26th February 2020
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From The Principal
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Circle of Life - Relationships and Sexuality Education
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Religious Education
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Shrove Tuesday
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Emergency Practice
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Aiming High Awards
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Class Captains
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Parents and Friends
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Learning Treasures
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Clean Up Australia Day
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Public Holiday
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Head Lice
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Pastoral Care & Wellbeing
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Swimming Carnival
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Ticket to Play – Sports Voucher Program
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Marist Information Evening
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Junior Netball
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Community Clean Up - Clean Up Australia Day
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Marist Day of Sorrow
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Positive Partnerships
Sunday Connection Gospel Reading - Matthew 6:1-6,16-18
Jesus teaches that almsgiving, prayer, and fasting should be done in secret.
Family Connection
The season of Lent presents families with an opportunity to examine our family life and to re-commit ourselves to the Christian practices of almsgiving, prayer, and fasting. Each of us is invited to do these things as individuals, but we can also do one or more actions as a family. Ash Wednesday is a good time for families to pray together and to plan the family’s Lenten practices.
Gather as a family and read Sunday’s Gospel, Matthew 6:1-6,16-18. Remind yourselves that Jesus expected that his disciples would give alms, pray, and fast and that he gave instructions that when we do those things, they should not be done for show. Determine one way that your family will give alms during Lent to share what you have with people in need. Decide upon one way that your family will pray together during Lent and choose one thing that your family will give up during Lent as a reminder of your love for God. Agree to encourage one another in whatever Lenten promises each has made individually. Pray together that God will bless your family’s Lenten promises by praying together today’s psalm, Psalm 51, and/or praying the Lord’s Prayer.
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‘Circle of Life’ provides a Catholic approach to Relationships and Sexuality Education for the Health and Physical Education learning area of the Australian Curriculum. This will be delivered to all students over two days on Tuesday, 7 April and Wednesday, 8 April.
Monique Hall will be the presenter and she has over twenty years of teaching experience in Catholic schools. Monique worked extensively for Catholic Care in Tasmania in the area of family life, relationships and sexuality education.
Class schedule is as follows:
Kinder/Prep - 30 minute lesson each day
Grade 1/Grade 2 - 45 minute lesson each day
Grade 3/Grade 4 - 60 minute lesson each day
Grade 5/Grade 6 - 75 minute lesson each day
A Parent session will be held prior to the student sessions on Monday, 6 April in the Josephite Centre from 5:30 - 6:30pm. All families are encouraged to attend.
This week the season of Lent begins with Ash Wednesday, which also marks the beginning of the annual Caritas Australia Project Compassion Appeal.
Donations to Project Compassion allow Caritas Australia, the Catholic Agency for International Aid and Development, to work with local communities around the world to alleviate poverty, hunger, oppression and injustice.
We encourage you to put your compassion into action this Lent through your prayer, fasting and almsgiving by supporting Project Compassion.
Each family will receive a Project Compassion box. Let’s Go Further, Together!
Our whole school Welcome Mass has been cancelled tomorrow (Thursday, 27th Feb) as Father Christopher is unwell. We ask you to keep him in your prayers.
Yesterday, our students and staff celebrated Shrove Tuesday by feasting on the delicious pancakes our P & F members made for us! Thank you to our generous members for providing us with our feast. What a wonderfully, special way to begin Lent.
Shrove Tuesday is the day before Lent starts on Ash Wednesday. The name Shrove comes from the old middle English word 'Shriven' meaning to go to confession to say sorry for the wrong things you've done. Lent always starts on a Wednesday, so people went to confessions on the day before. This became known as Shriven Tuesday and then Shrove Tuesday.
The other name for this day, Pancake Day, comes from the old English custom of using up all the fattening ingredients in the house before Lent, so that people were ready to fast during Lent. The fattening ingredients that most people had in their houses in those days were eggs and milk. A very simple recipe to use up these ingredients was to combine them with some flour and make pancakes!
Within the next 4 weeks we will hold an unannounced emergency practice with staff & students, to test our response to a potential scenario that staff identify a threat warranting the school go into lockdown (opposite to evacuation).
Like for fire evacuation drills, we recognised the worth to test this process.
We have plans in place to make this practice as least disruptive as able.
If you have queries you are welcome to call our Safety Officer Simon Natoli on 0400 105 476
Congratulations to the following students who recieved Aiming High awards at last weeks assembly.
