance
• Wed 19th:  Parish Education Board 7:30pm
• Sun 23rd:   Hospitality mass 10:30am
• Fri 28th:     1pm dismissal (end of term)

Piano Lessons

For all enquiries please contact Janine on 0420 636 192

Guitar, Ukelele and Drum Lessons

Please contact Pablo Naranjo on Ph 0406103008. Further details below.

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Tennis in Stages

Please see the office for enrolment forms.

AFL clinics will be held on the following days:

All students are to wear their sports uniform on the following Wednesdays:

• April 24th,
• May 1st, 8th,15th and 22nd.

Scholastic Book Fair

The Scholastic Book Fair will be held from Thursday 2nd May - Tuesday 7th May.

Thank you to the 3 parents that have already volunteered to assist on the day but we are still in need of more help. 

We require assistance from 8.30am to 9.00am in the morning and 3.15pm to 3.45pm in the afternoon. If you are able to assist please contact Bianca on 0409061102.

Working Bee
Brilliant work was done by the generous parents, friends and students who attended the Working Bee on Saturday 6th April 2019. In just under 2 hours, the existing surface on the lower courts was removed and loaded, together with its rubber underlay and surface sand, onto a large bin. This required the surface to be cut into manageable pieces before being dragged and/or carried into the bin and plenty of sweeping and carting of sand and dirt. It was neither the easiest nor cleanest of projects but the enthusiasm of our helpers could not have been greater! It was another fantastic example of the commitment shown by members of the St Anne’s Community. A photo of our very small but committed crew is attached – Thanks so much! Our thanks must also go to Tony Taouk who organised the delivery and removal of the bin and co-ordinated the works on the day. We would not have achieved all we did without Tony’s energy and enthusiasm.

The next phase of our resurfacing project will involve repairs to the adjoining retaining wall and asphalt surface and once this is done, we can move onto the laying of the new surface. It is really important that everyone now gets behind the Dinner Dance so we can raise the funds necessary to complete this project. We look forward to your support and generosity in this regard.

Richard Clancy

P & F President

Save the Date Dinner Dance 2019

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For more information or to register your interest please contact the St Anne's Dinner Dance Committee

dinnerdance19@gmail.com

www.sannkewe.catholic.edu.au/community/dinner-dance

Easter Egg Fundraiser

We are still awaiting the $80 payment from many families.  The money is now overdue. Could you please transfer the payment into the Parents and Friends Account as we need to pay the supplier. 

The account number to make a direct deposit to the P&F account is BSB: 633000 ACCT:  117570630 please use ref: surname and easter.

School Fees 2019

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Direct Debit form please download here.

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