Dear Parents and Carers

We had a fabulous BOOK WEEK last week! Thanks to all parents who helped get things ready for the book week parade last Friday. We say a big thank you to Mrs. Badke, Mrs. Rangel and Mr. Delaney in the library for their won-derful work in making the reading week such a success.

Next term, as part of our focus on reading, we are introducing Tiny Tots Reading commencing Wednesday 11 October in Mercy Hall from 8:45am – 9:45am for all children under school age. This is a great opportunity for parents and young children to share ‘story time’ together facilitated by a teacher. Please come along as we would love to see you there!

Mission Week: Every day this week, our Year 6 students are raising money in support of Mission Week. For a gold coin, students can enjoy movies, ice creams and other delights during the week – please see below in this week’s newsletter for more details.

Please keep in your prayers the family of Father Stephen. Father Stephen is currently in India visiting his family – his Dad passed away early last week and we send them all our love and prayers.

Dates for your diary:

Friday 15 September: last day of Term 3

Tuesday 3 October: first day of Term 4

Monday 9 October: P and F Meeting at 5pm. (School/Parish Fiesta discus-sion)

Wednesday 11 October: Tiny Tots Reading

Monday 16 October: Pupil-free day

Please remember that we are completing the final stage of asbestos removal in our school during the September school holidays so all areas of the school are ‘out of bounds’. The two stages of the process will include removal and then re-carpeting of classrooms in Year 6, 5B, 5G and all Year 3 classrooms.

Also during the holidays, our builder will commence construction works of two new classrooms – a new Prep classroom and another new classroom at the end of the Year 2 building. We are meeting with the builder later this week to work out the timeline and the access points for students during construction. When we return from holidays, there will be safety fencing erected and new paths for students to use. We expect the construction to take all of 4th term and to be ready in time for commence-ment of the 2018 school year.

Thank you for your support during this term. Enjoy the relaxing holidays with your family and we look forward to seeing you on the first day of school for Term 4 on Tuesday 3 October.

Allison Malouf

Principal

September 11 2017 Term 3 Week 10

Keep Calm Friday is the Last Day of Term

2017 TERM DATES:

Term 1: 24 Jan - 31Mar Term 2: 18 Apr - 23 Jun Term 3: 10 Jul - 15Sep Term 4: 3 Oct - 1 Dec

Upcoming

Events

Tuesday 12 September: Choral Festival Rehearsal

Friday 15 September: Last day of Term 3

Monday 2 October: Queens Birthday Public Holiday

Tuesday 3 October: Term 4 Commences

Thursday 12 October: Yr. 3 Excursion

Wednesday 18 October: NRL Girls Challenge Day

A school’s mission is to develop the sense of the true, the sense of the good, the sense of the beautiful. And this happens through a rich journey Made up of many ingredients. Pope Francis

Staff and Students Escaped into their books for book week

using the green screen in the library

“And we know that for those who love God all things work

together for good, for those who are called

according to his purpose.” ~ Romans 8:28

“In his grace, God has given us

different gifts for doing certain

things well. So if God has given

you the ability to prophesy,

speak out with as much faith as

God has given you. If your gift is

serving others, serve them well.

If you are a teacher, teach well.

IF your gift is to encourage

others, be encouraging. If it is

giving, give generously. If God

has given you leadership ability,

take the responsibility seriously.

And if you have a gift for

showing kindness to others,

Religious Life of the School News

“And we know that for those who love God all tings work together for good, for those who

are called according to his purpose.”

~ Romans 8:38

Religious Life of the School News

Mrs Nikki Lysaght:

Assistant Principal Religious Education

Child Safety focus in HPE lessons all this term.

Catholic Mission Week will run all this week—there will be activities each day.

5W will lead us in our Assembly Prayer on Friday 15 September.

School holidays start at 3pm on 15 September.

School starts for Term 4 on TUESDAY 3 October.

Date Claimers ...

What is Trust?

