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Our Lady of Fatima School Newsletter Our Vision
Our Lady of Fatima Palmyra is a Catholic School that aspires to provide a respectful, secure and caring learning environment where our community is committed to following the teachings of Jesus.
FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear Parents,
Welcome back to school and the new academic year, 2018 promises to be
another busy and exciting year where we continue to refine what we do as we
cater for the needs of all the children within our community. Our overarching
goal continues to centre around providing an environment and experiences that
support the children to achieve to a level that reflects their potential.
Today, the first day of the school year for the children coincides with the feast of
Saint John Bosco, which is quite appropriate, given that he was renowned for
educating young people and his service to educating others was the main reason
for him becoming a saint. I referred to John Bosco with the children at our whole
school gathering just before recess today when we took the opportunity to
introduce the new students to everyone and recap on the school holidays.
Welcome to New Families
A very special welcome to all the new students and their families into our Fatima
community. Some of the new students mentioned below are younger siblings of
existing
students. Our new students include:
Kindy – Christian Backhouse, Harvey Beck, Jack Dawson, Solomon Gasper,
Ronan Grier, Felix Lloyd, Deanna O’Brien, Loxley Polak, Matthew Pollock,
Zara Pollock and Zara Reardon.
Pre-Primary – Veronica Parish
Year 1 – Laila Beck
Year 2 – April Carbonaro
Year 3 – Reuben Grier
Year 4 – Joshua Brady, Erin Grier
Year 5 – Noah Kenworthy
Family Details Form
We will be sending home a hard copy of the “Family Details Form” very soon
and ask that that families make any necessary changes to the form and return to
school by Friday 9th February so that we can update your family details on our
system to ensure they are correct.
Family Name Cards
If any families would like a “Family Name Card” for the pick up process at Drive
Through in the carpark, please let Tracy know and we can arrange that as soon as
possible.
Medication/Immunization
A reminder to any parents who need their child/children to have medication
administered at school e.g. antibiotics, please come into the office to complete
the appropriate form. We also ask parents of children who have allergies, asthma
etc, to make sure their medication and/or action plan is up to date. Our school
nurse requests that the action plan is no more than 12 months old. Thank you for
your cooperation with this.
SCHOOL DATES FOR 2018
TERM 1
STUDENTS START
WEDNESDAY 31ST JANUARY
STUDENTS FINISH
THURSDAY 12TH APRIL
PUPIL FREE DAYS FRIDAY 13TH APRIL
P: 9333 7900 F: 9339 4951 E : [email protected]
www.olof.wa.edu.au
From the Principal—(Continued) Before and After School Supervision
After school, if children are not greeted by parents outside their classroom at the end of the day, we will be asking the
children to go down under the library, to the Drive Through area where teacher supervision will be. Towards the end
of last year, we had a growing number of children hovering on the grassed area and playground equipment at the front
of the school waiting for their parents. Unfortunately, there is no supervision for the children there after school and we
would be compromising their safety to allow this to happen. So parents, if you do not greet your child outside the
classroom at the end of the school day, we ask you to pick them up from under the library, the Drive Through area,
(unless your child is riding home) where teacher supervision will be. Staff will be out on duty under the library until
3:20pm. Thank you for your assistance to ensure the safety of the children in our community.
New Programmes at OLOF
As we continue to refine and further develop the learning opportunities for the children at our school, we will be
introducing some new programmes from the start of 2018. These programmes will be outlined at the Parent
Information Evening which will take place on Tuesday 13th February. Please put this date in your calendar which is a
really important date for parents in our community as we launch into a new school year.
Parent Information Evening
The Parent Information Evening on Tuesday 13th February will provide an opportunity for parents to develop a deeper
understanding of the classroom programmes being offered by the teachers and also some information from a whole
school perspective as we launch into the 2018 school year. We have configured the evening into 3 sessions as we
attempt to accommodate as many families as possible with the configuration of the session. Some families may need
to split themselves 2 ways, to attend both sessions (particularly parents who have children in Years 1 and 4), but we
did try to accommodate as many as possible.
The meeting times are:
6pm – 6:45pm Classroom Meetings for PP, Year 3, Year 5 and Year 6 (in the respective classrooms)
6:45pm – 7:30pm Whole School gather ing (in the Hall)
7:30pm – 8:15pm Classroom Meetings for Year 1, Year 2 and Year 4 (in the respective classrooms)
We hope to see you there.
P&F: First Meeting
I have just confirmed our first meeting date for 2018, Wednesday 21st February at 7:30pm in the staffroom. Please put
that date in your diary, and we hope to see you there.
Best wishes for the coming fortnight.
