FROM THE PRINCIPAL No. 26 16th August, 2012

Dear Parents and Caregivers

Bring Days for Jubilee - Friday August 17 This week’s item is a Lucky Dip Prize or a Gold Coin. Please note that there is no bring day next week. Students will wear formal uniform next Friday (August 24) for the Opening and Blessing of our new facilities constructed through the Federal Government’s “Building Education Revolution” funding program.

Book Week and Pyjama Day Next week we will celebrate book week. The theme for book week is “Champions Read”. Even though we have recently been focussing on our Olympic Champions, there are many other areas of life in which people excel. On Monday children are invited to wear pyjamas to school to launch our book week celebrations. As mentioned in last week’s newsletter we ask that parents play a role in ‘monitoring’ the appropriateness of pyjamas for wearing to school. Please err on the side of conservative coverage. It has been suggested that it would be appropriate to wear boxers and the like over tracksuit pants. Dressing gowns would be a good means of ensuring appropriate coverage. Pyjama day is purely a fun way for us to recognise book week. A gold coin is not needed for this event.

Building Resilience in Children All parents are welcome to attend an information session conducted by Tom Strong titled “Building Resilience in Children” this coming Monday Evening, 20 August in the Thuruna St Campus Library from 7pm.

BER Project Opening and Blessing (10:00am Friday August 24) All parents and extended community are invited to attend the Opening and Blessing of our beautiful new facilities constructed with Federal Government BER funds. Thanks to Michael Bruynesteyn for coordinating this event. Please come along and celebrate with us.

Grandparents Day Many thanks to all of our Grandparents who attended our Grandparents’ day on Tuesday. The day was made really special by the many grandparents in attendance. Thanks also to the Year 4 teachers and students for preparing such a beautiful day.

Early Years Disco (Friday August 24 5:30-7:00pm) It is our P-2 students’ turn to enjoy the excitement of a disco. All students from Chuter St Campus are invited to the Thuruna St Campus hall next Friday evening. For the cost of $3.50 (paid at the door) children will enjoy a night of music/dancing and fun. Glow products, lollies, pizza, chips and drinks will all be available for purchase.

Working Bee Saturday August 18 from 1pm If you can spare an hour or two this Saturday we would appreciate any help you can offer at the Thuruna St Working Bee. We will have a bobcat on hand for all the really heavy work but need a team of people to assist with wheelbarrowing/ spreading soil/mulch/rocks and turfing.

In this Issue…..

From the Principal From the APA From the APRE QACORS Student Birthdays Pauls Collect-a-cap Pastoral Care Outings QCMF Information Tuckshop Helpers Fathers Day Stall Library News Active School Travel

TERM DATES

AUGUST 17 3C Class Mass 20 BOOK WEEK 21 Yr 4 & Prep Buddies 22 Q of A Athletics Carnival 24 7M Class Mass Blessing and Opening Early Years Disco 29 Year 5 Camp 30 Bike Education Program 31 7F Class Mass Year 5 Return SEPTEMBER 3 Photos - Thuruna St 6 Zone 6 Athletics 7 Photos - Chuter St 6M Class Mass 13 Prep Sorry Liturgy 14 6F Class Mass 21 5F Class Mass LAST DAY OF TERM 3

