Newsletter Week 4 – Term 1, 2024

Prayer

Principal Message

Communication

Our fortnightly newsletter has very important information for our parents. Every class communicates via SeeSaw. You can follow us on Facebook and Instagram.

School Webpage – https://www.gsl.wa.edu.au

Photos or video

Upon enrolment, Good Shepherd Catholic School accepts your consent to give permission for the use of your child/s photo or video image in school publicity activities. Photos or video footage might be disclosed to third parties for example to the P&F Community for promotion of the school. Material created by your child for the purpose of promoting the School or CEWA might also be publicly displayed. Should you not want your child/ren to feature in such publicity, please notify this in writing and send it through to the school office.

Swimming Carnival

What an incredible day we experienced at our swimming carnival! I'm truly impressed by the outstanding support and encouragement our students showed for their peers. Well done to Mr. B for his exceptional preparation and execution of the event. Thank you goes out to all the staff members who contributed to the smooth running of the day, as well as our dedicated parent helpers who went above and beyond.

Occupational Health and Safety

We are committed to fostering a secure environment for our staff, students, parents, caregivers, and visitors. Our objectives include safeguarding the safety, health, and well-being of all individuals, both employees and non-employees, within school premises. Cultivating, advocating, and sustaining a safe and healthy school environment aimed at minimizing the potential for injury or illness among employees and non-employees. Should anyone observe a hazard that poses a risk of injury or harm to any person, we kindly ask that it be promptly reported to the School Office.

No Stopping

The area circled is a NO STOPPING area at all times. Please do not stop here as it causes major issues on Altone Rd.

God Bless

Nic Gaglia

Principal

Seniors Leader Message

Hi families and students,

What a busy couple of weeks it has been!

We began with the Ash Wednesday Mass and the start of Lent when we make decisions on what we are giving up as Jesus gave up his life for us. We were fortunate to have a visit from Koreen and Deacon Paul from Caritas who shared an inspiring story about how Caritas Australia helped a young women achieve an education so she could provide for her family. Year 6 also had a special guest called Lauren visit us from the Leukemia Foundation. She told us all about leukemia and how we can help people with cancer by doing the World’s Greatest Shave. We have had lots of students and teachers who will volunteer to donate their hair. The World’s Greatest Shave will take place in June, so stay tuned!

This was followed by an action-packed SWIMMING CARNIVAL! Good job to all the participants for trying their best and giving it a go. We would also like to congratulate all the students that got either champion or runner-up boy and girl in their year group! Well done FOLEY for winning the swimming carnival this year and a good job all the other factions who did their best and gave it a go. Thank you to all the parent volunteers, parents and family members who came to cheer us on. A huge thank you to Mr B, the teachers and faction captains for making the carnival such an enjoyable day for all. 🏊‍♀️🏊‍

By Marissa and Heidi

Kids Newspaper

Early Close

In Week 9, Monday 25th March, we have included an EARLY CLOSE of school at 12:30pm.  This is to give all class teachers an opportunity to meet as many parents as possible during their Parent Teacher meetings. It is expected that ALL parents make an appointment with their class teacher/s either on that Monday or Wednesday after school during Week 9.  The Parent Teacher Meetings will be of 10 minutes duration and will give class teachers the opportunity to discuss your child’s progress and any school based assessments and observations. It is essential that you attend and support the school’s efforts to communicate your child’s progress, development and transition to their new year level.  School finishes for all children at 12:30pm on Monday 25th March and we ask that families are punctual in the collection of their child/ren at this time.  If you cannot collect your child at 1230 please make alternative arrangements for them to be collected or book them into Camp Australia Out of School Hours Care which is held in our school hall.

Information of the online booking system will be sent via SeeSaw during week 6 so please look out for the link to be able to secure the time that best suits your family.

NAPLAN 2024

Parent Reading Helper

Parents, Grandparents, Aunts, Uncles for Reading Roster

We would like to implement the Parent Reading Roster again this year as it has been an amazing success. It really benefitted the children who struggle with reading and do not always receive a lot of home support. This assists our students to ‘catch up’ by increasing their reading mileage. Therefore, we are once again seeking interested parents/caregivers/grandparents etc who can devote some of your precious time each week to listen to children read. These sessions will take place either first thing in the morning between 8.30 – 9.00 or at the end of the day between 2.30 – 3.00. You will be given some training in the skills, strategies and processes we encourage to foster independent, fluent readers and then allocated a class and day to share your wonderful gift of time. Once we have a bank of available helpers, rosters will be set up for the classes on a needs base. It is imperative that confidentiality is maintained at all times. If you are interested in assisting in this area, please complete the form below and return to the front office by Friday 8th March. We will be in touch in regard to the training sessions.

