Dear Families,

You will have noticed an increase in Covid notifications over the past week. Today, we have new cases in every class. We have a number of Covid-safe procedures in place in our classrooms – regular hand-washing, using hand sanitiser, we are physically distancing where possible, we have air purifiers in classrooms and masks are available for students to wear if they wish.

We thank our families for their cooperation during this time in keeping up the Rapid Antigen Testing twice a week and keeping children home if they are unwell. There are other nasty bugs circulating around also that are not covid, but have covid like symptoms, these children need to stay home also so that we limit the spread of other infections and viruses as well.

It is very frustrating because in many cases, children with covid are reporting only very mild symptoms. However, please keep in mind that we do have staff and other children here who are vulnerable so unwell children do need to stay home. If they have covid, they must isolate for seven days. If children are unwell without covid, please keep them home until their symptoms resolve. Children who are close contacts can come to school, but must wear a mask if they are aged 8 and over unless an exemption applies.

Remember to report any positive results by filling in the Positive Covid-19 Rapid Antigen Test Self Reporting Form here:

https://dhvicgovau.powerappsportals.com/rapid-antigen-test/

On a lighter note, we were able to celebrate a lovely whole school mass last Thursday. Our children participated respectfully and prayerfully on the day and Father James was very impressed. It was a lovely celebration to start off our new Term.

Our Years 3 and 5 students completed NAPLAN last week. It was our first fully online NAPLAN, which went very well. Mr Mahoney is our NAPLAN coordinator and did a wonderful job getting everything organised so that we could participate without any technological issues.

We hope that our families that are at home and feeling unwell recover quickly.

We will keep our families and children in our prayers and ask that God restores them speedily to good health.

Have a wonderful week ahead,

Sally

Please take note of these dates for your family calendar

TERM 2 DATES

Week 4

18th May - Confirmation Workshop 1@ 5pm

19th May - Footy Clinic

21/22 May - Confirmation Commitment Masses

Week 5

24th May - School Advisory Committee Meeting @7pm

25th May - School Open Day

Week 6

1st June - Life Ed Van session 1

Week 7

8th June - Life Ed Van session 2

9th June - SCHOOL PHOTOS

             - Confirmation Workshop 2 @5pm

10th June - Casual Clothes Day: Bring a Can Day

Week 8

13th June - Queen's Birthday Public Holiday

16th June - End of Term Mass @9:30am

Week 9

23rd June - Confirmation @ Sacred Heart 6pm

24th June - END TERM 2

I have had two parents approach me this week with concerns about driver behaviour at the McDonald Way Crossing and our school drop off points.

Please if you drive through the McDonald Way crossing in the morning or afternoon, be mindful of children who are crossing the road. This is an unmanned crossing, but children do use it to cross safely to school. Please ensure you adhere to the speed limit, slow down and give way to children crossing the road.

The other concern was around parents reversing their cars and making three-point turns at the drop off point. Again, I will appeal to everyone to please be mindful about the safety of the children in these areas and at very busy times of the day. Especially if you drive a larger vehicle, it may be very difficult to see small children if you are reversing. 

Many thanks, I am sure everyone will agree that we would hate for anyone to be injured or worse. 

We will be holding an Open Day on Wednesday 25th March to anyone who is considering our school in 2023.

We have shared this poster on our Facebook, please feel free to share with your friends and family who may have a child ready to start school next year. We are very proud of our school and our community and we know that Lumen Christi offers something unique and special.

If you have a child who will be starting with us in 2023, please pop in to the office and collect enrolment forms ASAP.

Enrolments are open now.

Last week, we "premiered" our new school video at assembly and shared it on Facebook. We are attempting to promote our beautiful school for prospective families in 2023.

You can view the video by searching on our Facebook Page - Lumen Christi Catholic Primary School, Churchill

or by following this link:

https://www.facebook.com/lumenchristips

Remember to like our page and share the video to spread the word!

We will be uploading two more videos in the coming weeks that celebrate our school children and our wonderful community.

A reminder that school photo information should have come home with your child last week. It was placed inside a large envelope with a school survey for parents to fill in. The survey can be filled in on paper OR there were instructions to take the survey online. This contributes to how we make our school plans for 2023 and beyond with parent voice and inisght. Please take the time to fill in the survey, your opinion is important to us. Friday 20th May is the cut off date for the surveys to be completed.

We are running a footy clinic here at school on Thursday. Please ensure that children are wearing school sports clothes and runners on this day.

Thanks to everyone for your contribution to CARITAS Australia. The Easter Caritas Box Appeal was a tremendous success and over $700 was raised. The majority of those funds will go towards helping the people of Ukraine. We appreciate your generosity and our mission to be like Jesus and give to those in need.