Paul Hansen
PRINCIPAL
JANUARY
1st Zara Reardon
8th Amelia Taylor
9th Zavijer Mrkaljevic
11th London Polak
12th Lotte Ross
12th Quentin Bacich
14th Ellie Williams
14th Kendal Williams
16th Cohen Ducat
17th Lily Smith
17th James Backhouse
18th Eleanor Davison
JANUARY
20th Luisa Parish
21st Lily Duckworth
22nd Evie Mann
23rd Erin Wheeler
24th Olivia McNally
27th Hudson Spindler
28th Sebastian Rodriguez Rios
30th Elsie Casey
30th Lucy Grubb
20th Lila Tabor
30th Dylan Clay
PARISH NEWS
PARISH WEEKEND MASS TIMES
Saturday Vigil - 6.30 pm
Sunday - 7.30am, 9.45am, 6.30pm
KEYED UP MUSIC
Keyed Up Music will be teaching group music lessons
during school. Keyboard lessons on Tuesday, Wednesday
and Friday. Guitar Lessons are on Wednesday and Thursday.
Lesson pricing start from $16.95. To enrol your child please
go to www.keyedupmusic.com.au/enrolment-form if you
require more information please contact Therese on 1300
366 243 or email us [email protected]
THANK YOU
“ St Vincent de Paul would like to thank the children of our school and their parents and
families for their support of the Palmyra/East Fremantle conference of Vinnies with the
Christmas Hampers this Christmas. In all 25 substantial hampers were made up and
distributed to the needy in Palmyra and East Fremantle. A great deal of the contents of the
hampers came from your generous donations. The joy on the faces of the recipients when we
delivered them was a pleasure to see. Doing things like this makes helping the community
through organisations such as Vinnies such a pleasure and privilege.
Thank you for helping us to help others!”
David Oliver
SEASON 2018 OPEN DAY
3PM—5PM SUNDAY 25TH February
Stock Road Oval
Free sausage sizzle for all the players
All registration online now
http://www.palmyrajfc.com.au/registration/
SCHOOL BANKING
Tuesday mornings. Students or parents can drop their bank books into the office
on/or by Monday for banking Tuesday morning and they will be sent back to class
after Tuesday morning banking.
Thank you
Maria and Emma
TERM 1 - 2018
Our Lady of Fatima, Palmyra
WEEK MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT /SUN
Week 1
Jan/Feb
29 30 31
Students Start
1 2 3/4
Week 2
Feb
5 6
Pre-Primary OT
Screening
7 8
Opening Mass
Year 5
9
10/11
Week 3
Feb
12
13
Pre-Primary OT
Screening
Parent Information
Evening
14
Ash Wednesday
Mass
15 16
P & F Walk to
School
17/18
Week 4
Feb
19
20 Swimming Training
7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-
ter Polo
21
P & F Meeting at
7.30pm
22 23 Swimming Training
7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-
ter Polo Commonwealth Bank Talk at Assembly
Year 6 Assembly
24/25
Week 5
Feb/
March
26 27 Swimming Training
7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-
ter Polo
28
Year 4 Day at Seton
1 2 Swimming Training
7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-
ter Polo
3/4
Week 6
March
5
Labour Day
6 Swimming Training
7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-
ter Polo OT Screening in
Pre-Primary
7 ASCS Cricket
Tompkins Park Yr 6
TBC
8 9 OLOF Swimming
Trials, Melville Leai-
sure: 12.15-3.00pm P & F Welcome back
function
Year 1 Assembly
10/11
Commitment
Masses for
Sacraments
Week 7
March
12 13 Swimming Training 7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-
ter Polo
14 15 16 OLOF Swimming
Carnival, Melville
Leisure: 9.00-12.00
17
St Patrick’s
Day
18
Week 8
March
19
20 Swimming Training
7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-
ter Polo MJR Session
21 Harmony Day 22
Confirmation
Parent-Child
Meeting at
6.30pm in
Hall
23 Swimming Training 7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-
ter Polo TBC
Year 3 Assembly
24/25
Palm Sunday
Week 9
March/
April
26
Holy Week
begins
27 Swimming Training
7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-
ter Polo
28 29
Holy
Thursday
30
Good Friday
31
Easter
Saturday
1 Easter
Sunday
Week 10
April
2
Easter
Monday
3
Easter Tuesday
4 5 Opti-Minds
Programme Yrs 5 & 6 9am – 12pm
6 ASCS Interschool
Swimming Carnival Fremantle Leisure 9.20-12.00
7/8
Week 11
April
9 10 11 12 13 Regional PD Day
14/15