Newsletter Week 6 – Term 3, 2023
Prayer
Principal Message
Book Week
It's that time of the year again when we celebrate Book Week. As children read different books, they discover new worlds, characters, and ideas, fostering a deep appreciation for books that will accompany them throughout their lives. In a world of screens and instant entertainment, Book Week encourages our students to exercise their imagination. Through dress-up days and imaginative activities, they explore the worlds of characters, bringing stories to life in the most creative and delightful ways. The memories they have during Book Week are cherished for years to come.. I’d like to thank Mrs Tomazin for organising the week and to all our staff who enthusiastically dressed up. A special thanks to all our parents for dressing the kids up.
School value EXCELLENCE
We actively strive for excellence by providing opportunities for children to develop positive work ethics in order to achieve their personal best. Beyond academic achievements, we instil in them the importance of a strong work ethic, resilience, and a growth mindset. By nurturing these qualities, we equip our students with the tools they need to succeed not only in their studies but also in life
School Climate Survey
We are currently collecting information to help us make informed decisions about how we can improve our school. The aim of this process is to build and maintain a positive school climate in which your child/children will flourish. To help us in our efforts, we are inviting you to respond to the Parent and Caregiver Survey (PaCS), developed at Curtin University. Your response will provide us with the information and foundational focus points that we will use in planning our school improvement efforts.
https://www.nsipartnerships.com.au/
enter the code GSCSLPACS
Father’s day Celebration
A reminder that Fathers and Father figures are invited the P&F Father’s Day event on Friday the 1st September at 3pm. Please let us know if you are coming by visiting the following link.
https://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1099437
God Bless
Nic Gaglia
Principal
Senior Leader Message
In this very long week of week 6, we have been very busy with activities like Performing Arts and Book Week! This Week the Year 5 Choir attended Catholic Performing Arts and sang beautifully. We would like to thank Mrs Reedman and the Year 5’s for doing an amazing job representing Good Shepherd. On Wednesday we had our Dress up Book Week and there were so many FUN and SCARY costumes. We all had so much fun at the parade taking photos and seeing all the interesting ideas everyone had. We would like to thank Mrs Tomazin and Mr B for making the parade happen!
Taneka and Madison
Dates to Remember
Term 3
Confirmation Workshops @ 4.30pm & 6pm
Wednesday 30th August
Year 6 Confirmation Retreat
Thursday 7th September
Year 6 Sacrament of Confirmation @ 1.30pm
Saturday 9th September
Athletics Carnival
Friday 15th September
Please click HERE to view the School Calendar located on our Website.
Kids Newspaper
Premier's Reading Challenge
Premier’s Reading Challenge
There are two weeks left until the challenge ends and there is still time to register.
Please register your students for the Premier’s Reading Challenge. We have over 300 excited students registered who have a chance to win a wonderful prize each week when logging in their books. We would love Good Shepherd to win the major prize again in 2023 and this will benefit all the students with this major prize win. If you are having trouble registering, please let me know and I can register your children. Kindy to Year 6 are all welcome to register.
https://www.premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au/students
When you register, please use the tab: Good Shepherd Catholic School Lockridge
There are WA Tourism prizes drawn every Friday and the main prize drawn on September 8th.
This is when the challenge ends.
Students need to log in their books and have read at least 12 books to be in the major draw. Books include take home readers, library books, audio books, local public Library books and even books being read to your child by yourself at home or by me during Storytime that is held every Tuesday morning in the library 8.15am. Please join me every Tuesday morning in the library to listen to our latest and wonderful picture and chapter books.
I can log in books for you.
If you have any queries, please come and see Helen Tomazin in the library.
Helen Tomazin
Library Technician
Let’s win again in 2023. Please register.
Book Week
THANK YOU
Our Book Week Dress Up Day on Wednesday was a wonderful day celebrating the love of reading and books.
I would like to thank all staff, students and the wonderful parents who supported this day. It would not happen without your dedication and support.
We are very blessed at Good Shepherd to have wonderful staff and students who dressed up to celebrate their favourite book character, fostering the love of reading and showing great community spirit.
We were very blessed to have Storytime with our talented storyteller Mr. Gaglia. The students loved it 🙂
Thank you so much.
Helen Tomazin
Library Technician.
Merit Awards
Congratulations to our most recent Merit Certificate winners:
PPB Arrabella & Charlie
PPW Zoey & Mark
1B Moses, Harper & Meiken
1W Milica & Jeremy
2B Anvika & Daksh
2W Kayden & Avitaj
3B Ethan & Addison
3W Harlow & Jai
4B Wesley, Catherine & Georgia
4W Aryan, Alexander & Myra
5B Samuel, Amanda & Olivia
5W Kate, Ashton & Dana
6B Christina, Abram & Kyle
6W Lucas & Derric
Earobics Discontinuation Certificates:
3W Harlow
3B Nicholas
Faction Points
Points Total Term 3 2023
FOLEY 1090
MAALI 813
FRANCIS 477
NOONAN 737
P&F Page
FATHER’S DAY STALL
Don’t forget your $2 next Friday (1 Sept) to visit the Father’s Day stall and grab your dad a pressie!
$2 Needed!!
SAVE THE DATE!
It’s time to get your skates on! Come and join us on
Friday 8 September from
3.30pm – 5.30pm at
Morley Rollerdrome!
$15 entry includes skate hire. All are welcome.
Please note you are required to stay with your child/ren for the duration of the event.
The P&F will also be holding a cake stall so come and try a delicious treat whilst the kids (and even you!) skate the afternoon away.
The P&F are asking parents to donate to the cake stall and all items will be sold for 50c. The P&F thank you for y our donation.
If you are free to help set up the stall or donate some yummy goodies then please let us know! gsl.pnf@gmail.com
VOLUNTEERS NEEDED
We would love if you can spare some time to help make the Father’s day event a success. Signup at https://signup.com/go/ohvxait otherwise, let us know gsl.pnf@gmail.com or
text Holly 0424 520 329
CONTACT US
Holly Vecchio (President)
0424 529 329
Sara Andacic (Vice President)
0407 699 746
Email: gsl.pnf@gmail.com
Facebook: Click the icon to join the P&F Facebook group
Birthdays
The following have celebrated a birthday recently/ will celebrate. We wish them a very HAPPY BIRTHDAY!
Vianca PPW
Ashton KB
Anvika 2B
Dinushan 1W
Conall 2W
Danesh PPB
Kyle 6B
Jeevith 4W
Montel KB
Ronan 1W
Danny 3W
Ifechukwu 4W
Hannah PPW
Saathik PPB
Chelsea 4B
Canteen
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 Enrolments
Centre for Faith Enrichment
CodeCamp
Camp Australia
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.
