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Congratulations to the

Following

Week 9 term 3

Prep PC Award

… for the excellent effort you have put into

your sight words this term. We are super

proud of you!! Elita McDonald, Neena Payne

… for always putting in a super star effort

into all that you do both at school, in your

homework and learning your sight words.

We are very proud of you. Sienna Whitaker

Prep Z Award

… for trying your absolute best all term. You

have achieved so many amazing things. You

should be very proud of yourself! Chelsea Borg, Odessa Marshman

Year 1A Award

… for trying so hard to ensure your

handwriting is super neat! Keep it up!

Bridie Krebs, Brianna Renehan

… for trying so hard with your spelling

words this term! You are a whiz! Tarn Wales

Year 1F Award

… for putting the needs of others before

your own. We all appreciate the helpful

person you are. Thank you! Ruby Galletly-Hope

… for making smart choices about your

learning. I love how you are choosing to

concentrate and work hard. Keep it up!

Luke Bannan

Year 2C Award

… for not giving up and always having a go.

Keep it up! Jaxon Payne

… for working hard to keep a clean and tidy

work area. It was great to see you taking

initiative to clean your desk without being

asked. Tobias Bailey

Year 2D Award

… for the persistence and determination you

have put into understanding money this

week. Well done! Matilda Walsh

Year 3G Award

… for working really well in English on your

film reviews. Marcus Sammut, Max Vernon

Year 3HN Award

… for the awesome Book Review. You gave

an excellent presentation. Timothy Gaw, Ella Walz, Kobie Cook

Year 4D Award

… for being so responsible and well-behaved

on camp! All of 4D

… for helping your classmates and being a

friend to those in need. You are a great

example for your peers. Jason Grimmond

Year 4H Award

… for the amazing persuasive text you wrote

this week! You are on fire!!! Kade Nicholas

… for your beautiful behaviour on camp!

You were all so responsible and well

mannered. I was so proud of you. All of 4H

Year 5J Award

… for your fantastic work with Bebras!! You

are a whizz with computational thinking.

Raistlin Bisseker

… for your impeccable comprehension!!

Anastas, you should be so proud of your

efforts!! Anastas Skey

Year 5S Award

… for the high calibre of Geography research

tasks. I was completely blown away with the

level of effort put into the learning – well

done on growing your brains! Year 5S

Year 6A Award

… for an improved attitude towards your

work this week. I am proud of your efforts!

Lochlan Zaro

… for having a plan for getting your

assignments done. You have been so

organised! Fletcher Campbell

BIRTHDAYS Congratulations to student/s who celebrate their Birthday this week:

06/09 Morgan Marshman 08/09 Zali Hooper 08/09 Fletcher Campbell 11/09 Noah Willes

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PRAYERS FOR THE SICK We remember all those in our

community who are unwell or

recovering from illness or surgery.

Dear Lord, Bless all who are sick, especially those in our School Community. May they experience, in a special way, the great love and concern Jesus has for them. Amen.

Newsletter Number 28 09 September 2016

ST ANNE’S CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL - SARINA

SHORT NEWSLETTER

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL GRATITUDE JOURNAL Gratitude is one of the most important virtues we can have in our lives and is an important part of building happiness. Gratitude can be defined as “the quality of being thankful; readiness to show appreciation for and to return kindness”. It is easy in life at times to focus on our problems rather than to be thankful for all the wonderful blessings we have been given.

Our School is very grateful to … all who have donated time to the Working

Bee tomorrow. In the end it is certainly our

students who have the most to gain from the

gift of generosity from so many.

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!

LONG SERVICE We wish Mrs Patroni a fabulous and safe time as she

embarks on some exciting adventures during her Long

Service Leave until 18 October 2016. During her time away

Mrs Patroni will be on a pilgrimage following in the

footsteps of St Paul through Greece, Cyprus and Italy. As

well she will be attending a Marian Mass and journeying

through the Holy Doors. We wish Mrs Patroni and her

traveling companions God’s Blessing.