Kinder - Nash Miles & Luca Farrelly
Prep - Dawson Armstrong & Koa Poke
Grade 1 - Ella Berechree & Jhett McAlister
Grade 2 - Arah Blake & Tyler Dawes
Grade 3 - Sabannah Wilson & Hali Robinson
Grade 4 - Heidi Braid & Logan Poke
Grade 5 - Taite Horton & Maddison Lobegeiger
Grade 6 - Ella Moodie & Geoffrey Jamieson
Congratulations to our Class Captains for Term One and Two:
Prep - Vin Howard and Kaley Saward
Gr. 1 – Carly Schuuring & Charlie Ollington
Gr. 2 - Indianna Facey and Max Monson
Gr. 3 - Lara Berechree and Jeremiah Gibbs
Gr. 4 - Jewel Wynwood and Saxon Bishop
Gr. 5 - Maddison Lobegeiger and Tayarna Gray
Easter Raffle
This week, families received raffle books for the Easter Raffle being drawn at the end of term. These are due back to the office by Monday, 6th April.
Any donations for this raffle can be dropped into the office from now.
Cake Raffle
Our next Cake Raffle will be drawn next Thursday, 5th March at assembly. A reminder tickets are only $1.00 available to purchase on the Qkr! app.
Thank you to all our families for your ongoing support!
This Friday, 28th February, students will be participating in Clean Up Australia Day. This will involve students collecting rubbish from around our school and parish grounds.
Clean Up Australia Day started thirty years ago, by an "average Australian bloke" who had a simple idea to make a difference in his own backyard. It has now become the nation's largest community-based environmental event. Ian Kiernan was an avid sailor and was shocked and disgusted by the pollution and rubbish that he continually encountered in the oceans of the world. He decided to address these matters by organising a community event with the support of a committee of friends, including co-founder Kim McKay AO.
This simple idea ignited Clean Up Australia Day, which was officially born in 1990. Today, communities, government and businesses provide practical solutions to help us all live more sustainably every day of the year. The focus is as much on preventing rubbish entering our environment as it is removing what has already accumulated
A reminder for families that Monday, 9th March is a public holiday. Enjoy your long weekend!
We have had several cases of head lice over the last few weeks. Please see this information sheet for details around treatment and control of head lice.
How to Change Negative Thinking Patterns
Children can be their own worst critics. They can get stuck in negative thinking patterns that contribute to depression, amp up their anxiety, or make painful emotions feel overwhelming.
These negative thinking patterns are often unrealistic, but they can have significant impacts on our emotions, behaviours, and world views. Mental health experts call them cognitive distortions — they’re also sometimes referred to as cognitive errors, thinking mistakes, or thinking errors.
Some amount of cognitive distortion is normal, we can all make thinking mistakes. It’s when that kind of thinking is chronic and having an effect on the child’s emotional life that professional help should be obtained.
It can be helpful to recognise and identify common cognitive distortions when you see them assist your child in restructuring their thinking and reduce their intensity.
1) Labelling – Putting a negative label on yourself – or someone else – so that you no longer see the person behind the label.
2) All-or-Nothing Thinking – Also referred to as Black and White Thinking. Seeing things in only 2 categories, so they are either good or bad, black or white, with no shades of grey.
3) Fortune-Telling – Predicting something is going to turn out in a negative way. This can become a pessimistic way of viewing the future, and it can impact your behaviour, making the event you’re fortune-telling more likely to turn out badly.
4) Mind Reading – Assuming that you know and understand what another person is thinking, and typically being sure it reflects poorly on you.
5) Catastrophizing – Taking a problem or something negative and blowing it up out of proportion.
Donna Porteus - Chaplain.
Swimming Carnival
Well done to all the students who participated in last week's carnival. The house results of the day were:
Marian - 318 points
Hanlon - 265 points
Gibson - 247 points
Students who have been selected in the North West Carnival have received a letter regarding their selection and we congratulate them on this.
Ticket to Play provides vouchers up to $100 in value towards club membership for children aged 5-17 years and listed on a Centrelink Health Care or Pensioner Concession Card or in Out of Home Care. The key objective of Ticket to Play is to increase the number of young Tasmanians playing sport and supporting the Tasmanian Government’s objective of Tasmania being the healthiest population by 2025.
For information and to apply for a voucher go to https://www.communities.tas.gov.au/ticket-to-play.
Get your Ticket to Play and join a club in 2020!
Tasmanian children aged 5 to 17 may be eligible for a voucher of up to $100 towards club membership.
Children who are listed on a Centrelink Health Care or Pensioner Concession Card, or who are in Out of Home Care are eligible.
Apply for a voucher at https://www.communities.tas.gov.au/ticket-to-play.
Please do not hesitate to contact tickettoplay@communities.tas.gov.au or call 1800 252 476 for more information.