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Newsletter August 24, 2016 Term 3 – Week 7

Faith Hope Integrity Service Inclusion Collaboration Responsibility

There was a great deal of excitement in the Year 1/2 classroom on Friday with a special visit from Maya’s grandfather, John Moloney. John was invited along to show the class his keepsake Sydney 2000 Olympic Torch that he carried. John’s visit provided a wonderful opportunity for the children to share this firsthand experience, they took turns holding the torch and asked some excellent questions and were very interested to learn about why John was nominated through his service to our community. Harry of 1/2B was also very proud to share with us a replica of the torch his grandma, Marie Clark had carried in the Sydney 2000 Olympics. In fact we were quite privileged last week, we had three families share with us their torches, Maddie 5/6MB brought in her great grandpa’s, Jim Phillips replica torch. Thank you to John, Marie, Jim and their families for sharing your stories with us.

Families are invited to join us for the closing ceremony at 2:50pm in the Gym

Dear Families, The Year 3/4 camp to Anglesea went very well with the children enjoying a great time taking part in the many activities available. Even though the weather wasn’t perfect, the children and our flexible staff did very well. Thanks to Brett Bennets, Dave Cahill and Glenn Reynolds who went along to support our staff of Jo Townsend, Anne Enright, Emmanuel Kerr and Kim Bott. A thank you to all concerned. Our Olympics Day is on this Friday, 26 September and is looking like it will be a lot of fun with a number of sporting and Olympic themed activities for the children to take part in. Parents are invited to join us at 2:50 pm in the Gym for the Closing Ceremony.

Next Tuesday, 30 August we have our Parent Information OLSEL night where many of our children are going to share what they have learned and are still learning through our project. The night starts at 5.30pm with a BBQ provided for families, our activities will start at 6:00pm and the night concludes at 7.00pm. We hope to have as many parents present as possible for this valuable information session. We have had discussions at some of our staff meetings regarding the Swimming Program we have been running every year. When we weighed up the fact the children were missing 15 hrs of teaching time, to take part in about 3 hours of lessons in groups of 4 – 7, we decided the time lost wasn’t worth it. Therefore, the Swimming Program will not be running next year. When you consider the time and number of lessons a child takes to learn how to swim, our Program was not making that much difference. At the end of this newsletter there are a variety of venues who offer lessons at different costs during different times of the week. I’m sure parents who are keen for the children to learn to be safe swimmers will take their children along to these lessons. Our school counsellor Amy Powell will be leaving us this month to prepare for the birth of her baby. We thank Amy so much for the work she has done with our children and wish her the very best over the next few months. Our stand in counsellor will be Suzanne Beaver who has worked with Amy at St Aloysius in the past. We’ll welcome Suzanne and thank her for coming to work with us. We have our Fathers’ Day celebrations next Friday, 2 Sept starting at 12.30pm. We will have Mass in the church followed by a sausage sizzle lunch provided by our P&F and visitors can stay to be with the children throughout lunchtime afterwards. Looking forward to a big day and hope lots of dads, grandads, and other significant males involved in the lives of the children will be able to join us. Please note there will NO FRIDAY MORNING prayer on the 2nd of September as we will pray together at Mass at 12.30pm. Book week Dress Up Day, this year we will hold our book week dress up day on Friday, 2 September, this falls during National Literacy and Numeracy Week and is the day of our Father’s Day celebration. On this day the children are invited to dress up as a favourite book character, simple homemade costumes or something that you already have would be ideal, we certainly do not want parents to feel that they have to purchase something new for this event. The Family Movie event on Sunday, 11 September at the Regent theatre sounds like a great family night. Tickets are now available from the school office. After a most successful Comedy Night which raised over $5000 (amazing result!!) for our school we all need to get behind our hard working P&F parents and support our Movie event fundraiser. There will also be a Parma Night social event in Term 4, so November 9 is a date to mark on the calendar. Congratulations all the children celebrating their Confirmations, with our first group last weekend and our final group of children this coming weekend. We keep these children in our prayers as they take an important next step in their spiritual journey in living in Jesus; story. Another big week coming up! Joe Caruana

Congratulations to…

Well done to our award,

recipients this week.

