CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC SCHOOL 1 20 August 2015

NEWSLETTER Number 14

From the Principal… Rachel Kelly Acting Principal

Dear Parents/Guardians, Last week we celebrated Catholic Education Week. This is a time to reflect and rejoice in our Catholic identity. Catholic schools are continually called and challenged to make a difference - to be places where “all creation is made new in Christ”. Thank you to students from Prep – Grade 6 who represented Corpus Christi Catholic School at a combined school Mass of Thanksgiving at the St. Mary’s Cathedral last Thursday. Sitting front and centre in the “Catholic Castle” their behaviour and participation was simply awesome. Fr. Peter, Mrs McGann, Mrs Banks and myself were very privileged and proud to be part of this celebration with our young ambassadors.

“The mission of schools is to develop a sense of truth, of what is good and beautiful. And this occurs through a rich path made up of many ingredients.” Pope Francis

Corpus Christi Catholic School Advisory Board Appointments It is my pleasure to inform you that Mr John Mula, The Director of Catholic Education Tasmania, has appointed the following parents to the Corpus Christi Advisory Board; Mr Michael Sylvester, Mr Brent Dawkins and Mr Michael Allen. Thank you gentlemen for your willingness to contribute to our school community in this capacity. Congratulations Congratulations to Simon and Keryn Treweek on the birth of their son Henry. Congratulations also to Sophie Giltinan (6M) who has been selected as a finalist in the Young Creative Writers Awards. Sophie’s work will be published and she will be attending the award ceremony at Government House in September. This is a wonderful achievement Sophie with your creative flare and hard work being recongised at a state-wide level. Grade 3/4 Parish Mass This Sunday students and their families from Grade 3 and Grade 4 have been invited to attend the Sunday Mass at 10.30am. Students will be involved in various aspects of this celebration, further strengthening the link between Parish, family and school. Concert Classes are certainly getting their acts together in preparation for the school concert. Apologies to everyone in Bellerive for the drums and electric guitars pumping out of Grade 6 on Wednesday afternoons. Concert times and ticketing information has been distributed to parents today. This year we are moving to an online booking system for tickets, with bookings opening tomorrow. Limit of 4 tickets for any one session – 6 tickets in total. Fingers crossed this runs smoothly, making this a much easier process for parents and staff.

P&F Quiz Night Thank you to all in our school community who contributed to the success of the Quiz Night; the P&F organisers, the many sponsors in our community and parents and staff for your participation. A great night! P&F Disco On Friday 28 August we are having our one and only disco for 2015. This is a combined Kindergarten – Grade 6 disco, organised by the P&F with the Grade 6 Mini Vinnies Committee running the music side of things. As this is an out of hours event, parents must sign their children in and out of the hall on drop off and pick up. For our Kindergarten students, we request parents stay throughout the duration of the disco. Please read on in the newsletter for the “Disco Flyer” to find out more. Athletics Carnival This year our Kinder – Grade 6 athletics carnival will be held at the Domain Athletics Centre on Wednesday 4 November. This is the first time we’ve held our Athletics Carnival away from Kangaroo Bay. We will bus all students to the Domain, with use of facilities being a great advantage in staging this event. More information will be distributed closer to the event. Book Week – Books Light Up Our World Are you as excited about Book Week as Miss Jones and Mrs Lowe? The Book Week Parade is back and will be held at 12.15pm on Wednesday 26 August. Also next week is the Book Fair. Thank you in advance to Mrs Halley and Mrs Brighella for organising this event and to parents who have offered to come along and help in the Library. Sickness Quite a few students have been absent over the last couple of weeks because they are unwell, with some having to go home from school. Please do not send children to school until 24 hours after vomiting has finished, or when they have a fever. Important Dates 21 August 2015 (Friday): Grade 1 Excursion – Woodbridge School Marine Discovery Centre 23 August 2015 (Sunday): Grades 3/4 Parish Mass 24 August 2015 (Monday): P&F Meeting – Library 7:00pm 25 Aug 15 – 28 Aug 15: Library Book Fair – 8:00am to 4:00pm 26 August 2015 (Wednesday): Book Week Parade 12:15pm 28 August 2015 (Friday): Disco 6:30pm – 8:00pm 2 September 2015 (Wednesday): Fathers Day Stall 10 September 2015 (Thursday): SCHEDULED VPOS Payments Processed 11 September 2015 (Friday): Primary Assembly 9:00am 14 September 2015 (Monday) Concert 6:00pm 15 September 2015 (Tuesday): Concert 1:00pm 16 September 2015 (Wednesday): Concert 1:00pm & 6:00pm 17 September 2015 (Thursday): SCHEDULED DIRECT DEBIT Payments Processed PLEASE NOTE: The next Newsletter will be Thursday 3 September. mportant Dates School News

Operation Christmas Child Kinder to Grade 6 will be participating in ‘Operation Christmas Child’ this year. Each class will make up a shoe box for one boy and one girl with gifts, trinkets, hygiene products and notes or cards. We ask for your support to send along suitable items from the list provided. Class teachers will be in touch as to selected age and dates. For further information please read the attached flyers to this newsletter.

