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NORTH ROCKHAMPTON CATHOLIC COMMUNITY St Mary’s Parish
PARISH PRIEST REV FR MATTHEW MOLONEY WEEKEND MASS TIMES: SUNDAY 7:00AM Email: [email protected] Phone: 07 49282800
ST MARY’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL PRINCIPAL: MR MICHAEL KELSO AP - CURRICULUM: MS JENNIFER HARRIS AP- RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: MRS CHRIS MURPHY
School Website: http://smnrrok.catholic.edu.au
NEWSLETTER FOR TUESDAY 21ST NOVEMBER 2017
ST MARY’S PARENT LOUNGE PORTAL: https://203smnr.rok.catholic.edu.au/parentlounge
Dear Parents
So much is happening over the coming days!
Last Thursday we welcomed almost all of our new Preps for 2018
to prep orientation. Many thanks to:
our staff, who organized the day and presented; to Ms
Bernadette Hanley from our Diocesan office, who intro-
duced new parents to Parent Lounge and to Linda Sand-
er, Beverley and Brad Schimke , who gave insight into the
workings of our P&F, sold washer packs and helped to
clean up.
Many thanks to all parents and staff who helped out during the
recent touch football season. It was wonderful to see so many
players and supporters under the St Mary’s banner enjoying the
grand finals on the weekend. Many thanks to Mrs Julia Diehm and
her small band of coordinators for their time and effort spent organ-
izing teams, uniforms and coaches. Well done!
We learnt over the weekend that Fr Matthew Moloney has been
transferred early in the new year to the Capricorn Coast parishes.
Fr Matthew told us that there were now only six Diocesan priests in
our entire Diocese that stretches from Bundaberg to Mackay and
west to the border! Fortunately, we have our missionary priests
from India to serve our communities.
Fr Matthew has been a significant presence in our school commu-
nity. We thank him for his leadership and genuine concern for our
community. We look forward to working with Fr Marcel Kujur, who
takes up his new appointment to the Northside Catholic Community
in early January.
Thank you in advance to all those involved in running the St Mary’s
Parish Christmas Fair. Thank you to our parish and parent volun-
teers who will run the stalls on Friday night, to the convenors who
have been organizing throughout the year and to those who simply
come along on the night and enjoy the fair. Your contributions com-
bine to make a great night out.
In next week’s newsletter, we will publish the names of class teach-
ers for 2018. Reports will be available on Parent Lounge later in
Week 9 and class lists for 2018 will be emailed to parents early in
the first week of holidays.
Special thanks to Mrs Heidi Mutch who has offered to coordinate
our Breakfast Club in 2018.
Mike
HOW DO YOU USE YOUR TALENTS? I love Sunday’s gospel reading from Matthew’s Gospel and it’s a great one to talk about with your children. Jesus, as he so often did, used a story to teach his followers about His Kingdom. He compared it to a farmer who went away leaving three servants in charge of his business. He gave each servant a varying quantity of money (ironically called ‘talents’ in Jesus’ day). The servants each chose to use their money differently, ranging from locking it away for safe keep-ing to using the money to make more thus making his employer wealthier. God has gifted each of us and our children with talents, some more than others and in great variety. The important thing to consider however is not what we received but rather what we are doing with those talents in our daily lives. Are we locking them away to keep them ‘safe’? Or are we out in the world using our talents, whatever they may be, to make the world a better place and God’s Kingdom richer? Yours in putting our talents ‘out there’. Chris Murphy, APRE PS. Why not take a minute this week to chat with your children, helping them to identify their talents and gifts and how they might use them for the benefit of those around them?
Curriculum Corner Term 4 Week 8 Ms Jennie Harris APC (Assistant Principal – Curriculum)
ST MARY’S SCHOOL CONCERT All students are involved in performing at our School Concert on Monday 27 November. The concert is held in the evening so that parents & grandparents can also attend. Please ensure you have this date and time marked on your calendar Monday, 27 No-vember at 5:30 pm for a 6:00 pm start at Coolock Court. BOOK LISTS Book lists were sent home last week. You would have received two copies. If you wish to have your book list packaged through Capri-corn Educational Resources (Alexandra Street) please return one of the copies to the school office. REPORT CARDS Semester Two Report Cards will be published on the Parent Lounge Portal by the end of term. If you do not have your username and password for Parent Lounge, please contact the school office. 2018 UNPACKING DAY YEAR 1, 2 & 3 Year 1, 2 & 3 will have their Unpacking Day on Friday 19th January 2:00pm – 3:00pm. This is a great opportunity for you to assist both your child’s teacher and your child to settle into a new class and year. Please mark your calendar with the time and date and come to meet your new teacher.
