Recent News
A MESSAGE FROM FR LINH REGARDING THOSE CELEBRATING SACRAMENTS THIS YEAR
Fr Linh has put a video message together for all of our school families explaining why the Sacraments that the children were meant to celebrate this year are needing to be placed on hold and explaining the restrictions.
https://youtu.be/AFGtmoqV4bg
RETURN TO REMOTE LEARNING
We have returned to remote learning as of Wednesday 5th August due to Stage 3 restrictions imposed by the Victorian Government.
Whilst offsite, students will learn online via the Seesaw platform.
A very small number of staff will be onsite daily during school hours.
The school phone system will be diverted to a mobile phone when the office is unattended.
Contact can also be made via email:
info@sttorquay.catholic.edu.au
WELCOME BACK TO TERM 3
We have welcomed our students back for Term 3. They are enjoying activities both in the classroom and in our schoolyard. It's wonderful to see the learning which is happening all across the school.
GRADE 3-6 STUDENTS RETURN TO FACE TO FACE LEARNING
We welcomed our Grade 3-6 students back today and they certainly seemed to enjoy finally being back on school grounds. Despite a chilly start, the beautiful sunshine allowed learning both inside and outside the classrooms. Thank you to everyone for the calm and respectful return of all students. We really appreciate the support of all families during this time, and we hope that we can now move forward as a stronger community after supporting each other through this unique and challenging time.
COMMUNITY DAY - THANKS AND GRATITUDE
There is so much gratitude in our community. Thank you everyone for participating in our final community day activity. This one focused on giving thanks and being grateful. Our students thanked their teachers, family members and those important role models in the community.
Video posted to our Facebook page.
JUNIOR STUDENTS RETURN TO THE CLASSROOM
The return to school was a great success today for our junior students. Drop off this morning was calm and ran smoothly. Our Foundation students were helped along the way to the classroom by their teachers in miniature! 😊. The students settled quickly, and although things were a little different in terms of routines, and the need for regular hand washing and sanitising, the classrooms were full of excited chatter. Any nerves seemed to disappear as the teachers encouraged the students to re-engage with each other and with their learning. Thank you to all our parents who heeded the social distancing messages so well and managed the drop off and pick up from their cars with patience, understanding and positivity. We really appreciate your support.
COMMUNITY DAY - PETS
From dogs to cats, horses to birds, rabbits, guinea pigs, fish, turtles, hermit crabs and even a rat-it seems we have quite the menagerie of pets in our community!
Thanks to everyone who again embraced our community day.
Enjoy!
COMMUNITY DAY - FAMILY
Our community is full of wonderful families. You are all what make us a community here at St Therese. Thank you to everyone who once again responded so well to our weekly community day to keep us connected, even when we are apart.
Some wrote about what family means:
"My family means the world to me. I’m lucky to have two big brothers who help me with my footy and cricket. Our parents help out at all our sports and do so much for all of us. I love my family so much."
"Family means that someone is always there for you and you always have someone to talk too, play with and to just have fun and love each other."
"My family makes me feel happy and loved.�They are kind, funny and we go bushwalking together."
"I love my family because they encourage me to do things I don’t like."
"I love family holidays with my cousins!"
"My family help me."
"My family love me for being me."
We hope you enjoy this celebration of our families.
CLEAN UP AUSTRALIA DAY
March 6 was clean up Australia day for St Therese Year 5/6 students.
We travelled by bus down to Torquay Beach and walked all the way around to Point Danger and on around to Fisho's Beach. We were cleaning up the area around the beaches and along the foreshore. As we were walking we were astonished to find a huge amount of waste.
We found thousands of cigarette butts, hundreds of pieces of hard plastics and general waste and glass was over 300 pieces and we are still counting...
We were overwhelmed by these findings.
Our plan was to do this as part of a community service, especially during Lent, but it felt good to just do something for our community and the environment and not expect anything back, apart from a clean town.
In the future, we would like the community to hold more clean up days around the beach areas and the parks.
We would like to see the community use more recyclable materials everyday.
Such as no single use plastics, use a 'keep a cup' and boomerang net bags for fruit and veggies at the supermarket.
If you come across any rubbish on your walks or anywhere, please pick it up because it all makes a difference.
By Kyla, Ava and Summer
(Sustainability Leaders)
BUDDY PICNIC
Seems a long time ago but...What a lovely afternoon it was for a picnic!
Year 6 and their Foundation buddies enjoyed an afternoon of fun and games followed by a picnic on the St Therese oval. It was a lovely opportunity for the buddies to meet each other's parents and for the parents to meet each other too.
Lots of fun was had by everyone!
Welcome Back!
Our students and staff have enjoyed a great first week! The students have immersed themselves back into school life and have reacquainted themselves with school routines and friends and are getting to know their new teachers. Home visits commenced for our Foundation students, which always creates great excitement! The Foundation, 1/2 and 3/4 students all participated in their first Specialist Day for the year, with some exciting new subjects. The 5/6 students have enjoyed an external golf session, a new sport for some, with an emphasis on healthy exercise and fun. We hope your children have been able to share some of their school week with you.
ANNUAL REPORT
Our 2018 Annual Report to the school community has just been finalised. If you would like to have a read, can find it here.
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