2024 Week 4 Newsletter - Term 3
- 2025 Prep Enrolments Closing Soon
- Date Claimers
- 2024 Catholic Education Week Kindness Project
- Caulfield Sponsorship Opportunities
- Position Vacant - Parish Administration Officer
- QMEA Drone Challenge
- Catholic Education Week Celebrations
- Have you downloaded our new App yet?
- Community Notices
- 2024 School Priorities
- Wearitto Uniform Shop Trading Hours
- Student Absentee Line
- St Joseph's Cathedral Appeal
- Caulfield 2023 Sponsors
2025 Prep Enrolments Closing Soon
This is a last call for any existing families with children eligible to be enrolled in Prep 2025.
Places are in the process of being finalised and you must have enrolled your child online to be considered for a place in one of next year's classes at Star of the Sea.
Please contact the office with any questions.
Date Claimers
WEEK 4
Year 3A invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 2nd August at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
Year 5 invite you to their assembly presentation on Thursday 1st August at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area. (Please note that this has changed from original date).
WEEK 5
Tuesday 6th August - Band & Bell Performance at Eisteddfod (Details & registration through Parent Lounge).
Year 3 invite you to their Liturgy on Tuesday 6th August at 9.30am in the Star of the Sea Church.
Tuesday 6th August @ 6:30pm - Parents & Friends Meeting.
Year 4A invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 9th August at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
WEEK 6
GLADSTONE SHOW HOLIDAY – Monday 12th August.
Year 4B invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 16th August at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
WEEK 7
BOOK WEEK
Everyone is invited to attend our Book Character Parade on Friday 23rd August at 8:35am in the Covered Courts Area.
Thursday 22 August - Choir Performance at Eisteddfod
WEEK 8
Year 3B invite you to their assembly presentation on Thursday 29th August at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
Thursday 29 August - Father's Day Stall
PUPIL FREE DAY – FRIDAY 30th AUGUST.
WEEK 9
Year 2 invite you to their Liturgy on Tuesday 3rd September at 9.30am in the Star of the Sea Church.
Year 6B invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 6th September at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
P&F Family Trivia Night - Friday 6th September
WEEK 10
SCHOOL FEAST DAY – Thursday 12th September.
Everyone is invited to attend our Feast Day Mass on Thursday 12TH September at 9am in the Star of the Sea Church.
Year 6A invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 13th September at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area
2024 Catholic Education Week Kindness Project
In 2023 our Year 3 class, with the help of Mrs Churchill, reached out to Simberi Primary School. Mr Rodda, who works in Simberi organised a collection of leftover and unused materials to be delivered to the school. They were extremely grateful and continue to pray for our school knowing that we helped them with something they needed.
This year we would like to reach out and assist Simberi again. They are in constant need of supplies. Our Kindness Project for 2024 will assist Simberi Primary School.
Mr Rodda will co-ordinate the collection and delivery of all supplies for the school.
If you are able to assist, please deliver items to school. We will continue to collect the stationery items until our School Feast Day in Week 10.
Simberi are in need of the following items.
- Backpacks
- Kmart teach the time clocks
- Exercise books
- Coloured A4 Paper
- Loose Paper
- Coloured A4 Cardboard
- Lined paper
- Paint brushes/paint pots
- Calculators
- Watercolour paints
- Tissues
- Chalk – teachers only have chalk boards
- Reading books P – 10
- Activity Books for a range of years P-7
Mr Rodda with staff and students at Simberi School 2023.
Wet weather day for Simberi School students
Caulfield Sponsorship Opportunities
The annual Star of the Sea Caulfield event is on again on 19 October 2024!
This event involves transforming our school into an amazing venue that hosts over 250 people to enjoy an afternoon of fun whilst raising funds for our school. These funds have continued to help the P and F Association to develop a supportive and caring learning environment for our school and have contributed to the building of play equipment and learning areas, classroom resources and travel bursaries.
