17 Whittington Street, ENFIELD SA 5085 / Telephone 8344 0000/ Facsimile 8344 0099 / Website www.sgs.catholic.edu.au
2014 No 18
SCHOOL NEWS
Dates for Term 4
Friday 31st Oct
Hartzer and Chevalier Liturgy
10.00am SHC
Wednesday 5th Nov
Reconciliation Relay
Friday, 7 November
MacKillop and Xavier Mass
Cultural Community Night
Friday 14th Nov
Year 4/5 Excursion
Friday 21 November
SPORTS DAY
Friday 28th Nov
Christmas Concert
Sunday 30 November
Blessing of Cribs
Cathedral 11am
Monday 8 December
6.00pm Graduation Prayer
Service at Church GS
7.00pm Graduation Dinner
Tuesday 9 December
End of Year Mass and last day for
Year 7 students, Reports go home
Thursday 11 December
3:15pm End of 2014 School Year
Digital Learning Across the school, students have continued to learn with and about new technologies and how they
support learning.
Activities such as digital artworks, photography, writing computer code using LOGO, have been done
with older students sharing learning with younger ones. This has enabled a consolidation of learning
for older students as they take on the role of ‘tutor’, and enabled some new ‘adventures’ in learning for
the younger ones.
Here are some samples of the learning which has been completed so far.
Michael Macnamara (Digital Technologies)
Dear Parents and Caregivers, This term is flying by…. So much
still to come and so many great moments to celebrate...
Diwali Celebrations - Thankyou
to Indian Temptations Restaurant
and all those who helped out last
Thursday in celebrating Diwali.
Students engaged in learning,
praying and celebrating this festi-
val and our own Catholic Faith
Story of light.
Returning in 2015 and class requests—We have
begun as a staff and School Board to look at the
structures and staffing for next year. A
number of important factors contribute to
these decisions. The learning of students always remains at the
core. A further request is extended to those families who are leav-
ing St Gabriel’s School at the end of this year to ensure they have
advised us, so we can plan accurately.
Coming home with students is a page inviting you to make any
recommendations and requests about the placement of your
children. This opportunity is an important one if you wish to put
forward information that will benefit the placement of your child
for next year.
In the next couple of weeks class teachers will be beginning class
groupings for next year. So I invite you to talk to your children
about who the people who help them learn. One of the processes
that will be undertaken is inviting students to name those people
they would like to be in class with and that help them learn the
best.
Official School Hats are now
required for all outside play and
activities. In line with our Sun
Smart Policy, students should be
arriving at school with sunblock on.
All classes have the standard Cancer
Council sun block for students to
use, which is reapplied prior to lunch time play. If your child
suffers any allergies to this brand we ask that you provide your
child with another brand of sun block.
Saturday is the Feast of All Saints. This feast
is an important celebration in the life of our
Catholic Tradition. On this feast we celebrate
all those men and women who have been holy
in their lives and all those who are to come. In
a way the feast is a celebration of us and a
reminder that we are called to be people of
love, compassion and service like the many
saints we honour and remember.
God of Holiness and Love.
We pray in thanksgiving for the lives and service of all Holy Men
and Women of every time and place. May their prayers bring us
peace and love. Inspire us to follow in their examples of their love.
Reconciliat ion Message St ick —Next
Wednesday 5th November, an Indigenous
Message stick will be visiting our school as it
travels around the schools of the Enfield and
Port Adelaide Council area. This activity
is a way for our local council to continue to raise
the awareness and importance of Indige-
nous Reconciliation. During the afternoon of
the visit classes will be participating in activi-
ties and prayer centred on the message of reconciliation and peace.
We continue to pray for and
learning about the work of
Catholic Mission. More infor-
mation can be found on their
website—http://
www.catholicmission.org.au/
Look forward to seeing you at our Cultural Community Night
next Friday (7th November). Thank you to all those families who
have so generously continued to be able to make our Community
Night such a great celebration.
