Term 2 Week 7 June 11, 2019

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From the Assistant Principal’s desk….

Last Thursday we were all blessed with a beautiful winters day at Barden Park for the annual School Athletics Carnival. The day was a great success with all of the students participating and showing great sportsmanship throughout the day. Thank you to Miss Bolton and Mrs Sampson who coordinated the events and ran the con-trol room, great job ladies. A big thank you must also go to the parents and friends of our school community who were able to give up their time to assist at the carnival, without such help it would be very difficult to get everything done that has to be done on carnival day, thank you.

St John’s Primary has had a number of students and groups competing at the Dubbo Eisteddfod whilst it has been on.

Well done to the St John’s Primary School band that competed last Wednesday and were awarded 2nd place. Great work all of you and big thank you to Mrs Lindsay and Mrs Clifford for helping to coordinate.

Fantastic effort from Kindergarten in the Schools Choral groups section to be highly commended whilst competing against older students in year 1 & 2. Thank you Mrs King and Mrs Brice, excellent result.

This week we have dance groups and the string ensemble going to the eisteddfod—good luck everybody.

Sunday June the 9th was Pentecost Sunday. The gospel tells us that on the day of the Pentecost Jesus’ Disciples were huddled together in fear in what had become very uncertain times for them as friends and followers of Jesus. On the Pentecost the coming of the Holy Spirit transformed the disciples, they revered God before them and accepted God within them giving them the courage to face the uncertain world and proclaim the word of

God to all and among all the nations of the earth.

One Wednesday the 12th June Fr Greg will be with us at St John’s Primary to cele-brate mass with year 5 at 10:20am and with year 4 at 11:30am. Any parents and friends that would like to come along are most welcome.

Have a great week .

Adam Foley

Assistant Principal.

VISION STATEMENT

To change the world through our faith in Jesus who is our light and hope.

SCHOOL MANAGER/CHAPLIN Father Greg Kennedy PRINCIPAL Mr Anthony O’Leary

P&F MEETINGS: 2nd & 7th Tuesday each Term

PARENTS/GUARDIANS Please note that photographs of students may be used in this publication. Please advise the School Office if you do not approve of your child’s photo being used.

Important Dates to Remember

Week 7 Term 2 10 June - JUNE LONG WEEKEND HOLIDAY (NO SCHOOL) 11 June - Stage 2 and 3 Dance Eisteddfod 12 June - Debating at St Pius 13 June - Year 5 Mass with Fr Greg 10.20am Year 4 Mass with Fr Greg 11.30am 13 June - St John’s Primary Eisteddfod Concert 2.00pm School Hall 13 June - Primary Schools Showcase Concert –Dubbo Christian School 7.00pm 14 June - St John’s Primary Strings at Eisteddfod Week 7 Term 2

19 June - Year 3 Mass with Fr Greg 10.20am Year 2 Mass with Fr Greg 11.30am 20 June - Year 4 Red visit to Masonic Village 22/23 & 29/30 June - First Holy Communion Enrolment (see RE News for details)

2019 St John’s Primary Athletics Carnival Results from the Athletics Carnival held last Thursday 6th June. Well done to all students on their participation at the carnival. Also a very big thank-you to all parent helpers on the day.

A huge congratulations goes to the winning house McAuley and the following age champions:

Junior Girls Age Champion: Markyhia Barwick

Junior Boys Age Champion: Riley Edwards

11 years Girls Age Champion: Molly Emery

11 years Boys Age Champion: Bailey Letfallah

Senior Girls Age Champion: Chloe O’Keefe and Hannah Bush

Senior Boys Age Champion: Will Smith

A more detailed report and photos will be in next week's newsletter

Religious Education News: Term 2, Week 7

Masses with Fr Greg: This Wednesday our Years 4 and 5 classes will celebrate Mass with Fr

Greg. Year 5 @ 10:20 and Year 4 @ 11:30. Parents, you are more than welcome to celebrate

with your children. Please save these times on your calendar if you would like to attend the

Mass.

Catholic Studies Visits with St. John's College: Last week our Kindergarten classes were fortunate to be

led by very capable SJC Catholic Studies students and their teacher Mrs Jacinta New in an interesting ses-

sion on Catherine McAuley and the Sisters of Mercy and St John the Baptist De La Salle and the La Sallean

Brothers. This session was designed to inform our students about both SJC and SJP celebrating their semi-

centenary years this year. (See last week’s newsletter for more information). Kinder thoroughly enjoyed

their visit to the College’s newly established reflection spaces that have been dedicated to Catherine

McAuley and St John the Baptist. Next week our Year 1 class will benefit from this session. A big thankyou

to Mrs New for the effort and dedication towards the very informative and productive nature of these

visits.

