Dear Parents and Carers,

This week we conducted Parent Teacher meetings for Years 1 to 6. The feedback from teachers has been very positive and we are extremelty grateful to the time that our teachers have given to provide the interviews. A huge thank you to our parents who have been able to come in and attend the interviews. If you were unable to keep your appointment or have not yet arranged a time to meet, we encourage you to contact the front office to arrange a time with your child’s teacher. As mentioned in the previous newsletter, there have been some significant changes made this year by CE, to the reporting format. Individual student comments will not be used in the Semester 1 Reports. The Semester Report in this format encourages parent engagement and conversation about student learning hence we cannot stress enough the significance of these interviews.

We are extremely proud of our students and equally as grateful to all our parents for choosing to send your children to St Bede’s and the huge support that you provide to our wonderful school. Throughout the year, I have continuously received feedback from staff, members of our local community and visitors to our school, about how polite and well mannered our students are. They are not only a credit to our school but also you all as parents. As the saying goes…it takes a village to raise a family! Thank you, parents, for trusting us with the pleasure to educate your children.

This month we celebrate Catholic Schools across the Archdiocese of Canberra and Goulburn. St Bede’s have commenced the process of accepting online enrolments for 2022. We will be conducting an Open Day tour on Thursday, May 27 from 9:30am to 10:30am. If you are wanting a tour of the school but this time does not suit, please contact the front office to organise a suitable time. A child must turn 5 years of age by 31 July of the year of enrolment.

We are extremely grateful to Beck and Tim Thistleton and Marita Fuhrer who volunteered their time to clean the canteen. We thank them as this will assist to get the canteen back up and running before the end of this term but for this to occur, we are relying on parents to volunteer their time. It is envisaged that the canteen will operate each Friday for lunches. We are seeking a Canteen Manager/Manageress. This person would do the ordering and purchasing of food as well as plan the Menus. It would involve a few hours each Friday assisted by parent volunteers. Once we have found a manager, we will send a note home seeking volunteers. If you think you could spare a few hours each Friday to run the canteen, please contact the front office or Beck Thistleton on 0438 211071

We are extremely grateful to our parents who have volunteered to be class representatives. This is a great opportunity to get to know other families at our school. We are still seeking a Class Representative for Year 4. If you think you could do this job, please contact the front office. Recently, Kinder families conducted a very successful gathering at the park.

Next Tuesday we are celebrating our feast day. The children are permitted to wear casual clothes to school in recognition of this. We are looking forward to celebrating the feast day of St Bede’s with a Mass at 10am followed by a variety of events throughout the day. We thank Ms Kaptein for her organisation.

We are looking forward to the Athletics Carnival tomorrow and thank Katie Tooth our Sports Coordinator, for all her hard work in preparation for the carnival, staff for their assistance and our wonderful parents who have volunteered to assist on the day.

God Bless
Marylou Gorham

From Mr Galvin

NAPLAN

NAPLAN has been completed for another year! Thank you to our Year 3 and 5 students along with their teachers Mrs Barling and Mrs Ryan for their efforts over the last week and a half. Thank you also to Mrs Kilburn, Mrs Bartley, Mrs Stewart and Mrs Ridley who assisted our students with NAPLAN. It has been a busy time and I think the students will be happy not to hear the ‘N’ word for a little while at least. With the majority of tests online, results should be back more quickly. When I have further information it will be passed on.

Soccer goal maintenance

Can you assist? Our much loved soccer goals are in need of some love and attention. They need reassembling with perhaps tape to hold them together. We have some spare parts [pipes, connectors, etc] behind the sports shed. If you have a spare 30 minutes at anytime, your help would be appreciated.

Tipping…..

Some movement in the top 5 this week.

1 Columbo Brumby 61
2 RaiderStell 60
3 Mrs Tooth 60
4 Dragons6781 60
5 The BA 59
=Last The Old Westie AKA Bro. Brian 48
=Last CBTipsta 48

Did you Know?

Did you know that World Melanoma Day is coming up on the 23rd of May and World Sunscreen Day is coming up on the 27th of May?
These days are placed in May because in the Northern Hemisphere this is when UV starts to increase. For us in Australia, it signifies a decrease in UV levels. Despite the unfavourable timing, it is a great reminder that going into the cooler months sun protection is still needed!

Mr Galvin

Have you noticed the Upcoming Events is now to the left of the new newsletter??

All our important dates are now found here.

Prayer

Hail, Mary, full of grace, the Lord is with you.
Blessed are you among women,
and blessed is the fruit of your womb, Jesus.
Holy Mary, Mother of God, pray for us sinners,
now and at the hour of our death.

Amen

School Photos

School photo day will be Wednesday 2 June.

Photo envelopes have gone home and we encourage parents to complete the envelope and return to the classroom teacher as soon as possible.

Wanted - Donations of Books

We are asking children, from all year levels, to bring in one book that they no longer read and donate this to our book fair. Books will be sold for a gold coin donation when we celebrate St Bede’s Feast Day on 25th May.

All proceeds will go towards the Year 5/6 Camp