FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear Parents,

I feel like I often talk about how busy our school community is as we

facilitate learning opportunities for the children and experiences for our

community that build a wonderful sense of belonging and achievement, but I

don’t think we have ever been as busy as we have been in the past 2 weeks!!

Our Year 3 and 5 children navigated their way through the NAPLAN tests

a couple of weeks ago, we came together with a very special celebration of

the 100th

Anniversary of the Apparitions of Our Lady of Fatima, which

coincided with our Mother’s Day celebrations. These celebrations continued

into the evening of Saturday 13th

May at the St Patrick’s Basilica, we

celebrated the sacrament of Confirmation last weekend and also had our

School Photo day last Thursday.

The Year 3 and 5 children worked their way through the NAPLAN

assessments in a diligent and fairly stress free manner. The children were

familiarised with the types of questions they would experience and then just

encouraged to do their best and demonstrate their level of skill development

in each of the 4 areas. We would expect to get the results back to us by the

middle of Term 3.

Friday 12th

May will go down as a beautiful day of celebration in our

community as we reflected on the 100th

Anniversary of the Apparitions of

Our Lady of Fatima. We set out to ensure that it was going to be a day the

children will remember for many years to come, and from the reactions of

the children at different stages throughout the day, I think we achieved that.

The outdoor Mass was beautiful, enormous thanks to Lorraine Szefczyk,

Pauline Burwood and Natasha Shepherd for the work they did in

contributing to the different parts of preparing for the celebration, we have

had lots of positive feedback about the Mass.

Thanks to all those mothers and grandmothers who attended our special

Mother’s Day Morning Tea, there was a wonderful, community

atmosphere in the hall. Huge thanks to: Peter Brigg, Ryan Bacich, Clory

Carello and Wade Spackman for assisting me in serving our guests. Also

thanks Mrs Fic for keeping all the male hosts focused and organised!!

Our Year 6’s, under the guidance of Stephanie Correia, coordinated a

whole school activity where the children were each given a “jig-saw puzzle

piece” to depict themselves and some fond memories of their time here in

our community. The 237 piece jig-saw puzzle has been put together,

laminated and displayed in the gallery for the people in our community to

see. Thank you to Stephanie and the leaders in our school for organising the

activity.

Our Lady of Fatima Newsletter Our Vision

Our Lady of Fatima Palmyra is a Catholic School that aspires to provide a respectful, secure and caring learning environment where our community is committed to

following the teachings of Jesus.

P: 9333 7900 F: 9339 4951 E : office@olof.wa.edu.au

www.olof.wa.edu.au

SCHOOL DATES FOR 2017 TERM 2 STAFF START MONDAY 24 APRIL STUDENTS START WEDNESDAY 26 APRIL FOUNDATION DAY/WA DAY MONDAY 5 JUNE PUPIL FREE DAY – FRIDAY 30 JUNE STUDENTS FINISH THURSDAY 29 JUNE STAFF FINISH FRIDAY 30 JUNE

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The children really enjoyed their whole school sausage sizzle and ice-cream for lunch. Thank you to the

hardworking group of ladies from our P&F who provided this for the children. Again, it is an example of an

experience we could not have provided for the children without the support of our P&F. Thank you ladies! And

finally we concluded the day with a range of fun activities that the children rotated through including: a bouncy

castle, tug-o-war, face painting, marshmallow throwing and catching and Rob the Nest. The children seemed to

really enjoy themselves. Denise Plain compiled a 12 minute video which depicts the day and has uploaded it

onto our school website and portal. Please take the time and have a look as it is a beautiful reflection of the

day. Thanks Denise! The celebrations continued onto Saturday evening with a 7:30pm Mass, followed by a

procession through the streets of Fremantle. It was great to have our school so well represented with children,

their parents and staff, sitting together during the Mass at St Patrick’s Basilica and then walking behind our

school banner in the procession.

As far as Bookclub is concerned, Alison Forzatti has now passed the baton (after 7 years) over to Clare

Gendron, Rachel’s mum from our Kindy class. Alison has done an amazing job over that period of time which

has been appreciated by everyone. Huge thanks to Clare for volunteering to take this role on to ensure this

opportunity for the children can continue.

Something that has come up in the last month at our P&F and School Board meetings is that our parish is

looking for volunteers to assist with the children’s liturgy at the 9:45am Mass on Sundays. Each volunteer

would only need to complete this role a couple of times a year, just to spread the load. If you are able to assist,

please let us know at the front office.

