4th August - Mt St Patrick Primary School, Murwillumbah
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4th August - Mt St Patrick Primary School, Murwillumbah
Mt St Patrick Primary School, Murwillumbah 4th August 2015 Newsletter No. 12 FINAL NOTIFICATION: PUPIL FREE DAY—Monday 17th August Dear Parents, SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION: This Thursday evening 24 students will be making their Sacrament of Confirmation. The students will be confirmed by the Most Reverend Geoffrey Jarrett DD, Bishop of Lismore. The sacrament of OFFICE HOURS FOR 2015 School Administration Office is attended Confirmation builds on the sacraments of Baptism, Reconciliation, and First Communion, completing the process of initiaMonday—Friday tion into the Catholic community. Please keep these students 8:20am—3:45 pm in your prayers and may the gifts and graces of the Holy Spirit come upon them. CONTACT Phone 02 66721821 Fax 02 66721536 Website www.murplism.catholic.edu.au Email [email protected] Postal PO Box 1226 30 Mooball St Murwillumbah NSW 2484 IMPORTANT DATES TERM 3 AUGUST Thurs 6th Sacrament of Confirmation Fri 7th Diocesan Athletics Tues 11th ICAS Maths Mon 17th Pupil Free Day— Staff Development Day Mon 24th—Fri 28th Infants Classes (Kinder—Year 2) Parent Teacher Interviews Mon 24th Whole School Photo Sat 29th Banana Festival - Parade 12pm SEPTEMBER Mon 31st—Fri 4th Sept CLASS STRUCTURES 2016: At last week’s Parent Forum l presented a model of class structures for next year which effectively meant that all year levels would be placed into straight classes eg primary staging would be replaced with 2 x Year 6 classes; 2 x Year 5 classes. Some of the advantages for such a change include: The new Australian Curriculum lends itself more towards year specific standards rather than Stages. It allows greater flexibility with our timetables in the primary classes eg mathematics. A consistent whole school approach to straight Year level classes. Lends itself to less disruption for key school events for particular Year levels eg. NAPLAN, Year 6 College Orientation. Units of Work would operate in Yearly sequence—same as Infants model. The decision of straight classes was unanimously supported by our teaching staff. In making this change it does not mean that Staging has not worked. No matter which grade structure was implemented, our school would always provide a "differentiated" curriculum catering for each child's individual needs. However the factors listed above lends itself to our school making a shift. MOUNT ST PATRICK COLLEGE: Mr Tony Daly recently announced to the school community his intention to resign as College Principal at the end of the school year. Mr Daly has been Principal at the College for 17 years. An appointment for a new Principal will be made in Term 4. Enjoy your week! Brendan Ryan Principal Stage 2 & 3 Parent Teacher Interviews Thurs 3rd Father’s Day Stall Wed 9th Parent Assembly: Guest Speaker: Maurizio Vespa Saturday 29th August Banana Festival - Parade 12pm RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS Page 2 CONFIRMATION ‘May you have the strength of the SPIRIT, the power of PRAYER and the force of FAITH…. To live in SERVICE, to LOVE, with all your heart and to let God lead you always.’ YEAR 6 RELIGIOUS EDUCATION TEST Recently our Year 6 Students participated in a Religious Education test conducted in all Catholic Schools across the Diocese. Our Year 6 cohort is to be commended on their overall pleasing results with an average score above that of the Lismore Diocese. We would like to acknowledge and congratulate the following students on their great results. High Distinction: Neave Butler, Olivia Flannery, Corey Grossman, Kiara McCarthy & Tiffany New. Distinction: Matthew Colnan, Evie Falkner, Connor Foreman-Keenan, Darcy Hannah, Chloe Hillcoat, James McIver, Charlotte