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Holy Week 23 March 2016

This week we celebrate the most important time in the Catholic calendar - HOLY WEEK. It is the week leading up to Easter Sunday where we commemorate the last days of Jesus‘ life.

Palm Sunday – the Sunday before Easter when Jesus triumphantly arrived in Jerusalem for the Jewish Passover. Great crowds of people gathered, waving palm branches to welcome him. We also receive palm branches at mass on Palm Sunday. The leftover palms are burnt to make ashes for the following years‘ Ash Wednesday mass.

Holy or Maundy Thursday – the day of The Last Supper and Judas‘ betrayal. This is where Jesus shared the bread and wine with his disciples. We remember this meal at every mass we celebrate. During the Last Supper Jesus washed the feet of his disciples as a sign of…

Good Friday – the arrest, trial, crucifixion, death and burial of Jesus. Jesus was arrested and tried in a mock trial. He was handed over to the Roman soldiers to be beaten and flogged with whips. He was made to wear a crown of long, sharp thorns that was thrust upon his head. Jesus was made to carry his own cross before being nailed to it. According to the bi-ble, Jesus died at 3pm on Good Friday.

Holy Saturday – the last day before Easter Sunday where Jesus was laid in the tomb. In the early church, this was a day of fasting in preparation for Jesus‘ resurrection.

Easter Sunday – the oldest and most important day in the church calendar where Jesus rose from the dead and gave us the promise of eternal life. His friends and family arrived at the tomb where his body had been placed and found that it was missing. He had risen to heaven!

Why Do We Celebrate Easter? We celebrate Easter to remember the great sacrifice that Jesus made for us in order to save us from the sins we commit so we can go to heaven. More im-portantly Easter Sunday helps us to remember that Jesus came back from the dead. Although he is not physically among us, He is still present in our hearts.

Important Dates

24 March Holy Thursday Pupil Free Day

25 March Good Friday Public Holiday

28 March Easter Monday Public Holiday

29 March Easter Tuesday Closure for all schools

Year 6 Leadership Camp

The Year 6 students are to be congratulated on their maturity and behaviour while at camp at Woodman Point. The feedback from teachers has been that the students have focussed on the leadership qualities that as young adults, they will require to act as capable citizens in our community – both the school and general com-munity. Qualities such as good communication skills, teamwork, negotiation and compromise, persistence, determination and problem solving. Parents of these students should be proud of their efforts. Thank you to the Year 6 teachers, Donna Bathols and Shane Landers for their organisation of the camp. Thank you also to the following staff who assisted on camp: Mr Brendon Burke, Mr Graham Maher, Mrs Margaret O‘Neill, Mrs Car-olyn Hambley and Miss Silvana Sciarrone.

Interschool Swimming Carnival

Our interschool swimming team has trained very hard over the past few weeks in preparation for the carnival which will be held on Wednesday 30 March. PLEASE ensure your child is well prepared for the day with all required items packed and labelled. We are not at school for the two days before the carnival and cannot re-mind children!

Woolworths Earn and Learn

Thank you to all parents who contributed to the 2015 school Woolworths Earn and Learn tally. We were very fortunate to have been able to order a large number of educational resources and board games which have been distributed to the library and Early Years classrooms. Your children will definitely enjoy these new re-sources!

Vanessa Alaniz Assistant Principal

What happens in the Church after the Holy Thursday Mass of the Last Supper?

After this service, the altar is stripped. All statues are covered, the Holy Water fonts are emptied and the sanc-tuary light (red light) is extinguished. This is a reminder that Jesus has been taken away and is no longer pre-sent just like when the soldiers arrested Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane and took Him away.

During this time, a special altar called 'The Altar of Repose' is set up in a special location for those wishing to pray, reflect and pay respect to Jesus who gave His life for us. This often goes all night.

What is the Service of Light?

The service of light takes place on Easter Vigil (Saturday) and is the biggest feast of the whole year. Members of the congregation each have candles which they will light from the Christ/Paschal Candle (Easter Candle) and pass on to one another. This represents the Light of Jesus entering our lives and quickly spreading throughout the whole Church. Jesus is like a light. He helps us to see when we make wrong choices. He shows us the right way. He guides us. You may have noticed that the 'Gloria' was not sung at all during Lent. This prayer will make its return at this Mass as the bells are rung vigorously to remind us that Jesus has risen. It is a time

for celebration!

