Edition 17: 30th May 2016

DATES TO REMEMBER...... Tuesday 31st May “Responsible Pet” Education Program

for Kindergarten students only,

Infants Hall

Tuesday 31st May Parent Association Meeting, 7.30pm

Primary Staffroom

Wed 1st June Kindergarten Gymnastics

Friday 3rd June Staff Development/PUPIL FREE DAY

Sunday 5th June Year 1 & Year 4 Family Mass

Tuesday 7th June Tamworth City Eisteddfod – Choral

Speech for Kinder, Years 1 & 4 at

Tamworth Town Hall from 10.00am

Tuesday 7th June Year 3 Calala Cottage Excursion

Friday 10th June Pie Drive Orders and Money due

Monday 13th June Queen’s Birthday Public Holiday

Tuesday 14th June Kindergarten Grade Liturgy, 11.40am

Infants Hall

Wed 15th June Year 6 RE Test

Monday 20th June Tamworth City Eisteddfod – Choir

Section – Year 2 & Primary Choir

students

Friday 1st July Term 2 concludes

First Eucharist Congratulations to all our Year 3 children who celebrated and received their First Eucharist yesterday. This special day will be an occasion the children will remember for the rest of their lives! We thank Father Paul for his care and guidance. Thank you also to our wonderful teachers (Mrs Clarke, Mrs Goodwin, Mrs Rafferty and Mr Millman) and Deacon Paul Manvell who have spent a huge amount of time preparing the students for this important Sacrament. Heartfelt thanks to the children and their families who attended this Mass, making it such a memorable occasion for our School and Parish.

PUPIL FREE DAY – this Friday 3rd June Parents please don’t forget that this Friday 3

rd June will be a Staff Development Day,

so ALL students (K – 6) DO NOT attend school on this day. All Teachers from Tamworth Catholic Schools will be attending a Religious Education inservice course on the “The Sanctity of Life”.

VALUE FOR THE WEEK: “RESPECT”

WINTER PRAYER There is a winter in all of our lives,

a chill and darkness that makes us yearn for days that have gone or put our hope in days yet to be.

Father, you created seasons for a purpose. Spring is full of expectation, buds breaking,

frosts abating and an awakening of creation before the first days of summer.

Now the sun gives warmth and comfort to our lives, reviving aching joints, bringing colour,

new life and crops to fruiting. Autumn gives nature space to lean back,

relax and enjoy the fruits of its labour, mellow colours in sky and landscape

as the earth prepares to rest. Then winter, cold and bare as nature takes stock

rests, unwinds, sleeps until the time is right. An endless cycle and yet a perfect model.

We need a winter in our lives, a time of rest, a time to stand still,

a time to reacquaint ourselves with the faith in which we live.

It is only then that we can draw strength from the one in whom we are rooted,

take time to grow and rise through the darkness into the warm glow of your springtime

to blossom and flourish, bring colour and vitality into this world, your garden.

Thank you Father for the seasons of our lives. Amen

Years 1 & 4 Family Mass – this Sunday 5th June Our Year 1 and Year 4 Family Mass will be held this Sunday 5

th June at 9.00am in Mary Help of Christians

Church, Hillvue Road. The students are asked to provide and distribute morning tea. These masses are for ALL students, parents and friends of our school, Catholic and Non-Catholic alike. We look forward to seeing you at Mass this Sunday.

Kinder Gymnastics – this Wednesday 1st June Don’t forget all Kinder students will have their catch-up gymnastics session this Wednesday 1

st June and

are requested to wear their sports uniform. Their last gym session of the 4 week program will be held on Friday 10

th June. Thank you for your understanding regarding change of dates.

Tamworth City Eisteddfod - Choral Speech Section – Kinder, Years 1 & 4 students only

The Choral Speech Section of the Tamworth City Eisteddfod will be held next week on Tuesday 7

th June at the Tamworth Town Hall from 10.00am for our

Kinder, Years 1 & 4 students only. Permission notes went home today and there will be a $2 charge per child to cover the cost of the bus and entry fee. We ask that your child’s note and money is returned by this Friday 3

rd June. Our students are very excited and have been

busy preparing and practising for their performance. All children are requested to wear their full winter uniform (including tie).

