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Dear Parents, Carers and Guardians,
Welcome back to Term 3. We hope you all had an opportunity to relax and reset over the school break.
We are straight back into it with lots happening in the next few weeks. As always, please keep an eye on the school calendar for any important dates.
Building Project 2025 - 2026
I am pleased to announce that our Year 3/4 building will be undergoing some renovations in the months to come. We are currently in the Tender process, so there is no set date for the works to commence at this stage, although we aim for it to begin in the term 3 holidays. At the conclusion of the project we will have 6 new 3/4 classrooms, 2 new 5/6 classrooms, a beautiful new library and our 3/4 “quiet play area” will undergo a make over. We will also have a newly refurbished toilet block and sports storage area.
This renovation will be completed using the existing external building foundations. As with all renovations and refurbishments, there will be disruptions to student learning. I am currently working with a team of architects and infrastructure members from DOSCEL to establish a plan whereby the refurbishment will be broken up into stages so that only a minimal amount of classrooms will be required to move to other locations in the school for each stage.
This project is super exciting and I am proud to see this through in my first year as Principal. There will be short term pain for long term gain and I am thrilled that we are providing our students with modernised learning facilities. I will continue to update you all when I have any further information to share.
Important Dates:
23rd and 24th July - Grade 5/6 Incursion
25th July - State Cross Country
28th July to 1st August - Year 3/4 Water Safety and Swimming Program
30th July - Regional Netball
31st July - Foundation 100 days of school
7th and 8th August - Grade 5/6 Incursion
8th August - District Basketball
8th August - Whole School Mass 11:30am
11th August - School Closure Day
15th August - Crazy Hair Day
Each week students from each class are awarded Student of the Week certificates. These children are nominated for the example they have been within the school based on the School Wide Expectation focus for that week. The weekly focus will be from Wednesday until Tuesday the following week. Awards will be given out at Assembly on Friday.
In Week 1 the School Wide Expectation focus is Safety:
I have the right to feel safe in our school environment.
| Logan Greco | Johnathan Salama | Isabella Conway |
| Maevis Mandolado | Mack Hayes | Isabelle Paulet |
| Ashlyn Langley | Athalia Celin Manu | Zach Seeber |
| Emma Paulet | Thea Webster | Aaryan Thusmanraj |
| Nainika Sreejith | Oliver Ploegmakers | Cooper Janiw |
| Alfred Vargheese | Toby Sutherland | |
| Evaan Anoop | Kenzy Duddington |
In the gospel for the coming Sunday, Jesus provides his disciples, and all Christians, with a model for prayer. In keeping with this modelling by Jesus, it is significant that the Lord’s Prayer, or Our Father, is the common prayer of all Christians, regardless of denomination.
The parable and teaching that follow the Lord’s Prayer make clear the particular purpose of prayer that Jesus was highlighting – prayer as petition.
Jesus says in the gospel, ‘Ask, and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock, and the door will be opened to you.’ The actions of asking, searching and knocking are means by which we initiate the encounter with God. If we don’t ask, search and knock, how is anyone (including God) to know our needs or know what it is that we are searching for. Particularly in our spiritual lives, it is only through the search and the knocking on the doors of different experiences that we ever come closer to finding answers.
We offer hot lunches weekly on a Monday with Munch Lunch. They are a local company that offer a variety of lunch items.
Ordering is simple, download the Spriggy Schools app via your App Store or Google Play store, select St Michael's School, add your children and their class to the app and place your order! Lunches will then be delivered to school. Orders need to be placed by 9:00am on the day. You can pre order lunches 2 weeks in advance.
Contact: Munch Lunch 0459 220 445 or hello.munch.lunch@gmail.com
Parents and carers from St Michael's are invited to see The Resilience Project webinar about building resilience at home. This webinar is on Thursday 31st July, 6:30-7:30pm. You can register using this link. This will be a fantastic opportunity for you to learn practical strategies to practice gratitude, empathy and mindfulness at home to continue to support and enhance your child's wellbeing.
