MAY

Wed 30

Thurs 31

Fri 1

Mon 4

Tues 5

Thurs 7

Fri 8

Fri 8

Wed 13

Thurs 14

Thurs 14

We Value:

Compassion Having a deep concern for others, especially those

who are suffering, shown through kind words and

actions in an effort to lessen their suffering.

We show this by:

Including others in games

Caring for the school and yourself

Forgiving others when they make mistakes

Noticing when others seem sad or troubled

and help them.

Finding the Spirit of Jesus in people we talk

to.

Asking ‘how can I help?’

OUR VISION

A welcoming community of Many Minds and One Heart in Christ

OUR MISSION

With Christ as its inspiration & guided by Gospel values, the school strives to promote the education & development of the whole child. Our Mission is to provide a high quality education that will inspire an

ongoing love of God and embrace our core values:

INTEGRITY RESPECT JUSTICE COMPASSION COURAGE

2-8 Ferguson Road, Dardanup WA 6236 PO Box 67

Phone 08 9728 1054 www.ololdard.wa.edu.au

dardanup.admin@olol.wa.edu.au

CONFIRMATION PRAYER

Spirit of God grant me:

The gift of wisdom

to see the world through your eyes,

The gift of counsel

to make difficult decisions,

The gifts of knowledge and understanding

to use my mind to know you and to love you,

The gift of fortitude

to have the courage to live in the faith

despite the difficulties and disappointments,

The gift of piety

to be able to express my special love

and commitment to you,

and the right kind of awesome fear

that makes me pause to wonder and revere

God’s Love.

Amen.

Survey Feedback

Thank you to the families who responded to our recent parent survey facilitated

by ‘Tell Them From Me’. There were 48 respondents. The purpose of the

survey was to gather feedback to work towards continual improvement. In the

coming weeks we will be reviewing the data. Once again, thank you for taking

the time to give feedback. It is appreciated. The survey is now closed.

Student Code of Conduct

Over the last few weeks teachers have been talking to students about the

Student Code of Conduct. Each child from Year 1-6 has signed a copy, which

they will be bringing home, and we would like you to discuss with your child.

There is a copy in each classroom. It is pleasing to hear students challenge each

other to abide by the Code of Conduct and we hope this provides them with

clear guidelines for their words and actions and also gives clarity for students to

seek assistance if required. A copy is attached to this newsletter for your

reference.

Many Minds One Heart

Newsletter No 9 Week 5 Term 2 29 May 2018

I M P O R T A N T D A T E S 2 0 1 8

Reconciliation Parent formation meeting 3.30pm

Winter Carnival

Western Australia Day Holiday - No School

P&F Meeting 6.30pm

PP/Year 1 Class Liturgy in Church 9.00am

Faction Fun Day

P&F Disco

Parent/Child Workshop for Reconciliation 3.30pm

Year 3 Assembly

Year 2 Class Liturgy in classroom 9.30am

Year 3 Class Liturgy 9.00am

Child Safe Parent Information Session

On Monday 25 June our school is hosting a parent workshop about online safety education. The workshop will give parents insights

into social media platforms, online safety risks, strategies for setting up on ‘online safe’ home and will give examples of recommended

resources and tools. The workshop will be held from 6.30-8.00pm. Our school is hosting this session for our own parent community

and those of surrounding schools. See flyer in this newsletter.

Parent Child Workshop in Preparation for Confirmation

On Wednesday 16 May Year 6 families gathered to continue preparation leading up to Confirmation. It was an interactive evening

where families were engaged in learning more about this special Sacrament. See photos in this newsletter.

Confirmation

This was a very special occasion for the Year 6 students and their families last Sunday. We pray that receiving the gifts of the Holy

Spirit, these students will continue to develop their faith. Thank you to the Year 5 parents who assisted with setting up for coffee and

cake and cleaning up afterwards.

AFL Football Clinics

A reminder that the AFL football clinics for all students in PP to Year 6 will continue tomorrow, Wednesday 30 May. This week is the

last of the four sessions. We area grateful to Sporting Schools for the grant we received to hold these skills sessions.

Winter Carnival

The Winter Carnival will be held this Friday 1 June in Donnybrook. Our Year 4, 5 and 6 students will be playing soccer, netball and

football against teams from St Mary’s Donnybrook and St Michael’s Brunswick. Parents are welcome to come along. There will be a

coffee van on site in the morning.

Faction Fun Day

On Friday 8 June we are having our Faction Fun Day for Term 2. Students can wear their faction shirts with their sports uniform and

there will be fun faction activities organised by our Year 6 students at lunch time. Our Year 6 students will also be organising pizza

orders and juice boxes as part of their Economics and Business studies. A note for orders will be coming home today.

P&F Disco

Tickets are available at the office or through CDF Pay for this popular event coming up on Friday 8 June. See flyer in this newsletter

for details.

School Board

The construction of two toilet blocks, one adjoining the Year 4 classroom and one adjoining the Year 2 classroom will commence in

the next few weeks. The next Board meeting is Tuesday 19th June.

P&F

The next P&F meeting is next Tuesday 5 June at 6.30pm in the staff room. At the last meeting, the P&F committed funds towards the

upgrade of our library. Everyone is welcome to come along and participate in decision making regarding P&F projects.

Medications

Any medication needed by students during the school day must be given to the office to store and administer. Parents need to give

signed permission for administration. For the safety and well being of all students, medication must not be stored in school bags.

Public Holiday

A reminder that Monday 4 June is a public holiday.