FAREWELL MRS NORTON I wish to advise that Mrs Kylie Norton (3HN) has accepted

a fulltime permanent position with Education Queensland

and has resigned from her position at St Anne’s effective at

the end of this term.

I’m sure you join with me and my staff in wishing Kylie the

very best in her new role.

I thank Kylie for her dedication, hardworking nature,

professionalism, humour, goodwill and creativity shared

with us here at St Anne’s.

APRE NEWS Parents of Communion children need to pay $3 for a

cupcake either on Sunday or drop it into the Parish Centre.

CURRICULUM NEWS LEARNING TO READ

What we need to know Reading begins at a very early age when children start to

take notice of the print that surrounds them and the talk

that includes them. Children begin to engage with reading

and writing experiences that attract their attention and

interest before they go to school. Children notice street signs

and most can recognise a large yellow ‘M’ sign from a

kilometre up the road because it benefits them!

They pay attention to books they like and often insist on

many re-readings of their favourites. Include children in

conversations because that is where they learn new words

that ultimately assist in their reading and writing. Let

children make decisions about books — humorous books,

books with beautiful illustrations, rhyming books, pop-up

books. Find books that are interesting and fun to share.

Parents who tell interesting stories aloud to their children

and spend quality time reading together with them provide

the best opportunities for children to learn to love reading.

There is no magical formula for teaching reading. Children

learn in their own time according to their own pace. There

is no critical age when all children should have mastered

reading. When children are learning to walk and talk we

accept different levels of progress – it is the same with

learning to read and write. This does not imply, that

meanwhile, the parent sits back doing nothing. Children

need ongoing quality experiences with books. Providing a

regular, reading routine at home assists children in their

quest for reading success.

The media often overstates the need to teach phonics.

Phonics is the relationship between letters and sounds and is

not the only strategy children use when reading unfamiliar

words. There are other effective ways to assist children

identify unfamiliar words, which includes the practice of

encouraging children to look for meaning.

Try saying:

• Read on and collect other clues.

• Go back to the beginning of the sentence and reread what

you read.

• Look at the illustration and see if there are clues there.

• What do you think would make sense here?

Teachers are aware that they should avoid being the instant

word factory where the child continually looks to them for

help or advice. They would avoid saying ‘sound it out’, or

giving a clue that takes the child away from the text such as

‘[That word]…it is the colour of the sweater you were

wearing last Tuesday’.

In classrooms, children are at many different stages of

learning. Teachers accommodate the various levels by taking

into consideration children’s interests, abilities and language

backgrounds.

Reading time, whether at home or in the classroom must be

fun. Learning occurs best when what is being learned is

relevant, interesting and has a purpose. Spending quality

time with your child reading books, newspapers, magazines,

comics, music lyrics, poetry, junk mail, and accessing

information on the Internet is what brings your child back

to reading night after night — tomorrow night and the

night after. The value is in creating readers who want to

read rather than creating readers who see it as a chore and

hard work. Practising meaningless tasks and reading drills

does little to entice the reader to engage with real books.

PREP ORIENTATION MORNING

We are holding an Orientation session for our new

students in Prep on Thursday 03 November

commencing 11.40am. If you know of someone with

a Prep-aged child please pass this info onto them.

They are most welcome to attend as a visitor.

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CLASS NEWS FOR THE NEWSLETTER In an effort to let you ALL know some of the great

learning that is happening in classrooms the classes

have been timetabled to write a short article for the

newsletter. This week we have YEARS 1F, 2C, 5S &

6A!

1F

1F have worked extremely

hard this Term and I am

exceptionally proud of their

achievements! Most recently

Prep and Year One went on

an excursion to the Sarina

Museum and the Sarina Sugar

Shed where the children were

very excited by the enormous

sized fairy floss they ate on

leaving. Check out these 1F

smiles!

We are about to say goodbye

to each other as I leave to go

and have my baby next term.

