NEWSLETTER Tuesday 29 May, 2018

St Oliver Plunkett Primary School

Landells Rd, Pascoe Vale, 3044 93545411

www.sopascoevale.catholic.edu.au

LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT

DIARY DATES

Term 2 MAY 30 Dr Andrew Mullins - Parenting For Character Evening 7.30p.m.

JUNE 6 Reconciliation MB, MT, MM 7 Year 5 Boys to visit Parade 11 Queen’s Birthday Holiday 13 Year 4 Explore at Mercy 13 Reconciliation MD, MJ 20 Circus Performance 21 Circus Performance 27 Parent/Teacher/Student Conferences. Classes for students finish at 1.30pm 29 Term ends 1.30 p.m.

Assembly @ 9am Fri June 1 - Middle J Fri June 8 - Prep W Fri June 15 Senior C

Weekly Class Mass Click HERE to view the Class Mass roster for term 2. Masses are on THURSDAY at 10.00am in the church

From the Principal… Dear Parents and Students, It was terrific to see so many families join us last Friday morning for our first assembly in our new hall. Prep R performed beautifully. For the rest of the term our assemblies will be held on Friday at 9am.

St Oliver’s Thanksgiving Program Our parish of St Oliver’s is currently running a Thanksgiving Program. All parishioners are invited and welcome to attend the parish Forum on Thursday 14 June at either 10.45am or 7.00pm in the Church Further information can be obtained form our Parish website pol.org.au/pascoevale We would also like you to please visit and like the Parish Facebook page: St Oliver Plunkett’s – Pascoe Vale Please open the links to Parish Flyer and Parish Groups to learn more. Regards, Alan and Libby

LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Dear Families, It is with great excitement that the tickets for our whole school Circus performance will go on sale at 5pm tonight. There are two performances (Wednesday June 20 and Thursday June 21 @ 7.00pm). Please check which night your child/children will be performing. Wednesday June 20 Thursday June 21

Prep R Prep W Junior J Junior B Junior L Junior G Middle M Middle J Middle B Middle T Senior C Middle D Senior D Senior T

Senior M

Tickets are not required for the performers. All tickets are $15 per seat. The money raised from the sale of the tickets will go towards the cost of the company we employed to train our students (The Circus Crew), the equipment, the sound, the lighting, the staging and the costumes. We ask that all students wear dark or black clothing, this will form a base for the costumes that are provided. There is no need to go out and buy something new. Tickets can be purchased through Trybooking. The seats are booked seats. Bookings will open at 5 p.m. tonight.

https://www.trybooking.com/387298 Please come and talk to us if you have any concerns. We are looking forward to a fantastic production. Regards Libby Sheedy

EDUCATION IN FAITH

CLASS MASS Junior B and Junior J will be attending Mass this Thursday 31 May. Family members are welcome to come and sit with the children and join them in prayer.

FEAST OF THE SACRED HEART There is a school Mass for The Feast of the Sacred Heart on Friday 8 June at 11:45. The children will be leading the Liturgy and bringing symbols of food baskets forward in the offertory. This is known across many Melbourne parishes as ‘The Poor Man’s Mass’. Families are welcome to join us in prayer and song at the Mass.

FOOD COLLECTION FOR ST VINCENT de PAUL SOCIETY Please continue to send in non-perishable food items to support the wonderful work St Vincent de Paul Society carry out to help the disadvantaged. Each classroom has a basket for the food items.

Trish Segrave Religious Education Leader

LEARNING AND TEACHING

The classes are busy as we prepare for the Circus Crew performance. So far students have been introduced to a range of circus skills and equipment. Learning a new skill is not easy and this is a time when students need to have a growth mindset of “I can’t do that yet”. Students have been talking about the learning qualities of determination, persistence, questioning and reflecting that are vital when learning.

Here are some of the reports from our developing circus performers-

We are learning to use the diablos. During our sessions we also do hula Hoops, devil sticks, spinning plates and juggling.

At first everyone was flabbergasted at how hard these tricks were and the amount we had to learn. We can throw up and catch the diablo. We can balance on one foot. We can do the waterfall technique.

Now we have learnt the tricks it is about keeping it consistent and working to make this a fabulous show. We will never forget the day we first got the diablos working. Lola and Clara.

Sue Leighton Learning & Teaching Leader

What am I learning?

How am I going?

Where to next?

