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Pentecost is the great feast that marks

the birth of the Christian Church by the

power of the Holy Spirit. Pentecost

means ‘fiftieth day ‘ and is celebrated

fifty days after Easter.

During the first Pentecost, the Holy

Spirit descended upon the Apostles

and those in the upper room. Tongues of fire appeared over

them and they were filled with the Spirit. The Holy Spirit

empowered them, giving the apostles the gifts and fruits

necessary to fulfill their great commission - to go out and

preach the Gospel to all nations.

When the day of Pentecost came, they were all together in one place. Suddenly a sound like the blowing of a violent wind came from heaven and filled the whole house where they were sitting. They saw what seemed to be tongues of fire that separated and came to rest on each of them. All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them. Acts 2:1–4

Religion

I N S I D E

T H I S I S S U E :

Mary’s

Message

4

Important

Back to

School Infor-

mation

6

Important

Dates

7

Birthdays 7

Remote

Learning

Awards

8

Wellbeing 10

Preps—PMP 12

SPAN’s Got

Talent!

13

Community

Advertising

15

B U S I N E S S N A M E

N E W S L E T T E R D A T E

SPAN NEWS St. Paul Apostle North Primary School

76 Mossgiel Park Drive, Endeavour Hills VIC 3802 Phone: 9700 6068 Fax 9706 2756

Email: [email protected] Website: www.spanhills.catholic.edu.au

Term 2 Issue 4 “Listen to What the Spirit is Saying” Friday 5th June 2020

mailto:[email protected]


May the Holy Spirit bless us and strengthen us. You were revealed to the followers of Jesus in a mighty wind, and you touched them with tongues of fire. Fill our hearts with your fire and wind as we journey through our days.

Amen.

Monique Fallace

Deputy / Religious Education Leader

Prayer

Sacramental Programs

UPDATE

At this point in time, we do not have any further information on when Church services and programs will begin again. We will keep you informed of any changes and in the meantime please continue to celebrate mass via Live stream Masses:

Saturday 6pm Sunday 11am

Please go into the website: stpaulapostle.com.au


A Special Visit

Last Friday, the

Prep - Grade 2

children, had a

very special visit

from Father Bren-

dan. Here are some

our memories…

“Father Brendan

wanted to see my

work, so I showed

him the picture of

my procedure…”

Anushka 1/2B

“Father Brendan

gave out some

awads and he was

very nice to every-

one…” Tristan

1/2C

“He’s very nice and

gave me my

award. I think he

is very kind and

caring…” Ellyce

1/2G

Thankyou

Father Brendan


Mary’s Message

Return to School How beautiful to look out my window today, to see our P-2 children play-ing so happily in the sun. It made the sun shine even brighter! The return to school for our Junior children has been so smooth. I thank you parents for the positive way you have embraced this return. I appreciate there are many reservations and worries associated with this new stage of our re-sponse to Covid-19 and appreciate how well you have supported your children and the school in this. Next week will present some more challenges I’m sure, but together we will get through them and move on to bigger and better things. Please don’t hesitate to get in touch if you have any concerns we can help you with. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the teachers and support staff of St Paul Apostle North. The adjustments they have had to make to their work life and their family life, on such short notice, have been enormous. Every single staff member has gone over and above in their care and their professionalism. Your children are very lucky to have such a dedicated and innovative group of people who truly care for the happiness, as well as the education of every one of your children.

Your Feedback

Although there have been some quite challenging aspects to these past weeks, some very positive things have emerged. My hope and prayer is that anything that has emerged that is an improvement on the way things were done before will be retained, and that anything we have let go of that we were doing just because it’s always been done that way, will not be returned to without a good reason. Next week we will be sending home a short survey asking for your opinion on what worked well during remote learning and the things that maybe could have been done better or not done at all. I would ask that every family take the time to give your feedback, as we will be analysing your responses, along with those of the staff and of the students themselves, and using this data to plan for the very best future for our wonderful school and our school community.


If you are a handyman (person) who is able to do a bit more than general garden tidying up, we would particularly appreciate some advice and assis-tance with some general repair jobs.

Enrolments

Please note that, since some restrictions have been lifted, our enrolments are filling up fast. If you know of anyone who is thinking of enrolling their child for next year’s Prep, please encourage them to call into the office for an enrolment form or download one from our website and email it to the school. We are happy to do one on one school tours or to chat via Google Meet, Zoom or Skype. Wishing everyone a lovely long weekend and may God keep you and your family in the palm of His hand.

School Improvement

For those of you who have not been past the school for some time, you will find a few differences. Unfortunately, things have not gone as quickly as I had hoped and our facelift is still in progress. Hopefully when we come back after the holi-days all will be revealed!! One thing we do plan for the future is to extend our Kitchen Garden Pro-gram and our Outdoor Learning Program to include the whole school in different ways. We are calling for volunteers, particularly keen veggie gar-deners, to be involved in whatever way they feel they can. A very special thanks needs to go here to the Ganon Family who have been tending our chooks with special care for the whole of our Remote Learning Period. The girls are all particularly content and all laying regularly.

Your Help is Needed

As we have not been able to have a Working Bee for many months, there are a number of yard tidying and general clean up jobs needing to be done around the school. We will not be able to call a Working Bee for the foreseeable future, but ask that, if you have some time on your hands once the children are back at school, and have a Working With Children’s Card, we would welcome your assistance on a one on one basis. If you think you would be able to help, please ring the office and we can work something out.

