Details of the 2010 income and expenditure for the OLSH Parents and Friends Association were tabled at last week s P&F meeting. The total income was $99,616.55, with most of the money coming mainly from the Fete, the Walkathon, the Dollar for Dollar scheme, and the Fete Raffle. The expenditures

included lots of equipment for each campus, extensive shading at Bath Street, and a donation towards the College hall; these outlays amounted to $97,668.46. Congratulations and thank you to the Association for this amazing result.

The 2011 P& F Executive has now been finalised and we are grateful to the following parents for taking on these roles; Mr Sam Typuszak (President), Mrs Bec Scollen (Vice-President), Mrs Alice de Brenni (Secretary), Mrs Bronwyn Williams (Treasurer) and Mrs Annette Kemp (Board Representative). The first fundraising activity for the Association for 2011 will be the annual Walkathon, coinciding with next month s Founders Day picnic.

Thank you to the parents and staff members who assisted with our students involvement in last Monday s Bangtail Muster . People obviously went to a lot of trouble preparing the costumes and decorations for the Eight Hour theme, and our youngsters thoroughly enjoyed their ride through the Mall. Thank you to Mr Sam Typuszak and Mrs Belinda McClure for coordinating the arrangements.

Our Senior Music group headed off to the Mount Gambier Generations in Jazz Festival last Tuesday, accompanied by Ms Nikki Quesnell and Mr. Patrick Johnson. The students have been practising for several months on a number of pieces, and we wish them well in their public performances. This year, musicians from both OLSH College and St Philip s College will combine in a single band, as representatives of Alice Springs for this special event. Thank you to those folks who came along to support the fundraiser that was held for these students on last Thursday evening at the St Philip s hall.

Tomorrow morning, commencing at 11 o clock, the College hall, known as The Marian Centre will be officially opened by local Federal Member,

Mr.Warren Snowdon MHR. Our College Captains, Dean Ryan and Rebecca Crack will be the MC s for the event, and choirs from Bath Street and Traeger will provide the entertainment.

The building and a new statue will be blessed during the ceremony. The students will be represented by the College and Campus Leaders (Captains, Vice-Captains, House leaders and SRC members). The statue, demonstrating the relationship of staff with students, has been funded by the Catholic Education Office, and the College s Parents and Friends Association, and is the work of Victorian Sculptor, Geoff Todd.

Central Administration: Bath Street Campus: Traeger Ave Campus Sadadeen Rd Campus: Tel: 08 8950 6400 Tel: 08 8950 8666 Tel: 08 8950 8555 Tel: 08 8950 7399 Fax: 08 8952 4607 Fax: 08 8953 2624 Fax: 08 8952 2851 Fax: 08 8953 2571

P.O. Box 2508 Alice Springs NT 0871 Website: www.olshalice.nt.edu.au Email: principal@olshalice.nt.edu.au Member of the Association of Marist Schools of Australia (AMSA) Registered CRICOS Provider: 02598D

Dates to Remember

MAY

9th - Bath St Campus Mass 13th Yr3 & 4 Sports at Head Street 20th Sadadeen Athletics Carnival 23rd-27th Year 11 Semester 1 Exams

JUNE

3rd Founders Day

10th Student Casual Day

13th Queens Birthday Public Holiday

16th-23rd Year 9 Camp

21st-24th Yr 10 Work Experience

22nd-24th Yr 11 Retreat 24th Bath St Sports Day

Campus Office Hours Monday - Friday

8am-4pm

Campus Canteens Bath Street 89527532 Traeger 89508555 Sadadeen 89507318

College Uniform Shop Telephone: 89522742 Fax: 89555163

Opening Hours: Tuesday 8.15am

10.00am Thursday 8.15am-10.00am Thursday 2.30pm-4.30pm

Lil Antz AfterSchool Care: Telephone: 08 89530015

Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College

Dear Parents/Guardians, Staff, Students and Friends of OLSH

Volume 15 Issue 14 5th May 2011

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Reflection

The new facility has been a huge project for the College. Right from the early days in 2009 when former College Business Manager, Mr. Jason O Keife, worked with staff and the architect, Mr Steve Adler, to collect ideas for the basic design, through to the financial planning (Bursar, Mrs Janice Merrett, Chair of the Finance Committee, Mr Pat Black and members of the Committee), and the final stages of the civil works and the fitting out the hall, under the supervision of College Property Manager, Mr. Ian Clarke, there have been many valuable contributors. It should prove to be a wonderful asset for our school community, and one that we can share with other groups. You are very welcome to attend the Opening ceremony and to look over the Centre.

