38 Armstrong Street Petrie Q 4502 Phone 07 3285 2977 Fax 07 3285 5333

Email ppetrie@bne.catholic.edu.au Web www.ourladyoftheway.qld.edu.au

Newsletter Issue 7 29th May, 2012

Dear Parents, It is nearing the end of term and your children will be embarking upon some tasks for assessment of their learning. You may like to take time to talk with your children about the concepts they are engaged with in class and the types of assessment they are completing. One question that you may ask your children is ‘Why do you think you are learning this?’ We are always trying to help children think deeply about their learning and to consider the significance and importance of not only the content of their learning, but also the process. Patron’s Day: What a wonderful celebration we had last Friday for our Patron’s Day. The Mass was beautiful and it was a great opportunity to learn more about our school and parish history thanks to the words of Fr Peter, and the recount from Rosemary Bravo that was shared by Mrs Jan Wilson. We enjoyed seeing our past principal Mr John Brady and hearing stories about our sister school St Bruno’s in Uganda. The children were thrilled with their learning opportunities and especially with the market day where they made and sold their wares in support of St Bruno’s. My thanks to Mr Bemelmans for the coordination of the day, and our terrific staff for helping the day flow smoothly. School Times: Our school day begins at 8.30am and finishes at 2.50pm, our supervision in the morning commences at 8.10am, and ends after school at 3.20pm. It has come to my attention that a growing number of children are arriving early to school. It is important that families make plans for children before school to ensure children only arrive when the teachers are on duty from 8.10am when we can supervise them and keep them safe. One option would be to organise a carpool with another family, or you could book the children in to the before school care program. Before school care opens at 6.30am, the booking form can be found on our school website under the Parent Info tab. Collecting children from school: Just a reminder to families that when you are picking your children up early from school you are to sign the children out in the book in the office and wait there for your children. The office staff will phone for the children to come with their belongings. Have a great week. Kind Regards, Jo Scott-Pegum

‘Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and

just be happy.’ Guillaume Apollinaire

Dear Parents and Carers, Pentecost Reflection: Last Sunday was the feast of Pentecost. On this day we celebrate the gift of the Holy Spirit and how the apostles were changed from frightened people who had locked themselves in a room to people who went out and boldly proclaimed the Good News of Jesus. The Holy Spirit is active in our lives as well and we need to be open to when the Spirit is calling us through the people and events in our lives. Like the apostles we to lock ourselves up in our own room of fear and complacency. Pentecost calls us to be open and aware of the Holy Spirit moving in and influ-encing our lives. Like the apostles, when we are open to the Holy Spirit we are enabled by that same Spirit to achieve great things in our lives. Father Peter’s Birthday On Sunday 3rd June all are invited to celebrate Father Peter’s 75th birthday. There will be Mass at 9am followed by a morning tea. Please come along and bring a plate to share for morning tea and join Father Peter in celebrating this great event in his life. Please note that there will be no Mass at Dayboro on this Sunday and that the Sunday morning Mass will begin at 9am and not the usual 8am time. Year of Grace From Pentecost Sunday (last Sunday) until Pentecost Sunday next year the Australian Bishops have declared this a Year of Grace. This is a time for the Church in Australia to rediscover what it means to encounter Christ in our country and context today. Grace can be defines as the life or presence of God in each of us and in our world. This year of grace invites us to celebrate the presence of God in us and to rediscover the treasures of our Faith and renew and renew and recommit ourselves to the living out of this Faith in our world today. Below is the official prayer for the Year of Grace. Patron’s Day – Thursday 24th May Last Thursday we had a great celebration for Patron’s Day. The children were involved in many activities to deepen their knowledge of Mary, our school and Uganda. During our festive Mass the children listened to our past Principal – John Brady speak about our sister school in Uganda. The children also listened to reflections from Father Peter and Rosemary Bravo (read by Jan Wilson) about what it means to be part of Our Lady of the Way Parish. The market day (mission fair) raised over $900 for St Bruno’s Uganda. At the end of the day classes presented some aspect of their learning from the day to the rest of the school community at an assembly. My thanks to everyone, for their great support of the day. Below are some photos of the day