EASTER CEREMONIES TIMETABLE

HOLY THURSDAY Mass of the Lord‘s Supper at 7.00pm. Adoration until 10.00pm

GOOD FRIDAY Stations of the Cross at 10.00am followed by Reconciliation

Ceremonies of the Passion at 3.00pm HOLY SATURDAY

Easter Vigil Mass at 7.00pm EASTER SUNDAY

Easter Masses at 8.00am and 10.00am

PLEASE CONTINUE TO BRING IN YOUR ‘CHARITY WALK’ SPONSORSHIP

MONEY, SO THAT IT CAN BE SENT TO WHERE IT IS MOST NEEDED.

BEAUTIFUL HAND CRAFTED CARDS ARE AVAILABLE FROM THE FRONT OFFICE AT VARYING

PRICES . SUITABLE FOR ALL OCCASIONS SUCH AS BIRTHDAY, SPECIAL OCCASION ETC, EASTER

Ranging from $4.00 onwards. $1.00 FROM EACH CARD GOES TO THE P & F.

THE CURRICULUM CORNER

High levels of efficiency, speed and accuracy in mental computation remains the goal. The path to computa-

tional fluency is not a straight forward one for many students. Prolonged, repetitive practice is the key to

success.

‘Near Doubles strategy’

Once students have the knowledge of ‗doubles‘ the natural progression is to near doubles. If a student

knows 5 + 5 = 10, they can solve 5 + 6 +11 ie 5+5+1 = 11, or 4+5 can be solved by 4+4+1.

If you know 6+6 then you know 6+7, if you know 8+8 you know 8+9, if you know 10+10, you know 10+11.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16xz96qP8tw

SPECIAL UNIFORM SHOP DAY— GET YOUR WINTER UNIFORM REQUIREMENTS

Thursday 31 March—7.30am to 1.00pm. Woollen jumpers that were pre-ordered last year have now arrived and are ready for collection. SCHOOL BANKING will be completed on Thursday of next week because of the Easter Holidays. NATIONAL YOUNG LEADERS DAY On Thursday 17 March, the student councillors and house captains attended the National Young Leaders Day

for Primary Schools at Perth Convention Centre. They got to listen to a range of speakers about what leader-

ship means. Speakers included: Dylan Parker (paper pilot), Nathan ―Dubsy‖ Want, Taku Scutton (multi cultural

ambassador) and Drizana Levitzke Grey (Young Australi-

an of the Year).

The message of the day was

―Master the Little‖. This

means to look for the small

things in life that can lead to

the big dreams you have as

a leader. The students thor-

oughly enjoyed themselves

and learnt so much!

Mrs Bathols

Mr Landers sent our News story of

last week to the National newsletter

of Safe Schools Facebook page (see

photo) which they were happy to pub-

lish.

The photo below was taken last Fri-

day which was actually National

NO BULLYING DAY

And if you look closely at the bottom

of the picture, you can see the signa-

tures of some of the children showing

their support.

EASTER RAFFLE A big THANK YOU to our generous families and staff who supported this event by purchasing Easter Raffle Tickets Congratulations to all the winners! HEATHER BRAE SUPA SLICE AND BAKERY TREATS A friendly reminder that the due date for your order is Friday 1 April 2016. Please place your order form and money in the P&F Box located at the Office. Thank you. ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS

The Sacred Heart Primary School P&F are very excited to be fundraising with Entertainment™ again this

year. By ordering your 2016 | 2017 Entertainment™ Books or Entertainment™ Digital Memberships from us

today, 20% of the proceeds will be contributed towards our School! This year the P&F will be fundraising to-

wards new interactive whiteboards for each classroom.

NEW this year, when you purchase a Perth Entertainment™ Membership, you will now have ac-

cess to more than 30 of the best restaurants, attractions and accommodation that Bali has to

offer!

To order your copy now, please type the following link into your web browser -

https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/83356f

Feel free to share this link with your family and friends so they can order their book today too! If you have any queries feel free to e-mail Belinda De Marchi or Joanna Gibb at pandf@shthorn.wa.edu.au

TREASURER VACANCY FILLED

We are very pleased to announce that Mrs Kathrin (Kat) Agostino has been appointed as our new Treasurer.

Kat was officially welcomed into the team at last night‘s general meeting. We look forward to Kat using her

accounting skills and many years‘ experience to manage the P&F financial accounts. Kat, thank you for volun-

teering your time to undertake this important role.