Eisteddfod Choir – Monday 20th June – Year 2 & Primary Choir students The Primary Choir and our Year 2 students are also busily preparing for their choir performance at the Tamworth Eisteddfod on Monday 20

th June in the Tamworth Town Hall. All students are required to wear their full winter uniform (including

a tie). Permission notes went home today with the respective choir students. IMPORTANT INFO: Parents and caregivers, please note that filming or taking photos of students on mass in the Town Hall is strictly prohibited as it breaks child protection laws as not all children have media permission. Anyone found taking photos or videoing will be asked to leave the Hall.

Catholic Schools Celebrate Preparations are well underway for Catholic Schools Celebrate 2016. Catholic Schools Celebrate - CAPTIVATE will be held on the evening of Thursday 15th September at the Tamworth Regional Entertainment Conference Centre, commencing at 7.00pm.

Five schools will be participating in this year’s production. A number of enthusiastic and committed staff members from these participating schools have begun to meet after school on a regular basis to ‘nut out’ ideas and to begin the huge task of organisation.

This year students in Years 5 and 6 will participate and be involved. CSC is a wonderful opportunity for our students to work together with staff and students from other schools and often many new friendships are forged from this event. It is also a way for students to work through and achieve many of the outcomes outlined in the Creative Arts Curriculum. It allows many students the chance to showcase their cultural talents in a non-competitive yet professional setting where the main purpose is to showcase talent, creativity and to provide entertainment of a high standard.

SPONSORSHIP

We thank the ADIG and Catholic Schools Office for their kind support of our production. We would like to invite any Tamworth Businesses or families who would also like to sponsor the wonderful event to please contact Mrs Lisa McSweeney (lmcsweeney@stnicholastamworth. catholic.edu.au) or Mrs Julie McGuirk (jmcguirk@stnicholastamworth. catholic.edu.au). Every little bit helps!!

SAVE THE DATE 2017 St Joseph's Parish Uralla is holding a Parish celebration dinner on Friday 5th May 2017 to celebrate the 50 year opening of the current church. Please contact Trish Shortis on 0402 342 032 or Bev Niland on 6778 4328 for further details.

SHERPA KIDS ST EDWARD’S Before, After & Vacation Care for Primary & Infants Campus

Monday to Friday, 7.00am – 6.00pm Breakfast & Afternoon Tea Included

This Week’s Theme: Circus Week

Matilda made a fast sports car for Art & Craft in Car Week

For enquiries call Angie – 0481 373 883

stedwardstamworth@sherpa-kids.com.au

POSITION VACANT:

Casual position available for immediate start at Sherpa Kids OSHC Tamworth

Sherpa Kids OSHC currently has a position available for a casual Program Assistant to join our team at Before & After School Care and Vacation Care. This position would be highly suitable for a Teacher’s Aide, casual teacher or someone with child care experience and holding the following minimum qualifications:

Valid Working with Children Check Child Protection Training Current First Aid Certificate &

Current Asthma & Anaphylaxis Certificate.

All enquiries are confidential

STUDENT OF THE WEEK (first name shown) & Curriculum Award (second name shown) Curriculum Focus: Science KBC Sam Norman KL Lexyn Thomson KP Ebony Pepperell Lily Marshall Mason Sproule Zayden Lumby 1G Darcy Madgwick 1S Declan Clark 1W Fergus McGilchrist Riley Daly Trisha-May Dizon Evelyn Kendall 2B Dylan Mihell 2L Zali Kapeller 2U Riley Kelly Logan Rust Emmanuel D’Ugo Molly Frazer 3G Haydon Hunt 3M Sophie Buchan 3R Shae-Anne Hill Ella Murray Cooper Cramp Mia Pengilley 4K Jayde Elliott 4M Sophie Morriss 4P Vy Ho Phung Tuong Drew Kelly Tyson Tobin Kaydence Larkham 5L Jenae Jenkins 5Q Lachlan Croker 5S Hope Madden Lachlan Smith Jaxon Kelly Sian Austin 6C Will Ashton 6G Phoebe Chatfield 6M Nathan Fox Bailey Hook Myah-Ray Trindall Geoffrey Larkham

