NORTH ROCKHAMPTON CATHOLIC COMMUNITY St Mary’s Parish

PARISH PRIEST REV FR MATTHEW MOLONEY WEEKEND MASS TIMES: SUNDAY 7:00AM Email: nrcpadmin@bigpond.com Phone: 07 49282800

ST MARY’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL: MR MICHAEL KELSO AP - CURRICULUM: MS JENNIFER HARRIS AP- RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: MRS CHRIS MURPHY

School Website: http://smnrrok.catholic.edu.au

NEWSLETTER FOR TUESDAY 06 JUN 2017

ST MARY’S PARENT LOUNGE PORTAL: https://203smnr.rok.catholic.edu.au/parentlounge

Dear Friends of St Mary’s

Next Monday at school we will be holding the field events (high jump, shot put, discus and long jump) for all 9yrs and older. Please feel free to come along to support your child/ren. These events will be held on the school oval and on the spare block of land in Randwick St. A big thank you to Mrs Searles and Mrs Phillips who have been offering before school training for these events.

On Wednesday, all students will be involved in our annual School Athletics Carnival. This year we will be transporting all students by bus to Emmaus for this event. Please see the attached note for more details. All students will be super-vised in their house tents in Wattle, Blue Gum or Banksia House. If you intend taking your student with you after their event, you must let the class teacher know so that they are aware and can keep a record of all students. Please note that ALL students must bring their hat, lunch and water bottle. There will be no tuckshop on Wednesday 14

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June.

At times, parents may need to take their child to seek spe-cialist medical advice. Generally it is important for the spe-cialist to gather information about the child in a range of set-tings. Your child’s teacher can provide a school perspective in the form of a report. Please discuss this with your child’s teacher or Mrs Conlon our Learning Support Teacher.

Tomorrow night at our P&F Meeting I will be giving a short presentation on reporting and Report Cards. You are all most welcome to attend if you are interested in hearing more.

It was wonderful to see so many of our St Mary’s students attending the Questacon Science Circus at CQ University last Sunday and learning about how things work in our world.

This Friday please come along to our Friday Assembly 11:30 am and enjoy listening to our beautiful choirs. We take pride in the fact that every child is included in either the Mini Choir – Prep, Year 1 & 2; Junior Choir – Year 3 & 4 and the Senior Choir – Year 5 & 6. I am sure you will enjoy the ex-perience.

This weekend a number of our students will be making their Confirmation and receiving the Eucharist for their first time. We keep all the Sacramental students in our prayers. Thank you to Mrs Mills, Mrs Murphy and the Sacramental Team who have been preparing these students.

Congratulations to our sporting stars!

Sammy Hancock on being selected to represent Capri-corn School Sport for the 10 – 12 Yrs Girls Touch Team

Reannan Campbell for placing 5th in Tramp in the Aus-

tralian Trampoline Competition.

Scarlett Price for placing 8th

in Tramp and 9th in Double

Mini Tramp in the Australian Trampoline Competition. A reminder that sibling enrolments for Prep 2018 MUST be

submitted as soon as possible. We already have 26 applications from our existing siblings for enrolment and a total of 58 applications to-date. Letters regarding our Prep Open Day will be sent home shortly.

Have a lovely week! Jennie

RESPECT THE DIGNITY OF EACH PERSON

What a role model we have in Jesus to help us with this challenge in our school’s Mission Statement. Going against the trend of his day Jesus mixed with, ate with, spoke to and healed lepers, tax collectors, women, foreigners, etc, etc. He gave the marginalised in his society dignity at every opportunity challenging those around him to do the same. It almost appears that he sought out the marginalised in his society for his love and attention, giving them dignity that often changed their lives. It is our challenge in our school and the modern world to search out those who are ‘on the outer’ and give them the dignity that Jesus has shown us that they deserve - even if it means going against the crowd. I pray that we may have our eyes opened to the situations that require us to dignify someone. May God bless our school. Chris Murphy (APRE)

