Term 3 Week 8 Monday 2nd September 2024

Acknowledgement of Country

From the Principal

Important Dates:

Term 3

Mon-Tues Sept 2^nd-3^rd- Year 3/4 to Warrnambool overnight camp at Warra Gnan

Thursday  5th September- Major Raffle Drawn at 2pm

Monday 9th September- Middles to visit Aberlea

Friday 13th September- Grade 5/6 Excursion to Budj Bim

16th - 20th September - Meals on Wheels

Tuesday 17th September - Bell's Shakespeare at Mortlake College

Friday 20th September - Footy Colours Day 

                                                  - Term 3 ends (@ 2:15pm)

Term 4

Monday 7th October: Staff and students commence Term 4

End of Year dates:

Wednesday 18th December: Final day for students

Thursday 19th December: Student Free Day- Final day for staff (2025 Planning Day)

Friday 20th December: Student Free Day- DOBCEL Approved TIL acquittal day

2024 School Camps (with St Thomas’ Terang)

Sept 2^nd-3^rd: Year 3/4 Warra Gnan Coastal Camp, Warrnambool

Nov 13^th-15^th: Year 5/6 Dunkeld Adventure Camp

Our Lady of Mercy Parish News

WEEKEND MASS TIMES
ST THOMAS’ TERANG
Saturday 6.00 pm
Sunday 10.30 am
ST COLMAN’S MORTLAKE
Sunday 9.00 am

Book Week at St Colman's

St Colman's celebrated Book Week last week and everyone had a great week. Thank you to the families of our students for the effort you put into creating the costumes for your children for the Book Week parade and thank you for supporting our Book Fair and Shortlisted Books Stall. Your support helps ensure our library remains well stocked with current books. 

A special thanks to Jenny Stapleton for her amazing efforts in organising Book Week at St Colman's. The annual Book Week colouring competition has been run and won. Congratulations to the following children who were the winners for each class.

Foundation- Knox Dale

Year 1 - Patrick Greig

Year 2 -Blair Bassett

Year 3 - Japnoor Chahal

Year 4- Rosie Price

Year 5- Charlotte Allen

Year 6 - Alex Lehmann

Book Week 2024

Father's / Special Person's Day Breakfast

Thank you to all of the dads and special people who joined us for breakfast last Wednesday. Thanks to the wonderful staff at St Colman's for cooking and serving up such a fine spread! I hope all dads had a very special Father's Day yesterday.

My New Gallery

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Year 5/6 Excursion to Budj Bim

On Friday, September 13^th, our Year 5/6 students will be travelling to World Heritage listed Budj Bim (formally known as Mount Eccles) for their annual excursion. The Budj Bim Cultural Landscape is a unique place with universal heritage values that demonstrate how Gunditjmara people worked with the natural resources and environment of the Victorian south west region to establish a permanent place of human society over the past 30,000 years and beyond. The children will experience the 2 hour Tae Rak Guided Cultural Walk where they will go on a guided tour of the Tae Rak (Lake Condah) wetlands provides an overview of the Gunditjmara creation story, the lifecylce of Kooyang (eels) and the lake's extensive marine and birdlife, and continues on to see the network of aquaculture systems designed to trap and harvest kooyang (eel) for food and trade.

Permission forms will be sent out via PAM by the end of this week.

Vinnies needs your help!

St Vincent de Paul-Terang Mortlake Conference are looking for people to help them with delivery of food hampers and IGA vouchers in and around Mortlake. It is a voluntary position and would require you to be an associate member of SvdP . This means you can deliver goods etc but does not require you to attend meetings.
At the moment, we are servicing Mortlake from Terang but it would be so much better and easier to have someone on the ground in Mortlake.

If you, or someone you know, would be interested in this voluntary role within Vinnies and, in turn, helping some vulnerable members of our community, please make contact with Bernadette McKinnon.

Phone: Bernadette McKinnon 0400 926220
Email: tarabrae@bigpond.com

Second hand Uniforms

We have collected a selection of 'pre-loved' school uniforms that are available to ALL members of our school community. These items are free of charge, but it really is the 'luck of the draw' if the item you want is there or not! You are always welcome to come into the office to have a look at what is available.

Also, if you have any unused uniform items that you no longer need and are in good condition, please consider donating them to the second hand pile. All pre-loved items can be left at the office. Thank you!!

Hooptime

We congratulate our Year 3/4 students on their fantastic efforts at Hooptime in Terang last Friday. Thank you to Brianna Barr and Mrs O'Connor for coaching them and to Mason and Pippa Barr for being our umpires.

St Colman's Annual Major Raffle

Our major fundraiser for the year, our school raffle, is being drawn this week.

The success of the raffle relies upon the support of everyone within our school community. Thank you to our parents who have already given up some of their time to sell tickets at community ‘hot spots’ and thank you to those families that have already bought and sold raffle tickets. As predicted, ticket sales this year have been a lot slower than previous years. We appreciate that many local families are finding these times financially challenging and they have other commitments that they need to meet. However, the success of the raffle relies upon the support of everyone within our school community. If each family in our school bought or sold just four tickets, we will be able to make a profit. Remember, all profits go directly back to your children as we be using the money to upgrade our playground equipment. 

The "Local Loot Draw" will take place at school this Thursday 5th September 2024 at 2pm.

First Prize        $3000 in vouchers supplied by Mortlake businesses

Second Prize   $1000 Neighbourhood Benefit EFTPOS card supplied by Acciona                         

Third Prize       $500 voucher supplied by Bates IGA Supermarket Mortlake

Last year the raffle raised almost $10,000 for our school and we would love to do the same again this year. All money raised will go into upgrading our current playground.

Tickets are available to be purchased from the Try Booking link below.

Please share this link on one of your social media platforms!!!

