St Timothy's School Vermont

Parent Question: What are the current promises from each political Party for th upcoming State election.

On Tuesday 25th we held a School Advisory Council Meeting in the Staff room. Our School Advisory Council/Committee representatives are: Fr Gerard Johnson,  Anne Maree Jones, St Timothy's Staff member, Shane Griffin, Mary Italiano ( Parish  Representative), Carly Corcoran  and Tina Psathas.

Minutes  from the meeting can be found as a PDF attached to this newsletter.

The staff have met on several occassions  over the past weeks to decide the best grade structures for 2023. Many aspects including social and academic have been considered before finalsing grades, teachers and roles and responsibilities. 

The 2023 grade groupings and staffing will be:

Year Prep

Year 1/2

Year 3/4

Year 5/6

Essentially each current class moving up but a straight Prep Year instead of a straight Year 6. Children will be mixed/combined groupings for Specialist Classes e.g  Year P & Year 1/2 

Staffing

Principal: Anne Maree Jones

Office: Gail Rich

Classroom:

Jessi Wright (Classroom 1 FTE -5 days)  Year 5/6

Anne Maree Noonan (Classroom 1 FTE- 5 days) Year 1/2

Trish McKinley (Classroom 0.8 FTE- 4 days) Year Prep

Rosemary Broderick (Classroom  0.2 FTE- 1 day) Year Prep

New (1FTE Classroom Teacher- 5days) Year 3/4  

Specialist Teachers:

Celina Korcak (0.4 FTE- Specialist 2 days)  Art, Physical Education Performing Arts 

Labrini Ooi (0.15 FTE <1 day) - Specialist Mandarin

Aria Karagiannis (0.4 FTE -2 days) 

Bridget Hall (Maternity Leave) - Return July 0.4 -2 days TBC

Specialist Areas: Physical Education, Mandarin, Art, Performing Arts      ( Drama/Music), STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths), Learning Support

LSO Positions -Learning Support Staff:  Yee Lin, Aamber Brown, New (TBC) 

Just a reminder that we have a School Closure Day on Monday 31st October and a Melbourne Cup Public Holiday on Tuesday 1st November. This is a lovely opportunity for families to take advantage of a Long Weekend. Please put these days in your calendar.

We are very excited for our whole school to be off to visit Scienceworks this Term on 25th November. The focus will be in the  Inquiry/Science/Earth & Space Learning areas. The P-3 and 4-6 will have  a different Learning Focus and will attend different exhibits at Scienceworks. It will be lovely to be able to go as a whole school to experience this very special learning opportunity.

Term 4 dates:  Friday 4 th November, Friday 11th November, Friday 18th November, Friday 25th November ( cancelled - due to Whole School Excursion) Friday 2nd December.

The children will participate in a special mass to remember this very important day in our history at 10am on Friday 11th November. There will be NO ASSEMBLY on this day.

We invite families to send long any memorabilia or photos of family members that they would like to be remembered on this special day. Parents are welcome to join us.

I have again been fortunate to be successful in gaining Sporting School funding for Term 4. We will be granted $1450 to run a 3 week (1 hour) tennis program for all students. The clinics will be run on Friday 4th November. The children will then be encouraged to use the nets and raquets to play during recess and lunch times on the basketball court area. The children will need to wear Sports Uniform on these days.

Calling  Parents & Friends members and wider School Community

It's time for our Parents & Friends -AGM- Annual General Meeting

Thursday 10th November  

More details to follow!

SAVE THE DATE

for a very important fun event.

It's time for our 

Christmas Disco

Friday 2nd December

More details to follow!

Saturday 29th & 30th October

Through nine or ten chapters of the gospel of Luke and over several months we have been following the journey of Jesus towards Jerusalem. In today’s gospel, Jesus has drawn very near to Jerusalem – Jericho is just a short distance from Jerusalem – and Jesus is moving steadily closer to the Passion of his final days. Zacchaeus is as keen as the rest of Jericho to see Jesus as he passes through the town. However, because he is so short he can’t see past the crowd and because he is a despised tax collector, no one was going to make room for him to see. He goes to the extreme length of climbing a tree just to catch a glimpse of Jesus. Like other characters in the gospel, his determination to simply catch sight of Jesus is an indication of his readiness to accept the message of Jesus. Because of his evident willingness to welcome the message of Jesus into his life, Jesus prompts Zacchaeus to welcome Jesus into his home. The readiness of Jesus to enter into the house of someone regarded as a sinner causes great scandal among the onlookers. What’s more, Jesus is prepared to eat with this man as well – a sign of complete acceptance. The welcome of Zacchaeus meets the welcome of God. Jesus declares that salvation has come to Zacchaeus’ house and that he is a son of Abraham – one of the faithful. His words are directed to the crowd, not Zacchaeus. They are so determined to draw lines between those who are acceptable and those who are not that they have failed to notice what Jesus has taught all along – that faith can flourish in all people and is not determined by their social status.

Term 4

Friday 21st ( new) , Friday 28th October, Friday 4 th November, Friday 11th November, Friday 18th November,  Friday 2nd December.

School Closure Day- Monday 31st October

Melbourne Cup Day- Tuesday 1st November

Wednesday 9th November -Let's Celebrate Learning

Friday 11th November: Remebrance Day Prayer Service

Friday 25th November- Science works Excursion

Monday 12th December Whole School End of Year Celebration ( please note day /date change)

Year 6 Graduation - Thursday 15th December

Final Day Term 4 Friday 16th December