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NEWSLETTER no.12 Wednesday 3rd August 2016 WEEK 4, TERM 3

St Andrew’s Parish

CORPUS CHRISTI PRIMARY SCHOOL

29 RUSSELL STREET, WERRIBEE VIC. 3030

Telephone: (03) 9741 8440 – Facsimile: (03) 9741 8038

www.ccwerribee.catholic.edu.au

Dear Parents / Carers,

OUR PREPS CELEBRATED 100 DAYS OF SCHOOL! CONGRATULATIONS!

SACRAMENT of Eucharist - GRADE 4 STUDENTS Our Grade 4 students will be celebrating the Sacrament of First Eucharist at 1:00pm and 3:00pm on Sunday 14th August at St Andrew’s Church. A First Eucharist Preparation Session for all Candidates and their parents was held on Tuesday 26th July. Mrs Adamko facilitated a very informative and engaging evening along with the Middle Unit teachers. We wish to thank all First Eucharist candidates and parents for attending this very important meeting. I ask that you keep our Grade 4 students and their families in your prayers as they prepare for the reception of this very special sacrament. LEARNING COMMUNITY GROUPINGS 2017

Staff will be considering Learning Community groupings for 2017 during Terms 3 and 4. Your child’s teacher and all the teachers in your child’s level consult frequently about each individual child’s development, academically, socially, emotionally, spiritually and physically. When placing your child into a new learning community, your child’s Learning Community Home Group teachers are the best people to place your child in a group that enhances your child’s learning.

Teachers know the children that work well together and those that may do better when placed apart. Teachers know the children who may need a special ‘friend’ in their learning community group. Teachers know students’ friendship groups. Parents can be invaluable supporters of teachers by ensuring as much information is shared with teachers as possible.

It is vital that any information about your child that you feel is important for teachers to know is communicated directly to your child’s teacher. This culmination of knowledge will be used to place your child in a Home Group for 2017. WEEKEND MAINTENANCE ROSTER

Weekend Maintenance is a feature of Corpus Christi School. All families make a commitment upon enrolment at Corpus Christi to be a part of this important program, which involves families working at school one weekend per year to maintain the beautiful grounds and facilities available to all in our community.

Thank you to all families who have made the time and effort to honour their commitment to this program so far this year. Your work is certainly noticed and makes a huge difference to our school. Well done!

We ask that all families attend on their allocated weekend, however, we do realise that family events may make it difficult to attend on occasion, so we ask that you contact, Mr Brett Walsh on mobile 0422 008 056 to arrange another suitable weekend.

Your ongoing support and commitment to this program is truly appreciated! Thank you!

Kind regards, Linda

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VISITORS TO SCHOOL We seek to provide an open and friendly learning environment which values and actively encourages visitors to our school. At the same time we recognise our duty of care to ensure a safe environment for our students and staff, and we recognise our responsibility to protect and preserve our resources. Visitors to our school includes all people other than staff members and students, with the exception of parents / guardians dropping off students before classes have commenced at 8:45am or collecting students at end of day dismissal, after the 3:05pm bell.

Visitors are asked to report to the School Office to speak with office staff,

sign in and collect a visitor pass / red lanyard to wear.

When leaving the school grounds please leave via the office, sign out and return your visitor pass.

For parents / guardians who are picking up children early please report to the School Office to speak with office staff who will issue you with an early leave pass to collect your child/ren from the Learning Commu-nity. We thank you and appreciate your continued support.

REMINDER - 2016 SCHOOL FEE PAYMENTS

Thank you to the many families who have paid their curriculum and family school fees.

In full (payment option 3) and final instalment payments

were due on Monday 11th July

Statements have been sent home this week. If you wish to make arrangements for a payment plan or

wish to discuss your account please do not hesitate to contact Jenni or Linda to discuss.

Mrs Jenni Warren, School Secretary

PRAYER AND REFLECTION - EUCHARIST

Throughout the Gospels, it seems that many significant events and important teachings are set within the context of a meal. And so it is appropriate that our own most significant encounter with Jesus takes place in a meal setting as well — in the Eucharist. A look at the role that meals played in Jesus' life helps us recognize the significance of the Eucharistic meal for us today.

