4/5 JB ART - St Margaret Mary`s School

Incorporating St Margaret Mary’s Pre School and
Out of School Hours Care
Term 1
STUDENT ABSENTEES
Phone: 8245 5855
(answering service)
Email:
Week 7
Thursday, 12th March 2015
FROM THE PRINCIPAL
Dear Parents and Carers,
The South Australian Commission for South Australia has recently launched a Strategy for
absent@smms.catholic.edu.au
to describe our systems context. Catholic Education in South Australia is a living expression
SCHOOL TIMES
Front Office
Supervision
Classes
Leading Catholic Education to New Levels of Excellence. The following statement is used
8:30am - 3:30 pm
8:30am - 3:20 pm
8:45am - 3:00 pm
of the Catholic faith and the partnership of schools with families to create opportunities for
encouraging life to the full in all its personal, spiritual, social, ecological and cultural
dimensions. This understanding of ourselves as a system and the current social and
financial reality here in Adelaide has lead to the strategy goal to ‘Strengthen and
PRESCHOOL:
transform the presence of Catholic Education in South Australian’. You may soon seen
Morning Session 8:45am - 11:45am
Afternoon Session 12:15pm - 3:15pm
some media reports about this and our School Board will be engaging in this strategy as we
Excellence’ is both a hope filled and exciting phrase.
UNIFORM SHOP:
Monday
Wednesday
plan for the future. The name of the strategy ‘Leading Catholic Education to New Levels of
2:30pm - 3:15pm
8:30am - 10:00am
In a couple of weeks we have an opportunity for you to meet with your child’s class
teacher to discuss their learning and well being. In the older classes the children are also
part of these conversations so they can see home and school working together to support
OSHC HOURS
Phone
Morning Session
Afternoon Session
1300 105 343
7.00am - 8.30am
3.00pm - 6.00pm
SCHOOL DIARY
DATES
them in their learning. If you haven' organised a time with your child’s teacher please do so
as it is an important part of their development .
Kind regards
Anne McGowan
Friday 13 March
Reconciliation 6/7LO
Monday 16 March
6/7Unit Excursion Adelaide City
Tuesday 17-Friday 20 March
Swimming
Receptions, Year 1, 2 and 3
Adelaide Aquatic Centre
Anne McGowan - Principal
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JB
ART
Wednesday 18 March
Assembly 3/4KM
NAPLAN Parent Information
Session(Vietnamese)9.15–10.15
7.00pm School Board Meeting
@ Whitefriars
Friday 20 March
NAPLAN Parent Information
Session 9-10.00am
Reconciliation 6/7CW
St. Margaret Mary’s School
5 Eldon Street
Croydon Park 5008
Ph: 8245 5800 Absentees: 8245 5855 Fax: 8245 5811
Croydon Park Catholic Parish
St. Margaret Mary’s Church
286 Torrens Road, Croydon Park
Parish Priest: Fr. Maurice Shinnick, OAM
DEPUTY PRINCIPAL NEWS
Author Visit
Last week Preschool to Year 3 students were visited
by local author, Bernadette Cashel-Smith. Bernadette
read to the children from her new book about the
Easter Bunny called, ‘Is the secret safe?’ I was told
by Bernadette that she was amazed by the insightful
questions the children asked her and by their
excellent behaviour and listening skills. The book was
officially launched last Saturday at the Hindmarsh Library.
Community events and volunteers
Thankyou to everyone who has very kindly offered to volunteer their time and skills in helping
to organise the Community Events in our school this year. If you have not yet responded to our
invitation and would like to, please complete the form below and return it to me in the office.
We are inviting you to support one or more of the St Margaret Mary’s 2015 community events.
Community Events
February / March
Easter Raffle Preparation
25th March
Carnevale
May
Mother’s Day
22
nd
May
September
Sports Day
Father’s Day
th
Mid-Autumn Festival
th
26 November
Community Event – Multicultural Celebration
Ongoing all year
Gardens and grounds of the school
18 September
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I,………………………………………., would like to support ……………………………. (event).
We wish the following
students a very happy
and blessed birthday.
Campbell
Lyn
Candice
Alex
Daniel
Hanna S
Ronnie
Alinda
Madison
Chelsea
Raymond
Rj
Madeline
Krishna
Michael
Joe
Paxton
April
Jenna
Daniella
Emily
Stanly
Hy
Nathan
Jahnavi
4/5GW
4/5GW
6/7GG
2/3AF
6/7LO
2/3AL
R/1KB
6/7WC
3/4KM
6/7WC
6/7LO
3/4KM
R/1LB
3/4KM
2/3MV
2/3AL
R/1LB
1/2MI
PPNK
2/3AL
R/1SB
R/1SB
4/5KD
4/5KD
PPNK
My child/children name………………………………………………………. are in …….….. (class).
I am best contacted on ………………………………………. (phone / email)
Simon McCullough - Deputy Principal
Easter Raffle
School Banking
School banking with the
Commonwealth Bank is
offered again this year.
Please bring your bank
books in on a Tuesday.
We welcome all donations—big or small!! These can be dropped off at the box in the Front
Office, or alternatively, via your child’s classroom.
Thank you for your help!!
The latest edition of
Federation e-News has been
posted on our website:
www.parentfederation.catholic
.edu.au
School Community Prayer Book
A book has been placed at the front gate entrance of the school to record any prayers from our
school community. Please use this book to record any prayers you have that you would like our
community to join with you in praying.
Please also feel free to write in the language you are most comfortable with.
Many thanks
Community Prayer
Community Prayer is a new initiative that we will be trialling this year. It will be held
fortnightly on odd weeks on WEDNESDAY mornings in the courtyard. On these
morning students will not be able to go upstairs to classrooms until after
community prayer. At 8:45am a bell will sound and children, parents and staff are
invited to gather in the courtyard. This community prayer will allow us as a
community to reflect for a little time on a current event or Feast day, providing a
prayerful experience for all involved.
Parents/ caregivers, students and teachers are all encouraged to attend.
Student Leadership Team (SLT) 2015
I would like to congratulate the
following students for being chosen
to be on the Student Leadership
Team this semester. The SLT will
work diligently on school based
project in order to make the school
and our community a better place.
Yr 7
Ashlee Stradling
Alinda Chay
Charlie Taing
Trung Nguyen
Year 6
Amber Lennox
Atathia Venetsanos
Phi Hung Tran
Sebastian Taing
4/5KD
Chloe Marcus
Leanne Taing
4/5JB
Christine Welsh
Ryan Le
4/5GW
Sunny Le
Brock Bartusevics
3/4KM
Alex Le
Sinead Wunderer
2/3AL
Ava Burke
Adem Baldacchino
2/3AF
Jessie Vo
Cory Musci
2/3MV
Dion Croci
Paris Badawi
“Do all you can with the means at your disposal and calmly leave the rest to God.” (1891)“
Angela Scodella
APRIM (Assistant Principal Religious Identity and Mission)
Angolo Italiano/Italian Corner
Carnevale 2015 at SMMS
March 25th
Assembly at 11.15am
Come dressed in Italian colours
Sport Results
Date
Team
Versus
Score
3 Mar
Under 14
St Michael’s
20-39
10 Mar
Under 14
Woodville
30-9
Scorers:
Nadim, Charbel, Myles, Michel and Nicholas Tripodi.
Pizza & gelato for lunch
The latest edition of The Southern Cross Newspaper is available
online through the link on our website:
http:// www.thesoutherncross.org.au/#folio=1
Premier’s Reading Challenge
CROSSING MONITORS - Term 1, 2015
ELDON STREET

