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OUR LADY OF GRACE
NEWSLETTER
Welcome back to term 3, I hope you all enjoyed some extra time with
your children over the break.
We come back to a very full term 3, with lots of activities and events
to complement our learning at Our Lady of Grace School. Please
take note of the dates of school concert, School Masses and parent
sessions.
We especially welcome back Suzanne Goh, who is returning from
long service leave. Suzanne will be working in a variety of teaching
roles over the next 2 terms, in all the Villages. She will be working with
small focus groups, especially in literacy and maths. Suzanne will also
replace any teachers who are on leave – helping with continuity of
learning in the Villages.
Welcome also to Charlie, who joins our OLOG community in the R/1
Village this week. The learners in the R/1 Village have been very
welcoming and displayed our Big 5 Learner Values:
• Be Christ-Like
• Be Respectful
• Be Supportive
• Be Safe
• Be Brave
Amanda and I spent the last 3 days of term 2 attending a course
designed to deepen our understanding of teaching students with
dyslexia and evidence based multi-sensory teaching. Good
teaching in literacy, especially phonics based, is a focus of our
professional learning this year. We will be sharing our learning with all
staff and continue to develop a whole school scope and sequence.
A reminder we have an excellent parent session on offer this term, for
parents/carers of learners in all year levels.
Bill Hansberry
Improving literacy and reading
Tuesday 29th August 6.45 – 7.45pm
Our Lady of Grace School Hall
From the Acting Principal
Term 3 Week 1 27th July 2017
Diary Dates
AUGUST
4/8 SACPASA Athletics Carnival
4/5 Students only
7/8 P&F Meeting 7pm
8/8 School Liturgy – Feast of St
Dominic & Mission Day
10/8 Cross Country Carnival
14/8 School Board Meeting 7pm
15/8 Assumption of Mary Parish
Mass – 9.15am
18/8 School Concert Dress
Rehearsal at OLOG
22/8 OLOG School Tour – 5pm
24/8 School Concert Dress
Rehearsal at Venue
25/8 SCHOOL CONCERT
29/8 Bill Hansberry Literacy
Evening for Parents 6.45pm
31/8 Book Fair
2017 OLOG Term Dates
Term 3 July 24th – Sept 29th
Term 4 Oct 16th – Dec 13th
Attachments:
School Concert
Ticket Order Form
Our Lady of Grace School
38 Beadnall Terrace
GLENGOWRIE SA 5044
R-5 Co—Ed Catholic School
NEW SCHOOL NUMBER : 8177 9100
ABSENTEE LINE NUMBER : 8177 9191
Fax: 8294 8831
Email: [email protected]
Principal: Shana Bennett
Acting Principal: Kelly Campbell
A Glenelg Catholic Parish School
Parish Priest: Fr Anthony Kain
Parish Associate: Orla Wright
Phone: 8294 1888
From the Aprim
Sacramental Program
Some dates to keep in mind for the Sacramental
Program:
September 10th – Sacramental Program poster
making at OLOG following Mass at 9.15am.
September 12th – Tuesday 2.30pm Confirmation
practise at OLOG.
September 13th – Wednesday 7pm Our Lady of
Victories Confirmation.
September 16th & 17th - First Communion OLOG
9.15am Sunday 17th September.
Please keep these children in your thoughts and
prayers as they progress in their Sacramental
journey.
Karla Sparapani
APRIM
P&F News
MILO DAY - tomorrow Friday 28th of July
bring $2.00
to buy a nice, warm
cup of Milo!!
Cont.
Our learners look wonderful in their school uniforms,
and we ask that you continue to support our
uniform policy.
I have noticed a few learners who have come back
from holidays with coloured sneakers. Learners are
able to wear black or white sneakers only.
Visible Learning
On Tuesday, I joined staff from Marymount College
and Sacred Heart Middle School to further our
understanding about what makes for great learning
in schools! The day was very affirming as the
information presented is based on strong research
and is evident in what we are working on at Our
Lady of Grace School. The Professional Learning
around Visible Learning is focused on John Hattie’s
research. It draws on John’s internationally
acclaimed research in Visible Learning: A Synthesis
of over 800 meta-analyses relating to achievement
(2009) and his book Visible Learning for Teachers:
Maximising impact of learning (2012). This research
involved millions of students and represents the
largest ever evidence-based research into what
actually works best in schools to improve learning.