Curriculum Corner Term 2 Week 8 Ms Jennie Harris APC (Assistant Principal – Curriculum) Prep Parent Reading Workshop All prep parents are encouraged to attend a read-ing workshop on Wednesday 7

th June at either

2:30pm or 5:00pm in the school library. I’m sure you will find this valuable as your child/ren endeav-our to become readers. Parenting Ideas The topic for this week is… Parenting kids through the challenges of change. Parenting is always challenging, but perhaps never more so when you are undergoing change yourself. Click here to read more. QCT Excellence in Teaching Awards Nominations have opened for the 2017 QCT Excellence in Teaching Awards, which recognise and celebrate the achievements of inspiring teachers across Queensland. Classroom teachers, those in early childhood settings, heads of departments, heads of special education services, deputy principals and principals are all eligible for the awards. The four award categories correspond to key stages in a teaching career:

Excellence in Beginning to Teach

Excellence in Teaching

Excellent Leadership in Teaching and Learning

Outstanding Contribution to Teaching If you know an outstanding teacher, click here to nominate or Visit qct.edu.au/eit/eit-awards Year 5 & 6 Mystery Skype Today both the Year 5 & 6 students were involved in a Mys-tery Skype. This is a critical thinking challenge using geogra-phy skills as well as knowledge of culture, similarities and differences to determine the location of where they are skyp-ing. The Year 5 students skyped with Park Ranger Megan from Yellowstone National Park and the Year 6 students with a class from Nyota in Mombasa, Kenya. Thanks to Mr Shil-lington for setting these up for the students. ICAS Science On Thursday we will be holding our second ICAS Competi-tion for 2017 which will be “ICAS Writing”. This list of stu-

dents involved is displayed near the back door of the office. Good luck to all who entered!

What we learnt from Questacon? On the 31

st May we went to the Shell Questacon Science

Circus. We saw some really incredible science experiments. My favourite experiment was the one where we had to build an arched bridge and someone had to walk across it. Then we had to take the middle brick off the bridge and it col-lapsed. Next the lady blew into a straw and it made a low sound. After that Jace started cutting the straw shorter and shorter and the noise became higher and louder. I enjoyed the Shell Questacon Science Circus because I learnt that guessing and asking questions are part of becoming a Scien-tist. Madison Year 2 Last Wednesday we went to a ‘Science Circus’ called Questacon. We learnt some super cool science experiments like making music and testing how shapes have different strengths. Some people were chosen to be volunteers. We received free tickets to see Questacon at the CQ University on the weekend and they are also touring around Australia. We really enjoyed having Questacon coming to our school and showing us science experiments. Lily H, Miley & Harriet Year 4 This morning the 5s and 6s visited the hall to watch Kristen and Maddy present the amazing Questacon Science Circus. First, we talked about sound, vibration and sound waves; we experimented with different objects to see if it made a high or low sound. Next, we talked about the digestive system and I learnt many new things like there is a tube in us that is called the oesophagus. Lastly, we learnt about structures and what a strong shape is and what is not. I found out that a triangle is a strong shape. My favourite bit was that we built a bridge and Ryan walked on it successfully. The next one was risky as Kirsten stood on four light bulbs attached to a piece of cardboard. Surprisingly it did not break. Overall I really liked it because it was so much fun! Jolie Year 6 Term 3 Events Next term is shaping up to be busy once again. Please see attached the Term 3 Events Table. Have a lovely week! Ms Harris

APRE NEWS - Term 2 Week 8 From Mrs Chris Murphy—APRE (Assistant Principal - Religious Education)

ASSEMBLY At this week’s Friday assembly at 11.30am we will enjoy per-formances by our three choirs. All children will be involved so please come along and join us. WELCOME BISHOP MICHAEL This weekend we welcome Bishop Michael to the Northside Parish. We hope that he will enjoy celebrating with our com-munity. CONFIRMATION AND EUCHARIST Congratulation to these students who will be confirmed by Bishop Michael at a special ceremony at Holy Family Church on Friday evening at 6.00pm and then receive the Eucharist for the first time at our weekend Masses. Please join us for any of these special events and keep the children and their families in your prayers. CHOIR FOR FIRST EUCHARIST Any students or adults who would like to join us to assist with

