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St Laurence’s Primary School NEWSLETTER ◊ Number 25 ◊ 19th December , 2018 2018 YEAR OF YOUTH

Open new horizons for spreading joy—Pope Francis

principal@stlleongatha.catholic.edu.au

2018 CLASS AWARDS

The recipient of this award demonstrates all round behaviour in both class and yard and shows consistent and

persistent application.

PREP: Ava Privitera and Mitch Bowler

GR 1: Khole Falls and Kayden Campbell

GR 2: Ruby Adams and Liam O’Neill

GR 3: Isla Burge and Lachlan Occhipinti

GR 4: Sophie Granzow and Nathan Wright

GR 5: Chloe Le Page and Harry Scrimshaw

GR 6: Alice Evans and Will Patton

Congratulations to all our Class award recipients.

Waiting in excitement Children everywhere are waiting in anticipation and excitement for holidays, Christmas and adventures. Christians everywhere are also waiting. We wait in excited anticipation for the celebration of the birth of Jesus. The season of waiting is very important. It allows us space to prepare, to appreciate and be thankful for our blessings, to make peace where needed and to spend time with those who are important to us. We at St Laurence's wish you and your family a happy, peaceful and joyful Christmas. May your time together be blessed and enjoyable. We look forward to seeing everyone in the new year refreshed and ready for another wonderful year.

Another year is over. Thank you to everyone who has helped out in any

capacity during the year. Thank you all families who are reading the

newsletter, CareMonkey and Flexibuzz before contacting the office for

information that was given out via these mediums, we in the office

appreciate you being proactive and doing this.

Farewell to the following families who will be leaving the St Laurence’s school community: Battersby family,

Cowell family, Dyke family, Evans family, Herbert family, Oliver family, Santosh family, Wightman family and the

Mahne family.

THANK YOU TO OUR STAFF: We have the most amazing teachers and aides working at St

Laurence’s who have worked tirelessly towards the successful educational outcome for each child

they teach. Thank you all for your dedication, care and continued enthusiasm. We look forward to

once again working together with families next year, to achieve even greater success in their

children’s growth and learning.

A reminder of the individuals who meet the criteria of 3 special awards given out at the Graduation Mass recently: The Sisters of St Joseph’s Award recipient is someone who is an altar server, has a prayer and liturgy interest , is committed to social justice/mission/community service and lives out our school motto “Love In Action”. The award this year went to Sophie

Wright.

The Citzenship Award s given to a student who, for their entire school life, has been a committed, respectful and caring person. This award was presented to Sandra Dyke. The Mary MacKillop Award is given to a male and a female student who will be attending Mary Mackillop, is a role model and

reflects the values of St. Laurence’s. The recipients of this award were Katie Blackshaw and Isaac Karipel.

2019 TERM DATES

Term 1: 30 January (all students) - 5 April

Term 2: 23 April—28 June

Term 3: 15 July—20 September

Term 4: 7 October—20 December

DIARY DATES Please check regularly for date changes.

DECEMBER School Community Christmas Gathering BYO picnic dinner—5.30pm. In the gym Thursday, 20th SCHOOL CLOSURE—Teachers only JANUARY Tuesday, 29th Staff return Wednesday, 30th Term 1 commences for ALL students FEBRUARY Tuesday, 5th Gr 3 First Reconciliation Family Workshop 6pm at school. It is an expectation that a family representative be in attendance with your child at this workshop. Wednesday, 6th Prep free day Friday, 8th Fish ‘n’ Chip night 6:00—7:30pm Wednesday, 13th Prep free day Wednesday, 20th Prep free day Wednesday, 27th Prep free day MARCH Wednesday, 6th Ash Wednesday. Whole School Mass. All welcome. Friday 8th School Photos Monday, 11th Public Holiday Tuesday, 12th P & T Interviews Wednesday, 13th P & T Interviews Thursday, 21st First Reconciliation Mass. 6:00pm in the church Friday, 28th Fete 3:30pm onwards APRIL Tuesday, 2nd Confirmation Family Workshop 6pm in 5/6 classrooms. It is an expectation that a family representative be in attendance with your child at this workshop. Friday, 5th End of term 1 Monday, 22nd NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS. PUBLIC HOLIDAY Tuesday, 23rd Term 2 commences Wednesday, 25th ANZAC DAY—NO SCHOOL FOR STUDENTS MAY Wednesday, 22nd Confirmation Retreat 9:00-3:15pm at school Saturday, 25th Confirmation Mass 5pm JUNE Tuesday, 25th