Reflecting on these stories in the Gospels helps us name some key themes that are to be present in our celebration of

Eucharist: the invitation to share in the life of Jesus through the Eucharist is open to us. The invitation requires a

response from us—not simply showing up but living lives that place our relationship with Jesus at the centre. Through the

Eucharistic meal, we are united in Jesus' death and Resurrection and sent to proclaim the reality of God's love for all

people in word and action.

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EDUCATION IN FAITH

We pray for our students who will celebrate the

Sacrament of First Eucharist this month.

FIRST EUCHARIST The Sacrament of First Communion (Eucharist) will be celebrated by our Grade 4 students on August 14th at 1:00pm or 3:00pm. First Eucharist students will again celebrate the Sacrament of Reconciliation by attending either the 9:30am or 5:00pm Saturday 6th August or Saturday 13th celebration of this sacrament at St Andrew’s Church. This forms part of their First Eucharist preparation. Children will receive a card to take on the day for Father to sign and to return to school after they have celebrated Reconciliation

MIDDLE UNIT MASS will be celebrated on Thursday 18th August at 9:00am here at school. Our Middle unit families are warmly invited to be part of this liturgy which will in the Multi-Function Room. This will be just after the Grade 4 children will have celebrated their First Communion, so they will be able to receive Jesus through the bread and wine again on that day.

THANKYOU TO OUR JUNIOR Families who attended our Junior Faith Evening last night and Monday evening. We explored our images of God, created a prayer journal and also shared in a small prayer session.

OUR NEXT WHOLE SCHOOL LITURGY is the Feast of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop

Australia’s first Saint on this Friday the 5th August just before Assembly. Please come if you can. For the

morning session we will be at MacKillop College enjoying the special amusements they have kindly offered

us.

Thank you for your support.

Mrs Viv Adamko, Religious Education Leader

Felicity Buck

Antonio Conte

Lauren Firth

Alosh Kizhaumtala

Charlie Lemmer

Dante Marino

Jesse-James McMahon

Joshua Pacifici

Makenzie Porter

Zavier Portogallo

Tristen Rodriguez

Harry Rowbottom

Georgia Santamaria

Milan Sgro

Micaela Trovarelli

Mason Ardonetto

Madeline Berton

Allanah Carey

Alexia Carraro

Kalan Dart

Joshua Fenollar

Shauniya Kingsleypillai

Tae Lemmer

Chloe Nikolovski

Anika Pipino

James Talbot

Zenna Tobin

Noah Tulio

Jordyn Riley

Taylor Bond

Mia Burke

Adam Limina

Ashley Panhorst

Lucas Parker

Veronica Paterson

Emma Phillips

Marlo Phipps

Rhianna Ware

Amy Roberts

Jet Stolica

Chloe Zayneh

Kurt Brown

Aldo Cannizzaro

Obie Miller

Mia Monte

Amanda Morabito

Orlando Nguyen

Mitchell Riley

Lochlan White

Alexis Milone

Ben Pennisi

Kiara Sesto

Lachlan Sesto

Eddison Simango

Grace Ardizzon

Sara Awi

Sarah Ballan

Bridget Forbes

Ryan Fraser

Christopher Jerbic

Samuel Klyscz

Skylar Mair

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Learning and Teaching 2016

WRITING COMPETITION

As mentioned in our last newsletter I am encouraging children to enter our writing competition to celebrate Corpus Christi Book Week during November. The competition will finish at the end of this term and is open to any student at Corpus Christi. Winners will be announced at our Book Week Parade in Term 4 .

You will see posters on display around the school and on page 8 of this newsletter but if you have any questions about the competition ask your child’s teacher or myself. Winning entries will be processed as a real book in our Library and will be placed in a special rack for borrowing by students.

Mrs Peta Cesarec, Learning and Teaching Leader


PREP UNIT

You may have noticed last Friday in the Prep commu-nity there were a lot of people with grey hair. This is because the Prep children celebrated their 100th day of school! We dressed up as a 100 year old person and did a variety of different activities relating to the number 100. A special thank you to all the parents who worked hard at getting the great costumes together and ready for the day. The Preps have been counting from term one and have been eagerly waiting for this celebration. Congratulations Preps on your first 100 days of school! In Literacy, we will be exploring information texts about animals and gathering information about what animals need, what animals have (features), what animals are (mammals etc) and where animals live. In Numeracy, we will be exploring the concept of doubles and we will continue to explore the language behind addition (e.g. plus, makes and equals). St Mary MacKillop will be the continued focus of Religion. We will be learning about the Josephite symbol Mary MacKillop wore and where we can find this symbol in our school. The Preps will also complete a self-portrait of Mary MacKillop.