If you have access to a wheelbarrow, shovels or rakes please bring them along as the more we have the faster we will be able to achieve our goals. The work we achieve this weekend will assist with the beautifica-tion of our school grounds in readiness for our BER Blessing and Opening and our upcoming Jubilee Birthday Party. Jubilee Party Planning Meeting Reminder- 50th Anniversary Committee meeting tonight 7pm in the staffroom. Moving of Thuruna St Pick-up Zone to Marambir St On Monday of this week we officially moved our supervised pickup zone from Thuruna St to Marambir St. Through fantastic cooperation =from our parents and students and thorough organisation from our staff, this has all happened relatively smoothly. Thank you for your continued patience and support as we continue to tweak these new procedures. Junior and Senior Choirs Performing at QCCMF Best Wishes to our Junior and Senior Choirs who are performing tomorrow at the Queensland Catholic Schools’ and Colleges’ Music Festival at Villanova College. Thanks to Mrs Lisa Allely and Miss Bianca Morschel for their work in preparing our students for this event. Active School Travel: Fridays at Queen of Apostles is our Active Travel Day. It is great to see numbers increasing each week! Get behind supporting our school to reduce chaos and congestion by choosing to actively travel by walking, cycling, carpooling or public transport to school. All students receive an active school travel stamp in their passport and earn lots of great rewards throughout the year. This Friday 17th August, we will be holding a park and stride event for parents and children at both campuses. We will gather at 8:05am at the sign at the bottom of Remick Street and walk up to the Early Years campus and gather at Keong Park and walk up to the Thuruna Street Campus. Come along and join us for the walk to school. Upcoming Events August 17 School Choirs performing at QCSC Music Festival (Villanova) August 18 Yr 7 BBQ at Bunnings Stafford for Canberra Trip Working Bee 1pm Thuruna St Campus (Bring Wheelbarrow and shovel) August 20 Book Week begins- pyjama day

‘Building Resilience in Children’- Parent info night 7pm August 22 Q of A Athletics Carnival Bowden Park Geebung August 24 Blessing and Opening of BER project P-2 Disco Thuruna St August 29 -31 Yr 5 Camp Mapleton August 31 Father’s Day Liturgies (Both Campus) Sept 3 School Photos Thuruna St Sept 7 School Photos Chuter St Have a great week! Peter Surawski Acting Principal

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FROM THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL ADMINISTRATION WALK TO SCHOOL FRIDAY!! Thank you for your continued support of our Active School Travel program. Meet us at Turner Park (for Thuruna St Campus) and Remick St/Detling St (for Early Years Campus) at 8:05am this Friday.

THINKING SKILLS and BELONGING RULES Students develop capability in critical and creative thinking as they learn to generate and evaluate knowledge, clarify concepts and ideas, seek possibilities, consider alternatives and solve problems. The ‘Thinking Hats’ provide a concrete way in which to promote different types of thinking in our students. This week we continued with Value of Self, Others and the Environment. The Belonging Rules associated were “Co – operate with all staff and Value property, environment and special places and events”. This belonging rule was particularly relevant this week with the many special events occurring across both of our campuses. It will also be relevant next week as we celebrate the opening and blessing of our new facilities at Thuruna St. Blue Hat thinking assists us by asking ‘what do we need to think about to show that we value ourselves, others and the environment?’ This type of thinking possesses organisational and process based capabilities. Next week, we revisit the white hat and its connection with learning all we can and respecting other students’ learning. The white hat looks at the facts related to following this belonging rule.

CHOIR COMPETITION Tomorrow, Friday 17th August, 80 of our students participating in the Junior and Senior Choirs will attend the Queensland Catholic Music Festival at Coorparoo. This is a competition both choirs have been preparing for over this term. Thank you to Mrs Allely and Miss Morschel for their efforts. The senior choir will leave at 7:00am from Thuruna St accompanied by Mrs Allely and Miss Morschel. Miss Harvey and I will leave with the junior choir at 8:45am from Thuruna St. All choir students need to wear their full formal school uniform, bring their school hat and lunch. Both choirs will return by 1:00pm on Friday.

AUSTRALIAN GIRLS CHOIR VISIT Representatives from the Australian Girls Choir will visit on Friday 24th August at 2:30pm. During this time, the representatives will run a 30 minute workshop for interested girls from Year 3-6. A flyer came home to girls in these year levels last week. Please note the change of date to next Friday. If you wish your daughter to participate in this workshop please return the permission slip at the bottom of the flyer to the office before next Friday.

WOOLWORTHS EARN & LEARN and COLES SPORTS VOUCHERS Thank you for your support in collecting stickers/sports vouchers for our school. Both activities have now finished. We have collected thousands of stickers and sports vouchers. We look forward to the wonderful resources this will provide for our school. We shall let you know when points have been finalised. Thank you again for your generous support.

SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS Envelopes for school photographs have been sent home today. Every child needs to return their envelope with payment (NO CASH). Photos will be taken at Thuruna Street on Monday, 3 September and at Chuter Street on Fri-day, 7 September. Family photos will be taken at Thuruna Street for Thuruna Street families on Monday at 10.40 and those families who have students at both campuses will need to have family photos taken at Chuter Street on Friday at 8.00am. Please note: Family photos require a different order envelope that are available at both school offices.

Enjoy the weekend, Melissa Spiteri

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FROM THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL RELIGIOUS EDUCATION Congratulations to the Year 4 teachers for organising such a wonderful Grandparents Day on Tuesday. I am sure that all those who were able to come had a wonderful day. We started with a very meaningful Liturgy of the Word in the church led by Fr Denis where we acknowledged the gift that our grandparents are to their children and grandchildren in so many ways; passing on the

family history and rituals such as birthdays and picnics, sharing the responsibility of caring for and raising children and for being a light to guide the way (This light was the theme of the gospel read at church that morning). The children entertained their grandparents with a wonderful concert and sharing of their school

work and project . The High Tea organised by the parents was something to behold – thank you all

for all the effort you put into making this a special time for our precious grandparents.

A Special Invitation to all our DadsA Special Invitation to all our DadsA Special Invitation to all our DadsA Special Invitation to all our Dads

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The prayer will begin at the start of the school day at both campuses:The prayer will begin at the start of the school day at both campuses:The prayer will begin at the start of the school day at both campuses:The prayer will begin at the start of the school day at both campuses: Approximately 8.40 am for about 10 minutes.Approximately 8.40 am for about 10 minutes.Approximately 8.40 am for about 10 minutes.Approximately 8.40 am for about 10 minutes.

Hope you can take some time off work to come along.Hope you can take some time off work to come along.Hope you can take some time off work to come along.Hope you can take some time off work to come along.

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QACORS Congratulations to this week’s QACOR recipients: Eliah Browning, Aidan

Briggs, JettAldrick-Graver, Samuel Stone, Bridget Mulvenna, Jessica Buhler,

Liam Carnes, Mia Grace, Katia Reitano, Jack Jabs, Imogen Vella, Ava Wright,

Emmerson Foster, Paisley McLeod, Harriet Shailer, Brayden Armstrong, Geneva Harris,

Alessia Miano, Ryan Wong and Emily Rice. CONGRATULATIONS!

STUDENT BIRTHDAYS Queen of Apostles would like to wish the following children a very Happy

Birthday:

Julia Levonis, Jenna Peisley, Ben Buhler, Sophie D’Hage, Mackenzie Foster, Samuel

Stone, Alessia Miano, James Gibson and Ali Kelly.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

PAULS COLLECT-A-CAP Dear parents and children - we have another great and easy way to raise funds for our school community – Pauls’ Collect a Cap. Any Paul’s Milk cap with 10c on it is able to be collected. Something for nothing! So start saving these lids instead of throwing them away. There will be a collection box at both campuses.

The money raised will go half towards resources at both campuses ( I will get the children to vote for what they would like to buy – within reason! ) and half towards supporting Catholic Missions.

PASTORAL CARE OUTINGS Prep Parents - Coffee After Drop-Off Reminder for coffee next Monday 20/8. See you at the Coffee Club, Flockton Village after drop-off. All welcome. Prep-date claimers (Pastoral Care) 1. Father's Day Breakfast and Liturgy, 8.40am on Friday 31 August. All Dad's welcome, we are hoping you can stop in on your way to work. 2. Prep - Sorry Liturgy (13 September) coffee will be served after the liturgy from the Chuter Street Tuckshop. All welcome. 3. Friday 21 September-Everton Park Hotel Playground, after school. Siblings welcome. Prep Pastoral Care Contacts

