Week 5, Term 3 Friday 19th August

Dear Members of our Community of Faith, Congratulations to Sam Whitehead who is our Hot Chips winner for this week. It is great to see our senior students leading the way in enacting our school rules. Well done! It has been a busy few weeks in the SMMC Community with Gala Dinner, Parent Evening and Bunnings BBQ in amongst the normal day to day events in the life of a school. These have all been wonderful events, with two of them helping us to grow richer in monetary terms and one helping us to grow richer in our family relationships. I’m sure those parents who were able to make it to our parent evening found it to be very worthwhile. I have three copies of Gerard’s book ‘As I Have Loved You’, so let me know if you would like a copy for $20. Book Week – Australia! Story Country Next week is Book Week, a time to celebrate the joy of reading!! Both the Teacher’s Favourite Book Competition and Colouring in Competition were due today and Mrs Mott will have some winners for us next week. Primary students will dress up for a parade next Wednesday 24th August at 11:20am. Students need to come to school in school uniform and get changed at Recess please. Come along if you can. Our K,1,2 students have an exciting excursion to the Lavington Library next Tuesday 23rd August, where they will experience some of the ‘Book Week Books’ and a Library somewhat bigger than our school one! Thank you to Miss MacLean and Mr Flores for organising this experience for the students. Saint Mary MacKillop Gala Dinner Thank you to all who were able to buy items at the Gala Dinner and contribute so generously to our School Building Fund both on the night and throughout this year. The Gala Dinner raised a whopping $11,000, which brings our total raised for our Sports Court to $31,000. Thank you for your generosity. School Concert On Friday 2nd September beginning at 7:00pm we will enjoy watching our students in action as they broadcast their talents. Further auditions for the concert are next Tuesday 23rd August at lunchtime, so make sure you’re ready!

NAPLAN The NAPLAN testing results have arrived and these have been sent home with the students, who have been directed to give them straight to their parents. If you would like to discuss

the results with your child’s teacher, please make a time to catch up with them. These tests were conducted quite some time ago and the students have been engaged in lots of great learning since that time. The results are a snapshot of your child on that particular day and one form of assessment we can use as a school to help improve student learning outcomes. Bunnings Barbeque Thank you to all those people who came to assist at the BBQ last Saturday. Your generosity is much appreciated. We went through 490 sausages, 8kg of onions, 30 loaves of bread and about 80 cans of soft drink for a profit of $1077. This is a great result. Jindera Summer Tennis The Jindera tennis club are looking for children 8 – 12 years old who would like to play in our summer competition. Mums & Dads are also welcome. Please contact either Pat Hayes 60263201 or Paul Barnett 60263882 if interested. For junior coaching contact Leanne Wheaton 602632297 or 0417282584. Lost Property The lost property box is well and truly overflowing! If you are missing any items please come and have a look through. I think there may even be some akubra hats in there from Summer and they’re not cheap! 2017 Kinder Enrolments I have enjoyed showing some of our 2017 Kinder students through the school this week and look forward to catching up with anyone else wanting to send their child to Kinder next year. In order to be able to plan effectively for next year, I would like to have these enrolments finalised as soon as possible. SMMC Fete With a very busy schedule of events behind us, we can now switch focus to our annual fete coming up on Saturday 22nd October. This day happens to be the feast day of Pope Saint John Paul II, so we’ll pray to him for its success. Much groundwork has already been done, but there is still much to do. Please have a read of the fete information on page 3 and 4 to see what you can do to assist. Raffle tickets have also been sent home to sell. Thank you in advance!!

God Bless, Luke Burton (Principal)

Saint Mary MacKillop College 197 Urana Street Jindera 2642 Phone: 02 6026 3733 Website: http://smmc.nsw.edu.au Email: office@smmc.nsw.edu.au

“We shall never know all the good that a

simple smile can do.”

Mother Teresa

Dates for your diary…

Monday 22nd – Friday 26th August – BOOK WEEK

Tuesday 23rd August – School Concert Auditions at lunchtime

Tuesday 23rd August – K,1,2 Excursion to Lavington Library 11:30am – 1:00pm

Wednesday 24th August – Primary School Book Week Parade 11:20am in the Hall

Thursday 25th August – Yr.9/10 Visual Arts Excursion, looking at Landscapes with Mr Williams

Sunday 28th August – Yr.9,10,11 Drama Students’ Excursion to Melbourne

Friday 2nd September 7:00pm – School Concert in the Hall

Tuesday 6th September – School Council Meeting 7:30pm

Monday 12th – Friday 16th September (Week 9) – Yr.11 Exams

Saturday 17th September – P&F Cake Stall in Jindera

Thursday 22nd September – visit from Vianney College Seminarians

Friday 23rd September – Assembly after 9:20am Mass and Term Three finishes

Monday 10th October – Term Four begins for students

Saturday 22nd October – SMMC Fete

Tuesday 25th October 7:30pm– Parent Evening with Simon Carrington from Parousia Media. “Keeping the Communication Lines Open with our Children”.

Friday 11th November – Sunday 13th November - Father/Son Camp, Harrietville

Thursday 8th December – Term Four finishes for students

~ CURRICULUM CORNER ~ Mrs Vera Galvin

Last Term in Science the 3/4 Students looked at Products.

Working in teams, they designed, created and

evaluated a game. Mr Burton came in to play the games with

the students and was most impressed at the thinking and effort that had been put into each game. Great learning

3/4s!

