29 November 2017 Newsletter No 19

Dear Parents and Guardians Thank you to our Year One and Two classes who last

Friday led us very well in a very reverent Eucharistic celebration, as we celebrated and thanked the many helpers of St Jude’s School. Thank you also to the many parents who attended Mass with us on this day and the parents who stayed to enjoy the delicious “Thank You

Morning Tea” in the School hall.

Thank you also to the many staff members, the St Jude’s School Board, the Friends of St Jude Executive and other School parents and friends for attending our Annual Community Meeting last week. Mr Iggy Moro, Board Chairperson, reported on the work of the Board during 2017 and on the School finances and presented the School fee schedule for 2018. Our School Board is a dedicated group of people who offer their time and expertise to our School community and I thank them on your behalf for this service. This year marks the end of Mr Iggy Moro's service to the School Board after twelve years and I thank him sincerely for his commitment and time given to support St Jude's School. Mr Aruna Ratnasekera is also unable to continue his service to the School Board and I sincerely thank him for his service to our School. Our sincere congratulations to new Board members Mr Mark Duchesne who was elected to the St Jude’s School Board for a two-year term. The School Board members for 2018 are: Mrs Larni Doherty, Mrs Rupinder Sidhu, Mr Andrew Pickering and Mr Mark Duchesne. Ex Officio members are: Mrs Jonnda Simpson, Principal and Father Terry Raj, Parish Priest.

The End of Year Report for the Friends of St Jude was also presented by Mrs Samantha Moonemalle, noting the support and many activities of the FOSJ during 2017. Our thanks are sincerely expressed to Mrs Sam Moonemalle, Mrs Ninibeth Heslop and Mrs Jyothi Rangarajan for their work for our School community during the year. Unfortunately, Mrs Ninibeth Heslop and Mrs Jyothi Rangarajan are unable to continue in this role and I thank them for all they have contributed over the years. However, we welcome

and congratulate Mrs Nishanthy Lourthuthasan and Mrs Yogarani Jeganathan to the Executive of FOSJ for

2018.

Next week on Wednesday 6th December at 9.00am we celebrate the 2017 Praise, Thanksgiving and Graduation Mass. I hope many families will make the effort to attend to give thanks for the blessings of this school year as well as congratulate the Year Six Graduating students and the Award recipients for 2017. When we look back over the year, and as our Year Six students reflect on their years at St Jude’s, we realise that there is so much to be thankful for! Please help to make it a time when our Year Six students remember with pride that they were part of a caring and supportive faith community who came together to honour and farewell them. I sincerely hope that you can attend to celebrate our year together, to congratulate the Year Six graduating class and to acknowledge the students from each class who will receive awards as well as our new school leaders for 2018.

This Sunday is the first Sunday in the Church’s season of Advent, a season of “waiting”, as we prepare for the celebration of Christmas. Many of the words that we pray and sing during this season are full of desire, hope and expectation. One of our Advent companions is Mary, and during these weeks we remember her waiting for the birth of her child.

God our Father We ask You to hear our prayer during this holy

Christmas season. On the first Christmas the shepherds listened to the

message of the angels as they watched over their flocks. Help us to be open to Your message of hope in our lives.

The shepherds went right away to the town of Bethlehem to see what You had made known to them.

Help us to put our faith into action like the shepherds. The shepherds gave praise and glory to God for what they

had heard and seen. Help us to be people who remember to give thanks to You

for all that You have done for us. We pray this through Christ our Lord Who is the Saviour of

the world. Amen.