QCMF Here is some important information pertaining to the Choir performance on Friday, 17 August: Get there early: To avoid missing a performance, ensure that you are at the correct venue, and that you’re there early. With respect to the performers, adjudicators and audience, once a performance begins the doors will close until the end of each performance. Some parents have been quite upset in the past when they have arrived late have been denied entry, so ensure you’re there early! Parking: Street parking is available around the College and St James Church, but it will be very busy, so plan for this wisely (arrive early, carpool, use public transport or prepare to have a good hike) so you don’t miss a performance. Festival Entry Fees: As with all festivals, there is an entry fee to pay at the door, whether you plan to attend one performance or the entire weekend. The single-day fee is $5 for unlimited performances across 4 venues, or $10 for the entire four days. Food: Hot food, snacks, cold drinks and coffee are available to purchase on campus from a variety of vendors. Food is not permitted inside performance venues, in keeping with the lessons we all teach our students about concert hall etiquette.

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TUCKSHOP HELPERS Wednesday, 22nd August

QUEEN OF APOSTLES ATHLETICS DAY - BOWDEN PARK

Friday, 24th August Paula Casey, Kaylene Gaffney, Kym Riley, Michelle Bordignon, Cassandra McCosh, Jen Davissen,

Andrea Lunt and Julie McGibbon.

FATHERS DAY STALL It would be greatly appreciated if you could assist on any of the following days at the Craft Group Fathers’ Day stall:

Chuter Street: Monday 27 August and Wednesday 29 August Thuruna Street: Monday 27 August and Tuesday 28 August

All additional helpers are appreciated, however we particularly need assistance at the Thuruna Street campus. The stall runs for the first session of the school day. We appreciate that families are being asked to volunteer a great deal of their time this term due to the celebrations being held in September, but if you are able to help, even if it is only for an hour, please contact Jen Davissen on jdavissen@optusnet.com.au or 0414 415 617 or Kym Levi on kym.levi@gmail.com on 0437 124 961. Thank you for your help.

LIBRARY NEWS This week I am reading the last of the CBCA Early Reader short listed books in the Early Reader category. Come Down Cat by Sonia Hartnett. This is the third of the short listed stories that have a bedtime theme. Come Down Cat is suited to the upper age range of the Early Readers where as The Runaway Hug and Rudie Nudie had appeal to the younger range.

The children in their library lessons this week have been casting their votes for what they believe to be the best book in the category. You might like to ask them which book they voted for and why.

I will be telling the children of the winners on Monday the start of Book Week. To celebrate the week children may come dressed in their pyjamas on Monday. I have my pink flannelette pussycat pj’s ready!

I have already received some completed Premier’s Reading Challenge record sheets. There are three weeks left for the children at Thuruna St to read the required number of books. Years 3-4 read 20 books and years 5-7 read 15 books. I look forward to receiving more record sheets in the coming weeks.

Book Club comes home with your children today and is due back next Friday 24th August. Please make sure your child’s name and class are clearly marked on the order form.

Library Volunteers Chuter St: Tuesday 21st August Therese Nally Thuurna St : Monday 20th August Christa Falzon

Margaret Poncini and Elaine Varley Teacher Librarian Library School Officer

“LOOK OUT” Birthday Newsletter will be in your child’s bag Friday Afternoon

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ACTIVE SCHOOL TRAVEL - INTERESTED IN CARPOOLING?

16th August 2012

Dear Parents

As part of Queen of Apostles School’s efforts to reduce the traffic around the school during the

morning and afternoon peak pick up and drop off times, we are considering a car pooling scheme.

Did you know that there are families driving to school not from just Stafford, but other suburbs like

Albany Creek, Everton Park and Kedron.

If you are interested in joining a car pool / ride share scheme, even if for just one day a week, please

complete the form below and return it to the school. Your details will be sent back to all those

interested in participating, and you will receive details of others that have shown interest. The rest is

up to you – please contact the people on the list you receive.

This project is part of your School Travel Plan. Please help us make a healthier and safer environment

for all the children of Queen of Apostles.

Thank you

Michael Bruynesteyn

APRE

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