What a terrific effort everyone,

keep up the great work!

Look who is in the news…

A thank you to Maddie 5/6MB for

bringing in her great grandpa’s

Olympic Sydney 2000 replica

torch to share with us.

The torch put in a few more miles

as each child had a go at

carrying and handing on the

torch and perhaps imagining

what it would be like to have this

privilege.

An Olympic Moment

JUNIOR NEWS

Welcome to Week 7. This week we are learning about the insect, the ant and we have been talking about different habitats and what we might find if we went there. The children are still excited about celebrating the Olympics as we have over the last two weeks and are looking forward to our Olympic Day this Friday. We have been drawing animals in class and a great website to visit is wedrawanimals.com. We hope you have a fantastic week. The Foundation Team, Georgia and Leah.

Welcome to Week 7! The Olympics may be over, however there is still excitement as children from Foundation to Grade 6 are getting ready for their own Olympics Day this Friday. Children are asked to wear their school sports uniform with their Family Group coloured top, appropriate to the weather. In addition to this, the children will need to bring a named water bottle and wear comfortable runners. Let the games begin! If you have any questions regarding the day, please see your child's teacher.

Next Tuesday, 30th August, parents are invited to attend our OLSEL information evening. The evening kicks off with a free barbecue for all family members at 5.30 pm. Following this at 6.00 p.m., staff will present information covering the four areas of OLSEL.

It is certainly a busy time of the term! Next week on Friday September 2nd, we have our annual Fathers' Day celebrations as well as a Book Day dress up. More information regarding both of these events will be sent out in the days ahead.

A reminder that our History Expo will be held on Tuesday, September 13th in the school's auditorium. Could the children please return their interviews by Tuesday, August 30th.

Over the next few weeks, we will be covering a unit on Grief and Loss through our Religious Education program. In this unit, students will be given the opportunity to explore the nature of change and loss in relation to changes in creation, the seasons and in the life cycle of people and animals.

Thank you to those families that have returned learning journals. If you have not returned these, please do so ASAP as we will need them next week. Have a great week! Savior, Shay & Bev

MIDDLE NEWS

From all reports our Happy Campers are just that, happy indeed, the weather has held out beautifully and the children have had an action packed and memorable few days at Anglesea. We look forward to welcoming them back this afternoon and no doubt our families will enjoy some entertaining dinner conversation tonight sharing their child’s camp experience.

SENIOR NEWS

Hello and welcome to Week 7 news from the Senior area! We are continuing to look at some of the nominated books for this year’s Book Week awards and using them during our Vocabulary Chart time and our complex questioning time. During our writing time we are working on developing our understanding of verbs, developing our editing skills and writing information reports. Just a reminder that our Parent Information Night for our OLSEL Program is going to be held next Tuesday, August 30 and it would be great to see our families attend this evening.

During our religion time, we have commenced our next Religion unit which is titled, ‘Living as Disciples’. Congratulations to the children in 5/6MB and Ms Byron who lead our school prayer last Friday. This Friday the children in 5/6PW will be leading our school in prayer starting at 8:40am in the Auditorium.

The children are enjoying their rotations during the afternoon: *Chemical Science with Ms. Byron. *History with Mrs Peterken where the children have started their Independent Learning Guide which is based on a significant person who has helped shape Australia’s Identity; and digital technologies with Mrs Wilson and Ms Byron. The senior children

Thank you to our families who are supporting their children with their homework efforts each week.

Enjoy your week! June, Tamara and Katherine.

What is happening at St. Al’s

Tuckshop will be operating this Friday, 26 August - Term 3 Menu Specials include - Bacon & Cheese Pizza or Ham & Pineapple Pizza – for $ 2.50 a slice and Hedgehog Slice for $1.50. Please note there will be No Tuckshop on Friday, 2 September as the children will be provided with a BBQ lunch on this day..

Toastie Tuesday Children are invited to bring their sandwich along, prepared at home and ready for toasting and we will toast it for them … just in time for a lunch. Yum! Sandwiches need to be provided in a clearly named brown paper bag, uncut ready to toast. Toasties will be on offer each Tuesday during Term 3. If you have any questions or would like to volunteer some of your time to help, please contact Daniela Overall on 0409 501 606.

