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Dear Parents, Friends and Students of Our Lady Star of the Sea Welcome: A warm welcome to Noah Piercey (Year 1), Nari Piercey (PP) and Riley Thomas (Year 1) who have all joined our fabulous school community. I hope you have felt welcomed since arriving and I know that you will love every minute of being part of the awesome OLSOTS community. Announcement: Congratulations to Vanessa Harkess (mother of Ashton – Year 4 & Spencer – Year 1) who was voted in as our School Board Chair for the remainder of the 2019 school year. Vanessa is a wonderful advocate for our school and will seamlessly move into this important role. Thanks Vanessa! End of Year: During the past fortnight, all parents should have received a text from the school confirming that the last day for students for 2019 is Friday 13 December. This announcement now means that you can finally book that much needed summer holiday to Bali (along with the remainder of Western Australia). Confirmation: Last Sunday, six students from Year 6 made the Sacrament of Confirmation. Bishop Gerard was in Esperance to celebrate this special occasion with the candidates and their families. We welcomed Bishop to our school on Friday 9 August where he met with the students as part of their final preparations. He also had lunch with the staff and visited the classrooms. I would like to thank all the members of the Confirmation team for preparing the students for this very special Sacrament, as it was a great success.

2019

Term 3

Monday 19 August - Friday 30 August

Book Fair

Wednesday 23 August Book Week Dress Up Day

Parade at 9am Sock It To Poverty

Gold Coin Donation

Thursday 22 August - Sunday 25 August

Music Festival

Wednesday 28 August - Thursday 29 August

School Photos

Friday 30 August Father’s Day Breakfast Performance Assembly

Hosts Yr 1 Prayer Kindy

Footy Colours Day Gold Coin Donation

UNIFORM SHOP

Open Thursdays 8:30 - 9am

2:30 – 3:30pm

School Board Meeting TBA

Parents & Friends Association

Thursday 17 October 7:30pm Bay of Isles

19 May 2017 16 August 2019

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Music Festival: On behalf of the OLSOTS community, we wish Mrs Nielson and the choir made up of Year 3 & 4 students the best of luck when they perform as part of the Esperance Music Festival on Friday 23 August. We were able to enjoy their first on stage rehearsal today at Assembly, they sound ready to perform along with students from all around Esperance at the event next week. Father’s Day: I don’t know about you; however, I feel like it was just Mother’s Day!! Father’s Day is just around the corner and that means it's time for our OLSOTS Father’s Day Brekky on Friday 30 August. Please fill out the yellow form that will be coming home today and return it to school ASAP, so we can order the right amount of bacon, eggs and buns for the day. If you can, please stick around after breakfast to watch our Kindergarten students lead a special prayer and a performance from our Year 1 students in the Hall at 9am. Footy Colours Day: The students are encouraged to wear their footy colours on Friday 30 August and bring in a gold coin donation to go towards young people living with cancer. God Bless and stay classy OLSOTS … Steve Blake … Principal

ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS NEWS Mrs Lorna Russell

Book Week / Mission: This year we will have our book week dress up day on Wednesday 21 August. There will be a parade in the school hall at 9.00, all are welcome to come and watch. There will be a choice to dress up as a book character or wear silly socks. The silly socks is part of a social justice initiative to raise money for Catholic Missions. If you choose to wear silly socks for Sock It To Poverty please wear with your uniform and don’t forget to donate a gold coin to the cause.

Sock it to Poverty!

Sock it to Poverty is an initiative of Catholic Mission. It is another way in which our school can fundraise and engage in advocacy and formation activities for Catholic Mission throughout the year. The ‘sock it to something’ concept is an Australian expression that means to make a stance in a strong and direct way. We want to invite you to help us strike out at social issues such as poverty, child labour, child trafficking, homelessness and lack of education and to do so we need your practical support.

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SCHOOL PHOTOS INFORMATION Our School Photos will be taken on:

Wednesday 28 August Years Pre-Primary – Year 6 Thursday 29 August Kindy and Family/siblings

Class Photos: Every Student will have their photo taken, whether they are purchasing photos or not.

Your child has been given a personalised pre-paid envelope by their class teacher.

If you wish to purchase photos, please ensure that your child returns the pre-paid envelope

with enclosed payment to the photographer on photo day.

If you have ordered online with your child’s unique shootkey you DO NOT need to bring the

envelope back to school.

If you lose your shootkey the Front Office will have a copy to quote back to you.

If you do not have correct money we will provide any change needed when photos are

delivered to school.

The expiry date for online ordering is the 4/9/2019. Any orders received after this date will

incur a $30 archive fee. You can email your order request through to

reorder.perth@msp.com.au or call our office on 08 9240 8000.

Family/Sibling Photos:

Envelopes can be obtained from the Front Office.

Family photos are taken on Thursday 29 August in the morning before school.

Please ensure that your family envelope and payment are handed to the photographer on

photo day.

If you do not have correct money we will provide any change need when photos are delivered

to school.

Family photos CANNOT be ordered online.

Book Fair Monday 19 to Friday 30 August Book Fair is on again and will be set up in the library. Please make time to bring your child/ren along and see a great range of books to purchase. All children need to be accompanied by an adult at the Book Fair please. Open times are 8:30- 9am each morning and 3:15- 4pm each afternoon.

Parish News

Sunday 25th: Migrant & Refugee Sunday. All Welcome to 9am Mass and afterwards there will be a brunch of food from all migrants in our parish.

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************ Parents & Friends News ************

Lady Lotto is well underway.

Week 3 winners: 1st Katie Hart, 2nd Kirsten Raszyk and 3rd Erin Tyrrell

Week 4 winners: 1st Shane Pelly, 2nd Mary McCulloch and 3rd Sara Nolan

Our next P & F meeting will be on Thursday 17th October 7:30pm at the Bay of Isles Comfort Inn (out the back where it is warm and quiet!). Everyone is welcome and remember you don’t have to be ‘on’ the committee to be a part of the P & F. See you there

Kath McQueen, P & F President

SCHOOL BANKING

Due to a lack of participation in our Commonwealth School Banking program,

we have decided as a school that School Banking will cease for the remainder

of the year.

We have struggled to find a replacement for Vanessa Harkess as School

Banking Coordinator and our student participants have reduced in number

significantly over the past 2 years.

If anyone wishes to see our School Banking program resume in 2020 please

see a P & F Representative or alternatively Principal Steve Blake.

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VAC SWIM OCTOBER SCHOOL HOLIDAYS

You can now enrol your children in VacSwim swimming lessons for the October school holidays.

With swimming pools and beaches a big part of the Western Australian lifestyle, it is important your children are safe in the water.

Programs are available for children from five to 17 years and cater to all skill levels – from beginners to those doing their Bronze Medallion. They are offered at pool venues across the State.

Enrol your children in VacSwim now at education.wa.edu.au/swimming