Dear SPP families,

This year’s National Reconciliation Week theme, Be a Voice for Generations, encourages all Australians to use their power, their words and their actions to create a better, more just Australia for all of us.

When it comes to reconciliation, we can all contribute to collectively build relationships and communities that value Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, histories, cultures, and futures. I offer this prayer, adapted from Aboriginal Catholic Ministry, Victoria. 

God of Love and Justice,

We pray that our leaders act in the interests of all the people in this land, that they walk the talk of reconciliation.

We pray for those who still suffer sadness because of the government policies of the past. May they be healed by us walking the talk of your Gospel command to love.

God of Love and justice, help us to learn the message of justice taught by Pope Francis who has instructed us to go out. Go out and share... go out and interact with our brothers and sisters, go out and share, go out and ask.

Lord, come walk with us towards peace and reconciliation.

 Amen

 School-wide Positive Behaviour (SWPB)

You may remember we began a School-wide Positive Behaviour project last term. This involved a group of eight students from Kinder to Year 6 working together to re-vision and re-write our school rules. The industrious students, supported by Mr Gereis, Mrs Halis-Pratt, Mrs DeJongh and Ms Gill, decided they wanted the expectations for behaviour to be positively phrased and fair for all. They did a brilliant job.

Yesterday, our School-wide Positive Behaviour teaching team spent the day working with Tegan Ingold, our wonderful Community Council chair, to continue to define our student-written Positive Behaviour Expectations. I thank Tegan, Amanda DJ, Josh, Lisa and Sam for their generosity, wisdom, and enthusiasm. Here is a sneak peek at the rules revamp:

At Sts Peter and Paul, we are all SainTS - Succeeding Together Safely.

Succeeding

Succeeding means trying your best, having courage, and embracing challenges.

Together

Together means welcoming, supporting, and valuing everyone.

 Safely

Safely means responding with respect.

The next step in this project will be to work once again with our student team to develop images, actions, and common language to promote a shared understanding of these expectations here at Sts Peter and Paul school. Our official SWPB launch later this year will be accompanied by explicit class teaching programs and ‘Try This at Home’ suggestions for our parent community.

Tomorrow’s Athletics Carnival

We are looking forward to our annual Athletics Carnival tomorrow, Thursday, June 1st. We are very grateful to Miss Walsh and Mr Gubler who have been working hard to plan an action-packed day for all of our students. We look forward to seeing many of you at Woden Athletic Park, cheering on our athletes and supporting this wonderful event. I know Miss Walsh is incredibly pleased with the number of parents volunteering to help. Thank you for generously giving your time to support this event. There are plently of spots in the parent race!

Tell Them From Me - Parent Survey

The Tell Them From Me® Survey is an evaluation system for measuring student engagement, well-being, classroom climate, and other factors known to affect learning outcomes. Information is captured from students, parents and teachers to inform school policy and practice.

Please take the time to reflect upon and answer the survey questions. Based on this survey data, we can make changes to help improve our students’ experience at school. The survey window is open until 9 June 2023 (Term 2, Week 7)

Sts Peter and Paul’s Parent Survey: http://tellthemfromme.com/m7bfr

Visit – Director of Catholic Education

On Friday, Mr Ross Fox, the Director of Catholic Education, visited our beautiful school. He was treated to a tour by two of our student leaders, William and Anna, who did a wonderful job showcasing our school. Mr Fox enjoyed his morning and was impressed by all he saw in our thriving learning community.

Compass Notifications

You may notice a new attendance feature in our Compass app. If a child is marked absent on a class roll without explanation, parents will be sent an automated Compass notification seeking an absence approval. Class rolls are usually marked by 9:15am.

If your child arrives at school late, please sign them in at the front office on our Compass kiosk.

Hats off

A reminder that the July is 'Hats Off' month. Students are not requird to wear a hat when outside.

Flamenco Workshop

On Friday 2 June, Year 4 will participate in a Flamenco Workshop. Thank you to Senora Johnson for organising this fun  activity.