The children in 1F have

promised to be Pen Pals with

me next term and we will

regularly write to each other. I

will miss seeing all of their

friendly faces each day and

will always remember the

fabulous

2C

Year 2 are very excited to be participating in the eisteddfod

this year. Over this term we have been very busy learning

and practising our two poems, The Old House and Hey

Little Ant. The Old House is a more serious poem where we

are working hard to use our voice to captivate the

audience. Our favourite poem is Hey Little Ant because we

get to incorporate lots of actions and voice changes to help

tell the story. We are really looking forward to performing

our poems early next term and can't wait to see what other

year 2's from different school have been practising also!

5S

As part of our Religion Curriculum, we have been exploring

the idea of social justice and what it means in our modern

community. We have learned that Jesus' mission on Earth

was to provide love and care for those least loved in his

community, and that, to follow in his footsteps, we should

do the same.

Year 5S are preparing for Anti-Poverty month, specifically

"Socktober", where we aim to sock-it to poverty. Students

are developing ways in which money can be raised here at

school to support the Catholic Missions, CARITAS, and St

Vincent de Paul Society, of

which 5S supports through its

Mini Vinnie's committee.

We hope to be sharing exciting

news of our plans with the

school soon, but in the

meantime, if you have any

spare change you could

donate to the Catholic

Missions to support education

in the poorest of global

communities, including rural

Australia, then please contribute to the mission boxes soon

to be in your classrooms.

School Rubbish and why it's wrong:

Year 5S students have been outraged, disappointed, and

proactive in fixing up a whole-school problem: Rubbish.

From small plastic litter, to fresh, uneaten lunches (and even

school notes and newsletters that have not been taken

home!), the amount of rubbish we have located around the

school buildings, playgrounds and eating areas have been

outstanding and disgusting. Bags, and bags, and bags of

rubbish.

Small plastic parts end up in our waterways and oceans,

and, as a Reef Guardian school, this goes against our

philosophy of keeping our Great Barrier Reef and its aquatic

inhabitants safe. Plastic bags can kill turtles and other marine

life; mistaking them for jellyfish, sea turtles eat and cannot

digest plastic shopping bags or similar rubbish. If the plastic

waste we are seeing left around is not disposed of properly,

we will see a negative impact on our Reef. However, this is

not the only environment we are negatively impacting with

our wastage.

The amount of uneaten food being wasted is atrocious.

Whole sandwiches, still wrapped up, dropped in the ground

or thrown behind the building. Apples, oranges and

bananas, without even a blemish, thrown into the gardens.

Food wastage is costing you, the families, money. But not

only that, it is impacting our local wildlife.

Birds are gathering in large numbers, eating these scraps left

for them, preventing them from foraging for natural food

sources. Processed foods are not good for our native birds,

and can cause many issues for their health and their young.

It also causes a hygiene problem for our school - bird

droppings. I strongly encourage you to have discussions

with your children at home about food wastage, and

ingrain in them that, if they can't eat it or do not like it, to

bring it home so you can see. Recycle that food at home -

reuse it if it’s hygienic to do so, compost it or feed it to

chickens or animals if appropriate.

Help us, St Anne's School, break this cycle of wastage. Help

us keep our school clean and beautiful. Help us take care of

our environment.

6A

This term, Year 6 has been learning about Earthquakes in

Science, ironically a 5.8 magnitude earthquake hit north of

Sarina. In Religion we have been reading Psalms in the Bible

and we created our own Psalms. In Geography and HASS

we have been comparing the modern and ancient Olympic

Games. We created a poster on a particular modern

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Olympic games, an Olympic athlete and an Olympic sport.

