ST OLIVER’S PERFORMANCE“GIANT STEPS TO CHANGE THE WORLD”As you probably already know we are having our St Oliver’s performance in 4 weeks time.

We are selling tickets via a new booking system called Try Booking and ticket sales will open at 9am tomorrow morning.In order to purchase a ticket you need to click on the following link http://www.trybooking.com/DKDY and it will take you to the Try Booking Website where you follow the prompts to the “St Oliver’s Performance.”

Tickets are to be purchased on credit card and a 30c booking fee will be added to your overall ticket price.You will need to provide an email address where the tickets will be sent to and then you need to print them off and bring them on the night. Seats will not be allocated so we will work on the premise “first in best dressed”.

We are limiting tickets to two per family, at a cost of $15 per ticket. Venue details are as follows:

Date: Thursday 12th September

Time: 6.15pm (children to arrive) for a 7pm start

Venue: Ave Maria College, 14-22 Vida St, Aberfeldie

Cost: $15 per ticket (a limit of two per family) The children in the performance do not require a ticket.

If you are unable purchase your tickets via Try Booking please come into the office and we will assist you.

Please keep an eye on the School Community section of the newsletter for more information about the evening - Can’t wait to see you there.

Kind Regards,

Mary Kearney Acting Principal

St Oliver Plunkett Primary SchoolLandells Rd, Pascoe Vale, 3044 93545411www.sopascoevale.catholic.edu.au

From the Principal…LEADERSHIP & MANAGEMENT

DIARY DATESAugust19 Book Week – ‘Read Across the Universe” 21 Leigh Hobbs visiting for Book Week21 School Board meeting25 Sacrament of Communion Middles J & M 10.30 am26 Literacy & Numeracy Week30 Father’s Day Stall Father’s Day Breakfast 7:30am

September1 Father’s Day4 District Athletics : Coburg Year 5 girls at Mercy College8 Sacrament of Communion Middles G & S 10.30 am11 Parent Association meeting12 School Concert 13 Whole School First Community Mass 11.45am & Middles Communion lunch School Board Meeting20 Term 3 ends – 1.00pm

OctoberTerm 4 commences

Click here to view the Wednesday assembly roster for term 2.

Click here to view the Class Mass roster for term 2. Masses are on THURSDAY at 10.30am.

NEWSLETTER Tuesday August 20, 2013

EDUCATION IN FAITH

FIRST COMMUNION

This is a reminder for the parents whose children will be receiving First Communion this Sunday. Individual photos will take place between 9:20 and 9:55. The group photo for all children is at 10:00. If you are having an individual photo remember to bring the envelope for the photographer.

Thursday class Mass is for Middle G and Middle S. Parents are welcome to come and sit with their child and join in the prayers.

Trish SegraveReligious Education Coordinator

SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY

What’s happening around the levels…

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Students will continue investigating schools in developing countries. The will explore the way that children travel to school, the number of students in a class, education resources and other aspects that differ to our school system.WRITING: This week we will be discussing how to enhance our writing by adding adjectives and adverbs. Students will work on their unfinished seeds and will continue personal writing to reach their writing goals.READING: This week is Book Week. We will be reading the shortlisted books for picture story book of the year. On Wednesday, Leigh Hobbs will visit to share his experiences as an author/illustrator. We will also continue our serial novel, “The One and Only Ivan”. Students will respond to their personal choice texts during reading routine.MATHS: This week our focus is on volume, scale and birds eye view. We will be introducing our measurement project.INQUIRY: Rehearsals are happening in each class this week for our school concert. The students will begin their passion projects in response to their wonderings related to each classes focus. Senior H – Nelson Mandela, Senior S – Banjo Paterson, Senior C – Fred Hollows and Senior M – Aboriginal Dreamtime stories.

Just a reminder... HOOP TIME- Students must be at school by 8am as the buses are running to a tight

schedule and we cannot wait for anyone who is late. Students are to meet in the south yard and need to be in their sports uniform with play lunch/lunch in labelled plastic bag and plenty of water. Parent helpers should meet Miss Mannix in the planning room to collect teams, fixtures etc. If there are any parents who can now help on Thursday please let us know ASAP.

