Our Lady of Lourdes School

P O Box 67

2-8 Ferguson Road

Dardanup WA 6236

Tel: (08) 97281054

Fax: (08) 97281469 www.ololdard.wa.edu.au

Many Minds One Heart

Newsletter No 29 18th September 2014

Holy Spirit, strengthen us with your gifts of

Wisdom, Understanding, Right Judgement,

Courage, Knowledge, Reverence, and wonder and

Awe in God’s Presence, as we serve as disciples of

Christ.

Grant that we may grow into the fullness of the

stature of Christ. Fill us with the joy

of your presence. Increase in us the fruit of your

Spirit. Help us to experience and trust

your dwelling within, so that we can count on

your guidance today and every day.

Show us the way to help one another become

better disciples of Jesus Christ, sharing your

love with our world and with each person

we meet. Come, Holy Spirit! Come.

IMPORTANT DATES Fri 19th Sept Year 6 and 7 return from School Camp

Sat 20th & Sun 21st Sept Confirmation in Dardanup

Tues 23rd Sept P&F Meeting @9.00am

School Board Meeting @ 7.00pm

Thurs 25th Sept Open Morning and day time Disco

Fri 26th Sept Last Day of Term

Dear Parents,

Please pray for our Confirmation candidates as they conclude their preparation to receive the sacrament this coming weekend. At Confirmation, the Bishop anoints the forehead of each candidate with chrism, saying, “Be sealed with the gift of the Holy Spirit.” Confirmation celebrates the presence of the Holy Spirit in the person being confirmed, and in the Church that has nurtured his or her faith. Also, the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit are bestowed on the candidates at Confirmation: wisdom, understanding, right judgment, courage, knowledge, reverence, and wonder and awe in God’s presence.

A reminder that we will need to accommodate many people in the church at both Confirmation Masses. We ask if all school aged students could please join the choir members in the loft. It would also help if the teenagers attending also joined the choir to leave maximum room for families and parishioners in the church. We ask that choir members be in the choir loft a half hour before Mass starts. Extended Hours of Instruction Our school recently had a school Audit. As a condition of our funding agreement with the government, Catholic Schools have to provide a designated number of hours of instruction across the school year. Our total hours need to increase, so from Monday, 15th September, school commenced at 8.45am , with the lunch break now concluding at 1.10pm. Parents bringing children to school will need to be aware of the earlier starting time. Open Morning and Daytime Disco Just a reminder that we are planning our Open Morning for Thursday 25th September. The morning will commence with a musical item showcasing the wonderful work happening with Mrs Hearne and Mrs Mifflin. Following on from the short assembly the classrooms will be open until recess time at 10.30am. At recess time parents are invited to join the staff for morning tea in the hall. Please note that children will not be permitted to leave their classrooms to visit other classes during the open morning. Teachers need to know where their students are at all times. After recess the students from Kindy to year 3 will participate in a junior disco. We will provide some activities in another classroom if the noise and movement is too much for some of the younger students. Students from years 4 to 7 will participate after lunch. Parents are welcome to join in for all, or part, of the discos. Children may come to school in free dress on Thursday, as they will be attending the disco, but we ask that they wear sensible clothing and footwear. My thanks in advance to the P&F Committee, for organising the music, decorations and for providing a

snack at interval time. This day promises to be a great day of fun and community. Please note that Thursday is not the last day of term. We have school on Friday. P&F Meeting – NEXT Tuesday 23rd September Our next P&F Meeting was postponed to next Tuesday 23rd September at 9:00am. Please join us for a coffee before the meeting. The meeting will include reports on the progress on the planning of our Early Childhood playground upgrade, the details of a grant we have received to help with the cost of the playground together with the planning for the Bull and Barrel festival. Please make an effort to come along and support the work of our parent leaders who do so much to develop and promote our school. Bull and Barrel Our P & F requires volunteers to assist with the festival this year. If you could assist in any way, your help would be greatly appreciated. Please refer to the purple flyer being sent home today for further information. Netball Grand Final Good luck to the Dardanup Year 7 girls netball team, The Saints, as they play their grand final on Saturday at the Eaton Rec Centre. Their game starts at 10.30am if you want to go help cheer them on. We wish the girls all the best.

God’s Blessing to you all Mona Dykstra

Open Morning Raffle Don’t forget the P&F will be holding a raffle during the school open morning on Thursday 25th September. Bring in your coins!

Merit Certificates

PP Kendra Mifflin, Ariana Meads . Yr 1 Devon Pope

Yr 2 Jamine Stowe

Yr 3 Imogen Famlonga, Perrie Goater, Kassidy Lewis

Yr 4 Lauren Carter, Elijah Birrell

Yr 5 Lauren Prowse, Darcy Horlin

PARISH NEWS

Japanese Students – The Dardanup Parish/Our Lady of Lourdes community has once again been invited to host Japanese high school students for three nights next February (10-13 February 2015). This is intended to be a joint fundraiser for the school P&F and Parish, and has been extremely successful in recent years. If your family may have the capacity to accommodate one or two students,

and provide for them an experience of rural life and farming, please contact Pam Harris (dromana@gateway.net.au) or Nick Maher (nickm@bunburycatholic.org.au) for further details and to express your interest. We are also looking for assistance in coordinating the program and we encourage parents, families and other interested parties to attend the next P&F meeting, 9am Tuesday 16 September, where the program will be discussed. Thank you.