GRADE 6 BIKE HIKE to Inverloch

GRADE 5 BIKE RIDERS

NEW OFFICE BUILDING All parents and visitors to the school should now be entering the school via the office on Ogilvy St (not Ogilvy St bus stop entrance OR the Brumley St entrance. As of next year, the gates along Brumbly St will be locked between the hours of 9am and 3pm and will lock again at 4pm. We expect the new fencing to be installed over the school holidays. Please use the church carpark and walk to the office via Ogilvy Street.

INVERLOCH BIKE HIKERS

2nd HAND UNIFORM SHOP

We have a small selection of 2nd hand uniforms for sale at school.

Please call Amanda on 0417 552 024

School material $10 per metre Patterns available to borrow.

School Bag $45

School sun Hat $10

Sunglasses $15

Winter hats $5

SWIMMING/LIBRARY BAGS $10

Combos:

SCHOOL BAG & sun HAT $50

School Bag, hat, & sunglasses

$65

HAT & GLASSES $20

Available from the office

TONIGHT (Wednesday, 19th)

School Community Christmas Gathering

BYO picnic dinner

5:30pm

In the gym

Brass Band playing carols

Please come and enjoy the evening

Lord, in this holy season of prayer and song and laughter, we praise you for the great wonders you have sent us:

for shining star and angel's song, for infant's cry in lowly manger. We praise you for the Word made flesh in a little Child. We behold his glory, and are bathed in its radiance.

SCHOOL—PARENT COMMUNICATION UPDATE

While we are preparing to launch our Parent Access Module (PAM), we will continue to use Flexibuzz and CareMonkey as our major forms of communication to parents until we transition over to PAM. It is an expectation that ALL families are on both. All permission forms for activities like sport, camps, swimming, excursions are submitted via CareMonkey. NO HARD COPY PERMISSION FORMS WILL BE GIVEN OUT. To create a profile for your child in CareMonkey please do so via the CareMonkey invitation email. FAMILIES NEW TO ST LAURENCE’S will receive their invitation email on the first day of term. Unfortunately only one parent/guardian can create the profile and manage it but, a secondary parent/guardian can receive notifications. This is recommended for families who have shared living arrangements. If you wish to be added to CareMonkey to keep track of excursions and permission, please let Kylie know at the office. FLEXIBUZZ: ANY PARENT CAN HAVE THE FLEXIBUZZ APP. IF YOU HAVE NOT DOWNLOADED THE FLEXIBUZZ APP PLEASE DO SO AS SOON AS POSSIBLE. Please ensure that you have selected ’whole school’ so you will receive notifications. When/if you know your child’s class, also select their class so you will receive notifications that are relevant to your child’s class as these types of notifications will not go out to the whole school. Flexibuzz SUITS SMART PHONE, COMPUTER, TABLET, IPHONE etc. Get it free from the app store or go to www.flexibuzz.com From Flexibuzz you can submit absences, access school interviews, access newsletters and notifications and calendar dates. Need to contact the office, speak to a teacher, have a query or need to change afternoon bus/after school arrangements? You can do all this from Flexibuzz. ABSENCES: If phoning in absences, please select option 1 and leave details of the absence. Absences need to be by 9:30 on the day of absence.

Uniform Shop The P & F uniform sub-committee has been working hard to stock the shop for 2019. They will be open for uniform pick up on the 29th of January from 9am until 12.30pm. The uniform pricelist is included in the newsletter and has been distributed also by Flexibuzz and CareMonkey. Orders can be placed by emailing principal@stlleongatha.catholic.edu.au over the holidays and clothing can be collected and paid for on the 29th of January.

Annual grade 5

Paper chain

challenge

This year 272

metres

Kayden Campbell & Khloe Falls (absent) Mitch Bowler and Ava Privitera

Harry Scrimshaw & Chloe Le Page Sophie Granzow, Nathan Wright & Lachlan Occhipinti Liam O’Neill & Ruby Adams

Isaac Karipel, Katie Blackshaw, Sophie Wright & Sandra Dyke Will Patton & Alice Evans