Community Update #4.7

Do you read the newsletter ? Weekly newsletter views 

Thanks to all of you who read the newsletter and keep informed about our school activities. We are able to track our weekly newsletter views. These have increased during 2020 !! The views are very good considering we only have  241 families. Here are the statistics for Term 4.

Community Update #4.1     916 views

Community Update #4.2     914 views

Community Update #4.3     596 views

Community Update #4.4     409 views

Community Update #4.5     660 views

Community Update #4.6     448 views

Remembrance Day

This week we celebrated Remembrance Day on Wednesday 11 November with a liturgy prepared by our Faith and Community team leaders Ms La Fontaine and Mrs O'Dwyer. You can access the full liturgy to share with your family at this link on our Learning Community Site.

A number of activities and events have been organised for our Year 6's this term. Traditionally, the students prepare special projects to be presented for an award at the local RSL club. Due to the pandemic, the Remembrance Day award ceremony wasn't able to take place. However, an exception was made for a Covid safe visit to St Patrick's by local members. 

Congratulations to Lila S for winning a scholarship to attend Star of the Sea.

Congratulations to the runners up  - Angus Mc,  Hamish B, Bradley J , William W and Eleanor. 

Their projects are on display outside the school hall and their classrooms.

Book Week dress up day reminder

Don't forget to come dressed up as your favourite book character on Monday. We will begin the celebrations with our dress up day and Covid safe parade (sorry no parents can join us this year) on Monday and continue with special activities throughout the week to Friday 20 November. The theme this year is Curious Creatures Wild Minds. So in order to get into the spirit of costume creativity, the children can come up with characters from a book they love or wear anything quirky, curious or wild!!! The idea is to have FUN!  One great website is the CBCA. Here is a link with more information about dress up ideas for families.

Mini House Sports Day Friday 20 November

All children are invited to come dressed in their house colours on Friday ready to participate in a mini sports day with the Year 6 leaders.

Second Hand Chromebook wanted

One of our current Year 5 students requires a second hand Chromebook for their final year in Year 6. Please email principal@spmurrumbeena.catholic.edu.au for further details.

Thank you to one of our school families who generously offered to purchase an extra Chromebook as an anonymous donation for a school family in need.

Parish Education Board News  (PEB)

The PEB met for another meeting via Zoom at the end of October.

• The school accountant presented the annual financial report. Following the challenges of the pandemic year, the PEB have agreed to support the principal's recommendation to freeze the school fees for 2021. This means that the fees and levies will remain the same for 2021 as they are for 2020.
• The school will embark on an internal refurbishment programme aligned to the Masterplan in 2021. The principal is meeting with K2LD (Architects who consulted with the community to design the current Masterplan 2018/2019) and will update the community with plans going forward.
• The transition to the new school governance model is underway in readiness for execution January 1 2021. You can learn more about the model by watching this video.
• Student success during the Flexible Learning period as reported in last week's newsletter puts our children in good stead going forward with their education. Special thanks to the hard work and dedication from staff, parents and of course our students.
• The school is always open to receiving feedback. We thank you for taking the time to give us feedback. Feedback can take place through many mediums :

1.  Verbal in person or via a telephone conversation
2.  Written via email to a teacher or the principal
3.  Most recently, parents have begun to give feedback via social media through google reviews. 

TeamKids

At TeamKids we have been focusing on ‘gratitude’ during the last two terms. We have created a gratitude display and also had daily catchups where the students have been encouraged to share something great that has happened for them during that day or week. We are fostering students’ growth mind-sets and encouraging a positive outlook on life.

 In relation to this, Andrew is participating in Movember where he will be running 100kms for the month of November. This is all about raising awareness around mental health. If you would like to donate to this cause please click below.

 

https://movember.com/m/andycell?mc=1

Term Dates

Term 4 2020

BOOK DAY dress up and activities            November 16

House Colour Mini Sports Day                   November 20

Whole school photo                                    November 24

School Closure Day                                    November 27

Community Christmas Celebration           December 8

Modified Mini Market                                   December 11

Modifies Year 6 Graduation                        December 14

School finishes at 1pm                               December 16

Term 1 2021

Staff only return Closure Day                     January 27

All children commence                               January 28

End Term 1                                                    March 30

Closure Day Staff PL  Day 1                        March 31

Closure Day Staff PL  Day 2                        April 1