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Lumen Christi supports Child Safety with policies and procedures in place to promote well-being and to ensure that all children are protected from harm.
Lumen Christi is a Catholic primary school, which endeavours to work with families to educate children in a Christian atmosphere of love, trust and responsibility. We are inspired by our name, Lumen Christi, to create a welcoming environment which values the dignity of the individual, nurtures within the Catholic tradition each individual's spiritual journey, fosters enjoyment of learning, nourishes self expression, embraces our whole community and focuses on justice and citizenship. We view education as a partnership between school and home, and therefore strongly encourage parent participation. Lumen Christi was officially opened in 1990 with a total enrolment of 73 students, today we have over 310 children, with modern air conditioned classrooms and interactive whiteboards, a purpose built junior learning centre, a fully equipped technology centre, a library, a dedicated art room and beautiful grounds. Whilst this website contains a great deal of information, it in no way covers everything we do at Lumen Christi. We hope you enjoy reading about our school and would hope that if you have any questions that you would not hesitate to make contact with us. Click here for a message from our Principal 
Foundation 2021We are looking forward to welcoming our 2021 Foundation students and families into the Lumen Christi community next term. Over the next week letters will be sent to our enrolled families with information on our Information Evening and our school orientation visits. This page will also be updated with this information. As you can appreciate, due to the Global Pandemic, we are still awaiting further direction from the State Government and the Catholic Education Office.
Remote Learning - Term 3A warm welcome to Remote Learning Term 3 everyone.
By now teaching teams will have been in touch with families to share Google Meet times and Learning Portal information. Many parents of Foundation, Grade One and Grade Two children made the most of the Junior team’s learning pack ‘drive thru’ last Friday, and also took some familiar readers to assist our youngest students in keeping up their reading practise. Thank you to our Junior Team for preparing and delivering this opportunity. Using feedback from both our school community and diocese we have made a few adjustments to our Remote Learning approach this term.
Parent/Teacher Conversations will go ahead as scheduled this week - Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons and evenings. These conversations will provide you with an opportunity to check in re your child/ren’s progress so far this year, discuss where to with learning goals, and are an opportunity for you to share any wonderings or support you feel you will need over this school term. If you have something in particular you’d like to be able to discuss with your child/ren’s classroom teacher feel free to send them a Seesaw message prior to the conversation so this can also be addressed. PSG meetings will take place in weeks six and seven. Please note that if you have a PSG you will not have a Parent/Teacher Conversation. This is because the first part of the PSG meeting is an opportunity for classroom teachers and parents to discuss student progress and levels of achievement, and then relate this to a child’s Personal Learning Plan, information shared in the Parent/Teacher conversation. If you have a PSG you are still welcome to touch base with your classroom teacher this week if you have any pressing wonderings or needs. Thank you again to those of you who have been able to support our school and wider community in being safe by supporting your children’s learning from home. We cannot stress enough that we are just an email, a call or a Google Meet away. Do not hesitate to contact us if you have any questions, concerns or needs. We are all here for each other to give our children the very best we can during this most unusual of school years. Be safe, be well, be kind. Yours sincerely, Murray Macdonald (Principal) Some potentially helpful resources...
https://theparentswebsite.com.au/five-tips-parents-support-learning-home/
https://theparentswebsite.com.au/staying-calm-carrying-family-survival-guide/ Happy Lumen Christi Day - 30 Years to celebrate!
August 6th - Feast of the Transfiguration.
