NEWSLETTER Tuesday May 7, 2019

St Oliver Plunkett Primary School

Landells Rd, Pascoe Vale, 3044 9354 5411

www.sopascoevale.catholic.edu.au

LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT

DIARY DATES

Term 2

MAY 8-10 Senior Camp

8 Parent association meeting

9 Junior Mum’s Night out

13 Reconciliation Parent

Meeting @ 7pm

14-16 Naplan

16 Senior Interschool

sports starts

17 School Closure Day

22 SSV Cross Country

31 Grandparents Mass @

9.30am

JUNE 2 Junior Family Mass 10.30

5 Yr 3 Reconciliation

(Middle B,D and M)

10 Queen’s Birthday Holiday

12 Yr 3 Reconciliation

(Middle C and T)

27 Optional report Feedback

28 Feast of the sacred Heart

Term 2 ends @ 1.30

Friday Assembly @ 3pm Click HERE to view the roster for

term 2.

NO ASSEMBLY THIS WEEK DUE

TO CAMP

Weekly Class Mass Click HERE to view the Class

Mass roster for term 2. Masses are on THURSDAY at

10.00am in the church.

Vision Statement

We at Saint Oliver Plunkett Catholic Parish Primary school have a vision.

In the spirit of peace and forgiveness, with Jesus by our side, we aspire to be learners who are connected in a faith community that is inclusive,

respectful, loving and compassionate.

Dear Parents and Students, What a great way to start the week!

MOTHER’S DAY CELEBRATIONS Our annual Mother’s Day breakfast was extremely well attended and the hall was a buzz! We are so blessed to have an amazingly committed staff who worked to plan, set up and arrive at school in the dark to ensure a lovely spread was ready when mum’s and children arrived. The scones, croissants and pancakes/pikelets were well received. The posters around the hall and the photo booth were certainly a highlight. Please see the photos on the screen in our school foyer Thank especially to our Mother’s day team Cecilia Garden, Meg Grbac and Shelley Hardingham who planned and drove the breakfast. The entire staff did a great job. There have been many verbal and emailed thankyou messages that I have shared with our staff. They were greatly appreciated. Thank you to our amazing parent association for the Mother’s day Stall. To Jo Pezzimenti for organising the stall and her team for helping out so willingly on the day. To the families for their donations to our raffle and Lara for her overseeing the work that goes on around the organisation of the raffle.

SENIOR CAMP This week we send our year 5/6 students and many of our staff off to Benloch near Lancefield for their 3 day/2 night camp. The weather conditions are looking extremely cold so we will all need our thermals. The staff on these camps are on duty for the day and night. Their commitment to the children and their families is enormous and I thank them for this. All senior teachers will be attending the camp. The additional teachers attending are Mollie Russell, Sarah Johnson, Cecilia Garden and Jess Toniolo. Their classes will be taught by replacement teachers. Sue Leighton, and Trish Segrave will be there for the three days. Jaki will be attending on Wednesday and Thursday and I will be in attendance on Thursday night and Friday.

SCHOOL CLOSURE DAY Please be reminded that Friday May 17 is our term 2 school closure day. On this day we have Catholic Education Melbourne staff working with us to further our knowledge and implementation of differentiation across the school. There is no school for children. Please contact Camp Australia if you need care for your children on this day.

PREP 2020 ENROLMENTS Today we have completed our last prep 2020 enrolment meetings, we certainly have healthy numbers to fill two prep classes for next year. It has been great meeting with all of the children and their families. I hope to send out letters of offer early next week.

CAMP POLICY As stated earlier in the year we were looking at revisiting some of our policies for 2019. As a staff and a school board we have revisited our Camp Policy. Please find our updated version HERE Please don’t hesitate to ask questions or seek clarification if there is anything you are unsure of.

