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Our Lady of the Rosary Catholic School 23 Yardley Avenue, Waitara 2077
Private Bag 3000 Hornsby NSW 2077 Tel 9489 7000
Email: [email protected] Website: www.olorwdbb.catholic.edu.au
Week 6, Term 4, 2018 22 November 2018 LINK TO: CLASS PAGES
Diary Dates - Term 4
Monday 26 November - Feast of Christ of King Prayer Assembly—Year 5 @ 2.15pm Friday 30 November - Year 1 to Loreto Normanhurst Pantomime @ 10.30am Friday 30 November - “Men in the Morning” 8.00am TLOCC Monday 3 December - First Week of Advent Prayer Assembly—Kindergarten @ 2.15pm Monday 3 December - Gingerbread House Night OLOR Undercroft 6.00—9.00pm Tuesday 11 December - P&F Meeting @ 7.00pm in the staffroom - All Welcome
Last night some of Sr Katherine’s Congregational Sisters
were in the audience and one of them was my Kindergarten
teacher, Sr Judith. What a trip down memory lane for me – I
remember I loved her and thought she was so young and
beautiful even though she was dressed in the nun habits of
the 60s! There were 69 students in my Kindergarten class
so Sr Judith must have been a saint!
She had lovely memories of my mum bringing me into class
each morning and she talked about my dad’s involvement in
the school too. He went on to be very active in the P&F of
the time.
Dear Parents, We certainly had a wide variety of popular music showcased last night with our Performing Arts Night ‘Celebrating Music across 120 Years.’ It was wonderful to see each child’s confidence as they danced to the beat and sang with energy and enthusiasm as they relived some of the excitement of the decades between 1898 and 2018. Our Bands and Choir ushered in the concert with their expert playing and beautiful singing. Thanks to Miss Lucia, Miss Pauline and Sr Katherine for all their efforts in bringing these performances together. As always we are most appreciative of parents’ assistance and support for nights such as this, with sewing, costumes, makeup, hair and as traffic marshals. At OLOR we have wonderful teachers with a passion for giving children the best educational experiences possible across many areas. I thank the teachers for the work that has gone into our concert this year. Many of them have organised their items, sewed costumes, taught movements and practised routines. Without their commitment none of this would have come together. Nights like this always need someone to be thinking about everything from finding the ‘best’ song representations of an era to teaching the songs, to organising the sound and lighting and the logistics of everything else. Our music teacher Mrs Mason is that person and we are so lucky to have her creativity, attention to detail and organisation across all of this. What a magnificent job she does in bringing these nights together and she is busy right through the night making sure it goes to plan. Photos will be available soon and a DVD of the concert is
available for purchase for $20 through Qkr.
Mufti Day for Cathedral Carpet Appeal. As you would be aware the cathedral is planning a refurbishment replacing its carpet in the near future. We will hold a mufti day on Friday 30 November with a gold coin donation to the carpet fund. Even though Year 1 is going to a special pantomime performance out of school, mufti attire will still be suitable.
YEAR 3 DADS & KIDS CAMP
In early November, 44 Yr 3 kids and dads headed off for a weekend to the YMCA Yarramundi for an adventure packed 2 days! It was a hot weekend but that didn’t stop us, the pool was a welcome retreat from the heat. Highlights of the weekend were kayaking, giant swing and singing around the campfire whilst eating toasted marshmallows! The camp was well run and has left the kids with memories for life from their first school camp. We would recommend this fantastic weekend away to all upcoming Yr 3 families.
Assessment Day - Pupil Free Day, Wednesday 30 January 2019. Next year we will be continuing with the Empowering Mathematics Understandings (EMU) program. This aims to develop and deepen mathematical understandings as we use data to improve our teaching of Mathematics. All students will take part in the next part of a formal one-on-one Maths Assessment Interview (MAI) that takes about half an hour. We have the opportunity to use our first day of school as an assessment day which will mean that formal classes for Years 1-6 will commence on Thursday 31 January. On Wednesday 30 January, teachers will be working with groups of children throughout the day administering the MAI. We expect to get through about half the students of each class on that day with other students going through the process in the first weeks of school. By having this first day as an assessment day, teachers won’t be out of class as much trying to administer the survey to 25 students, therefore, there will be less disruption in those early days of the year. We understand it will not be convenient for all children to come on this Wednesday at staggered times. We will organise a schedule over the next week, in the same way as we did for parent/teacher interviews and we will be asking for student availability. Maths Kits Over the last few years we have prepared Maths Kits for the students so they can practise maths strategies at home. We have exhausted our supply and need to make some more for our present Kindergarten classes and for Kinder next year. We would love to have some parents help to put these kits together. Perhaps you could spare some time, even an hour, over the next couple of weeks. All students from Year 1 and above have received these kits over the last few years when they were in the younger grades. All equipment will be on the mezzanine level with instructions of what each kit needs to contain. We will be ready to begin collating next Wednesday. Please contact the school office by email to let us know when you might be able to drop in.
