St Brendan’s Primary School 1581 40 Golf Links Road, Lakes Entrance 3909

Ph: 03-51552712 Fax 03-51554565

Internet Address: http://www.lakesent.catholic.edu.au

E-Mail Address: principal@lakesent.catholic.edu.au

Internet Banking : BSB 083 879 A/C 695096861 Account Name : St Brendan’s School

Newsletter No 25 August 23, 2018

Absence Reminder : If your child is

absent from school, you must advise the

school as soon as possible on the day.

Due to new legislation, the school is

required to contact parents/guardians if

your child is absent with an unknown

reason. A Skoolbag App absentee form is

the most efficient contact method or you

can phone the school office and then

provide a written note.

Father’s Day Stall The Father’s Day stall is being held on Tuesday 28th, Wednesday 29th, and Thursday 30th, of

August from 9am..

Please let the office know if you are available to help out on any morning.

Thanks, Parents & Friends

Kidz Rock Kidz Rock is on Friday 24

th August 7.00 – 9.00pm.

Glow sticks and snacks will be available to purchase.

We need 12-15 parent helpers to supervise on the night, please

let me know if you can help out.

Email : daniellelmills@bigpond.com

Thanks

Danielle P & F President

AUGUST Dates for the Calendar

Friday 24th 9.00am St Brendan’s Playgroup in Hobby Room Year 1/2 Red—Lakeview Nursing home visit Year 4/5 Red—Kalimna Nursing home visit 2.35pm Assembly—Year 4/5 Yellow Prayer District Athletics 7.00pm Kids Rock

Saturday 25th 5.00pm Family Footy Colours Mass

Monday 27th Family Dinner : Year 3 Green

Tuesday 28th 9.00am Father’s Day Stall 9.10am Foundation Parish Mass

Wednesday 29th 9.00am Father’s Day Stall

Thursday 30th 9.00am Father’s Day Stall

Friday 31st 9.00am St Brendan’s Playgroup in Hobby Room Father’s Day Breakfast

SEPTEMBER

Monday 3rd Family Dinner : Year 3 Red

Thursday 6th 12pm Year 6 Play Dress Rehearsal

Friday 7th 9.00am St Brendan’s Playgroup in Hobby Room 9.10am Year 1/2 Class Mass Year 6 Red—Lakeview Nursing home visit Year 6 Blue—Kalimna Nursing home visit 2.35pm Assembly - Year 4/5 Red Prayer & Year 4/5 Blue Item

St Brendan’s ~ St Colman’s Catholic Church - Mass Times Friday 24/8 9.30am St. Brendan’s, Lakes Entrance Wednesday 29/8 9.30am St. Colman’s, Orbost

Saturday 25/8 5.00pm St. Brendan’s, Lakes Entrance

FAMILY MASS - WEAR YOUR FOOTY COLOURS

Thursday 30/8 10.30am Kalimna Nursing Home, L/Entrance

Sunday 26/8

Migrant & Refugee

Sunday

9.00am

11.00am

St. Brendan’s, Lakes Entrance

St. Colman’s, Orbost

Tuesday 28/8 9.10am St. Brendan’s, Lakes Entrance

Years ‘Foundation’

Emma Yates (Year 5)

Challenge concludes on Friday 7th September

Congratulations on

completing the

Premiers’ Reading Challenge 2018

Thursday 6th

September

Troy Story

Dates:

Tuesday 11th September @ 7:30 pm Wednesday 12th September @ 12:00 midday

Thursday 13th September @ 7:30pm

Catalogues have been sent out to all families. If anyone is

interested in ordering any goods you can place an order at

parentdirect.com.au and nominate St Brendan’s for the

fundraising voucher during checkout. By ordering toys

from Parent Direct, up to 25c of every dollar you spend will

be given back to our school to buy education resources.

Plus for every 20 orders, we get an additional $200 to

spend.

All families are invited to a St Brendan’s Parish and School Family Mass on Saturday, 25

thAugust at 5pm.

Wear your footy colours and stay after Mass for some food and to meet other parish members.

Please RSVP to Mary for catering purposes at the Parish Office on 5155 5232. If you would like to be involved in any part of the Mass from Welcoming, Offertory, Altar serving or Reading please let Mary know.

This week we have continued to look at the

Persistence key as part of our You Can Do It!

program. In class, discussion has been centred

around:

knowing that success is achieved by

internal factors, such as ability and effort

and not external factors, such as luck or

taking on something that is easy

goal setting and highlighting what is

needed to achieve the goals

knowing that to be successful at

something, you will sometimes have to

do things that are not easy or fun

We would like to thank all of the businesses and families below for their contribu-

tions to our School Fete Raffle. We have been overwhelmed by the generosity of our

school and wider community. Raffle tickets will be sent out over the next few weeks.