Values Award -“INTEGRITY” Kinder – Ruby Sheumack, Sienna Caslick, Chloe Collins Year 3 – Thomas Errington, Ryan Lu, Alexis Masters Year 1 – Sam Studte, Deegan Musgrave, Thomas Jefferys Year 4 – Zoe Cosgrove, Acacia Taylor, Kerwin Richards Year 2 – Elizabeth Flood, Mitchell Williams, DeliKa Boney Year 5 – Jake Salvestrin, Keira Scates, Blake Hutchinson Year 6 – Wilbur Taylor, Ben Williams, Jayden Pengilley

House Award: Primary: Kennedy Green Infants: MacKillop Gold

Pride & Presentation: Primary: 4K Infants: KBC Respect Rules Award – Congratulations to Isabella Brydon (KBC) for always using her manners with her friends

and teachers. We are very proud of you Isabella!

Bronze Awards Congratulations to the following students who have been awarded a Bronze Award for a consistent effort to be well behaved: Corey Lay (KBC); Henry Rumsby (KBC); Sophie Demery (KBC); Leah Boreham (KL); Sienna Caslick (KL); Mason Sproule (KL); Alivia Sylvester (KL); Cooper James (KP); Jacinta-Dean Hoffman (KP); Gracie Kelly (KP); Josie Wilson (KP); Chloe Collins (KP); Tyreece Scott (KP); Taylah Evans (1G); Maeve Black (1G); Halle Swan (1G); Jade Morgan (1G); Matilda Lace (1S); Jack Gaynor (2B); Lily Androutsos (2B); Olivia Dau (2B); Daniel Fulton (2U); Jaydah Craig (2U); Naharlia Hartman (3G); Isabella Norman (3G); Thomas Errington (3G); Isabelle Hodges (3G); Leif Dietrich (3G); Tomas McCluand (3M); Cohen Wolter (3M); Connor Allen (3M); Joshua Reading (3R); Jordan Lewington (3R); Naricah Geia (3R); Vy Ho Phung Tuong (4P); Alex Anderson (4P); Emily Brooker (4P); Lucas Dunnill (4P); Makayla Hoffman (4P); Nicholas Campbell (4P); Braiden Fenwick (6C); Connor Swift (6C); Katie Hill (6C); Chloe Bates (6C) and Mathew Refalo (6G).

CANTEEN NEWS Don’t forget that supplies of the girl’s navy winter tights and girl’s navy winter socks are available from the Infants Office or the Primary Canteen. Cost is $10 a pair and both are of an excellent quality. Ties are also a compulsory part of our winter uniform - $25 each; school jacket - $70 and jumper - $30. School scarves, with “Eddies” embroidered on them, are also available from the Infants Office or the Primary Canteen at a cost of $10 each.

CANTEEN ROSTER

Date Primary Infants

Tues 31

st May

Sara Watson Kristle Nicol

Danielle Hogno Kristle Nicol

Wed 1

st June

Kathy Smyth

Jade Swan Sarah Cathro

Thur 2

nd June

Tania Young Bec Evans

Courtney Collins

Fri 3

rd June

Nikki Bridge Raylene Mihell

Natalie Studte Leon Brydon

Mon 6

th June

Kirsten Scott Fran Hutt

Adam Jones Shayne Kapeller

Qkr! THE EXCITING NEW SCHOOL APP!! We would like to remind our families that we now have Qkr! This mobile App allows fast and easy payments with the flexibility to pay school fees and payments wherever and whenever you like. Simply download the Qkr! App from the app store (iPhone) or Google Play (Android). Register your child’s details on the App and away you go!! It’s so simple and saves you and your child’s teacher so much time counting and sorting money for those sporting, excursion and other miscellaneous payments.

St Edward’s Parent Association

Meeting TUESDAY NIGHT (31st May) at 7:30PM, Primary Staffroom

All welcome!! Come for your chance to win Forum 6 Vouchers!

PIE DRIVE!

Order forms and money are due back to school

by Friday 10th June

Lots of yummy pie varieties, sausage rolls, lamingtons and sweet delights.

Don’t forget to ask your friends, colleagues, neighbours.... Thanks Kellie-Ann Hansen for

organising this delicious fundraiser!

St Edward’s Fair

We need your ideas!

Planning is underway for our Fair to be held on Friday 21st October.

We would love to hear any ideas you have and would really appreciate you

collecting the following items….

Empty jars (Tombola), second hand books, DVD’s and toys (in good condition please),

prize donations!

These items can be sent in to Jenny Maloney at the Primary Campus or give me a

call on 0419 139 737. More details to come soon.

LET’S MAKE THIS THE BIGGEST FAIR ST EDWARD’S HAS EVEN SEEN!!

RE NEWS

First Communion

Congratulations to the children who received the Sacrament of the Eucharist, the

2nd Sacrament of Initiation, on Sunday, the Feast of Corpus Christi. It was

wonderful see all of the students so reverent, dressed beautifully in white to

receive this most precious Sacrament. Congratulations to the Year 3 teachers, for

your hard work to ensure the students were so well prepared. Thank you to

Father Paul for celebrating the Mass.

The Feast of The Visitation

Tomorrow, Tuesday 31st May, is the Feast of The Visitation.

This Feast celebrates Mary visiting her cousin Elizabeth. After

the angel Gabriel had announced to Mary that she was to

become the mother of Our Lord, Mary went from Galilee to

Judea to visit her kinswoman Elizabeth, soon to be the mother

of John the Baptist. This visit is recorded in the Gospel of

Luke. Elizabeth greeted Mary with the words, "Blessed are you

among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb." Mary

burst forth with the song of praise which we call the

Magnificat, beginning, "My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord".

Family Mass

This Sunday 5th June is the Years 1 & 4 Family Mass. We invite all families to attend, to gather

as a School and Parish Community to celebrate the Mass. Please bring a plate and stay for

morning tea and a chat. We hope to see you there!

Advance Notice

Tuesday 14th June – Kindergarten Grade Liturgy, 11.40am Infants Hall – parents and friends

welcome.

Sally Clarke & Amy Willis

WISE WORDS FOR FAMILIES – “Do you let your kids amaze you?”

“I'm amazed at what children CAN do when given the opportunity and encouragement. I love

the pride, confidence and sense of purpose/ pleasure in contributing, each new skill achieved

brings. The smiles are awesome too.”

A mother left this comment on our Facebook page recently in response to our post: “What would be the impact

if you did less, not more for your children?”

Lovely answer!

It got me thinking that the joy that this mother took from watching her children develop independence was no

accident. Her parenting style played a large role in her children’s independence. All power to her and her

parenting style!

I’ve long believed that adults are the gatekeepers for children’s independence.

We open the gate to independence when we give children opportunities to develop self-help skills (carry their

own schoolbags, get themselves up in the morning, tidy their own rooms); provide them with real

responsibility (feeding pets, setting the meal table and preparing meals) and give them autonomy to make

some of their own decisions (choosing clothes within limits, following own interests, making choices about

pocket-money spending).

We close the independence gate when we do too much for children (tidy their toys away, pack their

schoolbags, make simple snacks); rescue them from learning opportunities (take forgotten lunches to school,

sort out their friendship problems, pay their library fines) and neglect to build scaffolds to independence (such

as help them make their bed, walk half way to school, teach them to ride public transport).

It’s a quirk of parenting that many children think they are older than they are, and parents think their children

are younger than they are. We underestimate children’s abilities to the detriment of their development.

Are you an opener or closer of the gate to children’s independence?

Think of independence as a continuum with opening the gate and closing the gate at either end. If your

parenting is more at the closing end, then look for ways to move down the continuum towards independence

building. My advice is to make small adaptations to your parenting. For instance, start with a child making their

own snacks before moving to helping you to prepare a meal. But first you need to develop a mindset for

independence building. That means, be on the lookout for opportunities for children to do things for

themselves.

As many readers will know, I firmly believe that the job of parents is to make ourselves redundant from the

earliest possible age of a child’s life. That means, that our interactions with kids have an endgame in mind – we

want our kids to be able to stand on their own two feet physically (Don’t we get a kick out of them walking for

the first time!), emotionally (with support, of course) and to navigate their world without being reliant on

others.

There is no better feeling as a parent than watching your child beam with joy and pride when they’ve mastered

a new skill, overcome a challenge or conquered a fear. It’s those times that make parenting so worthwhile.

Those awesome smiles won’t happen by accident. They require a parenting style that gives kids a chance to be

independent; that encourages them to be brave and offers them the safety net of emotional support when life

throws them curve balls. Why not try it? Give your kids a chance to amaze you.

By Michael Grose www.parentingideas.com.au