O’Keefe, Leila Parnaby, Wren Phelan, Nicholas Ratcliffe, Reef Sommerville & Areana Twohill. Well done to these students! EXURO—YEAR 5 Exuro is a gathering for selected Year 5 students from Parish Primary Schools based in Regions of the Diocese to celebrate their faith at a Diocesan level. The Gathering will be a chance to bring students together to meet like-minded peers and to celebrate with other young people who practice their faith. The activities will be a mixture of large and small sharing groups as well as celebrating a Liturgy together. The program has been geared to meet the needs of these Year 5 students. The gathering will be a one day experience that will allow students to build relationships with other students from throughout their region of the Diocese as well as a chance for students to talk and share about their faith journey. When: Tuesday 20th October 2015 Where: Sacred Heart Parish Hall, Murwillumbah More information regarding this will be given to Year 5 students over the coming weeks. SACRED HEART PARISH WEEKDAY MASS TIMES Tuesday 5.30pm Wednesday 5.30pm Thursday 9.15am Friday 12.00noon WEEKEND MASS TIMES Sacred Heart Sacred Heart OLPS, Sth M’Bah Sacred Heart Saturday 6:00 pm Sunday 8:00 am Sunday 10:00am Sacred Heart (Children’s liturgy) Sacred Heart (Children’s liturgy) 1st Uki 2nd & 4th OLPS – Sth Murwillumbah MINI VINNIES On Tuesday 27th July, our Mini-Vinnies group went to visit the St Vincent de Paul Centre on Murwillumbah St. Lilly, Amber, Miranda, Charlie, Abbey, Bella and I, accompanied by Mrs Zambelli, were shown around the whole place. Mrs Bernadette Barnes told us how the clothing, toys and other things which we donate come through from the loading bay at the back of the shop and are sorted by ladies (and some men) into different bags. Some things are useful to sell in the shop, some are sent to Lismore to be sent overseas to poorer countries and some are good for rags which are sold to places like garages and other workshops. After they are sorted the items for sale are priced and taken out into the shop where they are put into different categories, e.g. boys shirts, ladies jeans. The ladies behind the counter sell the things to the customers and the money raised goes to help poor people. Some of us were very surprised to find out that all the people working there are volunteers, which means that they don’t get any money for the time they work there. Thank you to Mrs Barnes and the Tuesday staff for showing us around. RSPCA FUNDRAISER As of week 4 Mini-Vinnies will be holding a colouring in competition to help the RSPCA . To enter your picture is 50c. Your teacher will give you the picture to colour, then you bring them to the fake grass at recess on Wednesday, Thursday or Friday with the 50c. The prizes are all to do with colouring and drawing. Kiara, Olivia, and Tiffany. SCHOOL NEWS Page 3 MONSTER RAFFLE—MAJOR PRIZES MANTRA on SALT BEACH: One night accommodation for 2 people in a One bedroom Spa Suite at Mantra on Salt Beach — Inclusions: Breakfast for 2 at Surge Restaurant and Bar WIN A MUSTANG CRUZE!!! Cruze at your leisure from your home to Coolangatta (and return) in a CLASSIC RED 69 FORD MUSTANG with three family members or friends! Includes lunch @ BELLAKIA, Marine Parade, Coolangatta. Total value $400. Valid till 14th Dec, 2015. Donated by Anderson Family, Cabarita Beach. FAMILY PASS TO DREAMWORLD: 3 Days access to all of Dreamworld, WhiteWater World and SkyPoint Observation Deck THE HAVEN RESTAURANT: Family dinner voucher to the value of $100 to enjoy. Raffle ticket booklets for our Monster Raffle will be distributed soon. Our school runs two major fundraisers throughout the year, the Skill a thon & our Monster Raffle. As well as the wonderful prizes on offer listed above ,the class that raises the most money wins a pizza party. Every $20 raised gives