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9 August 20189 August 2018

Docemus Award WinnersCongratulations to the following staff members who wonprestigious awards during Catholic Education Week.

Mr Lee MacMasterMr Lee MacMaster Mr David ChristopherMr David Christopher Mrs Paula LohmannMrs Paula Lohmann

Well done to Lee, David and Paula, three members of ourcommunity who are truly deserving of this award.

Catholic Education Week 2018

Week 3 was dedicated to Catholic Education Week. CatholicEducation Week is an annual event celebrating CatholicEducation in Queensland. This year the theme was Discovering

New Horizons. Our students were challenged to come up witha community event or activity that reflected the 2018 theme.Below is a summary of some, but not all of the activities thattook place.

Lunch on the Lawn

The sun shone as the St Andrew’s community enjoyed a picnic“Lunch on the Lawn” in front of All Saints’ Chapel, creating aperfect day to launch Catholic Education Week 2018.

Young Ladies Meet Mcgrath Nurses

It was a great pleasure to welcome McGrath Foundation BreastCare Nurses to the College for our annual Catholic EducationWeek - Lunch on the Lawn.

It was a chance for the Young Ladies of St Andrew's and MrsJo Lawson to hand over the care packages they have beenmaking for ladies undergoing treatment for Breast Cancer.

• Mr Lee MacMaster (Docemus Award Winner -Category: Leadership)

• Mr David Christopher (Docemus Award Winner –Category: Secondary Teacher)

• Mrs Paula Lohmann (Docemus Award Winner –Category: Primary Teacher)

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Meeting The Big Kids Of Prep

Our Prep students were the 'big kids' and played host to thekindergarten children from the Catholic Early Learning ChildcareCentre, Redlynch.

The students enjoyed a variety of activities before sitting downto a joint morning tea fruit break.

Care Packages for Rosies

Wonderful to see Year 8 students creating care packages forRosies – Friends on the Street. The students also decorated theboxes writing personal messages of hope.

Meeting of Two Cultures

Our fantastic Indigenous Liaison Officer Mrs Stephen spent anafternoon with our visiting students from Otsuma Nakano Junior& Senior High School discussing Indigenous culture.

To the delight of the students, this also included painting andbead bracelets.

Reading Buddies

Thank you to our Year 8 cohort who spent time reading tothe children from the Catholic Early Learning and Care Centreduring Catholic Education Week. The children were excited toreceive special Catholic Education Week bookmarks from theirYear 8 buddies.

Art Fundraiser

Well done to our Year 3 students who were busy fundraising forthe Cairns Hospital -Children's Ward.

The art gallery was a huge success with fabulous paintings byYear 3 on display.

Waka Waka Buddy Session

We aren't sure who had the most fun today when Year 7-2ventured up to the Year 1-1 classroom for a special CatholicEducation Week activity.

Mrs Broomhead and her class joined forces with MrsGrossmann and her students learning a dance to “This is Africa– the Waka Waka song” and made God’s Eyes.

Drum Beats

Thank you to ARC Disability Services Inc. for attending our Year2 Liturgy and treating the students to an incredible drummingperformance.

Our Year 2 students were excited to hand over the art & craftsupplies that they had been collecting for ARC.

Children’s Hospital Care Packages

Year 4 students were busy during Catholic Education Weekmaking care packages for sick children in the Cairns Hospital.

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Mrs Kym Bennett

Regis Bookmarks

Our Year 1s were kept super busy creating special CatholicEducation Week bookmarks for the residents of Regis AgedCare. We hope they like them!

Deputy Principal – Junior YearsDear Parents and Carers,

Welcome back to Term 3!

I hope you and your families took thechance for some well-earned relaxationand recreation over the recent schoolholiday break. I trust you had theopportunity to spend some quality timetogether creating memories and enjoyingeach other’s company. Time spent with

family is always time well spent. May God bless each and everyone of our wonderful families in the St Andrew’s CatholicCollege community!

We are already four weeks into a very busy Term 3, with lotsof exciting events ahead. Before we look forward to what iscoming up in Term 3, a look back at some of the events fromthe end of Term 2 and the beginning of Term 3.

