WEDNESDAY, 12 MARCH, 2014 NEWSLETTER NO. 7

Lourdes News

Dear Parents

As you may be aware, last Saturday morning, the Minato family lost their home to fire. Thankfully all the family are safe and well and recovering from what was a very distressing experience. I know I speak for the family when I say they have been overwhelmed with the generosity of both the donations and your thoughts and prayers. Please keep them in your prayers as they begin the difficult and challenging task of rebuilding.

As I write my piece this week, I am at a Principal’s Conference in Townsville. It is always a good opportunity to meet with other principals from our Diocese and catch up with Catholic Education Office happenings.

Have a great week.

Timothy Ham.

From the Principal

Important Dates ...

March

17 St. Patrick’s Day

18-19 Book Fair in Library

19 P&F AGM & Fete

Meeting 7pm

21 Full Assembly In

Menegon Centre

April

4 Last Day of Term 1

22 First Day of Term 2

May

Deb Ball

10 School Fete

The events of the past week have given many of us the opportunity to realise just how fortunate we all are to have family and friends who love and care for us. It is during difficult times that we often see the very best in those around us. Lent is an opportunity to build on our relationships with each other and to extend our love and care for others to those who need help the most. Our contribution to Project Compassion is an opportunity to extend a helping hand to people far and wide. The following is a link to this week’s story of how Caritas has made a life changing difference for this family. http://www.caritas.org.au/projectcompassion/weekly-stories/week-2-deng Please continue to keep in your prayers all in our community who are going through difficult times or are sick, particularly our Bishop and all who have no one to pray for them. Monday, March 17 is St Patrick’s Day, and while this day is celebrated the world over, it holds a special place in our hearts – once again we will celebrate with Mass at 9.00am and we encourage all to show their St Patrick’s spirit by wearing green!!!

Wishing you a God filled week. Paula Martin

From the APRE

As I arise today, may the strength of God pilot me, the power of God uphold me, the wisdom of God guide me. May the eye of God look before me, the ear of God hear me, the word of God speak for me. May the hand of God protect me, the way of God lie before me, the shield of God defend me, the host of God save me. May Christ shield me today. Christ with me, Christ before me,

Christ behind me, Christ in me, Christ beneath me, Christ above me, Christ on my right, Christ on my left, Christ when I lie down, Christ when I sit, Christ when I stand, Christ in the heart of everyone who thinks of me, Christ in the mouth of everyone who speaks of me, Christ in every eye that sees me, Christ in every ear that hears me. Amen

An Irish Prayer

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The P&F is holding a fundraiser. We are selling Tuckshop Order Wallets. They have a pocket for your child’s name, and another for your child’s order and

money. They fold up and fasten with Velcro and the tuckshop can then place you child’s lunch (wrapped) in the bag. They are $10 each. We think they’re great! We have a sample in the office if you’d like to take a look!

Orders close Friday, 28 March.

TUCKSHOP ORDER “WALLETS”

Achievement Awards

Prep HK Roman Grottelli … for always having a go at answering questions in class time. Keep up the great work Roman!

Prep AG Bronte Stubbins … for listening carefully and working diligently to complete all of her activities in class.

1DM Matthew Spina … for his outstanding application for all class activities and for his wonderful recognition of sight words when reading.

1MK Jada Fichera … for concentrating hard on recognising her sight words when reading and then using them in her writing. Keep up the hard work Jada!

2CM Brayden Spina … for improvement in his neatness and letter formation during handwriting sessions.

2/3CA Brady Catalano … for working hard to learn his number facts and showing a great understanding of nouns, verbs and adjectives.

3MP Megan Marano … for a brilliant job in writing out the characteristics of Max from the Bob Graham story for her Character Chain. Well done Megan!

4ED Zoe Kemp … for excellent spelling and math results.

4/5MG Daniel Stubbins … for his excellent knowledge of number facts and his fantastic work in Mathematics.

5JS Kacey Lynch … for always trying to do her best work in all classroom activities.

6CT Erin Giliberto … for excellent spelling results and commitment to her school work. Keep up the great work Erin!

6MQ Maddison Ham … for displaying fantastic leadership qualities, in and out of the classroom, and for being a wonderful Prep Buddy.

7MM Giordan Scott … for writing a very persuasive ‘Letter to the Editor’. Well done Giordan!

Congratulations to last Friday’s Award Winners ...

School Spirit Awards … Honesty & Trustworthiness

Prep HK Ellie Spina … by being a trustworthy friend to her peers and a willing helper in the classroom. Good work Ellie!

Prep AG Kelin Corradi … by being honest in all dealings with his teachers and for being a wonderful role model this past week.

