No. 20 Friday 30th June 2017

Dear Parents,

Congratulations to all our girls and boys on a

wonderful term of learning and connecting. It

has been fabulous witnessing so many

children try their hardest, extend themselves

to reach the next level in their learning,

challenge their own and others’ thinking and

encourage their peers to do their very best.

Each and every week has also been alive

with extra curricular activities – choir,

gardening, band, chess, coding, robotics,

Lego, sewing and debating.

Our SRC has met every fortnight to plan and

organise activities and to make suggestions

to Mrs Nettleton ensuring that student voice

counts at St Bernadette’s. Thank you to the

many parents who assist in our classrooms

with reading and writing groups and to those

who help out behind the scenes in so many

ways. The research clearly indicates the

positive benefits for children when the school

and home work in partnership to support

children’s learning. I would like to wish all

our families a restful and relaxing school

holiday. Enjoy the change in routine and

each other’s company.

The staff look forward to welcoming the

children back on Monday 17th July 2017.

Mrs Leanne Nettleton—Principal

Week 1, Term 3

Mon 17 July

Staff & Students return

8.30am Assembly

Yr 4 Spirituality Day

Tue 18 July

1.10pm Choir

Wed 19 July

Student Banking

Thurs 20 July

Fri 21 July

NSWPSSA Cross

Country

100 days of

Kindergarten

Coming Dates:

Tues 18 July

Years 5/6 Soccer Gala

Day Trials 3-4pm

Wed 26 July

Design2Shine 4B

St Bernadette’s Netball

Gala Day

Thurs 27 July

Design2Shine 4B

Yr 1 Incursion—

Travelbugs

Grandparents’ Day—starts at 9am

In the Eucharist Jesus is

present and active. We eat in

memory of Jesus’ Death and

Resurrection. Jesus feeds our

faith and we are shaped into

the body of Christ, and we

follow His way of living.

The Eucharist is the memorial of the life,

death and resurrection of Jesus. Jesus is

really present in the celebration of the

Eucharist.

The Eucharist is the central and greatest

sacrament of the Church. It is the means by

which the Church is continually maintained

in communion with Jesus Christ the Lord and

the means by which each Christian

participates in the once and for all sacrifice

of Christ on the Cross. The Catechism of the

Catholic Church following a document of

Vatican II calls the Eucharist the ‘source and

summit of the Christian life’.

We congratulate and continue to pray for all

those children from our parish who will

receive this special sacrament on the

weekend.

Aiden Ashkar Landen Besters

Tyler Beames Olivia Boxshall

Isla Clark Claudia Chambers

Nicole Del Rio Gabriel de Ponte

Logan Emmas Brayden Leuzzi

Sarah Jacinto Ailish Lincoln

Angus McGovern Jack Overend

Lachlan McLaren Juliet Radman

Genevieve Sing Tyler Smith

Imogen Vines Aidan Sweeney

Sienna Wooler Mark Bradshaw

Meleni Ariyanayagam Owen Suyko

Mrs Shane Robinson

Religious Education Coordinator

Address: 357 Old Northern Road, Castle Hill NSW 2154 Phone: 9634 2898 Fax: 9680 2282 Email: BernadetteCH@parra.catholic.edu.au Website: http://www.stbernadetteschill.catholic.edu.au

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2 Blue

Students

Crazy

Sock Day

St Bernadette’s School News 2

Maths Corner Investigations in maths and

problem-solving involves being

"stuck." If it doesn’t puzzle us, then

it is not a problem or an

investigation - it is simply an exercise. When children

get stuck it means they have taken on a worthwhile

challenge and gotten to a meaningful point in their

learning.

Maths is so much more exciting and meaningful for

children when it’s connected to real situations. When

we concluded our Design-a-thon at the Assembly this

week, the children heard how much they had raised

and they were given this data to use in a series of real-

life math’s investigations across the grades. Teachers

presented the children with the amounts collected by

each class [classes were simply identified as Primary

Class A to Class L and Infants Class M to Class V] and the

children tried to work through investigations such as:

whether Primary or Infants had raised more

creating tables of Place Value of the amounts raised

ordering the amounts raised from greatest to least and vice versa

finding the differences between the least amount and the greatest amount raised

working out the differences between class totals

working on the percentages, fractions and decimals

The children were genuinely enthusiastic to determine

solutions and show evidence of their mathematical

understanding and working. Here are two examples

showing the depth of their thinking:

Matthew B [1W]

I could order the amounts by looking at the thousands,

hundreds, tens and ones and I could arrange the money

from the smallest amount collected to the biggest amount

collected.