A reminder to everyone that our 10 week focus on Mindfulness will be starting next Thursday, the last 5 weeks

of term 2 and the first 5 weeks of term 3. The mindfulness times will be the same times as the Japanese lessons

each Thursday

We also have a focus on Protective Behaviours throughout the school in Term 2. There is some new

legislation now that indicates that the children in all schools need to have access to this programme each year.

This term, all classes from Kindergarten to Year 6 have or will be implementing a “Protective Behaviours”

programme. We are using a 10 lesson programme, which will be taught over the course of the term. The

essence of the programme is based on the premise that all children have a right to feel safe physically and

psychologically. The programme is simply called, Protective Behaviours WA and information about it can be

found on the PBWA website at www.protectivebehaviourswa.org.au. The programme is designed to explicitly teach

the children about safe behaviours for themselves and others. If you have any queries regarding the programme,

please don’t hesitate to speak to your child’s classroom teacher or myself.

Dates to Remember:

Friday 26th

May – Year 4 Assembly

Friday 2nd

June – Year 5 Assembly

Monday 5th

June – Foundation Day Public Holiday

Thursday 8th

June – Holy Communion Meeting with children and parents, starting at 6:30pm

Thursday 8th

June – P&F Meeting starting at 7:30pm

Friday 9th

June – School Cross Country Carnival for Years 3-6

Best wishes for the coming fortnight.

Paul Hansen

PRINCIPAL

CONGRATULATIONS - Congratulations to the Hamilton family on the arrival Esme Rose. A darling

daughter for Amy and David and sister for Alannah.

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Year 6 Leaders School Update

MINISTRY- Congratulations on a great job to all of the winners in the drawing competition last term from years PP-Y6. If you did not win then

don’t worry because I can guarantee you that there will be lots more competitions coming up throughout this year. Last fortnight we celebrated

Fatima Day, as it was the 100th Anniversary of Mary appearing to the three children. The Year 6 Class and the staff organised some cool

competitions and activities to do on that day and the school had lots of fun.

Ruby Martinovich - Ministry Leader

LEARNING/IT- In our Math Program, we have started problem solving strategies from Year One to Year Six. Every two weeks there will be a new

problem solving strategy for all years. Thank you to everyone who signed up for the Tellagami competition. There will be a few more competitions

this term that will be heaps of fun.

It has been a busy Term 1 and start to Term 2 for all OLOF students and everyone is buzzing with excitement for the activities throughout the rest of

the year.

Jack Sullivan - Learning & IT Leader

THE ARTS- In the Arts, ukulele has been a big hit for the year six students and they are all sounding very professional with the help of Mia B,

Ruby D and Lily T. Nine Year Six students have been turning up to ukulele every Tuesday morning showing that they are all very committed to the

Ukulele Ensemble Group. Mr Hansen has even picked up a few musical tips!

Every Monday afternoon students from Pre Primary to Year Six have been going into the hall to practice Liturgical Singing, this is run by the

talented guitarist, Mrs Burwood. Every student is sounding magnificent! These songs will be sung during our School Masses, Feast Days and

upcoming Sacraments.

Term 2 is going to be an awesome term in The Arts and everyone should be looking forward to many more fun competitions and numerous

interesting events as the term goes by!!

Jasmine Bacich- 2017 - Arts Leader.

SUSTAINABILITY- Last term, the Our Lady of Fatima School had a good amount of sustainability related activities considering it was only the

start of the year. For example, the Year Six Class started to use the worm farm by using the green waste from student’s lunch boxes. The Pre

Primary, Year 1s and Year 2s, with the help of Mrs Burwood, have been gardening in the Pre Primary recycle garden and the Aboriginal garden on

the oval. The Year 5s have also started to do Waste Free Wednesday again, where they go around to each class, from PP to the Year Six, counting

each student’s amount of disposable plastic wrappers, cling wrap, alfoil and packets in people’s lunch boxes. The class with the least amount of

rubbish, wins a prize for the week.

I hope to see more sustainability activities in the upcoming terms.