(OSHC) CAMP AUSTRALIA FEEDBACK As part of our ongoing need to ensure what’s best for our children, I am asking for some feedback in relation to our St Oliver’s Camp Australia Program that provides before and after school care for our children. Please take a few minutes to provide us and the program with some feedback to ensure we can provide quality care for those families who require this care. I will be taking this feedback to our School Board for discussion. Please click on this link to provide your feedback https://forms.gle/yv3TfCDSKeaJnBhG9

Please be reminded that due to Senior Camp there will be No Assembly this Friday afternoon. We will be welcoming back our weary campers.

Have a great week

Libby

Congratulations to the following students who received awards at assembly last Friday

Julian Falzon, Katia Vitale, Rosie Ferrante, Raphael Gerdes, Ivana Markov, Valentina Courtis,

Sammy Forbes, Mila Munafo, Luca Lauria, Sofia Gerdes, Jasmine Passeri, Sienna Chiera,

Chanel Chiera, Michael D’Alberto, Mia Barbaro, Evita Ferrante, Aurelia Misitano,

Olivia Mantarakis, Michelle Tabet, Julian Pollina, Gabriel Ragona, Monique Chiera,Alessia

Frattasio, Charlie Prattico, Oliver Forbes, Julia Bongiovanni, Dante Licciardi, Emma Lazzaro,

Flynn Hall and Jayda Dramis.

LEADERSHIP and MANAGEMENT

LEARNING AND TEACHING

RECONCILIATION The parent information evening for the sacrament of Reconciliation is on Monday 13 May at

7:00 in ST classroom. The meeting is for parents only. An information pack regarding the

sacrament will be distributed on the evening.

MILK BOTTLE TOP COLLECTION

Our school families have the wonderful opportunity to make a difference to people’s lives by

collecting milk container caps and soft drink caps. No fruit juice caps are to be collected and

they need to be washed. These will be used to make prosthetic limbs. Together we will be

gathering bottle caps with a network of schools and transforming them into prosthetic hands, 3D

filament and other usable items. Each classroom has a box for the collection and there is also

one in the office area. I look forward to your support with this initiative.

Trish Segrave

Religious Education Leader

EDUCATION IN FAITH

LEARNING AND TEACHING

Ongoing Communication

We recognise the importance of ongoing communication and strengthening the link between home and

school. We would like to encourage you to speak with your child’s class teacher regarding curriculum,

their progress or other concerns at any stage during the school year.

If you would like to speak to your child’s teacher it is important that you arrange a time. You can drop by

the classroom to schedule a meeting time, leave a message with office staff or send an email. Teachers

are unable to meet with you on Monday and Wednesday after school due to scheduled staff meetings.

Teachers are available on Tuesday, Thursday and Friday after school.

Curriculum Overviews

This week you will receive your child’s curriculum overview that will provide an outline of the term’s focus in all curriculum areas. Please take the time to share this document with your child and discuss their learning throughout the term.

Preps Half Way Day

We are excited to be celebrating Preps 50th day of school.

The children have been eagerly waiting for this special day

and we marked the occasion with a ‘half/half day’ as they

are half way to their 100th day of school.

In the morning, the children took part in many maths

‘half’ and ‘50’ themed activities which included making

and eating a piece of fairy bread cut in half.

This is a fantastic way to get the children excited about

maths and to make a connection with real life experiences.

Earn & Learn Stickers We are taking part in the 2019 Woolworths Earn & Learn program. From now until June 25th 2019, you can collect stickers at Woolworths that go towards Earn & Learn points. These stickers can be sent to school or dropped into the collection box at the office. We will use the stickers to redeem resources for the whole school.

Sue Leighton

Learning & Teaching Leader

STEPHANIE ALEXANDER KITCHEN GARDEN

What a great way to start our new year in the SAKGP kitchen class. The students made some delicious

dishes which we all shared together. Fresh egg pasta with a silverbeet stalk, tomato sauce, zucchini

fritters and a carrot and cabbage salad were all on the menu. Delicious!! Thank you to our parents

Katia, Daniela and Stacey for your help in the kitchen!

GARDEN ADVICE! I am looking for anyone who can help me with

our ‘weed’ problem around our garden beds.