Read 12 books by 4 September 2015.

8 of those books must be from the “lists” for your year
WK 8
level.

Read books with your year level sticker.
 Amber Lennox
 Stathia Venetsanos
 Annabel Ly
WK 9
RED for Reception to Year 2,
GREEN for Years 3 to 5 and
Yellow for Years 6 and 7.

 Serena Cowell
 Jaena Ho
 Eloise Ellery-Fitch
TUNGARA AVENUE
1 hard copy of the “lists” held in the Library Resource
Centre for you to look at, but you can go to the
website at any time to check what is on the list. (To
save trees!)

The website is www.prc.sa.edu.au (printed at the top
of your Reading Record sheet – Yellow this year). The
BOOKLIST tab allows you to have access to all books
that are selected for the Premier’s Reading Challenge
– previous and current year. It organises books in
year levels and also has them organised under
themes.

This is a reading challenge, so try something
different to what you usually read and try different
authors.

Years 3 to 7 - no more than 2 books from a series (ie.
Boyz Rule!, Horrible Histories etc.) and no more than
2 books by the same author (ie. Duncan Ball, J.K.
Rowling, Andy Griffiths, Geronimo Stilton etc.)

There will be a tray on the Circulation Desk to put
your completed forms into.

Remember, it’s a challenge that’s meant to be fun at
the same time and it is never too late to complete it
for the first time or to continue again if you didn’t do it
last year. You can even continue the Reading
Challenge in High School.

Receptions will complete the Challenge as a whole
class. The teacher will record the books read.

Year 1’s and 1/2MI will have their own forms, which
will be kept in the Library Resource Centre and used
during class borrowing time.

Awards on completion are: 1st year – Certificate, 2nd
year – Bronze medal, 3rd year – Silver medal, 4th year
– Gold medal, 5th year – Champion medal, 6th year –
Legend medal, 7th year – Hall of Fame medal and 8th
year and on – Hall of Fame Reader for Life
Certificates.
WK 8
WK 9
 Vir Patel
 Adam Iuliano
 Laura Noujaim
 Samuel Noujaim
Below is the link for the CESA newsletter February edition out now
http://cesa.webtemplate.com.au/sites/3189/__newsletter/642/376f1dd89bacd37f5b2a7d1ea485f7ee/newsletter
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