The coming week is very busy with end of the year activities! On Friday, the Year Six students will present their final assembly at 9.00 am in the School hall and

ST JUDE’S

CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

WE CENTRE OUR LEARNING IN CHRIST AS WE STRIVE TO ACHIEVE EXCELLENCE

Year Five NEWS—READ MORE…. Pg 3 & 4 Year Six NEWS READ MORE…. Refer Class Feature

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St Jude’s Parish Mass Times

Sunday Masses: (Vigil) Saturdays: 6.30pm Sunday: 7.30am 9.00am and 5.30pm

Weekday Masses: Mon to Fri: 9.00am followed by Recitation of the Rosary

Altar Servers: Sat 6.30pm: Aldric & Ayden Ratnasekera

Sun 9.00am: Kyla Almeida & Goretty Otim Sun 5.30pm: Noah & Elijah Moonemalle

CALENDAR

WEEK 8 Thurs, 30 Nov K/PP Teddy Bear Picnic Fri, 1 Dec Yr.6 Assembly 9am Yr.6 Excursion Yr.6 Dinner 5-7pm

WEEK 9 Mon, 4 Dec End of Year Concert 2pm and Family Picnic and sausage sizzle until 5 pm

Tue, 5 Dec Picnic Excursion Yrs.1-5 Wed, 6 Dec Thanksgiving and Graduation Mass 9am Disco 5pm-7pm Fri, 8 Dec LAST DAY OF TERM for students.

Friends of St Jude Group

Our 2017 Christmas raffle will be drawn at our Christmas concert on Monday 4th December! Every St Jude’s student will receive one free entry and there will be three Christmas prizes to be won! Good luck everyone!

School Christmas Disco! Wed 6th December 5-7pm! Come dressed in your Christmas best, and bring along those funky dance moves! Entry is by gold coin. Would love to see you all there!

2017 FOSJ Committee

UNIFORM SHOP

Uniform Order forms were sent home. Please place your order now for payment and collection from the uniform shop on Monday 29 January from 10am to 12 Noon.

Mrs Linda Aldworth, Uniform Shop Manager

2018 Reading Records—Years 1 & 2 @ $6.00 each 2018 Diaries—Years 3, 4, 5 & 6 @ $7.00 each NOW AVAILABLE FROM THE SCHOOL OFFICE

then head out to enjoy their end of year excursion to Laser Blaze in Willetton, followed by an inaugural Year Six Graduation Dinner in the school hall. I look forward to sharing this very special celebration with them and thank the parents who have carefully planned and organised the dinner for our students

Our End of Year Christmas Concert will take place next Monday 4th December at 2.00pm. Students have been practising very hard so that you will enjoy this special celebration so please make sure you can make it! We also invite families to stay for a picnic on the grass after the concert for a final community get-together before the end of the year! A sausage sizzle will also be provided by St Jude’s School staff members—yum!

On Tuesday 5th December the School will be very quiet as all students from Years One to Five will be out on their end of year excursion to Kings Park. Please remember to send your child with the appropriate items for the day including hat, sunscreen and water bottle. Our Kindy and Pre-primary will also celebrate the end of the year with a "Teddy Bear's Picnic" on Thursday 30th November – I know they’ll all have a great time!

On Wednesday 6th December, from 5.00 - 7.00 pm, the FOSJ will host the final Disco for the year – a fun ending to a very busy few weeks and a very busy year! God bless Lyn Stone, Principal

St Jude’s School 2017 Parish Christmas Hampers

Christmas, the season of giving provides us with a special opportunity to do something practical to light the path of another.

This year we are asking all families to donate goods to the St Jude’s Parish Christmas Hamper Appeal. The hampers will be distributed to people in need in our local St Jude’s Parish. By donating non-perishable items to our Parish, we hope to support families facing difficult times this Christmas.

A list requesting items required by each class is coming home today.

VOLUNTEERS REQUIRED TO ASSIST WITH SCHOOL BANKING. Please register your name at the office if you can assist.

YEAR FIVE NEWS

We are now nearing the end of Term Four and the school year is coming close to an end.

It has been a rather hectic but enjoyable eight weeks of this Term, with some of the key Year Five highlights being our Assembly item in Week Two and our Leadership Day in Week Seven.

Our assembly item focused on the theme of ‘Fairytales’, we performed a Rumpelstiltskin poem and play; and recited some Fairytale character limericks we composed in Writing.

Our Leadership Day gave us the opportunity to explore the qualities of a good leader and informed us of the duties that the Year Six Committee Leader roles entail. We feel inspired and prepared for the challenges that lay ahead of as we aspire to becoming the student leaders of the school community in 2018. On Monday afternoon we presented our Leadership speeches to the Years Three – Six students for the roles we nominated for and now we look forward to finding out whether we have been successful. It is going to be an anxious wait to see who our new leaders are going to be… bring on Week Nine, when we find out this exciting news!

