Dear Parents, Guardians and Carers,

Welcome back to term 2, we trust that you had a safe and enjoyable term break and celebrated a lovely Easter with your family.

Last night we held a very successful enrolment open night with over 50 families coming to look at St Gabriel’s.  They were all very impressed with lots of positive comments about the school.  Thank you to all our staff who remained at school after hours to help facilitate such a great night.  A special mention to our school captains: Darcey, Olivia, Jerzey and Mia who also came back to school at 5pm to help with the night.  You were all absolutely fantastic ambassadors for our school.

Foundation 2026 enrolments are now open.  If you have a sibling who is due to start school next year please do not forget to hand your completed enrolment form to the office by Friday 4th July.

We had 24 students represent our school at the Traralgon Primary Schools District Cross Country. The 12/13 years and 11 years boys and girls run a 3km course with the 9/10 year boys and girls running a 2km course. With approximately 42 runners in each age group we are extremely proud of our students completing the course.

Results:

12/13 year boys: 2nd Jerzey Podmore, 3rd Angus Reid, 4th Austin Ryan

12/13 year girls: 2nd Portia Weaver, 20th Maleaha Ahuriri, Milla Kennedy-Hanson.

11 year boys: 9th Archie Harris, 18th Finnan Greer, Judd Gray

11 year girls: 5th Aura MacDonald, 6th Iva Pardo, 8th Maddi White

9/10 year boys: 3rd Leo Aitken, 5th Armie Grimes, 6th Gus Ford, 7th Reece Jones, 11th Bentley Szkwarek, 12th Cooper Galea

9/10 year girls: 3rd Ivy Ryan, 9th Teal McGennisken, 16th Nathalyn Rilin, Malia Corbett

Students in the top 6 places will continue on to the Division Cross Country on Wednesday 14th May.

Next week on Thursday 8th May we will be holding our annual Mother’s Day Mass at St Michael’s Church beginning at 9.30am.  We’d love to see you all there.  The Mother’s Day stall will be held on Friday 9th May and payment is via CDFpay.  There is also a Mother’s Day Raffle which will be drawn on Monday afternoon at assembly. Please see the flyer in this newsletter and previous emails sent via PAM about this.

Important Dates to Remember

Monday 5th-Friday 9th May: Dental Van visit

Tuesday 6th May: Confirmation parent information night

Thursday 8th May: Mother’s Day Mass

Friday 9th May: Mother’s Day Stall

Wednesday 14th May: District Cross Country

Friday 16th May- Friday 23rd May: Catholic Education Week

Kind Regards

Michelle Charlton