Principal's Page - Judy Egan
Dear Parents and Carers,
Last Thursday I was privileged to attend the Commissioning Mass for our Early Career Teachers 2024 at St Christopher’s Cathedral Manuka. We are very proud of Mr Connor Howland who is one of these early career teachers working with us at St Michael’s. Connor went through Catholic schooling in Canberra and has chosen teaching in Catholic Schools as his vocation. We are incredibly proud of Connor and sincerely welcome him as a valued member of Catholic Education at St Michael’s Kaleen.
Powerful Pets
Did you know: “Research has shown that simply patting a dog lowers the stress hormone cortisol, while the social interaction between people and their dogs increases levels of the feel-good hormone oxytocin (the same hormone that bonds mothers to babies). (John Hopkins Medical)
Last week many of our students enjoyed some ‘feel-good’ hormones, thank you Miss Sahariv and Raph!
Our Community Council met on Monday evening, please see the update in Community Council Corner. We are looking for helpers.
Tomorrow is our Athletics Carnival; we are very excited to be heading to Merici this year. Thank you to everyone involved especially Erin Hardwicke our Sports Lead. Thanks also to our parent volunteers and staff. It looks like we will have great weather!
Congratulations to our Year 5/6 AFL team and thanks to Nick Feeney and Danielle Madsen for a great day yesterday.
Thank you for your continued support, it is greatly appreciated. Please also find attached the Family Engagement with Faith-Term 2. A PDF developed and shared by Catholic School Parents.
Many blessings,
Judy Egan
Principal
Community Council Corner
Community Council met on Monday evening at the school. Thank you so much to all our parent helpers and volunteers for the number of recent events- Hot Cross Buns, Working Bee and Mother’s Day stall. Our next event this term is the School Disco-Thursday 20 June. Can you help? Please email or call the front office to assist.
Coming up in August- Our Parent Trivia Night. We are looking for a super-fabulous volunteer quizmaster- is that you? We have heard there are some amazing extroverts in our community- here’s your opportunity to excel! You can call us on (02) 62414022 or email us at office.stmichaelsps.@cg.catholic.edu.au
MONTHLY SCHOOL FEE STATEMENTS
(INCLUDING ACT BUILDING FUND AMOUNTS)
Please note Families who have a zero balance and no current transactions will not be issued a statement. Where we have received payments for School Fees since the last statement, a statement will be issued displaying the movement in their account.
BUILDING FUND OPT IN RESPONSES
Your continued support is important of the building fund as this funding is vital for the maintenance and upkeep of our school facilities.
Please read the following information:
- An email has been sent from donotreply-accounts@cg.catholic.edu.au email address. This is an authentic CECG email address and is not SPAM.
- The Opt-In email will be sent to both parents and take the option chosen by the first parent. Split families will receive separate emails for their portion of the split.
- Each family will be requested to either select “Yes” or “No” regarding their intention to contribute to the Building Fund.
- The amount and frequency will be locked to $210 per Term, however an additional area has been included that will enable a family to contribute an additional amount if they wish to do so.
- Families can amend the Receipt details if they are contributing, i.e., for tax purposes.