Dear Parents and Community members, Staffing Update As you are aware, I have taken on the role of Acting Principal for the remainder of 2017. On behalf of Father David Gilbey, I would like to congratulate Mrs Lisa Conte on her appointment of Acting Assistant Principal for the rest of the school year. Lisa has been on staff in a leadership role since 2014 and is currently our Leader of Pedagogy, Mini Fins Teacher and Kindergarten support teacher. To cover both of our teaching loads, Mrs Lisa Clark will be teaching Mini Fins – and I welcome her back to this role. Mrs Emma Waters will be taking over my teaching load in Stage 3CW, and it’s lovely to have Emma back on staff again; working three days a week. I realise there has been significant changes this year, and I hope the transitions with these appointments will be as smooth as possible. I sincerely thank everyone for their words of encouragement and support that have been extended to me this term – I really appreciate it!

I also wanted to share my exciting news with you (in case you hadn’t already noticed) I am pregnant! My hus-band Adam and I are thrilled to announce that we are expecting our second child in early March next year. I will continue in the Acting Principal role until the end of the year as planned, and anticipate taking next year off on maternity leave.

Term 4 Next term is by far the busiest in the school year. Please take the time to check out our school calendar, con-nect with us on Facebook/Instagram, or take note of the dates listed in the newsletter. We have Stage Masses, the Halloween Disco, Stage 3 Social, Swimming and Surf Safe, Swimming carnival, Christmas Fair, Finnie’s Idol, New family Orientation evening, Graduation… and the list goes on. There are ways to get involved in any/all of these activities, so please make contact with the school when we begin to organise each of these events.

School Fees All outstanding school fees for Term 3 must be finalised by this Friday the 22nd of September. Thank you to those families who continue to pay their school fees on time, it is greatly appreciated. Families who are on an approved Payment Plan have until 15th November to have their 2017 fees finalised. If any family requires an extension on their term fees please contact me to discuss a more suitable payment ar-rangement. Canteen There will be no Canteen for the last day of term this Friday 22nd September. Thank you once again for your ongoing support - I sincerely thank everyone for their words of encouragement throughout the term. I wish you and your family a happy and safe holiday, and we look forward to seeing you back at school on Tuesday 10th October.

Kind Regards,

Carolyn Wade Acting Principal

Principal’s Message

1 Arakwal Court, Byron Bay NSW 2481 tel: 6685 6342 fax: 6685 8784 email: bbp@lism.catholic.edu.au www.bbplism.catholic.edu.au

Term 3 September 19th 2017 Week 10

Stage 3 Geography World Expo

ALTAR SERVERS

Kind Regards, Sheryl Hurley & Kate Jones Leader of Evangelisation Leader of Catechesis

September 2017

20 Primary Netball & Football Knockout Finals

22 No Assembly today NO CANTEEN TODAY Last day of Term 3

October 2017

9 Pupil Free Day Term 4

10 First day of Term 4 for Stu-dents

16 Swimming Trials for surf safe program for Stg 2 & 3 5.30pm-7.00pm Forum meeting

20 2.30pm– 3.00pm Assembly

26 5.00pm-7.30pm Term 4 School Disco Kinder—Year 2 5.00pm-6.30pm Yr 3-6—6.00pm-7.30pm

NNovember 2017

3 Surf Safe ProgramStage 2 & 3 2.30pm-3.00pm—Assembly 4.30pm-7.00pm New Fami-ly Orientation

10 Surf Safe Program Stage 2 & 3

13 6.30pm-8.00pm General Forum Meeting

17 Surf Safe Program Stage 2 & 3 2.30pm-3.00pm—Assembly

24 Surf Safe Program Stage 2 & 3

Evangelisation

23rd September

Olivia Hosie Sarah Crawford Chloe Crawford

30th September

Suriana Mamone Annika Mjaanes Paloma Jones

7th October

Angus Wilkie Asha Reynolds Jonah White

2P Editing When I visited 2P, Mrs Piccoli and her class family, were busily editing a shared piece of writing. She was encouraging the students to be writing detectives, challenging them to look for incorrect punctuation, grammar and spelling. They were so engaged and very clever at solving all of the challenges.

1B Writing Miss Blower and her students were identifying nouns, verbs and adjectives in shared reading texts, as a class, and then individually. They were so excited to share their learning with me.