Only 3 more sleeps until the St Mary’s Fair!!!! Have you volun-teered to help on a stall? If not please contact Julie at the office to be rostered onto a stall. Thank you!
LETTERS TO SANTA Australia Post’s Santa Mail program is running again this year. It provides a wonderful opportunity for lower primary students to prac-tise their letter writing skills by writing a letter to Santa. Each student who writes a letter via Santa Mail, and provides an Australian return address, will receive a special reply from Santa. For more infor-
mation, please go to auspost.com.au/education/santamail PARENTING IDEAS The topic for this week is… How to encourage your kids to be problem solvers - When parents solve all children’s problems we not only increase their dependency on adults but we teach kids to be afraid of making mistakes and to blame themselves for not being good enough. That’s fertile ground for anxiety and depressive ill-ness. So, how can we raise kids to be courageous problem-solvers rather than self-critical scaredy cats? Click here to read more. REBEL SPORT (AMART SPORTS) Thank you to all who have participated this year in nominating St Mary’s when making a purchase from Rebel (Amart) Sports . Our school earns 5% of your purchases as in-store credit to spend on sports equipment. We have received over $2000 to spend this year for our school. Please remember to let other family members know so that they too can nominate St Mary’s as this directly bene-fits our students. CLASS NEWS FROM YEAR 1M Year One in almost over and we are busy making sure we are ready for Year 2! In Religion we have been learning all about our Church family – the people who belong to it and the jobs we can do as members of our Church family. We are also preparing ourselves for the special event where we celebrate the birth of Jesus – CHRISTMAS! We are practising our number facts a LOT so that we can do them quickly and accurately. There are lots of strategies we can use and this week our teachers are trying to trick us by mixing up addition and subtraction facts. In Year 1M we love reading and we practise us-ing our strategies whenever we can, especially comprehension be-cause we know understanding what we are reading is very im-
portant. This term we have written information reports – it’s fun or-ganising what we know into a report. Now we are writing narratives and using our Six Strategies for Writing to make sure our narratives are entertaining for the readers. During HASS and Science lessons we have been investigating our environment and how we use it re-sponsibly. Visual Arts and Media Arts are our focus in The Arts this term – lots of fun! And … we are almost ready for our performance of the Nativity play which we will present to you all next Monday, November 27, at the Christmas Concert. We hope you can all come!
APRE NEWS - Term 4 Week 8 Mrs Chris Murphy—APRE (Assistant Principal - Religious Education) ASSEMBLY This week on Friday, November 24, We will have our last general assembly of the year. Please join us in Coolock. MASS Fr Matthew will celebrate with us at our Parish School Mass on Wednesday at 12.00 in the church. We would love you to join us. Next week on Wednesday, November 29, Fr Matthew will celebrate our End Of Year School Mass in Coolock Court at 12.00pm. Please mark this special event on your calendar. PARISH CHILDREN’S MASS Thank you to the wonderful children who read the scripture and sang in the choir at our monthly Children’s Mass on Sunday. Thank you also to their parents who brought them along. SACRAMENTAL PROGRAM A note has been sent home with students who expressed interest in participating in the Sacramental Program next year which includes detailed information about the events next year. If you have not received the note, please contact myself or the office for a copy. If you have not already indicated that you would like to take part but have not made contact, please do so as soon as possible. [email protected] . SERVING AT CHURCH A number of students have expressed interest in serving at Mass. Fr Matthew is currently working with children each Sunday after 9.00am Mass at Holy Family to train them. Please feel free to take along your children so that can learn to take part in the liturgy in an even more active role.
ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHRISTMAS DRIVE Each year the St Mary’s community supports a number of families in the form of a Christmas hamper. This year we are going to help out three families. Please consider sending along something that will help these families to have a wonderful Christmas. Each classroom has a basket for collection of donations.