I am looking at some creative solutions to

what we could put/lay around them. If anyone

is willing to help or has some ideas please contact me on:

gmazzarella@sopacoevale.catholic.edu.au

POTS AND PANS We have a limited number of pots and pans in our kitchen. If you have any new or near new pots and pans that you would like to donate I would love to have them for our kitchen class. Please leave them at the office. Many thanks Giulia Mazzarella

SPORT

Sports Day Unfortunately due to the forecast we were unable to go ahead with our Sports Day. Although many of us were disappointed with the cancellation, we will endeavour to select another date in Term 4 when hopefully the weather will be in our favour. I have been and will continue to conduct some Athletics trials this term in preparation for the Coburg District Athletics Day. The students who were given the opportunity for the High Jump trials thoroughly enjoyed the challenge and all students were surprised with their outstanding achievements. Senior Inter-School Sports The Winter Inter-School Sports Programme will begin on Thursday 16th of May (Week 4). Games will be played from 11:30am - 1pm. The children will be playing a five week round robin in Term Two, with students playing on a rotation basis. We are in Division 1 – Large Schools.

WINTER SPORTS TEAMS & VENUES TERM 2 2019

DATE SCHOOL VENUES

NETBALL FOOTBALL SOCCER

Week 4

Thursday 16th May 11:30am start

Antonine

AWAY

SCHOOL

(Harding

Street)

ALLARD PARK

(Donald Street,

Brunswick East)

CLIFTON PARK

EAST PITCH

(Victoria Street)

Week 5 Friday 24th May

11:30am start

Pascoe Vale Nth

HOME

SCHOOL

RAEBURN

RESERVE

RICHARDS

RESERVE

(Charles Street)

Week 6 Friday 31st May

12:00pm start

Coburg West

HOME SCHOOL

RAEBURN

RESERVE

RICHARDS

RESERVE

(Charles Street)

Week 7 BYE

Week 8

Friday 14th June

11:30am start

Coburg North

HOME

SCHOOL

RAEBURN

RESERVE

RICHARDS

RESERVE

(Charles Street)

Week 9 Friday 21st June

11:30am start

Pascoe Vale

AWAY

SCHOOL

(Gaffney

Street)

COLE RESERVE

(Cumberland Road)

COLE RESERVE

(Cumberland Road)

** Please note the first game is on a Thursday (16th May)

** Friday 31st May (Home Game) will commence at 12:00pm due to our Grandparent Mass in the morning

Coburg District Cross Country The Coburg District Cross Country will be held on Wednesday 22 May at the Coburg Athletics Track (Jackson Reserve, Coburg), commencing at 9:45am and concluding by 12:15pm. In case of inclement weather, the backup day will be Wednesday 29 May. This year there is a maximum of 7 students per school per event.

Try outs have been conducted for our St Oliver’s Cross Country team and we will be completing some training during lunch times Week 4 Monday, Wednesday and Thursday, Week 5 Monday. Could students please bring their runners to school on these days? OR alternatively wear their sports uniform on these days. 9/10 year olds will need to run 5 laps of the oval and 11 and 12 years will need to run 7 laps.

Events will be conducted for boys and girls in the 10, 11 and 12/13 year age groups. The 10 year old boys and girls run 2km. The 11 and 12/13 year old boys and girls run 3km. Age groups are determined as at 31st December in the year of competition. Therefore, whatever age the student is turning this year or has turned this year, will be the age group that he/she competes in. Warm regards, Anne De Cata Sport Co-ordinator

GENERAL NEWS

FAMILY DETAILS UPDATES

It is imperative that we have accurate student & family information, particularly home, work and mobile

numbers of both parents and emergency contacts. Please inform the office if there are any changes to

any of these details.

SUNSMART

All children are encouraged to wear their SCHOOL HAT during recess

and lunch times, as well as during physical education/sport lessons.

Children are asked to have their own sunscreen (perhaps a roll on)

should you wish for them to wear it at recess and lunchtime. School does

not provide this due to allergies that many children have with various creams.