WELLBEING

Parenting Night Wednesday May 30

Please be reminded that tomorrow night is our parenting night with Andrew Mullins. He will have his book on sale for anyone wishing to purchase it. Andrew is looking forward to supporting many parents in equipping your child for life. Time - 7.30 p.m. Venue – Senior C Classroom (Upstairs senior building)

STEPHANIE ALEXANDER KITCHEN

The garden has been a busy place this week. Middle D picked all of our pumpkins. What a harvest we have!! Check out the photos below. We also planted lots of new seedlings for our Winter season: broccoli, lettuce, beetroot, onion, leek, spring onion and some garlic. The garden is looking full and ready to grow!

FARMERS MARKET

On Wednesday 20th June we will be hosting our very first Farmers’ market from 3pm. All the money will be going to purchasing our very own watering system. We will be selling:

- - Pickled capsicums

- - Melanzane sotto olio (eggplants under oil)

- - Rosemary salt

- - Green tomato relish

- - Some fresh herbs from our garden

All jars will be $5 and the small packets of rosemary salt will be $2.

SPORT

Thank you to all the children who entered a design into the PLANTER BOX competition. All the designs were amazing but we could only pick 3. Thank you to the Stephanie Alexander leaders who assisted with the choosing the finalists. The winners are: Sofia & Chanel – MD Zara & Mira – MB & Ava – MM Carla, Samuel & Christina - ST ITALIAN POETRY COMPETITION The children are busily working on memorizing and familiarizing themselves with their poems for the Italian Poetry competition. The students will present their poems on Monday 4th June at 9.30am at school. A few teachers from Penola College will come and listen to the students recite their poems.

Regards, Giulia Mazzarella

Coburg District Cross Country Congratulations to all the super stars that participated in the Coburg District Cross Country last Thursday 24th of May. The weather held out for the day so that all students could do a stellar job at running in the Cross Country! We had three students make it through to the Division Cross Country Championships to be held on Wednesday 13th of June. We wish Anthony Guarino (SM), Charli Tortul (SM) and Paris Tortul (SD) all the best in this next round of competition. Inter-School Sport Senior students played their first game of Winter Inter-School Sports on Friday against Pascoe Vale North Primary School. The results for the games are as follows:

GIRLS BOYS

SOCCER

LOSS 0 - 7

WIN 4 - 0

GIRLS MIXED

NETBALL LOSS 2 - 26

LOSS 7 - 25

MIXED

FOOTBALL LOSS 32 - 100

This Friday 1st of June, St Olivers will be playing a re-scheduled HOME game against Pascoe Vale from Round 1 (May 4th), which was cancelled due to weather. Julie-Ann Dimasi

Sport Coordinator

GENERAL NEWS

FAMILY DETAILS UPDATES It is important that we have accurate student & family information, particularly home, work and mobile numbers of both parents and emergency contacts. Please inform the office if there are any changes to any of these details.

SUNSMART

All children are encouraged to wear their SCHOOL HAT during recess and lunch times, as well as during physical education/sport lessons.

CANTEEN

Please check the new Canteen price list for updates on price.

***Please note there are no more gingerbread or butter popcorn for the rest of the term***

Thursday 31 May Canteen Open

Friday 1 June Leanne Moss & Chantelle Strohhecker

Please click HERE for a copy of the Canteen Menu Please direct enquiries to Di Tabone dtabone@ozemail.com.au or 0423 596 221

PARENT ASSOCIATION

Our weekly recap-OSHC

This week children participated in lots of different activities

planned and unplanned. We also watched movie this week due to

poor weather. Children made beautiful origami flowers in art and

craft. Last week, children invented a new group game called “our

family” where they all were running from one corner to another

in order to get some hidden treasures. This game was super hit

game for whole week. Our cute preppies enjoyed it a lot.

Moreover, it was great to see that our senior children were

teaching some outdoor games to our prep children. Now our

preppies know how to play down ball, soccer, basketball and

many more games. Our lego masters built lot of new things in lego

such as Harry potter house, diamonds, building, crown and

animals. They are super talented! So, overall, last week every

child was busy in different activities and they all had very good

time.

Medical management plans -Reminder

Our friendly reminder to our dear parents- Please insure that

all your child’s Medical management plans and Allergy

plans are up to date. If your plan is expired we will not be

able to accept your child in our care. You can get a copy of

plan from us or from our website anytime and get it signed

by your doctor. As you all know the plans need to update

yearly or by the review date mentioned by your doctor.

Thank you in advance!

Mariam and team