PLEASE SEND ALONG ITEMS BY THE END OF THIS WEEK SO THAT THEY CAN BE ARRANGED INTO HAMPERS FOR THE THREE FAMILIES. Family 1 – includes Mum, a daughter aged eight, a son aged seven and a son aged six Family 2 – includes Mum, a daughter aged eight, a daughter aged seven, a son aged five and a son aged eighteen months Family 3 – includes Mum, Dad, a son aged three, a daughter aged one and Grandma and Grandad If you are considering sending food, St Vincent De Paul have pro-vided the following guidelines. GIFTS SUITABLE FOR MEMBERS OF THE FAMILIES CAN AL-SO BE DONATED. PLEASE LABEL eg 7 year old girl.
Tinned Vegetables Cereals Etc.
Beetroot / Potato Salad or Tiny Taters /Peas, Carrots, Corn Baked Beans, Spaghetti
Cereal, Long Life Milk Spreads – jams, vegemite, peanut paste etc. /Rice, Noodles
Desserts Drink
Christmas puddings/ Jellies Long Life Custard / Tinned Fruit, Christmas Cake / Mince pies
Soft drink Cordial, Juice Tea, Coffee, Milo
Tinned Meat & Fish Snacks
Ham Meat Voucher Salmon, Tuna
Chips, Nuts ,Pretzels Biscuits (savoury and sweet) Lollies (not chocolate)
Toiletries
Toothpaste/ Tooth brushes Soap / Shower Gel/ Razors Deodorant/ Shampoo Conditioner / Toilet Paper
NO CHOCOLATE/ CHOCOLATE BISCUITS
PLEASE
BIRTHDAYS Leah Chapman, Maddison Austin, Isabella Cooper,
Kaydence Cash, Tyler Ensby, Harrison Milne, Beau Blackburn, Lily Witton-Oates.
TUCKSHOP A reminder the tuckshop is closed every Monday and Tuesday. As we head towards the end of the School year, the Tuckshop will be running low of stock. Could you please put a 2nd food option on your children’s order bag. BREAKFAST CLUB A reminder Breakfast club has finished for the year. KEYBOARD AWARDS Congratulations to the following students who have achieved Key-board Awards:- Moderato Level of the Red Star Medallion Award -Charli Borg, Mia Mutch, Max Beutel.
Volunteer Letters Volunteer letters have been sent home. Please return form as soon as possible if you are able to help. Lists for helping on the BBQ can be found on the Yr 3 and Prep classrooms. Lists for helping on the Cakes & Lollies can be found on the Yr 2 classrooms. Counting Room The Counting Room are looking for help. If you are able to assist, please see Julie in the office. First Aid Officer If you are able to assist in being a designated First Aid Officer on the night of the Fair, please contact Julie or Mike in the school of-fice. Raffle Books Could we please have all books returned (sold or un-sold) by this Thursday 23 November. Rides Tickets for the all-night rides are on sale at the office and will close tomorrow, Wednesday 22 November at 3pm. The proposed rides are Crazy Wave, King Flyer, Slide, Merry-Go Round, Cannibal Pots and 2 Castles. Three hours’ worth of rides (6pm—9pm) costs $28 pre-purchased and $32 on the night. Please send money in an envelope to the office labelled “Fair Rides” and include the child/ren name/s and class. Cheques should be made payable to: St Mary’s Parish Fair (not St Mary’s School). Receipts will be sent home on the day before the Fair (Thursday 23 Novem-ber). These receipts are presented at the ticket box on Fair night to receive the all-night wrist band. Arts & Craft Stall The craft stall is calling for donations of newly made craft items. Christmas themed items are especially sought after. All types of craft are appreciated and encouraged so the stall can have a good range of products for sale. All donations can be brought to the school office and any sale price recommendation or cost esti-mates are also welcomed. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to call Beverley Schimke on 0421089093. Cakes and Lollies Stall Baking This year Emmaus College has kindly offered the use of their commercial kitchen for our “Baking Day”, which will be held on Thursday 23 November. If you are able to contribute even just for an hour on either day, it would be greatly appreciated. Please contact Jodie directly on 0431268 615. If you cannot make these days but would still like to bake for the fair this year food drop off will in the school library on 24 Friday Novem-ber. Ingredients are available from the office. We also have trays and lolly bags. If you would like more ingredients please contact Jodie Holdsworth on Ph: 0431 268 615. Baking suggestions: Toffee, Fudge, Rocky Road, Marshmallow, Sugared peanuts, Xmas cakes, Xmas pudding, Rum balls, Apricot balls, Chocolate balls, Cup Cakes, Shortbread and Cookies. Advertising We have A3 and A4 posters available in the office if you are able to display them at your work, kindy etc. Raffle Helpers If anyone is able to assist Kate and Kelly wrapping the raffle prizes from 2pm Thursday afternoon at school this would be greatly appre-ciated. Please contact Kate on 0419 741 052. BBQ Prices Steak Burger $7 Hamburger $5 Sausage on bread $2.50 1/4 Pizza $4.50 Garlic Bread $2 FACEBOOK Search for St Mary’s Christmas Fair, Rockhampton on Face-book and please share. Raffle Prize Donations Thank you to those who are kindly donating to the raffle. If you haven’t already dropped your prize to the office could you please do so as soon as possible. Thank you.
