Dear Parent,

When you were in Year Three in Primary School, did you “sit up straight” and, in your best elocution voice, recite the following:

“We say, ‘Thank you’ We say, ‘Please’. We don’t interrupt or tease. We don’t argue. We don’t fuss. We listen when people talk to us. We like to share and take our turn. Good manners aren’t too hard to learn. It’s really easy once you find, Good manners means:- Just Being Kind.” Author unknown.

The best aspect of the verse is that it is a very positive statement of how to behave and interact with other people; it is not a litany of rules. Good manners is about showing kindness and consideration to others and using these good manners as a lubricant for the daily interactions in which we all engage.

Dr. James Donnelly of Sydney Children’s Hospital recommends that parents frequently talk to their children about how things are going in their lives, especially the things that aren’t going so well, and how they and their friends reacted. The purpose of talking is to work through what might be the best response to any problems: “The talking fosters moral development in a better way than just teaching children rules. You foster a process of the child working out what is the civil thing to do. You let the child work it out rather than just imposing rules; the more rules you impose, the more rules the adolescent has to rebel against.”

In our society we have a great variety of cultural backgrounds and in as much as we value greatly the person we are, so does each other person with whom we come into contact. We need to emphasise the idea that it is good to treat other people the way we would like to be treated.

A popular T.V. series many years ago was called the “Twilight Zone”. One episode is about a man who finds that just about everything in life irritates him. His neighbour is a pain, the waitress in the coffee shop is barely alive, his partner at work is a real bore. His constant mantra is, “I wish everyone was more like me”.

The next morning he wakes up in the Twilight Zone and everyone around him is just like him, only dressed in different clothes. His neighbour is just like him, the waitress is just like him, his work partner is just like him. He is surrounded by himself the whole day and by the end of it he pleads, “God, please, I just want everyone to be the way they were!”

The wonderful Greek writer of the short moral story, Aesop, once wrote that, “No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted”. Words and actions of kindness and consideration are never the reason for argument or discord but they are the exercise of good manners. So, “sit up straight” and say after me: “We say ….”

“Lord, we are all made in Your image and likeness. Whenever and wherever we want to see Your face, we will see it. Help our interactions with other people to be based on kindness and consideration. Amen”

PROUILLE NEWSletter

Prouille Catholic School 5 Water Street Wahroonga NSW 2076

Phone: 02 9489 3233 prouille@dbb.catholic.edu.au www.prouilledbb.catholic.edu.au

23rd May 2018 Term 2 Week 4

NAPLAN It certainly has been a busy week for our Year 3 and Year 5 students with NAPLAN occurring last week. My thanks to Mrs.Chivers, Mrs. Cavell and Mr. Ford for all their class preparation for NAPLAN. Also thank you to Mrs. Walsh for her assistance in administering the NAPLAN tests. Thank you also to parents for ensuring the students were calm, rested and ready for the tests. Congratulations to the children for their focus, enthusiasm and positive attitude.

P&F MEETING The P&F Meeting will be held on Wednesday 23rd May at 7.30pm in the School Library. Everybody is welcome to attend! PSSA STATE CHAMPIONSHIPS

Congratulations to Isaac Wright for achieving a place on the PSSA State Championship Basketball team. Isaac travelled to Tamworth to compete in this competition. Isaac’s team consisted of students from half of NSW Catholic Schools. This team was called the Polding Team. The Polding Team competed against various primary schools from NSW. Isaac’s team need to be congratulated on coming 6th out of 14! The cliff hanger was when the Polding Team played off for the Catholic School’s Cup and were beaten by one point. Throughout the competition Isaac displayed great sportsmanship and scored 15 points. Well done Isaac!!

Congratulations to all the children who received awards last week

STAR OF THE WEEK Congratulations to Yohann Pereira in Year 2C who is our Star of the Week. Please visit the school walkway to see Yohann’s fabulous work!

Yours sincerely

Sue Bevan

Ms. Sue Bevan PRINCIPAL

CLASS

KR Luke Ringrose, Georgia Kelly, Zander Brinkmann

1H Nirvan Sadr, Olivia Ringrose

1E Josie Cardiff, Ryan Littler

2C Cooper Hill, Sienna Mezgec, Will Gibbs

3C White Lily Banfield, Jayden Hayes

3C Black Finn Gibson, Xavier Reis

4OP Jethro Edmunds, Isabelle Abraham

5F Jack Lloyd

6TN Thomas Fraser, Cadence Barnett, Natasha Rodriguez-Foord, Noah Davidson

BEANIES FOR BRAIN CANCER…..AN INITIATIVE FROM YEAR 6 STUDENTS WHO ARE REACHING OUT TO OTHERS! On the 13th of June, Prouille will be hosting a Beanie Day to support the Charlie Teo Foundation which is based on brain cancer. Brain cancer kills more children than any other disease, so we would like to raise awareness to all students about this situation. We would love you to wear a beanie on the 13th of June and bring in a gold coin donation.

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RELIGIOUS EDUCATION AND PASTORAL CARE NEWS

Dear Parents & Friends

WEEK WITHOUT WORDS The Week Without Words Campaign is a wonderful way for Prouille to walk in the shoes of children, living in our community, who have difficulty communicating.

Some of our 2018 Leaders attended a Student Awareness Session on Tuesday 8th May, 2018 at St Lucy’s. We are having our Week Without Words Stall this week (see the flyer attached!).

We have enjoyed accompanying the St Lucy’s community with their Week Without Words intiative in the past, so we look forward to a successful stall run by the Mission Leaders

A REFLECTION BY OUR 2018 LEADERS; “On Tuesday the 8th of May, 13 Year 6 Students got the opportunity to attend the St Lucy’s Week Without

Words Student Awareness Session. It was all about how neighbouring schools can help raise money for

the Week Without Words campaign. This would then allow St Lucy’s to buy more communication devices

to help some students communicate. During this session, we learnt that there are several ways we can

communicate without our voices but, it is still extremely difficult. To raise awareness for people without a

voice Prouille will be holding a Week Without Words Merchandise Stall to sell items such as; pens,

handballs, communication cards and mousepads.