Xavier B [3G]

I worked out that the Primary classes added together

collected more money than the Infants classes, but then I

thought ‘hang on, there are 3 more classes in Primary

than Infants’ and that could be why.

Great thinking everyone and great work around a real-

life, rich, meaningful mathematical investigation!

Peer Support This week in Peer Support the children have continued

to work within their team to identify and develop their

strengths. By identifying our strengths students are

able to develop creative ways they are able to apply

these skills when faced with difficult situations. This will

help your child become more resilient and optimistic.

You may like to ask your child to share the strengths

they identified during this week’s session and discuss

how they can use their strengths throughout their daily

lives.

Optimism is when we think and act positively even when

faced with difficult situations. When we use our strengths,

try our best and are thankful to others, we are living

positively.

Staffing in Term 3 Mrs Maryanne Lean-Fore has been appointed as Acting

Coordinator in Term 3 as Mrs Borg takes on the Acting

Assistant Principal Role. Mrs Lean-Fore will take on the

mentoring of the Year 5 grade and Year 5 parents are

invited to contact her should they have any concerns or

questions about Year 5 in Term 3. Mrs Lesa Beames

will teach Year 3W each Tuesday while Mrs Lean-Fore

fulfils her coordinator role at the school.

In Term 3 Miss Amber Wright will join St Bernadette’s

staff teaching Year 4B each Wednesday. Miss Wright is

well known to our students as she has been casual

teaching in the school throughout 2016 and 2017. I

know that you will take the opportunity to warmly

welcome her when you have the chance.

In Term 3 Mrs Dawn Crake in the office will be

accessing a well deserved 4 weeks of Long Service

Leave. During this time Mrs Murphy, Mrs Bourne, Mrs

Baker and Mrs Clothier will take on Dawn’s duties. Mrs

Vicki Cassidy and Mrs Fran Murphy will of course be

available to support you with your office enquiries as

usual.

Every Child, Every day - All Day Congratulations to all our children who have been able

to achieve 100% attendance at school

in Term 2. Today each of these

children received a 100% Attendance

award. A special congratulations to

those students who have achieved

100% Attendance at school for the

second term in a row – You are

awesome!

Attendance Congratulations once again as we

achieved our 90%+ target.

This past week we achieved: 90.1%

Well done everyone – let’s see if we can do even better

next term! Most grades achieved 90% or more.

Kindergarten were exceptional with 95.3% - the

challenge is out there to other grades to match this.

Congratulations to the 86 students who today received an award for 100% Attendance in Term 2.

Congratulations to the 46 students who have achieved 100% Attendance for Terms 1 & 2. What a wonderful

achievement.

Design A-thon Thank you so much for the amazing

generosity of the families of St Bernadette’s

in raising over $18,000 with our Design A-

thon fundraiser this year.

Congratulations to the following students who raised

the most money in each of their classes.

Kindy:

Jed Alameen Alexis Mortel Emma Sakkal

Year 1:

Amelia Lavis Samuel Lean-Fore Sophia Khamis

Year 2:

Mikayla Alam Elle Gaya Sofia Aiossa

Year 3:

Olivia Kirkham Leah Kebblewhite Aiden Leong

Year 4:

Tess Ellis Zander Cheng Sienna Symin

Year 5:

Caitlin Leong Aaliyah Symin Brieanah Moujalli

Year 6:

Jaimee Azzi Brooke Napoli O’Shea Gooley

A huge congratulations to Zander Cheng in 4G and his family who raised the most money in the school.

Congratulations to KB who managed to raise the most money in the school.

The winners of our raffle this year were:

KG Alexis Mortel

KB Jed Alameen

3G Ella Hammersley

3W Grace Zwaine

3G Ella Lagana

3W Charlie Akle

4B Enya Hui

6W Luke Debelak

6W Chloe Metwally

6W Edward Zalloua

Our school is truly blessed to have such a supportive

parent community. Thank you

A-thon Committee

St Bernadette’s Athletics Carnival On Friday 23rd June, we had our Athletics Carnival at

Gooden Reserve, Winston Hills. We were blessed with a

gorgeous sunny day and the fields were in great condition

ready for our Infants and Primary events.

The day saw children involved in 800m, 200m, 100m heats

and finals, 60m sprints, Long Jump, Shot Put, Ball Games

and Relays. The children participated in all activities with a

great attitude towards competition, fun and fitness.

Congratulations to everyone who participated in our events

on the day.

We’d like to say an extra special thank you to all of the

volunteers who helped to make our day such a great

success. Our parents, students, Gilroy students and

teachers as well as our own dedicated teachers assisted

throughout the day on timekeeping, marshalling, place-

judging, field events and ball games. Thank you, without

you our carnival would not be possible.

