Mt St Patrick Primary School, Murwillumbah

10th November 2015

Newsletter No. 18

Dear Parents, GRANDPARENTS’ DAY MASS: Another wonderful Grandparents’ Day was celebrated last Friday. Again the number of people attending was amazing. The students really appreciate having their grandparents visit and it is terrific to see the students take much pride in walking their families around the school and into their classrooms. Thank you to all the grandparents who journeyed from far and wide to be with us on the day. Some families journeyed from areas such as: Broken Hill, Sydney, Sunshine Coast, Brisbane, Coffs Harbour and Newcastle (just to name a few). Thank you to Fr Lemon for leading us in celebrating a special Grandparents’ Day Mass in the Sacred Heart Church. Congratulations to the large number of students who entered items into the Murwillumbah Show. These items included art, craft, photography, jewellery and cooking items. A special thank you to Mrs Trevithick for her coordination of all the students entries and putting together our school display. Thank you also to Mrs Toms, Linda Cunningham & Maria McCabe with their assistance with our school display. Thank you to all the families that supported our Book Fair. Again it was a huge success with sales of books reaching $5,700. Thank you to those families who donated books to the school Library. Thank you to Mrs Withers for coordinating the Book Fair and Mrs Jodie Champley, Mrs Chris Akehurst and Mrs Jenny Cantrill for their assistance as well.

Some family photos of Grandparents day located on page 6.

STAFF APPOINTMENTS: The following teaching appointments have been made for the 2016 school year: Miss Courtney Peate: joins our school with experience of teaching in NSW, Qld, England and USA. Most recently Miss Peate taught at St Patrick’s Emerald, Qld. Miss Peate is a former Mount St Patrick College student. Miss Stephanie Smith: joins us from St John the Baptist, Gladstone, where she has taught for the past 3 years. Prior to that school she taught at St Finbar’s, Byron Bay. On behalf of the staff and school community we congratulate Miss Peate and Miss Smith on their appointments. I’m positive both teachers will be valuable assets to our teaching staff. Whilst staff have been employed the allocation of teachers to classes for 2016 will occur over the coming week. Teachers will also soon commence student class placements. parents and students will be notified of class placements on Thursday 10th December (Year 1—6 Orientation Day) I can confirm that Miss Lauren Wright & Miss Jessica Mathews will once again be teaching Kindergarten in 2016. With Kinder Orientation and pre-school visits taking place it was imperative that these positions were finalised.

STAFF NEWS: Mrs Justine Bullock (Leader of Pedagogy) last week announced that she is expecting a baby in April next year. Our school community is very excited for both Justine and her husband Kurt as they prepare for their first child. Mrs Bullock will be continuing in her role until the end of Term 1 next year. Mrs Clare Parsons (Year 2Y—Term 4) recently announced that she is expecting her first child in April also. On behalf of our school community we congratulate Clare and Luke on their news. Enjoy your week! Brendan Ryan PRINCIPAL

OFFICE HOURS School Administration Office is attended

Monday—Friday 8:20am—3:45 pm

CONTACT

Phone 02 66721821

Fax 02 66721536

Website

www.murplism.catholic.edu.au Email

murp@lism.catholic.edu.au

Postal PO Box 1226 30 Mooball St Murwillumbah NSW 2484

IMPORTANT DATES

TERM 4

OCTOBER

Fri 13th School Disco

Mon 16th Kinder 2016 Orientation

Tues 17th Kinder 2016 Orientation

Sat 28th Parish Tableau

Mon 30th Infants Intensive

Swimming commences

DECEMBER

Tuesday 8th Primary Presentation

evening (Year 3—6)

Thursday 10th Year1-6 Orientation

Day

Friday 11th Primary Swimming

Carnival

Monday 14th Year 6 Treat Day

Tuesday 15th Infant Presentation

& Treat Day

Semester 2 Reports go

out

Wednesday 16th Graduation Mass

SCHOOL DISCO K– 6 This Friday 13th November 5:30 –7:30 Drinks / sausage available on the night

Students need to be accompanied by their parents during the evening

KINDER 2016 ORIENTATION Monday 16th & Tuesday 17th November 9:00am—12noon

KINDER 2016 PARENT MEETING: Monday 16th Nov @ 7pm in the Library

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS Page 2

SACRED HEART PARISH WEEKDAY MASS TIMES Tuesday 5.30pm Sacred Heart Wednesday 5.30pm Sacred Heart

Thursday 9.15am OLPS, St h

M’Bah

Friday 12.00noon Sacred Heart WEEKEND MASS TIMES Saturday 6:00 pm Sacred Heart (Children’s liturgy) Sunday 8:00 am Sacred Heart

(Children’s liturgy)

Sunday10:00am 1st Uki

2nd & 4th OLPS –

South Murwillumbah

3rd Burringbar

IMPORTANT DATE: PARISH TABLEAU

The 2015 Annual Christmas Carnival and

Tableau will be held on:

SATURDAY 28th NOVEMBER.