1DM Katie Hodge … by always being an honest and trustworthy member of 1DM and ensuring she helps her classmates and teacher. Well done!

1MK Kiesha Lyons … by ALWAYS being a good friend to all your classmates by being honest and trustworthy. Well done Kiesha!

2CM Ashleigh Smallwood … by being an honest and reliable student in class and towards her friends.

2/3CA Keira Bisson … by always telling the truth and by showing care and compassion towards her classmates.

3MP Eve Tento … by being a loving and caring friend and knowing how important it is to be honest and kind to others.

4ED Harry Hobbs … by always telling the truth and dealing fairly with his classmates.

4/5MG Mia Gofton … by being a willing helper and carrying out tasks in a very efficient manner.

5JS Tahlia Nowak … by always being a honest and trustworthy member of the classroom.

6CT Hayley Spina … by being a reliable student who can be called upon to do important tasks around the classroom.

6MQ Ben Jorgensen … by showing an outstanding commitment to designing and executing his water-wheel in Science.

7MM Lucyanne Valinoti … by always displaying honesty and truthfulness in her peer relationships.

The following Herbert River Sports trials are being held:

Herbert River Netball trials: this Thursday, 13 March at 3.30 at HR Netball courts. Herbert River Tennis trials: Tuesday, 18 March at 4.30pm at Ingham Tennis Courts.

Please see Mrs Timms (Netball) or Mr Gori (Tennis) for a permission form. The completed form will need to be returned to the school office prior to the trials. All trials are open to 10, 11 & 12 year old students but 10 year olds will not be eligible for NQ selection.

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P&F Annual General Meeting

Our P&F Association will hold its AGM on Wednesday, 19 March, 2014 at 7.00pm in the staffroom. All parents are invited to attend.

We are seeking nominations for Secretary and Treasurer.

If you would like more information about these roles, or are interested in taking on these positions, please contact the Principal prior to the AGM. We are always actively seeking new members in the lower grades to replace those who might leave in the next few years— while there is still time to “show you the ropes”. Please consider coming along to the meeting—it is not necessary to feel pressured to take on a position.

Sports News

Dear Parents/Carers,

This year, the Debutante Ball and Lourdes Fete are scheduled to occur on consecutive weekends being the 3rd & 10th of May respectively.

Lourdes has the responsibility of organising and running several aspects for the Deb Ball in conjunction with the Deb Ball Committee. These responsibilities will primarily include the organisation and running of the bar including ticketing and table service, as well as assisting with the hall set-up and pack-up (tables/chairs, etc.). This work will need to take place on Friday 2nd & Saturday 3rd May leading up to and after the event on the night.

With the fete being held the following weekend, we are also scheduled to make canoli shells on Monday, 5th May & the canoli cream on Thursday, 8th May. This, combined with the Ball requirements, will be a huge couple of weeks. We will send further information out about when and how you may be able to assist at the Ball and Fete in due course, but for the time being, please pencil these dates in on your calendar to offer assistance in any way possible.

We all lead very busy lives and times like these are certainly challenging, but with many hands we can achieve and hopefully have some fun and form friendships along the way.

Please offer your assistance.

Kind regards, Paul Spina (P&F President)

P&F Help Needed … From the President

There will also be a Fete meeting held after the AGM so we would

appreciate all stall co-ordinators etc. attend this meeting.

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Look who popped into our library today!! It was the Mary Mackillop Early Learning Centre’s Kindy group! Our Librarian, Mrs Mendiolea, read them a book using the document camera (which project the image onto the wall) and children learnt how to look after their books in preparation for borrowing in Term 2. Children enjoyed the visit and are looking forward to regular visits throughout the year.

Mary Mackillop Kindy Kids Visit Library

Hands-On Wildlife To fully engage with their science and history studies, Grades 3MP and 3CA were visited by Ranger Dan and Ranger Jackie last week. They brought with them interesting Australian native animals. To see these animals up close and personal was a first for many of the children. The children said ...’It was so fascinating!’ and ‘Blossom, the sugar-glider, was my favourite!’ Even Mr Ham was brave enough to take a turn at holding Rex, the crocodile. Check out the story and more pictures in today’s Herbert River Express.

School Hat Policy As you will be aware, Lourdes School has a “No Hat, No

Play” policy. This means that we are unable to lend hats

for lunch time play. Children will be required to sit under

the school if they do not have their hat.

Therefore it is VERY IMPORTANT to ensure that hats are

clearly marked, so that they can be returned to the child.

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St. Patrick’s Day this Monday 17 March

Green Dress Day

Children, please come dressed in a green shirt (must have sleeves), with shorts, joggers and socks.