Year 1 Author Visit A big thank you to Miss Ninness and Gabby Lebrun for organising the Year 1 sto-ryboard author visit from the Byron Bay writers festival. Our students were so blessed to learn from a real life author. She shared her inspiration for writing, prompts and props, wisdom and tips with our kids. The students’ completed writ-ing was a testament to her techniques. Every child left as an author, wearing a lanyard to prove it. Lola was so proud to share her story with me.

Learning

Learning

Stage 2 Drumming Last week Mr O’Dwyer and Stage 2 lured me to the hall with their rhythmic drumming. It was so inspiring to hear, and even more inspirational to participate. Our kids were so keen to share their new learning with me. It was a very powerful and empowering experience. Thank you for sharing your gifts Mr O’Dwyer.

Stage 3 Maths Students in Stage 3 have been exploring 3D shapes. They have been investigating, classifying and com-paring prisms and pyramids, as well as making models and drawing 3D plans. Check out some of their achievements.

Stage 2 Writing In Stage 2 our students have been planning, drafting, writing and editing their persuasive texts about why tourists should visit Byron Bay. The language features used in their brochures’ is impressive. I’m hooked.

Stage 2 Writing Continued

Year 4 Angles In Year 4 Mathematics the students have been investigating the angles in our school environment. Research shows that making connections with real life is integral to effective mathematics learning and teaching.

Thank you Thank you to our inspirational teachers who make learning real and so engaging for our kids. We really appreciate you knowing your students so well, your energy, enthusiasm and love of learning. To our parents, grandparents and carers who share their gifts and time with our school family, we really appreciate all that you do. Happy Holidays Wishing you and your family a restful and rejuvenating break. We look forward to seeing your smiling fac-es next Term. Warm Regards, Lisa Conte Leader of Pedagogy

Learning

Conflict resolution

As the year progresses and social dynamics shift continuously, it can be timely to remind our kids about friendships. No parent likes to hear at the end of the day that their child has been involved in social con-flict. However this can be seen as an opportunity rather than a dilemma. All friendships have challenges, and conflict resolution is a developed social skill. If your child is discuss-ing social conflict, here are some ideas to help increase their conflict resolution skills: - First hear their perspective and acknowledge the emotion that presents e.g. "I understand you felt sad and left out when your friend told you to go away". - Ask them then to think about their friend’s perspective e.g. "I wonder how your friend was feeling today, were they having any problems?" - Encourage them to be resilient, be assertive, communicate your feelings and possibly move on and play with someone else- giving that friendship some time to chill (we can still have love for our friends when we are having a rest). - Encourage them to be strong bystanders, to stand up to injustice, in line with their personal and school values. No one is exempt from friendship challenges, they are an opportunity to learn and practice new skills. Please remind your children that the teachers are a support network they can always access as well as myself. Shannan Goodwin

Sports News

Polding Athletics Carnival, Newcastle- Friday 8th September.

Congratulations to Jake G who came 1st in the 11yrs 800m at the Polding Athletics Carnival.

Summer Sports Nominations 2017/18

Students from Year 4 & 5 will be able to nominate for the 2017/18 Summer Sports Trials on the school website, Term 4, week 1. The sports available include tennis, basketball, cricket, touch & softball. Your child should be competent with the rules & skills of their chosen sport and ideally competing at a repre-sentative level.

Surf Safe

Stage 2 & 3 will be participating in the Surf Safe program for sport next term. We will be conducting a 50m swimming trial in Week 2 after the holidays to ensure the safety and eligibility of all students intend-ing to be involved in the program. It may be a good idea to encourage your child to do some swimming during the holidays to ensure they can competently swim the required distance.

Lisa Clark

Recent Book Club orders will be delivered during Week 1 Term 4.

Parents please collect your platters, from the Fathers Day

Breakfast, outside the canteen. Reminder - Check out 'Lost Property',

there are lots of missing items in the tubs.

Notice to Parents

Crafty Mums in action at the Make + Create night.

Thank you to the awesome ladies who came and helped to get some decorations made for the Christmas Fair.

Join us for the next one this Thursday 21st @ 6.00pm-8.00pm.

Future Dreamers 24 Marvell St Byron Bay.

All parents welcome.

WOOLWORTHS EARN & LEARN

A massive THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed to this years sticker promotion. Our small school community has come together and already we have surpassed the totals of previous years by a significant margin! Woolworths will stop giving out stickers today, Tue 19th, but you still have time to place any of your stickers or sticker sheets in the box at the school office or in the Byron Bay store. They will all be collected and collated up until the end of Term 3, Friday 22nd September! We look forward to updating you with the resources our school has been able to acquire using this scheme during Term 4! Many thanks again!

