Term 2 Week 3 - Thursday 16 May 2024

Principal's Message

Gospel: John 20: 19-23

Now when it was late that same day, the first of the week, and the doors were shut, where the disciples were gathered together, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them: Peace be to you. And when he had said this, he shewed them his hands and his side. The disciples therefore were glad, when they saw the Lord. He said therefore to them again: Peace be to you. As the Father hath sent me, I also send you. When he had said this, he breathed on them; and he said to them: Receive ye the Holy Ghost. Whose sins you shall forgive, they are forgiven them; and whose sins you shall retain, they are retained.

Mother’s Day

Thank you to the Dads who were able to assist with the stall and the canteen. It was a huge gathering of Mums, Grandmas, Aunties and special friends. A wonderful community experience. Thank you to all our staff who helped facilitate the day, there were beautiful nails, colourful hats and exercised mums a plenty. A special thanks also to our Year 2 team for your beautiful liturgy, lots of great examples of why our mums are so special.

Walkathon

At the community council meeting on Tuesday night we decided to move the Walkathon to the end of Term 2 weather permitted. This will then lighten the Term 3 load which will have Father’s Day and the Musical. More information to come.

Student and Staff illness

There are a few bugs going around which are impacting on our students and staff. If your child is unwell, please keep them at home, until they are on the mend.

AFL

A wonderful selection of very enthusiastic senior girls are participating in an AFL Gala day today. Thank you to our coaches for giving freely of your time.

School Musical

Auditions have begun. Thank you to all staff involved in this significant project. It requires countless out of school hours by staff and for this, the community is extremely grateful.

Thank you for your ongoing support

 Cameron

Important Dates

Birthdays

School News

Resilience Project

ELC-Year 6 commenced The Resilience Project lessons this term. Students have begun learning about Gratitude, in particular what they are grateful for. All classes have been looking at what we have to be grateful for compared to children in other countries who have far less. Despite having far less, these children are so delightfully happy. This gives us every reason in Australia to be extremely happy. The Resilience Project provides many wonderful resources for parents. If you haven't already jump on the link below and have a look. 

https://theresilienceproject.com.au/at-home/parents-2023/

School Fees

School fee statments have been sent out. If you have not recieved your fee statement please contact the office. Fees are due 25 May.

School Uniform

It is now winter uniform. Can you please make sure your child is in full winter uniform. Shorts and skorts can be worn on sports days. 

Preschool News

ELC NEWS

On Monday we welcomed our Year 5 buddies from St John Vianney’s. We spent a lovely morning playing, chatting and making connection. 

Thank you to Mr Kaltner for visiting the Turtle class on Thursday to show us how Lego Robots work, how they use sensors and can be operated from an iPad.

Prac Teachers

Welcome to Aminat Odunuga who will be completing her four week prac in the Stingray and Lobster classes and to Roshan Simkhada who is completing prac with the Turtles.  It is great to be able to support a new generation of Early Childhood teachers and educators.

Vinnies Winter Appeal

Once again, the St Jude’s community are collecting items for the St Vincent de Paul Winter Appeal.  The ELC has been asked to provide new warm winter socks and beanies for children or adults.  We will have a collection basket in the ELC foyer.

Enrolment period

Enrolments are now open for 2025 preschool and primary school. Go to the school websites for more details and the application link. Current ELC families need to submit an application for kindergarten. Applications must be submitted by the end of May in order to be considered in the first round.

St Jude Open Days

The ELC and St Jude’s primary school will hold tours on Wednesday 22 and 29 May from 9:30am to 10:30am. Please contact the office to book a tour.

St John Vianney Open Days

SJV welcomes all families to have a tour of the school every Wednesday in May between 10:30am and 5:00pm.

Facebook

St Jude’s ELC now has a Facebook page which we encourage you to follow. We will post updates, reminders and images of all the fabulous things we get up to.

https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=61557194577229

Walk to School Day - tomorrow Friday 17 May

National Walk Safely to School Day - Friday 17 May 2024

This Friday will be our whole school ride and walk day for National Walk Safely to School Week. It is an initiative supported by the government to encourage both students and their parents to be more active and healthy in their daily commute to school and work. 

St Jude’s will be participating with a whole school walk and ride to school morning tomorrow.  While we encourage walking and riding, we also welcome any wheels too. We will have teachers stationed from 8:10am at the locations marked on the map. They will wait and meet students and parents and depart those locations by 8:20am to move along the marked routes to school.

