St Timothy's School Vermont 2023

Our Year 3/4 Class are off to the Siena College ASPIRE Program next Wednesday. The program invites primary school students to work with Siena students and our Scientist in Residence on STEAM based activities. STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, the Arts and Mathematics) education is an integrated curriculum designed to equip students with knowledge in these five disciplines as they gain invaluable experience solving problems in which there is not one right answer. A bus will pick up and drop off our students. A permission form has been sent home .

NEXT WEEK -- Chicken Nuggets

$5 Special

Please see the order form that was sent home on Thursday.

I have also attached one to this newsletter ( on front page).

 Classroom Cuisine is still available on Wednesdays.

Parent Teacher Interviews/ Conferences are Monday 3rd April.

Please book a time to meet with your child's teacher. 

Date: Monday 3rd April

Link: https://www.schoolinterviews.com.au  

Code: d4k2t 

On Friday the 24th March  the School Assembly time has been moved to 9 am in order for us to  prepare for School Sports etc.

Term 1

Friday 10th February: Jundalyn Candia ( Sarah & Tom)

Friday 17th February: Renee Cavell ( Alize & Milton)

Friday 24th February: Lisa Lander ( Hudson)

Friday 3rd March: Cath Mc Cann (Harry)

Friday 10th  March: Carla Hayes (Tommy)

Friday 17th March: Daina Cresswell ( Savannah & Grayson)

Friday 24th March:Marie Capewell ( Chiara & Alexander)

Term 2

Friday 5th May: Belinda Sutton ( William & Hailey)

Friday 12th May  Grandparents & Special Friends ( No Raffle)

Friday 19th May   Cross Country- (No Raffle)

Friday 26th May: Divjot Mazara ( Naunidh & Ishreet)

Friday 2nd June: Manju Mathew (Nathan & Nika)

Friday 9th June: Beth Seymour ( Abigail & Ethan)

Friday 23rd June: Carly Corcoran (Ellie)

Term 3

July 14th: Kitty ( Bella)

July 21: Tina ( John & Marie) 

July 28th: Anyi Sanchez ( Amanda & Abraham) 

August 4th: Marie Capewell ( Chiara & Alexander)

Friday 11th August:: Mariafe Bonilla ( Natalia)

Friday 18th August: Lidia Salakos ( Noah)

We are very excited to lock in FRIDAY 12th MAY  for Grandparents & Special Guests Day. We are looking for all families to send us family e.g  pictures of mum and children, dad and children, mum & dad and children, child and grandaparents etc, so they can be included in our special celebration. Please send a hard copy or digital photos to ajones@sttims.catholic.edu.au or to your child's teacher. Im sure the children will be excited to have their family represented! Thank you

Reconcilaition: Tuesday 28th March at 6pm (POSTPONED)

First Eucharist: Saturday 3rd June at 6pm

Confirmation: Thursday 27th July at 6pm

Our day is WEDNESDAY.

You can order online each Wednesday  and the lunch orders will be delivered to school. If you haven't ordered previously you will need to create an account.

Orders MUST be placed prior to 8:30am.

To place an order www.classroomcuisine.com.au.

We are also hoping that we will have an onsite tuckshop available on some days throughout the term. This will be organised and run by parent volunteers. If you can help please tell Gail or Anne Maree and we will direct you towards the parent tuckshop organising team. 

Saturday 18th March & Sunday 19th MarchToday’s gospel reading is the second in a series of three quite lengthy readings from the gospel of John that are a feature of the Lenten season in Year A of the liturgical cycle. The three readings address three significant themes and images: water; light; and new life. Although today’s passage is about the healing of a blind man, the event takes place as part of a longer section of the gospel dealing with the image of light and specifically the image of Jesus as Light of the World. The question asked by the disciples at the opening of this event is an interesting one. They ask, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, for him to have been born blind?’ In Jewish culture at the time, any physical affliction was deemed to be punishment from God for sinful behaviour. As the man had been born blind, the suspicion falls on his parents as having committed such a terrible offence against God that their son is born blind. Jesus immediately rejects this interpretation of the man’s affliction. Physical and mental illnesses or disabilities are in no way punishment from God. Although the man’s physical sight is restored by Jesus simply enough, his journey from darkness into light is a more complicated affair. He faces disbelief, ridicule and even abuse from the Jewish authorities as they try to discredit Jesus and diminish the impact of the miracle. In fact, their treatment of the man is what drives him along the road from recipient of an act of mercy to a confirmed believer. Furthermore, the Jewish authorities, despite their physical capacity for sight, are shown to be the ones who are truly blind and trapped in darkness because they deny the light that is before their very eyes.

Term 1

MARCH

Friday 24th March: School Athletics Sports & Picnic

Tuesday 28th: March Reconciliation

APRIL

Monday 3rd April: Parent Teacher Interviews.

Thursday  6th April: Last Day Term 1

Friday 7thApril : Good Friday

Term 2

Return to school Wednesday 26th April

• Monday 24th April  School Closure Day
• Tuesday 26th ANZAC Day holiday