the singing at the First Eucharist at St Mary’s at 7.00am this Sunday morning will be very welcome. Please let me know if you would like to join us. CHILDREN’S MASS A reminder that Children’s Masses are held in our parish on the third weekend of each month - at 6.00pm, Saturday, June 17 at Our Lady Help of Christians Church, Park Avenue and at 9.00am, Sunday, June 18 at Holy Family Church. Children who wish to be part of the choir at the 9.00am Mass are invited to arrive early at 8.00am for a choir practice. Making Jesus Real On Sunday we celebrated the birthday of our Church, the feast of Pentecost. The disciples were filled with the Holy Spirit and sent out to spread the Word of God. This week we will be revisiting the MJR concept of searching for the hero inside as we challenge the children to also spread the Word of God through their actions. VALUE OF THE WEEK – Courage We are highlighting the virtue of courage this week. The Ho-ly Spirit gives us the gift of courage to face the challenges of our daily life as we strive to be the best person we can be.

Term 2 Events This term is filled with many events and some of the high-lighted items are….

TUCKSHOP (YR 6 FUNDRAISER FOOD DAY. DETAILS TBA). TUESDAY 20th JUNE- PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF DATE

BREAKFAST CLUB Breakfast club will be held every Tuesday and Thursday morning. We would greatly appreciate assistance on these mornings. If anyone is able to assist for half an hour before school would you please contact the school office. We are currently running low on vegemite. Any donations of vegemite would be greatly appreciated and can be dropped in to either the tuckshop or to the school office.

BIRTHDAYS Tamzyn Hogarth, Zac Bateman, Charlie Neven, Ronan O’Beirne, Matthew Borg, Tallis Doyle,

Liam Palomares, Blake Sutton.

P&F NEWS A reminder that the next P&F Meeting will be held tomorrow (Wednesday) night in the School Library, commencing at 7pm. On the agenda is:

Parent information session – Report Cards (Jennie Har-ris)

Shade structure

Year 6 legacy item

Report from cluster meeting

Star Weaving

Social events New and current members welcome. BIG Ideas Postcard Do you have a great idea for the school? Put your pens, pen-cils, textas and crayons to paper and draw your big ideas about the school grounds. Please leave your great ideas at the school office once complete. Don't forget to put your name and class number on the back of your entry. BOOK CLUB Book Club Issue 4 closes this Friday, 9th June. If you have any queries or concerns please contact Lynne Conlon at school. KEYBOARD AWARDS Congratulations to the following students who have achieved Keyboard awards:- Moderato Level of the Red Star Medallion Award -Logan Bolt, Joe Cummins, Lexi Müller, Leah Wilson, Cooper Krenske.

SPORTS NEWS SPORTS RESULTS-Friday 2nd June RUGBY LEAGUE 6B – St Mary’s, 36 def Mt Morgan, 4 HOCKEY St Mary’s 1, drew with The Hall, 2 all St Mary’s 1, 2 def Allenstown 1, nil St Mary’s 2, nil vs The Hall, 3 St Mary’s 2, drew with Allenstown 2, 1 all St Mary’s 3, 2 def Mt Archer, 1

St Mary’s 3, drew with St Joseph’s PA5, 1 all St Mary’s 4, nil vs Depot Hill, 2 St Mary’s 4, nil vs St Joseph’s PA6, 1 NETBALL Senior A, 5 vs St Anthony’s, 12 Senior B, 0 vs St Peter’s, 10 Senior E, 4 def St Paul’s, 2 Junior B, 8 def St Joseph’s PA, 0 Junior D,drew with RGS nil all SPORTS FIXTURES—Friday 9th June RUGBY LEAGUE TBA HOCKEY 1.00-1.15pm St Mary’s 1 vs St Joseph’s PA3,Grass 2 St Mary’s 3 vs St Joseph’s PA1 , Turf 1 1.20-1.35pm St Mary’s 2 vs St Joseph’s PA4,Grass 2 St Mary’s 4 vs St Joseph’s PA2, Turf 1 1.40-1.55pm St Mary’s 1 vs Heights 5, Grass 4 St Mary’s 3 vs Heights 3, Grass 5 2.00-2.15pm St Mary’s 2 vs Heights 6,Grass 4 St Mary’s 4 vs Heights 4, Grass 5 NETBALL Snr A vs RGS 12.30pm, Court 4 Snr B (No game due The Hall forfeit) Snr E vs St Peter’s 12.30pm, Court 8 Jnr B vs Mt Archer 1.10pm, Court 9 Jnr D vs St Joseph’s PA 1.50pm, Court 8

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL OVERVIEW MONDAY 12TH JUNE Field events rotations at St Mary’s School are listed below. Boys and Girls will complete the rotation together, except for High Jump where there will be 2 pits operating. Long Jump and Discus will be held on the vacant blocks near Prep Green.

