Dear Parents, Carers and Students, October 24, 2019 World Teachers’ Day is celebrated in Australia tomorrow - Friday 25 October.

The day is an opportunity to acknowledge and thank teachers for their

significant contribution to the classroom and to the school community.

All of you would agree that our teachers do outstanding work at Our Lady’s,

and on behalf of our school community I thank them for everything that they

do. When I talk about teachers in our school I am talking about all staff who

assist, listen to and teach our children. To our staff in the Office to our staff in

the classrooms and everywhere in between, our school is blessed to have such

dedicated people who want to be the best for our community. So, just like the

children when they want to be special for a day- teachers are allowed to have

a ‘casual clothes day’ tomorrow. Plus they’ll get a badge to make them feel special !

A school's vision articulates to the whole school community its values

and desired future achievements. It aims to gain support for the

school's core educational values, goals and improvement plan. As a

Catholic School, the teachings of Jesus Christ, as presented in the

gospels, are central to our vision, mission and values. Next Monday

under the guidance of Paul Spence, we are revisiting our School Vision Statement with the intention

of ensuring our vision is in keeping with our school going forward. Paul is working with groups of parents,

students and staff to ensure everyone has a voice in our new vision. Many of our families have worked with

Paul during our sacramental programs. Special thanks to our parents who accepted an invitation to be our

parent voice for the new Vision

Birthday wishes to all the children who celebrate their birthday: Davy 4C, Alexander Rozine 4E,

Youliuss Prep K, Melano Prep D, Jayden 2H, Ava Prep C, Meera 3A, Oliver Prep C, Melak 1T,

Thomas Prep H, Mariska Prep C, Tiffany 1S, Hanna 1P, Manuel 4C, Ramina 3A, Harnaaz 4M.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ALL!

Not Returning in 2020? If you know that you will be leaving Our Lady’s at the end of the year can you

please email/write to the school indicating your intentions asap. Thank you for your cooperation on this

matter. (year 6 students please disregard this request)

Christmas Carols evening is scheduled for Thursday 5th December. In

preparation for the evening a costume list is available via COMPASS for all grade

levels.

Not Returning in 2020: If you know that you will be leaving Our Lady’s at the end

of the year can you please email/write to the school indicating your intentions

asap. Thank you for your cooperation on this matter. (year 6 students please

disregard this request)

Premiers Reading Challenge: During our Friday afternoon assembly (2.40pm) Ros Spence, our local

Member of Parliament, will be here to present our class winners their certificate and award/book for this

year’s VPRC. Thank you to Mrs Ryan who has organised the visit from Ros to present these awards.

Enjoy some warm weather

Paul McEntee Principal

From the swimming deck again this week……….

Year 2 Swimming

We are looking for a baby booster seatbaby booster seatbaby booster seatbaby booster seat. . . . If you have

one, no longer in use that you may like to donatedonatedonatedonate, (it needs to be in good condition, functional, cleangood condition, functional, cleangood condition, functional, cleangood condition, functional, clean and

compliant with Australian StandardsAustralian StandardsAustralian StandardsAustralian Standards) We also need a pram……….

Please speak to Julie at the office and let her know what you have. Thank you in advance.

Thursday 31st October Year 1 Melbourne Zoo Excursion

Sunday 27th October Family Portrait Fundraiser

Friday 1st November Whole School Sports Day

Monday 4th November Student Free Day – Teacher’s Report Writing Day

Tuesday 5th November Melbourne Cup Public Holiday

Wednesday 6th November No School Uniform Sales Today

Thursday 7th November School Uniform Sales @ 2:30pm

Wednesday 20th November No School Uniform Sales Today

Thursday 21st November School Uniform Sales @ 2:30pm

Friday 8th November Year 6 Mini Fete

Wednesday 13th November Year 5 Camp

Thursday 21st November Dental Van Visit

Friday 22nd November Student Free Day – Staff Development

Thursday 5th December Christmas Carols

Wednesday 11th December 2020 Meet the Teacher Day

Tuesday 17th December End of Year School Mass 9:15am – All Welcome

Tuesday 17th December Final Day of Term 4 – 3:30pm Finish

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Student Wellbeing @ Our Lady’s …Providing a safe and supportive learning environment

GRINNERS ARE WINNERS

Congratulations to the following class for

consistently being safe, responsible and

respectful in class.

Lots of classes with excellent scores this week.

The winning classes are:

3A 6C 6C PLAYGROUND AWARDS

Children who were caught being SAFE, RESPONSIBLE or RESPECTFUL will

receive a token. Well done and continue to ‘do the little things right’.

Congratulations to the following winners:

Safe: Joshua 6C

Responsible: Violet 3A

Respectful: Charlize 3A

HUME CITY COUNCIL WALK TO SCHOOL FOOTPATH DECAL COLOURING COMPETITION

Our Year preps to Year 2 children have participated in this colouring competition.

