Term Dates June

7th—School closure—staff professional learning day

10th—Queen’s Birthday Holiday

11th—PEB Meeting, 7.30pm

14th—Year 5/6 Winter Lightning Premiership

14th—School Liturgy, 12.15pm, led by 3/4J

14th—Year 3/4 Afternoon in Tune, 2.45pm

21st—St Thomas More Feast Day

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St. Thomas More’s Newsletter Wednesday, 5th June 2019

St. Thomas More School is a Child Safe School

Dear Parents,

Communication

Effective communication is essential to create strong school-home partnerships and to increase parental involvement. The Parish Education Board wishes to understand more about how the school can most effectively communicate with the parents and carers of our children.

Our key message is the belief that working together is in the best interests of the children’s education. In order to be accessible to as many parents as possible in the most effective manner, the school will use a variety of media to communicate the message.

Below is a link to a communications survey that should take about 3 minutes to complete. The survey will be open until Wednesday 26th June. If you would like a hard copy of the survey to complete, please call in to the office.

https://forms.gle/DpirvFeu31oLJWrB7

Three-Way Conferences

Student-led conferences will be held on Tuesday 25th June 4pm - 8pm and Thursday 27th June 4pm - 6pm.

Please follow the link below to make your booking

https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au/code?code=4vyzs

Or log on to www.schoolinterviews.com.au

And enter the code 4vyzs Online bookings close on Wednesday 19th June

Dance Lessons Children have been participating in dance lessons for the past few weeks. The lessons run across 5 weeks with a performance on Friday afternoon 21st June in the gym, starting at 2pm. Parents are invited to attend and enjoy

their children’s many talents.

Government Data Collection

The Australian Education Regulation 2013 (the Regulation) requires the operators of all government and non-government schools that receive Australian Government funding to provide information to the Australian Government Department of Education and Training for the purposes of the Nationally Consistent Collection of Data (NCCD). The NCCD collects information about students with disability across Australia in a systematic way. It counts the number of school students with disability receiving educational adjustments to allow them to participate in education on the same basis as students without disability.

What is the purpose of the NCCD? The focus is to build an evidence base of students with disability and the level of educational adjustment being provided, and to inform policy development and future planning to better equip schools and education authorities/sectors to support students with disability.

An information sheet is attached with today’s newsletter.

Condolences Please remember the Kheissy family on the passing of Jackson and George’s grandfather. We also pray for the McCreesh family on the passing of Lauren’s grandfather.

May they rest in peace.

Thank you to all who were involved in Father Laurie’s farewell; it was certainly

a tribute to the man he is.

Have a happy week ahead.

Mrs. Pat McConvill

Principal

St. Thomas More Primary School

Enrolments are now open. Please see the office for enrolment information.

Applications invited during the month of June.

Deputy’s Report

Sports InformaIon

Working Bee

Thank you to those that were able to attend the Working Bee on the Saturday 25th March. We were able to achieve a lot on the day and we finished up before the bad weather set in as well. Some of the jobs we achieved included; Electrical maintenance (thanks to our qualified electrician), site clean up of building materials and rubbish, filled the skip, assisted the Parish with their rubbish removal, cleaned gutters, topped up the sandpit with new sand, built a new step/retaining wall at the edge of the oval, maintenance on the gym, gardening around the art room and mulch spread around the school. The day finished off with a lovely bbq lunch and a few drinks. A big thank you to our chefs on the day. It was great to see a lot of new families joining into help and I thank the following families for their assistance on the day; Vandermeer, Svalbe, Martino, McGloin, Messner, Rivero, Millard, DeNadai, Gwizdek, Curry, Dejong, Reynolds, Frankcombe. (If I have missed any families I apologise) It was a great group effort on the day and many hands made light work. Finally a big thank you to Edward Svalbe who man-aged his first Working Bee as the Parent Association Representative. Ed and I are looking forward to tackling some bigger projects in the second half of the year. The final two dates for the working bees are: Saturday 17th August - 9am Saturday 9th November - 9am

CROSS COUNTRY

It’s been a big month for Cross Country. Firstly STM’s Annual Cross Country event on May 8th with all students in year 3-6

par#cipa#ng. Well done to everyone and a big thankyou to all of our parent helpers on the day.

