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Term 3 Week 4 13 August, 2018

ST JOHNS PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

www.stjohnsprimarydubbo.catholic.edu.au

138 Sheraton Road

P.O. Box 4914

S C H O O L M A N A G E R F a t h e r G r eg Ken n ed y

S C H O O L C H A P L A I N F a t h e r G r eg Ken n ed y

P R I N C I P A L Mr Anthony O’Leary

A S S I S T A N T P R I N C I P A L M r A d am F o l e y

R E C M r s P au l a C l i f f o r d

PRIMARY COORDINATOR

TEACHING STAFF:

KINDERGARTEN Mrs Maria Brice Mrs Teagan Hoper

YEAR 1 Mrs Paula Clifford / Mrs Erin Carney

Miss Cassandra Hawke

YEAR 2

Miss Madeleine Redden Mrs Karyn King/Mrs Aimee Rose

YEAR 3 Ms Anna Veech Mrs Kim English/Mrs Gabrielle Jones

Miss Kara Cusack

YEAR 4

Mrs Judith Gibson/Mrs Aimee Rose Mrs Laura Emery / Mrs Aimee Rose .

YEAR 5 Miss Amber Teale/Miss Emma Bolton Mr George Sayers

YEAR 6 Miss Allison Field

Miss Kristy Isbester SPECIAL EDUCATION:

Mrs Amanda Shields / Mr Adam Foley TEACHER’S AIDES:

Mrs Bronwyn Harper, Mrs Tracey Duncan, Mrs Maricon Suckling, Mr Trevor Thomas, Mrs Belinda Monta-

gue, Mrs Paula Campbell, Mrs Megan Jones, Mrs Jacquie Clark Mrs Kathryn

Bonnington LIBRARIAN:

Mrs Maree Williams ABORIGINAL EDUCATION

WORKER: Miss Tiffany Lucas

CREATIVE ARTS: Miss Louise Lindsay

SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION: Mrs Margo Green Mrs Deanna Swanson

CANTEEN MANAGER: Mrs Cathy Dries

GENERAL HAND : Mr Mark Bradford

CLEANER: Mrs Kerry Iverach

P&F MEETINGS: 2nd & 7th Tuesday each Term PARENTS/GUARDIANS Please note that photographs of students may be used in this publication. Please advise the School Office if you do not approve of your child’s photo being used.

From the Principal’s desk…. Welcome to Week 4 and a very important week in our Catholic Liturgical calendar, the Assumption

of Mary Mass on Wednesday.

Let me begin this week with a number of messages of congratulations and some highlights of one

of my favourite tasks as a Principal – class visits.

Congratulations to Year 6 who returned from their Canberra Excursion. From the many reports we

received the students were outstanding representatives of our school. Well done Year 6.

In this week’s news there is a report and results from the recent Northern Athletics carnival. There

were some great results from the carnival and I am proud of the students for their efforts and now

I am sure there are many students who are training hard for the Diocesan carnival. Special

congratulations to the following record breakers and aged champions:

Junior Girls -3 way tie- Molly Emery, Orlagh Quigley and Grace Peters

11 Years Boy—Nicholas Peters.

Senior Boy– Reef Martin.

Record Breakers. Ruby Tudor, Angus Boland, Grace Peters and Nicholas Peters

Congratulations goes to our School Captain Aspen Moore, for her amazing performances at the

recent Australian Primary Schools Swimming Championships in Hobart. We are very proud of you.

This past week I enjoyed visiting a number of classes. I was very impressed with 2 lessons that had a

STEM focus. What is STEM? STEM is an approach to learning and development that integrates the

areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

In Year 2, Laura Emery who teaches STEM across the classes on a Friday was working with Miss

Redden and Year 2 using virtual reality to explore the oceans. The students were very engaged and

excited. Miss Veech and Year 3 were exploring Mini Beasts and I was very impressed with the

research skills of the children and the design and making skills. These scientific skills are

demonstrations of the opportunities at SJP, particularly in the area of STEM. Well done SJP.

VISION STATEMENT

To change the world through our faith in Jesus who is our light and hope.

On Wednesday St John’s Primary will be joining with St Pius X at St Brigid’s Church to celebrate Mass,

and the Holy Day of Obligation – The Assumption of Mary.

Although defined as an article of faith by Pope Pius XII just over half a century ago, the Assumption of

Our Lady into heaven has been accepted from back to the earliest of Christian times.

The Assumption signals the end of Mary's earthly life and marks her return to heaven to be reunited

with Jesus. While the bodies of both Jesus and Mary are now in heaven, there is a difference between

the Assumption and the Resurrection. Where Jesus arose from the tomb and ascended into heaven by his own power, Mary's

body was taken up to heaven by the power of her Son.