Canteen News & Menu

TOMORROW Friday 19th September

HELPERS: Mel Birrell, Sonia Italiano

NEXT WEEK Friday 26th September

Recess: Apply & cinnamon muffin

Lunch: Pizza (yummmmmmmmm)

Extra: Juice

Open Morning Disco The P&F are asking if anyone has any black plastic or dark coloured sheets they can borrow or have. These will help to block out the light for our daytime disco. Please drop off anything you may have to the ladies in the office.

Virtue of the Week

Loyalty What is Loyalty? Loyalty is staying true to someone. It is standing up for something you believe in without wavering. It is being faithful to your family, country, school, friends or ideals – when the going gets tough as well as when things are good. When you are a loyal friend, even if someone disappoints you, you still hang in there with them. Loyalty is staying committed. How do you Practice it? You practice loyalty by committing to a person, or a belief, choose your friends carefully, so you can be friends for a long time. If someone tries to use your loyalty for a bad purpose, or hurts you over and over, you need to decide if it feels right to go on being loyal. Stand up for your family and friends when others act unjustly. When you are loyal you are worthy of trust.

SCHOOL ACCOUNTS Term 3 school accounts are now overdue & reminder statements will be sent home today.

If you are experiencing difficulties we ask that you please contact the office to make an appointment for a confidential meeting to discuss further.

Thank you

ALTER SERVERS Alter Servers this weekend:

Saturday 20th September @ 6.00pm:

Maddy Congdon & Sophie Italiano Sunday 21st September @ 9.00am:

Daniel Godwin & Dayna Madaffari

Dardanup Junior Cricket - TODAY All players to attend TODAY Thursday 18th September 3.30 to 5.30pm for training and team confirmation.

Expected Season start date is Saturday 18th October Fixtures and future training sessions will be confirmed by Coaches.

MILO In2 cricket: Braden Famlonga will make contact with players. Helper parents will be needed to assist with cricket once a week.

Registration fees are strictly payable to coaches by Game 3 in an envelope marked with player name and team.

Years 7, 8, 9 $100 Years 4, 5, 6 $80 MILO In2 Cricket – approx. $60 (to be confirmed)

To register contact Darrel Anderson 97315222

½ PRICE SPORT UNIFORMS

The uniform shop have all current sport uniforms on sale at half price. Please see the volunteers at the uniform shop after assembly on Thursday if you would like to purchase.

CHRISTMAS HOLIDAY

VACSWIM 2014-2015 Want your child to learn to swim?

Or improve on their swimming?

Need to fill in some time over your holidays?

Enrolments for December/ January programs are now

open. Swimming pools and beaches are a vital part of

our Western

Australian lifestyle.

It is important for

every child to learn

to swim and develp

essential water

safety skills.

VacSwim’s school

holiday swimming

programs are

conducted by qualified instructors who teach children

the skills to be confident swimmers and safe in the

water. For further informaion and online enrolment

visit education.wa.edu.au/swimming

Flyers with session times will be sent home with this

newsletter.

Crooked Brook Forest Open Day Saturday 4th October

10.45 – 2.30 Free sausage sizzle lunch Free afternoon activities

Free bus from Eaton & Dardanup Register for bus at pvarobbo@bordernet.com.au

REMINDER First school

bell

NOW

goes at

8.45am

STILL NOT CLAIMED Found in Carpark 1 pair of prescription glasses. Can be collected from office

NEW CANTEEN LEADERS Canteen requires new Leaders to help assist in the organisation of the school Canteen.

If no new leaders are found, the operation of the canteen will be limited in 2015.

BASKETBALL REGISTRATION

TODAY Thursday 18th September is Dardanup Junior Basketball Registration Day. From 3pm registrations will be open at the Dardanup Basketball courts. Fees: $55 first child registered $45 for every sibling therafter

Astronomy The Astronomical Society of the South West (Inc) will be holding open astronomy nights for the public at their Observatory, Keble Heights, College Grove, bunbury, on the Queen’s Birthday Long Weedkend at the start of the September School Holidays.

The Observatory will be open on Friday 26th, Saturday 27th, Sunday 28th and Monday 29th of September each night from 7.00pm to 10.00pm, eather permitting.

Cost: Adults $10.00; Children $6.00; Family - $25.00

For more information please call Cameron on 9795 8204.

SPORTS UNIFORM Order forms for the NEW Sports uniform

will be sent home next week. Please return to

the office as soon as possible with payment.

We will endeavour to have the new uniform

here at school within the first few weeks of

term 4.

TENNIS WE ARE NOW TAKING ENROLMENTS FOR TENNIS COACHING AT DARDANUP TENNIS CLUB FOR TERM 4 GROUP TENNIS COACHING SESSIONS STARTING THURSDAY 30 OCTOBER, 2014 FOR FURTHER INFORMATION OR TO ENROL PLEASE CONTACT DAVID OR PAT ON 0419 474 605 OR EMAIL pd.simmonds@hotmail.com.

LOST PROPERTY Our lost property box is overflowing with Jumpers – both the fleece and knitted kinds.

If your school washing pile seems to be getting smaller or your children are getting cold, we may just have your child’s jumper!!! Parents can view lost property items in the Office.

Animal Nursery Bull & Barrel 11th October 2014 The P&F are in search of baby animals for our Animal Nursery at the Bull & Barrel Festival this year. If you can help us please contact Kerry Lowe on 0402094830 or email graylowe@bigpond.com.

Free Dress Day

Thursday 25th September Please wear appropriate clothing and footwear

Open Day & Day Time Disco Schedule

8.45am Assembly followed by

Open Classrooms

10.30am Recess for students and

Morning tea for Parents in

staff room

10.50am Junior Disco

1.10pm Senior Disco