Trust is having faith. It is relying and believing in someone or something. It is having

confidence that the right thing will happen without trying to control it or make it

happen. Trusting others is believing that people will do what they say they are

going to do. It is having faith in your own ability to learn and grow.

You are practising Trust when you …

Have faith in God’s love and follow your own guidance.

Let trust chase away your fears.

Ask God for help with anything that scares you.

Know that your best is good enough.

Virtue of the Week: Trust

All activities or items cost $1 each.

Movies run over two days but students

only pay once.

Thanks for supporting Catholic

Missions!

This week is Catholic Missions Week

Last Wednesday, 6 September, St Mark’s choir visited Bolton Clarke Fairview nursing home at Pinjarra Hills. The choir enjoyed singing to the elderly residents and had an amazing experience. The residents were happy as they were smiling and were brought to tears with the choir’s talent.

Leuca – “It was a great experience to sing for them and make their day happier. I felt sad and happy at the same time.”

Kevin – “I felt sad because the people seemed lonely and they were not around family.”

Annvanah – “We sang five songs in three different places to a range of people with different needs.”

Odrey – “It was good to support the residents and represent St Mark’s School.”

Yvonne – “I felt happy to perform for the residents and I felt sorry for the people who have disabilities.”

The choir would like to thank Bolton Clarke Fairview nursing home for the invitation, Mrs Gorman who supervised and Mr Hoe who conducted the choir.

St Mark’s Choir brightens up Nursing Home with song

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday

Movie Day

Prep—3: Flubber

Grades 4-6: Sister Act 2

Movie Day

Prep—3: Flubber

Grades 4-6: Sister Act 2

Lunchtime Disco:

Mercy Hall

* Face Painting

* Ice-creams

* Water Bomb the Leaders

* Funny Biscuits

Great job

choir & Mr

Hoe!

Sports News

School News

Community News

End of Season Sports Awards

This Friday, Year 5 and 6 students will be attending an awards ceremony for their

recently completed Inter School sports season. Each team has two awards: Best and Fairest and Players' Player. There will also be two awards presented to students who stayed back at school and partici-pated in school based community projects. The award presentation will be straight after the assembly in Mercy Hall.

My thanks to the students who participated in their respective teams and the teachers who volunteered to coach the teams: Mrs. Gall, Ms. Schaefer, Mr. Daleny, Mr. Everett, Mr. De Jesus, Mrs. Morrow, Mr. Ebzery and Mrs. Camilleri. My thanks also to Mrs. Rangel who has en-graved all of the medals.

Mr. Biddulph Sports Coordinator

CoaCh’s Corner

Homework Club

Please note there will be NO Homework Club during the last week of this term and the first week of Term 4. Home-work Club will resume in Week 2 of Term 4, on Tuesdays and Thursdays at 8.00am in the Learning Support room.

Thanks so very much.

NRL Finals

This weekend sees the battle of the cousins (see photo). BJ's cousin, Penrith's number 6 Tyrone May up against Motu's cousin, Broncos number 6 and our very own Anthony Milford in this week's NRL final. We send our best wishes to both teams and regardless of the result, the winner will have a St Mark's influence.

In the other matchup, it is my mighty Parramatta Eels up against Mrs. Rangel's Nth Qld Cow-boys. My tip...EELS by 6

Community News

Focus on Reading and Writing

Last week the year 4 students travelled to Ipswich to participate in four workshops run by four Austral-ian authors. We learnt about turning our ideas into stories, creating funny scenes and making our illustrations

part of our work. One of our favourite authors was

Matt Stanton who wrote the hilarious “This is a Ball”.

We Certainly “Escaped to Everywhere”

with Book Week!

The Sandwich board displays were fabulous too!

Reading on a Rug is always a great success.

Teachers and children escaped to everywhere with their books.

We had wonderful displays which the children had made.

We stepped into a book to discover new

worlds in reading.

Our plane flight to “Escape” was lots of fun and the Li-brary Flight Crew want to thank everyone for their

support.

It was great to see

so many in

Costume!

Year 4 Excursion to the Ipswich Story Arts Festival