Mary Lucas

Principal


IMPORTANT INFORMATION RE: Grades Prep -6 RETURN TO SCHOOL

PLEASE NOTE NEW STAGGERED TIMES FOR START AND FINISH OF SCHOOL Dear Parents and Carers, Thank you for your amazing cooperation and support during this staged return to school. Last week was such a smooth transition it was hard to believe our P-2 chil-dren had ever been away. Looking forward to next week when our whole school will be together again, there will need to be some more adjustments made and we ask that you please be pa-tient with the changes and please feedback any concerns you have. From Next Tuesday, families whose surname begins with A through to L will begin school at 8:50am and finish at 3:10pm. Families whose surname begins with M through to Z will begin school at 9:00am and finish at 3:20pm. You may still enter and leave from either the front or the back of the school and both areas will be strictly drop off and pick up. If this presents too much of a problem for your family, please get in touch with me, Mrs Lucas on 9700 6068, and we can discuss your concerns. I appreciate that there has been some confusion about the exact return date for our 3-6 students. We had initially decided to call a Report Writing Day on Tuesday, June 9th, but, after consideration decided that the date June 9th had been adver-tised so widely by the government and the Catholic Education Office, this might be too confusing for families. We changed the return date back to Tuesday, but, unfor-tunately did not change it in the newsletter. Therefore, we are allowing families to choose which return date suits them best. If you are ready to return on Tues-day, June 9th we will welcome you on that day. If, however, you are thinking of returning on Wednesday, June 10th, then that is perfectly fine too. By Wednesday we should all be back as one family. As you can appreciate reports will, of necessity, look quite different from our usual First Semester Reports. Teachers have been keeping records of work tasks done remotely, but every child and every family has had their own difficulties and the work presented may not be an accurate representation of your child’s ability. We are also very aware of the fact that many children will find it difficult to return to onsite schooling and there may be a lot of angst. We therefore have decided not to bombard the children with assessment tasks merely for the purpose of writing a re-port, but rather establish good learning routines for the remainder of the term. The modified report we will be sending out will be online, rather than in paper form, and we will keep you updated over the next few weeks about how you will access it. Thank you once again for your continued support and we look forward to all our children being back to school next week.


Calendar of Events

JUNE

Monday 8th Queen’s Birthday—Public Holiday

Tuesday 9th Years 3—6 students return to SPAN

Friday 12th Online Assembly

Thursday 18th Feast of the Sacred Heart


Wednesday 24th St Paul’s Day


Last Day of Term 2—1:30 Finish

1/2

Prep

5/6 3/4

Adriana, Ivan

Ella, Madelene,

Gabriella, Liana

Naina, Christian D,

Aadi

Marguerite


Student Learning

Awards

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3/4

Congratulations to the following students for receiving

SPAN’s Learning Awards!

Prep – Micah, Jezel

1/2B – Jude, Jacob

1/2C – Lucas, Brahmjot

1/2G – Blake, Helena

3/4K – William, James, Thomas

3/4R – Olivia, Joshua

3/4S – Finn, Mylah

5/6M – Maya, Anthony

5/6O – Seana, Anton

5/6P – Cisco, Nessrine

A special mention and congratulations to

Jazmin in 3/4R and Olivia in 5/6O for

receiving last week’s very special

Principal’s Award!

Jazmin always tries hard with her work and

she sang the National Anthem

sensationally! Olivia has been focussed on

all of her online learning tasks. Well done!


3/4

To all the children who will begin Prep at St Paul Apostle North

in 2021,

We are very excited to let you know that our pre-schooler

hoodies have arrived! These will be just the thing to keep you

nice and warm over the coming winter months.

Please call into our office and collect your free hoodie when

you hand in your enrolment form for 2021.

We look forward to welcoming you into our SPAN family.

2021 Preps

Get

Your

Free

Hoodie,

Now!


Wellbeing


PMP This week the students from Grades Prep—2 began their weekly PMP sessions. Take a look at how well our Preps did on their first PMP for Term 2.

Awesome Work Preps!!


Hey, SPAN Community...

WHAT IS YOUR TALENT???

Can you dance, sing, play an

instrument, perform magic?

Do you have another talent?

SPAN’s Talent Show is on again!

Here Are Some Ideas!

• Dancing

• Singing

• Comedy

• Magic

• Musical Instrument

• Juggling

• Yo Yo Tricks

• Hula Hooping

• Mimes

• Acting

During Week 3, next term, we will be holding our auditions.

You can send a one minute video to your teacher showing your talent or bring your talent to school. All parent/toddler acts must be videoed and sent to your child’s class teacher.

Talent Sections

• Prep - 2 Students

• Grades 3 - 6 Students

• Parents & Toddlers


Prep 2021 & 2022

We are currently accepting enrolments for Prep 2021 & 2022. Please spread the word if you know anyone that is looking for a dynamic and welcoming small school option.

2020 - TERM 2 13TH APRIL – 26TH JUNE

SCHOOL SUPERVISION TIMES 8.30am-3.40pm Supervision before school commences at 8.30am. Children should not

arrive at school before this time. Students need to be at school by 8.45am for 8.50am start. School finishes at 3.20pm.

Teachers are on duty until 3.40pm. Students need to be collected by 3.40pm. The school has an Out of School Hours Care

Program to assist parents who work or cannot make it to the school by 3.40pm.

SCHOOL GATES Please note that, for the safety of your children, the school gates will be locked between 9.00am and

3.10pm every day. The gates will be opened around 2.20pm on a Friday for parents wishing to attend Assembly. The gates

will be locked again from 3.40pm. Please ensure that you do not park at the back of the school after this time as you will be

locked in.

CANTEEN The canteen operates every Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Please go to the school website for the current

price list and ordering procedures.

UNIFORM SHOP The Uniform Shop is open every Wednesday from 8.30am-10.00am in the Specialist Block. Uniforms can


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