2017 Term 4 Events
Week Date Event
8 23/11 24/11
Instrumental Music Concert (9.00am) St Mary’s Fair
9 27/11 28/11
29/11 30/11
1/12
School Concert-Year 1 Nativity Play (5.30pm for a 6.00pm start) Yr 6 Dinner (6.00pm)
End of Year Mass (12.00pm) Sports Awards (8.45am) Last Day
Yr 6 Farewell Liturgy (2.00pm)
Thank you to all the businesses and families who have kindly donated to this year’s PARISH FAIR RAFFLE! Barrajacks, Johnson’s 4WD Repair Shop, Capricorn Palms, JC’s Hair, NG Hair, Heidi and Michael Mutch, Finches Mitre 10, St Mary’s Parish, CBD Apartments, Capricorn Educa-tional Resources, Café Bliss/Bliss After Dark, Kate and Edward Miles, Capricorn Palms, Coral Inn Yeppoon, Aqualification, Glover family, SHE Hair, Little Boo, Cathedral Book Store, Toy-world Rockhampton, Jean Kerr - Nutrimetics, Crazy Joker , Man-derson’s Dance Centre, Splash About Swim School, Can I Wear That?, Terri Clarke - Tupperware, Joe and Kaylene Clifton, Ac-tive Gear, Wendy’s Stockland.
2018 – School Calendar
Term 1 Mon 22 Jan – Thur 29 Mar 10 weeks
Term 2 Tues 17 April – Fri 29 June 11 weeks
Term 3 Mon 16 July – Fri 21 Sept 10 weeks
Term 4 Mon 8 Oct – Fri 7 Dec 9 weeks
Public Holidays Australia Day Thurs 26 Jan Good Friday Fri 30 April Easter Monday Mon 2 April Anzac Day Wed 25 April Labour Day Mon 7 May Queen’s Birthday Mon 1 Oct Show Holiday Thurs 14 June Term 1 Fri 16 Feb (Pupil Free Day - Bishop’s In-service Day) Term 2 Mon 16 April (Pupil Free Day) Term 3 Mon 16 July (Pupil Free Day) Term 4 Mon 22 October (Pupil Free Day)
INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC IN 2018 If parents wish to enrol their child for 2 instruments, par-ents need to consult with the school/teacher to ensure the child can manage the workload involved in being absent from class for two music lessons each week before they enrol in both instruments. Are you wanting your child to learn a musical instrument in 2018? Enrolments have now opened. All interested students can pick up an information note at their school office. Copies of these forms are also available at em-maus.qld.edu.au/co-curriculum/instrumental-music/ . Students are encouraged to enrol online—just follow the link on the above webpage. New and existing students must enrol for 2018 and a $10 enrolment fee is payable at time of enrolment, either in a sealed envelope with the child’s name & INSTRUMENTAL MUSIC, or di-rectly to Emmaus College. Enrolment forms must now be complet-ed online, or handed to Reception at Emmaus College, Yaamba Rd campus. Any queries can be directed to Sarah Kateifides. [email protected]
Keyboard lessons 2018 Keyboard lessons will be offered in 2018. These lessons are best suited for students with electronic keyboards, with focus on chord bass and utilising keyboard voice and rhythm features. Group and individual lessons are available for students in years 1 to 6. Contin-uing students are required to re-enrol.