Best wishes

Br Paul Gilchrist Principal

M - O - T - H - E - R

"M" is for the million things she gave me,

"O" means only that she's growing old,

"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,

"H" is for her heart of purest gold;

"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,

"R" means right, and right she'll always be,

Put them all together, they spell

"MOTHER,"

A word that means the world to me.

Howard Johnson (c. 1915)

And Grandma's too... While we honour all our mothers

with words of love and praise.

While we tell about their goodness

and their kind and loving ways.

We should also think of Grandma,

she's a mother too, you see....

For she mothered my dear mother

as my mother mothers me.

Author Unknown

College News Uniform Shop News

This weeks' arrivals include:

Beanies Scarves ($7 each) Scrunchies ($3 for two) Fawn Shirts - All sizes. All back orders will be delivered by Tuesday but there is still a quantity of the size 12 shirts on back order so you may not receive your whole order at this time. We welcome any good quality second hand stock to be sold in the shop.

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SADADEEN OPEN HOUSE A reminder to all parents and friends that Sadadeen will be holding its annual Open House on Thursday, May 19th starting at 6:30PM. There is no cost to attend and it promises to be a great night! There will be performances by the Dance, Drama and Music departments, displays by the Art, Media, Woodwork and Metalwork students and much, much, more! Hot food and drinks will be sold too. Watch next week s newsletter for more details. Be sure to come out and join us! Nikki Quesnel

RED BULL CONCERT THIS SATURDAY: SUPPORT THE SKY S THE LIMIT! After winning both competitions on the Red Bull Website, The Sky s the Limit will be competing against the three other top bands for the final grand prize this weekend in Alice Springs.

The Sadadeen Jazz players and Mrs. Quesnel want to wish them the best of luck and hope they have a great time!

Campus News: Bath St

I trust you all enjoyed the long weekend and made the most of it, as our next one is not until June 13th! This long weekend was to celebrate Bangtail Muster and we had a great turn out for the occasion. Thank you to Mrs Hurley, Mrs McClure and Mrs Scollen who ably assisted and kept Mr. Typuszak on track. It was great to see our first upload to Facebook, thanks for that.

Liturgically we are approaching the Third Sunday of Easter, where the Gospel is taken from Luke and tells the story of two disciples who encounter a stranger on the road to Emmaus.

YEAR 4 MASS

PLEASE NOTE: Mass will take place at 9:00 a.m. on Monday 9th May. Parents and friends are welcome to join us for this occasion.

NAPLAN Next week our Year 3 students will be participating in the National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN). The testing schedule is as follows:

Tuesday 9:00

Language Conventions (Spelling, Grammar and Punctuation) Tuesday 11:00

Writing Wednesday 9:00

Reading Thursday 9:00

Numeracy

If your child is absent on one of these days, please contact the front office and efforts will be made to do a catch-up session. Note

Friday May 13 is the Year 3 and 4 Sports Day at Head Street Oval. Students who have not completed all tests will need to be dropped at the Bath Street Campus first, and will then be driven to Sports Day after testing.

We wish all our Year 3 students the very best of luck!

UNIFORM As the weather begins to cool, we notice a variety of clothing being introduced. Please refer to page 30 (Appendix 4.1) of the Parent Information Handbook that you received upon enrolling your child. It states very clearly the uniform expectations.

An agreement was also signed by parents upon enrollment which stated I/we accept and agree to support the standards of behaviour, discipline policy, grooming and uniform which the College requires . If your child needs to be out of uniform, please supply a note stating this and for how long you expect this to be the case.

NAIL POLISH Please be aware that nail polish is not part of our uniform and needs to be removed prior to school.

JOIN US ON FACEBOOK OR TWITTER In an effort to keep up with the times , we have a Facebook page and a Twitter account, where you are welcome to join us to stay informed about what s happening at Bath St. To find us on Facebook, search for Olsh BathSt and on Twitter, look for @OLSH_BathSt. We are using these tools, more as an information sharing mechanism and not so much for the social aspect. Facebook is not available to children 13 years of age or younger.

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EMAIL ADDRESS As part of our Learning Technology Unit, many of the children are brushing up on their Emailing skills. In order to use their school Email address, they will need to log onto the following: https://webmail.ntschools.net

The children should be able to log in, using their usernames and passwords. Please do not change the passwords at home, as that causes trouble for some children in class.

