Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome to 2025 and what is sure to be an exciting year of learning and growth. We look forward to continuing to strengthen our community through our school creed and ensuring that St Thomas More's is providing the best education for your children.

We hope all of our new families have felt the embrace of our community as you have prepared your child to commence school. It was so rewarding to see our Kindergarten students bravely farewell their parents in the courtyard before heading into class and to visit each classroom to see that they were already centred in learning. 

A special welcome to Carly Sargent, Majella-Rose Shanahan and Allina Young who have joined our teaching staff. We also welcome Bibi Peresin as our Defence School Mentor. Finally, we are pleased to announce the appointment of Penny Vanzwol as our School Wellbeing Officer (Chaplain). Penny is an experienced teacher with a passion for supporting the wellbeing and pastoral care of her communities. We know she will be a valued member of our community in this role. Penny will be at school on Mondays.

Parent Information Night and Welcome BBQ

Our Parent Information Night will be held on Tuesday 11 February from 5:30pm beginning in Holy Faith Hall. We will gather as a whole school community for the leadership team to present and then break into grade presentations. These presentations will be repeated twice for families of multiple children. There will be staff available to supervise children during the presentations. We will then gather as a community for a BBQ on our playground. RSVPs for catering can be found here:

https://forms.gle/UhvfDpoT5DvsQFMo6

This is sure to be a wonderful opportunity to engage in your child's learning and meet new people in our community.

Canteen News

We are thrilled to announce an innovative partnership that has been developed with St Thomas More's and Angie's Cafe, of Merici College. From Week 6 of this term Angie's Cafe will be servicing our school canteen on Tuesday and Thursday with freshly made meal packs delivered to the students to eat at first break. The meal packs will be priced between $10 - $15. Over the coming weeks we will be engaging in community consultation to develop the menu in line with the National Healthy School Canteens Guidelines. We look forward to providing this service to our community.

School Counsellor

We welcome Nik Shuhaimi as our new school counsellor. Nik will work every Wednesday. Parents can refer their child to the school counsellor for 6 sessions. We would ask that you speak to your child's teacher or myself if you would like to access this service.

More News vs. More Reminders

In reflecting on our communication strategy it has become apparent that the differences between More News and More Reminders were lacking. Therefore moving forward, we will ensure that More News is an in depth newsletter highlighting stories in our school and the wider community, and More Reminders is a brief newsletter of reminders for the week ahead.

Supervision Hours

School hours are 8:50 am to 3:00 pm. Students are supervised each day from 8:20 am until 3:20 pm. We would like to remind parents of the importance of ensuring that children are not dropped off at school before 8:20 am. Before and After School Care is available through Team Kids.

Sports Uniform - cessation of White Shirts 

It is over three years since our new Sports Uniform was launched, therefore we will no longer accept students wearing the white sports uniform. The updated sports uniform is available from Lowes or you can contact the front office to enquire after preloved items.

Calendar of Events - Fridge Magnet and Online

We hope you enjoyed receiving your calendar of events for the fridge at home and that it will support you in the timetabling involved in family life. Our full school calendar can be accessed through the school webpage (there is a QR code link on the magnet!) or in the Compass App. We look forward to gathering this term for our PIN and Welcome BBQ, Working Bee and Grandparents Day. 

Facebook

Did you know we have a Facebook page? Find us @stmcampbell