Isaac Rodeghiero - Sustainability Leader

SPORT- Last term was a big start to the Year of Sport with the cricket carnival. Year 5 and 6 students participated in the carnival and we all did

really well with the girls coming 2nd and the boys coming 3rd. We also had the swimming carnival and ASCS interschool swimming carnival with

OLOF taking out first place! La Salle was the winner of the OLOF school swimming carnival. Everyone who participated swam very well and made

some big achievements. It was a very competitive day with lots of events ending with the noodle race. On the last Wednesday of Term, we had our

interschool swimming carnival at Fremantle Leisure Centre. We had a few champions and runner ups from our school, which was fantastic! The

events were freestyle, butterfly, breaststroke, backstroke, medley relay and the freestyle relay. We won so many races and everyone did very well.

We are very thankful to Mr. Celenza, Ray and all the parents and teachers who came along. It was a great Term and we’re looking forward to Cross

Country and the events of Term 2.

Ethan Dawson (La Salle captain), Bella Bryan (Francisco captain), Lily Taylor (Genevieve captain) and Robbie Brigg (Kolbe captain)

CROSS COUNTRY TRAINING

Tuesday and Friday are our Cross Country Training days at Miller's Park.

Osvaldo Celenza

PHYSICAL EDUCATION TEACHER

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MAY

2nd

Sophie Brady

3rd

Avery Kirkwood

3rd

Aoife Healy

7th

Claudia Maddox

8th

Kimberley Nikolcic

8th

Anthony Nguyen

12st Michael Carcione

12th

Lewis Jondahl

12th

Shaia Clements

13th

Matthew Lawler

13th

Thomas Lawler

13th

Samuel Hicks

14th

Jax Richardson

18th

Quinn Stingemore

20th

Kai Travia-Kathiravelu

21st Angus Wauhop

22nd

Marcus Lomma

22nd

Will Davy

22nd

Samantha Johnston

24th

Kylah Ferreira

24th Finn Robinson

25th

Otis Roberts

28th

Jasmine Bacich

28th

Ethan Dawson

30th

Robbie Cobill

31st Zachary Terribile

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OUR LADY OF FATIMA PRIMARY SCHOOL

Canteen Menu 2017

COLD FOOD SANDWICHES ROLL

Cheese $3.00 $3.10

Cheese & Salad $3.30 $3.60

Ham $3.10 $3.30

Ham & cheese $3.30 $3.60

Ham, Cheese & Tomato $3.50 $3.80

Ham & Salad $3.50 $3.60

Salad $3.00 $3.50

Tuna $3.50 $3.80

Tuna & Salad $3.80 $4.00

Vegemite $2.50 $3.00

Salad Lettuce, tomato, carrot and cucumber

Extras Add 20c for additional filling eg. beetroot, cheese

Toasted Any sandwich can be toasted for extra 20c

HOT FOOD PRICE

Hamburger (Beef pattie, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, carrot, tomato sauce) $4.50

Cheese Burger (Beef pattie, cheese and sauce) $4.50

Meat Pie $3.50

Party Pie $1.30

Hot Dog (star choice skinless) $3.50

Sausage Roll $3.00

Nachos (Corn chips, bolognaise sauce and cheese) $4.50

Fried Rice $4.50

Tomato Sauce $0.40 Lunch Bags $1.00

Spoons/Knives/Fork $0.10

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DRINKS

MORNING RECESS

Cakes $0.50

99% Fruit Juice Ice Sticks $1.00

Cheesies $1.20

Vege Chips $1.20

Jelly cups $1.00

Fruit Salad Cups $2.00

AFTER LUNCH (12.45pm – 1pm)

Moosies (Frozen Yoghurt) G/F $1.50

Natural Juicies (Icy Pole) $1.50 (Made from fresh pressed fruit NO added

sugar 100% natural)

WINTER ONLY

Soup $1.00

Raisin Toast $1.00

Preservative Free Juices: PRICE

100% Apple Juice $1.50

100% Apple/ Blackcurrant $1.50

100% Orange Juice $1.50

100% Tropical Juice $1.50

600ml water bottles $1.00

Brownes Choc Milk $2.20

UHT Strawberry Milk $1.50

UHT Banana Milk $1.50

Milo Milk Drink $2.00

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MOTHERS DAY IN KINDY

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MOTHER’S DAY MORNING TEA

“Men in Aprons”

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KEYED UP MUSIC Keyed Up Music will be running Piano and guitar lessons again in Term 4 at Our

Lady of Fatima. We run shared or individual lessons starting from $20 plus GST per

lesson. To enrol, go to

www.keyedupmusic.com.au/enrolment-form For more information visit our website www.keyedupmusic.com.au

Or call Therese on 1300 366 243 with any queries

SCHOOL BANKING 8.10am Tuesday mornings), or you're welcome to leave your books and money securely in the

Office on Mondays.

