We made it!

After 40 weeks of school, we are all too quickly coming to the end of another amazing year of learning, laughter and fun at St Thomas Aquinas.

Semester 2 Reports

Semester 2 reports were all posted out last week. All grades were posted on the same day so should be arriving this week, however, we cannot guarantee the mail.

This is the current process for reports being sent out at St Thomas Aquinas, however, we will be reviewing this next year to see if we can find an alternate method of delivery that is more efficient and cheaper.

In past years, copies of class lists for the next year have been included with end of year reports. Unfortunately, this is not the case this year as we have been advised by Catholic Education that this is a breach of confidentiality.

All students would have met their 2020 teacher at Meet the Teacher afternoon last week and would have had the chance to see which friends will be in their class for the new year.

Farewells

This week we farewell our Year 6 Graduating students off to high school. We wish them all the very best for their future learning and know that there are many wonderful things ahead for them.

We farewell the following families from Year 6 this year:

Burggraaff family, Das family, Dwyer family, Egan family, Gough family,
Greenwood family, Hunter family, Manwaring family, McLeod family, Scholes family, von Renouard family, Comber family, Dib family, Fasugba family, Higgins family,
Jina family, Navarro family, Noonan family, Parker family, Rayner family, Williams family and Slockee family.

We also farewell Vanessa Mae Cook from KM, Kyan van Niekerk from KM,
Izak van Niekerk from 1W, Samuel Slockee from 2T and Tupou Save from 4KP. We wish all of these students well at their new schools in 2020.

We are sadly farewelling several staff members this year also.

We say a fond farewell but not goodbye to Simon Hargraves from Year 4, Ashleigh van Kemenade from Year 6, Jake Wenger our Youth Minister, Cathy Berry our Music teacher for Years 4-6 and Anne Gowen our Religious Education Coordinator and Indigenous Education Officer. We wish all of these brilliant staff members all the very best for their future endeavours.

Thank You

Finally, a very big thank you to all of you from me!

There is NO school on Friday 20^th December, the Front Office will also be closed.  OSH is available for holiday bookings.

Carmen Myles
Acting Principal

Prior advice  concerning Sacraments of Holy Communion and Confirmation:

          15^th February 2020 – 6.00pm Mass

          16^th February 2020 – 9.00am Mass

After Mass on either day there will be an introductory talk about the preparation of these Sacraments.

If you wish your child to receive either of these Sacraments you need to be at that talk. 

The timetable/dates/program will be presented.

THIS IS THE ONLY OPPORTUNITY TO ENROL YOUR CHILD.

Thank you Fr Tom     

Please note that the last day of Term 4 is Thursday, 19 December 2019.

There is no school banking this week - Friday, Week 10. School banking will recommence from Friday, 14 February 2020 (Term 1, Week 2).  Many thanks to our parent helper.  This would not be possible without your help.

Happy Holidays

Dear Parents and Carers

SZapp is our preferred form of communication for 2020.

Attached is information on SZapp Installation.

If you currently have children in Kinder to Year 5 classes and will not be returning to STA next year please advise the office in writing as soon as possible. This assists in our staff planning for 2020.

Please drop a note to the office or send an email to lee.black@cg.catholic.edu.au advising which school your child will attend.

Thank you!

Reminder:  School Fees for Term 4 are now overdue.  Please pay promptly.  Just a reminder that we now have EFTPOS facilities.

From Term 1 of 2020, we will not be taking cash orders  through the Front Office for Scholastic Book Club. 

This will mean that if you haven't already you will need to either download the INLOOP App on your device or order from the online website.

https://mybookclubs.scholastic.com.au/Parent/Login.aspx

Orders will still be delivered to school for collection and STA will still receive credits. As you can see from our beautiful growing library each time you make a purchase it helps put more books back into our school.

Thankyou 

Kristie 

Any questions please contact me via email ksligar@bigpond.net.au

St Thomas Aquinas would like to thank Woolworths Charnwood for providing fruit to our students who have forgotten to bring their fruit to school.  They have provided this service all year and we are very grateful.

Community News is now located on our website.

DECEMBER 2019
Congratulations to the following students who will be celebrating
their birthday this month:

Tomislav M;  Bonnie P;  Gabriel F; Layla A;  Makayla J;  Scarlet M;  Awuol A;  Piper N; Alexis D;  Cooper Mc;  Kasper S-B;  Max D;  Oscar D;  Flynn S;  Georgia W;  Eli B;  Naisha D;  Bior A;  Madeleine S-P;  Aurelius F;  Jurell C;  Samuel S;  Alexander D;  Anthony S;  Ryan B;  Orry L;  Myles W;  Dylan B;  Ella P;  Jordan F;  Isabelle G;  Paterson D;  Bul D.

JANUARY 2020
Congratulations to the following students who will be celebrating
their birthday this month:

Ronith T;  Milan J; Taika T;  Angus H;  Charlotte G;  Ashley C; Rohi B;  Delilah W-P;  Kira W;  Lachlan P;  Emma M;  Hayden V-R;  Logan H;  Violet N;  Lucy O;  Abuk P;  Oliver R;  Abigail B;  Elizabeth K;  Tyler A;  Sofia H;  Ethan M;  Blake M;  Benjamin W;  Lachlan M;  Liam D;  Sophie K;  Amelia H;  Nicholas K;  Amelia W;  Robert S;  Tahlayla B;  Lucas J;  Evangeline J;  Brock S;  Jade B;  Chaira C;  Noah Mc;  Chloe S;  Noah M;  Kai M;  Summer H;  Alice S;  Beau R;  Amam A.