The research tells us that the things that have the
most significant impact are all about making
learning visible (and explicit) to students. This is
reflected in the work we are doing in developing
learner identities in our learners: questioning,
thinking, connecting, reflecting, persisting and
managing. The diagram below comes from the
Visible Learning, Foundation (Corwin Education
2017).
Thank you for your continuing support.
Kelly Campbell
Acting Principal
Literacy Corner
The FLoSS Rule
Whenever a one syllable word with a short
vowel sound ends in a F, L, S or Z, we double
the last letter- the Floss Rule. FLoSS rule reminds
us to double the final consonant in words with:
One syllable
One Short vowel
End in ‘f’ ‘l’ ‘s’ ‘z’
For example:
skill dress frizz cliff toss stuff bell buzz
Here is a clip explaining the rule:
https://youtu.be/hPcl5i30IGI
Scholastic Book Club Issue #5!!
Issue #5 of Scholastic Book Club booklets
has arrived. Could all Issue #5 Book Club
orders be completed and brought to the
front office, with Name, Class and CORRECT
MONEY in an envelope, sticky taped to
protect coins from falling out or if you’d
rather you can order and pay directly to
Scholastic through LOOP, NO later than
Friday MORNING 4th August. Many thanks.
Anne Lindner
Community News
Our Lady of Grace School
Enrolments
An urgent reminder for parents with younger
siblings due to start Reception in 2019….please
ensure that your Enrolment Application form
has been lodged with the school as soon as
possible. Offers for Reception placements are
due to be sent out shortly.
For further information please contact
Karyn - [email protected]
Our Lady of Grace Playgroup
Playgroup will return, Week 2 of Term 3 –
Thursday 3rd August from 9.00am until 10.30am.
We welcome all existing and new families to
Our Lady of Grace Playgroup. For further
information please contact our Playgroup
Coordinator – Anne Lindner on
Library News
Dear Parents & Caregivers, if you notice
that your child’s reader book or library
book is damaged in any way or missing
pages could you please notify the
Library when the book is returned to
school.
Thank you for your support.
Community News
Community News
Office News
Woolworths Earn & Learn 2017
Dear Parents,
This year we will be participating in the
Woolworths Earn & Learn program. Through
this program we will be able to get new
educational resources for our school – and
all we need you to do is shop for your
groceries at Woolworths.
From Wednesday 26th July to Tuesday 19th
September or while stock lasts, we are
collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn
Stickers. You will get one Woolworths Earn &
Learn Sticker for every $10 spent (excluding
liquor, tobacco and gift cards). Place the
Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker onto a
Woolworths Earn & Learn Sticker Sheet and
when it’s complete, the Sticker Sheet can be
dropped into the Collection Box here at the
school or at your local Woolworths.
At the end of the promotion, we’ll be able
to get some great new equipment. The
range is extensive and offers lots of items
ideal for our students – including resources
for Maths, English, Science and some
fantastic fun supplies for Arts & Craft, Sport
and for our library.
If you’d like to know more visit…
woolworths.com.au/earnandlearn
Meet Bree & Jamie
Hello everyone, we are Bree and Jamie and
we are currently studying our first year of
Masters in Social Work at Flinders University. We
are pleased to be doing our placement at Our
Lady of Grace School and we will be here from
Monday to Thursday until the end of the school
year.
Our role will be to facilitate group activities,
running the “What’s the Buzz?” program and
raise awareness of social issues such as
bullying, establishing positive relationships as
well as building resilience and self-esteem.
Absentee Line Number:
8177 9191 There are a number of ways to notify the
school of your child’s absence from
school, email, sms, via the Skoolbag app
& we now have a dedicated Absentee
Line that will direct you to a message bank
to leave your child’s details and reason for
absence. Please add this number to your
contacts for future reference.
Lunch Orders will not be available
during Term 3, Weeks 1,2 & 3 due
to the lovely staff from Bayside
Bakery taking a well deserved
holiday.