MERIT POINT WINNERS

Room 1 Room 5 Room 12 Olivia Maddy Matisse Lashanda Kiara

Flynn Hannah Vanessa Hamish

FISH N CHIP LUNCHES A huge thank you to Eastside Fish and Chips, who not only cooked all of the food and made it so easy to distribute but also donated back to us $200 towards Project Compassion.

Happy Mothers Day to all of our Mums John Healy Acting Head of Campus Bath St

Campus News: Sadadeen GENERATIONS IN JAZZ Ms Nikki Quesnel and Mr Pat Johnson depart today for Melbourne and Mt Gambier with their group of music students. Hopefully they have a wonderful time. A special thanks goes to Ms Quesnel who has organised about 90% of the trip which includes a contingent from St Philip s College. The fundraising efforts, especially the meal last Thursday evening, have been organised by Ms Quesnel

very well done. Students going south are:- Paddy Black, Jaymie Blackburn, Ben Hurley, Darlyhne Lillico, D Arcy Mellors, Kathryn Mueller, Laura Anderson, Mikaela Bennion, Sam Crowe, Georgia Dempsey, Annalies Doecke, Jennifer Garwood, Chun-Yao Liu, Peta McAllan, Kyle wackerman, Martin Borgas, ryan Dempsey, Rachel Hunker, Yi-Jiun Liu and Hayden Martin.

OPENING OF THE MARIAN CENTRE This Friday at 11:00am the new Marian Centre will be officially opened. Our College Captains, vice-captains, House Captains and vice-captains and members of the SRC will represent the campus. The Marian Centre is a beautiful facility for the College and it is already in use by our students for P.E. classes and a first aid course completed yesterday. A big thanks goes to Jason O Kiefe and Ian Clarke the current property manager for the work they have put into it over the last 18 or so months.

NAPLAN NAPLAN testing takes place for Year 9 students next Tuesday 10th May

Language Conventions & Writing, Wednesday 11th May

Reading, & Thursday 12th May

Numeracy with calculator and without calculator. Year 9 students will need to have their own calculator for the Thursday Numeracy test. The NAPLAN tests will take place in rooms 503, 504, 505, 506 & 103 for students with special needs/requirements.

SADADEEN OPEN HOUSE The evening of Thursday 19th May throughout the campus. There will be Religious Education & Japanese displays as well as Wood, Metal displays, Art displays, Drama, Dance and Music performances. Parents are encouraged to attend to see how your students perform in these areas. This event is also the campus Open Day. All are welcome.

ATHLETICS CARNIVAL Friday 20th May at Head St. More details to follow.

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CONGRATULATIONS Congratulations goes to Ayla Stephens, Year 11, who was runner-up in the Under 17 girls N.T. Junior squash championships

this means she is number two in the N.T. for her age group. Well done Ayla!

RECOGNISING STUDENTS IN NEWSLETTER If parents would like the College to acknowledge the achievements of their son/daughter in the newsletter they can contact me on: matt.dejong@nt.catholic.edu.au

with details and I will put it in the following newsletter. I can be contacted by phone on:

89507399.

Have a good week ahead. Matt de Jong. Head of Campus Sadadeen.

Campus News: Traeger DATES TO REMEMBER Friday 6th of May: Opening of the Marian Centre at the Sadadeen Campus. Traeger SRC, house leaders and choir will be bussed to and from the event, leaving Traeger at 10:20am. Full school uniform please.

NAPLAN 9th

13th May, Please make an extra effort for your child to be at school, on time during NAPLAN week.

Tuesday May 17th : Vaccinations

Year 7 Girls 2nd dose

Gardasil.

SCHOOL UNIFORM Please note that all students are required to wear FULL SCHOOL UNIFORM to and from

school as well as at

school. The practice of changing shoes and hats will see these items confiscated till the end of term. Please note that your child is representing the school whenever they are in uniform, and their behaviour should reflect this.

Homework Centres

each week except week 10 and 11

Traeger Campus Homework Centre

Thursdays. You need a Traeger Homework Centre Card to attend. Please contact the front office for a permission form.

Indigenous Homework Centre

Monday and Thursday each week. (The first centre for Term 2 will be Thursday May the 5th). The sessions go from 3:00

4:00pm and will be held in the 6.2 home room. Students attending will be bussed home.

Year 5 Homework Centre

Wednesdays 3:00-4:00pm. This will be held in our library where the students must be collected at 4:00pm please.