Reading Oasis Book Fair

The first book fair for 2014 will be held in the library on

Tuesday 18 and Wednesday 19 March. The book fair will be

open from 8:00am to 8:30am and from 3:00pm to 3:30pm

each day. We look forward to seeing you at our Reading Oasis.

Walk for the WestWalk for the West We are going to hold a Walk-A-Thon in

the last week of Term 1 to raise money

for drought-stricken farmers of the

Hughenden and Winton districts by

assisting with the supply of cattle and

sheep food. The “walk” will be held in

collaboration with our sister Catholic

school, St Francis School, Hughenden.

Let’s see if we, as a school, can

collectively “walk” the 495kms distance

from Ingham to Hughenden! Children

will walk a course within the school

grounds. Sponsor forms will be sent

home later this week.

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This term we have been enjoying stories written

by Bob Graham….some of favourites have been

Queenie the Bantam, Max, The Trouble With Dogs

and Rose Meets Mr Wintergarten.

The Trouble with Dogs

After reading this story we made some very cute

dogs and thought of many reasons why dogs

were so great!

The trouble with dogs is that they are…. just

so cute….so playful….so excited….so good to

pat and play with….so cheeky...so curious and so

smart!

The trouble with dogs is that they love to chew

things up and lick and scratch you!

The trouble with dogs is they love to run and

jump about.

They trouble with dogs is they make a lot of

mess when they are having fun.

The story about Max the Superhero

inspired us to create our own

Superheroes!

Rose the Fast Flying Hero

By Cara Elliott

Rose likes to fly around looking for crime.

She flies around so much and she is very,

very, very fast. If the policeman catches

criminals and he cannot tell if the person is

telling the a lie, Rose can read criminals’

minds and saves the day. She has a very

shiny crown with red and blue diamonds on

it. She has very long hair. She has a shiny

blue cape and a rainbow dress with spots on

it. She has shiny blue shoes.

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S C I E N C E

This term for Science, students in Year 2 have been engaged in a force unit called PUSH and PULL. Through inquiry based learning activities, students have completed hand on activities to determine how objects can be moved and how the influences of other forces such as gravity and forces from water and air influence the movement of objects. Here are some photos from our science experiments.

M A T H S

Through the use of the

Smartboard and internet,

students have enjoyed

playing games to help them

learn counting patterns.

Students have also been

using a variety of resources and hands on activities to

understand place value with 3

digit numerals.

E N G L I S H

Learning spelling has never

been so much fun when

students can use various apps

on the iPad, play dough, play cut

the flower, magnetic letters,

whiteboard marker writing, letter

art stencils and stamps to learn

their spelling and reinforce their

strategies from spelling journal

sessions.

Students have enjoyed being

“editing detectives” by using their

glasses and clues to help them

edit their writing activities.

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LOURDES PLAYGROUP

Each Tuesday 9.00am to 10.30am At Lourdes School

in Prep Outside Area $3.00 per family BYO Morning Tea

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Weekend Mass Times

St. Patrick’s, Ingham

Sat. Vigil 6pm

Sunday 8.30am, 7pm

St. Peter’s, Halifax

Sunday, 7am

Canossa Chapel, Trebonne

Sunday, 10am

St Teresa’s, Abergowrie

Sunday, 10am

Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic Primary School 18 Abbott Street / P.O. Box 1553, Ingham Qld 4850

Ph: (07) 4776 2719 Fax: (07) 4776 3882

Email: ighm@tsv.catholic.edu.au Web: www2.olltsv.catholic.edu.au

Tuckshop Roster Thursday, 13 March S Thompson, HELP NEEDED!

Friday, 14 March S Hamilton, J Shailer

Monday, 17 March E Liesenberg, D Serra

Wednesday, 19 March S Henney, A Muller, A Dezolt

Thursday, 20 March A Pappin, N Jorgensen

Friday, 21 March HELP NEEDED!

Monday, 24 March C Dametto, T Merker

Wednesday, 26 March J Copley, L Torrisi

Notice Board ...

Next Week’s Tuckshop Specials Mon, 17/3 Chicken or Beef Kebab 3 for $4

Wed, 19/3 Beef Stroganoff & Pasta Cups $4.50

Lourdes School Fete Mother’s Day Weekend

Saturday, 10 May

Watch for the first edition of Fete News!

Date Claimer

8 September

Do you have any old

books you don’t need?

Dr Charly Muke, a teacher at

Abergowrie College, is collecting books

to send to the Jiwake Province in Papua

New Guinea to enable 10 rural schools

in the province to set up their first ever

school library. These schools have no

reading books and students do not have

any access to books at home.

Please drop any books you no longer

need into the Lourdes School office—we

will be collecting for the whole year, in

the hope that we can fill a shipping

container by Christmas! Please help!