Raffle Prizes

1ST PRIZE – District Apartments South Yarra 2 Night Accommodation Voucher for 4

people Value $600 Donated by Saltwater Properties & Village Cinemas Gold Class

Vouchers Value $200 Donated by Glenn Hodges of Hibbert & Hodges Lawyers

2ND PRIZE – $500 Surf-Shack Voucher Donated by Surf-Shack

3RD PRIZE – Wheelbarrow filled with Goods Value $500

Donated by The Lakes Timber & Building Supplies

4TH PRIZE – Baby Q Weber Value $320 Donated by Dahlsens

5TH PRIZE – Koonwarra Family Holiday Park Lakes Entrance 1 Night Accommodation

Voucher Value $200 Donated by Koonwarra Family Holiday Park

6TH PRIZE – Secrets of the Skin Voucher & Hair + Salon Voucher Value $150

Donated by Bree Capobianco and Loren Brooks

7TH PRIZE – Wine pack Value $130 Donated by Lazzarotto Family

8TH PRIZE – Pinocchio Inn Restaurant Voucher Value $100 Donated by Pinocchio Inn

9TH PRIZE – Albert & Co Dinner Voucher Value $100 Donated by Albert & Co.

TICKETS $2.00 each

Drawn at St Brendan’s Catholic School Bi-Annual Fete, Golf Links Rd, Lakes Entrance,

Sunday 4th November 2018 at 2pm.

Next FETE Meeting

Monday 17th of September at 5:30-6.30pm

All welcome. Stall coordinators please attend.

CRAFT

STALL The craft stall for the fete are asking all keen sewers and knitters to create a fabulous tea cosy for our craft stall. These will be displayed beautifully on the day and available for sale. We are looking for fabulous creations to wow our customers. There are some images attached for ideas and there are lots of free patterns on the internet .

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS

Footy Colours Mass:

This Saturday, August

25th at 5pm. Wear

your team’s colours

and come along for a

great night.

UPCOMING EVENTS:

Friday, 14th September (Week 9) - Whole-school Mass for Refugee and

Migrant Day

Monday 17th September (Week 10) - Andrew Chinn

workshops and afternoon concert (1.45-2.45pm)

GEOGRAPHY

This term, all classes Inquiry units are based on Geography. Hand in hand with learning about our earth

and it’s resources is learning how to protect and conserve them. This coming Saturday, August 25th,

there will be a good opportunity for our students to put their learning into action.

Join Sea Shepherd Australia’s Marine Debris Campaign to protect and conserve our marine environ-

ment, preventing and removing the unprecedented amount of marine debris entering our oceans and

waterways.

After a successful event in early May this year, the Victorian Marine Debris Team has set up it's very

own Lakes Entrance Team. Sea Shepherd will be holding another clean-up event at Eastern Beach, from

1pm to 3pm, on Saturday August 25th.

This is a free family friendly event and everyone is welcome!

What to bring:

- We recommend closed toe shoes, sunscreen and a hat

- Water in a reusable bottle, gloves (we will have some that can be borrowed)

- If you have tongs or grabbers they can be helpful

- We have bags available for collecting litter, though feel free to bring your own

Please note, this is a 'single use plastic free' event (Sea Shepherd Facebook page)

Can you make a difference?

Sport this year has been very busy at school and out of school. In class we have recently

been practising our netball and basketball skills. Great improvement has been seen in the

students ability to catch and pass at pace. Also in Term 2 we had another visit from

athletics coach Denis Huffer, his session were thoroughly enjoyed.

We have had our school athletics, cross country and swimming carnival, these were all a

great success with student really enjoying them. A big thanks to all those parents who

helped and supported these day.

Our district athletics is also being held on Friday, the 24th of August, we have been

practising for this event and are excited to compete.

We have had many students representing our school at netball, soccer, AFL, golf, tennis

and basketball. Recently we have had many students represent us at the Regional Cross

Country Championships, with Jake Perrett, Keira Gibbs, Caleb O’Donnell and Harley

Young representing us at the State Cross Country Championships in Melbourne. Jake will

be going on to compete at the national level for cross country in late August. We also

have Brianna Thewma representing us at the state level in Term 4 for golf.

Last week, was Science

Week, so on Wednesday

the 15th of August, the

year 5 and 6 students

went to the Lakes

Entrance Secondary

College to participate in

some interesting science

experiments. We went

off into four different

groups, the experiments

we conducted were

swimming sultanas, tin

can phone, making

sherbet and blowing up

balloons using a water

bottle vinegar and

bicarbonate of soda. We

had a lot of fun learning

the effects of when you

put certain chemicals

together.

By Lilly O’Brien

Nagle College is hosting two events on Friday 7 September in honour of our 60th anniversary. Our afternoon event, Celebrating

School Life, celebrates 60 years of providing a Catholic Secondary education to students in the region. A complimentary light

lunch will be served from 1-2 pm, followed by a student-led school tour from 2-3pm. Our evening event, Celebrating 60 Y ears,

invites you to feast on your feet, mingle and rejoice in this significant milestone. This smart dress event will be held from 6-

8pm. Tickets available for $30 each. If you would like to attend either of these events, we kindly request that you RSVP before

Friday 17 August. For more information or to RSVP please visit www.nagle.vic.edu.au/item/event/60-year-celebrations, call

Nagle College on 5152 6122 or visit us at 20 Hope Ave, Bairnsdale.

To enter, bring a gold coin to the Library at

lunch time next week.