Dear Families,
Here we are in the last week of term. We have a busy week here at Lumen Christi before we can enjoy the break over the holidays.

Yesterday, we had a fantastic day in Yinnar for the District Sports. Thank you to all of our parents,grandparents and families who came along to support their children on the day. Thank you also to Luke Robinson who transported the High Jump mats to the venue for us. It’s not an easy task unless you have a truck so your help was very much appreciated. I also want to thank our staff for their efforts and ensuring the children were well looked after on the day and supported to do their best.
Lastly, to our children for giving everything a go – well done on your resilience!

Today and tomorrow, the school is going through a Review process. We will have two Reviewers in the school who will interview all members of staff and a selection of children and parents. This process helps myself and the leadership team form our four year strategic plan – it will identify our strengths as a school and opportunities for improvement also.

On Thursday, we will have our “Coins for Caritas” so remember to bring in your coins – the House Team that makes the longest line of coins will win the competition! Our Year 6 students will also perform the Passion Play and we will draw our Easter Raffle. There are over 50 prizes to be won, so we invite families along to the raffle draw. Thank you to our Parents and Friends for organising the raffle and putting all the prizes together. And a huge thank you to our families for the overwhelming
donations.

Remember school finishes at 12:30 on Thursday and there are no buses on this day so please ensure your children have means to get to and from school.

I hope all of our children enjoy the break over the holidays. If your family is travelling over Easter, please stay safe on the roads and enjoy the time together as a family.

We hope the Easter Bunny finds all of our children on Sunday morning. As a Catholic Community, this is central to our faith in celebrating the Risen Lord.

Term 2 begins on Monday 15 th April for all students. We look forward to seeing everyone then.
Have a wonderful week ahead,
Sally

Please take note of these dates for your family calendar

TERM 1 2024

Week 9: 28th March - Last Day Term 1 12:30 finish

             29th March- Good Friday 

TERM 2 2024

Week 1: 15th April - Back to School for all students

Week 2: 22 - 24 April - Grade 5/6 Camp Rumbug

              25th April - ANZAC Day Public Holiday

              26th April - School Closure Day 

Week 3: 2nd May- Mothers Day Breakfast

Week 4: 9th May - School Photos

Week 6: 23rd May- Yinnar and Distract Soccer

                             Confirmation Night

              24th May- Pupil Free Day

Week 8:  7th June- Pupil Free Day

Week 9: 10th June- Kings Birthday Public Holiday

Week 11: 28th June-Last day Term 2 

Our wonderful award winners from last week! Well done to these super Lumen Christi learners!

Last Friday all families were given a project compassion box to take home. During Lent in the Catholic Church we are encouraged to almsgive, or give to those who are less fortunate than ourselves. Caritas are an international aid and development organisation of the Catholic Church in Australia and project compassion invites people across Australia to help them raise funds. Students will be learning about Project compassion this term and the many ways they help people all over the world. Each classroom has a project compassion box and we encourage you at home to try and find some loose change to pop in your box, maybe go without that all-important coffee from the shop for 1 day and pop the money in the box instead, or your children might like to think of ways they can give something up (like a treat) and put the money in their project compassion box instead. We will collect the boxes at the end of the term. 

The theme of Project Compassion 2024 is ‘For All Future Generations’. It is an expression of hope and reminds us that the good that we do today will extend and impact the lives of generations to come. It invites us to make the world a better place by working together now and finding longterm solutions to global issues.

Project Compassion acts as a timely reminder during Lent that by putting our faith and compassion in action today, we have the power to create lasting change for generations to come.

We will have a Whole School Project Compassion fundraiser at the end of the term, keep your eyes out in the newsletter for more information.

Happy coin collecting!

Just reminder parents are invited to the Grade 6 Stations of the Cross performance at 11:30am in the Eco-Centre followed by the Easter Raffle 

Well done to everyone that participated in the sports day yesterday! We are all so proud 

The Lumen Christi School and Parish Community pray for the following students who are now preparing for the Sacrament of First Eucharist.

Abigail Jurdison

Ayra Riess

Pippa Harder

Nate Wookey

Lucy Lui Saville

Ashley Sheary

Families might notice that as a school our messaging talks about being Respectful, Responsible and Resilient. These are our School Wide Expectations which all children are being explicitly taught in classrooms. When children forget to follow the expectations, we then refer to the behaviour charts for classrooms and the yard to identify the correct consequence for the behaviour. We use these expectation and behaviour charts to ensure that we have a consistent approach to managing behaviour in our school.

Parents are welcome to look through our expectations and consequences chart. If there is any feedback in relation to any of this, please let myself or Miss Elly Smith know.

principal@churchill.catholic.edu.au

esmith@churchill.catholic.edu.au

In the event that families have an issue with a teacher or the school in general, I would like to advise families of the Complaints and Grievances Policy that we use within DOSCEL schools.

There is a helpful flowchart at the end to help with who to approach in the event that there is an issue that needs to be addressed.

We prise ourselves on our relationships with our families at Lumen Christi and we hope that we can always resolve issues in the event that something should be brought to our attention.

Policies are made available on our website also.