We can’t run these days successfully without our assistance.

Next it was District Cross Country where approximately 60 students that represented STM braved the elements to complete

their cross country run at Peninsula Grammar. All the students tried their best and did an awesome job of comple#ng the

2km or 3km course. There were some outstanding results with 7 students finishing in the top 10 for their age group.

They will go on to represent the District at the Division Cross Country on Wednesday 5th

June.

We wish them the very best of luck.

• Wil Davies 1st

• Louis Hodder 5th

• Ruby Power-Reeves 3rd

• Charlo7e Snow 7th

• Jas Hallal 1st

(Mul# class)

• Bailey Marshall 4th

• Riley Stack 7th

Parent’s AssociaIon

Uniform Shop - Opening Time The Uniform shop will be opening on Thursdays

3:00pm - 3:45pm

THE UNIFORM SHOP IS A PRE-ORDER AND DELIVERY SERVI CE.

The PA meets every month to discuss ideas to build our parent community over a glass of wine or a cup of tea; everyone is welcome (not just the committee). The next PA meeting is TONIGHT at 7.30pm in the Parents room (in the Office building). Please contact Julia via juliamccarthy@hotmail.com or 0451514554 for more information

TERM 2 ACTIVITIES

Friday 21 June – St Thomas More Day (PA to supply kids a gift/treat)

Tuesday 9 July – Holiday movie day at school (organised by the PA)

June/July – Popcorn drive (fundraiser)

TERM 3 ACTIVITIES

Saturday 3 August – Rock quiz Parents Social night

Thursday 29 August – Fathers day Liturgy & pizza night

Friday 30 August Father’s Day stall

Friday 20 September – Colour Fun Run

TERM 4 ACTIVITIES

Sunday 20 October - Dad’s Golf Day (new date)

Friday 25 October – Kids Spooky Disco

Saturday 16 November – Dads and kids camp out

Sunday December 1 - STM Community Christmas Picnic

THANKS!

In the last newsletter I was remiss in thanking Fiona Parkyn for organizing the Mother’s Day Stall. Thanks Fiona for all your hard work! The gifts were the best yet.

In other news the profit from the Salomon shoe sale was $1,115!!! So thanks again to the Snowball family for their very generous dona-tion.

POPCORN FUNDRAISER

As part of our 2019 fundraising initiatives, we are happy to announce an exciting, healthy and delicious fundraising drive this term. Each family will receive a handy, reusable carry bag containing 50 lunch box sized packs of Cobs Popcorn in two of their top selling flavours – Lightly Salty Slightly Sweet and Sea Salt. Being mindful of our children’s health and well being, Cobs Popcorn is gluten free, no added sugar, no artificial colour, kosher, no artificial flavour, nut free, gm free, halal.

What you get for your Popcorn purchase: 50 packs of popcorn in each bag and a mini voucher booklet containing special discounts from a variety of family friendly retailers, restaurants, cinemas and kids play and entertainment centres. For all of this – it will only cost you $50.00 per Carry Bag. This represents premium value for the 50 popcorn packs, voucher booklet and reusable carry bag at a combined minimum value of $90.00. You can choose to sell them on or do what I plan to do – put them in the cupboard for snacks! Popcorn will be delivered to school on Friday 14 June and payment is due back to school in the first week of Term 3.