Our school captains had the difficult task of choosing the finalists to be entered into the competition. The

following children were short-listed from our school:

Strainika Gogikar 1P

Mia Giblin 1P

Aliya Lay 1C

Catherine Romero 2A

Jesse Giblin 2M

Olivia Micallef 2H

If one of our students win, their submitted artwork will be installed as a footpath decal along our safe

walking route to/from school. Good luck to these children!

HUME CITY COUNCIL WALK TO SCHOOL SIGNAGE DESIGN COMPETITION

Our Year 3- 6 entered children had an opportunity to design a poster illustrating an active travel slogan –

promote the benefits of walking, riding and/or scooting to and from school. The short-listed work came

from the following children:

Isabel Abraham 3A

Veronika Beato 5F

Thabile Kapeka 6S

Alicia Curcio 6S

If one of our students win, their submitted artwork will be installed as a footpath decal along our safe

walking route to/from school. Good luck to these children!

Many of our families are doing a great job of encouraging their children to walk from safe places near our school and developing

positive habits around walking and keeping fit and active. Congratulations to all who are actively participating. Keep up the

great work!

Here is the map showing the safe places to park and safe walking routes

School Uniform Sales – changes to regular selling times: There will be no selling on Wednesday 6th November & Wednesday 20th

November, instead Northern Regional will be here on Thursday 21st November & Thursday 7th November @ 2:30pm.

Northern Metropolitan Region Athletics Championships

On Wednesday the 16th of October, seven students proudly competed at the Northern Metropolitan Region Athletics Championships at Meadowglen Athletics Track in Epping. The students came away with some incredible results and should be extremely happy with their efforts. Some of the students they came up against would be trying out for State and National Athletics selection, so just getting to this level is a great achievement and a

fantastic experience for all. Well Done……………….Mr Whitty

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION NEWS Masses in Term 4: ALL WELCOME!

Week 3 Friday 25th October (Year 3 & 4)

Week 6 Friday 15th November (Prep, 1 & 2)

Gospel Reflection and Challenge Luke 18: 9–14

The publican returned to his home justified; the Pharisee did not.

Some people like just salt on their food and other people like only pepper. Like black and white,

salt and pepper seem to be opposites. But some people like them both and use them together, as

complements to each other’s flavour. The proud Pharisee and the humble sinner seem to be

opposites, but they can also be seen as complements as well.

The proud Pharisee was able to understand the good things about himself. This gave him

confidence to pray in thanksgiving for his blessings.

It’s good to be thankful for blessings, but Jesus would probably say the proud Pharisee took it a

bit too far. Why do you think so?

The humble sinner was able to understand the flaws in himself. But still he had the confidence

to pray for forgiveness and mercy. It’s good to be aware of all your flaws, but a person could

take this a bit too far as well.

Challenge:

Have a healthy pride in your talents, as well as a healthy humility in your place

on earth as a servant of God.

Celebrating the Extraordinary Month of Mission

Jesus is at the heart of all evangelising and missionary

activity. It is from Jesus that we draw our strength and

inspiration. It is to Jesus that we bring our hopes for

ourselves, the church and the world, and it is with Jesus

that we walk from the darkness of the tomb into the light

of the world. We are called to be the light, to be people of

mercy, to spread the Good News.

This Extraordinary Missionary Month offers us an

opportunity to renew our efforts to grow in discipleship with the Lord. So let us accept this

gracious invitation for the month of October. Let us fix our eyes on Jesus and renew our

personal relationship with him. Let us draw upon our ancestors in faith and join our footsteps

with theirs as we go out to all the world to proclaim the Good News: ’Throughout the world,

let us be “permanently in a state of mission”’ (Pope Francis, Evangelii Gaudium, §25). In describing the Church on mission, Pope Francis says “we view the world with God’s own eyes

and heart”.

Year 6’s Composing their Graduation song with Genevieve Bryant!

LEARNING FOR LIFE DAY Not all children get an equal start in life. 1 in 6 Australian children live in poverty. Many

children fall behind in learning because of this. The Smith Family is an organisation that

helps these children. One of the main ways they do this is through learning programs. One of

their main programs is called ‘Learning for Life’.

To help these children in need the Social Justice Leaders are organising a ‘Learning for Life’

day on Tuesday 12th of November. On this day many of the resources that we take for

granted will be taken away from us (pens, pencils, books, computers etc). To have access to

these resources will require a small amount of money. All the funds raised will go to the

Smith Family to support the Learning for Life program.

Students will be provided with 1 pencil and 1 piece of blank paper. Access to other resources

will require an additional costs. Students can choose to access as many or as little resources

as they like.

Learning for Life Day access costs

Pens, pencils, rubber, sharpener etc 20 cents each

Books 50 cents

Laptops, computers, iPads 1 dollar