Yours in partnership, The prep team - Bernie Wall and

Laura Sgro

JUNIOR UNIT

We hope our Junior families enjoyed our Faith Evenings. This is a special time for the students and their families to connect, reflect and pray together. As students don’t cele-brate sacraments until the middle years, this is the Junior’s special way of celebrating their faith.

In Art, students are beginning to create a diorama of a habitat for their chosen animal. Students are focusing on different techniques to make their dioramas looks as effective and realistic as possible. This will be apart of their final product for their Inquiry topic this term. Please ensure your child has a small cardboard box to make their diorama from which can be passed on to home group teachers.

Olympics fever will hit Junior Learning Community next week. Without revealing too much, we have many exciting things planned.

Regards, Miss Jessica Padula,

Junior Unit Leader

SENIOR UNIT “The play ‘Return of the Bully’ showed us how to defend our-selves and stand up to a bully. The most important message was that you can’t stop a bully by being a bully! Fighting back by being physical never works. The best things the actor Poppy did was share her story with an adult the Sensei and not argue or react to the bully.”

Cori, Amelia, Renee, Ruby and Chloe (Senior Ware)

On our excursion to the Mary MacKillop Heritage Centre, students explored how the legacy of Mary MacKillop and others that have worked to build the Catholic Church/ our faith was present in our Capital City. We visited St Mary of the Cross Square at ACU, her birth place and investigat-ed lots about the Sisters of St Joseph (Josephites) and their work in Australia and around the world. Ask your child to explain the Josephite Cross?

During the next coming weeks, we will begin workshops on fractions and decimals, explore various forms of poetry and be immersed in the world celebration (culture, history, geography, maths) of the ‘Olympic Games’ including a Corpus Christi Closing Ceremony.

Don’t forget the Personal Inquiry assignments will be showcased within our Senior Community as an Expo to the Corpus Christi Community on Thursday 4th August from 2:15pm to 4:00pm.

Regards, Leanne Spence, Senior Unit Leader

MIDDLE UNIT Over the next coming weeks during Reading workshops and writing, the Middle Community will analyse a range of information texts on other countries and cultures as students depth their knowledge and learning on a chosen country or culturally specific area. Their understandings will be built on further as we learn about other culture's activities when we visit CERES, next Tuesday. In Numeracy, students will link their learning about Mass to Volume and Capacity, using hands on materials. Students continue to understand how they can be the body of Christ in their world, as they come to understand the history of Eucharist, The Last Supper and what Eucharist in their life looks like. Also, a reminder that there are a few special and important dates to put on the calendar as part of our Middle community. Thurs 4th Aug - Eucharist families have a First Eucharist Family meeting at St. Andrew’s Church at 6:45pm with Father Frank and their Middle Unit teachers. Fri 5th Aug - Jeans for Genes Day and MacKil-lop's Feast Day Celebration Tues 9th Aug - Middle Unit Excursion to CERES Sun 14th Aug - is our First Eucharist celebrations at 1pm & 3pm.

Regards, Ms Kim Gleeson, Middle Unit Leader


DIGITAL REPUTATION

All internet users have a digital or online reputation, no matter what their age. This reputation is the opinion or view that others have about the user, based on what they say and do online.

For their privacy and safety, it’s important for your children and all young people to be aware of where and how their personal information is available on the internet, who can access it, what others are doing with their information and the impression they are leaving for others to find.

For more information go to: https://www.esafety.gov.au/education-resources/iparent/staying-safe/digital-reputation

Mrs Anne Walton, Information, Communication & Technology Leader

After participating in two introductory sessions last term our Children were eager to attend our first Corpus Clubs session for this term. It's not too late to come along and join the fun! All welcome!