Thank you for your warm wishes and encouragement as I step into the shoes of our fearless leader for the remainder of the term. I am very well supported by our outstanding staff, especially Veronica Hall, Fron Garrett and Amanda Basedow. We wish Cameron a wonderful and well-deserved break.

Best wishes for a hope-filled week,

 Anna Williams

Acting Principal

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

to those students who are celebrating their birthday this week

Selene A

Grace B

Sofia STM

Isobel S

Jayanth A

Laura V

Lucy C

Olivia F

Daniel H

We are excited to invite all children (and families) to our very own Movie Night on FRIDAY 16^th JUNE!

 Movie: 'Sing'

Time: 5:45 to 7:30pm in the school hall

Cost: $5 each for students (parents and other siblings free) available for sale via Qkr!

This will include popcorn, lollies and a drink.

Students are invited to wear pyjamas, oodies, dressing gowns and bring along a pillow or beanbag!

Parents are more than welcome to join their children to watch the movie. There will also be an area for parents to mingle and enjoy a light refreshment.

 WE ALSO REQUEST SOME PARENT VOLUNTEERS TO HELP OUT ON THE NIGHT

Sts Peter and Paul Athletics Carnival

Tomorrow sees our school’s Athletics Carnival taking place! Students from K-6 will be walking to the Woden Athletic Track from school by 9:15am, so please ensure that your child is present at school on time. All students will need to wear their sports uniform and runners. On the day, children may wear a house colour t-shirt instead of their school sport shirt if they would like. (If you’re not sure what your child’s house colour is, please ask their teacher. The houses and colours they represent are; Red – Cooyal, Yellow – Bangalong, Green – Iraga and Blue – Talara).

Children will need to apply sunscreen before coming to school and bring their hat and drink bottle with them to Woden Athletic Park. If your child/ren would like to make posters and bring mascots to support their house, they are most welcome to. However, we kindly ask that no crepe paper, streamers or glitter be used when creating these.

Please ensure that your child brings with them lots of food to keep them sustained throughout the day as Mrs Lauretta Raccosta will only be providing limited over the counter foods with cash.

General Timline of the Day

While we cannot guarantee that our Athletics Carnival will run exactly to time, please see the below suggested times for each of our events should you wish to come and watch your child participate.

Please note that Discus and High Jump will not be run on the day. If you would like your child to compete in these events at the South/Weston Region Athletics Carnival, please provide their distances/heights from a certified discus or high jump coach or official (e.g. a Little Athletics Centre representative). 

South/Weston Region Cross Country Carnival Tuesday 6th June at Stromlo Forest Park, Opperman Avenue, Stromlo.

For those participating in the South/Weston Region Cross Country, this event will be happening next Tuesday (Week 7). Please ensure that your child arrives between 9:00am-9:30am at the latest, as students will complete a walkthrough of the course at 9:40am. They will need to be signed in with either Mr Luke Gubler or Miss Sarah Walsh, and once you are taking them home, they will need to be signed back out. Thank you for your assistance with this. The carnival will still go ahead if it is raining, so please keep an ear out on key radio stations for information as to its postponement. 

ACT Cross Country Champions Wednesday 14th June at Stromlo Forest Park, Opperman Avenue, Stromlo.

Please note that it will be an extremely quick turnaround if your child has qualified for ACT Cross Country, and information in relation to this will come out via Compass. Thank you for your understanding with this!

Let us know!

What sports would you like to see more of at Sts Peter and Paul? We are looking to fine tune the clinics run at school and offer assistance to classroom teachers to ensure that our students in each grade are participating in sports that will be of a great benefit to them. If you would like to have your input noted, please complete the below, short GoogleForm.

https://forms.gle/63vvfSNTxdRstiGP8

If you ever have any questions about anything related to Sport, please don’t hesitate to get in touch with Luke Gubler (luke.gubler@cg.catholic.edu.au) and Sarah Walsh (sarah.walsh1@cg.catholic.edu.au) and hopefully we will be able to help you out!