Eisteddfod

Before the end of the term, many of our instrumental musicstudents and members of our Year 4/5 Fun Choirs performedat the Cairns and District Junior Eisteddfod. We congratulate allour performers and their teachers on a very successful event.Ms Cameron was particularly proud of our young musicians,not only for their usual high-level performances and highachievement but also for their behaviour, enthusiasm and thesheer joy they have in playing music. Well done to everyoneinvolved!

Here are the results from Junior Years students:

M72 Contemporary Piano Solo - 9 YearsHighly Commended: Tia Hogan

M96 Brass Solo - 4 and Under 10 YearsFirst Place: Isabella VoyzeySecond Place: Ethan Mackaness

M95 Brass Solo - 10 and Under 12 YearsFirst Place: Olivia SteinHighly Commended: Katherine Downham

M62 Piano Solo by An Australian Composer - OwnChoice 9 YearsHighly Commended: Yago Ortega-Quintana

M98 Brass Classical Solo - 4 and Under 14 YearsFirst Place: Olivia Stein

M55 Piano Solo Set Piece - 8 YearsThird Place: Sienna Macri

M53 Piano Solo - Set Piece - 10 YearsHighly Commended: Katherine Downham

M43 Duet on one Piano - 4 and Under 10 YearsSecond Place: Yago Ortega & Tia Hogan

M106 Primary School Concert BandSecond Place: St Andrew's Catholic College JuniorPercussion Ensemble

M21 Primary School Novelty ChorusFirst Place: St Andrew's Catholic College Choir AThird Place: St Andrew's Catholic College Choir B

Athletics Carnival

The Athletics Day competition results are also finalised! Our AgeChampions are to be congratulated on their efforts. The resultswere impressive – and we are so proud of them all.

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Grandparents Day

Congratulations to Year 3-3 and MrAinsworth for a wonderful Prayer Assemblyhonouring our Grandparents. It was such afantastic opportunity to show ourgrandparents just how much we love them and to thank Godfor the blessings our grandparents bring into our lives.

Thank you to all of the parents, carers and most importantly, tothe wonderful grandparents and grandfriends that joined us onthe last day of school. Finally, thank you to Chef Sam Andre andher team of hospitality students who provided a lovely morningtea to share. Grandparents Day is growing larger and largereach year! We are so happy to have so many of our loved onesjoin us for this celebration. Thank you for supporting us!

Staffing

As many of you would already know, we have welcomed MrsJane Scott to the Year 5 teaching team, as Mrs Deb Harrisonhas taken a position in the Learning Support Department. MrsScott will teach Year 5-2 for the remainder of the year. In turn,we welcome Mrs Jo Kempster to the Junior Years, teaching onThursdays and Fridays.

We also welcome Mrs Julia Brant and Mrs Meg Ferris to theJunior Years Learning Support team. Julia is our new Head ofDepartment of Learning Support – Junior Years. Meg is our newStudents With Disabilities Learning Support Teacher – JuniorYears. We are so pleased to welcome all these teachers to ourSt Andrew’s Catholic College community.

This week we held a Learning Support Meet and Greet evening.We invited parents to meet with members of the LearningSupport Department team in the foyer of All Saints’ Theatre.Thank you to the parents that came to meet with the newstaff members and took the opportunity to build positive andrespectful relationships with our newest teachers of staff. Welook forward to working with families to support our students toachieve their fullest potential.

I would also like to take this opportunity to welcome the newstudents and families that have joined us this term. I am sureyour classroom teachers and classmates have made you feel

very welcome. We have already welcomed you all officially atrecent assemblies and look forward to getting to know you allbetter as the semester unfolds.

Catholic Education Week

Please enjoy this brief summary of the Junior Years CEWactivities.

NAIDOC Week

Term 3 started with our Junior Years students celebratingNAIDOC Week. This is a time for all Australians to celebratethe history, culture and achievements of the indigenous peopleof Australia. Our classes participated in various indigenous artactivities, played traditional games, learned about the Aboriginaland Torres Strait Island flags and heard traditional stories aboutthe Dreaming. We are very grateful to Mrs Amanda Stephen,our Indigenous Liaison Officer for arranging lots of fun andengaging learning activities for us!