Looking forward to next week
From Stuart
CLEARVIEW KILBURN PARISH
Church/Office—7 St Albans Place, Clearview Ph 8262 1070
Church/Presbytery—50 Le Hunte Street, Kilburn Ph 8262 1366
PARISH PRIEST: Fr Leon Czechowicz
PASTORAL ASSOCIATE: Mrs Patricia Hehir
PARISH SECRETARY: Ms Iris Daly
MASS TIMES: Saturday 6.00p.m. and Sunday 10.30a.m. Clearview
Sunday 9.00a.m. Kilburn
SUNDAY SCHOOL
Every Sunday except Family/Youth Mass (held first Sunday of each month)
10.30a.m. Church of the Good Shepherd, Clearview. Children rejoin the Mass at Offertory time.
UNIFORM INFORMATION Please note that the royal blue V neck windcheater is now being fazed out
with the NAVY ZIP NECK WINDCHEATER WITH NEW LOGO as
the replacement jumper to be worn in 2015. (Please note that the old royal
blue V neck jumper can be worn in 2014).
CRIBS MASS Over the coming weeks your child’s class will be involved in mak-
ing Christmas cribs to take home to prepare for and celebrate the
feast of Christmas.
This year St Gabriel’s have been invited to gather with our families
and other families from around the Archdiocese in the Cathedral
Church of St Francis Xavier, Wakefield St., Adelaide, on Sunday
30th November for the 11 a.m. Mass when Archbishop Wilson will
bless the cribs the children have made before you set them up in
your home. The blessing ritual will be followed by refreshments in
the Cathedral Hall and Pauline Books & Media will have a stall of
Christmas gifts you may like to purchase.
Afterward your cribs have been blessed at this Mass you are invit-
ed to set your crib up in a prominent place in your home.
SOCK IT TO POVERTY – SOCK DONATIONS Over the next week during Heart Learning the stu-
dents will be making sock puppets and creating
puppet plays to raise awareness for the work of
Catholic Missions.
We ask that you send in a sock with your child so
they are able to make their puppet. If you have more
extra odds socks that you wish to donate they will be
greatly appreciated.
BRONWYN RIDLEY—APRIM
Information and Communication Technologies
supports and enhances student learning across all
areas of the curriculum. Students develop and apply
ICT knowledge, skills and values through use of
iPad, computer, photography, audio and visual
mediums.
During their learning students:
Apply appropriate social and ethical protocols
and practices (learning about the impact of ICT,
developing safe practices and cyber safety
knowledge)
Investigate (developing the skills to search using
the internet, gather knowledge from different digital
sources and evaluate credibility of in-
formation)
Create (planning and designing digital tasks, se-
lecting and using various programs and apps and
then evaluating completed tasks.)
Communicate (presenting and sharing information
and products to particular audiences, having con-
nections with students across the school and world
using ICT tools)
Manage and operate ICT (select and use ICT
hardware in a safe manner, develop an
understanding of ICT resources)
There is an imperative to use ICT to teach
young people to “learn how to function
well in the world of cyberspace, make
discerning judgements according to sound
moral criteria about what they find there,
and use the new technology for their
integral development and the benefit of
others” (The Church and the Internet, 2002).
FILIPINO FOOD STALL
The services and events contained in this Newsletter are in no way connected with the school and are included in this Newsletter for
your information only. Parents and caregivers need to make their own enquiries and assessments about the suitability of these
events and services for their needs and those of their children.
SA WATER VACSWIM 2015
On-line enrolments are now open and can be
done by visiting the website
www.vacswim.com.au
Enrolment packages can be downloaded and are
also available from swimming centres, the SA
Water VACSWIM office and libraries.
$30 Enrolment Fee per child for 7 X 45 minute
lessons.
Families enrolling more than 4 children—maximum of $100.
SCHOOL BANKING COMPETITIONS Every deposit you make with School Banking will automatical-
ly create one entry for you into the competition. So the more
you save, the more chances you have to win
(up to a max of 6 entries).
*40 X GoPro HERO3 White Edition Cameras
*150 X Slip ‘N Slide Double Wave Riders
To find out more, visit commbank.com.au/deepseasavers
Is your child a smart school saver?
Have your child tell us in 50 words or less what they are saving
for and how they plan to save their money to achieve it and they
could win:
An iPad for themselves and their school
(6 regional winners)
$1,000 for their savings (1 national winner)