To enrol, please collect form from the school office and return as soon as possible. For more information or any enquiries please contact Leanne Voss 0447 414 730.
CONFIRMATION OF ENROLMENT FOR 2018 A REMINDER THERE ARE STILL SOME FAMILIES WHO HAVE NOT RETURNED THE CONFIRMATION OF ENROLMENT FORM FOR NEXT YEAR. IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY RETURNED YOUR FORM PLEASE CONTACT CAROLYN IN THE SCHOOL OFFICE. Completion of the form will ensure a place at St Mary’s School in 2018 and also ensures you will receive the discounts if you have more that one child at a Catholic School or College in the Diocese of Rockhampton.
If you enjoy singing in church, you are invited to:
at The Cathedral College
Claire Stitt, Joy Philippi and Di-Anne Rowan will be sharing ideas and music from the Australian Pastoral
Musicians Conference held in Perth.
Di-Anne Rowan [email protected]
0418875377 so that we can make sure we have enough copies of handouts and music for you.
PIANO lessons Enrol now for 2018
PREP TO YR 6 For information and to enrol
collect the forms from the school office & return to the school office
with the $10 enrolment fee as soon as possible For more information or any inquiries
Jenny Hughes Ph 49281160 / Mb 0429841104
CHRISTMAS CONCERT BBQ ORDER FORM This year we will be having a BBQ available at the Christmas Concert on Monday 27th November. All order forms need to be placed inside an envelope with the correct money. The envelope must be CLEARLY LABELLED with the child’s class written on the front. These must be handed in to the school office no later than Wednesday 22nd No-vember. FAMILY NAME:- _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ Please select the number of items required Sausage on bread $2.50 Water $2.00 Hamburgers $5.50 Softdrinks $2.50 Poppers $1.50 TOTAL MONEY ENCLOSED:- $ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
The Lights of Christmas 2017 will use the external fa-cade of St Joseph's Cathedral as a canvas to display an 8 minute animation as well as Christmas themed slides in a rotating 20 minute show. 17 to 23 December - a first for Rockhampton! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-FDOFrwyKWc
SOMETHING DIFFERENT! One of our year 4 students, Samuel Schnabel made his Debut on Saturday competing for the first time in the CQ Mudsportz twin track racing at Kabra. Just turning 10 years old he was able to qual-ify for a racing license! His car was built by his grandfa-ther. Well done Samuel!
ELECTION!
Remember to vote in the State Election this Saturday.
Cost is $50.00 per day (6:30am-6:00pm) less your Child Care Benefit and/or Child Care Rebate entitlements. An additional $15.00 will be charged for excursions and $10.00 for Incursions.
Once your bookings have been placed in QIKKIDs you will be charged in advance on the fall of the fortnight prior to the be-ginning of the fortnight.
Statements will be issued prior to accounts. Program changes may occur, due to hot or inclement weather. A notice will be sent out if we know in advance about changes.
Bookings for the centre are a firm commitment and as such incur a charge for service. You must give a minimum of 24hours notice of non-attendance or in the case of sickness as soon as practically possible. If notification is not received prior to
commencement of the day concerned, charges will apply. Please ensure that the service has received a completed excur-sion form for your child if applicable.
Please phone 0412 565 518 or email [email protected] with any questions. Happy Holidays!
PLEASE SEE ATTACHED TO THE NEWSLETTER THE DECEMBER/JANUARY PROGRAM INFOR-MATION
ST MARY’S OSHC CHRISTMAS AND JANUARY
VACATION CARE PROGRAM
Bluebirds Netball Club 'Bluebirds Netball Club 2018 Registration: As 2018 will see the introduction of compul-sory online registration via the MyNetball platform existing players will be need to use their MyNetball account login to access the 2018 Registration Form (available early January 2018). New players including play-ers aged 8 years old as at 31/12/18 inter-ested in joining the club are asked to com-plete an EOI (expression of interest ) form which is now available on our Facebook page (search Bluebirds Netball Club Rock-hampton) & return it via email to [email protected] For those requiring uniforms or further as-sistance a sign on day will be held Sunday 21 January 2018 from 2-4.30pm at Blue-birds United Sports Club, 407 Richardson Road. Enquires please contact Debbie Crane on 0409 622606.
