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27th August 2015
Dear Parents,
ENHANCING ONLINE SAFETY FOR OUR CHILDREN Recently the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner has released another avenue for children to report if they have experienced bullying. It is an online service where children can visit the website https://www.esafety.gov.au/ and make an online report about a cyberbullying experience if they wish. The Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner is a one-stop-shop for online safety. The Office provides Australians a range of up-to-date information and resources, coupled with a comprehensive complaints system to assist children who experience serious cyberbullying.
The aim of the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner With the aim to help guide children and young people toward safe, enjoyable experiences online, the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner hopes to encourage behavioural change—where Aus-tralian children and young people act responsibly online—just as they would offline. Our goal is to create an environment in which cyberbullying is truly unacceptable. To achieve this, we hope to both educate and help prevent harmful online behaviour from occurring in the first place.
SCHOOL CENTENARY CELEBRATIONS COMMITTEE The St Francis de Sales School will celebrate it’s Centenary in 2017. We are seeking members of the present and past school community to form a Centenary Celebrations Committee which will start planning for the event. It is planned that the formation committee will consist of the Parish Priest, a mem-ber of the Parish Council, the Principal and 2 members of staff , 2 members of our current parent body and 2 members selected from interested past students/parents. Our 2016 student cohort’s input will also be encouraged in the planning next year. It is then expected that the committee will decide on the formation of sub- commit-tees to work on the various elements of the celebrations and the dates. Any interested parties are to please contact the school on our e-mail address: [email protected] to register your interest in serving on the commit-tee. Please register this interest by next Friday, 4 September 2015. We will also advertise for interested parties in the Clifton Courier next week.
Quote of the Week:
The secret of happiness is the realization
that life is a gift, not a right.
Author Unknown
God Bless,
Brett Pollard
Principal
Dates To Remember SEPTEMBER 2015 4th - Ball Games Carnival - Clifton Show Grounds 4th - Confirmation at 5pm in Allora 5th - Father’s Day Bush Dance -6pm 6th - First Communion - Allora - 9am 18th - Term 3 Ends 19th - Bull Sale number 1. 23rd - Bull Sale 2 Fundraiser (Year 4/5 Parents to organise—funds raised to go to Canberra trip 2016) OCTOBER 2015 5th - Labour Day Holiday 6th - Term 4 Begins November 2015 1st—Bunnings Sausage Sizzle—(Year 4/5 Parents to organise—funds raised to go to Canberra trip 2016)
DATE CLAIMER: 19 March 2016 - PARISH FETE
Bull Sale Fundraiser
There will be two bull sales coming up. One on Satur-day, 19/9/15 and the other is the Santa Central Bull Sale which will take place on Wednesday, 23 Septem-ber, 2015.
We are looking for volunteers (Year 4/5 parents and any others) to help in the canteen on the day. All prof-its from the canteen will be donated to the Canberra Fundraising.
If you are able to help, please contact Simone Gillam.
Ball Games Carnival The annual ball games carnival is looming. The event, to be held at the Clifton Show Grounds on the 4th Sep-tember and will include the normal ball games events of previous years (tunnel ball, unders and overs, leader ball, captain ball etc.) for children of all ages. In addition to this, development officers from the various sporting organisations in the region, will be running ses-sions in their respective disciplines. The children will rotate through these activities for half of the day while the other half of the children are participating in their ball games events and vice versa. This is sure to be a fun and educational day for all. Parents are welcome to attend.
Ball Games Tuckshop Pre-Order Forms Clifton State School, who have organised the event, will be running a tuckshop on the day. Students are asked to pre-order their tuckshop for the day to assist with ca-tering. A menu went home on Tuesday afternoon. Thank you to those families that have already placed their orders. Please place your order and money in a sealed en-velope with your family name clearly marked. Please return this to school tomorrow.
This Week’s Family Mass Roster Sunday: 29th August 7 pm
Welcoming: P Tickner
POF/OH: M Lucas
Readers: A & H Gillam
Offertory: K Flynn & family
Eucharistic Ministers: H Gillam & K Flynn
Church Cleaning: G Imhoff, J O’Leary & M Bowe
Personal Development Lessons Personal development and Sexuality Education lessons will be presented to the students in the coming weeks. These lessons are part of the curriculum of this school and all schools across this diocese. They form part of the Personal Development and Health strands of the Health and Physical Education curriculum and follow the Catholic Education Office, Diocese of Toowoomba, Guidelines for Teaching Sexu-al Health. Please be aware that notes highlighting the specific content of these very important lessons will be home shortly.
