News from the Principal
Dear Parents, Guardians and Carers,
It was a very busy weekend in our parish of St Michaels. There were 3 beautiful celebrations of the Sacrament of First Communion at the parish Liturgies. Fr Aju and Deacon Tony, along with the parishioners, welcomed 54 children to the altar to receive the Body of Christ for the first time. Please continue to keep them in your prayers as they continue along their journey of faith.
SAFE ROAD FOR SAFE CYCLING PROGRAM
The Amy Gillett Foundation was recently successful in securing $6 million from the Australian Government to roll out our Safe Roads for Safe Cycling program. As part of this program, we’re undertaking a range of projects designed to make our streets safe for people in the community who want to ride a bike, especially our most vulnerable road users like children.
One part of this program is BikeSpot 2023 – an interactive map which allows anyone to mark where they feel safe or unsafe while riding their bike. You can view the map and make your mark at: bikespot.org
The BikeSpot map will close at the end of January 2024, so please get involved as soon as you can. This is a fantastic way to help keep active and healthy, and encourage sustainable transport.
FISHING KITS
As advised in the newsletter issued in week 9 of term 3 the Victorian Government is investing $1.5 million from the Recreational Fishing Licence Trust Fund to provide up to 95,000 Little Angler Kits to primary school aged children in Victoria.
The free kits provide a wonderful school holiday activity for children with their families and help ease the cost of living, providing a fun activity close to home.
The kits have arrived and will be sent home today with the grade 5 students apart from any grade 5 child who we have received notification from the parents that they did not want them to receive the kit.
The kits include a rod, reel with line, tackle tray, some tackle and information on how to use them to catch a fish. Please note that the tackle tray includes fishing hooks. The tackle tray will be wrapped in cardboard and placed inside a pocket inside the fishing kit bag, which will be sealed with a cable tie to discourage students from opening their kits until they are with a parent or carer.
The Victorian Fisheries Authority will create a Little Angler hub on their website, which will be live when the kits start being distributed. It will have useful information, instructional videos and online resources about where and how to fish linking to existing resources from Fishcare and new resources to be produced just for the Little Angler Kits program.
This initiative aims to grow recreational fishing participation in Victoria by actively encouraging primary school aged children to learn how to fish, as well as learning more about marine life and the natural environment.
Kind regards
Jodie
DATES TO REMEMBER:
- 1st December - School Closure Day
- 8th December - End of year Mass
- 13th December - Graduation Mass
- 18th December - students last day
- 31st January - First day for students in Grades 1-6
- 1st February - First day for Foundation students
Jodie