Aside from these two events, we have been very busy working hard in our classroom on various activities in the key learning areas. Some of the things we have been working on have included…

In Mathematics, we have been exploring the concepts of area and perimeter in Measurement and Geometry; and in Statistics and Probability we have been interpreting various types of graphs such as double bar graphs, pie graphs, line graphs and tables. We are getting very good at identifying trends in data and using these trends to predict possible data results for the future.

In Religion, we have been exploring how we can live like Jesus and demonstrate the good qualities of honesty, compassion, courage and kindness in our daily lives. We have looked at ways people can lead good lives as they are strengthened by Jesus through the Eucharist. We will finish this term by exploring the season of Advent and sharing in the joy and peace of this special time of the year.

In English, we have been writing our own fractured fairytales. Fractured fairytales are creative narratives based on well-known and popular fairytales. We are currently busy making our fairytales into picture books and will share them with our Year One buddies in the last week of the school term. In preparation for our Leadership speeches, we explored the elements and devices used in a well-structured and persuasive speech. We tried hard to use these devices in our own speeches so we could encourage members of our student body to vote for us at the Year Six Committee Leader Elections. Stay tuned for the outcome!

In Integrated Studies we have continued working on our Economics and Business unit in HASS. We have learnt the difference between natural, capital and human resources; and explored the various types of resources used in both our school community and the dairy industry. It has been rather interesting exploring how many resources are used in each of these enterprises.

In Design Technology we market researched, planned, created and appraised a Melbourne Cup Hat for a peer to wear. This was a very enjoyable process… everyone was happy with their finished product; and we all thoroughly enjoyed wearing our peer-made hats on Melbourne Cup Day whilst watching this ‘race that stops a nation!’.

To finish our update, we would like to share some of the highlights of our year in Year Five with Mrs. Renton. We have all had a fabulous time and although we are sad that our year is ending, we are excited about Year Six; when we become the student leaders at St. Jude’s.

Just quietly… Mrs. Renton thinks we are going to make amazing leaders, we think so too!

Mrs Renton and the Year Five Team.

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Highlights of Year Five, 2017…

Swimming on the first day of school, the Year Five Leadership Day and writing our speeches – Arvind.

Reading ‘Wonder’ and learning about an extraordinary boy with an extraordinary life and the boy’s name is August/Auggie – Mercy.

Learning new things – Wani.

Leadership Day because we got to have pizza and got to know what cook stuff we do in Year Six next year – Shiva.

Just hanging out with my friends and meeting new ones – Alena.

When we went on an excursion to Kings Park with Year Six, it was so much fun! – Delphine.

When it was Leadership Day because we got to do lots of activities and have fun all day long! – Izumi.

When we had our Leadership Day especially when we had the pizza and played ‘Pass the Parcel’, it was so much fun! – Manwinder.

The Leadership Day and the first day at St. Jude’s – Romane.

When we had buddies with Year One’s – Mony.

When I got voted to be the class representative or also called the student councillor – Elijah.

Going to Parliament House because we got to learn about how Government works – Ella.

When we had our Year 5 assembly on Fairytales – Julia.

Leadership Day because we got to learn about the qualities of being a leader – Michelle.

Leadership Day because we got to watch movie clips and eat pizza for lunch – Rita.

When we all had a great time eating pizza on Leadership Day – Mekhi.

Meeting new people, friends and teachers. Doing new things such as Japanese, STEM and Leadership Day – Tharniesh

Leadership Day – Hai Yin

Leadership Day, how to be a leader and what the school leaders do – Edrin.

When I passed level 8 in my swimming lessons at the beginning of the year – KC.

Leadership Day – Caleb.

Winning the Lightning Cup for soccer and scoring the winning goal in the finals which was a header – Khyan.

Working together with my close friends – Javan.

Having Mrs. Renton for a teacher—Charlotte

All the subjects that I have learnt here in Year Five—Erros