IMMACULATE HEART OF MARY CATHOLIC SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

McCann Crescent, Lenah Valley Phone 6228 3335 email: ihms@catholic.tas.edu.au

web: www.ihms.tas.edu.au

PO Box 429 Lenah Valley 7008

No 9 – 18th June 2015

“Seek the LORD and his strength; seek his presence continually! “ (1 Chronicles 16:11)

Dear Parents, Students and Friends, We are definitely in the depths of winter and I ask everyone to please be safe when travelling on the roads. We only have approximately two weeks left of Term 2 and I remind students to continue to work at their best for the remainder of the term so staff, students and parents can enter the term holidays relaxed and ready to enjoy the two week break.

Feast Day Celebrations On Thursday 2nd of July we will be celebrating the Feast of Immaculate Heart of Mary. The day will consist of the whole school travelling to St Mary’s Cathedral by bus for Mass at 10.30am. All parents and community members are very welcome to attend. After the Mass we will be venturing back to school to participate in fun games in their buddy groups. This should be a great day!

Inter-School Cross Country Congratulations to all runners that represented the school at the STCPSSA Cross Country Carnival held last Friday at Rokeby Police Academy. The children did the school and themselves proud. The results were:

Grade 3: Harry McLeod -3rd Kaelem Welsh – 4th Rowan Pitt – 18th Nick Keating – 20th Abel Mulu – 28th Josh Harwood – 29th Stevie Welsh -5th Sunday Lagu 14th Catherine Majak - 15th Nikki Hayes - 17th Isabella Page – 25th

Grade 4: Declan Page – 2nd York Paul – 3rd Ryan Smith – 12th Jacob Wood – 18th Oliver Kelly - 22nd Joseph Vinen – 27th Maddison Cains – 11th Hollie James - DNF Eloise Davies – 18th

Grade 5: Lucas Fleischmann - 7th Johnathon Pullen – 9th Yanni Skrepetos – 16th Angus Sansom – 27th Declan Brown – 32nd Condelisa Majak – 3rd Mekdes Mulu - 6th Lara O’Neill – 22nd Cassie McLoughlin – 15th

Grade 6: George McLeod – 1st Mitchell Jones - 8th Isaac Jones – 18th Darcy Allen - 24th Jack Treloar - 23rd Fred Lagu – 25th Hannah Keating – 12th Freya Oak -14th Christine Aleri – 9th

All Schools Cross Country Next Wednesday 24th June a team has been selected to represent Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic School at the Tasmanian Primary All Schools Cross Country at Symmons Plains Motorway. The students that will be representing the school are:

The team is: Grade 6 Grade 5 Grade 4 Grade 3 George McLeod Lucas Fleischmann Declan Page Harrison McLeod Mitchell Jones Yanni Skrepetos York Paul Kaelem Welsh Isaac Jones Johnathon Pullen Stevie Welsh Christine Aleri Condelisa Majak Sunday Lagu Hannah Keating Mekdes Mulu Freya Oak We wish them all the best next Wednesday!

Mrs Therese Kelly Long Service Leave Mrs Therese Kelly will be taking three weeks long service leave beginning on Wednesday 1st July and returning to school on Wednesday 5th August. Therese and her family will be travelling several countries in Europe and we hope they have an enjoyable holiday. Mrs Cathy Joyce will be teaching in Grade 2 full time during this period.

Edge Avenue Playground Thank you to all the members of the community who have supported the school with the petition to stop the proposed licence agreement. Mrs Lisa Gibson (Board Chair), Mr Adrian Merkel (Board member) and myself will be meeting the Lord Mayor Sue Hickey, the General Manager Nick Heath next Monday 22nd June. Here we will be presenting our petition to the Mayor. We hope and pray that we have a positive outcome from this meeting.

School Concert – Please save the date This year we will be holding a Concert during Catholic Education Week. All students (Kinder to Grade 6) will be involved in the concert. It will consist of matinee concert (11am) for grandparents and significant other on Wednesday 12th August and an evening concert (6pm) on Thursday 13th August for parents and siblings. This should be a wonderful way for the school to celebrate Catholic Education Week. More information will be distributed to families in the coming weeks. Kindergarten Playground Last Friday, Matt Townsend from Over the Hedge Landscaping completed the Kindergarten playground. The new area looks absolutely fantastic and it has made the playground so much better than we had previously. The Kinder shed should be installed in the next couple of weeks and then the playground will be 100% finished. It has been great to see the children this week gain satisfaction out of playing in the new playground. We thank Mr Adam Martin (TCEO Project Officer) for his role in being project manager, Mrs Shelly Horne, Mrs Fran Heynes and Ms Rosemary O’Rourke for their patience whilst the new area was being completed.

Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) 50 tokens Congratulations to the following students who have achieved 50 PBS tokens so far this year:

Prep: Isabella Lethborg, Oscar Ladd, Ebony Pitt, Ella Chick, Finn Thomas, Kiri McDonald, Sameria Zinnah, Imogen Rubenach, Noah Smith Grade 1: Arielle Cannell Grade 2: Breanna Wright, Nayte Dobson, Thomas Hurd Grade 3: Sunday Lagu, Harrison McLeod, Stevie Welsh Grade 4: York Paul Grade 5: Toby Kop, Declan Brown, Kodie Brown-Bourne, Lucas Fleischmann, Johnathon Pullen, Mekdes

Mulu, Cassie McLoughlin Grade 6: Samuel Russel, Raphael Mackey

Learn to Swim – Change of dates The Learn to Swim program for Preps to Grade 6’s was due to occur during the first two weeks of Term 3. After some negotiation with Friends Health and Fitness we have moved the program to Term 4. The Learn to Swim lessons will be from Monday 30th November to Friday 11th December.

End of Term Awards Assembly Our End of Term Awards Assembly will be held in the Hall at 9am on Wednesday 1st of July. All parents of children who receive an award will be notified prior. All community members are invited to attend.

Music Assembly A reminder that our Music Assembly will be in the Hall on Tuesday 30th June at 1.50pm. At this assembly all students from all classes will perform an aspect of music that they have learned during the Term. Also at this assembly we will officially be farewelling Ms Kate Gray from Immaculate Heart. Mrs Claire Williams will return in Term 3 from maternity leave. We thank Kate for her dedication and thoroughness with the Music program over the past 9 months. We wish her all the best in her upcoming adventures.

Football and Netball Round Robin Students from Grade 5 and 6 will be participating in the annual football and netball competition this year. The season will start next Friday 26th of June with a round robin carnival and then continue with the regular roster on Friday 24th of July. All the boys will be wearing their brand new football jumpers and the girls will be wearing the skorts and tops that the P&F purchased last year. We will be the best looking school on the courts and field.

Reports With two and half weeks to go in the term, all teachers are busy writing and reading students reports. All reports will be sent home on Friday 3rd of July and optional Parent/Teacher Interviews will be early Term 3. A note will be sent home with the reports in regard to this.

Have a great couple of weeks and God bless.

Mr Nick McGann Principal Feast Day Mass

On Thursday 2nd July, the School Community will celebrate Immaculate Heart of Mary Feast Day. All students from Kindergarten to Grade 6 will attend Mass at 10.30am at St Mary’s Cathedral. The students will be bussed to and from the Cathedral. I invite all parents and friends to this special Mass. Novelty games will be held back at school within buddy groups. We ask that all students wear their PE uniform on this day.

Uniform Store Our winter jacket has arrived. The jacket is to be worn over the polar fleece/soft shell jacket for added warmth when outside. They are $75 each. This item is optional. A reminder that the Uniform Store is open on every Monday and Wednesday during term time from 2.30 – 3.30pm. Soccer Report IHMCS Under 9 Soccer Team had its best game for the year in beautiful sunshine against Campbell Street Primary Under 9’s on Saturday 13th June 2015. Jack Bremner had a great game scoring 3 goals and Brodie Gordon was the stand out in defence. The game was an open affair - fast moving, an end to end tussle from start to finish. IHMCS team linked up with sharp passing that was the best we have seen all year. This improvement may have been a result of the training drills Nathan Kingston put the team through when filling in as coach during the week (thanks Nathan). The end score was a 4 all draw which was a fitting result as both teams played well. All the signs are positive for us as we come up against our Big sister school SHC on the weekend. See you at training. Ged McCaffery – Coach

Transfer planting broad beans

Thorpe & Turner Travel Associates Offer We have been offered a great opportunity by one of our Kinder parents. When making plans for your next holiday please have a chat with Thorpe & Turner Travel Associates and if you mention us when booking, a portion of the booking cost will be donated back to the school! Call BJ Direen at Travel Associates for more information.

CALENDAR OF EVENTS Monday 22nd June G5 & 6 to Friends for author visit from John Marsden

Friday 19th June G4 Excursion to Mt Field Wednesday 24th June Subway Lunch Day Wednesday 24th June All Schools Cross Country (selected students) Thursday 25th June G2 Liturgy 9.30am Thursday 25th June Pyjama Day

Friday 26th June G5/6 Football/Netball Round Robin Tuesday 30th June Music Soiree 1.50pm Tuesday 30th June G3 TMAG Excursion Tuesday 30th June Krispy Kreme Doughnuts delivery

Wednesday 1st July End of Term Awards Assembly 9am Thursday 2nd July Feast Day Mass at St Mary’s Cathedral K – G6

Friday 3rd July Last day of term – Reports distributed Monday 20th July First day of term 3 Friday 24th July G5/6 Football/Netball Roster

Tuesday 28th July Optional Parent/Teacher Interviews Wednesday 29th July Optional Parent/Teacher Interviews Thursday 30th July G5/6 Liturgy 9.30am

Friday 31st July G5/6 Football/Netball Roster

Grade 3’s Liturgy in the Chapel

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