NEWSLETTER

Thursday October 16th

2014 Term 4 Week 2

SACRED HEART TOCUMWAL Charlotte Street P.O.Box 88 Tocumwal NSW 2714

Ph: (03) 58742371 Fax: (03) 58742934 email: info@shtww.catholic.edu.au Web: www.shtww.catholic.edu.au

Principal: Mr Pat Boake Secretary: Therese Macdermid Parish Priest: Fr Martin Cruickshank Ph: (03) 58831284

St. Peter’s Mass Times: Sat ~ 5:30pm, Sun ~ 8:30am and Thurs ~ 9:30am The best way to cheer yourself up is to cheer someone else up.

Mark Twain, 1835-1910 American writer & Humorist

Dear Parents & Friends, Tomorrow we will travel to Tuppal Station to engage in the Food and Fibre Festival. Hopefully it will be well attended over the weekend as a reward for the many hours of volunteer work that has been put in . The word on the street is that up to 400 buses will be bringing school students from all over the place, so it should be a fun day. Plans are underway to get the bore, irrigation and landscaping happening around the school. The new Church sign is in place and it is hoped that by next Autumn we will have some interesting landscaping to enhance the first impression of our school. We have been a construction site for a few years now since the renovation of the Church, however, things are moving forward.

First Holy Communion The Sacrament of First Holy Communion will be held in our parish church this Sunday 19th October, 2014 at 10.15am. Many of our students are reading, serving and singing at this mass. Please keep the following students in your prayers; Dan Barnes, Liam Craig, Jack Gowty, Tayah Hollister and Mac Soule as they prepare for their first Eucharist. We ask that as many students as possible attend the 10:15am Mass to support the First Holy Communicants. We encourage families to attend if possible and if you are able please bring a plate for the cuppa afterwards which will be held in the hall.

ADIDAS FUN RUN The parents support group has decided to run the Adidas school Fun Run fundraiser again this year. It will be held on Friday, 7th November. Please call into the school office if you would like another sponsorship booklet. We are getting close to this time so please encourage your child/children to fill out their sponsorship forms.

Active After School The sporting activity this term is Tennis. It will begin Tuesday, 21st October from 3.30pm to 4.30pm.

Tuppal Food & Fibre Festival Big thank-you to the following families and staff for volunteering your services at the Festival. Kelly Baldwin, Sharon Bourne, Delma Sanderson, Corrina Grieves, Cathy Groutsch, Renea McCallum, Julie Cornish, Bev Babington and Andrea White. Our school is being paid $15.00 per hour worked, please make sure you register that you are from Sacred Heart, Tocumwal.

NO CANTEEN TOMORROW As we will be attending the Tuppal Food & Fibre Festival tomorrow - Friday 17th October - There will be NO canteen at school.

Celebrating Success Celebrating and rewarding achievement is a key part of Mathletics. So far this academic year, students at Sacred Heart Primary School have attempted and mastered* huge numbers of activities - each mapped to specific outcomes within the Australian Curricu-lum with a total of 203,240 points earned. Let me take a moment to celebrate some of our top achieving students…… Riley Bourne 90.91% Activities mastered Mac Soule 82.61% Activities mastered Skyla Griffin 94.87% Activities mastered * A score of over 85% indicates mastery of a particular strand. Of course , the Mathletics curriculum is only part of the story. The power of Live Mathletics to increase arithmetical automaticity is well documented - and with the addition of five additional levels this year, advanced concepts as algebraic relationships and logarithms are now included. Since the start of this year, students at our school have answered a staggering 1,999 quick fire questions. Total certificates awarded at Sacred Heart are: 23 Bronze 3 Silver 1 Gold

‘Jumpstart’ - Kindergarten 2015 Transition Dates Our ‘Jumpstart’ dates for this year are Fridays November 7th, November 14th, November 21st and November 28th. This program is designed to orientate those students beginning Kindergarten in 2015. Participants are asked to be at school at 9:30am and will need to be collected at lunchtime - 1:10pm. They will need to bring a snack for recess, a water bottle and a hat. If you have any queries re-garding the program, please contact the school office on 5874 2371.

Pat Boake Principal

Happy Birthday to all those celebrating birthdays in

OCTOBER TODAY Cooper Fuller Jack Gowty

CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Is held each Monday - Week 2 to Week 8

On the deck outside the Library at 2.50pm. ALL WELCOME

• Friday 17th October ~ Tuppal Food & Fibre Festival ~ Schools Only • Sat 18th & Sun 19th Oct ~ Tuppal Food & Fibre Festival ~ Public welcome • Sunday 19th October ~ First Holy Communion Mass - 10.15am • Tuesday 21st October ~ Active After School commences for Term 4 • Friday 24th October ~ Junior Golf Clinic

• Friday 31st October ~ Toc Preschool Halloween Disco

NO CANTEEN TOMORROW

THIS WEEK’S AWARDS

Class Awards

Junior Class: Tom White ~ for being Resilient and continuing to complete all writing tasks with his left hand Ella Baldwin ~ for Writing an excellent re-count of the school holidays Senior Class: Danielle Dines ~ for quietly achieving her work & being very helpful Student of the Week

Junior Class Maximus Harris ~ for working well in his Reading groups Senior Class: Will Johnson ~ for showing more resilience Sacred Heart thanks the Tocumwal Golf Club for its

contribution to our “Student of the Week” awards.

Supermarket Docket Scheme

We ask you to save your local supermarket receipts and hand them into the school office.

1% of the total sales is donated back to the school.

SOCIAL INCLUSION WEEK ROADSHOW

Social Inclusion Week Roadshow includes; meeting

some of the Melbourne Vixen players, skills and activity sessions, Netball exhibition match and Q & A with the

Melbourne Vixen athletes.

When: Wednesday 26th November 4:30pm - 7:00pm Where: Cobram Football Netball Club Warkil & Karook St, Cobram To Register: To register for the Netball Activity Stations please email gamedev@netballvic.com or phone 03 9321 2211

GOLF