EXECUTIVE STAFF

Principal

Michael Croke

Assistant Principal

Steve Maguire

Religious Education Coordinator

Robyn Petty

Primary Coordinators

Belinda Forbes

Camille Da Silva Tavares

Catherine McAuley

Catherine McAuley Catholic Primary School

Orange

McAuley VI www.mcauleyorange.catholic.edu.au

Term 1 -Week 9 - 28th March 2018

Prayer must come from God….

we must beg it continually.

Catherine McAuley

Michael Croke

From the Religious Education Coordinator

Holy Week: Well, Holy Week is finally here! This is the most important week in the Catholic Church’s year.

We all look forward to Christmas and all the celebration it brings, but Easter is far more important than

Christmas. And it’s a lot more than the chocolate eggs on Easter Sunday! During this week the Parish will

have many opportunities to participate in Holy Week and Easter Liturgies, including the “Mass of the Lord’s

Supper” on the evening of Holy Thursday, the “Way of the Cross” on Good Friday morning, and the “Passion

of the Lord” at 3.00pm on Good Friday. I would encourage your family to try to get to one or more of the

ceremonies during this week, as preparation for the great joy of Easter Sunday.

Project Compassion: Thank you so much to those who have already sent in their Project Compassion boxes.

Could I ask that these be returned before the end of this term, so that we are able to forward on the money to

Caritas Australia to continue their vital work with those who so need their assistance. Our school community

has always been very generous towards Project Compassion and I thank you in anticipation once again for

your continued support.

Holy Week Celebrations: Tomorrow, Thursday, 29th March, we will begin our Easter celebrations, with our Stations of the Cross in the classrooms. This will be a special presentation, featuring work from all grades in the form of an interactive powerpoint. You are very welcome to share this celebration with us by joining your children in their classrooms at this time. We will then celebrate the Risen Christ on Easter Tuesday at 9.30am in St Joseph’s Church, followed by a morning of fun with the making of Easter hats in the classrooms, shared Recess then the “Hat Parade” after Recess. It would be lovely to have you join us for all or part of our celebrations of the story of Jesus’ journey to Resurrection.

Easter Timetable: A full timetable of Easter Celebrations in our Parish was

sent home at the end of last week. Further details are available through the

Parish Website

http://www.bathurst.catholic.org.au/?i=4451&st-mary-and-st-joseph-orange

God who created us, suffers because of us

God who died upon the Cross, suffers for us

God who dwells within us, suffers with us

And in God’s suffering we find hope.

Your story of life, death and resurrection, gives life meaning

Redeemer, Saviour, Advocate

Through the journey of suffering, In the place of darkness

You overcame death forever,

And gave us new life

Mothers’ Day: This year we will once again have our Mothers’ Day Liturgy, but this year it will be a little

different. Each grade has been asked to take on the preparation of a special Mass or Liturgy, and the Mothers’ Day

Liturgy will be prepared and run by our beautiful Kinder students and teachers. As usual, we will have our special

power-point of photos of mothers and their children, so could I ask that you start to send in these photos soon so I

can start this task. You can email them to me on r.petty@bth.catholic.edu.au or send them in on a thumb drive or

hard copy. I will get thumb drives and hard copies back to you the day after they come in. This is usually a

highlight of the Liturgy, so could I encourage you to start sending these in soon.

Wishing you a very happy and Holy Easter,

Robyn Petty

You are invited to join us as we celebrate the most important event on our

Church calendar...Easter! TUESDAY 3rd April

McAULEY EASTER CELEBRATION DAY

ALL FAMILIES ARE VERY WELCOME TO JOIN US AS WE CELEBRATE

9:30am Easter Liturgy in the Church

10:00am Easter hat making in all classrooms K-6 (materials will be provided by the school and families are welcome to assist in the classrooms during this time)

11:00am Recess - families welcome to join their children for morning tea on the playground 11:30am - Hat parade in Kenna Hall

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Orange Monday 26th March - 2nd Rite of Reconciliation, St Mary’s Church at 7.00pm

Tuesday 27th March & Wednesday 28th March 1st Rite of Reconciliation

(Confession), St Joseph’s Church at 12.30 - 1.00pm, 5.00pm - 5.30pm

Molong - Tuesday 27th March - 2nd Rite of Reconciliation, St Lawrence’s Church at 7.00pm

Orange - Good Friday - Confessions at St Joseph’s & St Mary’s, 2.00pm - 2.45pm

Holy Thursday 29th March - NO Morning Mass

Mass of the Lord’s Supper

Molong - St Lawrence‘s, 7.00pm followed by Adoration until 9.00pm

Orange - St Joseph’s Church, 7.30pm followed by Adoration until 10.00pm

Good Friday 30th March

Walk to Botanical Gardens commencing at 9.30am from St Joseph’s Church for the Stations of the Cross at 10.30am

If wet, this will be transferred to St Mary’s Church

Molong & Manildra - Stations of the Cross at 10.30am

Mullion Creek - Stations of the Cross 3.00pm

Orange - Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, St Joseph’s & St Mary’s Churches at 3.00pm

Molong - Passion of Our Lord Jesus Christ, St Lawrence’s Church, Molong at 3.00pm

Holy Saturday 31st March 2018

Orange - Morning Prayer of Waiting - St Mary’s Church 10.00am, including the rites of ‘Ephphetha’ and ‘Anointing with Oil of Catechumens’

Easter Vigil

Orange - St Mary’s Church - 7.00pm (followed by supper - please bring a plate to share)

