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Our Lady of Fatima Palmyra is a Catholic School that aspires to provide a respectful, secure and caring learning environment where our community is committed to following the teachings of Jesus.

FROM THE PRINCIPAL Dear Parents,

Welcome back to school and the new academic year, 2018 promises to be

another busy and exciting year where we continue to refine what we do as we

cater for the needs of all the children within our community. Our overarching

goal continues to centre around providing an environment and experiences that

support the children to achieve to a level that reflects their potential.

Today, the first day of the school year for the children coincides with the feast of

Saint John Bosco, which is quite appropriate, given that he was renowned for

educating young people and his service to educating others was the main reason

for him becoming a saint. I referred to John Bosco with the children at our whole

school gathering just before recess today when we took the opportunity to

introduce the new students to everyone and recap on the school holidays.

Welcome to New Families

A very special welcome to all the new students and their families into our Fatima

community. Some of the new students mentioned below are younger siblings of

existing

students. Our new students include:

Kindy – Christian Backhouse, Harvey Beck, Jack Dawson, Solomon Gasper,

Ronan Grier, Felix Lloyd, Deanna O’Brien, Loxley Polak, Matthew Pollock,

Zara Pollock and Zara Reardon.

Pre-Primary – Veronica Parish

Year 1 – Laila Beck

Year 2 – April Carbonaro

Year 3 – Reuben Grier

Year 4 – Joshua Brady, Erin Grier

Year 5 – Noah Kenworthy

Family Details Form

We will be sending home a hard copy of the “Family Details Form” very soon

and ask that that families make any necessary changes to the form and return to

school by Friday 9th February so that we can update your family details on our

system to ensure they are correct.

Family Name Cards

If any families would like a “Family Name Card” for the pick up process at Drive

Through in the carpark, please let Tracy know and we can arrange that as soon as

possible.

Medication/Immunization

A reminder to any parents who need their child/children to have medication

administered at school e.g. antibiotics, please come into the office to complete

the appropriate form. We also ask parents of children who have allergies, asthma

etc, to make sure their medication and/or action plan is up to date. Our school

nurse requests that the action plan is no more than 12 months old. Thank you for

your cooperation with this.

SCHOOL DATES FOR 2018

TERM 1

STUDENTS START

WEDNESDAY 31ST JANUARY

STUDENTS FINISH

THURSDAY 12TH APRIL

PUPIL FREE DAYS FRIDAY 13TH APRIL

P: 9333 7900 F: 9339 4951 E : office@olof.wa.edu.au

www.olof.wa.edu.au

From the Principal—(Continued) Before and After School Supervision

After school, if children are not greeted by parents outside their classroom at the end of the day, we will be asking the

children to go down under the library, to the Drive Through area where teacher supervision will be. Towards the end

of last year, we had a growing number of children hovering on the grassed area and playground equipment at the front

of the school waiting for their parents. Unfortunately, there is no supervision for the children there after school and we

would be compromising their safety to allow this to happen. So parents, if you do not greet your child outside the

classroom at the end of the school day, we ask you to pick them up from under the library, the Drive Through area,

(unless your child is riding home) where teacher supervision will be. Staff will be out on duty under the library until

3:20pm. Thank you for your assistance to ensure the safety of the children in our community.

New Programmes at OLOF

As we continue to refine and further develop the learning opportunities for the children at our school, we will be

introducing some new programmes from the start of 2018. These programmes will be outlined at the Parent

Information Evening which will take place on Tuesday 13th February. Please put this date in your calendar which is a

really important date for parents in our community as we launch into a new school year.

Parent Information Evening

The Parent Information Evening on Tuesday 13th February will provide an opportunity for parents to develop a deeper

understanding of the classroom programmes being offered by the teachers and also some information from a whole

school perspective as we launch into the 2018 school year. We have configured the evening into 3 sessions as we

attempt to accommodate as many families as possible with the configuration of the session. Some families may need

to split themselves 2 ways, to attend both sessions (particularly parents who have children in Years 1 and 4), but we

did try to accommodate as many as possible.

The meeting times are:

6pm – 6:45pm Classroom Meetings for PP, Year 3, Year 5 and Year 6 (in the respective classrooms)

6:45pm – 7:30pm Whole School gather ing (in the Hall)

7:30pm – 8:15pm Classroom Meetings for Year 1, Year 2 and Year 4 (in the respective classrooms)

We hope to see you there.

P&F: First Meeting

I have just confirmed our first meeting date for 2018, Wednesday 21st February at 7:30pm in the staffroom. Please put

that date in your diary, and we hope to see you there.

Best wishes for the coming fortnight.