A huge thank you to all of the local businesses who have supported our raffle this year. A special thank you to our major sponsors Scott's Betta Home Living, Acciona and Bate's IGA for their incredible ongoing support of our school!

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St Colman's Footy Tipping

What an exciting end to our Tipping Competition we had. The winner was decided by the results of the very last game of the year. Thank you to everyone who joined our comp. As you are aware, this is not a fundraising event and all money received is returned to the place getters! Congratulations to all of the winners!

Overall Winners:

1st Place: Jason, Ivy and Sadie Wardlaw ($270)

2nd Place: Angela Absalom ($140)

3rd Place: Josh Jewell ($70)

Junior 1st Prize: Steff Van Den Heuvel ($60)

Junior 2nd Prize: Mason Dale ($40)

Junior 3rd Prize: Noah Bausch-Anderson ($20)

Story Time- cancelled this week

Unfortunatley, Mrs Moloney and our Junior Class will NOT be walking down to the Library this Wednesday to join in on Story Time. Hopefully we will be back again in a fortnight!

Playgroup at St Colman's

We look forward to welcoming back our local pre-schoolers every second Friday, with our next session being held on Friday September 13th.

PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD WITH YOUR FRIENDS WHO HAVE PRE SCHOOL AGED CHILDREN. EVERYONE IS WELCOME!!!

The ongoing commitment to this project will require support from other members of the school community. If you are willing to help out by going on a roster to help organise Little Colman’s, please contact either the school or Lily. 

WE WILL NEED TO PURCHASE SOME GAMES AND EQUIPMENT FOR OUR PLAYGROUP. HOWEVER, WE WONDERED IF YOU HAD ANY OLD TOYS AND GAMES THAT YOUR CHILDREN HAVE GROWN OUT OF AND THAT YOU NO LONGER NEED. IF SO, WE WOULD GREATLY APPRECIATE THE DONATION OF ANY PRE-SCHOOL TOYS AND GAMES, INDOOR OR OUTDOOR, THAT ARE IN EXCELLENT USED CONDITION.

Congratulations to these wonderful student whose achievements were acknowledged at our last assembly.

SchoolTV Wellbeing Platform

Eating Anxiety

Dealing with a child's eating anxiety can be both perplexing and distressing for parents. It's a challenge that requires a delicate balance of empathy, patience, and consistent strategy." Dr Michael Carr-Gregg

Click on the link below if you are interested in learning more about supporting children with eating anxieties.

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support

School Wide Positive Behaviour Support is: A multi-tiered framework for establishing the social culture and behavioural supports needed for a school to achieve behavioural and academic outcomes for all students. For the next two weeks at St Colman’s we are working with our students on developing effective learning habits that will set them up for success throughout the year ahead. During that time, all staff will be reinforcing the behaviour expectations as set out in our Behavior Matrix (below).

St. Colman's School is a Child Safe Community

Child Safety Officers

Janet Cain and Rosie O'Connor are our Child Safety Officers.

Contact them on:

Phone: 55992285 or 0490539167

Email: jcain@scmortlake.catholic.edu.au or roconnor@scmortlake.catholic.edu.au

The Child Safe Standards

St Colman's has an ongoing commitment to implementing all 11 of the Child Safe Standards .

Standard Number 4 asks all schools to ensure:

Families and Communities are informed and involved in promoting child safety and wellbeing.

Watch the clip below if you would like to see an overview of this standard. If you have any suggestions about how we could better in bed this standard into our school community please let us know.

RELIEF SCHOOL CROSSING SUPERVISOR - MORTLAKE

The Moyne Shire are currently on the lookout for someone to fill this position. If you, or someone you know might be interested in this position, please checkout the information pack below.

Our Student Representative Council will be co ordinating our partnership with Cooinda Terang to become a collection point for Victoria’s Container Deposit Scheme (CDS Vic).

We will be collecting all eligible empty drink containers and then returning them to the CDS collection point at Cooinda. The 10c raised from each return will go back to the SRC. They will nominate various charities to support as well as using 50% of the funds to upgrade school resources.

So please start collecting and sending in your empties. 

Most aluminium, glass, plastic and liquid paperboard (carton) drink containers between 150mL and 3 litres are eligible. You can keep the lids on, we recycle them too. The easiest way to know if your drink container can be returned is to look for the 10c mark on the label, often located near the barcode.

You can help in two ways:

1. The first is by far the simplest. Just return your empty eligible containers to the tubs in the corridors at school.
2. If you have a large amount of containers to deposit, you may wish to take them to a Container Deposit Depot and return them yourself. Please download the CDS Vic West App (instructions below). When you return your containers, nominate St Colman's School Mortlake as the charity you want to donate the money to.

Please note, that as we are in partnership with Cooinda Terang, our preferred deposit depot is their Reverse Vending Machine located at 49 Dow St Terang.

Toastie Tuesday

Lunch Orders

LUNCH ORDERS are only available twice a week on Monday and Friday.

Menu and price list below

Out of School Care

A reminder that we continue to have access to Out of School Care in 2024, supplied by TheirCare, at Mortlake College. Registration is made via the TheirCare website. https://theircare.com.au/

Search for Mortlake College P-12

AngliCare Energy Assistance

As part of Anglicare Victoria’s FREE Energy Assistance Program, they provide assistance with energy bills to support Victorians to:

• Talk to their energy retailer and get help with debt
• Access extra financial support
• Check they are receiving eligible concessions on their bill
• Find and move to an affordable energy plan
• Understand bills and fix any possible errors
• Support your child's education with free internet at home

They can provide immediate assistance for clients who are struggling to pay for their gas or electricity bills to prevent disconnection to their property!

The follower two flyers provide further details.

NCCD

Please read the attached information sheet for parents regarding NCCD.