STM COMMUNITY PATHWAY – CLOSING DATE ANNOUNCED

We will be closing sales of the bricks at the end of term 2 so that we can get the bricks made and we can then make a plan to lay the bricks this year. See the trybooking page or the attached order form to make your purchase www.trybooking.com/book/event?eid=474883&

SUNDAY 9th June

Natoli (Team Leader)

Millerd

Belsdon

Fay

Harper-Treloar

Higgins

King, D

Mauro

Michie

Sharpe

Smith, N & C

Trimble

SUNDAY 14th July

Galvin (Team Leader)

Power-Reeves

Boatwright

Jenkins

McKenzie

Reid

Orisajinmi

Manning

Steel

Cooper

Cenacchi

SUNDAY 11th August

Doyle (Team Leader)

Edens

Floro

Geer

Leamon

Leonard

Marinelli

O’Brien P & T

Rivero

Richards

St Clair

Wills

SUNDAY 8th September

Allan (Team Leader)

Andaloro

Black A & N

Collins

Ferraro

Hodder

Hunt Z & D

Magoulias

Nero

Osbourne

Svalbe

Vaughan

STM and Craft Markets Australia have a long standing agreement to provide volunteers to perform traffic management in the car park of the monthly Mornington Craft markets. The car park duty raises in excess of $16,000 per year for the school. These are funds we ask families to contribute not from their own pockets, but with a little time (each family approximately once every 14 months). There are 14 markets each year - (one each month plus two summer twilight markets). As you are aware, and agreed to at enrolment, it is the STM policy that all families must contribute on a rostered basis. The policy is that if you are unable to fulfil your rostered date it is your responsibility to find a replacement. However, it has become increasingly stressful and difficult to lock in and confirm the rosters for each market. We publish the rosters four months in advance yet often receive no response and late cancellations with no replacements.

Knowing that, we'd like to create a preference system and emergency bank. Please see below the times and dates of the upcoming markets. The duty hours are 7.45am - 12.30pm for the Sunday Markets and 1.45pm - 6.30pm for the Saturday Twilight Markets. We invite you to let us know your preferred market date and if you are available for the next upcoming market should you be required (of course if you are called on as an emergency, you will not be rostered for any future markets for at least the next 14 months). Any spots not taken up voluntarily will be rostered on by the car park supervisor four months in advance. There is an opportunity here to gather some of your school buddies together and plan the same date and make a day of it. Following the duty why not head in together for something to eat, some live music and enjoy the market?

9 Jun Sunday 9am to 2pm Queens Birthday Weekend - Emergency Bank required

14 Jul Sunday 9am to 2pm - Emergency Bank required

11 Aug Sunday 9am to 2pm - Emergency Bank required

8 Sep Sunday 9am to 2pm - Emergency Bank required

13 Oct Sunday 9am to 2pm - Volunteers and Emergency Bank required

10 Nov Sunday 9am to 2pm - Volunteers and Emergency Bank required

16 Nov Saturday 3pm to 8pm Twilight - Volunteers and Emergency Bank required

8 Dec Sunday 9am to 2pm - Volunteers and Emergency Bank required

14 Dec Saturday 3pm to 8pm Twilight - Volunteers and Emergency Bank required

12 Jan 2020 Sunday 9am to 2pm - Volunteers and Emergency Bank required

9 Feb 2020 Sunday 9am to 2pm - Volunteers and Emergency Bank required

To make it easier to express your interest our new online sign up system has been set up – the link will be emailed to all families.

Market volunteer guidelines

• When you see your name on the roster please text Simon your availability, please include your name and the date of the market you’re assigned to

• If you are unavailable for your rostered month, please organise another family to take your place at least 3 weeks in advance of the market, and advise Simon of the change asap.

• Arrive at 7.45 am (all weather event) / Twilight market 1.45pm

• Enter via the main gates of Racecourse on Racecourse Road, Mornington & park in the designated area (Market Staff will be at the gate to assist you)

• Sign in with the Team Leader (for record keeping and Work Cover). Team Leaders must collect a Green folder from the school office the Friday prior to attending the market, and return it the following Monday.

• Receive your safety vest & place your coffee order!

• Market Staff will take you to your location in the car park where you will direct cars

• The Market Leader will advise when you are finished, typically around 12.30pm (6.30pm Twilight) but can alter depending on how busy the market is. On slower days Market Staff will advise if you can leave earlier.

Car Parking Co-Ordinator - Simon McGloin 0417 339 114 / Simon_mcgloin@hotmail.com

MORNINGTON RACECOURSE MARKET CAR PARK DUTY