Molong - St Lawrence’s Church - 7.00pm

Easter Sunday 1st April 2018

Orange- St Joseph’s Church - 8.00am, 5.00pm

Orange- St Mary’s Church - 9.30am

Cudal- St Columbanus’ Church - 8.00am

Mullion Creek- St Brendan’s Church - 8.00am

Cargo- St Patrick’s Church – 10.00am

Manildra- St Michael’s Church – 9.30am

Easter Monday 2nd April

8.30am St Mary’s Church

Fr Greg Bellamy

Parish Priest

KidsLit Quiz

Congratulations to our two KidsLit teams who did an amazing job on Monday representing our school in the

Orange Heat of the competition. KidsLit is a worldwide competition and it is a great experience for these Year 6

students. Thank you Eliza Brooking, Matthew Kennedy, Joseph Madigan, Myles Sullivan, Maya Thompson,

Max Vaughan, Charlie Westgeest and Poppy Wishart for your great enthusiasm and good sportsmanship! Well

done to Max Vaughan who won himself a crisp five dollar note. Thank you to the parents and family who came

along as spectators and supported our teams. Why not have a look at the KidsLit website and see how may

questions you know the answers to.

Catherine Bishenden

Students: Eliza Brooking, Matthew Kennedy, Joseph Madigan, Myles Sullivan, Maya Thompson,

Max Vaughan, Poppy Wishart.

Absent: Charlie Westgeest

Merit Awards

Madaline Press

Hudson Diduskzo

Sylvie Miller

Cienna Taylor

Matilda Johnson

Max Bennett

Asher Kenney

Peyton Taylor

Calum Davis

Sienna Lawford

Molly Wolf

Ethan Turner

Zachary Waters

Vittorio Manca

Josef Scott-Robertson

Kai Plante

Archie Markwick

Kaitlyn Ware

Ayen Akon

James Weston

Harlow Corby

Ella Mustac

Harper Corby

Ben Mulhall

Paddy May

Kaylee Anderson

Gus Bohringer

Jacob Southwell

Sienna Vaughan

Ruby Dover

Seth Acido

Jaimie Sijo

Jayden Jomon

Declan Robertson

Reese Board

Billy Littlefield

Ruby Draper

Brooklyn Ryan

Tomma Tancred

Mitchell Ewin

Katiza Hillier

Olivia Tom

Jack Gow

Lara Vardanega

Maggie Nunn

Caiden Hoy

Lilly Nonnenmacher

Macy Wilton

Darren Domin

Emily Ryan

Edwina Waterman

Molly Dunn

Lewis Budworth

Charlize Spurr

Alex Tang

Eliza Brooking

Anika Ballard

Poppy Wishart

Charlie Westgeest

Alexandra Milne

Georgie Halls

Cooper Agland

Evie Nunn

Model of Christ-Centred Learning Awards

For Term 1 we will award students for the yellow dimension of the model;

Expertise and Collaboration.

Congratulations to the following students who received awards from their

teachers in Week 8: Henry Moody, Joshua McLean, Marco Sciuto,

Cooper Judge, Judd Zinga, Maggie May, Isaac Tavares, Monique Vardanega,

Fergus Johnson, Georgie Wishart, Addison Gardner, William Vial,

Sophie Bouffler, Maggie May, Jack Bingham, Alex Morley, Harrison Stedman,

Zahli Bennett, Darcy Kelly, Koby Phillips and Ancilin Alson.

Tuckshop Roster

Tuckshop Roster—Commencing Monday 2nd April to Friday 6th April 2018

Day 9.30am—11.30am 11.30am—2.00pm

Monday - Easter Monday -

Tuesday K.Cain^^ S. Cain

Wednesday - Tuckshop Closed - Athletics Carnival -

Thursday (10.30am T. Gardiner^^) A. Meade

Friday A. Moody, T. Fieldus A. Cantrill, N. Weston

(10.30am B. Scuito, N. Day**)

Tuckshop Ph: 6362 0942 ^^when available ** 1 hr only

Happy Birthday to the following

students who have birthdays this week:

Callum Wilcox

Kody Wasow

Isabel O’Brien

Molly Spicer

Harry Kingham

Rosie Hamilton

Isabelle Waters

PSSA SWIMMING CARNIVAL

We would like to congratulate Millie-Rose

Brodbeck on her outstanding results at the PSSA

Swimming Carnival in Sydney last week.

A big congratulations goes out to Knox Gibson on

an Olympian effort at the carnival, 4 Golds and a

Silver.

Knox placed in the following events:

Gold 100m freestyle

Gold 50m freestyle

Gold 50m butterfly

Gold 50m breaststroke

Silver 50m backstroke

Collect 2 vouchers for every $10 spent

at Coles until 1 April 2018.

Catherine McAuley Catholic Primary School

Orange

90 Hill Street,

ORANGE NSW 2800

Telephone: (02) 6361 3344

Email: mcauleyorange@bth.catholic.edu.au

Web: www.mcauleyorange.catholic.edu.au

Interesting Fact of the Week

If you could fly a plane to the planet

of Pluto, the trip would take more

than 800 years!

Mass Times

St Mary’s Church - Saturday 6:00pm

- Sunday 9:30am

St Joseph’s Church - Sunday 8:00am

- Sunday 6:00pm

Liturgy and Mass Dates for Term 1: Below

is a schedule for our Masses and Liturgies for

this term.

Week 9: Thursday 29th March Holy Thursday

in classrooms @ 12.30pm

Week 10: Tuesday 3rd April Easter

Liturgy at St Josephs Church @ 9.30am

Thursday 29th March

Holy Thursday in Classrooms 12.30pm

Friday 30th March

Good Friday

Monday 2nd April

Easter Monday

Tuesday 3rd April

Easter Celebration Day—Easter Tuesday

Wednesday 4th April

McAuley Year 2—Year 6 Athletics Carnival

Friday 6th April

McAuley Cross Country

Friday 6th April

5F Assembly 12.30pm