Term 2 Sport Uniform Days

Please see the table below indicating sports days for each class for Term 2. Students are to wear their full sports uniforms on these days.

Update on new sensory equipment 

Our new brain break sensory playground equipment has arrived and will be ready to use next week. We are pleased to inform you that in the grass area behind Year 6, there is a great variety of sensory equipment to be used for brain breaks and during recess and lunch. Thank you to our wonderful P and F for approving the purchase of this equipment for our students. 

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 have gone home with students. 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.

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 5 and Week 6

Week 5

• Year 1: 57%
• Year 2: 92%
• Year 3: 91%
• Year 4: 57%
• Year 5: 62%
• Year 6: 78%
• Kindergarten: 100%

Week 6

• Year 1: 55%
• Year 2: 75%
• Year 3: 66%
• Year 4: 52%
• Year 5: 33%
• Year 6: 75%
• Kindergarten: 100%

Congratulations Kindergarten, you have won the St Michael’s Peace lily for the 3rd week in a row. Which class will knock Kinder off pole position and be the waste warriors next?

Mrs Amy Sammut - Assistant Principal

Humpty Dumpty Crime is Solved

The Humpty Dumpty crime has finally been solved. Kindergarten and Year 5 went to the trial of Humpty V St Michael’s on Monday and after the witnesses and suspects pledge an oath of truth, 3 suspects were identified from a line up of 6 suspects. These suspects were questioned intensely and they admitted that it was Mr Bryce who commissioned them to take Humpty Dumpty from kindergarten on Thursday 4 May at 3:15 pm. WHY you ask? Well because Mr Bryce, who is a baker in his spare time, wanted the giant yolk from Humpty to bake 51 cupcakes for every student in Kindergarten and Year 5. Lucky we had some very skilled constables and detectives in Kindergarten to help solve this crime. Mr Bryce has promised to put Humpty back together again and Kindergarten have set up a hospital to work on Humpty and fix him once and for all. So the Humpty Dumpty crime is solved, case closed.

WINTER WONDERLAND P and F MUFTI DAY

On Thursday 29 May, we are having a winter wonderland mufti day. Students and staff will come to school in their winter woollies on this day - scarves, beanies, gloves, ugg boots, jackets and jumpers for a gold coin donation. This money will go towards raising money for our school through the P and F. Canteen Kat has also organised a winter wonderland menu for this day so get your orders in nice and early. There will be warm cheese toasties, hot chocolates with marshmallows, brownies, snowman’s noses, chicken noodles, warm pastries, warm custard topped with stewed apple and cinnamon and much more. We are asking for families to donate any blankets, beansies, jumpers and scarves to St Vincent De Paul on this day too to support people in need this winter.

Mrs Amy Sammut - Assistant Principal

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A message from Fr Ken

“Postcards to the Front” in Ukraine.

“Postcards to the Front” has a mission is to solicit postcards from Australians with messages of encouragement and support to Defenders of Ukraine on the front lines.  We – “Postcards to the Front” – send postcards in bulk to our Founder Tamara Levit in Zaporizhia, Ukraine.  The cards are added to care packages which are hand delivered to the front lines.

How to Participate:   

Obtain one or more Australian postcards: try your local post office shop.  Address your message to “Defender of Ukraine”. The frontline defenders may be soldiers (both men & women), nurses, doctors, civilians etc. Write in either English or Ukrainian.  Use the entire back of the card to write your message.  No need for a stamp on the postcard as we send them in bulk, and they are hand delivered in Ukraine.  Please do not use the word PEACE. 

This word has acquired a new meaning in Ukraine.  When the Russians invaded, they told people they were doing this for peace.  The word now conjures up images of people being killed, and property being destroyed.  Please don’t use the words “Russia, Russians or Putin”. 

Mention you are from Australia, this really cheers people up.  Remind them that the world hasn’t forgotten them. Don’t forget to write at least your first name on the card.  That makes for a personal connection.  No need for a return address on the card.  Defenders are being shelled and shot at. 

They haven’t got time to write back.  Place your postcard(s) in a sealed envelope and address it to “Postcards to the Front” and put them on a collection plate or deliver them to the Parish Office.  On the outside of the envelope, please include your name and email address so we can let you know that they have arrived.