Please start collecting costumes for our concert (refer to note given out by classroom teachers) we ask that students bring their costume to school on Monday 26th August so we can begin toorganise what is needed for our items.

A new homework grid was given out last week and is due Thursday 5th September (Week 8).

Click HERE for a copy of the Senior’s homework tasks.

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION: Our unit is called ‘The Church Lives the Word of the Lord’. Father Paul came to talk to the Year Four’s yesterday about their First Communion. We will begin by looking at how we celebrate in different groups. Middle M and Middle J will be busy practising for First Communion this week, we wish them good luck.WRITING: This week we are continuing to look at Writing to Describe. Students will begin by choosing an object from around the room and describing it. We will focus on good descriptive language and techniques for writing to describe.READING: We will continue focusing on Venn Diagrams this week. Students will use these to respond to different fiction texts.SPELLING: We will look at past tense this week. Students will look at different examples like buy and bought, bring and brought and how we use these in our writing.MATHS: Our focus for Maths is fractions. Students will look at what we know about fractions and we will begin by looking at halves, quarters and thirds. We will make a fraction wall to help us with equivalence.INQUIRY: Students will be involved in choreographing and rehearsing their performance. We will continue to look at our theme as a class. Students will begin deciding on their individual research topics.

Click HERE for a copy of the Middle’s homework tasks.

SENIORS

What’s happening around the levels..

Mary KearneyDeputy Principal / Learning and Teaching Coordinator

Mary KearneyDeputy Principal / Learning and Teaching Coordinator

MIDDLES

JUMP ROPE FOR HEART

Our Jump Off Day was a huge success and the children were mighty impressive with their array of amazing skipping skills!Even some of the teachers had a go, which was great to see!!At this stage we have raised well over $4000.00 for the heart foundation which is truly spectacular!!This Thursday, 22nd August is the last day that we will be able to accept donations as all of the money will be sent off on Friday.It will take about a month to process and for the children to receive their prizes.A BIG thankyou to all of the mum’s who helped count the money last Friday I couldn’t have done it without you.Thanks again

Jaki O’Halloran

SPORTS NEWS

JUNIORSRELIGION: This week we will start our new unit Celebrating With The People Of God. The children will begin by identifying objects which are important to them and reflect on why they are special to them. We will then brainstorm the special objects we see at Mass. READING: As this week is Book Week, we will be reading and reflecting on some of the shortlisted books for our shared reading. Many of our class activities this week will be about our responses to the different books read and linked to our love of reading. The junior grades are also looking forward to an informative presentation by the author/ illustrator Leigh Hobbs on Wednesday. WRITING: In Writing, we will continue to use the mystery box, class seed box, story starter cards and writer’s notebook to help generate ideas for individual pieces of writing. Many children are sharing the strategies they use when writing, such as how to stretch a word when faced with unknown spelling, while others are explaining how they have used the class resources to inspire their writing. SPELLING: We will be continuing to look at onset and rime patterns by building a class word list with the sound unk ( bunk, dunk ) and involving the children in a variety of activities to help reinforce the spelling and meaning of the words generated by the class. MATHS: We are continuing our unit of work on subtraction this week. The children will be involved in individual, partner and small group activities to help develop and consolidate their understandings about this concept.

In addition to all this, our concert rehearsals are in full flight - with much music, dancing and laughter echoing down the junior corridor.

What a fun and busy week!!

Click HERE for a copy of the current Junior Homework

PREPSRELIGIOUS EDUCATION: The children will be finishing the unit ‘Protected by God’ and completing an assessment piece on the work learned throughout the unit.WRITING: We are writing facts about animals that we know, in particular animals we saw on our excursion to the Collingwood Children’s Farm.READING: This week is book week and the theme is ‘Reading Across the Universe’. The children will be listening to a guest speak/ Author Leigh Hobbs. We will also be reading information texts about farm animals and recalling factsMATHS: In Maths we are now looking at location and the different language used to describe location and direction.INQUIRY: We are continuing to practise for the School Concert and we will also look at pictures of computers and telephones and how they have changed over time. *A Reminder that both Prep Classes will be on Assembly this Wednesday 21st August – We will ENDEAVOUR to have our assembly at 9:00am as we will be unable to reschedule for 11:30am because of our bookweek presenter Leigh Hobbs. Let’s hope that the weather is kind to us*

What’s happening around the levels..