PRE-PRIMARY

REQUEST

The Pre-Primary classes need

COLLAGE items such as Milk Car-

tons, Cereal boxes, plastic contain-

ers of any shape or size, margarine

containers, milk bottle lids, etc.

Things for using creative imagina-

tion.

PPB

1st—Jamilla Whitcombe

2nd—Cooper Swadling

3rd—Joshua Michalowski

PPW

1st—Lourdes Franco

2nd—Kornelia Okraj

3rd—Oscar Millar

1B

1st—Lauren Davis

2nd—Jordan Tranter

3rd– Dylan Madaffari

1W

1st—Liam Hardy

2nd—Laila Welch

3rd—Lieven Fernandes

2B

1st—Lila Woolams

2nd—Chloe Murtagh

3rd—Adam Hall

2W

1st—Lila Grant

2nsd– Anthony Gutta

3rd—Josh Tangey

3B

1st—Hayley Walenyk

2nd—Ashleigh Hanna

3rd—Thomas Bowman

3W

1st—Carter Hawthorne

2nd—Hayden Thomas

3rd—Sophia Drayton-Witty

4B

1st - Skyla Lander

2nd—Jade Stewart

3rd—Katie Seroney

4W

1st—Ashlee Balazs

2nd—Angelina Smith

3rd—Mitchell Keely

5B

1st– Chelsea Sweeney

2nd—Ciara Buonomo

3rd—Kai Guest

5W

1st—Alexander Prindiville

2nd—Ryan Jones

3rd—Abbey Rae

6B

1st—Catherine Medikeri

2nd—Trent Therkelsen

3rd—Connor Hardy

6W

1st -Jack Davis

2nd—Jesse Jenkins

3rd—Dylan Oakley

KB

Ryan Joseph

Isabelle Fletcher

Ethan Sussmilch

KW

1st—Danika Leahy

2nd—Aidan Goh

3rd—Jack Duffy

EASTER RAFFLE RESULTS

Term One Term Two Term Three Term Four

1 February

8 April

27 April

1 July

19 July

21 September

11 October

9 December

School Hours: Mon - Fri 8.30am to 2.45pm

Office Hours: Mon - Fri 8.00am to 4.00pm

APPOINTMENTS

Parents are reminded to contact Mrs Hall in order

to set up an appointment with staff members.

Principal: By appointment only.

Loreto Child Care Centre: 9251 3014

Outside School Hours Care: 9251 3015

0417 091 296

PARISH TIMETABLE WEEKEND MASS TIMES Saturday Vigil 6.00pm Sunday 8.00am and 10.00am WEEKDAY MASS TIMES: Tuesday, Thursday & Friday 8.45am Wednesday 8.45am Parish or School Mass Saturday—8.45am RECONCILIATION Sat 5.00-5.30pm before Mass or anytime by Appointment. PH: 9459 4459 Website: www.thornlie.perthcatholic.org.au

Monday EASTER

Tuesday EASTER

Wednesday S. WEALE

Thursday Y. MIYAMOTO* F. SERONEY

Friday K. AGOSTINO M. ATKINSON

TERM DATES 2016—STUDENTS

CANTEEN ROSTER 28 MARCH –01 APRIL 2016

UNIFORM SHOP OPENING HOURS

TERM TIME ONLY

If you are unable to come at these times please complete a uniform order form available from the Office, pay for it and your orders will be filled and delivered to

your child‘s class.

COMMBANK SCHOOL BANKING

EVERY TUESDAY BUT BOOKS MUST BE IN ON

RECYCLE YOUR USED BATTERIES INTO

THE BATTERY RECYCLING BIN IN THE

LIBRARY MONDAY—FRIDAY

ABSENTEES/SICKNESS In order for the school to reconcile attend-ance it is a requirement that a message is left on the Absentee Line

9251 3005 as emails to teachers are often not opened at the start of the day. Your co-operation in this regard is appreciated

Monday 8.00-9.00 am

Tuesday Closed

Wednesday Closed

Thursday 8.00—9.00 am

Friday 2.30- 3.30pm

GOING HOME THIS WEEK

NAPLAN INFO EVERY STUDENT YR 3 & 5

CANTEEN ROSTER

MAGUIRE 64

MURPHY 73

WELCH 32

WRIGHT 37