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OLSH Newsletter
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Dear Family and Friends of OLSH College Bentleigh,
A warm welcome back to all members of the OLSH community for Term 2. In a special way we welcome new students Aditi Dudhoria (Year 8) and Claudia Conte (Issoudun) to OLSH and wish you well for this year and for your years ahead at the College.
On Monday all staff had the privilege to listen to guest speaker Hugh van Cuylenburg. Hugh spoke about the year he spent in the far north of India volunteering and living at an underprivileged school in the Himalayas. It was here that he discovered resilience in its purest form. His message was resilience comprises of three elements; gratitude, empathy and mindfulness. If we are grateful for what we have, demonstrate small acts of kindness and live in the present, our lives would be so much richer. Our challenge is to practise these elements each day and to take note of the “micro moments of resonance” in our lives.
Wishing you many blessings for the term ahead.
On the evening of that first day of the week, when the doors were locked, where the disciples were… Jesus came and stood in their midst and said to them, “Peace be with you”
John 20:19
Dina Oro Assistant Principal Student Wellbeing
NEWSLETTER
Volume 44, Number 5 Friday 17 April 2015
We do not remember days, we remember moments.
Cesare Pavese
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On the last day of Term 2, we gathered as a College community to celebrate our Holy Week Mass.
We reflected on the events in last days of Jesus’ life and took time to remember in prayer all those in need. Some highlights of our celebration were:
the offertory where our Project Compassion boxes were brought to the altar. All in all, we raised $11,000 for Caritas’ ‘Food for Life’ campaign and Vanuatu appeal;
hearing from Lara White, our College Captain, who shared her faith story and why her faith is so important to her; and
Alishia Francis and the band’s moving rendition of ‘Oceans’ which linked Jesus’ experience of suffering and doubt with our own.
Sr Megan Donohue fdnsc
Assistant Principal Faith and Mission
Wednesday 22 April 3.15pm – 7.00pm
and
Monday 27 April 4.00pm – 7.00pm
PTO is now open and will close at 5.00pm the day prior to each session.
Please see College Website for bookings and further information.
Faith & Mission
“He Is Not Here,” a painting by contemporary Chinese
Christian artist He Qi.
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As a part of our pastoral care review, parents were emailed a survey link to complete a questionnaire towards the end of last term.
Thank you to all parents that responded; we were most grateful for the time taken to complete it. The results from the parent, student and staff surveys will assist us in ensuring that we can continue to provide an environment that will allow our girls to flourish.
The basic task of parenting, whether you have a two year old or a twenty-two year old, is to work yourself out of a job at the first possible chance.
REDUNDANCY should be the aim of the game! We never become redundant in a relationship sense – the emotional connection between our children and us is never severed.
In a practical, physical way we need to make children less, rather than more, reliant on us.
Developing independence is really about stepping back to allow children in. Doing less rather than more!
We develop greater independence in our kids one job at a time.
We easily take on children’s responsibilities It is easy as parents to take on the jobs and responsibilities that really should belong to our children. With toddlers it is so easy to dress, feed and clean up after them rather than give these jobs over to them.
With school-aged children we can find ourselves making lunches, getting kids out of bed and cleaning out schoolbags rather than giving these basic tasks of living over to them.
TIP NO. 1 for developing independence: Be clear about who owns jobs or tasks in your family and never take on a child’s job, or part of a task, unless there is extenuating circumstances such as illness.
TIP NO. 2 for developing independence: Never be more worried about a child’s job than they are, otherwise it becomes your job, not theirs.
The school holidays provide a good opportunity to reflect on the whole notion of job-sharing. It’s also a good time for kids to increase their job load when they are not burdened with schoolwork and extra-curricular activities.
Here’s my challenge for you: Think of a job that you regularly do for your child that he or she can do for him or herself. Then step back and enable your child to do that for themselves on a full-time basis. Do less not more for your kids.
If you do that, then you can congratulate yourself as you have moved one step more toward REDUNDANCY.
Ms Dina Oro Assistant Principal Student Wellbeing
Student Wellbeing News
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Over the school holiday break landscaping work was done in and around the school grounds.
We look forward to the girls enjoying these improved spaces.
College News
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Senior SCSA Indoor Cricketers arrived triumphantly back at OLSH on Wednesday with the winners’ trophy! Coach, Ms Jyotika Singh, was very proud of the good sportsmanship and perseverance displayed by her team throughout the competition. Both the Junior and Intermediate teams also played well all day to narrowly miss their Grand Finals and finish in third place.
SENIORS: Sarah Carneiro, Isabel Quintal, Faye Valladares, Elise Collier, Stefani Savic, Zoe Campbell, Alexandra Moulton, Emma Vakis, Frances Corrone, Rachel Pereira
INTERS: Emma Medland, Tina Kiriakos, Beth Supple, Kelsey Higgins, Hannah Layzell, Julia Daye, Brylee Nicholson , Abby Freney, Keely Jamieson, Olivia May, Jasmine Duncan (pictured below left)
JUNIORS: Shari Jansz, Amanda Lindfield, Shae Rohan, Katia Daye, Jada Daly, Kate Williamson, Hannah Dingli, Evelyn Lama, Sienna Sarmento-Cardoso, Abbey Snell (pictured below right)
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It has been great to see so many students attending morning, lunchtime and after school trials, hoping to be selected for the SCSA Basketball and Indoor Soccer teams. Keep up the enthusiasm girls!
Training is also underway for the SESG afterschool Basketball, Badminton and Indoor Soccer teams. The competition begins on Tuesday 28 April for Inters and Wednesday 29 April for Juniors. It will run for the whole of Term 2.
Training and selections for the OLSH Athletics team begin on Monday after school at Rowan’s Road Athletics Track in Moorabbin. Students who performed well at the House Carnival have received an invitation to attend however, all students are welcome to collect a permission letter and try out for an event.
Mrs Annemarie Petering and Mrs Bronwyn Verrell Sports Coordinators
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As excitement builds for Grease, our inaugural co-production with De La Salle College Malvern, Year 7 and 8 students are embarking on a junior production.
The Pied Piper will be performed in the College Theatrette at 7.30pm on Monday 24 and Tuesday 25 August.
Casting is being finalised this week with rehearsals commencing next Monday.
We look forward to a fabulous show in August and providing our Year 7 and 8 students the opportunity to experience the fun of performing.
Mrs Michelle Fenton Head of Department – Co-Curricular Activities
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College News
In preparing a proposal to advocate the council for a school crossing, the College will be taking photographs and filming in Robert Street at various times over the next couple of weeks.
