Dear parents,

Thank you to all our families for supporting the many events that have been happening in our school over the past couple of weeks. Our students have had many wonderful experiences and many more to come.

A big thank you in advance to all who are helping in so many ways, towards our G Day concert and morning tea. We are very excited to see the students' Grandparents and Great People this Friday 5th September. Further details in this newsletter.

KINDERGARTEN’S BLESSING FOR FATHERS SONG WITH ANDREW CHINN

We are so excited to launch the very special Blessing For Fathers song written by renowned songwriter, musician and singer Andrew Chinn, just in time for Father’s Day. Andrew asked us if Kindergarten could feature in this song and we think you are all going to be so amazed to see what they have been able to create. A huge thank you to Andrew, Mrs Bourke-Nash and Kindergarten for helping create this special blessing for our dads, grandfathers and special men in our students' lives. We know you will love this song as much as we do. 

Please click on this link below to view the song. 

CLICK BELOW FOR BLESSING FOR FATHERS VIDEO LINK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cOb0EdKPq4E

Prayer for Fathers and Grandfathers
From the students of St Michael’s School

Loving God,

We give thanks for our fathers and grandfathers.
We thank You for their love, guidance, and the many ways they care for us each day.

Bless all fathers and grandfathers with patience, strength, and kindness.
May they know how much they are loved and appreciated.
Help us to show them respect, gratitude, and joy in return.

We remember fathers and grandfathers who are no longer with us.
Hold them close in Your eternal love and keep them in our hearts.

May St Joseph, the loving father of Jesus,
be their model of faith, gentleness, and courage.

We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Amen.

We wish all our students Fathers, Grandfathers and special men in their lives a very special day on Sunday.

YEAR 1 PRAYER FOR GRANDPARENTS

At assembly last Friday, Year 1 led us in prayer. They expressed prayers for their grandparents and the many great people in their lives. They shared the many reasons they loved their grandparents and the link to their video prayer is here below:

https://vimeo.com/1114392132/0145d1b7b0?ts=0&share=copy&fbclid=IwdGRjcAMjD4lleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHucrm6HE1DQq_efvJhMjH29xvd-HLohQRaO5hi0fi9-LAQyK4d5_nlUflDXL_aem_NPez5lYEagZue2zYvyhmxQ

P&F FATHERS DAY STALL

A reminder that TOMORROW, we are having our P&F Father’s Day Stall. Students are asked to bring a spare plastic/paper bag with their name on it to put their purchase in.

A big thank you to the parents who organised this stall. We are very grateful for your support.

G DAY- THIS FRIDAY

G DAY is fast approaching and the students have been working really hard on their performances.

TIMETABLE FOR THE DAY

Please see the timetable below to pass onto the grandparents, godparents or great people:

• 9:15am - Liturgy and Children's concert for St Michael's families with "A-K" surnames
• 10:45am - Morning tea provided - includes great people who have viewed the first concert and those arriving to view the second concert.
• 11:30am - Liturgy and Children's concert for St Michael's families with "L-Z" surnames
• 1:00pm - St Michael's students will commence Afternoon Tea break. Students may leave at 1pm with a Grandparent and will be required to be "signed out" by their classroom teacher prior to leaving. 

• Students will not be able to leave before the end of the second concert. 

WHAT DO MY CHILDREN WEAR TO SCHOOL ON THE DAY? 

All students in Kindergarten, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 3 will wear their CONCERT COSTUME  to school on Friday.

All students in Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 will wear their SPORTS UNIFORM  to school on Friday.

G DAY MORNING TEA

As has been the tradition at St Michaels, we ask our parents to kindly donate food items for the grandparents morning tea. Could all items please be given to our office ladies on Thursday or Friday morning. Sandwiches are something that the grandparents love along with slices, cakes, scones, biscuits or savoury snacks. A REMINDER THAT WE ARE A NUT FREE SCHOOL. If you are making items that are gluten free, can you label them please, so we can put them aside for our grandparents that may require gluten free snacks. 

Thank you so much for your support of this.

L.I.F.E. VALUES AWARD 

After renewing our school vision, mission and L.I.F.E. values,  we have created St Michael’s L.I.F.E Values awards to recognise students who are displaying our school values of Love, Integrity, Faith and Empathy. 

Congratulations to the following Year 1 students who have demonstrated the values of Love and Empathy by cleaning up the sandpit and making sure it was ready for others to play in it.

Thank you to Leo, Indiana, Cooper, Blake and Daniel.

ASSUMPTION LITURGY AT THE GROTTO

Our Year 6 students really showed that they were “Inspired by Christ, we are empowered” (School Mission) when they spent time cleaning up the St Michaels Church Grotto, and preparing it so beautifully for our Assumption Of Mary Rosary Liturgy. 

On Friday 15 August, our whole school assembled for a special liturgy and rosary on the Feast of the Assumption of our Lady, at the newly refurbished grotto in our church grounds. It was such a wonderful opportunity for the school to come together in prayer. A special thank you to one of our parishioners who heard that Year 6 had cleaned the grotto and that we had planned to say the rosary there. This parishioner purchased rosary beads for the whole school!! What a special gift. Thank you to our other parents and teachers who supported this liturgy. Our school children were so reverent and prayerful. 

Please come to visit the grotto one day and share a special moment with Mary.