Regent Movie Fundraiser - Sunday, Sept 11th, family social movie event - The Secret Life of Pets

Save the Date – Parma Night, November 9

Please remember when you shop at Baker’s Delight Sebastopol to mention our school name as this helps our school to accrue points through the dough raiser program

Please remember when shopping at Rebel Sports to mention our school name for the school rewards program

Second-hand Uniform Shop – If you would like to browse the second hand uniforms or are after a particular item please message Bron Kennon on a Thursday during school hours on 0409 162 353. If you would like to place an item for sale – please place clean items in a bag, clearly labelled with item description and sale price on attached envelope. All items can be left at the school office. We also accept donations of clean outgrown uniform items for use as spares.

Upcoming P&F Meeting Dates for 2016 Tues Aug. 16, Tues Sept. 13, Tues Oct. 18 & Tues. Nov. 15.

We hope everyone has an enjoyable week!

Parents & Friends News .

Our Community News and Events

Father’s Day Raffle

Raffle ticket sheets were sent home to families today. If families would like to support this fundraiser tickets are $1 each. Tickets and payment for sold tickets are due back to school (to the P&F box in the foyer) by Thursday, 1st September. 1st Prize is a BBQ. The Raffle will be drawn during the Father’s Day BBQ lunch.

We are hoping for a few mums to help out at school with our Father’s Day BBQ on Friday, 2 September. We will need assistance with cooking or serving on the day, if you would like to help please just call Michelle Bennetts on 0488 631 039

Have you ever wondered what your

pets get up to when you are not at home?

If you would like to find

out then Join us for a fun family movie event

at the Regent Multiplex Sunday, 11 September

at 4:45pm.

Tickets can be purchased from the school office or by

calling Chris Overall on phone - 0409 847 790

Parish News

Sacrament of Confirmation - Celebrations

This weekend we see our final group of children receiving the Sacrament of Confirmation.

Please keep these children and their families in your thoughts and prayers.

Ted Alsop, Nicolas Birkin, Alana Bogers, Bindi Brayshaw, Phoebe Cahill, James Clark, William Clark, Bryden Curwood, Ethan Dartnell, Scarlett Ellard, Ava Hirth, Joshua Hull, Jeffrey Harrison, Adelle Kierce, Honey May,

Abbey Noordam, Tristen Overall, Abbey Reynolds, Austin Richardson, Imogen Richardson and Lual Tach

Parish Mass Times - Tuesday 9:30 am, Saturday 6pm Vigil & Sunday 9am

Thursday Parish Mass Times Each Thursday Mass will be attended by a different class, please refer to the

following list of dates to see when your child’s class will be attending Mass as families are invited and welcomed to share this occasion with the children.

25th August - 5/6MB, 1st September - 3/4P, 8th September - 3/4T and 15th September - 5/6PW Father’s Day Mass

– Friday, 2nd September 12:30pm in the Church - All welcome

Dear God, We come before you with our prayer.

Soon we will be confirmed in our faith in you, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Through the gifts of the Holy Spirit, help us to walk your way of love and serve others in your name.

May we live always as people of prayer who make good choices in our lives.

As we prepare for the sacrament of confirmation we ask your blessing on all of us.

Lord, we ask you to hear our prayers and petitions and those prayers we hold in our hearts.

.

St. Aloysius Running club is back…. and we are getting ready for Run Ballart

We will be training every Wednesday at Playtime and every Friday at Lunchtime in preparation for Run Ballarat. This year we have registered St. Aloysius School as a team and we would love to have many of families as possible join us, this is a wonderful community event in support of our Children’s Ward at Ballarat Health Services.

So please save the date ….. Sunday, 23 October.

There is a 6km walk or run, as well as a 12 km run and 1km run (for ages 4 to 12year olds). If you would like to join in, you are welcome to register online by nominating our school which is listed under the official school team tab. For anyone who has already entered Run Ballarat prior to the registration of the St Aloysius team, if you contact the organisers via the Run Australia website, they will include you as a team member.

We will be training each Wednesday at lunch time and everyone is very welcome to join in.

Please see Mrs Bryce if you have any questions.

