A NUT & SHELLFISH AWARE

SCHOOL

24 July 2014

NAIDOC DAY CELEBRATIONS 2014 Dear Parents, Last Friday, St Francis de Sales hosted the Clifton Cluster, NAIDOC Day Celebra-tions. Activities included the smoke ceremony (Photo above), dancing, hand painting, bush craft games and Dreamtime stories. Congratulations to the Cluster Principals for their organisation and a big thank you to our Tuckshop mums who catered for so many children on the day. It was a great day. A special thank - you also goes out to Mr Paul Murphy, Senior Education Officer from the Toowoomba Catholic Education officer who opened proceedings for the day. Athletics Day We had glorious weather for our Athletics Carnival yesterday. Congratulations to McKenna House for coming First on the Day!( Cosgrove House is working on beating you next year !) A big thank-you goes to the Tuckshop mums who catered for the day; it is much appreciated.

CATHOLIC EDUCATION WEEK Catholic Education Week will be celebrated across Queensland from 27 July - 2 August this year. This annual event is held to promote the special ethos of Catholic schools and to highlight the great things that take place in Catholic schools every day. The theme for this year’s celebrations is: Come, live life in all its fullness. This inspirational call is based on the Gospel of John (10:10), challenging those who an-swer it to “live fully”. Reflecting this Gospel call, our school, like all Catholic schools, strives to provide a learn-ing experience through which every young person has the opportunity to reach their full human potential - spiritually, intellectually, emotionally, socially, culturally and physically - and know what it means to engage in all that life has to offer. During Catholic Education Week 2014, Catholic education communities across Queens-land are invited to celebrate and share how their communities are encouraging and providing opportunities for their members to “Come, live life in all its fullness”. There are 296 Catholic schools in Queensland that educate around 143,000 students and employ almost 17,000 teachers and staff, and most will celebrate Catholic Education Week in some way. Our school is planning a number of activities during Catholic Education week and we hope you are able to join in the celebrations with us.

Thursday (31/07/14) 10.15a.m. Liturgy in the Undercroft (Year 6/7 Presentation)

11.00a.m. Sausage Sizzle + Catholic Week Cake (Parents are welcome and encouraged to attend both celebrations)

FRIDAY (01/08/14) Bishop’s In-service Day - School Closed Ty Maher APRE

LITERACY BLOCKS This semester we continue our curriculum focus on our Literacy Blocks. As mentioned in last week’s newsletter, a part of the program will consist of a Before School Reading Club on Tuesday and Thursday mornings from 8.30a.m. until 8.45 a.m. followed by Buddy Reading in the classrooms from 8.45 a.m. until 9.15 a.m. We will require the help of volunteer parents to help with the Reading Club and Buddy Reading from Week 4 of this term. Any parent (or grandparent ) who is able to help, is kindly requested to send in an expression of interest note to the school. As part of our Literacy Program , Mrs Sue Keefer ( Education Officer from the Toowoom-ba Catholic Education Office) will be holding a 1 hour in-service on the Support - A - Reader program next Thursday(31/07/14) from 8.30 - 9.45 a.m. We strongly recom-mend all parent/grandparent volunteers as well as any other interested parents to attend.

Dates To Remember

JULY 2014 26th - Father Rod’s Birthday 27th - 2nd August Catholic Education Week AUGUST 2014 1st - Bishop’s Pupil Free Day (School Closed) 4th - Central Downs Athletics - Field events(1/2 Day) Allora 6th—Jump Rope for Heart Jump off! 7th - Curriculum Co-Ordinators Day - Mrs Drys-dale and Mr Pollard 8th - Central Downs Athletics - Allora 15th - Assumption Mass - 20- 22nd - Principals’ In-Service 22nd - S/D Athletics 24th - School Parish Mass ( Please date claim) SEPTEMBER 2014 5th - School Musical 19th - Term 3 Ends 3pm OCTOBER 2014 7th - Term 4 Begins 20th - CTJ Day - All schools Closed 25th - Clifton Races - P & F Chip Van NOVEMBER 2014 18th - Daniel Morcombe Day - Foundation to visit 21st - P & F Cent Sale Fund Raiser (DATE CLAIM) - See next week’s newsletter.

Quote of the Week

There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.

Anwar Sadat

God Bless,

Brett Pollard Principal

This Week’s Mass Roster Sunday: 27 July 5.00pm Welcoming: L May POF/OHP: M Wiedman & C Lucas Altar: Readers: D Lyons & B Lack Offertory: M & M Bowe Eucharistic Ministers: B Pollard & L Lucas Cleaning: H Gillam, M Comerford, J Maguire, M Wiedman & S Olley

TUCKSHOP A big thank you to all of my helpers for helping out on NAIDOC Day and Athletics Day yester-day. It was very much appreciated.

Thanks, Chrissy

Uniform Shop News. Next week the Clothing Pool will be open on the Wednesday instead of the Tuesday. There are a few green vests that are old stock and do not have the school logo for sale at $ 5 each. Please, check the lost property box if your child is missing clothing as it is overflowing and it will be donated to charity if not collected within the next two weeks. Thanks,

Susan

Congratulations to the following stu-dents that broke records during this year’s athletics carnival:

Junior Girls - Lily Rickert – High Jump 107cm

Senior Girls - Tara Wilkinson– High Jump 138cm

Senior Boys - Lachlan Harris – High Jump 135.5cm

Junior Girls- Lily Rickert – Discus 18.08m Senior Girls -Tara Wilkinson – Discus

22.52m 9 Years Girls-Heidi Burton- 800m - 3:19:94 9 years Boys - Lachlan Peardon – 800m-

2:40:81 10 years girls - Sophie Willett – 800m-

2:59:68 10 years boys - Cy Deeth – 800m- 2:40:36 11 years girls -Lauren Smith- 800m- 3:10:57 11 years boys - Lachlan Meacle 800m

2:51.34 12 years boys - Darby Peardon-800m-

2:19:20 13 years boys – Cameron Lyons-800m-

2:43:34 12 years boys - Darby Peardon-200m-

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Tuckshop Roster: 29th August—Carolyn Sace & Carmel Stace 5th Sept—Ann-Maree Bange & Shonel Murdoch

SIGHT WORD

CHAMPIONS -

Well done!!

Congratulations to Jaeden for his recent Tennis Success coming Runner-up in the U13 Doubles competition. Well done!

AGE CHAMPIONS 2014 Darby Peardon, Lachlan Meacle, Tara Wilkinson, Harry Bange, Alister Harris, Heidi Burton, Lauren Smith and Lily Rieckert. Congratulations.

Happy Birthday Father Rod

On behalf of the School Community I would like to wish Father Rod a Hap-py Birthday for Saturday.

SCHOOL IMPROVEMENT SURVEY This year our school will be participating in a School Improvement survey managed by Research Australia Development and Innovation Institute (RAD11). As well as school staff and students from Years 5-7/12, all par-ents are invited to participate in the survey. We hope the parent survey will help us to identify what we are doing well as well as areas for develop-ments. On Monday the 28 July RAD11 will send all parents a personalised invita-tion to complete the survey online. If both parents’ email addresses are on file at the school, the invitation will be sent to both parents. However, the survey will close once the first person has completed it. The survey will take approximately 10-15 minutes to complete. You can complete the survey from anywhere you have access to the internet. The survey will close on Friday, 22 August. We encourage you to be very honest in your responses to the surveys. All responses go directly to RAD11 so they are confidential and anonymous. When the surveys are completed we will share the findings with you.