St Michael’s Primary School

3–5 Chapel Lane, Baulkham Hills Tel: 9639 0518 Fax: 9686 2910 Issue 26 Term 3 Week 7 Thursday 29 August 2013

From the Principal Dear Parents

As we prepare to celebrate Father’s Day this Sunday, I would like to share with you one person’s reflec-tion of their dad and the influence he had on their life.

“My dad was my guide for life, he was my protector and benefactor, he was my strong support when the winds of life knocked me around. He taught me to respect myself and to expect more of myself than I did of anyone else. He gave me a fatherly love as well as direction and discipline and he was a great exam-ple of consistency and commitment.

“We had a wonderful father for he was always willing to listen to us and treat us with compassion, consid-eration and appreciation, even when it probably wasn’t easy to do so because of our behaviour. He was an unassuming person and always acted towards us in ways that reflected his own humanity, his strength and values as a person. We always felt loved and when we talk about him now, we feel inspired because he raised the three of us by himself after mum died.”

Ann Landers has this reminder to offer all dads if ever they doubted their importance to their children:

“When I was:

4 years old: My dad could do anything. 6 years old: My dad is smarter than your dad. 14 years old: Don’t pay any attention to my father. He is so old-fashioned. 30 years old: Maybe we should ask dad what he thinks. After all he’s had a lot of experience. 50 years old: I’d give anything if dad were here now so I could talk this over with him.”

The English have a proverb which states that, “One father is more than a hundred schoolmasters”. Anon-ymous has a contribution that might well be appropriate of fathers: “To the world you might be one per-son, but to one person you might just be the world”. However, there is one undeniable truth that is ex-pressed so well through the words of a child: “My dad thinks he wears the trousers in our house but it’s always mum who tells him which pair to put on”.

Fatherhood is one of the great privileges in a man’s life for it enables him to be the first male in a child’s life; of course, this leads to the life-long responsibility of parenthood. Ian Grant in his book, “Fathers who dare WIN”, offers this insight:

The greatest legacy a man can leave in the world is not so much a great business, but a ‘living’ invest-ment in the future, through loving, stable, employable and healthy children. Parents are the ultimate ‘people builders’. The fine expectations you have of your children, the skills you teach them, and the val-ues you model for them will be the bricks and mortar of great future citizens.”

“Today as we remember our own fathers, may we also remember our Heavenly Father, who is the source of all our blessings. Give us the grace that we might be loving fathers, not only to our own chil-dren, but to all children. Amen.”

HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!

RE News First Reconciliation

Children from our school have made their first Reconcili-ation this week. I congratulate them on their reverence and prayerfulness during their first Reconciliation night. We have included the children who received the Sacra-ment of Reconciliation on the following page.

Children’s Liturgy of the Word Children’s Liturgy will be on this Sunday 1st Septem-ber during the 10 am Mass. All primary aged children are warmly invited to attend.

Kinder and Year 5 Buddy Mass Kindergarten and Year 5 will celebrate Mass together on Friday 6th September at 12.00 pm in the Church. All family members are invited to attend.

Year 1 and Year 6 Buddy Mass Years 1 and 6 will celebrate Mass together on Friday 13th September at 10.15 am in the Church. All family members are invited to attend.

Diocesan Review of Religious Education

Bishop Anthony Fisher OP has asked the Catholic Edu-cation Office, in association with academic partners the University of Notre Dame Australia, to take a close look at religious education curriculum, resourcing and teach-er formation. Your participation in this process is vital. A key part of the data gathering process will be through an online questionnaire. The questionnaires are for stu-dents from Years 5 & 6 and Years 9 & 11; teachers, Re-ligious Education coordinators, principals, alumni, par-ents and clergy. There is a different questionnaire for each group. Religious Education Lessons will also be observed in some schools. An information letter went home this week to all parents via email or hard copy format. The survey period will run from the 2nd Septem-ber to the 20th September. We appreciate your support in this matter.

St Michael’s Feast Day End of Term Mass

Our whole school End of Term Mass to celebrate the feast day of St Michael will be held on Friday 20th Sep-tember at 10.15 am in the Church. All are welcome to attend.

Diocesan Youth Festival 2013

30th August and 27th September

“I have come to cast fire upon the earth” Luke 12:49 Held over 2 nights at 7 pm—30th August 2013: Includes Servants of Jesus Band, ‘U Turn’ and Youth Expo; 27th September 2013: Bishop Anthony Fisher OP, Gary Pinto live Place: St Patrick’s Catholic Church, 59 Allawah Street, Blacktown. For more information contact: youthevent@parra.catholic.org.au.