Save the date for run Ballarat Sunday 23rd October…

. Aloysius Parish School - Term 2 Planner, 2016

TERM 3 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Sat / Sun

Week 7 22-28

August

22 Year 3/4 Camp

Book Week Dress up will be in Week 8, as part of Literacy & Numeracy Week activities.

Assembly 2:45pm

23 Year 3/4 Camp

24 Year 3/4 Camp

25 Mass 9:30am 5/6MB

26 Whole school Prayer 15/6PW Olympics Day.

27/28

Confirmation celebrations

Week 8 29 Aug. 4 Sept.

29 National Literacy and Numeracy Week 29 Aug – 4 Sep Assembly 2:45pm

30 Parent Information

Night OLSEL 5:30 pm BBQ

6-7pm Activities

31 1 Mass 9:30am 3/4P

2 Father’s Day Mass 12:30pm Fathers’ Day BBQ and activities Celebrating Books Dress Up Day

3/4

Week 9 5-11 Sept.

5

Assembly 2:45pm

6

SAC meeting

7 8 Mass 9:30am 3/4T

9

Whole school Prayer 1/2K

10/11 P&F Regent

Theatre Movie ‘Kids’ Night

Week 10 12-11 Sept.

12

Assembly 2:45pm

13

P&F meeting

14 15 School Walk-a-thon

16 Footy Day

P&F special Lunch Day

17/18

Updated 13/07/16 Please check the calendar each week for updates – Thank you.

Come and join our friendly playgroup on Friday morning from 9.15-10.45pm at St. Aloysius Primary School, 800 Ripon Street South, Redan - during school terms. This is a great opportunity to meet other people in your community, provide time for children to interact with others and play with your children in a safe and supportive environment.

COMMUNITY NEWS AND EVENTS

We provide a fun and engaging program including art activities, construction, singing and story time. We cater for all ages from 0-5 years and the playgroup is supported by a playgroup coordinator and ACU students. Please bring a gold coin donation and a piece of fruit or other snack for morning tea. Contact Louise Buckle-Smith on 0457 797 315 or louise@playgroup.org.au for further details.

Library News … It is time to get ready for Dress Up Day! Woo Hoo! It's Book Week and Literacy Week time again, and we are celebrating all things to do with books, literacy and reading by having a DRESS UP DAY!

Our Dress Up Day will be on Friday, 2 September. Come dressed as your favourite character from a book or movie - be creative! (and delve into your dress up box at home!). Use your imagination - you could be a superhero, historical figure, magical or wizarding person, sports star or even a cartoon character! The possibilities are endless!

Dress Up Day also coincides with our Father's Day Celebrations, so it's a double celebration day! And, the Dad's will get to see all the children in their book character finery!

There will be a parade of all the fabulous characters at the beginning of the day on Friday - 8.50 am Friday 2nd September. See you there! Colleen.

SPORTS REPORT - NETBALL NEWS

We had a bye this week as our 3/4 netball team were off on camp. There will be no training this week as we have lots on already with our Olympic Day activities. See you next week, Louise and Aileen.

Whole School Mass

Friday, 2nd September

St. Aloysius Church

at 12:30 pm

Followed by a BBQ lunch

at school

An invitation to celebrate

After Mass please join us at school to spend time with your

child in their Family groups and to share in a BBQ lunch.

On Thursday, 2 September the children will have the opportunity to visit the Father’s Day Gift Stall in their Family Groups. The stall will offer a selection of gifts for the children to choose from and all gifts are priced at $5 each. The Gift Stall is an initiative of our P&F for all children to have the opportunity to buy a gift for their special someone. Please remember to send along $5.00 for each child wishing to purchase a gift.

Father’s Day Raffle. Raffle ticket sheets were sent home to families today. Tickets are offered at $1 each. If you would like to support the raffle please return your tickets and payment to the P&F Box in the school foyer by Thursday, 1 September. The raffle will be drawn during our Father’s Day BBQ lunch. If you have not received a ticket sheet or would like additional tickets please ask at the school office.

1ST Prize is a BBQ and is now on display in the foyer.

Thanks everyone for supporting this fundraising effort for our school.

