WELCOME TO THE 2025 SCHOOL YEAR

What a joyful morning we had on Thursday with our Years 1-6 students returning to school. With the welcome sign, bubbles, music and happy staff greeting our students, we hope that the beginning was as fun for all of you as it was for us. We are ready to welcome our Kindergarten students and their families on Monday and can’t wait to have our whole community in their learning spaces. A big thank you to Mrs Thomas who always gets our year off to a great start with the welcome space and morning tea for those new to our community. 

SCHOOL CONNECTION

We are very much looking forward to the year ahead with many opportunities to connect with families along the learning journey. Please make sure you are connected to our two sources of information for all things school;

• The Compass App
• The Weekly Newsletter - "Postman Pete"

WELCOME TO OUR NEW FAMILIES FOR 2025

We also welcome a number of new families to St Peter’s in 2025 from our Year 1-6 groups and look forward to them being part of our community: Rony, Parrish, Scott, Daley, Wheate, Caruso, Garvin, Barnett, Barrow, Priestly, Siviour, Vella, Tanner and Reambonanza.

SCHOOL UNIFORM

With the start of a new year, comes the reminder of our school uniform expectations. In our family handbook (refer to page 20) are the uniform requirements which ensure we have consistency and a sense of pride in our school. While we understand that children like to express their individuality, we expect that they are wearing the correct uniform at all times. In the event that something is lost or extenuating circumstances, we appreciate an explanation to ensure there is a reason we can support you with. There will on occasion be children with medical needs that require an adjustment, and we ask that students and families understand this is not a case of not following the expectations. 

There has been some confusion about shoes in conversations as we start school so we reinforce that joggers of colours other than black are only worn on sports and PE days if necessary. On every other day, students are expected to wear black polishable shoes (can be joggers if they meet this requirement) with no other colours, keeping in line with our parish schools uniform.

If parents have already purchased new shoes for the year, as long as they are all black in colour, we will allow this until the next shoe purchase when they will need to meet this requirement. 

NEW FAMILIES WELCOME MORNING TEA

We welcomed new families in Years 1-6 with a morning tea on Thursday this week. 

On Monday 10th February, Kinder families are invited to stay for a morning tea from 8:45am in the Staffroom (entry is via Leary’s Lane near the back entry gate near the crossing).

PARENT YEAR LEVEL REPRESENTATIVES

SEEKING VOLUNTEERS

Each year there is a parent or small group of parents that represent a year level family group. We are seeking parent volunteers to nominate for this role in 2025. Parent representatives assist to foster Family/School partnerships in these ways:

• supportive of positive communication between home and school and school events
• organisation of 2 social events a year for families to build relationships
• regularly give parent voice at our Parent Community Group meetings (usually held once a Term)

Please email your interest to amanda.thomas@lism.catholic.edu.au  

PARENT CUPPA AND CHAT

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BACK TO SCHOOL

The new school year is here! We're so excited to have our students back with us. Here are some helpful tips to make sure they get off to a great start.

PARENT TIPS:

WELCOME KINDER: