St Timothy's School Vermont 2023

On Wednesday the Prep to 6 Children participated in a beautiful ANZAC Day reflection Prayer Service. Thanks to Anne Maree Noonan, Jessie Wright and the Year 6 children who prepared/ led the service. We also enjoyed the ANZAC biscuits to celebrate this special day.

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)

 FRIDAY 12th MAY  is  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. I'm sure the children will be excited to have their family represented!

IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY DONE SO PLEASE SEND PICTURES ASAP!

Thank you

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. 

Tuckshop resumes next Friday 5th May.

Orders need to be placed by Wednesday 3rd May.

Correct money is appreciated if possible.

Order form were sent today and an attachment is available with this newsletter.

Next Monday  May 1st, we welcome Henny Penny Hatching Program. Chicks are scheduled to hatch over the week. It is expected each day one or two new chicks are expected to hatch. Parents and toddlers/ preschoolers and are welcome to watch the wonder of new life emerge.  

The eggs/ chickens will be here for two weeks (until Friday 12th May)

Parish Newsletter Saturday 29th and Sunday 30th April

The fourth Sunday of Easter is sometimes known as Good Shepherd Sunday. In the three different cycles of the liturgical year, the gospel on this Sunday comes from John, chapter 10 – an extended discourse by Jesus on the image of himself as the good shepherd. This year the reading is the beginning of the chapter and stops just immediately before the words, ‘I am the good shepherd’. Our understanding of this whole image and the scene that is set in today’s passage is very dependent upon a contextual understanding of the times. Whilst shepherds were generally regarded as being little better than criminals, they often put their lives in danger to tend to their flocks. Of a night time, several flocks of sheep would be penned in a communal sheepfold, usually made of stone walls. There was only one entrance to the sheepfold and one of the shepherds would effectively become the gate by sleeping across the entranceway. This was to keep the sheep in but also to guard against thieves. Thieves might climb over the wall into thesheepfold but the sheep were trained to respond to their shepherd’s voice alone so thieves could only steal what sheep they could carry off or those that were not sufficiently trained to their shepherd’s commands. When Jesus described himself as the gate of the sheepfold, his audience would have immediately understood the analogy. For a shepherd to become the gate to the sheepfold of a night was to risk his life for not only his own sheep but all the sheep in the fold overnight. It took courage and demonstrated utter commitment. Historical Context – A line of shepherds: When Jesus used the image of himself as a shepherd,he named himself as belonging to a Jewish ancestry that associated itself with shepherds. Abraham, Isaac, Jacob and Moses were all shepherds. David, the second King of Israel, was regarded as the greatest king in Jewish history. His humble beginning, captured magnificently in the sculpture by Michelangelo, was as a shepherd boy guarding his flock with a slingshot. The kings of Israel were charged to ‘shepherd’ their people rather than to lord it over them as the pagan kings did.

• Monday 5th -Friday 18th May: Book Fair 
• Monday 5th May-12th May: Henny Penny Program
• Friday 12th May: Grandparents & Special Guests 
• Friday 19th May: Cross Country 
• Friday 19th May: Basketball Clinic 
• Wednesday 24th May :Simultaneous Story Time
• Friday 26th May: Basketball Clinic 
  
• Saturday 3rd June: First Eucharist 
• Monday 12th June: Queens Birthday Public Holiday