SMMC FETE 22ND OCTOBER 2016

We will be holding our annual fete on Saturday 22nd October 2016. This is our major fundraising event and

the support of people in our school community and beyond have made previous fetes very successful. We are

aiming to improve on last year’s total of $8,192.00. Many thanks to those who have attended fete

subcommittee meetings and have already been working on collecting donations from businesses for our wheel.

Some ways to start preparing for the fete and how to help on the day are listed below:

NEXT FETE SUB COMMITTEE MEETING: Wednesday 31st August at

2.30 pm in the school library

JINDERA STREET STALL

We will be holding a street stall on Saturday 17th September from 7.30am - 10.30am outside the Jindera

Newsagency and Take Away. We will be looking for donations of cakes, cupcakes, slices, muffins and

biscuits to sell. This is a good opportunity to promote the fete and sell raffle tickets to the local community.

More details to follow.

Many thanks and God bless,

P & F Committee

SELL RAFFLE TICKETS

A book of 10 tickets at $2 each is attached. More books are available from Vera Galvin.

There will be a prize for the family who sells the most tickets!

DONATE A BRAND NEW ITEM

If you have any brand new items that would be suitable as prizes for the wheel and are able

to donate them, they would be greatly appreciated. These will need to be still in their

packaging.

FIND TRASH AND TREASURE ITEMS

These items need to be clean and not broken and may be dropped off at school at the

beginning of Term 4.

POTTING PLANTS

Example: buy a punnet of seedlings and plant each one into a separate pot. Herbs and

vegetable seedlings are very popular and sell quickly.

MAKE MYSTERY BOTTLES

Use a clean, empty 1.25 L plastic soft drink bottle, cut it in half and place a few small

stationery items/toys/wrapped lollies inside then tape up the bottle. Any student who brings

along one or more mystery bottles will receive an icy pole on ‘Icy Pole Day’ early in Term

4.

COLLECT DONATIONS FROM BUSINESSES

If you are able to assist with this, please contact the school office.

PACKAGE PRIZES FOR THE WHEEL

Help would be greatly appreciated by Donalee Murphy to make up prize packs for the

wheel on Friday 21st October at school.

VOLUNTEER TO HELP ON A STALL

Check the list of stalls (on separate page) and write your name next to one you can assist

with, even if it’s only for a short time. Please add any other ideas you may have for a stall

or competition, especially if you are willing to set up and run it.

SET UP AND PACK UP ON FETE DAY

Many hands make light work!

FETE VOLUNTEERS (so far)

Please add your name and any suggestions and return to school.

CHOCOLATE WHEEL Phil & Donalee Murphy

BBQ & DRINKS Tocher Family

CAFE Marcia Saliba

DONUTS Kevin Tingle

MIILKSHAKES &

MINERS RIGHTS

Perry Family

CAKE STALL

PLANT STALL Chris Tingle

CRAFT STALL Cathy Moriarty

EMBROIDERED LINEN Therese Mott-Pekolj

BRIC-A-BRAC Kathleen Horsfall, Terry Josephs

MYSTERY BOTTLES

Tania McLean

RAFFLE TICKET SALES

(ON THE DAY)

LEGION OF MARY

Students

FACE PAINTING

Victoria Costello & Students

MINI GOLF

Fr Murphy

PAELLA

Kieran Williams

TUG OF WAR

Paul McAlister, Andrew Flores

LIVING OUT THE FAITH IN FAMILY LIFE

Mary-Queen of our Hearts, Queen of our Homes.

Last Monday was the solemnity of the Assumption, the day Our Blessed Mother was taken body

and soul into heaven. This coming Monday 22nd August we celebrate the Queenship of Mary. This

feast instituted by Pope Pius XXII celebrates Mary crowned in glory in heaven. This is the woman

clothed with the sun, the moon at her feet and a crown of twelve stars.

Contemplate Mary in her humility. Who was Mary to the world but a simple Jewish girl living in

Nazareth. Joseph, a carpenter, was her earthly spouse. She was the mother of only one son, who was

born in a stable while they were away from home staying in Bethlehem. Little did the people of

Nazareth know that this meek and mild virgin had been chosen from all eternity to be the Mother of

God and that because of her yes the “word made flesh” was living among them.

Many of the eastern icons show Our Lady embellished with exquisite crowns, golden and encrusted

with precious jewels - the most beautiful crowns humanly possible. We, like these great artisans can

bestow on Mary a loving crown. “I have neither gold nor silver, nor virtues to adorn her crown. I

can only come up with acts of contrition, deep sorrow for my sins and shortcomings and continual

acts of love. The crown I make for my Queen will be made of precious stones, as precious as I can

find.” (Orozco, Look up to Mary). This is the crown most pleasing to her.

Mary is the Mother of God and our mother also. We are her children and like children we never

outgrow that loving guidance that only a mother can give. Stay close to her for she will show us the

way of perfection, “She is not the light but the light shines in her.”(Orozco). She will draw us and

our families close to her son.

Salve Regina - Hail Holy Queen.

O Mary, My Queen, My Mother, I give myself entirely to thee and to show my devotion to thee, I

consecrate, this day, my eyes, my ears, my mouth, my heart, my whole being without reserve.

Wherefore good Mother as I am thine own, keep me, guard me as thy property and possession.

Amen (Indulgence by Bl Pius IX, August 5th 1851, when said with a Hail Mary in the morning and the evening to

overcome temptation.)

Virtue for the month of August - Justice “A just person strives constantly to give others what is their due, so that they can fulfil their duties

and exercise their rights as persons (the right to life, to cultural and moral goods, to material goods),

as parents, as children, as citizens, as workers, as rulers, etc.- and he also like to see that others do

likewise.”

(Character Building- David Isaacs)