The Christmas Carnival & Tableau is a

wonderful community occasion, which provides

a memorable start to the festive season.

HELP NEEDED!

The Parish Tableau and Christmas Carnival is fast approaching.

We need parent helpers on the Cake Stall, Tea/Coffee Stall and

at the Working Bees. If you are able to help could you please fill

out the note included with this

newsletter. Many thanks for your

continued support of our Annual

Christmas Carnival and Tableau.

LEADERSHIP DAY

Year 5 students participated in the second of their Leadership Retreat Days. Unfortunately due to the wet weather the organised day was held at school. Despite this however the Year 5 students participated in a very productive day. The purpose of the activities during the day was to focus on leadership qualities. Essentially the Year 5 students came up with 6 key qualities of effective leadership. These qualities form the basis of a model of leadership that as school leaders next year they will aspire to. The next step is for our Year 5 students to prepare their nomination for School Captain speeches. YEAR 5 CAPTAIN SPEECHES will be held

in the Sacred Heart Hall on THURSDAY 26th NOVEMBER.

IMPORTANT DATE FOR YEAR 6 FAMILIES YEAR 6 GRADUATION MASS

The ‘End of Year’ Graduation Mass will be held in the Sacred

Heart Parish Church on Wednesday 16th December commencing at

10am. All parents and family members are welcome to attend this

special Mass. Further information regarding this will be sent home

in the coming weeks.

HEART AND PRIDE

This week during Heart and Pride time the children will

be focusing on the value of Contemplation.

all underpinned by the practice of Contemplation

REMEMBRANCE DAY CEREMONY

Tomorrow at 10:30am on the Hardcourt Area our school will commemorate Remembrance Day. At 11:00am on 11th November 1918, the guns fell silent after more than four years of war. The elev-enth hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month became universally associated with the re-membrance of those who died during war. Tomor-row we will pay our respect to those who have

died fighting for their country.

“We will remember them”

Page 3 SCHOOL NEWS

ARTISTS OF THE WEEK

OLIVIA FLANNERY Stage 3JF

OLIVIA BAGNALL Year 1J

BIRTHDAYS Summer Benard,

Delilah Dargan, Cody Taylor, Oliver Andrews, Lexie Adams,

Saffron McLennan, Ruby Cummins, Theo Parsons,

Sienna Bull, Riley Engler, Sean Carney.

ASSEMBLIES: TERM 4—

Starting @ 9:10am

WEEK 6: Stage 2SS

WEEK 7: Awards only

WEEK 8: Writer’s Club

WEEK 9: Maths Olympiad

WEEK 10: THURSDAY

10th December @ 9.10am

Year 6 Farewell

CLASS REQUESTS 2016: At times we receive parent requests for class placement for the following year. l would like to remind parents that all requests need to be in writing to the Principal. Please outline reasons for the request. Although con-sideration will be given to your request no guarantees are given. Teachers spend a lot of time working together in placing students for the following year. Students are placed with consideration to their academic, social and emotional needs.

STUDENTS/ FAMILIES NOT ATTENDING MT ST PATRICK IN 2016: The parents of students who are not returning to Mt. St Patrick Primary in 2016 (not including current Year 6’s) are asked to please notify the Principal as soon as possible. As you would be aware our school has waiting lists in certain Year levels and it would assist us in determining possible enrol-

ments and class placements.

WORLD TEACHER’S DAY: Thank you to all the families and

students who took the time to acknowledge our wonderful teaching

staff on World Teacher’s Day. Your gifts and words of thank you

were very appreciated by our staff. We have a very dedicated

and professional staff who often go above the call of duty to

provide quality teaching and learning.

PICTURE LEFT: Our Year 1T students who performed a special

World Teacher’s Day assembly, imitating members of our school

staff. The likeness was uncanny.