SCHOOL COMMUNITY

St Oliver’s School Production…Giant Steps To Change The World

Date: Thursday the 12th of September Time: 7pm

Where: Ave Maria College, Aberfeldie.For information regarding ticket sales see Principal’s News.

Please watch for a costume note coming home in the next few days outlining your child’s character and costume required for their class performance. Reminder – there is a parent meeting in PF on Thursday at 3:30 for any sewers or parents that could help with some simple costumes or props.

Nadia Glann School Community Coordinator

ICT NEWS

We are very excited to announce the winners of our Design a logo for Channel SO competition. Thanks to all our fabulous artists who entered, the judging panel found it very hard to choose. Our winners for 2013 are:Loredana Buffalino Senior C and Zavia Lingenti Senior HCongratulations girls on your magnificent designs that are now on all computer desktops in the school.

ACMA visit INTERNET SAFETY AWARENESS PRESENTATIONS check your calendars

Date Thursday 19th September 2013Student Sessions: 12:00pm & 2:00pmParent Presentation: 7:00pm All parents welcome to come and hear about the latest in Cybersafety for our children. Make sure to return your attendance slip.

Sue LeightonICT Coordinator

FATHER’S DAY BREAKFASTThis year we will be having a Father’s Day Breakfast on Friday August 30… Notes about this event went home yesterday, breakfast will be served from 7:30am in the Hall. Please ensure that you reply if you intend to come so the we can confirm numbers for catering on the day.

GENERAL NEWS

FAMILY DETAILS UPDATESIt is important that we have accurate student & family information, particularly home, work and mobile numbers of both parents and emergency contacts. Please inform the office if there are any changes to any of these details.

SUNSMART POLICY All children are encouraged to wear their SCHOOL HAT during recess and lunch times, as well as during physical education/sport lessons.

JUNIOR WRITERS OF THE WEEKOver the year we have seen very creative and talented writers emerge in the Junior grades. Each week we will be acknowledging some children who have followed the writing process to develop a piece of work. Congratulations to these children. This work will be displayed outside each of the Junior Grades.Congratulations to the following childrenJC – Nicholas Mc Coll JD- Adam Scira JL – Matthew Pagnin JR – Lara Unger

MORELAND CITY COUNCIL PRIMARY SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMThe Holiday Program will operate from Monday 23 September – Friday 4 October 2013. There are 4 venues 8am to 6pm available. For further information contact 9240 2427 or visit the web site at sschoolholidayprogram@moreland.vic.gov.au Enrolments are now open. Applications are available at the school office and must be in at the council no later than 5pm on Friday 30 August 2013.

CANTEEN Diane Tabone 0423 596 221

Thursday 22 August Claudia Sozzi Sonia Catela-EggarFriday 23 August Rhonda Ferraro Marita Pascoe Ruth RoblesMonday 26 August Kim Bartolo Betty Fazzari

Please click HERE to see the current canteen price list/Menu.

This is also located on the Webpage in ‘Our School’ – ‘Canteen’

PARENT ASSOCIATION

CLICK HERE FOR THE CURRENT PARENT ASSOCIATION NEWSLETTER

SCHOOL BANKING AT ST OLIVER PLUNKETT SCHOOL St Oliver’s School Banking days are Tuesdays. We are currently seeking volunteers to help run this program. If you can help out on Tuesdays from 9am till 10.30 am please contact Georgie 0405 435 770

PRELOVED UNIFORM PROGRAM A donation basket is located in the school office foyer. All donations need to be clean and have no rips/tears. Items will be available for purchase at the end of the term otherwise contact Georgie to set up an appointment

BUSINESSES OF THE WEEK Our featured businesses are Bella Amore, C & A Printers and Carmel's Studio. Please view their adverts on the school website or refer to the second edition of the St Oliver’s Business Directory

FATHER’S DAY STALLWe are seeking donations for a raffle at the father’s day stall. If you have anything you can donate please hand into the school office.