All are welcome to be with us for this Mass.

Gospel and Reflection: John 6:41-51 At this the Jews there began to grumble about him because

he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven.” They said, “Is this not Jesus, the son of Jo-

seph, whose father and mother we know? How can he now say, ‘I came down from heaven’? “Stop

grumbling among yourselves,” Jesus answered. “No one can come to me unless the Father who sent

me draws them, and I will raise them up at the last day. It is written in the Prophets: ‘They will all be

taught by God.’[a] Everyone who has heard the Father and learned from him comes to me. No one

has seen the Father except the one who is from God; only he has seen the Father. Very truly I tell you,

the one who believes has eternal life. I am the bread of life. Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, yet they died .

But here is the bread that comes down from heaven, which anyone may eat and not die. I am the living bread that came down

from heaven. Whoever eats this bread will live forever. This bread is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world.”

‘Get up and eat, or the journey will be too long for you.’

Thankyou – A big thankyou to all of our community and our students for their support of our Out of Uniform day

for the drought appeal. $731.35 was raised to support the Buy a Bail appeal. We continue to pray for a break in

these drought conditions.

God bless and have a wonderful week

Anthony O’Leary

The Gospel recalls the words of Jesus telling us of the wonder of his Father’s miraculous food. We are invited to receive

the bread given for the life of the world. This living bread will animate our work for the kingdom.

Important Dates to Remember 14 August ICAS Maths Exam

14 August Kindergarten Teddy Bear’s Picnic Excursion

15 August Assumption Of Mary Mass with St Pius at St Brigid's 10am

17 August First Communion Weekend

20 August Debating—hosting St Laurence's

20 August Musica Y Risa performance Kindy– YRr6

22 August Kindy, Year 1 and Year 2 Mass with Fr. Greg - School Hall

23 August Bathurst Dio Athletics Carnival—Barden Park

23 August Year 2 Masonic Village Visit

24 August Multicultural Celebration Day

25 August First Communion Weekend

Statements for Term 3 were posted to families last week. Please take the time to check your statements to ensure that all

payments made are reflected. If you have any queries, please contact the School Fees Office immediately on 6884 8504.

Families who are paying their school fees on a Term basis are reminded that payments for Term 3 are due by Friday 24th

August, 2018.

Anyone on a payment plan, either by Direct Debit, Credit Card or BPay, are reminded that unless arrangements have been

made with the Fees Office, fees are expected to be cleared by the end of November, 2018 in line with the School Fee Policy.

Please telephone the Fees Office on 6884 8504 if you have any questions relating to your fees or your statement.

Margo Green

Canteen News

Hi Everyone, please encourage your children to participate in the Eat Fresh and Win Campaign; children buy an item with either fresh fruit or vegetables- they receive a sticker, 2 stickers needed to enter and receive an instant prize; for more info please see the Sydney Markets website.

This weeks Friday helper is Lauren Hawkins

Thanks Cathy Dries 045850747

CDF BANKING Our next rostered banking will be Wednesday August 8. Our banking parent for this week is Tracy

Letfallah. Please ensure that your child’s banking is sent in to before Wednesday .

2018 Northern Region Athletics Report.

On Tuesday 31st July 47 students represented St John’s Primary at the Northern Region Athletics carnival against athletes

from St Michael’s Dunedoo, Sacred Heart Coolah, All Hallows Gulgong, St Laurence’s Dubbo & St Matthew’s Mudgee.

A very big thank you to all of our parent helpers who gave of their time to assist at the carnival, without your help and support

events such as this would be impossible to conduct, Thank you.

All of our students performed well on the day doing themselves and the school proud. There were some record breaking per-

formances on the day which are listed below –

St John’s Primary is very proud of the following students who were awarded age champions at the Northern Region Carnival.

Jun Girl Champion – 3 way tie: Molly Emery, Grace Peters and Orlagh Quigley.

11 yr. Boy Champion – Nicholas Peters

Sen Boy Champion – Reef Martin

EVENT OLD RECORD NEW RECORD

# 3 Girls 11yr 800m Run 3:08.63. 2013 Monique May. SLD

3:06.22. 31/7/18 Ruby Tudor. SJPD

#104 Boys 11yr Long Jump 4.13m. 2007. Hamish Gordon. SMD

4.19M 31/7/18. Nicholas Peters. SJPD

#120 Boys 12/13yr Long Jump 4.25m 2006. Matt Gersbach

4.76m. 31/7/18. Angus Boland. SJPD.

