St Augustine's School, Mossman 24 – 32 Grogan Street Telephone: 07 4098 1631 Mossman QLD 4873 Facsimile: 074098 2267 (P O Box 327, Mossman 4873) Mrs Yvonne Devlin, Principal Website: www.staugs.qld.edu.au Email: secretary.mossman@cns.catholic.edu.au

Dear Parents/Caregivers, Staff, Students and Friends of the St Augustine’s Community

WELCOME BACK TO TERM THREE!

Renewed and reinvigorated! Continuing the 2013 journey,

Walking in Hope!

It is wonderful being back with the bright-eyed, fresh faces of our students after a much needed rest! Thank you for giving the children some down time and it was wonderful to hear many students and mums on the sport’s court saying they had a great break! I certainly did, even though it was a little chilly in Brisbane, celebrating my beautiful mum’s 85th birthday. What an achievement and what a celebration of gratitude. How good it is to be alive!

CONGRATULATIONS LIFE LONG LEARNERS OF SEMESTER ONE – WE ARE EXTREMELY PROUD OF YOU!

What a wonderful evening it was on the last Thursday of term three as we celebrated the achievements and successes in learning of all our students with a barbecue and disco and in a special way with those who deserved recognition as a Life Long Learner during our presentation evening.

Our congratulations goes to the following students who received a Life Long Learning Award:-

Newsletter No. 20 11th July 2013

Prep W Isabell Teasdale

Prep W Jaden Romeijn

Prep P Isabella McFarlane

Prep P Matthew Belcher

Yr 1 Saskia Booth Yr 1 Joshua Adams Yr 2 Couper Smith

Absent from the evening Yr2 Lalawa Donigi-Bedford and Yr 6/7W Trent Baldwin.

As we set out with HOPE in our hearts on the new journey of Semester Two we do so with renewed goals and with

everyone eager to put in their best efforts. Helping your child to develop and strive for improved learning through goals that are realistic is a skill for life and one that will prove invaluable for our students no matter where the journey takes them.

So as parents we need to assist our children in striving for realistic and attainable goals. Keep them achievable and time limited as well as building in rewards for efforts, improvement and success on the journey. This will definitely keep your child highly motivated.

We look forward to the recognition of another group of Life Long Learners at the end of Semester Two.

NAIDOC WEEK 2013 h

The theme for NAIDOC Week 2013 is WE VALUE THE VISION: Yirrkala Bark Petitions 1963.

This year’s theme proudly celebrates the 50th anniversary of the presentation of the Yirrkala Bark Petitions to the Federal Parliament.

In August 1963, the Yolngu people of Yirrkala in northeast Arnhem Land sent two bark petitions – framed by traditional ochre paintings of clan designs – to the Australian House of Representatives.

The petitions protested the Commonwealth’s granting of mining rights on land excised from Arnhem Land reserve and sought the recognition by the Australian Parliament of the Yolngu peoples’ traditional rights and ownerships of their lands.

Asserting title to Yolngu country under Yolngu law, the petitions were first traditional documents recognised by the Commonwealth Parliament and helped to shape the nation’s acknowledgement of Aboriginal people and their land rights.

We value the foresight, strength and determination of the Yolngu people whose Bark Petitions set into motion a long process of legislative and constitutional reforms for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Yr 3 Sam Reinhold

Yr 3 Georgia North

Yr 4 Emily Edward

Yr 4 Edie Thurtell

Yr 5 Nicholas Varney

Yr 5 Jay Heidke

Yr 6/7M Payton Adams

Yr 6/7M Kaitlin Petrus

Yr 6/7W Koreena Minniecon

Whilst appealing for the recognition of Yolngu rights to land, the Bark Petitions were a catalyst in advancing changes to the Constitution in the 1967 referendum; the statutory acknowledgement of Aboriginal land rights by the Commonwealth in 1976, and the overturning of the obstacle of the concept of terra nullius by the High Court in the Mabo Case in 1992, that recognised the traditional rights of the Meriam people to their islands in the eastern Torres Strait.

Today, we look to a future that better understands and celebrates the unique connection that Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islander’s share to country, as we continue to build an Australia that reflects the achievements and furthers the aspirations of our people.

MOSSMAN TOWN NAIDOC ACTIVITIES

Next week our students will be involved in the following activities as we recognise NAIDOC in our community.

MONDAY 15th JULY

Monday Morning Prayer will focus on NAIDOC – 8.40am on the Sport’s Court.