We look forward to you accompanying us at this stall on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday this week!”

Written by Lucia Maccioni (2018 Mission Leader) and Josh Moait (2018 School Captain)

Special Dates for your Diary

Wednesday 23 May

P&F Meeting @ 7.30pm

Friday 25 May

Assembly 2.40pm

Tuesday 29 May

UNSW ICAS Science Competition

Broken Bay Cross Country Competition

Wednesday 30 May

Gymnastics

Thursday 31 May

Marty Sports

Wednesday 13 June

Beanies for Brain Cancer Day

WALKING THE WAY – CONTINUING TO CULTIVATE A CULTURE OF ‘ACCOMPANIMENT’

We have set a date! Keep your diaries free for the morning of

THURSDAY 28th JUNE, 2018 from 9-11am

This will be our next ‘Walking the Way’ Parent Reflection Morning. Our beautiful facilitators Teresa Pirola and Mary Connor from the CSO Mission Services Team will be leading us in what will truly be an honest, open and relaxing session.

More details as well as a formal invitation to come………we warmly encourage our parents and friends to join us

ST VINCENT DE PAUL WINTER APPEAL On Monday 14th May we began our St Vincent de Paul Winter Appeal.

There are many people within our community who need support for costs of food, clothing and heating during the cold Winter months. Those who are homeless or marginalised especially feel the effects of Winter and they often develop serious illnesses.

For many people, today is filled with despair and hopelessness. But with your support, we can help bring hope, comfort and relief to their lives. The Winter Appeal is for people in need of clean warm clothing, blankets, beanies, gloves, socks and non-perishable food. All contributions will be presented to our St Vincent de Paul parish group at our whole school Mass on Friday 8th June – the Feast of the Sacred Heart at 11am.

Your child received a note regarding the Winter Appeal last week. The specific items to be brought in as well as tokens have been supplied in the letter. Please take a moment to read through it and continue the role of being a ‘missionary disciple’ and accompanying those who need it most, in this vital cause.

Thank you to those families who have already brought in special goods for the Winter Appeal. Such an amazing effort to be celebrated!!

FIRST EUCHARIST This is a reminder that our Holy Name Parish Sacramental Program for First Eucharist has commenced. We are keeping all of these children in our thoughts and prayers as we accompany them during this beautiful time in their Sacramental journey. Thank you to Mrs Sally Oong (Parish Sacramental Coordinator), Fr David and all our parent volunteers for the work they do in making this program such a success. SACRAMENTAL PREPARATION GROUPS:

1. Saturday, 19th May @ 3:45pm

2. Saturday 26th May @ 3:45pm

Each followed by a 5pm Mass at Church.

PARENT RETREAT – WALKING THE WAY We sincerely thank Sandi Candotti for this amazing reflection!

“Last weekend’s Walking the Way retreat was another beautiful day of connection and relaxation with women from our Diocese. It focussed on storytelling. After discussing what storytelling is and how it helps us as women, Karen Amos and Alison Newel generously shared some deeply personal stories and the consequences of saying ‘yes’ to something that we may not normally embrace. We were challenged to consider the difficult decision of Mary saying ‘yes’ to bearing God’s child as an unwed mother in her times and how we could use her as inspiration for saying ‘yes’ to opportunities in our own lives where we don’t know the outcome. There was plenty of time to just chat with other mothers and leave feeling refreshed and ready for another week of hectic family life. I cannot recommend these retreats more highly. The women leading these retreats from Broken Bay Diocese Parent Faith Formation are the most gentle, kind and engaging group of women; presenting our faith in a way that is easy for parents and women to absorb and be enlightened. I would encourage everyone to say ‘yes’ to the next one, even if you aren’t sure what to expect…..”

Sounds like an experience well worth the trip!! SRC TERM 2 REPRESENTATIVES We have voted for our Term 2 Class Representatives. We extend a BIG congratulations to our SRC for Term 2;

TERM TWO

CLASS FIRST AND LAST NAME OF SRC REP

CLASS FIRST AND LAST NAME OF SRC REP

KB James Whitby 3C White Matthew Ringrose

KR William Duque 3C Black Luca Candotti

1H Annie Sheppard 4O Faith Chitanda

1E Olivia Davie 5F Isabella Ringrose

2C Isobelle Chenney 6TN Ines Teixeira Pinto

Our first SRC Meeting will be held this Thursday 24th May, 2018.

YEAR 4 CLASS LITURGY WITH FR DAVID – POSTPONED! Please note that there has been a change of date for the Year 4 Class Liturgy. It was originally to be on Tuesday 22nd May (Week 4), however due to an another commitment, Fr David will now be joining us later in the year (Tuesday 20th November @ 2pm). As always, all parents are more than welcome to attend.

YEAR 5 CLASS LITURGY WITH FR DAVID On Tuesday 5th June (Week 6) Fr David will be joining the Year 5 group for a class liturgy in the Chapel at 2pm. As always, all parents are more than welcome to attend.

Quotes of the Week

This week, we focus on those who need our prayers the most – people who are disadvantaged, homeless and feel as if they are in despair. We will accompany them on this journey by listening and responding…

Warm regards,

Jessica Russell

Religious Education Coordinator

The Bible is an ancient library of poems, letters

and stories which discuss loss and anger

and transcendence and worry and empire and

money and fear and stress and joy and doubt and grace and healing.

-Rob Bell (mentioned by

Sandi Candotti)

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