Dear Families,

What an amazing week this has been. This year, Book Week has been one of our best celebrations yet. We were sad not to be able to share it with you in person but we have worked to involve you as much as possible, with voting, photos and videos. We started on Monday with the Book Fair and an amazing Library display of our very talented students art pieces, portraits and creations. Wednesday we were treated with some very creative and elaborate wild rumpuses. Thursday was the magical monologue presentations and today we topped it off with our bright, colourful and very imaginative book character parade.  Thank you, parents, for your support of the Book Fair and encouraging the children to be a part of all that is on offer.

A very big thank you to Mrs Lowrey, Mrs Roxburgh and Mrs Reese for you enormous efforts with the children and for organising our 2 weeks of Book Week and NAIDOC Week. Special thanks also go to  Mr Sandral, Mrs Wilde and Mrs Greg Staadar for their technical assistance to enable us to share the week with you and to Mrs Michelle Eyre for all of her work organising the Book Fair. 

Week 2 of our Junior Joeys 2020 Orientation Program last Wednesday. They arrived as if they have been here forever, excited and ready to go. Our Joeys were lucky enough this week to see some of the students perform their wild rumpuses. 

• Book Week and Book Fair.
• Wild Rumpuses, Monologues and the Book Character parade.
• Our extremely talented students.
• Our students for having a go.
• Mrs Lowrey and Mrs Roxburgh and Mrs Eyre.
• Our Junior Joeys.
• The ongoing support of our parents.

• Staff and students exhibiting even mild COVID-19 symptoms are to be sent home and required to produce proof of a negative COVID-19 test before returning to school. 
• Non-essential adults are not be permitted to enter the school grounds. We ask that no parents enter the school past the front office. All inquiries to the front office, please. 
• Pick up and drop off will continue out the front of the school. 
• Canteen for lunches only is continued to be offered if we are able to get parent volunteers to assist.  
• It is paramount in these times, in particular,  that any child who is unwell is kept at home. We appreciate your understanding and consideration for the safety of the other students and the staff.
• Our bubblers will still not to be used and therefore the children require a water bottle.
• Our stringent hygiene practices for our new normal continue with: the washing of hands regularly; sanitiser after eating, no food or drinks to be shared; coughing and sneezing into elbows, tissues discarded immediately, cleaning of the desks between lunch and recess breaks and extra cleaning of the school by our cleaners.

Have a wonderful weekend.

Regards

This Sunday's Gospel Reading:

Matthew 25:1-13
Jesus is teaching his disciples the importance of being prepared to receive the Kingdom of Heaven.

In this week’s Gospel Jesus wants his disciples to understand that the exact day and time of the coming of the Kingdom cannot be predicted. He teaches the disciples that they must remain vigilant so that they will not be caught unprepared.

 Saint John of the Cross has said,

“In the evening of our life we will be judged on LOVE”  So we must remember it is important to love, love others, love God, and be loving even when confronted by difficult situations. A life lived based on love is a life worth living.

SOCIAL JUSTICE INITIATIVE CATHOLIC MISSION FUNDRAISER   

ROCKTOBER SOCKTOBER DANCE PARTY

Thank you for your generous support!

We thank our students and teachers for wearing colourful socks in a creative way -  we saw socks in hair, on arms, around the waist, and in every possible way that you could think of. Also, thank you for your coin donations.

We are very happy to share that we have raised $151.

The money donated for our  ROCKTOBER  SOCKTOBER DANCE PARTY fundraiser will be given to Catholic Mission, to support the Arrupe Centre, in Cambodia, which strives to show the love of God through caring for and empowering those in need. 

Each classroom has a mission box and all money donated from now until December will also be sent to the Children's Catholic Mission appeal.

You are now able to access this and other important Parish information by clicking on the link below.

Strategies For Taming Teasing

This is our teasing tip for the week. This was shared with the children at assembly this morning.

Just a reminder about this great podcast by Australian parenting author, educator and speaker, Maggie Dent.

I highly recommend it. There are 3 series available at the moment with lots of great topics for all parents.

Richmond Zone Summer Sports Trials

School Swimming Carnival

Our school swimming has been booked for the 4 December at the Evans Head Aquatic Centre.  Unfortunately, this will be held without spectators this year.  More information will be issued closer to the carnival.

School Water Awareness Program

We are utilising the Woodburn Pool for our water awareness program this year. The students will participate in a Water Awareness Swimming Program at the Woodburn Pool for 3 consecutive weeks concluding next Tuesday the 10th November.  This program develops the children's water awareness strategies which are aligned with the PDHPE syllabus. 

Congratulations

CANTEEN ROSTER

Could you please give Gayl a call on 66822468 if you

are able to help out in the canteen during Term 4.

THANK YOU LADIES!