Issue 489 | 5 May 23 | W2T2

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From the Principal Early Learning Centre Junior School Towards 2025 Student VOICES Senior School School News Community News Uniform Centre News

Upcoming dates

Key dates for Term 2. To access the full calendar please click here.

Date Event
Friday, 5 May 2023 SCOGA 30 Year Reunion ’93
Saturday, 6 May 2023 Year 12 Formal
Monday, 8 May 2023 Year 10 Wellbeing Camp
Tuesday, 9 May 2023 ELC Banksia Room Mother’s Day Celebration
Tuesday, 9 May 2023 Resilience Project Information Night
Wednesday, 10 May 2023 ELC Wattle Room Mother’s Day Celebration
Thursday, 11 May 2023 ELC Blue Gum Room Mother’s Day Celebration
Thursday, 11 May 2023 Senior School House Athletics
Friday, 12 May 2023 ELC Waratah Room Mother’s Day Celebration
Friday, 12 May 2023 PFA Mother’s Day Breakfast
Wednesday, 17 May 2023 Senior School Careers Expo
Thursday, 18 May 2023 Class of 2022 Past Parents’ Social Evening
Thursday, 18 May 2023 Principal’s Tour
Thursday, 18 May 2023 Senior Play Performance
Friday, 19 May 2023 Prep to Year 3 Special Visitors’ Morning
Friday, 19 May 2023 SCOGA 40 Year Reunion ’83
Friday, 19 May 2023 SCOGA 40 Year Reunion ’93
Friday, 19 May 2023 Senior Play Performance
Saturday, 20 May 2023 Senior Play Performance
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 Principal’s Breakfast with Year 5 Parents
Tuesday, 23 May 2023 Jazz Night
Wednesday, 24 May 2023 PFA Father’s Night
Thursday, 25 May 2023 Junior School Cyber Safety Parent Webinar
Friday, 26 May 2023 National Sorry Day
Saturday, 27 May 2023 Year 11 Formal
Sunday, 28 May 2023 Snowsports Swap
Wednesday, 31 May 2023 Paul Dillon Presentation
Wednesday, 31 May 2023 Junior School Musical Performance
Thursday, 1 June 2023 Junior School Careers Day
Thursday, 1 June 2023 Junior School Musical Performance
Friday, 2 June 2023 Junior School Musical Performance
Friday, 2 June 2023 Huntingtower-Heyington Shield GSV AFL Match
Sunday, 4 June 2023 Snowsports Auxiliary -Warren Miller Film
Tuesday, 6 June 2023 Years 7 & 8 Concert
Thursday, 8 June 2023 Principal’s Tour
Friday, 9 June 2023 Lunch – MND Big Freeze
Friday, 9 June 2023 Year 7 (2024) Orientation
Friday, 16 June 2023 Ruth Langley Luncheon
Thursday, 22 June 2023 End of Term 2

From the Principal

Adaptability After Adversity

As a school, we continue to remain vigilant in a post-COVID period regarding the health and wellbeing of all students who may still be impacted by two years of disrupted learning and lockdowns.

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Early Learning Centre

100 Languages to Learn

Our children in the Early Learning Centre are provided with opportunities every day to learn and discover using the ‘hundred languages.’  

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Junior School

An Exciting Start to Term 2

Term 2 is off to an exciting start with a range of upcoming events planned to enhance our students' learning experience, promote School spirit, and foster community engagement.

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Barbreck Writers’ Club

Every week in Writers' Club there is a wonderful atmosphere and energy as the girls explore a range of writing activities that can be different to the ones they experience in class.  

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Towards 2025

Global Exchange Program 2023

The long tradition of St Catherine’s School students travelling on exchange in Year 9, is cherished. Students in younger Year Levels enjoy hearing of our students' experiences and look forward to their opportunity to experience an exchange themselves

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Student VOICES

Big Freeze 2023

Pencil it in your diaries, Friday 9 June a selection of brave teachers and students will take part in St Catherine's third annual Big Freeze Ice Bath Challenge! Show your support and donate today!!

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Senior School

Women in Leadership Forum

Our VCE Global Politics students facilitated a Women in Leadership Forum last week that explored how women lead in parliamentary processes, managing social and gendered expectations and leading change for women.

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Senior School Play

Join our Senior School students as they recreate Children of the Black Skirt a gothic fairytale for young people, in The Jamie and Rebecca Gray Theatre from 18 May to 20 May.

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School News

OUT NOW – St Catherine’s News Autumn 2023

Throughout the Autumn Edition of St Catherine’s News, we share stories of our students, staff, community, and programs that celebrate the importance of emotional wellbeing for success and the value pursuing your passions provides. 

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Community News

PFA Mother’s Day Breakfast 2023

The PFA warmly invites our community to its annual Mother's Day Breakfast to be held on Friday 12 May 2023 with Guest Speaker, SCOGA Fellowship Recipient, Dr Hilary Grover ('10), Head Doctor at North Melbourne AFLW and Melbourne Victory W-League.

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PFA Father’s Night

St Catherine's School's Parents' and Friends' Association warmly invites fathers and significant male role models in our School community to attend its Father's Night to be held at the Toorak 'Heroes' RSL on Wednesday 24 May from 6.30pm.

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Snowsports Movie Night

St Catherine's Snowsports Auxiliary proudly offers our School community the opportunity to attend an exclusive screening of Warren Miller's 73rd annual ski and snowboard film 'Daymaker'.

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Uniform Centre News