May 8th, 2025
- Acknowledgement of Country
- A Prayer for Mother's Day
- A Note from our Principal
- School Uniform
- Mothers/Special Person's Breakfast - TOMORROW!!
- Sacrament of Confirmation
- School Photo's - Catch up Day
- Foundation Files
- School Closure Days 2025
- Breakfast Club - Wednesday
- Canteen Roster for next week.
- Before & After School Care.
- Important Dates.
- Seaside Community Kitchen
- Free Uniforms!
- School Uniform
- Parish Contact.
- West Warrnambool Neighbourhood House - Calendar of Events
Acknowledgement of Country
The St Pius X Parish School Community acknowledges the Gunditjmara / Marr Nation people who have educated children on these lands for thousands of years.
A Prayer for Mother's Day
Today, we honor all who mother—
those who gave birth, those who chose, those who stepped in.
We celebrate nurturers, protectors, guides, and givers—
women who show love through presence, through wisdom, through fierce tenderness.
We hold space for joy and for pain:
for those who long to be mothers,
for those who have lost children or mothers,
for strained relationships, for silent griefs.
We give thanks for women who build, who teach, who heal,
who nourish communities with strength and compassion.
May their care be returned a hundredfold.
Bless the mothers in every form—biological, adoptive, chosen, spiritual—
and all women who carry life in their hands, hearts, and hopes.
May they know rest.
May they feel seen.
May they be held in grace.
Amen.
A Note from our Principal
Ngata families,
This week I have chosen to continue with the theme of our SWPBS launch. Last week I was excited to share that our school has officially launched the new School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS) framework! At the heart of this initiative are our three core values: Respect, Safety and Responsibility.
To promote and celebrate these values across our school, we have introduced a new Rewards and Recognition system. When students are seen demonstrating any of our core values—whether in the classroom, on the playground, or anywhere around the school—they will be recognised with a coloured token:
- Blue for Respect
- Green for Safety
- Orange for Responsibility
Each classroom has a tub for collecting these tokens and staff members also carry them in the yard to ensure students are acknowledged wherever they are. When a student receives a token, they add it to their class tub and mark it on the classroom chart.
Every fortnight, our Student Representative Council (SRC) will collect and count the tokens. These contribute to each class's overall tally, which will be proudly displayed in the school foyer. If a student receives five tokens, their name will be entered into our fortnightly prize draw and they’ll be recognised at assembly and presented with a certificate by the leadership team.
In addition, we’ve introduced a special reward called the Express Pass—a purple token awarded to students who demonstrate all three values at once in a particularly outstanding way. Express Pass recipients will have the opportunity to visit the leadership team, choose a prize from the prize box, receive a certificate and enjoy a celebratory phone call home to share their success.
We’re already seeing such positive engagement from our students and we look forward to celebrating many more moments of Respect, Safety and Responsibility throughout the year!
Kind regards,
Nick Murrell
Principal
School Uniform
Short exercise shorts
Students have been reminded that short, form fitting, exercise shorts are not part of any school uniform, winter or sports. Students are asked not to wear these shorts.
School uniform options for those wanting to wear shorts on sports days are:
- Navy blue sports/parachute style shorts on sports days.
- Navy blue skort
You may have also noticed that navy blue leisure pants have been added to the allowed school uniform. These are now available in our school uniform shop.
Navy Tracksuit Pants may also be worn on Sports Days.
School uniform options
Left to right: Navy Blue Skort, Navy Blue Leisure Pant, Navy Blue School Sports Short
Mothers/Special Person's Breakfast - TOMORROW!!
The CDF Pay App is now open to take orders and payments.
The cost for breakfast is $5.00 per person (including students).
If you are having any issues with accessing or using the CDF PAY App please call Bec in the office.
Please note that orders will cut off at 5.30pm today.
Sacrament of Confirmation
The key dates for this sacraments in 2025 are:
Confirmation (Grade 3)
- May 11th- Presentation of candidates at Mass.
- May 12th- Confirmation Formation Day at St John's Primary School (school supported)
- May 27th- Confirmation celebration 6pm
The dates for communicated at the formation night for celebrations at other churches are as follows:
- Presentation of the Confirmation Candidates to Parish
- May 11th
- St Pius X, 9am
- St Joseph’s, 6pm
- St Patrick’s Port Fairy, 10.30am
- Infant Jesus Koroit, 9am
- May 11th
- Confirmation Formation Day at St John's Primary School (school supported)-May 12th
- Confirmation Ceremony
- May 24th & May 31st, 6pm- OLHC
- May 27th, 6pm- Infant Jesus Koroit- St John’s, St Pius X, St Patrick’s Koroit, St Patrick's Port Fairy
- June 5th, 6pm- St Joseph’s
- June 6th, 6pm-St Joseph’s
- If you have any questions please call Stacey at school or email satkins@spwarrnambool.catholic.edu.au
School Photo's - Catch up Day
If your child/ren were absent for the school photo's, there will be a catch up day on Thursday, 13th June.
