Issue No. 13, 13 May 2015

NAPLAN

Yrs 3 & 5

13th, 14th May

Gala Sport Yr 3-6

Commences Fri 15th May

(6 weeks)

Zone Cross Country

Wed 20th May

Yr 4 Rural Discovery Day

Thurs 21st May

Yr 1 Assembly

Fri 22nd May

Yr 3 Excursion GOMA

Tues 26th May

OLA Community Fes-val

7th June 2015

Link to:

Enoggera Parish

Newsle1er

(Control Click to access)

Dear Parents,

Cross Country

Our annual Cross Country was a great day.

All children cheered hard, ran hard and

showed terrific sportsmanship and team

spirit. Congratula+ons

to Kenny (Gold) and all

the age champions.

Thank you to all the

parents and teachers

who helped prepare

the cross country

track.

Age Champions for Cross Country

Congratula+on to the following age

champions:

Harry Cootes Prep Boys

Lilla Ribot-De-Bresac Prep Girls

Hayden Ossington Yr 1 Boys

Georgia Campion Yr 1 Girls

Archie Lumer 7yr Boys

Ma#lda Cur#s 7yr Girls

Samson Kirisome 8yr Boys

Nyauong Nhial 8yr Girls

Cooper Guise 9yr Boys

Ciara Hill 9yr Girls

Gerard Sheehan 10yr Boys

Dana Gronbach 10yr Girls

Theodore Hoffman yr 11 Boys

Tayla Bamforth 11yr Girls

Lochlin Begbie Yr 12 Boys

Laura Galloway Yr 12 Girls

Trophies will be presented at assembly on

the 22nd May 2015.

School Assembly

Due to Gala Sport Friday assembly will be

held in the a5ernoon commencing at

2.20pm.

Gala sport is for all children in years 3 to 6.

Teams play against other Catholic schools in

our Zone and learn the rudiments of team

sports. Yr 3 will par+cipate in AFL at Mo9

Street, Yr 4 Soccer - venue tba, Yr 5 Netball

at Downey Park, Yr 6 Touch Football at West

Mitchelton Ruby League Grounds. The

children play team sports for the next 6

weeks on Friday mornings.

Choir News

Yesterday some children from our choirs

sang the Na+onal Anthem at the opening

ceremony of the new Everton Park

Woolworths. The choir sang beau+fully and

were a real credit to themselves and our

school.

All choir notes are now available on the

Parent Portal. This means that if a child

misses out on a

note or loses

one, the

informa+on is

always readily

available.

Yr 6 Snippets

This week in year 6 we’ve been doing a few

tests and working on our skills in Japanese.

We’ve been looking at safety power points.

This week and the rest of the year you’ll see

the year 6’s in senior shirts as we received

them this week.

Parents are reminded that the Parent Portal

has a facility where you can update your

personal informa+on. The informa+on is

then forwarded to the school to make the

necessary changes.

New parents received their login and passwords at the

beginning of school year. When the parent portal was

launched in 2014 parents received an email with their

login in password. Unfortunately only 20% of parents are

using the parent portal. We encourage parents to login

and familiarise themselves with the portal and this

technology will gradually provide parents with more

informa+on which they can access 24/7. Teachers

endeavour to upload homework and notes to the portal

to ensure parents have access to these as we appreciate

notes etc do not always make their way home.

School Photos

These will be sent home with your child today. If you

have any ques+ons please contact Advanced Life

Photography directly on 1300 728 972.

Defence New

As a school community we would like to send care

packages to our Defence Parents serving overseas. In

order to do this we need dona+ons and we are asking for

your assistance. Items that can be sent: toiletries,

sunscreen,chap s+ck, lo+ons, kleenex, magazines, word/

math puzzle books, hard candy, gatorade powder, instant

oatmeal in single serve packets, trail mix, dried fruit,

coffees, teas, microwave popcorn, jelly, chewing gum,

salsa, nuts peanut bu9er, beef jerky, milo, iced tea mix,

small ba9ery operated desk fan, tennis balls, hacky sacks,

card games, book light, newspapers, co9on socks, nerf

balls, frisbees, vegemite, comic books and cough drops.

Please do not send in aerosol items. All food must be in

sealed packets. I hope these sugges+ons help. Families

are welcome to write a le9er of support and

encouragement to our soldiers. I will include these in the

packages. Please leave these at the office in a plas+c bag

labelled 'Defence'. Friendship, Walking and Games Club

are in full swing. It’s nice to see so many of your

beau+ful children par+cipa+ng. Un+l next, week take

care. Janet Dyer DSTA

Worm Farm by Ava Cooper

Year 4 sells worm juice at Assembly each week. The cost

for 2 litres is $1. We donate the money collected to

Caritas. Worm juice is very good for your garden.

We feed the worms twice a week and they are fed

blended fruit and veggies. Some foods they don’t like are

citrus, onions and garlic. We have a roster to

feed, flush and pour the juice. The worm

farm is kept under the Year 6 staircase.