School Banking
Classroom Award
Well done to Year 3’s who have earned a
certificate for making the highest combined
number of deposits for Term 2.
Bronze Certificates Congratulations to the following students for
earning a bronze certificate for making 10 or
more school banking deposits so far this year –
Aimee Burns Hannah Burns
Jarred Penhall Felicity Ward
Rewards Silver reward tokens are issued each time a
student makes a school banking deposit – the
bank keeps an electronic record of the token
count, so don’t worry if you have misplaced your
tokens and when they have collected 10 silver
tokens, they can submit their reward card
indicating their choice of reward. Available at:
https://www.commbank.com.au/content/dam/c
ommbank/personal/apply-online/download-printed-forms/school-banking-parent-pack-rewards-card-colour.pdf?ei=bl3-tl-download-
reward-card-colour
It takes about 2 week for rewards to be delivered
to the school after ordering.
Commission So far this year, due to the wonderful savings
efforts of all our bankers, we have earned
$388.70 from the Commonwealth Bank in
commissions to go towards our P&F Fundraising
Tally. Well Done to all involved!
Reminder Please fill out the deposit slip correctly or your
deposit wil not be able to be processed.
School Banking day is Wednesday –
(Friday for Term 3, Week 1)
From Father Anthony Kain…
VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE REALITIES
What did you see at the Baptism of your
child? Water, certainly, but not water alone;
you saw our families gathered, the priest or
deacon exercising the ritual, asking questions
and calling this child to holiness, wholeness.
Someone from your family read a passage of
scripture, someone led the Prayers of the
Faithful, the Priest blessed the water and it
was poured over your child’s head. Your
child was then anointed with the oil of Chrism
to be used again at their confirmation, they
were given the light of Christ as the
Godparents lit their baptismal candle, their
ears and mouth were touched by the priest
praying that they would hear the word of
God and act upon it. We gathered at the
altar where the child would receive
communion later on and we were blessed,
first the mother, then the father and then all
of us who were to journey with your child
through time to eternity.
St Paul taught us to look not at what is visible
but at what is invisible; for visible things will
pass away but the invisible things are eternal.
The invisible aspect of the baptism of your
child is that they were given eternal life that
day and set out on a journey of discovery
and faith. At Baptism we believe that the
invisible God is a present God and is at work;
we are called to have faith in what God does
that day and throughout the years of our lives
This is a very ancient mystery written about in
the first book of the Bible, Genesis, and
brought to the present moment by our ritual.
‘In the beginning God made the heaven
and the earth…The Spirit moved upon the
waters. And God said “Let there be light”
and this is the light of God that is invisible but
always active in our lives; from that light all
creation came, especially us. Your child was
drawn out of darkness to light by the water,
the candle and the laying on of hands.
We invite you to a Sunday Mass to pray
especially for your children whom we ask to
be present in the great Act of Faith that is the
mystery we enter into, a mystery that will
sustain their lives now and always.
School Concert News
Don’t Miss Out…
Order your tickets
now for the
OLOG 2017 School Concert
Friday 25th August
All ticket orders
must be returned to
the front office by
Friday 4th August.
Community News
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data
Students with Disability:
Once again this year our school has been asked
to implement the Nationally Consistent Collection
of Data on School Students with Disability (NCCD).
From 2015, all government and non-government
schools in Australia are required to participate
annually in the Nationally Consistent Collection of
Data on School Students with Disability. The Data
Collection will provide all Australian schools,
education authorities and the community with
nationally consistent information about the
number of school students with disability and the
level of adjustment being made to enable the
students to access and participate on the same
basis as their peers. The information needs to be
reported by the 4th August 2017.
Students’ personal details will be de-identified in
the data collection and aggregated information
will be provided to Catholic Education SA who will
further de-identify and aggregate the data
before providing the data to the Department of
Education.
Parents/Carers can decide whether they want
their child’s information to be included in the Data
Collection. Please notify Amanda Walker if you do
not want your child’s data included. There are no
consequences for not participating in the
Nationally Consistent Collection of Data.
Please contact me if you have any questions in
relation to this process.
Amanda Walker
If you have any items for the newsletter, please
forward to Karyn Sparrow:
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