Tuckshop Roster: 28 Aug - Sausage Sizzle
4 Sept - Ball Games (No Tuckshop)
P&F NEWS TUCKSHOP There will not be any Tuckshop available until the position of Tuckshop Convenor is filled. However, there will be a sausage sizzle available. The funds raised from the sausage sizzle will go towards the Year 5/6 Canberra Trip next year. Friday, 4
th September Ball Games Carnival, Clifton Show Grounds (No Tuckshop)
Friday, 11th September Sausage Sizzle
HELP WANTED - Tuckshop Convenor We are still looking for a new Tuckshop Convenor, or two people who can share the load. This role will require a couple of hours a week of your time to ensure our children receive delicious, healthy food. As the Tuckshop Convenor, there is scope to alter the menu or change the day which orders need to be placed to suit your schedule. Please express your interest to the Front Office, or to find out more information see Simone Gillam, Lisa Lucas or Ann-Maree Bange. Thank you.
Next P&F Meeting: 6pm Wednesday, 9th September 2015 Please email your agenda items to: [email protected]
P&F Executive: Simone Gillam, Lisa Lucas, Ann-maree Bange, Bec McKenzie
WARWICK JUNIOR NETBALL Player nominations for 2016 Rep Teams now open All players born 2004 – 1998 interested in playing netball for W&DNA in 2016 are invited to trial for selection into the 2016 Rep Teams. For information and nomination forms please email [email protected] or see our Facebook page www.facebook.com/warwicknetball
SAUSAGE SIZZLE THANK YOU A big thank you to the parent body for supporting the sausage sizzle fundraisers in the last 3 weeks. We are well on our way to raising a good sum of money to reduce the cost of the trip to parents. All parents at some stage or another will get the chance to raise funds for their child’s Canberra Trip in the future.
5 Reasons Why Reduced Screen Time Will Make Your Family Life Easier
(Continued from last week)
2. Your child will be able to concentrate better at school with no screen time before school. Screen time and TV has been shown to impact on children’s concentration in the class-room. Many teachers I’ve worked with tell me they can tell each day who has had screen time in the morning by the children’s concentration and attention levels! A better option is to swap screen time for some active play. Trampolines are my personal
favourite, but bouncing on an exercise ball, running around the back yard or having a
quick swing is very instrumental in preparing the body through movement and muscle in-
put to be ready for concentrating. The reticular formation is a small part of the brain that
responds especially to up and down movement, feeding and preparing the nervous sys-
tem to be ready for sitting, learning and taking in new information.
Fighting
Fit! Tallis last
week did
very well at
‘The Golden
Gloves’
Tournament
in Brisbane.
Well done
Tallis!
Harry Bange is
the year 3/4
times tables
‘Mad Minute’
champ for this
week. Well done
Harry! Notably,
Harry scored 39
out of 40 seven
times tables in a
minute.
Our students represented the Central Downs sports team last Friday and the
Southern Downs Carnival. All students agreed it was an enjoyable day and the
level of competition and sportsmanship was high. Well done!
Lily, Sophie and Lachlan were all successful in gaining
selection in the Southern Downs Team to compete in
the Darling Downs Athletics Carnival on the 8th of
September. Lily was runners up in the 11years age
champion. Congratulations to all of these students and
good luck!
Over the past few weeks, Year 5/6 have been very busy learning about a variety
of topics. In Technology, we have been learning how to create an I-Movie using
the I-Pads. In small groups, we had to write a script, film our performance and
then edit the film to create our movies.
In Drama, we refined our improvisation skills and performed a variety of sketch-
es where we were given stimuli to react to in each scene. This was difficult but
the end results were very funny!
Finally, we have been rehearsing with Mr Spranklin for the Bush Dance. We are
starting to look pretty good which is lucky as it's not long now to the big day!
What a full on term we have been having!