David Ison Religious Education Coordinator

Student of the Week Term 3 Week 6

KB Christian Farahian 3F Emily Woodroffe KIH Matthew MacKay 3RUGG Jacob Campbell KR Hollee Stewart 4C Tiana Moore KS Cristina Hurtado 4G Brendan Dias 1FM Maximus Lemoto 4RB Grace Bittar 1K Olivia O’Sullivan 4VG Aidan Mifsud 1Q Rohan Hariman 5C Talia Van Jour 1R Naden Cooray 5M Gabriel Pellegrini 2A Mary Merkorious 5OC Penelope Varkas 2BT Nathan Grove 5S Therese Barbara 2G Tiana Eltenn 6DD Jessica Windsor 2R Kyra Lau 6F Ariella Azzopardi 3J Minjae Kim 6ID Sinead McDaniel 3M Frederik Ram 6S Jessica Curran 3N Max Ryan

DATES TO REMEMBER

Thu 29 August Father’s Day Non-Eucharistic Liturgy —10.15 am in the Church Morning tea—11.15 am in the School Hall

Fri 30 August Author visit: Alleesah Darlinson— Years 2 & 3

Wed 4 September Year 3 Reconciliation

Fri 6 September Kindy & Year 5 Buddy Eucharistic Liturgy— 12.00 pm in the Church

Mon 9 September Author visit: David Proust, Bush Poet—Year 6

Fri 13 September Year 1 & Year 6 Buddy Eucharistic Liturgy— 12.00 pm in the church

Fri 20 September St Michael’s Feast Day End of Term Mass—10.15 am in the Church

Tue 8 October Term 4 Resumes —all students

Tue 17 September MacKillop Athletics Trials

Thu 19 September Student and Citizen of the Term Presen-tation— 2.30 pm in the Hall

SOCIAL SKILLS PROGRAM

The social skill for next week is:

CREATIVITY

The ability to think and create in an original way.

UNIFORM SHOP Thursday 5th September, 8.30-9.30 am

SACRAMENT OF FIRST RECONCILIATION Congratulaons to the following children from Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 who have completed their Sacrament of Rec-onciliaon program this week:

Liana Abdelki Teone Altavilla

Alexandra Annabel Ma(hew Apps

Felicity Arundell Claudia A(ard

Lily Baranic

Dominique Barbara

Kristen Betros

Emma Boutros

Leila Bozic

Chanel Bru(o

Scarle( Bu(erfield

Melissa Cassar

Isabella Charon

Chanel Chen

Sofia Corrao

Georgia Cowling

Casey Cruden

Leroy Cupo

Lachlan Dengate

Peter Destefano

Katherine Devlin

Liam Donnelly

Liam Edmilao

Jackson Flood

Sophia Grainger

Thomas Grech

Jorja Grguric

Isabella Habib

Emma Hallam

Jake Hallam

Jake Harris

Nathan Hayek

Jake Herden

Patrick Horner

Ryan Imms

Kalize Jarvis

Julian Jay

Amelia Jukic

Nicola Kasto

David Kennedy

Tony Khoury

William Khoury

Krisan Komadina

Jaiden Kumaresan

Kara Kustreba

Ma(hew Loveridge

Lauren Malysiak

Andrew Mandis

Alana Manzo:

Francesca Marino

Georgia Marshall Megan McCaughey

Thomas McGoldrick

David McKay

Judd McLean

Chloe Millen

Nikola Mirosevic

Armon Morshedizadeh

Elyse Moua

Jonah Muscat

Chloe Nolan

Hayden O'Brien

Jordan O'Brien

Julia Ogilvie

Amalija Olic

Jacynth Ontedhu

Domenic Orsina

Aidan O'Sullivan

Claudio Pellegrini Gianluca Plebani

Natasha Richards

Zoe Rutkin

Max Ryan

Thomas Saad

Isaac Sakr

Nathan Sarlog

Braith Schier

Owen Scicluna

Noah Scollard

Michael Searle

Hannah Smith

Vincent Sobb

Noah Stefanakis

Natalie Sukkar

Georgina Suprain

Braeden Thomson

Sebasan Tigani Alyssa Toubji Angelique Van Jour

Anneke van Zoggel Antonio Vasquez

Jessica Wahab

Piper Watson

Grace Whitby

Emily Woodroffe

Caleb Woods

Alexander Zaitony

Bianca Zarriello

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITIONS AND ASSESSMENTS FOR SCHO OLS (ICAS)

Well done to all of the children who participated in the 2013 Writing ICAS and Spelling ICAS. Congratulations to the following children for their exceptional achievements.

WRITING

High Distinction

Year 4: Alana Curran-Jones, Kim Pham

Year 3: Noah Scollard

Distinction

Year 6: Sarah Hatton

Year 5: Madeleine Wahab

Year 4: Andrew Betros, Matthew Hatton, Isabel Lopez, Juliette Mkali, Georgia Simic, Ashleigh Simpson

Year 3: Francesca Marino, Anneke van Zoggel

Credit

Year 6: Joshua Beattie, Tulizo Mkali

Year 5: Therese Barbara, Jake Berry, Matthew Betros, Chloe D’Lima, Georgie Lamond, Abbey Moloney

Year 4:

Maximilian Basso, Thomas Cowling, Lyonel Maung, Tiana Moore, Ashwin Rodrigues, Valentina Romano, Fahed Tleyji, James Urquhart, Brooke Woodroffe