First Holy Communion Enrolment Weekends: For all parents of our Year 3 students who will receive the

Sacrament of First Holy Communion this year, please ensure you have penciled in

the following dates to attend an enrolment Mass at St. Brigid’s: 22nd and 23rd

June OR 29th and 30th June. More details regarding First Holy Communion will

be emailed to you by Rosie Hosking: St Brigid’s Parish Sacramental Coordinator.

Year 6 RE Test: Over recent years, our Year 6 students have sat a Religious

Education Assessment based on a Sydney developed program. This year, our Diocese decided that we will no

longer be involved in the Sydney RE Test however the Diocesan Catholic Education Council recommended and

endorsed the decision that Catholic Education Diocese of Bathurst (CEDB) Staff develop our own test. As

such, over the past few months, the CEDB, with a small group of RECs, worked to develop a bank of questions

that will best suit our diocesan context and will be administered via google forms which students will com-

plete on their Chromebooks. The questions will no longer include large amounts of text but rather be more

focused at assessing students' religious knowledge across the strands of our curriculum. Parents, please be

assured that this test will be based on the curriculum that is being taught here at St. John’s Primary

School. There will be no need to study for this test. Please be aware that the test will take place on

Tuesday 18th June.

Take care,

Paula Clifford

Religious Education Coordinator (p.clifford@bth.catholic.edu.au

MASS TIMES: St. Brigid’s Church: Monday and Friday - 7am, Tuesday and Thursday - 5.45pm

Saturday - 10.00am, Saturday - 6:00pm, Sunday - 9:00am and Sunday-6:00pm.

St. Laurence’s Church: Sunday -7:30am and Wednesday 9.30am

St. John’s Primary School Vinnies Winter Appeal 2019

Over the next 4 weeks SJP will be coordinating an appeal for our local St Vincent de Paul Store.

And yes... we could take the easy option and ask for a gold coin donation, however due to so many coin donations over the past weeks and last term’s ex-ceptional Project Compassion fundraiser we have decided to donate in a different way.

Recently I have spoken to Carole O’Connor from Vinnies and Carole has advised that during the winter, they are ALWAYS seeking donations of goods. Goods that are par-ticularly sought after are:

Blankets

Shoes and slippers

Jackets

Scarfs

Beanies

Gloves

Hoodies

Basic kitchen utensils eg saucepans for heating food during cold winter months

I am confident that most households within the SJP community would be able to contribute at least 1 item from the above list. If we were able to do that, we would be donating almost 300 items.

Below are some relevant details from the St. Vincent de Paul Society website:

“Decided it’s time to declutter? Or the kids have outgrown their clothes but they’re still in excellent condition? By donating your pre-loved items to Vinnies they will get a new life, support Australians doing it tough and reduce landfill and the impact on the envi-

ronment. Vinnies shops need your good quality items to help fund Vinnies programs across the country that support 1.3 million vulnerable Australians each year.

What can I donate?: When considering whether something can be donated to Vinnies, our rule of thumb is if you’d give it to a friend, then it’s ok to give to Vinnies. What can’t I donate?: It takes a lot of money and volunteer hours for the thousands of tonnes of items we get that aren’t sellable. Please do not donate any of the following: Ripped, torn, soiled or stained clothing/blankets, cracked or broken homewares”

So how can you donate your items? Please send all items to Mrs Clifford’s classroom (first room in the blue block) with your child. Items will then be pooled together and a drop off to Vinnies organised. Please ensure your items have been donated by: 28th June (Friday, Week 9) AND please can I stress that all items are in good condition. Many thanks for your support and generosity, Paula Clifford Religious Education Coordinator

Music News

Congratulations to the SJP Band who performed in the

Dubbo Eisteddfod last week and achieved 2nd place.

Fabulous results! A big thankyou to Mrs Amanda Barton

and the SJP Band students who give up their time each

Thursday morning before school to rehearse for such occa-

sions.

(Absent from the image

below is Brodie Walker, due to Eisteddfod commitments on the

same day).

This week our String Ensemble will also perform, along with our

Stage 2 and 3 Dance Groups. We wish them the very best of luck

in their performances.

Primary Bands Showcase:

hosted by the Macquarie Conservatorium

Thursday 13 June 7.00pm

Dubbo Christian School Hall

FREE concert: everyone welcome!

SJP Band and String Ensemble will perform and be conducted by

Mrs Barton and Mrs Hovenden

Please wear your winter school uniform and bring your instruments.

Canteen News Week

We hope you all had a lovely long weekend.