God bless you and your family Jacinta Crowe Principal
Week 1 of School Term 1 Tuesday 29 January Teachers return Wednesday 30 January Assessment Day Thursday 31 January First day of school Yr 1—Yr 6 Friday 1 February Swimming Carnival, Hornsby Aquatic Centre Wednesday 30 January— Friday 1 February Best Start Interviews Kindy 2019 Monday 4 February First Day Kindy 2019
CLASS MERIT AWARD PBL AWARD
Using Safe & Caring Hands
Kindergarten Blue Kai J Sophia De G
Kindergarten Gold Tayla J Chris B
1Blue Timothy S Evie H
1Gold Leo J Bryce P
2Blue Seren D’S Chanel C
2Gold Gabriel NB Samuel R
3Blue Julian S Amelia E
3Gold Nicholas M Will D
4Blue Verity Z Liam C
4Gold Grace L Luca R
5/6Blue Caidan G Lucy B
5/6Gold Daniel J Juliet L
5/6White Precious C Ysabella P
Second-hand Uniform Shop Opening Hours
Term 4
Wednesday 28 November @ 8.30am
Tuesday 11 December @ 2.30pm
Congratulations to the following students who are celebrating a birthday this week. 19 November - Zahlia M (5/6White) 23 November - Sophia D G (KBlue) - Charlie S (5/6Gold) 24 November - Rebecca J (4Blue) - Ayisha K (4Blue) 25 November - Yuri R (KBlue)
Merit & Birthday certificates will be presented at the assembly on Monday 26 November @ 2.20pm
LIBRARY NEWS
CANTEEN NEWS ROSTER:
Monday 26 November Audrey McCarry Tuesday 27 November Sancha Fernandes Wednesday 28 November Jackie Della Vedova Thursday 29 November Dawn Stephens Friday 30 November Rima Elsom Monday 3 December Emese Turchanyi Tuesday 4 December Madeline Schappi Alex Sturrock Wednesday 5 December Danielle Jones Megan Davidson Thursday 6 December Tracey Clark Friday 7 December Christina Loh
Friday 14 December: Hot Dog Day for the last day of Canteen in 2018. Orders close Monday 10 December 9.00am. Thankyou Carmel Daniels
Premier’s Reading Challenge 2018 At assembly next Monday 26 November it will be my pleasure to present the Premier’s Reading Challenge certificates to all of the students who completed the Challenge during this year. Platinum Certificates will be presented to those students who have completed the Challenge for 7 years and Gold certificates will be presented to those students who have completed the Challenge for 4 years. The Platinum and Gold Certificates, which are posted to us, should arrive before next Monday. If not they will be presented at assembly on Monday 3 December. Platinum Certificates will be awarded to: Brendan C-E (5/6W); Matthew C (5/6G); Logan D (5/6G); Amelia E (5/6G); Cailtlyn E (5/6W); Joshua E (5/6B); Ariana G-P (5/6W); Zac K (5/6W); Ruby M (5/6G); Jack P (5/6B) and Alexander T (5/6B). Gold Certificates will be awarded to: Alfonso B (3B); Emily B (3B); Sabrina C-E (3G); Gabriel C (3B); Cassidy C(3G);Whitney C (3G); Harry DV (3B); William D (3G); Mariella D (3B); Aodhan D (3B); Damien H (3G); Grace M (3G); Lucy S (3B); Sophia C (4B); Leo L (4B): Ashton S (4G); Verity Z (4B) and Bridget M (5/6W). What a wonderful effort! Congratulations to everyone who participated. Book Covering Books which are new to our library are usually covered by our wonderful volunteer Mrs Suzanne Leverton. However, over the next few weeks there will be a number of new sets of Guided Reading Books and Readers’ Circle Books which will need to be covered. If there are any parents who are able to help out with covering these books please email me ( [email protected] ) and I will send home some books and contact. If you would prefer to cover books at school, please let me know and I will arrange a time with you. Hopefully “many hands will make light work”! Mrs Sandra Todd (Teacher Librarian)
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS
SCHOOL OFFICE
ST VINCENT DE PAUL CHRISTMAS HAMPER APPEAL A wonderful tradition at OLOR is the annual St Vincent de Paul Christmas Hamper Appeal which starts next Monday 19 November and will continue to Monday 3 December. What do you need to do to support this drive? Simply send in any of the following to your class teacher:
Christmas treats such as Christmas cake, bon-bons etc.
biscuits and lollies etc.
non-perishable foods such as jam, long-life milk, coffee, tea etc.
Toiletries
recyclable material shopping bags - (very important for storage and transport)
Note: The annual Giving Tree where we place wrapped gifts, will begin closer to December.
Children’s Christmas Vigil Mass Thank you to Marie Stephens for volunteering her time to co-ordinate the children’s enactment of the Gospel at the Christmas Vigil Mass on Christmas Eve. If you would like your child(ren) to be involved please contact Marie by email at [email protected].
REMINDER: Please return your signed 2019 Family Registration Forms to the School Office ASAP.
Unless this form is received any discounts on 2019 fees as a result of siblings attending other
Catholic schools will not be processed
SPECIAL SCHOOL ASSEMBLIES
Monday 26 November Feast of Christ the King Prayer assembly— Year 5 Monday 3 December First Week of Advent Prayer Assembly—Kindergarten Assemblies will be held in TLOCC at 2.15pm—-All welcome
SCHOOL COMMUNITY
Hello, Josephine and the team would like to invite you to join us for morning tea to pre-view the season stock for Christmas, including New and Pre-loved ladies cloth-ing, accessories, jewellery, shoes, hand bags, and other household treasures. This Op Shop is one of the not-for-profit works of Emmaus Productions and the Mary Brown Memori-al Foundation established by Monica Brown and the local Brown family of Thornleigh. Proceeds from the profits of the Op Shop will go to The Good Samaritan Foundation, a work of the Sisters of the Good Samari-tan Australia
(http://goodsamsfoundation.org.au/)
Morning Tea Details Location:
Josephine’s Emporium 8D Station Street Thornleigh Corner Pennant Hills Road and Station Street (opposite ALDI)
Date: Sat 1st December and Sat 8th December
'Fashion with Passion' open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 10am - 4pm
Be sure to bring a friend to share the fun on this great morning at Josephine’s Emporium
Josephine’s Emporium Morning Tea
COMMUNITY EVENTS
