It’s great to be able to welcome

Helen to the St Theresa’s team.

Helen comes to us from

Resurrection Primary School and

will be working with all grade

levels in her area of expertise,

Literacy. She already loves the

warm welcoming community spirit

of St Theresa’s. Of course her

favourite subject is Literacy and

she enjoys reading everyday so

that she can learn as much as she

can about the world but in

particular Japan where she has

just returned from holidays!

Congratulations to our Holy Communion Students

T E R M 2 W E E K 2 : 2 1S T

A P R I L D O S M A L L T H I N G S W E L L

St Theresa’s Principal : Rob Macklin Email : principal@stalbion.catholic.edu.au Website : www.stalbion.catholic.edu.au Phone : 93119070

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Assembly tomorrow Friday at 2.30 in the

mullti purpose room. It will be hosted by 2/3P.

Please join us!

Welcome to

Helen Cozmescu….

our new Literacy Leader

Last Sunday we proudly watched 25 of our Grade 3 children receive the Holy Eucharist for the first time. We congratulate them and keep them in our prayers that they may continue to be surrounded by Jesus’ love and to live by His rule to ‘Love one another as I have loved you.” Congratulations…..Noah Andreula, Chanel Arizabal, Matthew Azzopardi, Chelsea Brasher, Gabby Di Quattro, Benice Dy, Shion Iwasaki, Heath Lehane, Kayla Lu, Emily and Lucas Lukic, Kaleb Mandic, Jordan Molina, Marcus Nedelkovski, Quyen Ngo, Emily Nguyen, Kiara Nguyen, Shalina Nguyen, Lucas O’Neill, Sofia O’Neill, Baili Quach, Eliza Reinberger, Evan Restall, Massimo Serra, Simon Van Gemeren. Also a big thankyou to their teachers, Patrick, Brigid and Doriana who prepared them so well and together with Fr Barry made sure everything ran smoothly on the day.

A REMINDER THAT NEXT MONDAY IS ANZAC DAY. There is no school for the children. Next Tuesday 26th April we will hold an Anzac Day ceremony at 10.40 next to the flagpole.

P R E P

WORKING BEE : SATURDAY 30th April

8am – 1.00pm.

Every family, especially our new families are invited to help out at the school working bee.

You don’t have to stay the whole morning, if you can spare an hour or two that will be greatly

appreciated. Some of the jobs that we need help with will be cleaning the drains, cleaning the

sandpit area, weeding, pruning and planting, laying mulch and a bit of carpentry work. So as

you can see, there’s a job for everyone. Bring wheel barrows and any tools or gardening

utensils that you think might be helpful.

And remember the more helpers we get the more we can get done.

MORE NEW FACES …We are also very

pleased to welcome Mira Boudoloh who has joined

the staff working as a Learning Support Officer.

And we have 2 new students who have come to us

from Deer Park West Primary School. Gabriel and

David who are in Grade 3 and 4. We hope they all

settle in well and soon feel part of our community.

Cross Country Report Last Friday St Theresa’s was magnificently

represented at the Cross Country trials by 21 students. All runners have trained hard over

the past few weeks and all completed the 2km or 3km course successfully which is a big

effort and one that deserves our congratulations….Majier Adut, Mayen

Malek, Patsy Quan, Isabella Racolini, Basil Georgoulas, Jay Wright, Juswin

Ramachandran, Harry Pratheepan, William Flanagan, Brodie Webber, Simon Van

Gemeren, Massimo Serra, Nicholas Kain, Parth Kalia, Matthew Azzopardi, Emily Nguyen, Rory McLeod, Juliette Pereira,

Angelina Perez, Jasmine Nedelkovski and Denna Dinh.

The following students ran especially well and will go through to the division finals on

May 26th. We wish them good luck. Emily Nguyen (1st), Rory McLeod (6th),

Brodie Webber (6th), Patsy Quan (4th) and Jay Wright (8th)

INFORMATION

MEETING FOR

2017 PREP

ENROLMENTS

Next Wednesday

Night at 7pm in

the multi purpose

room.

Winter Uniforms

From May 2nd the children are required to wear full Winter

uniform which can be purchased from the office.

Please make sure you have all

the correct school items as we have been noticing that

children are wearing bits and pieces that are not our uniform.

If you are unsure about school uniform, please ask your child’s teacher or Venetia in the office.

Thank you for your support.

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We sent our Grade 6’s off to Candlebark Farm yesterday for 3

days. All is going well and it certainly looks like they had a great

day at the Healesville sanctuary yesterday.

More important information…

MOTHER’S DAY HIGH TEA Monday 9th May at 10am

A big thank you to all the ladies who have purchased their tickets for the

Ladies High Tea on May 9th. Please remember to bring your ticket as

entry into the event as well as some small change for raffle tickets! We are all looking forward to the big day and don't forget to donn your pretty frock!

A very big THANKYOU to Dean Raniolo (Alannah 2015) for spending so much of his spare time building our 3 picnic tables. We are all really

enjoying them especially on these beautiful sunny Autumn days. A wonderful effort for our school! STUDENT WELLBEING

At St Theresa’s we strive to develop your child’s academic ability in every way we can. Just as

important, we also strive to develop your child’s social and emotional learning skills ie. the life

skills needed to recognize and mange their emotions, develop care and concern for others,

establish positive relationships, make reasonable decisions and handle challenging

situations constructively and ethically. We do this in a number of ways including

teaching the resilience program ‘Bounceback’, engaging in circle time and focusing on

particular social skills. You may have noticed the posters around the school….

“Manner of the Week”. It is important to their social development that the children learn these manners and use them all the time. We ask that you reinforce the use of these manners at home so that the children

are getting the same message from both places. This week’s Manner of the Week is…….

Do not interrupt when

someone is speaking.

Community Conversations Thankyou to those parents who attended the recent community conversations about home

learning and other school matters. These conversations are very useful to us because they

provide important input and feedback from our parents about the things we do at St Theresa’s and

keep parents informed about how we can work

together to provide the best learning opportunities for our children.

These community conversations will be held every term and will involve all grade levels. Our

next one is for Grade 3 & 4 parents and will be about the camp primarily and other school

matters that may arise.

COMMUNITY CONVERSATION

for Grade 3 and 4 parents

Tuesday May 3rd at 2.15-3.15 in planning room.

OSH CLUB NEWS The club is up and running again for Term 2 with

Lauren and Bal providing great care for our children and also lots of fun activities for them to

do……much better than watching TV at home! If you need help with minding children before or

after school OR you just want your child to join in some fun and educational activities, then you

should consider OSHClub. We are hearing great reports about it from the children who have already

tried it. To book a session go to www.oshclub.com.au

MOTHER’S DAY…On Friday 6th May we will be having a whole school

Mother’s Day paraliturgy followed by mother’s day activities with your child in

their classrooms. All Mums and Grandmas please keep this date free. More details next week.