Grade 1 Religion Prayer is a very important part of our day in Grade 1. We start each day with a prayer, to help us to think about the day ahead, to ask Jesus or God to help with something, or to pray with a special focus. Our special focus at the moment is “Under the Sea”, as we think about all of God’s creatures but especially the sea creatures that we need to take care of. Here is a prayer that we wrote as a Grade, thanking God and asking for his help.!

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)Congratulations to the following students who have attained reward status

Darcy Noonan 3B Deacon Smith 3B Kane Erp 1J

Alex Newell 3B Alex Newell 3B Darcy Andrikonis 3T

Fiona Dunne 2PB Daisy Williams 2P Charlotte Barnes 3B

Will Cooper 2PB Anthony Mamic 5M Sarah Mulcahy 3B

Christian O’Brien PM Emily Cooper 2PB Robbie Bird 2P

Rosie Chasemore PM Hugh McCallum 1J Aiden Ryan 4L

Maggie Newell PM Zac Lambrakis 6KW Kye Direen 5M

Emmersen Nunn PM Matylda Sweeney 5M

Delaney Goram 5MM Zoe Casson-Medhurst 4L

Isaac Cooper 3T Helena Vo KC

Jacob Sherrin 3T Mihali Moshovakos KC

Harriet Crawford PM Ella Geard KC

Lucy Phillips PG Kate Bolonja KC

Justin Warner 5M Maddison Fairfield KC

Harry Darko KC

Spencer Hallsworth PM

Olivia Hunniford-Webb 2PB

Sophie Nadler 1J

Angus Kent 5M

GOLD SILVER BRONZE

Corpus Christi Library Book Fair

When? Tuesday 25 August until Friday 28 August Where? Our Corpus Christi Library What time? 8.00am until 4.00pm Payment? Cash, cheques and credit cards accepted Come and have a browse at all our wonderful books, relax and have fun

Coffee and tea available

Parents & Friends Association Kylie Cooper - President The next meeting of the P&F will be held Monday 24 August at 7:00pm in the Library. All are welcome to attend. Disco – Friday 28 August This year there will only be ONE disco! The time will be 6:30pm to 8:00pm. Entry will be by Gold Coin Donation. Glow Sticks will be available for purchase. Kindergarten children need to be accompanied by an adult. Finally, a reminder to sign children in and out of the disco.

Fathers Day Stall Wednesday 2 September is the date for children to purchase the special man in their life a gift for $5.00. Please note we allow for 1 gift per child, however if there is a particular need for more than one gift, please email the P&F or advise the Office prior to the day. Entertainment Books A reminder that we have now finished sales of Entertainment Books for this year. Thank you to all families who supported this fundraiser. A final amount raised will be provided in the next newsletter. Quiz Night Update With nearly 180 people taking part in our quiz night it, certainly was a great night. Many thanks to our Quiz Committee: Jane Kirk, Meg Kitchen, Teena Mills, Lynette Hurst, Vanessa Heroys and our very talented Quiz Master Pep Turner. Thank you to everyone who came along on the night – we hope you had a great time. Thank you also to the parents who stayed on afterwards to help clean up, and to our barmen, who did such a professional job. We are very appreciative of Mr Lane for agreeing to be MC, which he did with style. And finally, thank you to John VL for helping us with the setup, packing up and going back in on Sunday to finish preparing the Hall for classes on Monday. We are pleased to announce that we made $7000 from the night. These funds will be used to support IT within our school. Finally, thank you to the many businesses that donated. They are listed below (with names if they have a family link to the school):- Abundance, Arbonne – Renae Di Venuto / Lisa Davey, Ball and Chain, Barilla Putt and Play, Bellerive Yacht Club, Bioflex, Blue Envy, Boardwalk Fish ‘n Chips, Bonorong Wildlife Sanctuary, Cabbages, Citywide Gym, CJ Stephens Homes – Chris & Brooke Stephens, Clarence Gymnastics, Clean Conscience, Coal River Farm, COS (Complete Office Supplies) – John Mills, Cripps Bakehouse, Crocs Play Centre, Cugini, Damian Mansfield Finance, Derwent Entertainment Centre, Eastside Activity Centre – Felicity & Greg Harvey, Electrical World Betta Home Living; Rosny – Adrian & Gemma Chivers, Fluke and Bruce, Forestry Tasmania (Tahune Airwalk), Frogmore Winery, Fuller’s Books, Gerald Cairns (Falls Real Estate), Hair Gallery Rosny – Emma Bradburn, Hobart Aquatic Centre, Hotel Grand Chancellor, Ice Skating Tasmania, Inflatable World, Jackie Petrusma, Jazzercise, Juicy Isle, K & D Warehouse, M & Js Butcher On Clarence, Military Mumma, Wellington Descent, Mulcahy Electrics – Michael & Kerry Mulcahy, Nate’s Pizza and Pasta, Navigators, Officeworks, Pennicott Wilderness Journeys, Playhouse Theatre, Port Arthur Historic Site, Puddleduck Winery, RACT, Ray Quarrell Sports Massage, Salamanca La Porchetta, Sandra Hall, Seahorse Swim Centre, Stewarts Bay Lodge, Strahan Holiday Retreats, Strategic Insurance - Chris & Jane O’Neill, Swisse, Tasmanian Symphony Orchestra, Tasmanian Vet Hospital, Tasplan Super – Jeff Gillies, Three Little Ducks, Tilfords – Ange & Shaun Heyward, Tyreright - Todd & Nikki McCarthy, Village Cinemas, Walker & Walker Richmond, West Coast Wilderness Railway, Wicked Cheese, Windmill & Woolworths – Shoreline Woolworths Earn and Learn - Double Sticker Weekend! To help you collect even more, Woolworths are holding a big Double Sticker Weekend this Friday, Saturday and Sunday only. Customers will get two stickers for every $10 they spend. The more you collect the more educational equipment you can redeem. Woolworths Earn and Learn finishes Tuesday, 8 September. Please do not place more than 60 stickers on each card. Extra stickers on cards will not be included in the tally. Email: p&f.ccs@catholic.tas.edu.au