Enjoy your week Bill Bemelmans APRE

Prayer for the year of Grace Gracious God, You have blessed this ancient land with many gifts, especially its people. We thank you for the Year of Grace, a time to start afresh from Christ. You invite us to contemplate the face of Jesus your Son, that we may experience a new wave of grace, and that the light of Christ may burn more brightly in our lives. Attune our hearts and minds to the presence of your Holy Spirit, that our Church may be transformed, our relationships be healed, and our nation grow in compassion and justice. With the intercession of St Mary MacKillop, who showed us new ways of living the Gospel, we make our prayer through Christ our Lord. Amen. Mary, Help of Christians, pray for us.

Scripture: No one can say, ‘Jesus is Lord’ unless he is under the influence of the Holy Spirit. There is a variety of gifts but always the same Spirit; there are all sorts of service to be done, but always to the same Lord; working in all sorts of different ways in different people, it is the same God who is working in all of them. The particular way in which the Spirit is given to each person is for a good purpose. Just as a human body, though it is made up of many parts, is a single unit because all these parts, though many, make one body, so it is with Christ. In the one Spirit we were all baptised, Jews as well as Greeks, slaves as well as citizens, and one Spirit was given to us all to drink. (1 Corinthians 12:3-7. 12-13)

AWARDS PF PL PC 1F 1L Leo Fractus Rose Dashwood Mitchell Duke Eli Ball Julia Van Rijn James Isola 2F 2L 3F 3L 4F Georgia Adams Tyler Fractus Harry Cruise Acacia Saunders Amber Dean 4L 5F 5L 6F 6L Mia Ambrosi Jessica Pinto Harry Board Maddy Dunbar Maddie Sivyer 7F 7L Koala: Jasmine Brown Owl: Cameron Taylor, Kyla Garrett, Saneigh Allen, Ethan Garth, Olivia Bell-Young, Celina Palant, Madeline Seaton. Italian: Julia Van Rijn CONGRATULATIONS

SCHOOL FEE INFORMATION Term 2 School fees are now well over due, please pay as a matter of urgency .

2012 School Fee information can now be accessed from the school's website. Click on this link www.ourladyoftheway.qld.edu.au click on Parent info and then School fees.

DATES TO REMEMBER 4th June - OLW Athletics Carnival, held at John Oxley Reserve. (note has gone out to children) 11th June - Queen’s Birthday Holiday 19th June - P&F meeting 22nd June - Term 2 ends at 2.50pm 9th July - Term 3 commences 8.30am 13th August - Pine Rivers Holiday

NEWS FROM THE OFFICE

We have had a confirmed case of Whooping cough in the school community. There is a lot of sickness at the moment. If your child is unwell please make alternative arrangements as we do not have the staff or facilities to look after them. LATE SLIP - It is a legal requirement for parents/carers to complete a late slip for your child/ren if they arrive late at school.

Pauls Collect-A-Cap COLLECTION SO FAR

We have just heard our total to date is $230.67

Please keep sending in all your CLEAN Pauls milk caps to the

office. We will be collecting the caps for the rest of the year.

Pauls Collect-A-Cap has no end date yet.

The Tuckshop operates with the support of volunteer parents. Please phone Jacqui Cooper on 0488 020 292 or Trish Proctor on 0430 471 580

IF YOU CAN HELP

Please complete and return the tear-off below if you are able to offer any

assistance. An hour in the morning would be a great help in making the

tuckshop run smoothly.

NO PARKING

We have had complaints from local residents in Armstrong Street of cars parking on the yellow lines. It makes it very difficult for cars coming out of driveways to see cars coming. PLEASE DO NOT PARK ON THE YELLOW LINES.

