NORTH ROCKHAMPTON CATHOLIC COMMUNITY St Mary’s Parish

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

ST MARY’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL ACTING PRINCIPAL: JENNIFER HARRIS AP- RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: CHRIS MURPHY ACTING AP - CURRICULUM: LOUISE MCNAMARA

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

NEWSLETTER FOR TUESDAY 19th june 2018

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

Dear Parents On the weekend, Mrs Searles and her family put the finishing touches to marking the grounds in preparation for our field events here at school. A huge thank you for their efforts and also to Mrs Searles for preparing the students to participate in the track and field events.

Last week we participated in our Catholic Identity Audit. We re-ceived a number of commendations from this audit and have a clear plan to work on the recommendations for our school. Also all of our teaching staff were profiled and yesterday at our staff meet-ing we received some very affirming data feedback on our teacher’s practice. At our St Mary’s P&F meeting last Wednesday we discussed order-ing the new shade sail for the senior playground and the construc-tion will begin during the school holidays. Also it was decided that the school would purchase a school camera to be used by the staff as well as the purchase of 10 new iPads to be used in the Year 1 classrooms. Thank you to Nyree Johnson who organised this pur-chase as well as donating some money towards this purchase. Thanks Nyree for being our resident photographer at the field events. At our assembly this Friday we will have our ‘Battle of the Choirs’. Please come along to our Friday Assembly at 10:15am to enjoy the choirs as they showcase their singing. We take pride in the fact that every child at St Mary’s is included in either the Junior Choir – Prep, Year 1 & 2; Intermediate Choir – Year 3 & 4 or the Senior Choir – Year 5 & 6. On Friday, we formally welcome Mr Michael Kelso our Acting Assis-tant Director for a school visit. Michael is looking forward to catch-ing up with the students at our assembly and the staff at

lunchtime. Report cards will be posted on Parent Lounge later next week. We’ll send out an alert on the Skoolbags app when they are ready to be viewed. Our school is undertaking a significant building project, which be-gins on 2nd July. Please find attached a detailed letter outlining the stages of this project. In preparation for this building project and the relocation of the Year 4L, French and IT rooms we will be hav-ing a working bee this Saturday at 8:00am. If you are able to attend we would be most grateful. The list of jobs to be done is as follows.

Empty old storage shed

Removal of rubbish to the dump

Relocate IT & French room furniture

Relocate resources from MPB and Year 4L

Relocate fridges, freezers and equipment from the tuckshop

Remove & pot plants from gardens (Please send in any old pots for plants)

For safety reasons please ensure you bring your protective gear and note the following

Enclosed shoes, long sleeved shirts and pants are required

Please bring gloves if you have them as a limited number will be provided

Care for children is not provided

PPE – dust masks will be provided

If you bring your own tools they must be in good working condi-tion

Ute and trailers – ensure you have proper restraints

Have a lovely week! Jennie

OUR SCHOOL PRAYER

Thankyou God for all the gifts you have given to St Mary’s.

Please help us live up to our School Moto of “Love and Serve”.

Mary our Mother, teach us to be good friends, to work well, and to play fairly.

We ask this through Christ Our Lord.

Amen

“Love and Serve” Chris Murphy APRE

Curriculum Corner Term 2 Week 10 Miss Louise McNamara Acting APC (Assistant Principal – Curriculum) Prep Parent Reading Workshop A reminder that all prep parents are encouraged to attend a reading workshop on either Wednesday 20

th June at 5:30pm or on Thursday 21

st June at

2:30pm. Both workshops will be held in the school library. I’m sure you will find this valuable as your child/ren endeav-our to become readers. Report Cards Our written report card is one of two methods we use to re-port to parents. Report cards are to complement the parent/teacher interview process we offer. Parent/Teacher inter-views will be offered in Week Two of next term. These inter-views will be an opportunity to discuss student progress and the Semester One Report Cards. Report cards will be availa-ble to parents at the end of this term. Please take the time to read this valuable document and share its contents with your child/ren. It is important to praise your child/ren for their achievements and perhaps give them some goals for im-provement. Please be aware of the key for the grading of the report card. The following scales will be used: Prep – Applying, Making Connections, Working With, Explor-ing and Becoming Aware Year 1 and Year 2 – Very High, High, Sound, Developing and Support Required Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 – A, B, C, D and E Parent Teacher Interviews Parent/Teacher interviews will occur in Week Two of next term, 23

rd-27

th July.

