St Francis Newsletter July term 3

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Congratulaons to the rst communion candidates, the Challenge Cup teams, the instrumental

childrenwhat a vibrant group of children at all of these events, I thoroughly enjoyed them all.

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Friday 19th - Year 1

Assembley

Saturday 20th - Anquitea

Monday 22nd Friday

26th Catholic Educaon

Week

Tuesday 13 August - Next

P&F Meeting

Friday 23 August - Book Week

Parade

Sunday 20 October - Market

Day
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From Merediths APREs desk:

Yours in Christ.. Meredith Grove

From Nanettes APC desk:

Catholic Educaon Week will be celebrated across Queensland

next week from July 2127. This year the theme is Making A

Dierence Inspired By Jesus.

Each day at St Francis, we are encouraged to live a life based on

the teachings of Jesus. As teachers, we are privileged to witness

this in encounters with our children. On Monday, I spoke at As-

sembly with the students about some of the dierent iconsaround our school that demonstrate our Chrisan faith. In par-

cular, I spoke about the Mt La Verna area outside our school

oce. This space is named aer Mt La Verna in Assisi where St

Francis would oen retreat to for quiet prayer. Children congre-

gate at our Mt La Verna throughout the lunch me as a quiet

place to be together. Classes also have prayer celebraons in

this space. Yr 6 students have hung their bark painngs from

NAIDOC Week at Mt La Verna and have reected on the story of

our First Australians and the challenges they face as a people

today.

There are other areas in our school that idenfy us as a Catholic

School: the crucix, San Damiano garden, the Tau Cross at Kiss

and Drop. But it is through our children and their compassion for

each other that we truly encounter Jesus. Next week is our

chance to celebrate our MJR moments where Jesus is Made Real

to us.

A highlight of Catholic Educaon Week will be the blessing of

The Hermitage (aka the Wetlands) by Fr Aliki. Please refer to the

yer in this weeks newsleer for further informaon of events

next week. You are most welcome to come and join in our cele-

braons.

There are many people in our school community who are in need

of our prayers at the moment and we

extend our compassion and blessings

to them.

May God who created you from loveand for loveheal and bless you embracing you in the tenderest ofmercies.Amen

Thank you to the wonderful response again we see with

parental involvement at school in so many ways:

Organising events such as our upcoming

Anquitea;

Daily support in classrooms with helping teachers reading

one on one with children etc;

Assisng with Tuckshop; Our wonderful P & F; Our grantscommiee who work hand in hand with the P & F gaining

money through various acvies used to buy incredible re-

sources for our children;

Helping at weekend events such as the celebraon for Holy

Communion;

Creang costumes and props for our whole school musical

Quest ; And parcipang in so many other ways to support

children at school. Our school would not be the same with-

out your contribuons.

Partnerships between home and school is a factor high in

the list of what makes a dierence posively with children'slearning at school.

Oen as I am in various places in the school environment I

see these wonderful quiet achievers and I wish to pass on in

some small way recognion for the invaluable support you

give.

Again , thank you.

Nanee

CHILDREN AT SCHOOL OUTSIDE

STAFF SUPERVISION TIMESSt Francis Sta place the safety and supervision of our

children as the top priority in our professional care.For a variety of reasons children are oen le at school

aer the 3.00pm pick-up me. This should never be a

connuing pracce as there is Duty of Care Supervi-

sion responsibilies the school needs to maintain with

children on-site. If child/children are to be picked up

late or dropped early, a courtesy phone call should be

made to the Oce on each daily occurrence.

Concern from Sta over supervision of children when

parents are at school, parcularly aer school, also

exists. Children should not be le to play unsupervised

on playground equipment or in the under-cover area

for example. The Under-cover area is not an area for

supervision by the Kiss & Drop Teacher aer school.

Their role is to safely place children into cars and bus-

es.

Thank you for your support.

Sta of St Francis


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Yours in Sport.. Corinne Wright

P&F News

Acve Aer School Sports for Term 3 (weeks 3-9) are:

Mondayvolleyball for grades 4-7; - in week 3 will be Wednesday

Monday basketball grades 1-3.

Please register your name with a signature in your diary from par-

ents. Your teacher will pass this on to the coaches Miss Greensill and

Mrs Whalley. Tommo may be back for hockey of a Tuesday aer-

noon and there may also be some netball on then too with Mrs.

Humberstone in the coming weeks, we will adverse soon. Dear Parents & Friends of St Francis

Best of Luck Anquitea Com-

mieeWe wanted to take this opportunity

to thank our Anquitea Commieefor their amazing eorts so far in or-

ganising what promises to be a fan-

tasc event for all this Saturday, July

20. We wish the commiee all the

very best for the day and hope the

Mums and Friends of St Francis en-

joy the fruits of their hard work.

Just a reminder our next meeng

will be Tuesday, 13 August @

7.30pm in the school sta room, we

welcome all parents and friends to

come along and parcipate.