Congratulations to the Age Champions and Age

Runner-Ups for this year

Age Champion Runner Up

8 Yrs Boys Dylan Gibb Douglas Windress

8 Yrs Girls Mekenna Vickers Ella Zeaiter

Paloma Lopez

9 Yrs Boys Liam Worne Andrew Zalloua

9 Yrs Girls Eva Bailey Zelda Mormul

10 Yrs Boys Louis Malandrino Owen Suyko

10 Yrs Girls Alivia Dowling Genevieve Sing

11 Yrs Boys Jacob Goss Bailey Thom

11 Yrs Girls Linette Apango-Estrada Holly Miller

12 Yrs Boys Patrick Stennett Alec West

12 Yrs Girls Tayla Milicevic Brooke Napoli

Point Scores—Primary Carnival

Place Colour Score

1st Gold 915

2nd Blue 804

3rd Green 791

4th Red 735

Congratulations to the following students who will

represent St Bernadette’s

Linette Apango Estrada Mia Lagana

John-Paul Edge-Bennett Harry Rushton

Eva Bailey Ella Lincoln Jack Farrow

Thomas Silvester Flynn Batty Paloma Lopez

Dylan Gibb Patrick Stennett Saskia Bullen

Tayla Milicevic Anthony Gomez Owen Suyko

Aimee Coulter Holly Miller Nicholas Gomez

Bailey Thom Alivia Dowling Zelda Mormul

Jacob Goss Alec West Olivia Drogaris

Brooke Napoli Xavier Hennessey Liam Worne

Marisa Frketic Mathilda Polley Timothy Kelly

Andrew Zalloua Sofia Giallonardo Genevieve Sing

Louis Malandrino Amy Hammersley Darcey Sullivan

Blake Noonan Chloe Henrico Mekenna Vickers

Jardyn Orsini Emily Kouchoo Ella Zeaiter

Jack Overend Marc-Anthony Zeaiter

St Bernadette’s School News 3

Athletics Carnival (cont …)

*** We also have the opportunity to submit High Jumpers to

represent St Bernadette’s at the Diocesan carnival. This

process involves children submitting evidence of their High

Jump PBs from the 2016/2017 Little Athletics season to Mrs

Orsini, which is then forwarded to the Diocesan Coordinator.

The top 12 across the Diocese are then invited to participate

at the carnival in August. If your child can jump higher than

the qualifying heights below, please contact Mrs Orsini with

evidence for submission:

Junior Girls Qualifying height –

1.00mJunior Boys Qualifying height – 1.00m

11 yrs Girls Qualifying height – 1.05m

11 yrs Boys Qualifying height – 1.05m

Senior Girls Qualifying height – 1.10m

Senior Boys Qualifying height – 1.10m

ENTRIES CLOSE: FRIDAY 21st JULY 2017

Mrs Karen Orsini—Sports Coordinator

2017 School Fees – Term 2 Term 2 School Fee accounts are now overdue and we ask that payment of Term 2 fees be finalised as soon as possible

either by cash, cheque, credit card, EFTPOS, BPAY or

POSTBILLPAY.

Should you wish to discuss your outstanding account please

email/contact Mrs Cassidy on 9634-2898

or email (bern-chilfees@parra.catholic.edu.au)

Just a reminder to all families that a term's notice (10 school

weeks) in writing MUST be given to the Principal before the

removal of a student or a full term's fees will be payable. The

notice can be given any time during the term for the next

term and where appropriate notice has been received a pro-

rata credit will be calculated. Where a term’s notice has not

been given to the Principal the terms school fees will be

charged for your child/children.

School Values Awards—Term 2 2017 Thanks to Century 21 for their

continued support of our School

Values Awards and St Bernadette’s

School.

These awards are presented to two students who are

nominated for living our

core values of respect,

honesty, care and

compassion, forgiveness

and tolerance.

Congratulations to

Audrey Sullivan 2B and

Alexander Nader 2B.

Photos from our Crazy Sock Day Today

Thank you to all of our students for their gold coin

donation today which raised:

$655 Thank you—I hope you enjoyed the day!

In Term 3 St Bernadette’s will be

participating in the Share my Shoes

campaign alongside Cherrybrook Village. When we return to school in Term 3 you are invited to

help us support the ‘Share My

Shoes Campaign’ by donating your unwanted pairs of shoes. We

will have a collection box at school,

so during the holidays clean out

your cupboards and bring your

shoes along to school in Term 3 and we will make sure

that they go into the collection box to be donated to

the Smith Family. Every pair of donated shoes sold

through its retail stores will help the charity fund

education programs for children.