Year 3: Ruby Carlick, Georgia Cowling, Liam Donnelly, Jessica Wahab

SPELLING

High Distinction

Year 4: Thomas Gomez

Distinction

Year 6: Tulizo Mkali

Year 4: Lyonel Maung, Juliette Mkali, Kim Pham

Year 3: Isabella Charon, Liam Donnelly

Credit

Year 6: Caleb Magua

Year 5: Therese Barbara, Nancy Boutros, Samuel McGoldrick, Abbey Moloney, Gabrielle Pacheco

Year 4: Christian Abal, Darcy Brettle, Isabella Carney, Thomas Cowling, Alana Curran-Jones, Matthew Hatton, Thomas Knez, Valentina Romano, Brooke Woodroffe

Year 3: Dominique Barbara, Emma Boutros, Jackson Flood, Francesca Marino, Thomas McGoldrick, Chloe Nolan, Noah Scollard, Piper Watson

NEWS FROM 2BT CLASSROOM This term Year 2 are learning about narratives. Narratives have three main parts:

1. Orientation

2. Complication

3. Resolution

Hope you enjoy reading “The Kind Dolphin” written by 2BT:

THE KIND DOLPHIN At dolphin school, deep in the sea, the youngest dolphin was always teased. Early one morning on the way to school the young dolphin could hear dolphin cries.

He noticed one of the naughty dolphins was caught in a fisherman’s net. Even though he was teased at school by the naughty dolphin he knew he had to help him as it was the right thing to do. I’m tool little, how can I help?

The young dolphin called on Shark to tug at the net to set naughty dolphin free. Shark pulled at the net, 1...2...3…, he was free! “Thank you Shark.” “Don’t thank me, thank the kind young dolphin.” The young dolphin was never teased at the school again.

Choir Performance The choir will be singing a few songs at Assembly on Friday September 6 (Week 8). Any parents who would like to come along are more than welcome. Lyndall Parker Music Teacher

PHOTOGRAPHS TAKEN AT SCHOOL From me to me photographs may be taken of your child whilst they are at school. These pho-tos may be used in school Newsle(ers, publica-ons and the school website. They may also be used by Catholic Educaon, Parrama(a Diocese in their publicaons and website. If you do not wish your child’s photo to be taken, please put this in wring and address to the Principal, Mrs Maka.

SCHOOL FEES

Thank you to the families who have paid this term’s fees. School fees are now due. Please se&le your school fees as soon as possible or contact Mrs Linda Borsato in the school office on 9639 0518.

SPORTS NEWS Round 3 Mark Taylor Shield Cricket Congratulaons to all the boys on their win in Round 3. St Michael’s 6/129 defeated St Bernade�e’s 10/88. Parcular congratulaons to Ma&hew Roveto who scored 30 not out.

Diocesan Athle cs Carnival Congratulaons to the all the children who parcipat-ed in the Diocesan Athlecs Carnival on Friday 23 Au-gust and in parcular the following children who have made it through to the MacKillop Athlecs Trials on Tuesday, 17th September.

Steve Kovelis Sports Co-ordinator

Newsletter distribution We have been experiencing a few bounce backs from some email accounts due to service providers classifying our address as spam. Please check that you have added stmichaelsbhills@parra.catholic.edu.au to your contacts list. Service providers sometimes also send emails to the junk or deleted items folder. Please contact the office if you experience non-delivery.

ST MICHAEL’S NETBALL CLUB 2014 SEASON

Is your child interested in becoming a part of a sporting team?

Did you know that St Michael’s Netball Club is open to all players.

You do not need to attend St Michael’s Primary School to join!

All training is held at Crestwood netball courts. We have positions available for players 7 years and up.

New Member Registration day is Thursday 19 th Sept 2013

(in Downey Room – St Michael’s Parish Car park) 2 pm-5 pm

Visit our website at: www.stmichaelsnetballclub.asn.au

for more information or contact our Club Registrar –

Rebecca Vella on 0418 244 169.

Darcy Brettle—Relay

Paige Brosnan—12 years—Discus

Joses Idehen—8 years—100 metres, Relay

Ashleigh Jablonski—11 years—Long jump

Thomas Knez—9 years—100 metres, Relay

Chloe Nolan—8 years—100 metres

Gabriel Pellegrini—10 years—Discus

Joshua Rodgers—10 years—Long jump, Relay, High jump, Discus

Congratulations also to Joshua Rodgers who was the Runner Up Junior Boys Champion.

This Newsle#er is available for viewing on our website: www.stmichaelsbhills.catholic.edu.au

MODIFIED TENNIS HAS COME TO

CRESTWOOD COURTS Modified tennis balls and court

2 players per coach 30 min lessons

Private lessons

Groups: 5 to 6 yrs; 6 to 10 yrs; 9 to 11 yrs

Contact: Mark Blok 0407 733 853, 9686 8007 or 0405 579 879

WE ALSO COACH

Teenagers: All levels Adults : Beginner to Advanced

CRESTWOOD RESERVE Peel Road Baulkham Hills