Dear Families,

It is hard to believe that we are already in the second last week of another term. It’s been a busy term, with many great things that have happened in our school community, but it has also had its challenges.

It goes without saying that staff and student illnesses have plagued us this term, not unlike nearly every other school. I attended a Principal’s meeting last week and we are all facing similar challenges.

The great news is that our staff and students have shown great resilience throughout this time. They have either had to adapt to their teacher being away, or having to change up their usual routine. And I feel that it’s important to acknowledge the amazing staff here at Lumen Christi who have had to be flexible and just help each other out when we have been short of staff. I can’t thank everybody enough and express how grateful I am to be working with such a dedicated and generous team.

Thank you to all of our wonderful families for their donations for the ‘Give a can if you can’ day and for supporting the P&F fun lunch. Both were a huge success and we appreciate the generosity that people have shown.

We have our boys’ soccer team going off to the District Soccer Competition in Traralgon tomorrow so we wish them all the very best and hope that they do us proud.

School Reports will be coming home next week. This year, we have changed reporting systems and school reports will be able to be accessed online via PAM. We have decided that we will print these off for families this semester, however, we would like to encourage everyone to ensure that PAM is set up so that these can be accessed digitally at the end of the year. We will be moving to this format exclusively in December.

A reminder that end of term is approaching next week. School will finish at 12:30pm next Friday to begin the holidays.

We also have our Confirmation celebration for our Year 6 students next week at Sacred Heart Church at 6pm.

We will be celebrating out End of Term mass this Thursday 16^th June at 9:30am in the Church. Everyone is welcome, we would love to see you there.

Have a wonderful week ahead

Sally

Please take note of these dates for your family calendar

TERM 2 DATES

Week 8

13th June - Queen's Birthday Public Holiday

14th June - Dad's Night (or special person, uncle, grandad etc...)

15th June - District Soccer in Traralgon

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

Week 9

23rd June - Confirmation @ Sacred Heart 6pm

                - Reports home to families

24th June - END TERM 2 @12:30pm

TERM 3 DATES

Week 1

11 July - First Day Term 3

              Engineering workshops for children

Week 2

20 July - Eucharist Workshop1

Week 3

27 July - Parent Teacher Interviews

28 July - Parent Teacher Interviews

Week 4

4 August - Eucharist Workshop 2

Week 5

Week 6

Week 7

Bookweek

Week 8

1 September - Father's Day Stall

Week 9

National Child Protection Week

Week 10

15th September - Footy Colours Day and Fun Lunch (P&F)

We warmly welcome families to our end of term mass. We would love to see you all in the church at 9:30am this Thursday 16th June.

Just a reminder to all families that school finishes at 12:30pm next Friday the 24th June.

Now is the time to enrol your child for existing families with an older sibling at the school. Please find attached the enrolment forms that need to be filled in. It would be great to have these back as soon as possible.

CHURCHILL_Lumen_Christi_Primary_School_Application_for_Enrolment_Form_valid_from_may2020_1_.pdf

Online Wellbeing Resource

At Lumen Christi we value the importance of student wellbeing. Students learn best when they are happy and cared for. Today’s parents are facing numerous challenges raising happy and resilient children.

To support our parents, we are excited to announce a brand new platform - School TV which is an online resource that provides an extensive range of information.

You can access articles by reputable organisations, videos from experts and a range of resources to navigate your way through your journey with your child.

View the Lumen Christi School TV site here:  https://churchill.catholic.schooltv.me

We are asking if there are any adults availabel to help cover some of our new library books? This is a really time consuming job and is made much easier with a few helpers.

If you are able to help onsite, please let Maree in the office know or email mnardino@churchill.catholic.edu.au. You must have three doses of the Cobid vaccine to volunteer at school, otherwise, we welcome people to take  a few books home and cover them at home.

Many thanks