At school, the groups will be met with some great tunes pumping, a fruit station and some prizes for participants too. We are grateful for Woolworths providing all the fresh fruit and snacks for our students in the morning.

We will have some of the amazing team from the Phillip Trek Store to offer a safety check to all the kids and parents' bikes - they are offering a 10% discount on parts and accessories for 2 weeks from the date of the school visit for anyone that goes in and mentions our school event. We thank Trek for their continued support of our active school events.

It’s going to be a great morning and we look forward to seeing as many people as possible getting involved in the action.

Attached  is the map of meet locations and the routes they follow to get to school - you can meet at a meet point or along the way, the more the merrier.

RE News

Vinnie's Winter Appeal

This Term we will be fundraising for St Vincent de Paul with the Vinnie's Winter Appeal. This is an annual fundraiser that helps the homeless and less fortunate in our local area. Please have a look at what your child's year group has been asked to contribute. The food collection will be on the 7 of June (Friday Week 6). A St Vincent de Paul representative will attend parish mass with Years 5 and 6 on the 6 of June to express their thanks for our contributions. Please give what you can, donations will be accepted from today onwards. Thank you in advance for your generosity. 

Pyjama day! 

Our second fundraiser for the Winter Appeal is a pyjama day on the 31 of May (Friday, Week 5). We ask that students bring a gold coin donation. A gentle reminder that Oodies and onesies are not practical school attire. Please wear closed-in shoes. 

Sacramental update

Is your child eligible for a sacrament? In the Parish of Our Lady of the Annunciation sacraments are completed in Years 3, 4 and 6. Eucharist reflection nights have begun, the next reflection night is Tuesday 21  May. Click this link to find out more.  

May your light shine.

Jessica Betterton

REC

Library News

Term 2 Week 3

We’re off to a great start with the Reading Olympics for sure. Here are our Kindy classes enjoying ‘The Frog Olympics’. Keep up the reading and change your books each week children to make sure your Olympic Sticker Chart is filling up.

Remember we’re going for Gold!!

Library Bags

It is important for each child (ELC, K-Yr4) to have their own bag (any kind is fine) but more importantly, to remember which day is their Library Day and to bring  book(s) and bag. Please establish a safe place at home to keep Library books and involve your child in getting ready for Library Day.

We are happy to loan library bags to children who occasionally forget to bring their own Library bags but could these bags please be returned as soon as possible.

Sports News

Cross Country

Congratulations to the following students who have qualified to represent St Jude's at the South Weston Cross Country to be held at Stromlo Forest Park on 4 June. The top 5 placegetters in each age division are eligible to compete. A Compass notification with more details will be sent early next week.  

ACT Swimming Championships

Congratulations to Hugh K, Connor H, Amy R and John C who represented St Jude's and the South Weston schools at the recent ACT Swimming Championships. While we await final placings, we want to congratulate each of the students on their amazing efforts to get to this level of competition. St Jude's is extremely proud of you. 

Paul Kelly Cup

Today St Jude's was represented at the Paul Kelly AFL Cup at Kambah. After a tough day the girls won the final against Arawang. Amazing effort. thank you to Pete Lilley and Andrew Brown for coaching the girls and Luke Morwitch for accompaning them. 

Mulleyduds Uniform Shop

Shop Open Friday 17 May 3-3:30pm and Friday 24 May 2:30-3:15pm

We are accepting donations. If you have any preloved uniforms that are still in great condition we would love if you could donate them for resale. Please donate through the front office or directly to the shop during opens. 

For second hand requests please email to: uniform.stjudes@gmail.com. Please include your child’s name and classroom for us to deliver to. **Please do not make payment for secondhand items, until we reply to your request confirming stock is available.

Mulleygrubs Cafe News

Weekly Specials

Wednesday: Pizza 

Thursday: Nuggets

Friday: Chicken Burger & Cheese Burger

Canteen Volunteers - Week 4

Wednesday 22 May - Dela

Thursday 23 May - Julie & one more volunteer please

Friday 24 May - Sarah D, Gemma & one more volunteer please

We are in need for more volunteers for the Canteen.

If you would like to volunteer in the Canteen in Term 2 please email office.stjudes@cg.catholic.edu.au

Camp Australia

Junior Australian Sports Program