Looking forward to hearing from

you soon . Nicole, Carmel,

Michelle, Zena & Jackie

The sta will walk in the Relay

for Lifethanks for donang to

the free dress day cause for

this. If you wish to help further

here is the link to our team.

hp://

qld.cancercouncilfundraising.or

g.au/personalPage.aspx?

registraonID=619734


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Tuckshop TalkNews from the Snack Shack

Dear Parents and Students

Thank you to the volunteers that are helping in the tuckshop this week and

lso to the parents of grade 2R that are helping the in tuckshop next week.

A reminder to the parents of grade 2S that your tuckshop turn is in week 4

nd the class roster response is due back this Friday 19 July 2013.

mportant Notices:

Please note that in week 5 the tuckshop will be closed on Tuesday

06/08/2013) because of the sausage sizzle fundraiser for the year 7 camp.

Tuckshop will also be closed on Wednesday 07/08/2013

ecause of the Gladstone show holiday. The tuckshop will be open on

Thursday 08/08/2013 and on Friday 09/08/2013.

The Tuckshop is now open on a Wednesday as well, but only for

nline orders and over the counter sales. Please note that no writtenrown paper bags will be accepted.

Tuckshop online ordering system: Go to www.flexischools.com.au and

lick on Register Now. Enter your e-mail address and follow the prompts.

Please note that the cut-of time for online orders are 08:10 am each Tues-

ay, Wednesday and Thursday.

Thank you so much to the families who are already using

exischools. It makes life so much easier.

Please remember to order your sushi order on a Wednesday before

2:00. Sushi can only be ordered online via Flexischools.

The slush puppie machine is out of order. I will let you know via this

ewsletter and also the notice board in front of the tuckshop when it

s working again.

Please contact me if you have questions or queries and also if you want to

olunteer in the tuckshop.

Elize Bazuin

E-Mail: [email protected]

Mobile: 0412135718

WEEK TUESDAY VOLUNTEERS THURSDAY VOLUNTEERS

02 16/07/2013

1W

C Backman

S Robins

18/07/2013 L Anthony

C Jaffray

03 23/07/2013

2S

C BackmanD Shaw

D Norman

25/07/2013

2S

R PenhaligonD Shaw

M Saayman

D Norman

04 30/07/2013 Parents/

Guardians of

grade 2S

01/08/2013 Parents/

Guardians of

grade 2S

Below is a reminder to the parents/guardians which classes and the weeks

that you will be responsible for tuckshop in term 3.

WEEK CLASS

Week 0323/07/2013 and 25/07/2013 2R

Week 0430/07/2013 and 01/08/2013 2S

Week 0508/08/2013 and 09/08/2013 3B

Week 0613/08/2013 and 15/08/2013 3H

Week 0720/08/2013 and 22/08/2013 4L

Week 0827/08/2013 and 29/08/2013 4P

Week 0903/09/2013 and 05/09/2013 5G

Week 10

10/09/2013 and 11/09/2013 5WWeek 1117/09/2013 and 19/09/2013 6G

Very Important Information:

If you order via a written brown paper bag, please make sure that you

have the new limited menu . This menu was distributed in the last

week of the 2nd term. If you do not have a new menu please get a copy

from the office or the tuckshop. If you order anything that is not on

this menu, the order will be changed to an item available on the

menu with the same monetary value.

When ordering from tuckshop via a written brown paper bag please

also include the correct money for 1st break and 2nd break as this will

greatly help and reduce the time it takes to stick change on the bags.

To access the full menu you will need to register and

place your order via flexischools.

Students can still buy ice blocks, slush puppies, cold drinks and

certain snacks over the counter.


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St Francis SuperstarsAt the end of last term World Master Rhee,

also known as the Father of Tae Kwon Do in

Australia graded several St Francis Students

during a very exhausng Acon Night. All

students did extremely well and should be

very proud of their achievements.

Dads we need your help! Pleeeease!

The Anquitea need help with set up on

Friday between 9-11am and pack up Sat

6-7pm for the high tea.

Date Claimer

Book Week Parade

Friday August 23rd at 9am in the Hall.

This years theme is Read Across The

Universe so get your thinking caps on!!!!

Premiers Reading Challenge Update

St Francis participates in the annual

Premiers Reading Challenge. Students

have the opportunity to complete the

Challenge at home or at school. Please

see your class newsletter for how

each class is completing the Chal-

lenge. The challenge finishes on Sep-tember the 6th.

Thanks Sharon

Please encourage your children to be vigilant

and see staff members with any concerns at

any time regarding their safety and that oftheir peers. We are very impressed that the

student protection awareness has been so

well received and noted by the children.

This week students saw a man over the

fence, not on our grounds, seemingly watch-

ing their outside activities up in the top area

behind the red pod. The police have come to

investigate the report and will continue to

monitor the area. Children have been re-minded to report any unfamiliar people to a

staff member. As always the children will

move around the school in pairs, never alone.


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