each family a ticket into the draw to win an iPad Apple Mini2 16GB. Raffle drawn Friday 11th September at Assembly. BYRON BAY WRITER’S FESTIVAL ‘Jackie French & Jacqueline Harvey’ Today Stage 3 students had the great privilege to visit the Byron Bay Writer's festival at the Murwillumbah Civic Centre. Jackie French and Jacqueline Harvey were the two writers that presented. Jackie French is an award-winning Australian author who has written over 140 books. She is considered one of Australia’s most popular and awarded children’s authors, writing across a number of genres including picture books, history, fantasy and historical fiction. Her notable books include: Rain Stones, Hitler’s Daughter & Diary of a Wombat. Jacqueline Harvey is a best-selling, award winning children’s author best known for the popular Alice-Miranda and Clementine Rose series. MT ST PAT’S HAS GOT TALENT !!! We want you to be part of our Mt St Pat’s Has Got Talent Assembly Calling all students who can sing, dance, mime, juggle, play an instrument, perform magic tricks, be a comedian etc. TO ENTER YOU MUST FIRST NOMINATE: Nominations close Wednesday 19th August Students can nominate in a maximum of two acts. Nominations will be given to the SRC members at lunchtime. AUDITIONS Auditions will take place on Tuesday 1st September (acts) will be informed of their Audition time. These will take place in the school Hall PERFORMANCE After the auditions, certain acts will be selected and asked to perform at our school Assembly on Friday 11th September. Wednesday 9th September Guest Speaker: Maurizio Vespa ‘Successful Parenting’ @ Mt St Patrick PS 6:30pm—8:30pm Further details to follow. ARTIST OF THE WEEK Anna Davidson Year 2 Maurizio Vespa Page 4 SCHOOL NEWS Term 3 Week 2 AWARDS INFANTS STUDENTS OF THE WEEK KM KW 1J 1T 2N 2Y Alex Seamer, Georgia Lever Ky Andrews, Billy Miller Olivia Northeast, Ivy Piticco Cooper Leeson, Annabelle O’Grady Phoebe Piticco, Sid Longhurst Ava McCabe, Ella Cracknell INFANTS STUDENTS OF THE WEEK PRIMARY STUDENTS OF THE WEEK St2SS Noah Smith, Morgan Berger St2LD Felicity Newell, Jayda McDermott St2MM Tahlia Males, Ayla Fing St2TM Jude Livermore, Nakeisha Drew-Perkiss St3JF Siennah Nottle, Eli Docking St3JD Lucy Jones, Patrick Gray St3SH Oliver Andrews, Nicholas Buchanan St3SP Billy Campbell, Nic Ratcliff PRINCIPAL’S AWARD Aiden Jones, Zara Anglim, Amanda Blissett, Chase Thornton, Ethan Stepto, Oskar Fitzmaurice, Eliza Baldwin, Hayden Charman, Mia Martain, Ricky De Vellis, Elijah Byrnes, Wren Hynes, Maia Moore, Cyennah Tiller, Cooper Leeson, Ella Wolfe, Gian Kendrick –Morosini, Jessica Moore, Hunter Leslight, Ella Ewing, Lara Willis, Rhys Charman, Alice Simke Hetherington, Ava Mccabe, Ella Cracknell, Kiani Byrnes, Billy John, Lara-Grace Ewing, Nicholas Males, Cashlin Townsend, Vienna Lazaredes, Bailey Kirby, Jai Taylor, Bailee Pedlow, Noah Carroll, Mason McInerney, Harrison Bugg, Darcy Hannah, Georgia Hutton, Neave Butler, Jya Fing, Jack Simke Hetherington, Joshua Stebbing, Charli Miller-Smylie, Sienna Fleming, Charlie Gibbons, Leila Parnaby. GOOD SPORTS AWARDS Infants Stage 2 Stage 3 Bon Lang Byron Randall Amelie Lapworth PRIMARY STUDENTS OF THE WEEK PRINCIPAL’S AWARD GOOD SPORTS AWARDS CREATIVE ARTS AWARDS Infants Lexi Adams, Claudia Larkin Stage 2 April Parnaby, Lucia Alexandra Stage 3 Nicholas Ratcliff, Mariah Ouwerling ASSEMBLIES FOR TERM 3 Week 4: Awards only Week 5: Stage 2LD (Mrs Dowling/Mrs Bullock) Week 6: Awards only Week 7: Year 1J (Mrs Jansson) Week 8: Father’s Day—Kinder classes Week 9: Mt St Pat’s Has Talent Assemblies commence @ 2:20pm CREATIVE ARTS AWARDS SCHOOL NEWS Page 5 Term 3 Week 3 AWARDS INFANTS STUDENTS OF THE WEEK INFANTS STUDENTS OF THE WEEK KM Lachlan Adams, Danielle Grant KW Isabelle Bice, Carla Gaven 1J Ivy Piticco, Alex Wellm, Tully Fitzpatrick 1T Madalon Hazzard, Oliver McKay 2N Phoebe