Paul Hansen

PRINCIPAL

JANUARY

1st Zara Reardon

8th Amelia Taylor

9th Zavijer Mrkaljevic

11th London Polak

12th Lotte Ross

12th Quentin Bacich

14th Ellie Williams

14th Kendal Williams

16th Cohen Ducat

17th Lily Smith

17th James Backhouse

18th Eleanor Davison

JANUARY

20th Luisa Parish

21st Lily Duckworth

22nd Evie Mann

23rd Erin Wheeler

24th Olivia McNally

27th Hudson Spindler

28th Sebastian Rodriguez Rios

30th Elsie Casey

30th Lucy Grubb

20th Lila Tabor

30th Dylan Clay

PARISH NEWS

PARISH WEEKEND MASS TIMES

Saturday Vigil - 6.30 pm

Sunday - 7.30am, 9.45am, 6.30pm

KEYED UP MUSIC

Keyed Up Music will be teaching group music lessons

during school. Keyboard lessons on Tuesday, Wednesday

and Friday. Guitar Lessons are on Wednesday and Thursday.

Lesson pricing start from $16.95. To enrol your child please

go to www.keyedupmusic.com.au/enrolment-form if you

require more information please contact Therese on 1300

366 243 or email us enquiry@keyedupmusic.com.au

THANK YOU

“ St Vincent de Paul would like to thank the children of our school and their parents and

families for their support of the Palmyra/East Fremantle conference of Vinnies with the

Christmas Hampers this Christmas. In all 25 substantial hampers were made up and

distributed to the needy in Palmyra and East Fremantle. A great deal of the contents of the

hampers came from your generous donations. The joy on the faces of the recipients when we

delivered them was a pleasure to see. Doing things like this makes helping the community

through organisations such as Vinnies such a pleasure and privilege.

Thank you for helping us to help others!”

David Oliver

SEASON 2018 OPEN DAY

3PM—5PM SUNDAY 25TH February

Stock Road Oval

Free sausage sizzle for all the players

All registration online now

http://www.palmyrajfc.com.au/registration/

SCHOOL BANKING

Tuesday mornings. Students or parents can drop their bank books into the office

on/or by Monday for banking Tuesday morning and they will be sent back to class

after Tuesday morning banking.

Thank you

Maria and Emma

TERM 1 - 2018

Our Lady of Fatima, Palmyra

WEEK MON TUES WED THURS FRI SAT /SUN

Week 1

Jan/Feb

29 30 31

Students Start

1 2 3/4

Week 2

Feb

5 6

Pre-Primary OT

Screening

7 8

Opening Mass

Year 5

9

10/11

Week 3

Feb

12

13

Pre-Primary OT

Screening

Parent Information

Evening

14

Ash Wednesday

Mass

15 16

P & F Walk to

School

17/18

Week 4

Feb

19

20 Swimming Training

7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-

ter Polo

21

P & F Meeting at

7.30pm

22 23 Swimming Training

7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-

ter Polo Commonwealth Bank Talk at Assembly

Year 6 Assembly

24/25

Week 5

Feb/

March

26 27 Swimming Training

7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-

ter Polo

28

Year 4 Day at Seton

1 2 Swimming Training

7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-

ter Polo

3/4

Week 6

March

5

Labour Day

6 Swimming Training

7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-

ter Polo OT Screening in

Pre-Primary

7 ASCS Cricket

Tompkins Park Yr 6

TBC

8 9 OLOF Swimming

Trials, Melville Leai-

sure: 12.15-3.00pm P & F Welcome back

function

Year 1 Assembly

10/11

Commitment

Masses for

Sacraments

Week 7

March

12 13 Swimming Training 7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-

ter Polo

14 15 16 OLOF Swimming

Carnival, Melville

Leisure: 9.00-12.00

17

St Patrick’s

Day

18

Week 8

March

19

20 Swimming Training

7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-

ter Polo MJR Session

21 Harmony Day 22

Confirmation

Parent-Child

Meeting at

6.30pm in

Hall

23 Swimming Training 7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-

ter Polo TBC

Year 3 Assembly

24/25

Palm Sunday

Week 9

March/

April

26

Holy Week

begins

27 Swimming Training

7.30-8.10 Melville Wa-

ter Polo

28 29

Holy

Thursday

30

Good Friday

31

Easter

Saturday

1 Easter

Sunday

Week 10

April

2

Easter

Monday

3

Easter Tuesday

4 5 Opti-Minds

Programme Yrs 5 & 6 9am – 12pm

6 ASCS Interschool

Swimming Carnival Fremantle Leisure 9.20-12.00

7/8

Week 11

April

9 10 11 12 13 Regional PD Day

14/15