TRAEGER ATHLETICS CARNIVAL The Traeger Athletics Carnival will be held on Friday of Week 7. Please keep this day free for volunteering and supporting your children. It will be held at the Head Street Oval. Students are to make their own way to and from the oval.

Any parents interested in helping out with the Traeger Athletics Carnival on the Friday 27th May (Week 7). Can you please contact by email: natalie.dibona@nt.catholic.edu.au or work phone: 89508555.

Duties will include recording and timing.

Thankyou Natalie Dibona.

CASUAL CLOTHES DAYS We seem to be doing very well with the casual clothes chosen; however I need to make clear the footwear permitted so that we are fair to all. Basically, due to the OH&S conditions that involve students of the College (and all other schools) all students MUST wear closed in shoes at all times. This means that no thongs or sandals can be worn on casual clothes days or footwear that exposes the heel of the foot. I thank the parents who have delivered the required footwear to school so far. From now we will be consistent in this area. Students with inappropriate footwear (any day)will be asked to contact home to have the correct shoes delivered.

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JOFFA A SUCCESS AGAIN Joffa our educational cartoonist was here again today working with the Year 6 and 8 students. It is a great opportunity for all students to be exposed to this area, many of them continue with the drawings after Joffa has gone. The Year 5 and 7 students will experience Joffa in Week 6 of Term 4 this year.

Have a great week Tony Healy

Head of Campus Traeger

Upcoming Sporting Dates:

Desert Storm Netball 12 & Under Trial

Friday 13th May @ Alice Springs Netball Courts

1:15-2:30 Desert Storm Cricket 12 & Under Trial

Friday 17th June @ Jim McConville Oval

1:15-2:30 Primary Interschool Athletics Competition

Friday 10th June @ Head Street Oval

All day Secondary Interschool Athletics Competition

Wednesday 22nd June @ Head Street Oval

All day

Performing Arts News

GIJ Fundraising Dinner a Huge Success! The members of the Alice Springs Combined College Jazz Players travelling to Generations in Jazz this week held their final fundraising event at St. Philip s Minnamurra Hall last week. Thanks to the people who attended it was a great success. The evening was lovely, with fantastic food including delicious lasagne from Piccolo s and mouth-watering Currie provided by Flavours of India. There were performances by the bands as well as many individuals and small groups providing entertainment throughout the meal. Talis and Outback Security kindly provided staff to ensure the evening went smoothly. I would like to thank Piccolo s, Flavours of India, Outback and Talis Security for their generous donations. It is greatly appreciated. As well, I would like to take this opportunity to thank the staff who assisted from both colleges, Jacinta Boniwell, Ketut the cook, Patrick Johnson, Steve Kidd, Judy Summers, Michael Weadley and an especially big thank you to Teresa McGuirk for coordinating the event. Last, but certainly not least, I would like to thank the parents and students for their assistance. Many hands certainly do make light work. The students of Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College and St. Philip s College certainly are excited about this joint effort. Your donations have helped to make it possible. Thank You! Nikki Quesnel

Raffle Winners The winners for the Desert Lantern Raffle were drawn on Thursday night at the GIJ Fundraising Dinner. The winners are:

Patrick Johnson Naomi Matthews Rachael Muller Andrew Wright

The winner of the Easter Basket Raffle basket drawn on the last day of school before the Easter Break was: Ravine Kelly Congratulations to all the Raffle winners and thank you for your support. Nikki Quesnel

Kindly note that College Students are only supervised between the following hours: Bath St Campus 8:00am to 3:20pm Traeger and Sadadeen Campus 7:55am to 3:20pm Please bear these times in mind when dropping off or picking up your children.

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2011 Term Dates

Term 2 Ends Friday 24th June (11 week Term)

Term 3 Students Resume Tuesday 19th July Term dates Monday 18th July Friday 23rd September

Term 4 Students Resume Tuesday 11th October

Term Dates Monday 10th October Friday 16th December

Students last day of Term 4 Wednesday 14th December

A free six week support and information programme designed to address the information and support needs of those who live with or love someone

experiencing depression.

The programme covers a range of topics including: - What is depression - Treatments for depression - Suicidality and self harm - How do you best support someone with depression - Communication strategies -Importance of Self-care

Course Date: Wednesday evenings 6.30-8.30p.m

Starting 18th May

Finishing 22nd June

Facilitators: Helen Rayner, Counsellor- Focus on Relationships

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Costs subsidised by Carers NT and Carer Respite Centre

Venue made available by Lifeline NT.

Register your interest: Ring Helen on 0427 825023

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