ISSUE 35: November 4th, 2022

Principal / Executive Leadership Team

Dear Parents, Carers, Staff, Students and Friends,

Welcome to our Week Five Newsletter.

Parish Mass 

Cooinda & Year Six buddies will be attending this Wednesday’s Parish Mass beginning at 9.30am.  Parents are welcome to attend.

2023 Prep Transition

Our new 2023 Prep students have their next transition session at school this Monday, 7th November from 8:45am-1:30pm.  

2023 Preps and Year Five Buddies will come together, along with their parents on Wednesday, 16th November for a meet & greet.  This get together is being held at school in the courtyard area from 5pm to 6pm.  A sausage in bread will be provided for all families.

Our Prep 2022 Transition Program is attached below.

Remembrance Day

This Friday 11th November is Remembrance Day.  We honour and celebrate armed forces members who have died in the line of duty.  Classes will be doing some learning about Remembrance Day throughout the week.  Mr O’Callaghan and the Student Leadership Team will go to Henderson Park to participate in the service and lay a wreath.  At school, we will have a short service as part of our School Assembly.

Assembly

The Student Leadership Team will host this week’s Assembly beginning at 2.30pm.       

2023 Classroom Structure, Transition & Class Placement

Information was shared with all families last week regarding the number of classrooms for the 2023 school year, our processes for placing students into classes for 2023 and transition dates.  Parents will have the opportunity to contribute to this process via the Class Placement Survey which can be picked up from the front office and needs to be returned in a sealed envelope by Friday, 11th November.   

Schools Sports Victoria (SSV) Events

Congratulations to all students who have represented our school during the week showing great sportsmanship and competitive spirit.

• State Athletics in Melbourne - In the 12-13 year girls Mia Hards finished 11th out of 17 competitors in the girls High Jump.  In the 11 year girls Remi McClelland came 4th out of 16 competitors in Triple Jump and 9th out of 16 competitors in High Jump.  Both Mia and Remi did an outstanding job.
• Boys Volleyball team won the Region Final at Sea Lake and have now qualified for the State finals.

We have a number of different SSV events occurring in week six:

• Our Year 5/6 boys & girls Basketball teams are competing in the SSV Region Basketball Finals in Bendigo on Tuesday, 8th November. 
• Year 5/6 Boys & Girls Division T20 Cricket at the Aerodrome Ovals on Thursday, 10th November.
• Year 3/4 Boys & Girls Division T20 Cricket at the Aerodrome Ovals on Friday, 11th November.

We wish students and staff who are attending all the best.

We wish students and staff who are attending all the best.

Student Mobile Phones

Any students who need to bring a mobile phone to school to use after school are asked to hand this in at the school office each morning and pick it up at the end of the day.  Mobile phones should not be kept in school bags during school time. 

God bless!

Mark Gibson

Be sure to check out our Footy Sport star Academy we have weekly at the moment you can enrol here: 

Religious Education

First Reconciliation

Students should be working through their lessons at home.  Feel free to contact Ryan O’Callaghan at school if you have any questions regarding this Sacrament. Celebration of this Sacrament will be on Wednesday 23rd November at 7pm at the Sacred Heart Church.

Learning and Teaching News

As per a facebook post via our school page this week, Emerging Minds has been dedicated to advancing the mental health and emotional wellbeing of Australian infants, children, adolescents and their families. The organisation now leads the National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health, delivered in partnership with the Australian Institute of Family Studies (AIFS), the Australian National University (ANU), the Parenting Research Centre (PRC) and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP).

Emerging Minds develops mental health policy, interventions, in-person and online training, programs and resources in response to the needs of professionals, children and their families. They partner with family members, national and international organisations to implement evidence-based practice into the Australian context. Resources are freely available at this web hub: https://emergingminds.com.au

Emerging Minds Families can be accessed by families via the Emerging Minds website. They develop free resources to help all families access the right information, at the right time.

They work together with families and professionals and draw on the latest research to produce information and resources to help you support children’s mental health and wellbeing.

Watch the animation to get started:

Learning Diversity News

No news this week.

Prep Unit News

Short week this week! It was lovely to have a rest and rechange ready to tackle the busy end of the year. 

Some reminders:

• Sounds to continue practising with your child/ren at home: s, a, t, p, i, n, m, r, f, o, c, d, h, e, n, g, l, k, u, b, j, w, ck, ll, ff, ss, sh, ee, qu, z, ch, y, v, x, wh, th, oo (as in moon), oo (as in book), ng and ay.
• Learn all the tricky words at the back of the reading diary.
• Library day is  Monday. ALL prep students need to return their library books each FRIDAY.
• Show and tell reminder for this coming Thursday = even week.

Next Wednesday at 9.30am Cooinda and their buddies will be attending Parish Mass. Parents are more than welcome to attend Mass with their child.

Junior Unit News

This week our Year 1 students experimented with different materials, techniques and processes to make a Tie Dye masterpiece. Students will be presented with these and encouraged to wear them for our Year One Fun Day on December 9th.

It was pleasing to see that our Year Two students were extremely informative and persuasive this week as they explained why their chosen animal was the ‘best’ during their Show and Tell. 

Students are reminded to regularly practice reading and spelling their ‘Tricky Words’ located in the back pages of their diary.

Middle Unit News

Nothing to report.

Senior Unit News

Year 6 / Buddy Parish Mass

Next Wednesday, Cooinda and their Year 6 Buddies will be attending a Parish Mass at 9:30am. Parents are welcome to attend this Mass with their child.

Library

Junior Unit Book Reviews; Children in Year 1 and 2 have been working on writing book reviews for picture story, chapter and non fiction books. Over the next week these will be displayed in the library windows. The children know that we write reviews so that other people may find a book that they haven’t read yet that sounds interesting! All of the Junior Unit children have worked very hard to present their work!

The children in the Middle Unit are also finishing up their “My Interests” research slides. Some of these are amazing and it is great to see the children exploring a topic of their own choosing. These will be added to Seesaw over the coming week. 

Overdue books:

A number of students have books that are currently overdue - 127 books altogether to be exact! This week, all students were given a slip that shows ALL of their current books (as of Wednesday morning). Please take this opportunity to check at home for any school books, identified with a Sacred Heart sticker, and return to the library. Some books may be in classroom boxes as well, so please ask the children to have a look there. If you are unable to find books, I ask that a parent emails me on wcollins@shmildura.catholic.edu.au. If you also come across a damaged book, please either email me or send it in with a note. I may be able to repair it.

Timetable: ***Please note that Prep students will borrow on Tuesday this week***

Monday -  Illawarra, Eumeralla, Waminda

Tuesday - Amaroo, Minga, Karinya,  Preps,

Wednesday - Bundaleer, Barramunga, Year 6, Mootwingee

Students of the Week

NO AWARDS THIS WEEK

• Dourim - 
• Narooma - 
• Illawarra - 
• Myalla - 
• Yongana - 
• Mootwingee - 
• Amaroo - 
• Eumeralla - 
• Minga - 
• Barramunga - 
• Waminda - 
• Kyema - 
• Karinya - 
• Bundaleer - 
• Wahroonga - 
• Cooinda - 

Ray White Positive Behaviour Awards

NO AWARDS THIS WEEK

Responsible - 

Responsible- 

Respectful -