This weeks Friday helper is Heidi Williams

Cathy Dries 0458 550 747

Canteen Manager.

CDF BANKING

Our next rostered banking will be

Wednesday June 12. Our banking parent for this

week is Lauren Hawkins

Please ensure that child’s banking is sent in to

school before Wednesday .

2019 Woolworths Earn and Learn.

St John’s Primary will be participating in the Woolworths Earn and

Learn programme again this year.

Please collect your stickers and send them in to the school office

to be processed.

Thank you for your support.

Please stick stickers to sheet provided ( please attach the correct

amount of stickers) and if you require any extra sheets please

collect them from the school office.

If you have loose stickers please send them in in a zip lock bag

and we will process them for you.

2019 Spelling Bee

St John’s Primary were proudly represented at the Bathurst Diocese Spelling Bee in Wellington on

Thursday by Sarayu Prakashbabu and Nethuli Pathirana in Stage 2 and Brianna Shuttle and Saheli

Jayanetty in Stage 3. All of these representatives applied their best efforts and demonstrated

excellent spelling skills. The four girls worked valiantly in the first 6 rounds, successfully spelling

words like vivacious, ambidextrous, acculturation and chivalrous. Brianna, Sarayu and Nethuli

successfully completed all 6 known word rounds and made it onto the big stage for the unknown

word rounds. Congratulations to St Mary’s in Wellington and St Joseph’s in Oberon for their wins.

Congratulations to all of our St John’s students who successfully made the selection finals in our

St John’s Primary Spelling Bee: Sophie Bleechmore, Amarnie Hodges, Tully Williams, Sam Ray,

Shannon Richards, Ellie Williams, Annie Murphey, Cohan Martin, Michael Chifamba, Tom Collier,

Tessa Cherian, Ada Robinson, Corporal Williams, Jett Hope, Charlie Hayden, Lily Williams , Jonah

Walker, Sarah Johnson, Jasmine Ashfield, Sarayu Prakashbabu, Harry Doughan, Aoife Joe, Zahli

Swan, Ryan Pearson, Nethuli Pathirana, Bailey Coxsedge, Phoebe Fitzgerald, Brodie Walker, Aiden

Hyland, Aidan Webeck, Tessa O’Brien, Saheli Jayanetty, Mackenzie Landgraf, Vishi Rupasinghe,

Brianna Shuttle, Lachlan Weir, Amelia Tink, Rithika Jose, Zack Redden, Alina Kniazeva,

Evie O’Connor, Chloe Bleechmore, Phoebe Spora and Mia James.

WIRADJURI LANGUAGE LESSONS On Friday 7th June Kinder and Year 6 commenced Wiradjuri Language lessons with Mr Brian AhSee and Mr

Anthony Riley from the NSW AECG local office. Wiradjuri is the language of the Aboriginal people local to

our Dubbo and surrounding areas. It was exciting for everyone to start this new venture teaching language

to our students and our aim at St John’s Primary is to have all students participate in these language lessons

in the near future.

All classes learnt how to say “Good Day” and introduce themselves. Kinder learnt some numbers and Year 6

will learn how to do an Acknowledgement to Country in language!

Beanies for Brain Cancer

Did you brain cancer kills more children than any oth-er disease, and kills more people under 40 in Austral-ia than any other cancer - yet it receives less than 5%

of government cancer research funding. The Mark Hughes foundation is selling beanies to raise money

for vital research into Brain cancer.

Miss Bolton will be placing a bulk order of beanies - if you would like to order beanies please email Miss Bolton by Friday 7th of June - e.bolton@bth.catholic.edu.au or head to the Mark Hughes foundation website to place your order https://beanie.markhughesfoundation.com.au/

Beanies are one size fits all.

St John’s Primary (Dubbo After School) Auskick Centre (School Field)

Each Tuesday starting 11th

June-2nd

July 3:30pm-4:30pm

Each child will receive: Auskick Bluetooth Speaker, Footy Cards, Footy Pump AND an AFL Auskick Football!

Your child will enjoy a safe, fun, action-packed 4 week program of games and skill development, ideal for boys and girls aged 4-12 for

only $46!

As part of our program, each child will also receive the

opportunity to become a GIANTS Recruit member which will allow them to receive tickets to selected GWS Giants games in 2019. Simply click the check box on your regis-

tration form to sign up.

Register Now

To register visit https://play.afl/auskick, search Dubbo in the centre locator and follow the prompts or register in person at the

first session.

Payment available online (preferred) or at the program in cash. For more information contact: Casey White Email: ca-

sey.white@afl.com.au Phone: 0407060705