Dear Parents, Caregivers, Staff and Students, 

Last Thursday a number of staff and parents attended the local production of ‘Xanadu’ at the Players Theatre in Bomaderry. It was a great production based on the movie from the 1980s. The Thursday night production was also a fundraiser for the “Mother Ruth Foundation”, which provides a scholarship to St John’s Nowra for one of our present Year 6 students. The foundation has been operating since 1968 and continues to honour the memory of Sister Ruth Hayes, a much loved and respected former Principal. Congratulations to both everyone in the production as well as the foundation committee. A great show! 

Earlier this week we were visited by Martin Chatterton, an author and illustrator. The students in Years 4-6 loved his workshop and have hopefully been inspired by him. Thank you to Mrs McKenna for organising the incursion. Next Tuesday Year 3 will have an excursion to the Shoalhaven Entertainment Centre to see the production of ‘Picasso and his dog’.

Today students in Year 6 have travelled to Canberra for an overnight excursion. When I met with Year 6 on Tuesday they were very excited about each educational visit they were going to make in Canberra. It is an exceptional excursion and the behaviour of the students is always exemplary. I am thankful to the staff and parents who are attending the excursion. It is a big sacrifice for staff to leave their families and be on call for 36 hours. Mrs Rutkowski and the Year 6 teachers are in charge of all aspects of the excursion and will return on Friday night at approximately 6:15 pm. 

This weekend we celebrate the gift of fathers. Many important male figures in the children’s lives are gifted with this role. These important male figures include fathers, grandfathers, uncles, relatives, friends and others. It is such an important role as all students need significant and good people in their lives. We do acknowledge the dual roles that mothers have when there is not a significant male figure in the children’s lives. Yesterday the school had a special BBQ breakfast and prayer for fathers and important males in the children’s lives. A special thank you is extended to our REC Mrs Mathieson and her wonderful team of staff who assisted to make the morning a success. A special thank you is extended to our Parents and Friends for providing a Father's Day stall for the students. Have a wonderful Sunday celebration everyone. 

Yours in Faith and Virtue,

Mr Christopher Paton

On the 30th of July Year 6 attended “Mass with the Bishop”. The Mass took place at SS Peter and Paul’s Primary in Kiama. The Mass welcomed Year 6 students from Shellharbour, Dapto, Warrawong, Albion Park, Kiama and Milton. The Mass ran very smoothly with children and teachers participating in the readings, songs and homily. After the Mass all schools were invited to eat some lunch out the back and enjoy the beautiful view. We all had a good opportunity to make new friends, look at the beach and sing many songs with the NET team. Over all, the day was fun and successful. Thank you to all the staff that made this day possible.

Abby Griffis and Thomas Rutkowski

Our Billy G’s Cookie Fundraiser is well under way!!! Thank you all so much for your support thus far, we are very excited to share with you just how much this new fundraiser has raised for our school. Please keep sharing and selling right up until next Wednesday the 4^th of September- every single tub of dough helps!

Once the orders have closed, a notification will go out for families to then choose their prizes based on how many tubs of dough have been sold. There are some really cute little gifts! Cookie Dough orders will be due for collection in the last week of term. Once the date is finalised, details will be passed onto parents. This is a new fundraiser we are trying, and we’d really love your feedback throughout the process.
Our Publicity Officer, Kristy is heading this new fundraiser, If you have any questions regarding ordering or the fundraiser as a whole, please get in contact with her.

We are starting to get the ball rolling for our Annual School Fair, Please save the date for Sunday the 10^th of November from 10:30am. This year’s fair is promising to be bigger and better with lots of exciting new things!!! Please start keeping aside any unwanted books and plants for our stalls. The School Fair is the biggest fundraiser of the year, and to run it successfully, we work collaboratively with the school and our parish community.


Thank you to everyone that has purchased a gift from our Father’s Day stall over the past couple of days, the kids have loved choosing gifts for that special person in their life. We will be running the Father's Day Stall again tomorrow morning before school.

Our next P&F meeting will be held on Tuesday the 10^th of September at 6pm in the Hall Foyer, we hope to see you there!

 
2019 Year Book
The production of our annual Year Book is well under way, if you have any exciting news, or extracurricular achievements of your child that you’d like to share, please email them through to yearbookstmichaels@gmail.com

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Step 2:             Rinse and deposit in class collection container.