Mothers’ Day Stall 2015

What a great result for the Mothers’ Day Stall. It was

lovely to see the looks on the children’s faces as they

chose a gi5 for mum – some knew exactly what they

wanted, others were more discerning and others were

just excited to be choosing something on their very

own. We made a profit of $2,300 which I’m sure the P&F

will put to good use. Thank you to all those who so

generously gave dona+ons, there was a wonderful

selec+on for the children. Thank you to the ladies who

helped on the day – they made it run seamlessly and to

Gretchen Doolan who did such a wonderful job with the

newsle9er ads. Also thank you to the staff and teachers

for their assistance. Congratula+ons to the following

winners of the raffle which was drawn on Thursday

a5ernoon (the year 3s took it out!):

1. Jackson Regal 3H

2. Ma+lda White 3F

3. Chloe Bingley 3M

Thank you once again and I hope you enjoyed your

Mother’s Day.

Mara Fachin

Chocolate Dona-ons Needed

The Year 6 Chocolate Toss stall needs your support again this year.

Bring your chocolate block dona+ons to school

and give them to the year 6 students at the undercover each morning.

JUNIOR GIRLS:

Ma+lda Cur+s

Nyauong Nhial

Aoife Piipari

Lillian Co9er

Yve Campbell

Poppi Fraser

Reserves:

Zaylee Spohn

Sophie Griffin

Dallas Hill

Rinnistee Mahaffey

JUNIOR BOYS:

Samson Kirisome

Harry White

Ma9hew Toto

Max Page

Michael Collins

Hugh Roebig

Reserves:

Philip Pizimolas

Archie Lumer

Alex Lewandowski

Riley Larkings

INTERMEDIATE GIRLS:

Dana Gronbach

Ciarra Hill

Erin Roberts

Nicola Rzepka

Alyissa Spohn

Sofia Bardini

Reserves:

Indya Cobden

Chanel Willson

Keira Andretzke

Chole Tree

INTERMEDIATE BOYS:

Ged Sheehan

Mathish Jayalath Lokuge

Cooper Guise

Cohen Ossington

Darcey Olsen

Lochlan Ross

Reserves:

Kane McCarthy

Cole Miklashek

Kyle Bedford

Thomas Lumer

SENIOR GIRLS:

Tayla Bamforth

Anna Bardini

Bella Addison-Pamment

Tabatha Fachin

Caitlin Andretzke

Eli Thomas

Reserves:

Jacinda Kahn

Grace White

Cate Biddulph

Malaz Kodi

SENIOR BOYS:

Lochlin Begbie

Theo Hoffman

Vijeet Sharma

Nicholas Griffin

Rhys Syre9

Ryan Doolan

Reserves:

Ma9hew Kunst

Peter McCahon

Lachlan Holmes

Patrick Collins

A CAREER WORKSHOP FOR OLA MUMS – FREE INFO SESSION

As an ini+a+ve to support our families Our Lady of the

Assump+on Primary School is partnering with a local career coach

to offer CareerSmart Mums, a workshop which has proven

successful in suppor+ng mums considering returning to work

a5er a break. A one hour informa+on session will be held in June

for you to learn about the workshop, ask ques+ons, etc. It is

an+cipated that the workshop will be offered early in term 3.

Could CareerSmart Mums be what you need?

• Are you a mum thinking about going back to work but

wondering what you have to offer now?

• Do you need support iden+fying your skills, knowing how to

get a job or working out what direc+on to take?

• Does it feel like you’re the only one in this situa+on?

What to expect …

The workshop runs for two hours weekly over five weeks. During

the program you will undertake a range of ac+vi+es to enhance

self-awareness and confidence and build your knowledge of the

employment market. You will be introduced to a range of

resources to assist your career planning and you will develop

some prac+cal job search skills to maximise your ability to

successfully engage with work. You will iden+fy your transferable

skills and achievements which will look great on your new

resume.

By the end of the program your confidence and ability to plan a

career will have increased significantly and you will have ongoing

access to career support through the CareerSmart Mums

community including the private Facebook group hangout.

The cost of the five week workshop is $150 and a propor+on of

the fee will be disbursed to OLA as fundraising.

You can learn more on the a9ached flyer, by visi+ng the

CareerSmart Mums Facebook page h9ps://www.facebook.com/

CareerSmartMums and/or by viewing a past par+cipant video

tes+monial h9ps://vimeo.com/93248375 or h9ps://

vimeo.com/92721709

Following are the details for the informa+on session:

Dates: 9am-10am - Monday 15 June 2015

Venue: Good Sam Ac+vity Centre,

Our Lady of the Assump+on

RSVP: Donna Thistlethwaite 0419 120 601 or

donna@careervitality@zoho.com

Zone Cross Country

Wednesday 20th May

Good Luck to the OLA Cross Country Team

P&FNews

On behalf of the P&F, a big thank you to Mara Fachin and her team for the Mother’s Day stall, held at OLA. The money raised

will be put to good use, not only for the early-year’s readers, but the longer term projects we have on the go.

At our last P&F meeting, conversations were held around the following topics:

• Thenewringroadandsafetyconcerns.