# 121 Girls 8 – 10yrs Shot Put 7.05m. 2007. Kiera Garling.

7.42m. 31/7/18. Grace Peters. SJPD.

CWA Project Competition

Last term, Year 6 were invited to complete a project about Poland for the CWA Competition. The students had to research the

country and present an informative poster. After submitting many entries, the

CWA members judged the projects and awarded some winners. Congratulations

goes to the following:

1st Place – Gypsy Pipe, Maddie Hutchins, Amber Cameron & Lexi Bedingfield

2nd Place – Hiruni Hapuarachchi & Olivia Evans

3rd Place – Angus Bolan

Highly Commended – Isabella McAllister & Joe O’Brien; Miah Rae & Grace Herbert; Dakota Stockley

Our Canberra Experience Some of the Year 6 students would like to share their experience from our Excursion last week. The teachers would like to thank the students for their outstanding behaviour and for embracing the experience in a positive manner. We hope a restful weekend has them ready to resume ‘normal’ activities. George & Zac - On Monday the 6th August, Year 6 departed Dubbo and headed toward Canberra. After six hours we arrived in Canberra. We went to the National Museum of Democracy and the National Museum. Then we went to our ac-commodation and rock climbing afterwards. On Tuesday we had our fun in the snow, sadly there was a mini-blizzard and it threw sleet at us (which hurt). On Wednesday, we went to the Australian Institute of Sport and we looked at the training areas and found out about the sports in the interactive zone. We also went to Parliament House and role-played the passing of a bill in the House of Representatives. We also did Lasertag at iPlay and did a workshop based around creating prototypes at the Ian Potter Foundation. On the final day we went to Questacon and the Australian War Memorial. These were our favourite things: Zac - The thing I liked the most was the snow because we had a sleet, which was the best. George - I liked the whole trip but the role-play in Parliament House was fun because I was the clerk.

Joe & Suvam – We had a couple of favourite venues including Questacon, The National War Memorial and playing laser tag. Questacon was really all about Science and Technology. Different galleries focused on different parts of science such as electromagnetic waves, meteorology and matter. This sounds nerdy, but it's very fun! The Australian War Memorial was indeed explicate. The different models were detailed and the guide really did a good job at making us feel like we were part of the war. The shows were heartbreaking. We can tell that Year 5 next year will enjoy their visit.

Jonty & Jay On Monday 6th August (the first day of the excursion) we went to many places to learn about Parliament such as the Old Parliament House (or Museum of Democracy). Afterwards we arrived at our accommoda-tion and had chicken for dinner. After that we went rock climbing which was AWESOME!!!! On the second day we left for the snow and reached it after a long drive. While we were there we had a snowball fight and learned to make snow shelters. On Wednesday we went to the Parliament House and did a practise debate. Afterwards we checked out the AIS and the Mint. We also went to the Ian Potter Foundation and did an awesome workshop there. After dinner we went to iPlay and did laser-tag, dodgem cars and played arcade games. On our last day at Canberra we had a great time at the War Memorial and Questacon. All in all it was an awesome trip!!! Lexi: Parliament house was amazing, sadly parliament wasn’t sitting whilst while we were there. We visited both chambers, House of Reps and the Senate. After doing the tour, we did a role-play of being in the House of Reps. Nick was the Prime Minister (leader of the government team), and I was the leader of the opposition team. We were creating a new bill if children should go to school for 2 hrs longer. All of the cross-bench came to the opposition side, but it was not enough. The government team had won! We re-ally enjoyed ourselves at Parliament House. Saxbii & Yani: Last Monday, Year 6 set off on their 3 night excursion to Canberra. On Monday our favourite activity was our night time activity, rock climbing. The walls were around about 15 metres high, most of year 6 man-aged to get to the top. Beside the squeaky beds, overall our cabins were pretty cosy. Tuesday we had an early start so we could have a longer time at the snow. We were playing in the bliz-zard. Wednesday we visited the Parliament House, the Parliament House has 2700 clocks so the parliamentary members know where to go when the alarm goes off and they are needed for a vote. Thursday we visited Questacon we had a great time, we had a long trip home. In summary, Year 6 had an awesome excursion.

The Lion King Kids Update:

The Lion King Kids Musical is fast approaching! Parents we need clean 2L bottles to create musical instruments (lids are essential). If you have any spare 2L bottles, please send them to school with your child and leave them with the class teacher.

Year 4 will be required to wear Hawaiian skirts and shirts. If Other families in the school have these and can lend them it would be much appreciated. Please label them and send them to Mrs Clifford Year 1 Blue

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