It is important you teach your children to put on their own sunscreen when at

school.

SCHOOL FEES

A reminder to please put your surname or account number in the reference field when paying school

fees online

WORKING WITH CHILDREN CHECKS

Please be reminded that all parents/carers working on site and off site with our children are required to

hold a current WWCC and this card should be with you at all times.

Please be reminded that when you are working at school you are required to sign in and out at the

office.

LUNCH ORDERS AT ST OLIVER’S

** **An important note re ordering via the Qkr App **

Cafe D’1Uno allows you to place your order up to two weeks in advance. It It is very easy to select the wrong date. Please check that your order date is correct prior to making payment If y

If you have any questions re this new ordering system please email josie@vitanaturalhealth.com.au

For concerns regarding the ingredients in various dishes from the cafe please contact Cafe D’1Uno

directly Phone: 03 9077 4600 Email: catering@d1uno.com.au

SCHOOL CANTEEN The school canteen operates on Thursday and Friday for window sales and the items available are as follows: Smooze ice blocks, Quelch ice sticks, Vege Chips, Popcorn, Nudie smoothies. These are sold for $1.00 each. Tiny Teddy’s .50c each

NEXT MEETING

All parents are invited to our next meeting tomorrow evening at 7pm in the staff room. We will be discussing events and fundraising for terms 2 and 3. We welcome new faces and ideas!

FOR DAD’S EYES ONLY

Thank you to all those dads who have ordered a surprise for Mother’s Day. Your order can be collected

on Sunday morning between 8.30am-11.00am from the school hall. For those that missed out on

ordering, we will have a small number of extras that can be purchased on the day. First come basis.

MOTHERS DAY

The Mother’s Day stall and raffle was once again, an amazing success. It is heart-warming to see the

children carefully considering a gift for their mum. Thank you to all the generous donors and to the

mums who helped out on the day. There were 40 prizes drawn in the raffle! Congratulations to the lucky

winners.

SCHOOL BANKING- TUESDAY

Did you know that every time your child makes 10 deposits they can redeem a reward AND the

Commonwealth Bank will give us $5.00! This is an easy way for you to support our school through fundraising

whilst your child learns about money management. The school banking program raises the school around $1500

a year, direct from the bank. The more children we have banking, the more money we raise. If you would like to

join the banking program existing Commonwealth Banking customers can sign up online, otherwise you can visit

any branch and ask to open a Dollarmite School Banking Account.

SECOND HAND UNIFORM

The next uniform stall will be on Friday 17th May at 3pm. We are also looking for volunteers to join a

roster of people to help set up once per term. If you are able to help for half an hour, please email

pa@sopascoevale.catholic.edu.au and I will add you to the roster.

PARENT ASSOCIATION

Transition to Secondary School

A Week in Outside School Hours Care

Outside School Hours Care (OSHC) is time for our students to explore their passions and dive into new

activities that push them outside of their comfort zones. It is a time for students to get creative and

explore a variety of activities.

Term 2 is off to a great start, the children have been engaging in a range of outdoor sports, playing

musical games as well as making creative art pieces at the centre. We’ve got so much more planned

for next week! Take a look at the fun activities we have planned for the children here:

Monday   Tuesday   Wednesday   Thursday   Friday  

Cooking time with

Sona! Making yummy

pancakes at BSC!

Board games and

LEGO for indoors!

Soccer nets for

outdoors!

Basketball

tournament in the

gym area!

Mother’s Day card

making and

jewellery making!

Mother’s Day

canvas painting and

other crafts!

Program Details

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www.campaustralia.com.au and use the school finder on our homepage to search for your school.

Meet the Team

We’re here to make OSHC the best experience possible. If you have any questions about the program,

feel free to drop by, meet the team and see what happens first hand in the program. If you would rather

talk to our friendly Customer Care Team you can call them on 1300 105 343. The team are available 24

hours a day, 7 days a week – except for National Public Holidays.

We look forward to seeing you and your family soon!

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