We invite our community to join us in celebrating (remotely) our thirtieth anniversary in prayer. We'd like to express our gratitude to Mrs Lev for her leadership, organisation and drive in seeing this prayer prepared, Belinda for her tech skills in pulling the clips together so beautifully. Special thanks also to Rex and Bella Hardware for recording our school song... we know you'll love it. As we reflect on the Lumen story during this special anniversary we take some time to thank Barry James for donating the land on which our school was built, Father Barry Ryan, our first parish priest and Fiona Tonkin, our first principal for their vision and energies in creating a new Catholic school in Delacombe all those years ago. We acknowledge the contributions of students, families and staff over the past 30 years. Each person has helped to shape our school and community, and made it the special place it is. We had such plans to celebrate 30 years of Lumen life and light together. To reminisce about the past and envision our future. Instead we leave you with an opportunity to reflect on what it means for you to 'be the light of Christ in the world'... what is it about your words, actions and relationships with others that sees this light shine from you. Here's hoping we can set up a 2021 gathering. Happy Lumen Christi Day everyone! Lumen Christi - Celebrating 30 Years 
Remember that a full calendar of events available to access on Parent Access Module ( PAM)
WINTER UNIFORM Girls:- Short or long sleeve powder blue Lumen Christi polo shirt, or long sleeve powder blue roll neck skivvy Winter tartan tunic Royal blue Lumen Christi ‘V’ neck woolen jumper Navy knee high socks or navy tights or white ankle socks (no name branded socks are to be worn) Boys:- Short or long sleeve powder blue Lumen Christi polo shirt, or long sleeve powder blue roll neck skivvy Long trousers are to be worn (no shorts) Royal blue Lumen Christi ‘V’ neck woolen jumper White or navy socks (no name branded socks are to be worn) Blue school coats/jackets and vests are part of the uniform for both boys and girls. Beleza is getting on top of our stock for the new softshell jackets and vests. NOTE: No other jackets are to be worn e.g. Kathmandu down jackets Sports uniform for boys and girls:- Short or long sleeve powder blue Lumen Christi polo shirt, or navy blue sports mesh Lumen Christi Primary School polo shirt. Navy track pants Lumen Christi Navy blue with powder blue stripes Rugby jumper Sports socks - Plain or Lumen Christi branded white sports socks (no name branded socks are to be worn) Grade 6 students may wear their Grade 6 Hoodies and polos with their sports uniform. Grade 6 Hoodies are not to be worn with regular winter uniform. Staff will advise what days the children are to wear their sports clothes, including for Grade 6s their hoodies. STAGGERED SCHOOL DAY
END OF DAY DISMISSAL To minimise congestion within and outside of the school next week the dismissal arrangements will be: Foundation, Grade One and Grade Two students: We encourage families to set children up to be able to walk across the crossing to meet them at the end of the day. Children in F/1/2 will assemble in class lines under the cover of the pavilion, waiting for the parents/caregivers who need to come onsite to collect their child/ren. We encourage parents to wait across the crossing if possible and we will bring students out to the front of the school to come across and meet you. Any student from Grades 3-6 who has a sibling in F/1/2 will join them at 3:10 pm for dismissal. Older siblings will walk their younger siblings to the front of the school, parents will not need to come onsite. All bus travelers will be dismissed at 3:10pm. Grade Three - Six Students: Children from Grades 3-6 who do not have a sibling in F/1/2 will be dismissed from under the pavilion at 3:20 pm. The Grade 5/6s will exit by the door adjacent to the Senior Learning area near the staff car park, to meet parents waiting in their vehicles or at the front of the school . Grades 3/4 students will exit via the Activity Centre side gate, to meet parents waiting in their vehicles or at the front of the school. For the staggered starts and finishes, it is important that all our Foundation, Grade One and Grade Two students arrive BEFORE the 8:50 am bell in the morning, and in the afternoon they depart ASAP at 3:10pm. This will support social distancing and also ease traffic and parking problems. We appreciate that many family members may look forward to seeing teachers, staff and other parents at the school gate for a chat and catch up. Unfortunately this is not the time and place for catching up at the moment. |
PUPIL FREE DAYS The school is entitled to a number of pupil free days for supporting professional learning and overall school improvement. Dates that have been approved by our School Advisory Council thus far for 2020 are:- The Pupil Free Day for August 25th has been transferred to November 30th. Children will attend school on August 25th. November 30 will be a Pupil Free Day. Catholic Education Week will now be held during the week of September 7th - 11th. Term Four CBCA Book Week 2020 will now be held in Term 4 October 17th - 23rd. Monday November 16th - Report Writing Upcoming Parents and Friends Events SAVE THE DATE | ||||