Have a wonderful week

May God bless you

Mrs Angela Hegney

Principal

Our Lady of Lourdes School Dardanup

Code of Conduct for Students

As students of Our Lady of Lourdes School, we understand that all members of our school com-

munity need to follow a Code of Conduct for the safety and

well-being of everybody, as we strive to be a welcoming community of

‘Many Minds – One Heart.’

Conduct Statements (What We Expect of You)

1. You act safely so you don’t hurt yourself or others. 2. You treat others the way you would like to be treated. 3. You follow school rules. 4. You show respect for others regardless of their differences. 5. You respect the property of others. 6. You respect the resources of the school, including classroom, ICT, sports and playgrounds. 7. You are honest and acknowledge your mistakes. 8. You listen to others, so everyone has a voice. 9. You follow classroom rules allowing teachers to teach so all students can learn. 10. You take pride in your school.

If you are concerned that someone is not following the Code of Conduct, you need to talk to a teacher first, then a member of the Leadership Team or the Principal.

CLASS NEWS

The Year 1 room has been invaded by Bee-Bots! These very

cute robotic bees are helping us learn how to program and

control a robot. We are having so much fun trying to get our

Bee-Bots to go in the direction that we want them to go.

Sometimes they can be very tricky!

The Year 6 class had a wonderful day at the Confirmation

Retreat on Friday. They did lots of activities including ones

about Pentecost, their names and saints.

Congratulations to the 14 class members who received the

Sacrament of Confirmation on Sunday.

We are nearly finished our reports about a chosen natural

disaster in our writing lessons.

In Maths this week we are multiplying and dividing with

fractions. We have been working so hard and we are looking

forward to the long weekend.

Year 2. What a wonderful week we had last week with our

assembly. We were very excited to show everyone our play.

In literacy we have been learning about some strategies - making

connections with the text, learning about characters and why

authors created characters in a particular way,

as well as summarising a text.

In maths we have been learning about written addition and

subtraction and looking at some cool ways to solve problems.

In health we have been learning about protein, carbohydrates and

calcium. So much learning as the term flies by!

Exciting things have been happening in Pre primary. We

have been so lucky to be able to observe the life cycle of

butterflies. We would like to say a big thank you to Sarah

Float who so kindly organised seven chrysalis to be arrive in

our classroom. Over a week we were able to observe

changes that take place during the hatching period. We

used magnifying glasses to examine the chrysalis and the

butterflies when they hatched. We discovered that butterfly

wings are symmetrical and we had fun creating our own

examples of symmetrical pictures. After all the

Butterflies hatched, we released them in a calm spot out of

the wind. What an exciting week we had!

Year 4

Week 5 means that this term is already half way done!

In Mathematics students have been using number lines to

investigate equivalent fractions.

In English students have been looking at some traditional tales

and point of view. They have begun writing their own versions

of these stories focusing on telling the story from a different

point of view, looking at how this changes who

the villains of the story are.

In Religion we have been looking at the lives of Saints Peter and

Paul and how the Holy Spirit strengthened them to do well.

In Year 3, we have completed our NAPLAN testing and are now

busy preparing for our class liturgy and assembly item.

In maths we have been learning about fractions of a whole and of

a group. We have started our Religious Education unit on

Penance, and will soon be getting ready to receive the sacrament

of Reconciliation for the first time.

We have been enjoying the Footy Clinics and have

learnt lots of useful skills.

Kindy

We have been learning all about dinosaurs!

We have made fossils from clay and skeletons from pasta. We

measured and compared 10cm objects. That’s the size of a

T Rex tooth!

We loved the Dino World Incursion

and made our own pet dinosaur.

Year 5

In Math we have started our unit on Volume. We have made

3 dimensional shapes and filled them with cubic centimetres.

We have discovered that the formula for calculating volume is

length x width x height.

In English we are beginning our work on recounts. We are

looking at the structure and language features.

We are all looking forward to the Winter Carnival on Friday.

Please inform the school office on 9728 1054 if you

will be attending by Wednesday, 20 June.

Students learned that not all creatures

labelled as dinosaurs are in fact dinosaurs.

They saw a life size representation

of a dinosaur.

They learned that dinosaurs come in all

shapes and sizes.

Students discovered that there are some

animals living today that were around in

the time of dinosaurs.

They discovered that dinosaur fossils have

been found in Australia.

YEAR 2 ASSEMBLY

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WAAPA Winter School 2018

WAAPA at ECU is offering an exciting performing arts program for chil-dren and young people these July school holidays. For the first time, we are including courses for students from Years 1 to 12. The Winter School includes classes in drama, acting, screen acting, dance, musical theatre and RAP. For information about the many courses on offer please visit Winter

Please see below for the current Altar server roster. Thank you

All proceeds from the sales of the Entertainment Books & Digital memberships will go towards our Library refurbishment.

Bunbury Catholic College enrolment applications can now be submitted on-line.

You can go to the following link on the BCC school website to access the Online Enrolment Application and download the Parish Priest Reference Form.

https://www.bunburycatholic.wa.edu.au/enrol/enrolment-information/

In loving memory of Gabrielle Bertola

Thursday 31st May 2018

9:30 am -12:00 noon

1133 Ferguson Rd. Ferguson Valley

Auctioneer extraordinaire Jamie Abbs

(EFTPOS available)

View auction items the week before on:

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Tea Trivia!

Cancer Council WA guest speaker

Theme:

Bring along that special something you can’t do without in the kitchen.

$15 per person will cover your first tea /coffee with morning tea

Bookings recommended.

Call Adrie at Hackersley Winery: 97283033