This week Kinder and Year 1 made apple pies. They practiced their chopping and slicing skills. It was a very fun time and the pies were yummy!!

Garden club was just as fun as we watered and weeded some garden beds. Everything is growing, including the leeks. I think potato and leek soup might be on the menu in a few weeks.

As always if you have any questions email Mrs Katie Birch, katherine.Birch@cg.catholic.net.au

The Garden Club

THE CANTEEN IS CASHLESS FOR ALL LUNCH ORDERS

Families are required to place ALL lunch orders via Qkr! before 8.45am

Please purchase over-the-counter sale items (snacks & treats) for your child in a lunch order,

or

Purchase a “daily counter sales voucher” via Qkr! for your child to go to the canteen to purchase (snacks & treats) at lunchtime. 

CANTEEN VOLUNTEER ROSTER

Thank you helpers; your assistance is very much appreciated

Please contact me if you are unable to help out on your day.

ARE YOU ABLE TO HELP OUT IN TERM 2?

Click on the link to add your name to the roster! 

If you have any spare time and would like to help in the canteen, PLEASE feel free to contact me through email at lauretta.raccosta@cg.catholic.edu.au

Click on the link below to add your selected time to the roster.

https://stpandp.schoolzineplus.com/CanteenTerm2

All volunteers must have a WWVP card.

 Qkr! TIP

 Is your child sick and not going to school, and you have placed a lunch order on Qkr!?

You have till 8.45am that morning to cancel the lunch order - instructions on how to cancel lunch orders are below.

Athletics Carnival

NO LUNCH ORDERS

Students (& parent/helpers) can purchase food at Woden Park.

Canteen facilities will be available from 10am.

Please note menu is restricted to a small number of limited items. 

CASH ONLY – NO EFTPOS

 HOT FOOD – Party Pies, Sausage & Spinach rolls $3.50/$4.00

DRINKS – Coffee, tea, milo & water $2.00

SNACKS – Cookies & Lolly bags 50c/$1.00

OPEN TUESDAY MORNINGS

8.30 – 9.30AM

The Uniform Shop is a service for parents and children.

 We sell New & Quality Second-hand school clothing, and all money raised goes back to the school to provide resources for the children.

The School Uniform is available via Qkr!
Tuesdays - Fridays, orders will be delivered to your child’s classroom. Orders need to be placed before 8.45 am. 

The Uniform shop is stocked up with second hand uniform, please visit on a Tuesday morning to purchase second hand uniform.

The uniform shop is limited with space, so if you wish to donate pre-loved items, PLEASE ONLY DONATE CLOTHES

that are washed and in perfect resalable order.

Thank you

 Please visit the schools website for the Uniform price list.

Lauretta Raccosta

Uniform Shop

Lauretta.raccosta@cg.catholic.edu.au

The Canberra Choral Society (CCS) invites all interested participants to attend a fun and exciting choral and conducting workshop with American-based Australian choral conductor Dr Heather J. Buchanan.

CCS is proud to be hosting the workshop under the auspices of the Australian National Choral Association (ANCA).

About the workshop

Choristers will be able to develop their warm-up, sight-singing, vocal and ensemble skills.

Conductors will have the opportunity to enhance their skills in a one-on-one masterclass environment with Heather and the chorister participants.

The Duruflé Requiem will be the musical focus for the workshop and participants can hire a copy of the music when booking or bring their own copy.

At the culmination of the workshop, participants will have the opportunity to take part in a performance of the work. Please invite friends and family to come along at 5pm to enjoy this free performance.

When:                  Sunday 9 July, 1pm – 6pm

Where:                 Wesley Uniting Church, 20-22 National Circuit, Forrest

Bookings:            https://www.trybooking.com/1059761

Cost:                      Early Bird rates to 18 June: Choristers $20 to $40; Conductors $120 to $140

                                After 18 June: Choristers $24 to $48; Conductors $144 to $168

                                A Trybooking fee of $0.50 applies to all ticket purchases.

Further information: https://canberrachoralsociety.org

Don’t miss this wonderful musical afternoon.