• Festival-fundsspendingattheschool.

• StrangerDanger-OLAisnowonthewaitlisttohavetheDanielMorcombeFoundationcomeandspeakwithour

children.

• TheOLAParentPortal,andaccesstoschoolinformationonline,includinghomework,classnews,etc.

• We’veinvitedKateJones,MPtoourAugustP&Fmeeting,subjecttohercalendarcommitments.Allwelcome,asusual.

We hope this gives you an insight to the topics covered. If you would like to join in the conversation, and have your say,

please join us. The OLA P&F provides an opportunity for parents to play an active part in their children’s education and the

school community. We meet the )irst Monday of the month in the staff room, at 7.30pm.

The new 2015 | 2016 Entertainment Books have

arrived!

An Entertainment book has been sent home with each family for you to check out. You can choose from the traditional Entertainment™ Book or the NEW Entertainment™ Digital Membership, which puts the value of the Book into your iPhone or Android smartphone! If you do not wish to purchase the

book please return it to the office by Friday, 1 May 2015.

Each membership has hundreds of 50% off and 2-for-1 offers for restau-

rants, cafés, attractions, hotels, shopping, groceries and travel and contain

over 2,000 offers that you can use whenever you like until 1st June 2016.

PLUS OLA retains 20% of the price of every Membership sold which

goes towards our fundraising!

Order now: http://www.entbook.com.au/2215c20

Mother’s Day Classic

A huge congratula+ons to all the members of the ‘OLA MUMS’ team that par+cipated in the Mother’s Day Classic event at South-

bank on Sunday. We had a team of 17 in the end, including not only Mums, but families too. Everyone completed their events and

it was a great day had by all. A special thanks to all those that helped fundraise for the team including family, friends and fellow

members of the school community. We loved the messages of support on our fundraising page. A massive ‘well done!’ as we have

so far managed to raise a whopping $655 (more than twice our target!) to go towards breast cancer research. The fundraising con-

+nues un+l May 15 so there’s a smidge more +me if you s+ll wish to make a dona+on. Just go to the link for the team:

h9ps://mdc.mothersdayclassic.com.au/

fundraising-team.php?id=58269

Many thanks again! Peta Keith

OLA FESTIVAL TRAILER RAFFLE

Parents are reminded that all sold and unsold +ck-

ets must be returned to the office by the 23nd

May.

Volunteers are desperately needed and the

spreadsheet for you to volunteer will be a9ached

to the email version of the Newsle9er. Please if

you can spare any +me nominate a +me and re-

turn the spreadsheet to the office.

As a busy parent it’s easy to give your voice a work out when you don’t get the coopera+on you want from your chil-

dren.

You know how it goes.

You want your son or daughter to give you some help and they don’t respond.

Perhaps, you want a child to stop annoying his or her sibling.

Or you simply want your kids to QUIETEN DOWN inside.

When your request for coopera+on is ignored.

So you do what over 90% of parents do. That is, you repeat yourself. Then if that’s s+ll ignored you RAISE the volume.

‘I’ll yell at them. That should work!’

Hmm, I’m not so sure.

Usually yelling only succeeds in producing parent-deaf kids.

If yelling, shou+ng or raising your voice is a habit you’ve developed to get coopera+on then here’s a great strategy to

use instead.

Next +me your kids ignore a reasonable request move close to them and quietly repeat your request once.

No aggression, just expecta+on.

It means you may need to stop what you are doing. So be it.

Proximity is a powerful influencer. Great teachers know this. That’s why they move around in class so much: to teach

and also to manage.

So save your voice for conversa+on, encouragement and affec+on.

Use your body effec-vely to manage kids.

The key, of course, is to do it.

My challenge for you is to bite your tongue when you want to yell. Take a deep breath (as the Mood Meter teaches

you) and move into your child’s proximity. Don’t stare him down. Just be close to him or her.

Keep doing it and the coopera+on levels you get from your kids will increase astronomically over +me.

But you’ve got to do it.

In future don’t yell, move closer.

Don’t yell, move closer By Michael Grose

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Interested in counselling for your child? BCE has a

free service.

The Caroline Chisholm School, Student and Family Support

Centre (CCC) represent a unique partnership between the Bris-

bane Catholic Education and the Queensland University of

Technology and was established to provide support and psy-

chological services to BCE school students and their families.

Intervention and assessments are provided by provisionally

registered psychologists (under supervision) who are enrolled

in the Master of Psychology (Educational and Developmental)

degree. The services provided include assessing developmen-

tal, learning, behavioural, social and emotional difficulties and

strengths, and individual counselling and group programs e.g.

social skills, friendship, anxiety.

The CCC is located at QUT Psychology and Counselling Ser-

vices at the Kelvin Grove campus, and at times sessions or

programs can be arranged to be conducted at the student’s

school. If you would like to refer your child to the CCC please

contact our school Guidance Counsellor, Miss Carley Hearne,

on chearne@bne.catholic.edu.au or via 3355 2388 on Mon-

days and Tuesdays.

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