Corpus Clubs will run every second Friday: 12:00noon to 1:30pm

Week 5: 12th August

Week 7: 26th August

Week 9: 8th September

Thankyou for your support, Mrs Elissa Ardizzon

THE RAISING CHILDREN NETWORK

The raising children website is an Australian parenting website which provides parents and carers with comprehensive, practical, expert child health and parenting information and activities covering children aged 0-15 years

You may have seen or heard about this website before - if you have not visited the site we strongly encourage you to do so. You can also follow the Raising Children Network on Facebook and Twitter to tap into great articles and information.

A recent post was an article relating to School Refusal - see the link below:

http://m.raisingchildren.net.au/articles/school_refusal.html

https://www.esafety.gov.au/education-resources/iparent/staying-safe/digital-reputation

https://www.esafety.gov.au/education-resources/iparent/staying-safe/digital-reputation

http://m.raisingchildren.net.au/articles/school_refusal.html


Mrs Elissa Ardizzon, Wellbeing Leader


CDF STUDENT BANKING

Banking is done every Friday please send bank deposit books in to school office on Thursdays via Home Group Note box. Thank you.

STAFF PROFILE Michelle Redman, Middle Unit Teacher

Birth place: East Melbourne

Favourite food: Potatoes and Potatoes

Favourite place: Anywhere I can throw my rod in

Favourite book: The Notebook and anything by Nicholas Sparks

Something you recall from your primary schooling: I loved school camps in primary school, in

secondary school and as a teacher. I have been on camp 15 times.

Something you like doing when you are not at school: I love fishing, reading, being with my

family and watching zombie movies.


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2016 SCHOOL CALENDAR & IMPORTANT DATES

Term 3

Thursday 4th August Tuning Into Kids - Emotionally Intelligent Parenting - 2nd Session, 9:30am to 11:30am

Eucharist Families meet with Fr Frank at St Andrews Church 6:45pm

Friday 5th August Feast of Mary MacKillop Celebration Day at MacKillop College and Jeans for Genes Day!

Students may wear jeans to school for a gold coin donation!

Note to Parents - This year we encourage students to wear runners with jeans as this would be more suited to

participating in the activities and rides at MacKillop College.

Feast of Mary MacKillop Liturgy then Whole School Assembly 2:05pm in MFR all welcome!

Friday 5th August P & F Corpus Christi Trivia Night - Please note this event has CANCELLED

Saturday 6th August Note to Parents of Children preparing for First Eucharist - Reconciliation at St Andrew’s Church, 9:30am or 5:00pm - remember to take your card for Father to sign.

Thursday 11th August Reflection Day for Eucharist Students at Penola Hub

Tuning Into Kids - Emotionally Intelligent Parenting - 3rd Session, 9:30am to 11:30am

Saturday 13th August Bunnings BBQ - P & F Fundraiser 8am to 4pm See you at Bunnings Hoppers Crossing!!

Note to Parents of Children preparing for First Eucharist - Reconciliation at St Andrew’s Church, 9:30am or 5:00pm - remember to take your card for Father to sign.

Sunday 14th August First Eucharist Masses 1:00pm and 3:00pm St Andrew ’s Church

Wednesday 17th August P & F Meeting 7:00pm in Staffroom

Thursday 18th August Middle Unit Mass 9:00am in MFR

Tuning Into Kids - Emotionally Intelligent Parenting - 4th Session, 9:30am to 11:30am

Friday 19th August Whole School Assembly 2:05pm

Monday 25th August Tuning Into Kids - Emotionally Intelligent Parenting - 5th Session, 9:30am to 11:30am

Wednesday 31st August P & F Father’s Day Stall

Thursday 1st September Grade 2 Overnight Stay

Tuning Into Kids - Emotionally Intelligent Parenting - 6th Session, 9:30am to 11:30am

Friday 2nd September Father’s Day Reflection in MFR - time to be confirmed

Sunday 4th September Father’s Day

Tuesday 6th September School Board Meeting 7pm in Staffroom

Thursday 8th September CC Annual ARTS SHOW

Friday 9th September Footy Colours Day & P & F Subway Lunch Day

Wednesday 14th September Cuppa with the Principal at 8:45am in the MFR

P & F Meeting in the Staffroom at 7pm

Thursday 15th September Middle Unit Mass 9:00am in MFR

Whole School Assembly 2:05pm

Friday 16th September Students Dismissed at 1:00pm for Term 3 Holidays

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