Lumen Christi Primary School Churchill eNewsletter

Dear Families,

It has been another very full and busy week here at Lumen Christi. We finished off our Swimming Program for 2023 last week and yesterday, celebrated both our whole school fun day and the Grade 6 Shopping Trip and Lunch in Morwell.

We are continuing to work hard on preparing for our concert which is in just over a week’s time. Please remember to fill in permission slips on PAM for the whole school practice next Tuesday and to ensure teachers know who is collecting your child on the night of the performance. There has been a note go home about this, please see your child’s teacher if you didn’t receive this.

This week we have our end of year mass and and Nativity Play. Mass starts at 9am in the church and all are invited to attend. I haven’t seen the Nativity play yet, I hear it is a beautiful tradition presented by our Foundation, Years 1 and 2 students.

We also have our Bethlehem Bazaar which is a fantastic annual fundraiser for Vinnies. Children can come dressed in Costume on this day and bring lots of coins to spend on the stalls prepared by our grade 5/6 children.

An Advent Prayer

In Cities and Towns

In Palaces and Paddocks

In High Streets and Back Streets

Ion the vastness of the Universe

In the intimacy of our hearts,

CHRIST IS WAITING TO BE BORN.

Come Lord Jesus,

Come into our homes,

Come into our lives,

Come and Stay.

Amen

Have a wonderful week ahead,

Sally

Please take note of these dates for your family calendar

TERM 4 DATES

Week 9

28th November - Whole School Fun Day at Village Cinemas

- Grade 6 Shopping Trip and Lunch at Qu Bah

1st December - End of Year Mass and Nativity Play @9am

2nd December - Bethlehem Bazaar 11:30am - 1:10pm

Week 10

6th December - Whole school Concert Practice

8th December - SCHOOL CONCERT @ MORWELL CENTRAL

4:30pm & 6:30pm

Week 11

13th December - State Wide Transition Day

15th December - Grade 6 Graduation

16th December - Last Day for Students 3pm finish

Week 12

19th December - Last Day for Students

19th December - School Closure

TERM 1, 2023 DATES

Week 1

31st January - Term 1 Starts for Students

2nd February - Start of Year Mass

We sadly say goodbye to Christine Ruiter who is moving to a full time role at Immaculate Heart of Mary school in Newborough and to Lara Savige who is taking up a part time role at St Vincents in Morwell. We are sorry to be losing such wonderful staff members, both fantastic team members and assets to the school.

Lara in particuilar, is a very long serving member of the Lumen Christi staff, so we wish her well as she broadens her career.

We welcome Nathan Power to our teaching team as well as Kristine Travers and Carol Hanratty. Sue Ensor and Anna Fahey have worked with us in 2022 as we are delighted to be able to have them back for another year.

F/1 - Elly Smith

F/1 ESO - Heather Moir

2/3 - Marina Dosen and Nathan Power.

2/3 ESO - Catherine Campbell

3/4 - Rod Clarke

3/4 ESO -Julie Witnish and Jess Hutchinson

5/6 A - Brandon Mahoney and Sue Ensor

5/6 B - Bradley Watson

5/6 ESO - TBA

Tutoring Program - Sue Ensor

Art - Anna Fahey (Tuesdays)

AUSLAN - Kristine Travers (Wednesdays)

Music/Performing Arts - Janelle Szkwareck (Wednesdays)

General Planning Release and Bluearth/PE - Carol Hanratty (Thurdsdays)

Grade 5 and 6 students have been busy preparing their Bethlehem Bazaar Stalls.

They are aiming to raise money for Vinnie's in order to support this cause throughout the Christmas Period.

Everyone is invited - please come along and support the children who have worked so hard on creating a stall for the Bazaar.

Children can dress in Bethlehem style clothing and costume.

Bring a range of coins to donate to the stalls.

Dear Families,

End of year reports will be made available in the last week of school.

In the past families have received a printed report, but these will now be available online through the PAM app.

If you do not have PAM, please see Janelle in the office who is more than willing to help parents set this up.

Those families wishing to receive a printed report, please see your child's teacher and we can arrange for the report to be printed off.

All schools are starting to move to an online reporting platform, we thank parents for their flexibility and understanding.

Class	Week 8 Awards
P/1	Lachie - for his hard work and dedication during our swimming classes, nativity practises and concert practice this week. Harken - For still challenging himself in class and trying his best, even though we have been very busy with other things this week. Great resilience Harken!
1/2	Chellsea VanDamme - For her well thought out retelling for ‘Giraffes can’t dance’. Nate Wookey - his resilience during maths this week. Nate really challenged himself to look at other representations of a half.
3/4
4/5	Blake B: For writing an outstanding story with excellent description, one of the best narratives I have ever read
5/6	Vincent: For putting in such a great effort to share his understanding of writing. Jack S: For his outstanding and consistent efforts to always challenge himself with all things mathematical. Liam: For always doing the right thing and showing great integrity no matter where he is.