More information will follow closer to the date.
Foundation Files
Daily Review - What it looks like in our room!
Each morning we have been participating in our Daily Review lesson where we consolidate the learning we have been doing across the terms. Each morning there is a component of phonics, decoding and encoding and even some sight words. We are able to read sounds that we know, write the spellings for the sounds and read and write words. If we get the answer correct we can tick it but if we are unsure or make a little mistake then we get to fix it. We love the daily review as we all get to experience success as well as keep practicing. We know we are learning lots about letters, sounds and words every day! Check out some of the hard workers in Foundation this week.
Partitioning
This week in maths we have been working on partitioning numbers. We know that partitioning means breaking numbers apart into groups. We discovered that there are many different ways we can partition a number. For example, we can partition the number 5 into 2 and 3, 1 and 4, 0 and 5. We have had fun using counters and our whiteboards to show the many different ways we can partition numbers!
Happy Mother’s Day!
We have been very busy this week getting ready for Mother’s Day! We are so lucky to have so many special women in our lives and we hope that you all get spoiled on the weekend. So to all the Mum’s, Grandmother’s, Aunt’s and special ladies we wish you all a very Happy Mother’s Day. We hope to see you all at the Mother’s Day Breakfast tomorrow to enjoy some yummy pancakes.
School Closure Days 2025
Fri 30th May – School Review
Mon 2nd June – School Review
Fri 29th August – School-Wide Positive Behaviour Support (SWPBS)
Mon 6th October – Structured Literacy
Fri 7th November – Religious Education
Breakfast Club - Wednesday
Students, please join us for some yummy toast, fruit and cereal each Wednesday morning at Breakfast Club.
Breakfast club is open from 8:20am - 8:55am in the Function Room.
With thanks to our sponsors Western District Foodshare and Woolworths and to our fantastic parent helpers.
Canteen Roster for next week.
| Tuesday, 13th May | Genevieve Parkinson |
| Wednesday, 14th May | Sammy Le Cerf |
| Thursday, 15th May | Kerrie Donlon |
| Friday, 16th May | Helper Required Please |
Before & After School Care.
Please see below for the end of term newsletter.
We remind everyone about TheirCare, our outside school hours care provider. Bookings can be made at https://theircare.com.au/
Please select St Pius X Warrnambool as the booking location.
Important Dates.
Friday, 9th May: Mothers Day Breakfast
Sunday, 11th May: Confirmation - Presentation of candidates. St Pius X Church 9:00am to 10:00am
Monday, 12th May: Ready, Set, School! - 9.30am to 10.30am
Confirmation Formation Day 10am-2pm (St John's School)
Friday, 16th May: National Walk Safely to School Day!
Ready, Set, School! - 9.30am t0 10.30am
Division Cross Country
Assembly - 3pm in Church
Monday, 19th May: Ready, Set, School! - 9:30am – 10:30am
Thursday, 22nd May: Interschool Sports
Friday, 23rd May: Ready, Set, School! - 9.30am to 10.30am
Monday, 26th May: Ready, Set, School! - 9.30am to 10.30am
Parents & Friends Meeting - 7.30pm to 8.30pm
Tuesday, 27th May: Sacrament of Confirmation, Infant Jesus Koroit - 6pm to 7pm
Friday, 30th May: School Closure for School Review.
Monday, 2nd June: School Closure for School Review.
Seaside Community Kitchen
Free Uniforms!
If you are looking for some good quality second hand uniforms, we currently have a display set up in the foyer area near the office. You are welcome to come in anytime and have a look through what we have. Items include summer dresses, shorts, pants, shirts etc. in various sizes. All items are FREE to take.
School Uniform
Parish Contact.
Sunday Mass 9.00am @ St Pius X Church. School families are always welcome.
The Parish office can be contacted on 5562 2231
Other information and contact details can be found on the Star of the Sea South West Coast website: https://www.ballarat.catholic.org.au/parish/southwestcoast/
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West Warrnambool Neighbourhood House - Calendar of Events