Piticco, Angus Miller 2Y Hiwot Nardi, Rachael Devoy PRIMARY STUDENTS OF THE WEEK St2SS Sharde Darragh, Noah Smith PRIMARY STUDENTS OF THE WEEK St2LD St2MM St2TM St3JF St3JD St3SH St3SP Ruby Cummins, Josh Wharton Ruby Trueman, Olivia Adams Milla Pearson, Mason McInerney Hannah Whitney, Amelie Purnell Catia Stebbing, Darcy Reinke Wren Phelan, Grace Wolfe Amber Charilaou, Matthew Colnan PRINCIPAL’S AWARD PRINCIPAL’S AWARD Yasmin Van Rosi, Alex Seamer, Harlo Jorss, Caitlyn Benard, Lachlan Thomas, Samuel Cooper, Cody Taylor, Emelia Thompson, Ebony Roach, Kayla Cotelli, Isabelle Biersteker, Rachael Devoy, Maia Fergus-Mackie, Katrina Blisset, Shana Kussrow, Jayda McDermott, Sophie Charman, Talyn Nix, Kaitlyn Antonelli, Michale Lack, Blake Cracknell, Kaleb Veares, Maya Sutton,Ally Wightley, Lilly Charman,Imogen Sykes, Travis Antonelli, Keirsten Roach, Patrick Gray, Alyssa Carney, Amelie Lapworth, Ruby Wilson, Oliver Andrews, Sullivan Foster, Gabe Malcolm, Paris Ludlow, Joshua Anderson GOOD SPORTS AWARDS GOOD SPORTS AWARDS Infants Wren Hynes Stage 2 Yvette Lapworth Stage 3 Amelie McInerney CREATIVE ARTS AWARDS Infants : Wren Hynes, Lachlan Adams Stage 2: Byron Randall, Harrison Lever Stage 3: Hannah Whitney, Charli Miller-Smylie CREATIVE ARTS AWARDS BIRTHDAYS Ella Cracknell, Yvette Lapworth, Noah Carroll, Hannah Whitney, Joshua Stebbing, Areana Twohill, Mia Martain, Elliott Gracie, Annabelle O’Grady, Phoebe Sykes, Luken Ennis, Kendall Wells, Neave Butler, Oliver Parsons, Corey Grossman, Connor Foreman-Keenan, Amelie Lapworth, Nicholas Ratcliff. CURRICULUM NEWS Page 6 WEEK 3 Bailey Buchanan, Cody Taylor, Jaxon Booth, Noah Carroll, Hannah Trembath, Alyssa Carney, Areana Twohill, Kiana McCabe, Tahlia DrewPerkiss, Darcy Hannah MATHLETES OF THE WEEK WEEK 2 Alexia Adams, Isabelle Biersteker, Millie Davidson, Kai Mumford, Oliver Parsons, Ella Buch, Charli Miller-Smylie, Grace Wolfe, Layla Falkner, Cailey Baker Mathletics Certificates Week commencing 8th June to the 14th June GOLD Certificates Matt Colnan SILVER Certificates Anna Davidson, Jamie Cotelli, Holly Mason, Evie Falkner, Hannah Trembath, Zoe Gatt, Sienna Nottle, Amelie Purnell, Jasmin Dodds, BRONZE Certificates Sebastian Calvino, Claudia Larkin, Sienna Bice, Rhys Charman, Alexander Dowling, Flynn Jones, Cailey Baker, Caitlyn Bice, Jessica Minahan, Hazel Cunningham, Abbie Thomas, Emmett Stepto, Danny Madden, Elsie Biles, Ruby Cummins, Wyatt Gradisnik, Jessica Rees, Ruby Truman, Lilly Wolfe, Finn Byrnes, Millie Davidson, Noah Smith, Elizabeth Warne, Milla Pearson, Lily Cronly, Sienna Bull, Nakeisha Drew-Perkiss, Darcy Hannah, James McIver, Ellis Hannah, Lucy Jones, Abbey Bevan, Lincoln Taylor, Jack Simke-Hetherington, Tyler-Rose Ludlow, Keirsten Roach, Grace Wolfe, Molly Lazaredes, Max Jones, Billy Campbell, Vance Madden, Olivia Flannery, Amelie McInerney, Patrick Gray, Catia Stebbing, Darcie Schaffer, Abbey Kuhnell, Matteo McDermott. Week commencing 15th June to the 21st June GOLD Certificates Jessica Minahan, Mason McInerney, Harrison Bugg, Ellis Hannah, Bryce Matlock. SILVER Certificates Millie Davidson, Elizabeth Warne, Lucy Jones, Layla Falkner, Amelie McInerney, Alyssa Carney. BRONZE Certificates Sid Longhurst, Jessica Moore, Kayla Cotelli, Anna Davidson, Flynn Jones, Cailey Baker, Caitlyn Bice, Theo Parsons, Kaitlyn Antonelli, Emmett Stepto, Jamie Cotelli, Wyatt Gradisnik, Peri Hynes, Jessica Rees, Joshua Wharton, Jaxon Booth, Finn Byrnes, Shana Kussrow, Jack Devoy, Phoebe Sykes, Noah Smith, Kendall Wells, Katrina Blisset, Noah Carroll, Tabitha Stratton, Lily Cronly, Sienna Bull, Darcy Hannah, Angus Ward, Wilbur Ryan-McGinn, Abbey Bevan, Lincoln Taylor, Nicholas Shields, Jack Simke-Hetherington, Billy Campbell, Isis Hetrick, Ben Longhurst, Vance Madden, Imogen Sykes, Travis Antonelli, Jya Fing, Zoe Gatt, Sienna Nottle, Oliver Parsons, Amelie Purnell, Patrick