News from the Principal
Dear Parents and Carers of St Kevin’s,
Week 6 often brings challenges that we need to work through to ensure learning continues for the remainder of the term and semester. By the middle of a term, students should be well into the swing of work routines and expectations at school, after school activities and their training requirements plus home responsibilities and chores. At this stage of the term the schoolwork is harder as new content is delivered. Rules are expected to be followed and a strong work ethic is required. Persistence and resilience are required if students are to master new content in Mathematics, English, Science, Geography or History. Rules need to be followed if lunchtime play is to be enjoyable for all. So let us all assist our children by encouraging them to rise to the occasion when the work is harder, when they need to be more persistent and not give up, and when they need to display resilience when things don’t always go their way, so that their learning continues to be the priority and they succeed in this quest.
Mary-Anne Jennings
Principal
COVID Update
Restrictions eased this week. So what does it look like for St Kevin’s?
- Masks no longer required as of Monday March 7.
- Parents permitted on site during school hours to collect uniforms or pay accounts.
- Parents can attend assemblies or Liturgies.
- Children now play together at lunchtime – no more separating the various grades.
New RAT kits will be sent home with your child this week. Please keep a lookout in their school bags.
- Sick children will continue to be sent home if displaying COVID symptoms. They will require a negative RAT or PCR to return.
- Close contacts will continue to follow Public Health Orders recommendations of isolating for 7 days.
- Covid positive students will need to isolate for 7 days and return after this period if symptom free.
Sporting Success
Congratulations to Jonathan and Emerson who participated in the Diocesan Swimming Carnival. They both swam very well, achieving good results. Keep training and working hard and you never know what future years will bring.
Other Diocesan success stories as to who is representing Lakes Region at Diocesan trials include, Braith for both Cricket and Rugby League, Reid for Rugby League and Mackenzie for Soccer. We wish all these students the best in their sporting adventures.
Confirmation and First Eucharist
Last Friday saw the completion of the Parish based Sacramental Programme whereby students in Years 5 and 6 received the sacraments of Confirmation and First Eucharist, thus completing the Sacraments of Initiation. The sacraments of Christian initiation – Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist – lay the foundations of every Christian life.
The sharing in the divine nature given to men through the grace of Christ bears a certain likeness to the origin, development, and nourishing of natural life. The faithful are born anew by Baptism, strengthened by the Sacrament of Confirmation, and receive in the Eucharist the food of eternal life. By means of these sacraments of Christian initiation, they thus receive in increasing measure the treasures of the divine life and advance toward the perfection of charity (CCC 1212).
Congratulations to Eva, Tyler, Renee, Damien, Harper, Giesela, Zavier, Ava, Jamie and Braethan.
Volunteers
At our P&F meeting plus at the various Parent/Teacher Zooms, the call has gone out for volunteers to assist with the canteen, uniform shop and various other activities such as reading and sport carnival. The response has been amazing, and we thank you. HOWEVER, before I can accept these generous offers, volunteers new to the role of volunteering or who have perhaps not been an active volunteer for a while due to COVID, will need to go onto the school website and under the tab “Parents as Partners” find a drop-down box for volunteering. There is a link here to register your interest in becoming a volunteer at St Kevin’s. This is a Diocesan mandate, and all volunteers are required to complete this registration form online (unless you are already registered and cleared to volunteer by the Diocese). It has a Police check section that is mandatory. Once this registration form is completed and a police check is completed, then we will be notified by the Diocese that you are clear to volunteer here at school. This whole process can take a few weeks, so we ask for patience. Therefore, canteen and uniform shop rosters cannot be completed until I have these clearances. I ask that you all pop on to the website and complete the registration form ASAP so you can all come on site and be part of this amazing school community in many varied ways!
Kinder Enrolments 2023
Enrolments for Kindergarten 2023 are now open. Please contact the office for an enrolment package and spread the news to friends and families that we are now taking enrolments for 2023.
Afternoon Dissmissal
Parent pick-up will continue as it currently is, with parents waiting outside the school gate on the grass area adjacent to the Church. Please do not come onto the school site at this time as it is a WHS issue due to crowding and the safe exit of our students through the Church gate.
Car lines continue to be an issue with people not obeying road rules.
- Please don’t do U-Turns in front of the school.
- Keep all driveways clear as you line up to either drop off or pick up your child. This is very important, especially in the afternoon when neighbours are having access to their properties cut off.
- Don’t pull out from behind parked cars – wait in line for the car in front to move.
- Kiss and drop zones in Andrew St outside school only permit a 2-minute parking time from 8-9:30am and again 2:30 –4pm. No parking is permitted during these time zones.