We have been listening to a novel, Percy Jackson and The

Lightning Thief which is about Greek Gods. We wrote a

book review and now going to watch the movie and do

movie reviews. These are some Psalms our class created;

Psalm 113 Dear Lord, Thank you for letting me live on this earth today, Watching over me, my friends and family and keeping them safe from the dangers of live. As I snuggle up in bed I know you will be watching over us, as Mum and Dad say ‘goodnight’ and wait for the morning light. When I’m going through tough times I know you’re always there to talk to, I rely on you, trust you, respect you and love you. Help me to help those who are in need at this time and keep them safe. Help me not to forget to pray to you every day, take time out of our busy lives to say ‘hello’. Let the sun shine over the horizon as the morning comes and keep us safe every second of every day. Thank you God for everything. AMEN Psalm 116 Thank you God for opening this page to me it means everything I love you for letting me read this and every word means everything to me. I thank God for making this wonderful world that we are living on right now it has lovely creatures and beautiful people. The things that make me happy are my family and all my friends and I am so glad to have them all. I am glad for the food on my table every day and night. Things that make me feel sad is when people ignore us or don’t treat me like the way I would treat them. I am afraid when people are fighting because I don’t want any of god’s people to get hurt or even die. God is my power. God is everywhere not up high. God is there for you if you are in danger only if you pray. God looks down and over you every day and night only if you believe. AMEN

GENERAL NEWS FEE DISCOUNTS – 2017 INITIATIVE In 2017 Catholic Education will introduce a new school fee

discount to further support families in our schools. Our

policy on school fees states that, no student should be

excluded from a Catholic school because of the

inability of their parents/carers/guardians to pay

the prescribed fees.

From Term One 2017, parents/carers with an eligible

means-tested Australian government health care or

pensioner concession card will automatically receive a 70%

discount on tuition fees (does not apply to school levies).

This initiative is intended to assist those families who

genuinely lack the financial capacity to pay tuition fees in

full.

For Catholic schools to operate effectively and provide high

quality education, a reasonable fee structure is essential to

meet the shortfall between the basic costs of running a

school and the amount funded by governments.

School fees include tuition fees and levies. Levies vary from

school to school and may include items such as a Building

Levy, Parents’ & Friends’ Association Levy, Information

Technology Levy, and other subject and general levies. The

new Concession Card Discount applies to tuition fees only.

Catholic Education strives to keep all fees as low as possible.

The new Concession Card Discount initiative will be offered

in addition to the Family Discount arrangement that

presently exists in schools.

Furthermore, new or existing parents, who are experiencing

financial hardship, and may or may not hold a concession

card, are encouraged to discuss alternate fee discounts

directly with the school principal, who will treat the

situation confidentially.

Further details on the new Concession Card Discount

eligibility criteria and general fee information for 2017 are

available on the Catholic Education website

www.rok.catholic.edu.au

P & F NEWS WORKING BEE

Just a reminder that the Working Bee

will take place tomorrow regardless of

the weather as this will take place in the

undercroft at 8.00am. The focus of this

Working Bee is putting together the

tables and benches for student use.

P & F MEETING

The next meeting of the P & F will be held NEXT

MONDAY 12 September at 7.30pm in the Meeting

Room. All welcome!

AGENDA ITEMS Teacher’s Day

Hall fence (pick-up/drop off area

Tuckshop Term 4 (Mrs Muller’s

Contract renewal)

Swimming Carnival food catering

UNIFORM SHOP NEWS The new Reversible Bucket hats have arrived this week.

They come in two sizes, 54cm and 58cm with an adjustable

toggle. Inside is the Sports House colours, Gold for McAuley

and Light Blue for Coolock and are $20 each.

Opening hours are 8.15am to 9.15am Friday mornings. The

Uniform Shop does not have EFTPOS. Cash change is

available.

COMMUNITY NEWS TOUCH FOOTBALL STARTING MONDAY 10 OCTOBER Boys and girls between 7 and 11 year old who are interested

in learning some new skills and playing some friendly games

of Touch Football are invited to come to the Sarina Junior

Rugby League Grounds on Monday afternoons at 4pm

starting, Monday 10 October (Term 4, Week 2). Just so we

can get an idea of numbers can you please let the school

office know if you are interested. If you have any queries,

please phone Paul Marsh on 49 504225. Hope to see you

there.