If you or your business is interested in sponsoring the event this year, there are a number of sponsorship and advertising opportunities available. Our Platinum and Gold Sponsors also receive exclusive access to Early Bird Tickets. Please contact SOSCaulfield@outlook.com to request a sponsorship prospectus.
Position Vacant - Parish Administration Officer
Our parish is seeking to employ a
Parish Administration Officer
and is calling for applications.
The role is part-time (20 hours a week) and provides assistance to the Parish Priest in the administrative tasks of the parish.
Principal duties include:
• Provide general secretarial/administrative assistance to the Parish Priest
• Produce the weekly parish bulletin
• Maintain administrative documentation and filing systems
• Print liturgical texts and other requirements for liturgies
• Maintain rosters for Sunday Mass
• Monitor and order stock for office & church
• Maintain copyright log for hymns each week
• Maintain parish sacrament registers
• Prepare paperwork and make appointments for baptisms, marriages, and funerals
• Other general reception duties as required.
The position involves sharing of some duties with another staff member. The position would be suitable for someone who can provide a warm and welcoming presence to parishioners and others who attend the parish office, is proficient with Microsoft Office software, and is well-organised and attentive to detail.
A familiarity with the elements of parish life and practice will be a significant advantage.
The successful applicant will be provided with in-house training and a hand-over period during which s/he will work with existing staff.
A copy of the full position description and instructions for applying can be obtained by contacting the parish office (sosgladstone@rok.catholic.net.au or 49721025).
Due date has been extended to Friday 9th August.
QMEA Drone Challenge
We have a dedicated group of students who volunteer their break times to extend their digital technology and Drone skills. These students recently competed in the QMEA Drone Challenge and had a fantastic day!!!
All 5 of our teams worked so well.
Team Awesome – Oliver, Oscar, Hudson and Drew took out 2nd place overall.
Team Barbie – Olivia, Matilda, Amaya and Hudson took out 1st place for the future drone design challenge poster.
Congratulations to all of these students and to Mrs Sedgewick and Miss Erin who worked so hard to prepare them.
Catholic Education Week Celebrations
Our Catholic Education Week celebrations were a great way of celebrating the faith, hope and love that is at the core of our mission. Our mass was extra special and gave us an opportunity to congratulate and thank our Catholic Education Week Award Nominees - Amanda Sydes, Bianca Vea Vea and Mark & Leanne Frost. These people enrich our school with their generosity, faith and genuine care for the learners who are at the heart of our Star of the Sea Community. Our students loved sharing the work they do with their special visitors to the classroom, and it was wonderful to share Morning Tea with our Grandparents and Volunteers. Thank you to everyone who helped make the day so special.
Have you downloaded our new App yet?
We already have way over half our parent community who've downloaded our new mobile App.
The App, Parent Orbit, which is connected to Parent Lounge, will improve our communication with each other as it offers a quick and easy way to receive notifications, add Student Absences, view and pay School Fees, accept or decline excursions via the Events and Activities, check the school calendar, update details and permissions and much more.
Some of you may already be using the Parent Orbit App for Chanel College and you will simply add Star of the Sea as another school you can access.
The App uses your Parent Lounge log in to access and will be a great way to access Parent Lounge features as you will not have to log in every time.
To download the App to your mobile device you can click on the link https://parentorbit.page.link/sosg or visit your APP store.
Most of our Term Dates for the rest of the year are already installed on the App so it really is a good resource for you.
Community Notices
2024 School Priorities
Wearitto Uniform Shop Trading Hours
Student Absentee Line
If your child is not attending school, you can call us, 24/7, to leave a message to report the absence. The phone number is 4994 8301.
This designated phone line gives you the opportunity to call the school at a time that is convenient to you.
As always, absences can be reported using Parent Lounge or by emailing your child’s classroom teacher and SOSG_Absentee@rok.catholic.edu.au).
St Joseph's Cathedral Appeal