Kind Regards and thanks in eager anticipation.

Helen Lornie

Literacy Co-ordinator

I would like to be a parent helper for the Reading Roster Program and am willing to come to the training session.

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Available day/s

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Morning Session Afternoon session

Department of Education Collection Notice

Dates to Remember

Term 1

24th & 25th February - Commitment Masses for all Sacraments

4th March - Labour Day Public Holiday

13th, 14th & 15th March - Year 6 Camp

25th March - Early Close Parents Interviews

28th March - End of Term

29th March - Good Friday

Term 2

15th April - Term 2 Commences

25th April - Anzac day Public Holiday

31st May - Pupil free Day

3rd June - WA Day Public Holiday

4th June - Pupil Free Day

28th June - End of Term

Term 3

16th July - Term 3 Commences

26th August - Pupil Free Day

20th September - End of Term

Term 4

8th October - Term 4 Commences

4th November - Pupil Free Day

6th December - End of Term

Please click HERE to view the School Calendar located on our Website.

Merit Awards

Congratulations to our most recent Merit Certificate winners:

PPB Jasper & Ivy

PPW Marlee & Jackson

1B Bentley & Nicole

1W Charlee & Emmett

2B Silva & Lawrence

2W Mackenzie, Lachlan & Alessio

3B Gio & Melody

3W James & Cassidy

4B Asher, Kamsy & Remy

4W Isabella & Amay

5B Alvia & Jake

5W Josaphat, Isabelle & Jayden

6B Mason, Olivia & Massimo

6W Sean & Heidi

Earobics: Benjamin Scanlon

Star Class

A big congratulations to Good Shepherd’s Star Class which has been awarded and well earned by 5W. Congratulations to all the students for their efforts and well done to Miss Sankar.

Faction Points

Term 1

P & F

Sundowner 2024

We are looking forward to seeing you all tonight!

Remember, if you haven’t already ordered your pizza, bring your own dinner!

Date Reminders

The next P&F meeting is March 19th 7pm in the school meeting hall.

March 22nd is National ride to school day

CONTACT US

Holly Vecchio (President)
0424 529 329

Melissa Bonatto(Vice President)
04169292961

Email: gsl.pnf@gmail.com

Facebook: Click the icon to join the P&F Facebook group

Birthdays

The following have celebrated a birthday recently. We wish them a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Ava PPB

Emily 1B

Angelina 4W

Cohen 4B

donna PPB

Elizabeth PPB

Sahas 2W

Patience 1W

Leon 3W

Nia Phoebe PPW

Myra 5W

Monique 6W

Brianna KW

Anderson 1W

Jeremy 2B

Connor 5W

Sehaj 3W

Theo PPW

Mrs Smith-Webb

Mrs Darge

Mrs Lazzaroni

Mrs Pedulla

Canteen

The school canteen is open on Monday, Wednesday and Friday. Students from Kindy – Year 6 are able to order from the canteen( Kindy and Pre Primary Can order lunch only). Please click on this link to view the CANTEEN MENU

The canteen runs with the help of volunteers. For information on assisting in the canteen please click HERE

CANTEEN ROSTER

Term 1 2024

Quick Cliq is our online canteen ordering system that enables caregivers to order and pay for their child's recess or lunch orders online.

Click on the Quick Cliq logo above to sign in to your account.

Click HERE to sign up for your new user account.

A couple of things to note:

The cut-off time for ordering for the same day is 8:30 am, any orders received after this time online will be processed for the next canteen day
You can order in advance (up to four weeks)
The canteen will remain open in the morning for those who would like to order at the canteen counter before school
The canteen will still be open for extra purchases for recess and lunch items (for example ice creams)

2025 Kindy Enrolment

La Salle College - Middle Swan

Catholic School Parents WA

Welcome to the latest edition of our CSPWA eNewsletter!

Visit the link below to the newsletter:https://cspwa.schoolzineplus.com/news?nid=50

Midvale Hub Parenting Service

Centre for Faith Enrichment

Better Health Program

Facebook & Instragram

Good Shepherd Lockridge has its own Facebook and Instagram Page. Please like our page and follow us as we begin to use this social forum to update you on information and current events happening within our wonderful school.

Click on the icons to view our Instagram/ Facebook pages.