ROTARY COMMUNITY RAFFLE ……DUE BACK NOW…….A book of raffle tickets were sent home. St Oliver’s receives $1 from every ticket sold and the rest of the money goes to the community based charity Pascoe Vale Rotary Club. All sold /unsold tickets and money needed to be returned to the school office by Thursday 15th August. For more information or extra tickets please contact Michael Said on 0418994711

COLLECTING JARS We still need empty jars to be donated. 500gm pasta/jam jars. We will make good use of these in our up and coming fete. Please put all jars into the donation basket in the foyer of the school office

FETE NEWS- “St Oliver’s Spectacular Fete.” Sunday 27th October

It is with great pleasure we announce our first 2 major sponsors of our fete.Kip McGrath Educational Services

andCentorrino Technologies Your IT Specialists.

Click HERE to find out how to be a sponsor and advertise at our ‘Spectacular’ school fete.

If you or anyone you know are interested in coming on board to sponsor our fete please contact Georgie 0405435770 or Michael 0418994711 or email pa@sopascoevale.catholic.edu.au

FETE STALLSLast week the stall booking application was sent home. Please see the attached flyer for more information.

St Oliver’s School Fete - Stall InformationAs you may be aware the St. Oliver School Fete will be held on Sunday 27th October. The fete will include a number of stalls selling a variety of goods. Stall hire is only $50 for the day and all takings made on the day are yours! To secure a stall, you need to complete the application form below with your $50 payment. As stall numbers are limited, first in first served. If you require further information or need assistance completing the form below, please contact Angelina Kalessoglou 0412 829 424 or Christine Marchionni 0416 211 756

---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

STALL APPLICATION FORM

Name/s: ______________________________________________________________________

Contact Details:________________________________________________________________

Email Address: _________________________________________________________________

What do you intend to sell? Please note: no high risk foods, cakes, lollies, preserves or show bags allowed._____________________________________________________________________________

_____________________________________________________________________________

Payment Method:______________________________________________________________ (Please note we will not be supplying a trestle table or marquee. Trestle table must not exceed 2.6 metres)

Payment:Please include your $50 payment with this application form. Payment may be cash, cheque made out to St. Oliver’s Parent Association or Direct Deposit (Please include your name with your deposit).

Account name: St Oliver Parent Association BSB: 063161 ACC: 10029868 Please submit the application form and payment in an envelope to the school office A.S.A.P.

Remember first in first served. (Applications close 31st August)----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Conditions of hiring a stall:1. You cannot sell illegally copied items that infringe Copyright and Trade Mark Law.2. Stalls must be set up and ready to operate by 11:15am and remain open until 4:30pm3. It is the stall holder’s responsibility to take their own rubbish and unsold items with

them, leaving stall spaces clean and tidy.

ST OLIVER PLUNKETT OSHC phone: 0431 722 459 Coordinator: Gowri Kanagaratnam

OSHC NEWSReminder:Any donation to the service will begreatly appreciated.OSHC staff continuously havediscussion with children on behaviour and safety matters, also what would they like to do in OSHC.

Thank you. Gowri

REMINDERSHow to get started before using our programs register online for an account. Registering is quick and easy. Visit our website to begin www.campaustralia.com.au

Once registered you can make bookings and cancellations, view your statements and manage your details anytime of the day online.

Save on Care You can save 50% or more on Before and After School Care fees with the non-means tested Child Care Rebate. Almost all families are eligible. To find out more call our Customer Service Team on 1300 105 343 Monday to Friday.

AFTER SCHOOL CARE

MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAYAboriginal ArtMarble challenge

CookingPing pong challenge

Denim recycle purse

CookingPaper plate butterfly

Tissue paper -basketball