Drum lessons will be resuming at St Finbarr’s School as soon as we have enough enrolments to make it viable for our tutor Peter Jaggle to recommence. Lessons will hopefully starting in the first week of term 4.

Parents interested in enrolling their child please contact the office and fill out an enrolment form to start next term.

Here are some small excerpts from Peter’s formidable resume.

Peter holds a degree in music composition from UNE and has written five rhythm based tutorial books including a mammoth encyclopedia of rhythm notation, he has conducted workshops all over Australasia and internationally and performed with Top line Australian and International Art-ists.

He is also the founder / conductor / tutor of the Young Drums School of Percussion and Perfor-mance and the Young Drums Percussion Orchestra both of which he directed for one and a half decades. The orchestra (average age 13 yrs) represented Australia at more than ten inter-national events performing to over a quarter of a million people live at various major venues and events and to more than 200 million viewers on live international television.

Peters teaching methods have been endorsed and supported by some of percussion’s biggest names, Dom Famularo (Billed as the World’s #1 Percussion Educator and Motivator) and inter-national companies, Zildjian Cymbals USA, PREMiER Percussion of the UK, SABIAN Cymbal Makers of Canada, MEINL Percussion of Germany, Mapex drums of Japan, TOCA percus-sion of USA and ECODRUMS of Australia among others.

More recently he created his Percussion Garden concept that includes original shows, ‘Music from the Percussion Garden,’ ‘Shaman’ ‘The Rhythm of Everything’ and ‘Elements’, using up to 75 Singers and musicians with scores composed by himself with Choral arrangements by Pro-fessor Michael Hannan.

However, the Percussion Garden is much more than just shows, it is a Company with aims to nurture, grow and promote the percussive arts in the Northern area of the State to the widest de-mographic including, Children of all ages, Older people, Disabled, (Peter worked at Multitask run-ning a Drum Circle with a severely disabled class), Indigenous and Ethnic Communities, Women and people of all backgrounds.

As an aspect of this project he has developed an exciting new Japanese Taiko program for schools, working with children from Pre-school through to High School, the program is already being strongly booked and is receiving much acclaim from Principals, Teachers and students alike.

Peter was presented with the inaugural NCEIA “Contributions to the Entertainment Industry Award” and an Australia Award for Cultural Arts achievement.

Currently he is also working as a music teacher traveling all over the Northern part of the state working for various private and public schools. Two of his local regional students have achieved top 5 places in the 2012 and 2013 National “Up and Coming Drummers Competition” and one a winner in the Drum solo competition! He has former students performing all over the world with major orchestras and bands and one with a Grammy Award to his credit!

Canteen Helpers Needed Helpers needed and warmly invited to join the Can-teen Roster. If interested, please contact Cyra 0481 250 585 or the School office to be added to the Roster. Alternatively, just turn up any Tuesday or Friday morning and lend a hand!

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SAVE THE DATE! CHRISTMAS FAIR 2017

Due to clashes of community events we have had to change the date (again) for our Christmas Fair.

SUNDAY 26th Novem-

ber 3pm-7pm Lock it in

AT MULLUMBIMBY TENNIS CLUB STUART ST MULLUMBIMBY

DATES: Tues 26th/ Wed 27th /Thurs 28th Sept

TIMES: 9.00 am to 12 noon each day COST: $80.00 for 3 days or $30.00 per day

CONTACT STEVE GORT for booking

0412731814

Byron Bay FC Girls only foot-ball Program

Ever wanted to try soccer? A great sport that’s lots of fun for both boys and girls, Byron Bay FC is running a girls only football program in term 4. 9 weekly fun sessions learning football skills and playing small games at Byron Bay rec grounds with a highly experienced girls football coach. Wednesday afternoons from 3:45 til 5, aimed at new and experienced players 8 to 12 years old. Program is $60 for 9 weeks. For infor-mation email juniors@byronbayfc.com.au or call Kerry on 0499655928 (after hours only).

BYRON BAY CRICKET CLUB Cricket season gets underway at the start of Term 4. Byron Bay Cricket Club is looking for players of all levels to join our teams. Information & sign-on days for junior cricketers of all ages: Wednesday 20th September 3.30 - 5.30pm At Byron Bay Rec Ground Call Jason for more info. 0488 996 166