Working with Vulnerable People Registration If you work or volunteer with children within Catholic Education Tasmania (CET) you are required by law to register for a background check, called Working with Vulnerable People Registration, by October 1, 2015. The registration aims to significantly improve safeguards to help keep children safe from harm. More information is available on our website via the following link: http://www.corpuschristi.tas.edu.au/information-for-parents/working-with-children-registration To apply directly please go to: www.justice.tas.gov.au/working_with_children Corpus Christi Catholic School – Play and Learn This is your invitation to join us at Corpus Christi Catholic School to participate in our Play and Learn program. It is mainly targeting 2,3 and 4 year olds who have not yet begun Kindergarten, but if you have younger children or babies of course they are welcome. This is an opportunity for young children to begin to develop their confidence and curiosity as learners prior to commencing Kindergarten in a safe and secure environment with their parents/carers beside them.

When: Mondays Time: 9:00am-10:00am Where: Ballygriffin House Teacher: Lisa Cooper

OHSC

Outside School Hours Care

For all enquiries regarding Outside School Hours Care please contact: Centacare Tasmania – Childcare Services Phone: 1300 119 455 Email: ccs.admin@aohtas.org.au Community Information

Dominoes Basketball Club Aussie Hoops

An introductory basketball program for 5, 6, 7, 8 & 9 year olds, all held in a fun, non-competitive and enjoyable environment.

The six week program commences Sunday 18th October 2015

at Rose Bay High School.

5 & 6 year olds – 10:30am to 11:20am 7, 8 & 9 year olds – 11:30am to 12:20pm

To register your child, please visit www.dominoesbc.net

and click on the ‘Aussie Hoops’ tag. The cost of $65 is payable upon registration for ‘new’ children,

and $40 for ‘returning’ children.

Please ensure you register your child by 28 September 2015 Each ‘New’ child will receive a back pack, reversible t-shirt and basketball!!

Any queries, please email Matthew at dominoesbasketballclub@gmail.com

ALL students must be signed in and out from the Hall.

Glow sticks available for purchase.

(Kinder students must be supervised by their parent/s)

Friday August 28th

Kinder - 6 6:30 - 8:00pm Entry - gold coin donation Funds raised will be used to post our ‘Operation Christmas Child’ boxes.

CORPUS CHRISTI CATHOLIC SCHOOL DISCO

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2. �Choose the age group you will pack your shoe box for: 2 - 4 years; 5 - 9 years or 10 - 14 years.

3. Fill your box with toys, trinkets, hygiene items and school supplies. You might like to write them a note or card.

4. Pray for the child who will receive your gift. You can also “Follow Your Box” and discover the destination of your shoebox gift.

For more info visit: https://www.samaritanspurse.org.au/operation-christmas-child/

Clarence Angels T-Ball We#are#looking#for#players#to#join#our#T4Ball#club#to#compete#in#a#NEW#Saturday#morning#Batter#Up#T4Ball#League.!Our!teams!will!be!a!mix!of!both!boys!and!girls.#Two!(2)!age!divisions!will!be!on!offer:!!11#and#Under!&!8#and#Under,#PLUS!“Base!Invaders”!for!ages!3!to!6!–!consisting!of!fun,!skillLbased,!game!sense!activities.!All!games!will!be!played!at!Softball!Park,!Prince!of!Wales!Bay,!commencing!

late!October.!Registration!is!just!$50#for#the#season,!with!some!small!additional!uniform!cost.!!

Kids!and!parents!are!welcome!to!our!“Come#‘n’#Try”#Days,#that#will#be#held#on#Sat#19th#&#26th#September#at#Howrah#Primary#School#Oval#(10.30#to#11.30).!For!more!details,!email!the!club:!!

ClarenceAngels@outlook.com#or!phone!Nigel!O’Brien!0416!784!297.!

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Tasmanian Sports Camps Hobart Cricket & Soccer camp programs this Spring school holidays The program delivers coaching for players of all standards aged 6 to 17 from 9:00am to 3:00pm each day. New Town Oval 6, 7 and 8 October 2015 For More Information call 1300 914 368 or http://tas-sport.com.au/