Please join us for this special occasion

After Mass you are invited back to school to spend time with the children in their

Family groups. At time we will share a BBQ lunch together and our special guests are

invited to join their children outside to play.

The Father’s Day activities will finish at approximately 11.30am.

After Mass you are invited back to school to spend time with the children in their

Family groups. At time we will share a BBQ lunch together and our special guests are

invited to join their children outside to play.

The Father’s Day activities will finish at approximately 11.30am.

All dads, grandfathers and other significant men in

our children’s lives are warmly invited to join with us

for our special Father’s Day celebration -

There will be a parade of all our wonderful characters at 8:50am in the Auditorium.

Come to school dressed up as any or movie character and celebrate our love of books.

Let your imagination run WILD…

St Patrick’s College 2018 Year 7 Information Evening

Wednesday October 26, 2016 at 7:30pm in the College Chapel

Please join us for an Information Evening for 2018 Year 7 Enrolment for your son.

The evening includes an address from the Headmaster Mr John Crowley

and the Director of the Junior School Mr John Richards. The evening also includes a College Tour and supper and

question time with St Patrick’s College staff.

If you have any questions please contact College Registrar Caitlin Bennett at cbennett@stpats.vic.edu.au

WE LOOK FORWARD TO SEEING YOU

Important Information regarding our school newsletter accessibility.

Dear Parents and Guardians,

From now on access to our school newsletter will be password protected. Families will still view the newsletter via the Skoolbag app and website but will need to enter the password for access to this area.

The password information has now been sent home to families, If you have not received your password or are having any difficulty viewing your newsletter please let us know at the school office. Thank you

Remember to mention St. Aloysius Parish School

when making a purchase at

Bakers Delight Sebastopol

our school’s Fund Raiser number is 4006.

Bakers Delight Sebastopol

will donate 5% of every purchase we make

back to our School, So please remember to

mention St. Aloysius Parish School when shopping at

Bakers Delight Sebastopol Our bread fund raiser number is 4006.

Adult Italian Language classes - at St. Aloysius School.

Adult Italian language classes have commenced at St. Aloysius School and are now running from 5:00-6:30 pm on Monday evenings. If you would like to join please ring or call into the office to let us know. In Term 4, classes will start from week 1 and will continue until the end of the school year. The cost will be between $5.00-$10.00 per lesson depending on final numbers attending.

Kind Regards, Francesca.

COMMUNITY NEWS AND EVENTS

Damascus College Enrolment Information Evening

Damascus College warmly invites all families to attend our upcoming Information Evening.

The Information Evening will include a tour of the College, will include activities for students and

an information session for parents.

Wednesday 7th September at 5pm please arrive at 4:45pm for registration

Students of all ages are invited to attend

Swimming Lesson options in Ballarat and surrounds:

Vicswim: www.vicswim.com.au Intensive programs run over the summer holidays from January 3-20, 2017. Dates vary from venue to venue so check the website for further details. Booked on a week-by-week basis via the website. Cost: $30 for 5 lessons. Venues include Eureka Swimming Pool, Black Hill Aquatic Centre and Brown Hill Community Pool. (NB. Brown Hill program is community sponsored and thus free of cost) Contact: 9271 3800 Ballarat Aquatic and Lifestyle Centre: www.ballarataquaticcentre.com Swim and Survive Program. Term-based programs available. Cost: Healthy Kids membership starts from $9.20 per week. Venue: Ballarat Lifestyle and Aquatic Centre, Gillies St, Ballarat. Contact: 5334 2499 Shayne Reese Swimming: http://shaynereeseswimming.com.au/ Term-based and holiday intensive programs available. Cost: Contact the centre for further details. Venue: 132 Whitelaw Ave, Delacombe. Contact: 5335 7147 Swim & Survival Academy: http://www.ssacademy.com.au/ Term-based and holiday intensive programs available. Cost: $185 for an 11 week term. Payment options available. See website for details. Venue: 403 Dowling St, Ballarat. Contact: ph.53399911 UniSports Swim School: www.federation.edu.au Swim and Survive Program Term-based and holiday intensive programs available. Cost: $9.50-$13.50 per lesson. See website for further details. Venue: Federation University, Mt Helen Campus Contact: Via the website