STUDENT PORTFOLIOS

Student Portfolios have been sent home today. Please take time to share these assessment tasks with your child. A parent

signature & comment provides valuable feedback to your child. Portfolios are due back at school by next Monday.

ICAS ASSESSMENT: ENGLISH & MATHS

Congratulations to the following students who achieved outstanding results recently with the ICAS

English & Maths Assessment:

ENGLISH

HIGH DISTINCTION

Hollie Mason

DISTINCTION

Sienna Bull, Lily Cronly, Peri Hynes, Ruby Trueman,

Lily Yates, Elizabeth Warne,

Neave Butler & Kiara McCarthy

CREDIT

Cailey Baker, Caitlyn Bice, Selam Dietrich,

Ned Rogers, Milla Pearson, Jarrah Fitzpatrick, Noah Carroll, Finn Byrnes, Lucia Alexander, Shayah Coyne,

Mariah Ouwerling, Tiffany New,

Darcy Hannah & Evie Falkner

MATHS

DISTINCTION

Hollie Mason & Elizabeth Warne

CREDIT

Harrison Bugg, Sienna Bull, Lily Cronly,

Nakeisha Drew-Perkiss, Noah Carroll, Mahli Coyne,

Michael Lack, Shayah Coyne, Charlie Gibbons,

Ellis Hannah, Nicholas Shields, Neave Butler,

Alyssa Carney & Kiara McCarthy

Page 4 SCHOOL NEWS

Term 4 Week 4 AWARDS

INFANT STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

KM— Lochie Daly, Chase Thornton

KW— Charlie Devoy, Mia Martain

1J— Olivia Northeast, Tiarna Hall-Tosh

1T— Isabella Ouwerling, Cooper McCabe

2N— Claudia Larkin, Stella Taylor

2Y— Alex Dowling, Emelia Thompson

PRIMARY STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

St2SS— Enya McCarthy, Jack Devoy

St2LD- Josh Wharton, Alira Heterick

St2MM— Phoebe Sykes, Jaxon Booth

St2TM— Hazel Cunningham, Jarrah Fitzpatrick

St3JD— Angus Ward, Zoe Gatt

St3JF— Shayah Coyne, Jesse Hutton

St3SH— Charlotte O’Keefe, Eva McDonald

St3SP— Leila Parnaby, Amber Charilaou

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD

Harlo Jorss, Annie-Fay Butt, Skye Ayres,

Miley Field, Keira Hair, Lara Clark, Lily Martin,

Bailey Buchanan, Billi Hutton, Ashley Gray,

Theo Parsons, Morgan Berger, Cailey Baker,

Sienna Smith, Ayla Fing, Ruby Trueman,

Jude Livermore, Bryce Wilson, Neave Butler,

Chris Biskup, Alyssa Carney, Wren Phelan, Amelie

Lapworth, Charli Miller-Smylie, Leila Parnaby,

Paris Ludlow

HONOUR AWARD

Lucy Jones St3JD

GOOD SPORTS AWARD

Infants: Phoebe Piticco

Stage 2: Vienna Lazaredes

Stage 3: Lillyan Charman

CREATIVE ARTS AWARD Infants: Jade Folkers, Xavier Palmer

Stage 2: Sophie Bruhn, Cooper Shields

Stage 3 : Lucy Jones, Sienna Fleming,

Amelie Lapworth

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD

GOOD SPORTS AWARD

CREATIVE ARTS AWARD

INFANT STUDENTS

OF THE WEEK

PRIMARY STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

HONOUR AWARD

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Term 4 Week 5 AWARDS

INFANT STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

KM — Bodhi Wilson, Amanda Blissett

KW— Summer Benard, Jack Jarman

1J— Keesia Close, Oliver Buchanan 1T— Sharni Clark, Taleisha Robinson 2N— Sophia Cronly, Bailey Buchanan

2Y— Ella Cracknell, Rhys Charman

PRIMARY STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

St2SS— Caitlyn Bice, Mitchell Grossm

St2LD- Nicholas Males, Sophie Charman

St2MM— Keira Leslighter, Ayla Fing

St2TM— Jude Livermore, Danny Madden

St3JD— Oliver Parsons, Evie Falkner

St3JF— Abbey Kuhnell, Amelie Purnell

St3SH— Ella Buch, Ruby Wilson

St3SP— Riley Bull, Nic Ratcliff

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD

Aiden Jones, Elijah Byrnes, Jack Thornton,

Mikayla Smith Phoebe Piticco, Neve Trembath, Peri Hynes, Lara-Grace Ewing, Noah Clark, Ava Prive, Zoe Gatt, Imogen Sykes, Darcy Hannah, Billy Campbell, Angie Gatt, Sienna Fleming,

Charles Warren, Ruby Wilson, Freda Biles, Flynn

Jones William Ryan.