Gray, Jasmin Dodds, Jordan Osmetti, Matteo McDermott, Tiffany New. SPORT NEWS DIOCESAN ATHLETICS CARNIVAL: We wish our 16 representatives all the best at the Diocesan Athletics Carnival on Friday and wish them safe travel. Unfortunately Shayah and Jaxon were absent for the photo. DIOCESAN NETBALL COMPETITION: The Mt Saint Patrick’s Girls Netball team played a great game against St Joseph’s on Tuesday morning. Their team spirit and positive attitude remained throughout the game, despite their loss. The girls’ defence improved as the game wore on, causing St Joseph’s scoring rate to slow by the third quarter. Both teams were very competitive and it was an exciting game to watch.The girls should be commended for reaching the finals and conducting themselves with Heart and Pride throughout the competition. Well done!! MSPP NETBALL TEAM Absent: Abbey Bevan & Abbey Kuhnell DIOCESAN ATHLETICS TEAM COMMUNITY NEWS Page 7 50th Anniversary Mt St Patrick Regional High School 2016 is the 50th Anniversary of the opening of Mt St Patrick Regional High School, Murwillumbah in 1966. This milestone is one of the most significant events in the history of Mt St Patrick College and will be recognised accordingly. The organising committee is considering producing a 50th Anniversary Book with the main focus on school day memories from the 1960’s, 70’s and 80’s. We need your help to ensure that the book goes ahead. Written contributions from ex-students no matter how large or small, would be greatly appreciated. Photographs will be scanned and returned immediately. For planning purposes, it would be much appreciated if written contributions and photos are left at or posted to Mt St Patrick College (PO Box 105, Murwillumbah) or emailed to [email protected] by Wednesday 26th August. Thank you for considering this special request and for making our 50th Anniversary significant for past, present and future members of this community. Parenting Gems from the 2015 Lismore Parent Assembly Conference Brett Lee – Cyber Safety Expert not the Cricketing Legend Brett Lee worked as a Queensland Police Officer for 22 years. In his investigative role he spent thousands of hours assuming fictitious online identities to locate and remove criminals from the cyber environment. Brett has been a teenage girl on the internet longer than nearly any real teenage girl. He had some incredibly valuable tips for parents to encourage them to ensure a safe online experience. Brett Lee will be presenting a workshop for parents on Online Safety and Cyberbullying at St Anthony’s Primary School Kingscliff on Thursday, October 15. Parent Night Wednesday, 29 July 2015 6.00-8.00pm St Ambrose, Pottsville InciTe Education Project This event is designed for parents to explore iPad as an education tool for learning, and to support the school community in engaging Apple technology in the classroom. You will need to register for this event if you are planIGA has started a customer loyalty program that will ning on joining us for the presentation. Please benefit our school. The program works across both the contact the school office on 02 6676 0099 or Murwillumbah IGA and Tweed Valley IGA. Customers initially receive your MY IGA card at the [email protected] checkouts before purchasing goods and then you need to register online. Once you are registered they can start shopping and accruing points. When customers register online you will have the opportunity to select a club or school to receive a percentage of their points. You may choose to give from 100% to 1% of points to a school or club. Every 6 months starting 1 July IGA will compile a report to identify how much money has been donated to our school. Every cent spent in either the Tweed Valley IGA or the Murwillumbah IGA counts and adds up so please get involved.
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