Sydney Dance Company visit This Thursday 21

st and Friday 22

nd June, we wel-

come teaching artists from the Sydney Dance Company who are providing FREE workshops to our Year 3 and 4 students. Year 4s will participate on Thursday morning and Year 3s on Friday morning. We can’t wait to check out your new dance moves! Parenting Ideas The topic for this week is… Why consistency im-proves kids’ behaviour. One of the simplest ways to improve a child’s behaviour is to be more consistent. Click here to read more. ICAS Competitions Well done to all students who have taken part in ICAS Com-petitions during the past few weeks (and thanks for helping Miss McN to know what to do last week!). We look forward to receiving your results later in the year.

Reading – CAFÉ Accuracy – Strategy: Cross checking ‘Cross checking’ is a strategy for ensuring the words – and sometimes the pictures – make sense and match the letters on the page. Use illustrations, photos, graphs, maps and charts to help gain meaning from the text and confirm that the words being read make sense. Premier’s Reading Challenge Has your child shown you their Premier’s Reading Challenge form lately? Congratulations to all stu-dents applying themselves to this challenge and diligently completing their form as they read each new book. If your child’s form has disappeared, please ask him/her to see their class teacher or me (Miss McNamara) for a new one. Please note that completed forms are not due until August but can be handed into the office any time when completed. News from 6L Mercy Heights has been buzzing over the past semester and 6L students have been challenged in a variety of ways. Ex-citingly, we recently welcomed Mrs Reddy to our class and Mrs Reddy is now teaching in our classroom on Wednes-days, Thursdays and Fridays. We are still enjoying the new furniture that was purchased for the Year 6 classrooms at the end of 2017 and are becoming accustomed to using our pi-geon-holes like lockers…although some of us are still work-ing on our organisation in this area… This term we have regularly joined with our neighbours, 6M, to prepare for our weekly Peer Support sessions. It has been fun (and a little scary) to lead a group of students from across the school in a variety of activities each Monday afternoon. We have loved this opportunity to get to know students and teachers from other parts of our school. We also now have a little more appreciation for how our teachers feel when we are talking during their lessons! We are grateful to Miss O’Neill, Mr Shillington and the Year 5s who have invited all Year 6s to join them in a prayerful start to Tuesday mornings on the Mercy Heights deck during the past semester. We have enjoyed this quiet and peaceful time to reflect on the Sunday Gospel. We have even done some curriculum learning this semester! Recently we have been busy finalising assessments to show our knowledge and understanding of such topics as fractions, natural disasters, the liturgical year, the federation of Austral-ia, the ideal conditions for growing mould, the application of SketchUp and more… We have LOVED having our Chrome-books to use for learning and completing our work too. Have a lovely week! Louise McNamara

APRE NEWS - Term 2 Week 10 From Mrs Chris Murphy—APRE (Assistant Principal - Religious Education) ASSEMBLY On Friday at Assembly at 10.15am in Coolock Court, we will have our “Battle of the Choirs”. Please join us. PARISH/SCHOOL MASS Parish/School Mass will be at 12.00pm on Wednesday in St Mary’s church. Please come along.

CHILDRENS’ MASS Our next Children’s Mass will be on Sunday, June 24 at Holy Family Church (fourth Sunday of each month). All children are invited to part of the choir for this special Mass. Please consider joining us.

SCHOOL CALENDAR

TERM 2 2018

BIRTHDAYS Kara Forbes, Harlan Locke, Ziggy Locke,

Zachary McIntyre, Scarlett Price, Samuel Cutler, Jayden Halls, Tia Richter, Erik Cawthra,

Thomas Farrell, Archer Allridge, Ivy Price.

TUCKSHOP This Wednesday 20th & Friday 22nd will be PIE only day’s at Tuckshop. THERE WILL BE NO TUCKSHOP THIS THURSDAY, 21st JUNE AND TUCKSHOP WILL BE CLOSED ALL OF NEXT WEEK. BREAKFAST CLUB Breakfast club will not be held again until Term 3. PREP 2019 ENROLMENTS A reminder that siblings of existing students DO NEED to apply for prep enrolment and attend an enrolment interview. If you have a child born 1 July 2013 to 30 June 2014, please make sure you have completed an enrolment. Our Prep Open Day will be held on Sat-urday 4th August at 2:00pm at Coolock Court. OSHC NEWS The OSHC Vacation care programme was attached to last weeks newsletter and is attached again this week to the electronic version. If you have any questions please contact OSHC. KEYBOARD AWARDS Congratulations to the following students who have received key-board awards:- Adagio Level of the Silver Star Medallion Award -Lillian Wust