CTJ Day

The same week our Junior Years teachers participated in ourannual Consistency of Teacher Judgement Day (CTJ Day).Each year level travelled to a particular school in the Cairnsarea for a day of professional dialogue and professionaldevelopment. Mrs Simpson and Mrs Voyzey hosted all of theYear 2 teachers in the Northern Deanery at St Andrew’s forthe day. The teachers looked at writing samples, Religionassessment pieces and Maths work samples. The purpose ofthe CTJ Day was:

• to understand and participate in assessmentmoderation activities to support consistent andcomparable judgement of student learning across thediocese;

• to contribute to collegial discussions to improveprofessional knowledge and practice;

• to continue to develop a shared understanding of theachievement standards and expectations;

• to continue to develop accuracy and reliability inmaking judgements;

• to engage in professional dialogue in relation to aconsistent understanding of achievement criteria.

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Fete

Wow! What a night! I am incredibly grateful and sooverwhelmed by the effort our community put into making theFete a reality last Friday night. The feedback from students,families and staff members has been amazingly positive. Weshould all be very proud of what we have achieved.

Thanks firstly, to Mrs Karen Hall and Mrs Lucy Davenport forexpertly and calmly steering the Fete committee. The P & Fexecutive and the small, but dedicated and enthusiastic bandof volunteers worked tirelessly and collaboratively to produce afantastic community event. The Fete showcased the very bestour College community has to offer.

The night was a success financially, which is great. But farmore importantly, we had a huge number of staff, students andparents working together to ensure the Fete was a massivesuccess.

It was beautiful to see the community celebrating together andworking for positive outcomes. Thank you to each and everyvolunteer – we could not have done this without you. Thankyou for supporting our Bring In Days. Thank you for attending.Thank you for assisting in the cleanup. And thank you for yourcontinued support. It does not go unnoticed.

Some of our upcoming events for the term include;

Please find further information about these events in our blogsand Parent Portal update emails. WE would love to see youthere, joining in with us.

House Points

In conclusion, I have the latest results for the House Points.MacKillop are dominant at the moment as we start the newterm! Congratulations to both Mrs Hussey’s and Mrs De Roses’classes for collecting the most house points over the last weeksof Term 2. I have also tallied the final results for Term 2. Welldone to Mr Lee’s class and Mrs Hodges class for a great startto Term 3.

Thank you for your continued support.

Mrs Kym BennettDeputy Principal – Head of Junior Years

From the Assistant Principals – ReligiousEducation

Mrs Gerri SimpsonMrs Gerri Simpson Mr Michael AitkenMr Michael Aitken Mrs Leanne WebsterMrs Leanne Webster

Dear Parents, Teachers and students,

What a busy start to Term 3 we have had here at the College!

Week 1

In the Junior Years, Gerri accompanied Year 5 on their Campto Lake Tinaroo in Week 1 of the term. Also in Week 1, the Year12s celebrated their midway dinner with guest speaker, CarolMayer. Carol suffered burns to 85% of her body in a house fireover 18 years ago. Her story of courage, resilience and faithwas truly inspirational.

Week 2

In Week 2 the three APREs joined with other APREs fromCatholic schools all over the Cairns Dioceses for an APREConference where we looked at enhancing the Catholic Identityof our schools.

Week 3 – Catholic Education Week

This week began with a Working Bee on Sunday morning and acommunity BBQ after Mass on Sunday evening which was wellattended.

On Monday morning we announced the staff members that hadbeen nominated for a Spirit of Catholic Education Award and/or a Docemus Award this year followed by our annual Lunch onthe Lawn.

On Wednesday the College Leadership Team cooked breakfastfor the staff and on Thursday we accompanied the CollegeCaptains and Prefects to a Diocesan CEW Mass at St Monica’sCathedral.

