St Michael's Cook Book

This year our school photo day will be held on Wednesday, 14 June. Students are to wear their full winter uniform with their hair neat and tidy. Envelopes went home with students this week. If you require a sibling photo, sibling envelopes are available at the office. 

Please note that all envelopes are to be brought in on (or before) the actual day of photography, this assists in the smooth operation of the pre-payment system.

School Assembly Timetables 

K-2 reading volunteers

We would love to welcome some of our parents/carers to support the reading of K-2 students. If you are interested in being a volunteer in your child’s class and reading with students. Please come along to one of the following information sessions week where you will learn what is expected of supporting students with their reading and sign up for some sessions. You can also complete a Working With Children Check declaration while you are here. Parent/carer reading with students will commence in Week 7

Monday 29 May at 2:45 - 3:15 pm in the library

Thursday 1 June at 9:00 - 9:30 am in the library

Mrs Amy Sammut - Assistant Principal

3-6 Numeracy

This term teachers from years 3-6 have engaged in collaborative planning to collaboratively plan units of work that embed research based practices for teaching mathematics. Students have been very excited to engage in lessons that use Non-Permanent Vertical surfaces, rich learning tasks and collaborate in groups to reason mathematically. Ask your child about some of the learning they have been engaged in this term.

Miss Emma Riolo - Year 5 Teacher/Instructional Coach



WASTE FREE WEDNESDAY (Update)

We are well underway with our Waste Free Wednesday initiative. Thank you for supporting our goal to be plastic and packaging free every Wednesday. The Living Fully in Community Year 6 team are leading this initiative very well and showing students what waste free lunch boxes look like. Here are the results for Week 4 and Week 5.

Week 4

Kindergarten: 78%

Year 1: 28%

Year 2: 60 %

Year 3: 50%

Year 4: 30%

Year 5: 44%

Year 6: 65%

Congratulations Kindergarten, you are the Week 4 Waste Warriors

Week 5

Year 1: 57%

Year 2: 92%

Year 3: 91%

Year 4: 57%

Year 5: 62%

Year 6: 78%

Kindergarten: 100%

So the Waste Free Warriors for Week 5 are: Kindergarten again. Congratulations. 

It was really close so let’s see if another class can win the St Michael’s peace lily next week. 

Mrs Amy Sammut - Assistant Principal

STEM Connect initiative

We are excited to offer some of our Year 5 and Year 4 students the opportunity to work with secondary students from Holy Spirit College (HSC) on a STEM project. So far the students have been nominated by their teachers based on either data or an aptitude or interest in STEM or both. These students have completed a survey to identify their interests in the area of STEM. The results have been analysed by myself and a teacher from HSC and it appears that our students are very much interested in planning, designing and making, working collaboratively on a project where they can build a product. We are in the process of organising times for the secondary students to visit St Michael’s on a regular basis to begin this work. We will keep you posted on this progress.

Humpty Dumpty Crime Update

This week there have been further developments in the Great Humpty Dumpty crime. Kindergarten have been involved in some detective work, where they have brushed Humpty’s shell and the jar of egg yolk for fingerprints. They have matched the fingerprints on these pieces of evidence to 6 suspects in Year 5. Then ust yesterday, 2 witnesses reported that they found more evidence in the playground: a mixing bowl with egg in it and a spoon. This is very suspicious and the constables in Kindergarten are still investigating. Stay tuned for the next development in the GREAT HUMPTY CRIME!

From the Library

A huge thank you to Joanna and Sofia for their kind donation to the library.

Mrs Medina - SMT Library