Welcome...... Hello and welcome to the St Rita's Catholic Primary School website. St Rita's is located at Victoria Point, in the South East Region of Brisbane. St Rita's is a coeducational Catholic primary school, offering classes from Prep to Year 7. The total enrolment is approximately 600.  Distinctive curriculum offerings are Information Communication & Learning Technology (ICLT), LOTE (Japanese), Arts Program, Health & Physical Education Program and Instrumental Music Program.   If you cannot find what you're looking for on this website, or if you would like any further information about St Rita's, please do not hesitate to contact us.

 

Community News

ST RITA'S FEAST DAY 22ND MAY
Next Tuesday we will be celebrating our St Rita's Day by commencing with the Leadership Assembly for all of our Year Sevens and our Student Council. The children will be honoured by our community for their leadership capabilities and responsibilities and presented with Leadership Badges in recognition of this honour. All are welcome to attend at 9am.

Other special activities are planned for the day – including Year Sevens studying Iconography, and other year levels collaboratively creating ideas for a school mascot. Our – yet unimagined – mascot will lead the way for St Rita's school wide positive behaviour expectations. Exciting times!

Please send, if possible, a picnic style lunch for your child to share on Tuesday. We are planning a whole school picnic on our oval at first break where buddy classes will join together to celebrate our connectedness as a school community. As always, you are welcome. The picnic will take place around 11am.

TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION EVENING
For those parents who missed the Technology Information evening on Wednesday 16 May we have established a new section of this website (accessible via Quick Links or the Curriculum part of the main menu) called ICLT St Rita's.  Here you will find useful resources and information for parents. 

LEADERSHIP LITURGY – Tuesday 22 May
Please join us for a celebration of Year 7 Leadership for 2012 on Tuesday 22 May from 9am to 9.45am.

ST RITA'S WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY FRIDAY 18 MAY
Thanks to the people who have already volunteered to help out with this day. We are lucky to have such generous parents at our school! If you do help out, your child/children will still be able to participate in the walk around the oval at school.

It is a great day to be involved with and the event is all over by about 9.15am. If you would like to be a part of the team organising the day, some of the tasks involved are listed in this week's newsletter.  If you would like to get involved, please contact Lisa, acrets@me.com or 0405 152 952.

There are some fun competitions for the students relating to the day.  These are also outlined in this week's newsletter.

CONGRATULATIONS
State Kumite Titles: Last weekend, William (Yr4) competed in the State Karate titles. William fought really well and finished with a 'Gold Medal' in Kumite (i.e. fighting). William will now compete in the Nationals later in Term 3 held in Melbourne. Well done William on such an amazing result and all the best for the Nationals!

St Anthony's Invitational Cross Country  Congratulations to all those students who represented St Rita's last Wednesday at the St Anthony's Invitational Cross Country. There were fantastic results all round for our 'Rita Rep Runners Squad' and they were up against some very tight competition. The end of the day saw our 'Senior Boys Division' finish 2nd Place overall as well as our 'Intermediate Girls Division' finish in 3rd Place. Once again well done everyone on your efforts and the hard work you all put into your training.

District Sport Representatives  Congratulations to Dana-Maree (Yr6) and Samantha (Yr7) who earlier this term attended the Redlands District Girls Soccer trials. Dana and Samantha performed exceptionally well and both gained selection in the District Girls Soccer Team to compete at upcoming Met-East Trials.

ENROLMENTS FOR 2013
For those families with siblings at home ready to start Prep in 2013 please get your enrolment forms in for the 2013 school year. Prep Enrolment Interviews will be held during the next few weeks. Enrolment forms are available from the school office or by visiting the Enrolments section of this website.

WOOLWORTHS EARN & LEARN IS HERE AGAIN
Get on board to support St Rita's by collecting your stickers when you shop at Woolworths. You will receive one sticker for every $10 spent! (excludes liquor, tobacco and gift cards). From the 9 May through to 1 July, just collect your stickers from the checkout operator and place them on the sticker cards. One sticker card per family has been sent home today, but you can collect more if needed from Kelly at the school office, or from Woolies! When your card is completed, place it in the large green box outside the library, or at your local Woolworths store, (look for the St Rita's box!)

UNIFORM SHOP HOURS Thursday 8.00 to 10.00am Friday 8.00 to 10.00am PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF OPERATING HOURS

SPN NEWS
If you can’t make a SPN meeting but would like an issue or idea brought to the attention of the SPN or raised at a meeting we can be contacted at
StRitasSPN@gmail.com.

FETE NEWS ~  Saturday 28th July
In keeping with St Rita's use of technology, the Fete Committee has created a Facebook page. This page will be used to update our community on all the exciting events leading up to the Fete and for reminders for Mufti Days, donation times and points and volunteering needs. Please follow the link below and, to ensure you receive all the updates, make sure you "LIKE" the page, not just a photo or a status. Our usual Social Media rules apply – commenting on status updates will be allowed but individual posting will not. All inappropriate comments will be removed.  Link: https://www.facebook.com/StRitasCommunityFete

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