WEDNESDAY 14TH JUNE All track events, relays and ball games will take place at Brosnan Oval, Emmaus College. Children will be transport-ed by bus to and from the venue with the first buses depart-ing at 8:40am. Children from Years 3-6 will go first followed by the Prep—Year 2 students from around 9:00am. The proposed programme is:

Term 2 2017 Week Date Event

Week 8 7/6 8/6

P & F Meeting ICAS Writing

Week 9 12/6 13/6 14/6 15/6 16/6

Board Meeting Field events at St Mary’s ICAS Spelling Athletics Carnival @ Emmaus Rockhampton Show Holiday Movie Night

Week 10

#1 - 9:00am

#2 – 10:00am

11:00- 11:30

# 3 11:30am

#4 12:30pm

AGE EVENT EVENT EVENT EVENT

9 YRS

Discus Long Jump

Lunch Shot Put High Jump

10 YRS

High Jump

Discus Break Long Jump

Shot Put

11 YRS

Shot Put

High Jump

Discus Long Jump

12 YRS

Long Jump

Shot Put High Jump

Discus

TIME AGE EVENT

9:00am 9 – 12 years 600m & 800m

9:45am Prep—8 years Sprint, Relay, Ball Games

11:00am Prep—8 years 9-12 years

Return to school, unless under parent supervision. 200m

11:45am 9—12 years Ball Games

12:30pm 9—12 years 100 m

1:15pm 9-12 years Relays

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SCHOOL MOVIE NIGHT – 16th JUNE From 5.30pm for a 6pm Movie start time

‘TROLLS’

ST MARY’S SOCIAL EVENT REMINDERS

Bring along your bean bag/blankets and enjoy our family movie up in Coolock.

PIZZA/GARLIC BREAD AND DRINKS DEAL $7.00

SOFTDRINKS, WATER, LOLLY BAGS, CHOCOLATES, SHERBETS, POPCORN

Supporting the year 6 fundraising committee.

COFFEE VAN ON SITE

NEW MASS TIMES A reminder that Mass times have now changed for the North Rockhampton Catholic Community. WEEKDAY MASS ROSTER

TUESDAY 9.00am HOLY FAMILY CHURCH (Parishioners & St Anthony’s School) WEDNESDAY 12noon ST MARY’S CHURCH (Parishioners & St Mary’s School) THURSDAY 8.00am EMMAUS COLLEGE CHAPEL (Staff, students, parishioners) FRIDAY 9.00am OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS (Parishioners & St Joseph’s School)

WEEKEND MASS ROSTER SATURDAY NIGHT (VIGIL) 6.00pm OUR LADY HELP OF CHRISTIANS * 6.00pm HOLY FAMILY CHURCH * SUNDAY MORNINGS 7.00am ST MARY'S CHURCH 9.00am HOLY FAMILY CHURCH * When a priest is unavailable e.g. holidays, there will only be one vigil on the north-side and it will alternate between the two.

PREFERRED METHODS OF REPORTING ABSENTEES At 10am each day, the school sends a text message to parents of any children who are absent without explanation. To ensure that our office staff are aware of your child’s absence please use one of the following means: 1. Skoolbag app 2. Email: smnr_admin@rok.catholic.edu.au ( office staff will forward the email to class teachers and also mark them absent with ex-

planation. Teachers don’t also get the opportunity to read emails once they arrive at school) 3. Phone the office For a recurring absence: It is a good idea to let the teacher know, but please also let the office know so we can enter into the roll. This can be done ahead of time by the office staff also.