• Science Week

• Book Week

• Open Classrooms

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On Friday morning we held a special CEW Prayer Assembly, thefirst one in our new theatre and the College Fete finalised a fullweek of activities. On top of all of this every year level took partin a special community outreach activities.

Week 4

In Week 4, we have had a Prep liturgy on the theme of Prayer.The Reconciliation Learning groups continued. They are onTuesday afternoons in Classroom I-5, from 4pm-5pm andThursday afternoons, 3:30pm-4:30pm, in K2. We will end theweek with a Prayer Assembly led by Year 3-5 on the theme ofSt Mary of the Cross Mackillop.

Week 5

In Week 5, we will have a Whole College mass to celebrate theAssumption of Mary. The Assumption (15 August) refers to theBlessed Virgin Mary being assumed — body and soul — intoheaven at the end of her earthly life. The Assumption illustratesto us the truth about Christ’s promise of eternal life and theresurrection of the faithful.

https://www.loyolapress.com/our-catholic-faith/liturgical-year/sunday-connection/assumption-of-the-blessed-virgin-mary-august-15

On Friday 17 August we will hold a Silly Sock day at the College,this will tie in with the Ride for Sick kids which will come to StAndrew’s again this year (you may remember we did this lastyear). We will gather along the Path and into K Block at 2pm onthis afternoon.

The socks will be for sale a Week 4 and Week 5. Students willpay a gold coin donation to wear their silly socks (official RMHCones only) on Friday 17 August, and all funds will be donated tothe Ronald McDonald House Charites.

Extra information: if you are a House Rules fan you mayremember Maddi and Lloyd who were on the program a fewyears ago. Maddi works on the Maddi and Mark show on TripleM 99.5fm. They are organising a renovation of one of the roomsat the Ronald McDonald House Charity Retreat based in PalmCove. The renovation will be publicised on the 14, 15 and 16August, with Friday 17 August is the grand reveal (it will be opento the public on Saturday 18 August). The 180km bike ride forsick kids which is coming into St Andrew’s will finish at theretreat in time for the grand reveal. For this reason, there will bemuch more media involvement this year.

On the night of the 17 August, there will also be a RonaldMcDonald House Charity Gala ‘Between the Flags’ held at thePalm Cove Surf Club starting at 7pm. This is a fundraiser run bythe charity and replaces the RMHC ball. Tickets will go on saleshortly for $99.

Week 6

Refugee week will be celebrated in the Senior Years duringWeek 6. Refugee guest speakers from Centacare will addressYears 10 to 12 on Tuesday 21 August during their Religionclasses.

Our Cambodia Immersion is fast approaching in September forour Senior Years students. A fundraising car boot sale will beheld in the top carpark of the College on Sunday 26 Augustfrom 8am to 1pm. Sites will be $20 each and funds are going tothe service project we will be constructing along with stationerypacks. There will also be a BBQ and a carwash.

Week 7

In Week 7, we will celebrate Father’s Day at the college. Therewill be a special Father’s Day Prayer Assembly on Friday 31August. There will also be a Father’s Day stall where studentsin the Junior Years can purchase a gift for their dad and someFather’s Day activities will be run in certain year levels. You mayreceive an invite from your child.

Junior Years Prayer Assemblies this term:

1 20/7

Cairns Show DayPublic Holiday

Cairns Show DayPublic Holiday

2 27/7

JY Assembly

3 3/8 5-4 Prayer Assembly CEW

4 10/8

3-5 Prayer Assembly St Mary of the Cross(8/8/15)

5 17/8

JY Assembly

6 24/8

JY Assembly

7 31/8

3-4 Prayer Assembly Father’s Day

8 7/9 JY Assembly

9 14/9

2-3 Prayer Assembly

10 21/9

2-4 Prayer Assembly Last day of Term

The Year 4 Team Building day will be held on Thursday 6September, more information will follow from the Year 4 team.

Kind regards,

Mrs GerriSimpsonAssistantPrincipalReligiousEducationJunior Years

Mr MichaelAitkenAssistantPrincipalReligiousEducationMiddle Years

Mrs LeanneWebsterAssistantPrincipalReligiousEducationSenior Years

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