SPORTS NEWS NETBALL TRAINING Please note the changes to Netball training times for SNR A and SNR C. Training will be held at lunch time on Wednesday this week for both teams. Next week training for SNR A will be on Monday afternoon after school due to Challenge cup preparation. There will be no training for SNR C next week. SPORTS FIXTURES - Friday 22nd June RUGBY LEAGUE Year 6 vs The Hall, Rugby Park 2, 12.45pm Year 5 vs Mt Archer, Rugby Park 2, 1.45pm NETBALL Snr A vs RGS 12.30pm, Court 4 Snr C vs RGS 12.30pm, Court 3 Snr E vs Gracemere 1.50pm, Court 11 Jnr B vs Frenchville 1.10, Court 7 Jnr D vs St Joseph’s PA 1.50, Court 7 HOCKEY 1.00pm-1.15pm St Mary’s 3 vs The Hall 2, Turf 3 St Mary’s 1 vs Park Avenue 2, Grass 5 1.20pm-1.35pm St Marys’ 4 vs Depot Hill 2, Grass 7 St Mary’s 2 vs Frenchville 2, Turf 1 1.40pm-1.55pm St Mary’s 3 vs Allenstown 2, Grass 2 St Mary’s 1 vs Mt Archer 2, Grass 7 2.00pm-2.15pm St Mary’s 2 vs Park Avenue 3, Turf 1 St Mary’s 4 vs Park Avenue 1, Grass 2

SPORTS RESULTS - Friday 15th June NETBALL Senior A, 9 vs Frenchville, 22 Senior C, 3 def St Anthony’s, 1 Snr E, 1 vs Heights College, 3 Jnr B, 14 def St Joseph’s PA, 2 Jnr D, 3 def St Joseph’s Wandal, 0 RUGBY LEAGUE Year 6 - No Game Year 5, 16 vs St Anthony’s, 22 HOCKEY St Mary’s 1, 0 vs Frenchville 5, 3 St Mary’s 1, 3 def Frenchville 1, 2 St Mary’s 2, 2 def Lighthouse 1,1 St Mary’s 2, 1 def Frenchville 6, 0 St Mary’s 3, 0 vs Frenchville 3, 2 St Mary’s 3, 1 drew with Depot Hill 1, 1 St Mary’s 4, 0 vs Crescent Lagoon 2, 3 St Mary’s 4, 1 vs Frenchville 4, 4

Week Date Event

Wk 10 18/6 19/6 22/6

Athletics field events—St Mary’s Athletics track events—Emmaus College Assembly – Battle of the choirs (all students)

Wk 11 25-26/6 29/6

Yr 5 ANZAC Exhibition Assembly – General End of term 2

RAFFLE PRIZES FOR CHRISTMAS FAIR RAFFLE It is that time of year again when we start rounding up prizes for our Christmas Fair raffle. I know it seems crazy at this time of year but we like to round up our prizes during term 2 so by the beginning of term 3 we have the booklets printed and ready to go so we have plenty of times to sell tickets. Please can you let me know (Kate Miles 0419741052) if you are able to donate a prize. We do not need to collect prize till November but if you can let us know the prize you are happy to donate and it's value for now that would be great. Kate Miles / P & F Vice President

ST MARY’S FAMILY CAMP OUT

SATURDAY 7th SEPTEMBER 2018 BIG4 Capricorn Palms Holiday Village, Yeppoon

Free call: 1800 068 703

DISCOUNTED PRICES – FOR THE EVENT ONLY

POWERED SITE $50 PER SITE (usually $42 p/night plus $12 p/child)

IF YOU ARE UNABLE TO CAMP THEN THE CABINS ARE BEING OFFERED AT A 10% DISCOUNTED RATE.

****** DAY RATES ARE ALSO NOW ON OFFER….. IF UNABLE TO CAMP THEN COME ALONG FOR THE DAY FROM 10AM AND PAY $5 P/P INSTEAD OF THE USUAL $10 P/P*******

PLEASE REMEMBER TO MENTION THIS EVENT WHEN BOOKING TO GET DISCOUNT

BBQ LUNCH/DRINKS ON SALE DINNER ON SALE FROM 6PM

Pizza/garlic bread/drink $8 Cheese burger/chips/drink $8

Nuggets/chips/drink $8 Chicken drumstick/chips/drink $8

SACK RACES, WHEEL BARROW RACES, 3 LEGGED RACES RAFFLES DURING THE AFTERNOON “SCAVENGER HUNT” AND “TRIVIA”

PLEASE COME ALONG AND SUPPORT OUR SCHOOL CAMP OUT, A GREAT EVENT FOR ALL FAMILIES

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