The School Captains, our Year 7 Indigenous students, Mr Mullane and myself will participate in the Flag

Raising Ceremony at Cairns Regional Council at 10am. We will lay flowers on behalf of all our students

as part of this civil ritual.

FRIDAY 18th JULY

On Friday 18th

July the students in Year 4 – 7 will participate in the Mossman Community Street March

and the activities that follow in Bubu KinKara (George Davis) Park, Mossman.

All Years 4 -7 students must wear a hat, have a water bottle and a snack in a bag to take with them on this

march.

The P – Years 3 students will engage in indigenous cultural activities back at school during this time.

As Deacon Boniface Perdjert, Wadeye, Port Keats, NT writes:

“Deep down, we Aborigines are religious people. We did not have many material goods, but we are rich with spiritual goods. It is this strong religious side that made us. It gave us our identity, our dignity, our self-assurance. My People existed here in Australia thousands of years before Abraham. In all that time, God was with my people. He worked through their culture. He was saving us despite human weakness. He was preparing us for the day we would see the features of Aborigines in the image of His son.”

You are all most welcome to join with us in any or all of these activities during this coming week.

REFLECTION

As we commence term three and set out on a new yet continuing journey of life long learning, may we be truly thankful for the blessings we have of family and friends and pause to remember those who are in need of our prayers. I am very conscious of some families who have very sick close relatives. We certainly as a community will pray for God’s Healing strength in our Monday Morning Prayer and each day in our classroom prayers.

May the Lord continue to bless our Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students and their families during the coming week. May the dignity of their spirit and culture inspire them to remain true to who they are and call our nation and community into a deeper appreciation of the gift they are to us all.

Go gently with those you love through the coming week.

Yvonne Yvonne Devlin Principal

Best wishes for a speedy recovery to

Marie Fitzgerald who fell and broke

her leg on Monday evening.

Congratulations on a successful and highly

spirited athletics carnival to all students.

Well done once again to our Phys Ed teacher

extraordinaire, Mrs Caltabiano, for her

organisation and management on the day

and to all parents, grandparents and

American visitors for your assistance and

cheering.

DATES TO REMEMBER

JULY 15th NAIDOC Morning Prayer 8:40am Flag raising Ceremony at CRC at 10am 19th Mossman NAIDOC Town March 19th Cairns Show Holiday 22nd Mossman Show Holiday 21st – 26th Catholic Education Week 25th Yr 6 & 7 travel to the Cathedral for

Catholic Education Week Mass 26th Catholic Education Week Liturgy 9am 31st School Board Meeting 6:30pm AUG 1st John Burland Concert 1st P & F Meeting 7pm 2nd Interschool Athletics Carnival 8th School Photos 30th School Mass 9am & St Augustine’s Day 30th St Augustine’s School Disco MAJOR

FUNDRAISER

UNDERCOVER ANGELS

Thank you to those who have volunteered to clean the undercover area for the following weeks, please contact the office to add your name to the list or call Elissa with any queries

0417 772 277.

13TH JULY Jocelyn Marr

20TH JULY

27TH JULY Lisa Smith

3rd AUGUST Brinklow Family

TUCKSHOP NEWS

Tuckshop Menu for Term 3 will come out next week. Due to the NAIDOC Parade next Friday there will be NO Tuckshop. Tuckshop will commence Friday 25th July orders need to be in each Wednesday prior to Fridays Tuckshop.

Interested in the Catholic faith?

If you are looking at a Christian way of life in the Catholic faith and tradition, or just want to refresh your faith and

commitment, you are invited to participate in some easy paced learning

and discussion.

Sessions will commence early August.

Please contact the

Parish Office on 4098 2001 or Fr Karel

Duivenvoorden on 0428 130 518.

Catholic Parish

Mossman-Port Douglas

FRIDAY 12TH JULY 2013

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PORT DOUGLAS EVACUATION CENTRE

(BEHIND PORT DOUGLAS SCHOOL)

$5 ENTRY FEE (Inc Sausage On Bread)

6-13 YEARS

6.30PM-9.00PM

FREE BUS PICKUP 6PM / DROPOFF 9.30PM

MOSSMAN PRIMARY SCHOOL

FOOD AND DRINKS ON SALE DANCE COMPS AND GAMES

PRIZES TO BE WON!

Enquiries: Mossman Police 4098 2177 Port Douglas Police 4087 1999