DATE HELPERS

Wed 30th May Mark Freeman

Fri 1st June HELP NEEDED

Mon 4th June NO TUCKSHOP

Wed 6th June Gaye Thomas, HELP NEEDED from 8:30-9:15am

Fri 7th June Jacinta Kerrigan, HELP NEEDED from 8:30-9:15am

Monday, Wednesday & Friday

Convener - Jacqui Cooper

Friday

Convener – Trish Proctor

TUCKSHOP HELPER ROSTER NAME: ______________________________________________ PHONE NO: ____________________________

EMAIL: _____________________________________________ MOBILE NO: __________________________

CHILD’S NAME (eldest): _______________________________________ CLASS: ____________

Please tick �

DAY PREFERRED: TIME PREFERRED:

0 Wednesday 0 8:30 – 9:30am

0 Friday 0 FORNIGHTLY 0 MONTHLY

LIBRARY NEWS WK7 Year 4 are practising writing descriptions after looking at a photograph. This was written by Maddy in 4F The Rainforest The rainforest is a lovely calm place where animals live. It has lots of thick trees with moss on them. The moss is green and slimy. Some old trees have fallen into a creek. A waterfall keeps the water flowing. It is noisy but refreshing. There is soft white sand. The water is an orangey colour from the sun and the sand. Sometimes there are lily pads. The trunks of the trees are dark chocolate brown with minty green leaves. You can hear bugs and birds everywhere you turn so it is really noisy. It is shady and damp and very

peaceful.

SCHOOL BANKING ......$$$ Don’t forget the Dollarmize Yourself Competition as mentioned in this term’s previous newsletter’s. Also, all entries need to be in by the 30th of June. It is important to note, you must have your parent or guardian’s approval to participate. Also * Book-lights are available for order now. * Wallets are now out of stock. For the month of May, if children order a lunch box, they get a drink bottle for free!! Happy banking and good luck!! Jean Power – School Banking Co-ordinator

UNIFORM SHOP Hours of Trade

Wednesday 2-30pm to 4pm Friday 8-00 to 9-30am Other times by appointment

Email: olwuniformshop@gmail.com Phone 3285 2977 ext 7 After hours 0409 493 826 (Kim)

Junior School Choir Thank you to all the children who attended our first practise session. It was an overwhelming

response with 50 children attending. Their biggest question was “When are we going on stage?” After lots of

practice and training our voices. The children started off by learning breath control. Some students were given the

opportunity to sustain one breath by making a pinwheel turn for as long as possible. Following this, the children

listened to successive notes played on a piano, using the sequence of 1; 1,2,1; 1,2,3,2,1, etc.; all the way up to 8

completing the octave. We finished the session with the children again listening to and joining in singing on one

note encouraging them to open their mouths to produce clear vowel sounds: nee, nay, nah, no, noo.

Happy singing,

Mrs Bone.

FREE ACTIVE KIDS SESSIONS RUN BY MORETON BAY REGIONAL COUNCIL. Monday 25th June to Friday 6th July Morteton Bay Regional Council will once again be hosting the FREE Active Kids Park Sessions to run at Parks throughout the region. For further information go to Active Kids Website www.moretonbay.qld.au/activekids Also a FREE Ramp Up Skate, Scooter & BMX Sessions - June to November, 2012. For more information on dates and location visit the Ramp Up website at www.moretonbay.qld.au/rampup There is a flyer in the school notice board for more information.

Mater Little Miracles 5ks is a fantastic family fun run/walk at Southbank Parklands on

Sunday 3 June. Be a superhero for sick kids and join with Green Lantern and Wonder Women, as well as Dora the Explorer and

Scooby-Doo, for this super event!

You’ll enjoy a great morning of family fun, food and entertainment, with all funds raised going to support sick babies and children in Mater Mothers' and Children's Hospitals.

This year we are challenging even more Queenslanders to get involved to help us raise over $200,000 for research

that will help children and babies have a healthy start to life.

Register online for $25 per family at www.materlittlemiracles5ks.org.au

or call 1800 440 155 for more information.

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Questions? Comments? Please call (07) 3365 7307