Come see us if you'd like to open a new account, it can all be done online.

New accounts can now be opened online: www.commbank.com.au/schoolbanking and click

on the link to open the Youthsaver account.

Happy banking! Emma and Maria

School Banking Coordinators

PARISH NEWS

PARISH WEEKEND MASS TIMES

Saturday Vigil - 6.30 pm

Sunday - 7.30am, 9.45am, 6.30pm

(Based on the true story of the final months of British rule in India and the forma tion of Pakistan) Starring British Actor Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson and Sir Michael Gambon. Date: Monday 5th June ( PUBLIC HOLIDAY - WA DAY) Time: 3.30pm - (No AFL on this day either) At: Cygnet Theatre, Preston St Como. Cost: $20 per ticket (includes a raffle ticket with great prizes) Please come along and enjoy this fundraiser for the Parish. Tickets are available from Jacquie and Ian Pittaway Email: ijpittaway@gmail.com or Ph: 9330 1035 Or leave your details on the sheet at the back of the Church.

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Friday 23 June, 2017

Monday 19TH JUNE, 2017

PP to Yr 3 4.30pm - 5.45pm

Yr 4 to 6 6pm - 7.45pm

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You can see the virtual book if you click on the link below

https://online.flippingbook.com/view/866062/

A big THANK YOU to those who have purchased the books or donated $14 in lieu of buying

the book!!!

This is one of the very few fundraising efforts the P&F are holding this year, so PLEASE put this

one in your calendars as a day to help out.

We're looking for volunteers to help for a couple of busy, but very social and entertaining hours!

General shift times are below, but happy to be flexible and schedule according to your availability.

We need at least 5 helpers / shift.

7:30 – 10:00 (includes set up

10:00 – 12:00 (busy lunch time)

12:00 – 2:00 (busy lunch time)

2:00 – 5:00 (includes pack away)

We're also looking for help with storage & cooling of drinks (providing large eskies, cooling &

transporting drinks ready for sale, buying/topping up ice). If you can assist with any of these jobs,

please give your name, email, mobile, and details of what & when to:

Maria Doolan 0422 017 206 or mdoolan29@gmail.com

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2017 FATIMA FOOTY TIPPING

With the 2017 AFL season well underway it has been a very close tipping war

among our members. We currently have 6 tippers with a total score of 41 points,

another 7 nipping at their heels sitting on 40 and a further 10 members on a score

of 39.

Congratulations to our round champions:

Round 1- Millie Mooster

Round 2- The Clarks and Mr P

Round 3- HFC 4peat!!

Round 4- Grubby

Round 5- Rafsta and Goofy

Round 6- Buddy Franklin

Round 7- Mrs Coach Buckley

Please ensure all outstanding entry fees are paid to Tracy ASAP.

Good luck!

Chris Jones - P & F

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TERM 2 - 2017

Our Lady of Fatima, Palmyra

Week 5

22 23 24 25 26 Year 4

Assembly

HERO

Award

Winter Sports

OLMC V OLF 1pm- 2.30pm

27/28

Week 6

Mya/June

29 30

Dentist PP,

Yr 3 and 6

31

`1 2 3/4

Week 7

June

5 Foundation

Day/ WA

Day

6

7 8

Communion

Meeting

6.30pm

9 Year 5

WA Week

Assembly

10/11

Week 8

12 13 14

Constable

Care K –

Yr 6

15 16 ASCS Cross-Country

Carnival Yr 3-6

TBC

17

18 P & F Sausage

Sizzle at Bunnings

Week 9

19 20 21 22 23 Year 2

Assembly

HERO Award

School Disco

24/25

Week 10

June/July

26 27

Holy

Communion

Retreat -

Schoenstatt

28 ASCS

Lightning

Carnival Yr 5&6 TBC

29

Year 4 End

of Term

Mass

30

Pupil Free Day 31/1

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CANDLE LIT PROCESSION LEAVING ST PATRICK’S BASILICA TO

CELEBRATE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF OUR LADY OF FATIMA