HONOUR AWARD

Paris Ludlow

GOOD SPORTS AWARD

Infants: Yasmin Van Rosi Stage 2: Jarrah Fitzpatrick

Stage 3: Areana Twohill

CREATIVE ARTS AWARD

Infants: Wren Hynes, Phoebe Piticco

Stage 2: Noah Carroll, Harrison Lever Stage 3 : Riley Engler, Darcy Reinke

INFANT STUDENT OF THE WEEK

PRIMARY STUDENT OF THE WEEK

CREATIVE ARTS AWARD

PRINCIPAL’S AWARD

GOOD SPORTS AWARD

HONOUR AWARD

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GRANDPARENTS’ DAY THANK YOU !

Thank you to the Parent Reps from both Year 1 classes for their coordination of the morning tea on Grandparents’ Day. With so many people attending this Grand-parents Day it was all hands on deck to serve morning tea. Special thank you to: Melissa Toms, Cathy Drummond & Alison Gracie & for helping with setting up and

serving morning tea.

GRANDPARENT’S DAY

The best place to be when you're sad is Grandpa's lap.

~Author Unknown

What children need most are the essentials that grand-

parents provide in abundance: unconditional love, kind-

ness, patience, humour, comfort, lessons in life. And,

most importantly, cookies. ~Rudolph Giuliani

Grandparents are a valuable and vital resource in our communities. They provide children with a stability and sense of generational continuity.

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COMMUNITY

NEWS

SPORT NEWS

CURRICULUM NEWS

Mathletes of the Week Week 4: Lily Martin, Katrina Blissett, Meghan Butler, Bailey Kirby, Tabitha Stratton, Rachel Blissett,Travis Antonelli, Morgan Burgess, Angie Gatt, Sarah Hill, Billy John

Week 5 : Sophia Cronly, Danny Madden, Luken Ennis, Cooper Shields, Spencer Leslight, Tommy Littlewood, Ben Longhurst, Areana Twohill.

MATHLETICS WEEKLY AWARD WINNERS FOR THE PAST 2 WEEKS CAN BE FOUND ON SCHOOL MOODLE PAGE

Story Dogs sends its best Holiday wishes! Thank you to all Students and Staff who helped make

2015 Our best year ever! We wish all Children, Family, Friends, Volunteers

and especially Staff at Mount St Patricks Primary School

Safe and Happy Holidays. See you all in 2016

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SUMMER SPORT TRIALS: Congratulations to Tabitha Stratton, Lincoln Taylor (tennis) and Sean Carney, Ellis Hannah (cricket) who were selected for the Tweed Zone teams to attend the Diocesan Summer Sport Trials in Lismore next week. We wish them all the best. INTERSCHOOL RELAY RACE: The Mt St Patrick relay team has continued the tradition of winning the interschool relay race at the Show! Congratulations to Alyssa Carney, Jya Fing, Oliver Andrews and Reef Sommerville who were the winning combination. Paris Lud-low, Georgia Hutton, Tommy Littlewood and Levi Van Rosi were a commendable 4th place. ELECTIVE SPORT: This is the last week of the elective sport program. I would appreciate any outstanding money to be brought to school tomorrow so that payment can be finalised to the sport presenters. PRIMARY SWIMMING SPORT: The primary classes will commence their swimming program for sport next week. It will be an oppor-tunity for them to practice the events that they will be participating in at the carnival. The 200IM will be swum on Thursday 3rd Novem-ber in the afternoon session. Stage 2 will leave school at 12.30pm and Stage 3 at 1.50pm. They will need their swimmers, sunscreen, goggles if they use them, tow-

el and $3 pool entry. PRIMARY SWIMMING CARNIVAL: Once again parent helpers are needed to assist with timekeeping, judging and recording for the competitive component of the primary swimming carnival on Friday 11th December (9.30 – 12.00 approximately). Please complete the form if you are able to assist.

__________________________________________________________________________________ PRIMARY SWIMMING CARNIVAL: Parent Helper

Dear Agnes I am able to assist at the Primary Swimming Carnival with

[ ] timekeeping [ ] judging [ ] recording

Name _______________________________ Signed _______________________________