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St Benedict's Newsletter - Term 2 Week 2

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St Benedict's Newsletter - Term 2 Week 2

Acting Principal's Update
APRE News
Parish News
Learning and Teaching Adviser & Acting APA
Year 3 Kookaburras Update
Library News
Woodstock Horse Sports Sticks Spectacular and Inter-school Challenge
Teacher Communication

What a wonderful week for our St Benedict’s community to come together and celebrate. It was wonderful to see so many people come together for ANZAC Day and to witness so many make the final initiation with the sacraments of Confirmation and Eucharist. Our values of Love and Community are definitely alive in these moments.

Construction Works

This week I attended the site meeting with Simon Bell Constructions. The buildings are progressing well and we are seeing the walls start to go up. We look forward to the trusses going up within the next 2 weeks - this is when we really start to see our new buildings take shape.

I also attended the Mendi Group site meeting. We are on track to have the final cut in from the car park to the temporary road completed by the end of this week. The initial seal of the new road should take place next week, with the final seal and road marking the week after.

At this stage, the new road is on track to open on Monday 15th May. More information will come out before this - stay tuned.

School Arrival Times

With the changes to the car parking spaces, we have seen parents start to drop their children off earlier and earlier. I understand that the traffic situation is difficult for families. Please be mindful that we have students safety in mind and continue to remind all parents and carers that students SHOULD NOT BE dropped off at school BEFORE 8am. THis is a safety risk and impacts on OSHC who are licensed to use the hall until 8am. We have seen up to 100 students in the hall unsupervised before 8am. This is simply not acceptable and we thank you for keeping to the appropriate times.

Here’s hoping you have a restful long weekend - our last for quite a while now.

Blessings,

Ros

APRE News

Welcome to the end of Week 2! It’s been a funny week with the break in the middle, and I’m sure many people are looking forward to the long weekend! Today the Year 4 Butterflies led us on assembly and did a wonderful job! Their assembly was on the theme of ‘Easter - the Resurrection of Jesus’. In their prayer they celebrated the joy of Jesus’ resurrection and rejoiced in the new life that Jesus offers us by rising up with our hearts renewed in this Easter joy.

Sacramental Program

I was blessed to be able to attend the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Holy Communion on Monday and Wednesday evening for around 20 St Benedict’s students and many others from within the parish. Both were a joyous celebration of the children’s continued journey in faith as they completed their final initiation in the Church. The Bishop challenged the children, and all gathered at the celebrations, that their journey is not now finished, but they are now called to use the gifts they have received through the sacraments to be Christlike to all they encounter in their lives.

Assembly / Open Class Timetable

Please see the Assembly and Open Classroom timetable for Term 2:

WEEK	Assembly Class	Open Classroom
1	ANZAC	NA
2	4B	4B & 1E
3	6S	6S & 2L
4	3K	3K & PP
5	1P	1P & 4G
6	2M	2M& PW
7	3B	3B & 1W
8	2C	2C & PK
9	ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
10	5D	5D & 3E

Pax,

Nick

Parish News

Parish_term2wk2.pdf

Learning and Teaching Adviser & Acting APA

Southern Cross Young Speechmakers Competition

We are thrilled to announce that some of our talented students from years 4, 5 and 6 have auditioned for the Southern Cross Young Speechmakers Competition and have done us proud. All students were prepared and gave it their all, and should be very proud of themselves for their efforts. We congratulate the following students who will be representing St Benedict's at the competition later in May:

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Mia Foley

Hayley Redgen

Isla McHugh

Maddie McDonald

Mary-Claire Turner

Liam Torrens

Next week I will be heading off for 2 weeks on Long Service Leave. It has been a very pleasing start to the term and the kids are well and truly into the swing of learning time. When I return, teachers will be getting ready to finish assessments and write report cards. This is an important time in the year to communicate with parents and carers. More information will come in the newsletter towards the end of the Term.

Yours in Learning,

Aleesha Rockemer

Learning and Teaching Adviser and Acting Assistant Principal - Administration

Year 3 Kookaburras Update

Kookaburras_update.pdf

Library News

Woodstock Horse Sports Sticks Spectacular and Inter-school Challenge

Woodstock Horse Sports would like to invite any students, along with their families to our annual Inter-school horse sports challenge. This year is being done a little differently. We are holding a Sticks Spectacular event on Saturday the 29th of April which is open to anyone at any age or experience level to ride in followed by the inter-school challenge on Sunday the 30th of April. For more information contact Ian Turner on 0411745297.

Sticks_Spectacular_29th_of_April_2023.pdf

Inter_school_Round_Mountain_30th_April.pdf

Teacher Communication

Prep Bilbies - Meg Durnford

mdurnford2@stbenedicts.catholic.edu.au

Prep Wombats - Kate Andrews

kandrews10@stbenedicts.catholic.edu.au

Prep Koalas - Amanda Prideaux

aprideaux1@stbenedics.catholic.edu.au

Prep Platypus - Elly Caspanello

ecaspanello3@stbenedicts.catholic.edu.au

Year 1 Possums - Katrina Slocombe