95A Railway Street North, Altona 3018 Principal: David ...

[Pages:3]95A Railway Street North, Altona 3018 Principal: David Kelly Phone: 9398 4842 smaltona.catholic.edu.au Parish Priest: Archpriest Michael Kalka Phone: 9398 2964 altona@.au

Dear Parents

No. 41 December 13th, 2019

End of Year Reports were sent home with children this afternoon and where necessary the second End of Year Reports were posted. Being the last week of school next week, we have a few events on that you may like to attend:

Monday 16th December: 2.20 - 3.00 pm. Final Assembly (in the church) run by our School Captains and featuring our

wonderful staff act! Which I haven't been allowed to know about. 3.10 - 4.10 pm. Thank you afternoon tea for Parents (in the hall).

Tuesday 17th December: 6.00 pm. Year 6 Graduation Mass (in the church) followed by a celebration at the Altona Sports Club

for Year 6 students and staff.

Wednesday 18th December: 9.15 am. End of Year Mass. At this mass we will celebrate our school year, farewell staff and

students who are leaving and announce our 2020 School Leaders. 3.20 pm: SCHOOL FINISHES.

STAFF LEAVING: Teachers: Ms Alyce Myszka, Ms Hayleigh Davis, Ms Melysa Cathcart, Mrs Karen Aston & Mr Ethan Tartaglia. Learning Support Officers: Ms Sarah King & Ms Kathleen Smith. Congratulations to Ms Kathleen Smith who obtained a teaching position at St. Francis of Assisi, Tarneit.

CONGRATULATIONS: To the following past students of St. Marys for these outstanding achievements: Olivia Vella - achieved an ATAR score of 98.35 and was awarded DUX of Mount St Joseph's. Khiem Nguyen - has been appointed Arts Captain at Emmanuel College for 2020. Noah Luppino - has been appointed McCoy Sports Leader at Emmanuel College for 2020.

SCHOOL MASTERPLAN: Thank you to the parents that have already responded to the Care Monkey letter, design plans and request for a response sent out this week. I encourage a response from as many families as possible. These need to be in by next Thursday 19th December. I will collate the responses and pass all of the information over to the Parish Masterplan Committee at the end of the week. It is the Parish Masterplan Committee that will have the final say and submit the application on behalf of the school I apologise for the short timeline and the time of year but the second round of applications need to be in by the 6th March.

David Kelly Principal

EDUCATION IN FAITH

JESUS IS THE REASON FOR THE SEASON

2020 Sacrament Dates

SACRAMENT OF RECONCILIATION:

Individual Reconciliation. Appointments to be made with Archpriest Michael Kalka during Term 2 of 2020.

This weekend's Gospel Matthew 11: 2?11

SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION:

- Saturday 12th September, 2020 at 6:00 pm ? Bishop Mark Edwards (The Sponsor must be a baptised Catholic over the age of 16)

Workshop and commitment mass

dates and times for all Sacraments to be communicated in Term 1, 2020.

Are you the one who is to come, or must we wait for someone else?

Advent Liturgies

We remind you that you are warmly invited to join with us in prayer at our upcoming Advent

liturgy. Below is the date and time and we hope to see many of you there.

Advent Liturgy & Theme

Host classes

Date & Time

4th week of Advent LOVE

All Year 3/4 classes Monday 16th December at 12:50 pm

End of Year Mass - Wednesday 18th Dec at 9.15am

Special Dates

14 Dec Memorial of St John of the Cross

18 Dec International Migrants Day

23?30 Dec Chanukah ? The Festival of Lights (Interfaith:

Judaism)

24 Dec Christmas Eve

25 Dec The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas Day)

26 Dec Feast of St Stephen

26 Dec Boxing Day 27 Dec Feast of St John, Apostle and Evangelist

Amen.

28 Dec Feast of the Holy Innocents

As we approach the coming feast of Christmas, may we empty our hearts of the

desire for more material gifts, and instead, give to each other the gifts of love,

peace, hope and joy. May we shine our

light out into the world, bringing with it hope-filled words and love-filled service.

EMMANEUL NEWS: Welcome back to our team of 20 students who attended this week's Australian Catholic Youth Festival in Perth. Congratulations to our senior student leaders on their impressive involvement in last week's leadership camp in preparation for their roles in 2020 and to our ACC student leaders on their commissioning at the recent ACC 2020 launch. Very well done to our Year 7s on their recent outstanding concert, playing instruments only learnt this year!

PRINCIPALS AWARDS WEEK BEGINNING 9th December, 2019

PREP D PREP L

YEAR 1/2D YEAR 1/2G YEAR 1/2S YEAR 3/4HT YEAR 3/4K YEAR 3/4M YEAR 5/6C YEAR 5/6H YEAR 5/6T

Helen T for her great colouring in this year Harrison R for showing great enthusiasm at our Arts Spectacular Ethan K for working hard to develop fluency in his reading Jack M for his considered and thoughtful prayer contributions Elliot C for doing a wonderful job as Joseph in the Art Spectacular Miller D for always working well on all tasks in the classroom Levi M for his great resilience and bravery at Camp Allambee Sophie B for all the effort she put towards the Art Spectacular Augusta G for her infectious love of learning and striving to do well in all areas Keiana C for her excellent and responsible attitude to her learning Callum T for his enthusiastic efforts in debate writing Caitlin K for her willingness to volunteer her time and talents in 2019

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