Woolworths Earn and Learn We will again be involved in the Woolworths Earn and

Learn campaign. Keep your eyes out for these tokens

when you are shopping in Term 3 and

send completed sheets into school so

that we can purchase play and

learning equipment for the children.

St Bernadette’s School News 4

St Bernadette’s School News 5

Social Skill: Being a Good Communicator at St Bernadette’s

Class Student of the Week

Student of the Week

Social Skill Award

KB Not for Publication Xavier Ranieri Audrey Michael

KG Riley Bandiera Valda Mormul Harper Moynahan

KW Adam Gamble Anthony Khoudair Vijay Hetika

1B Not for Publication Aditi Gowda Emma Ballesty

1G Isaac Beshay Juliana Zaiter Zara Hawkes

1W Chelsea Nicolaou Annabelle Wong Riley McGlynn

2B Marcus Chheng Campbell Sing Ella Zeaiter

2G Will Boxshall Evie Hogan Jet Jackson

2W Samantha Simmons Melanie Wong Piper Johnson

3B Lily Procter Kaiden Taggart Aaditya Mathur

3G Xavier Bounassif Not for Publication William Abouhamad

3W Valentina Anderson Christian Rahme Eleanor Read

4B Melanie Ariyanayagam Sienna Wooler Enya Hui

4G Alyssa Khoudair Brayden Leuzzi Not for Publication

4W Olivia Boxshall Cooper McGlynn Not for Publication

5B Noah Bailey Caitlin Leong Alessia Lalli

5G Sophie Kouchoo Max Procter Aprille Exton

5W Blake Noonan Gabrielle Younis Chloe Henrico

6B Noelle Le Egor Vishnivetskiy Jaimee Azzi

6G Taylor Egan Emma Mizzi Sofia Giallonardo

6W Alexandra Cushway Mathilda Martin Sebastian Akle

Congratulations to the following

STUDENTS OF THE WEEK

Principal’s Awards: Isaac Frketic 2G

Hayley Gonzales 2G

Liam Taggart 5B

Georgia Hogan 6W

Grace Youssef 6G

Michael Lalli 2B

Denzel Coutinho 3G

Jason-Leigh Knight 3W

Akilah Perez 6B

Franz Goseco 6B

Mali Clark 6B

Grace Zeaiter 5W

Paul Homsi 5W

Celebrating Talents

Star Spot Congratulations to Marcus Cheng in 2B! Marcus represented St Bernadette's Primary and Hills Athletic

Fencing Club in the NSW State Kids Fencing competition

Mini Series 1, Sabre Under 7 and won the Bronze medal at

Alexandria NSW fencing state centre last weekend. We are

so proud of you Marcus!

St Bernadette’s School News 6

Grandparents’ Day

We hope that lots of

Grandparents will be able to

join us as we celebrate this

very special day. The program for the morning will

be:

9am Open Classrooms

9.45am Liturgy in the Church

10.30am Morning Tea in the Hall

A note will be sent home first day next term. In the

meantime, please invite all grandparents!

St Vincent de Paul

The school has received a thank you

letter from the St Vincent de Paul Society

for our food donation to their winter

appeal. Thanks to all of our parents who

donated for their support of this appeal.

Netball: Calling All Players Born in 2011

and 2012 St Bernadette’s Netball Club will run a program for

younger players (“Friday NetSetGo”) in Term 3. It

will run for seven weeks on the school’s lower court

between 3pm and 4pm on Fridays, beginning on 4

August. The cost is $65 (payable by credit card

online) and all participants receive a netball and a

T shirt. We have places for boys or girls born in 2011

or 2012.

Registrations are open and you can register and pay

here:

https://stbernadettesnc.sportzvault.com/common/

pages/noauth/olregstart.aspx?

type=6&sslredirect=1&entityid=43308&fl=1&id=2700

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Term Dates 2017

Term 3:

Mon 17 July to Fri 22 September

Term 4:

Mon 9 October to Monday 18 December

Term 1 2018 Mon 29 Jan

Staff Dev Day / Pupil Free Day / *MAI Day

Tue 30 Jan

*MAI Day / Pupil Free Day

Wed 31 Jan

Yrs 1 to 6 commence

*Maths Assessment Interview

LOST PROPERTY Girls salmon coloured sleeveless jacket size 3 by Lily &

Dan left at school. If this is your daughter’s please

contact the office on 9634 2898.

1 x fitness type watch and 1 other watch. If your child has

lost these—please contact the office.