st raphaels central school newsletter term 3 week 4

P.O. Box 7, Cowra 2794 Email: [email protected] Tel: 6342.2940 School Website: www.straphaelscowra.catholic.edu.au

Dear Parents Today countries around the world commemorate 100

years since the declaration of World War 1 and they

remember the sacrifice and courage, the waste and

destruction that resulted. Interestingly, the

anniversaries of the dropping of the atomic bomb on

Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War 2 also fall in this

week. We pray earnestly for peaceful resolutions in

theatres of war around the world today.

Cowra in particular celebrates tomorrow the good that

continues to come from the POW breakout 70 years

later. Even out of the violence of over two hundred

deaths here and the tragedy of war on the larger scale,

good can be made to grow if enough good people with

enough courage and perseverance take up the cause

… and that is what has been given to us to carry on.

Congratulations and thank you to the numerous

students participating in community commemorations

over these days; whether you are Youth Councillors,

cadets, dancers, lantern paraders, wreath layers,

musicians, hosts, exhibitors, you add wonderfully to

the community in which we live.

The feast day of St Mary MacKillop will be celebrated

this Friday (Aug 8th). “There where you are you will find

God” is one of my favourite quotes from St Mary

MacKillop.

Best wishes to our athletes: Secondary athletes who

qualified to represent K-10 Schools at Bathurst in the

Diocesan Secondary Athletics compete on Thursday

(7th). Primary athletes who qualified to represent K-10

Schools will compete at Bathurst on Friday in the

Diocesan Primary Athletics competition. With the

privilege of representation comes responsibility for fine

conduct and attitude – live up to the role.

In the midst of all the events of the week Healthy

Harold has landed at St Raphs and will be involved in

helping primary students get a firm understanding of

what is involved in and how to keep up a healthy,

balanced life style. The excitement that surrounds

Healthy Harold’s annual visit energises us all.

Michael Gallagher Principal

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand Matthew 14:13-21

You are the Lord ruling heaven and earth. You take care of us, You give us everything we need. Sometimes we doubt and think we will not have enough. We worry about having food, clothes, a place to live. Help us trust that You will always take care of us. We pray in Your name, Jesus.

Amen.

Monday 4 100

th Declaration of WWI.

Life Education Van here all week.

Tuesday 5 70

th Breakout Anniversary.

Wednesday 6

Thursday 7

Happy birthday to Jayden Azzopardi. Secondary Diocesan Athletics Carnival.

Friday 8

Happy birthday to Anthony Day. Primary Diocesan Athletics Carnival.

Primary Assembly led by KF.

St Raphael’s Catholic School

Term 3, Week 4/B Newsletter

4th

August 2014


Vinnies Winter Appeal Over $700 was raised to support the valuable work of St Vincent de Paul last week. Thank you to everyone for your generosity. Mary McCloskey and Pat Sconce from St Vincent de Paul attended our assembly last week to thank the Year 10 students for the money they raised doing the Vinnies Winter sleepout. They also spoke to the high school students about the valuable work St Vincent’s do and gave examples of what the money we donate is used for.

Dates For Calendar: Mon 11th August - Confirmation Reconciliation 7pm Tues 12th August - Year 6 Confirmation Retreat Day Sat 16th August - Confirmation 6pm Mass (Please note this

is the only Mass for Cowra this weekend)

Altar Servers’ Roster Sat 16

th Aug: Grace and Cate Gallagher.

School Readers for Weekend Parish Masses: Sat 16

th Aug: Confirmation

School Computer Roster Sat 16

th Aug: Confirmation.

Sun 17th Aug: Mrs M McMurtrie.

Primary Assembly

The next primary assembly will be held this Friday, 8th

August. It will be led by Mrs Finlay’s class, Kinder F. If your son / daughter is to receive a class award a note will be sent home early this week. Parents are always most welcome to attend any primary assembly.

Primary Physical Education Lessons

Wednesdays

This week on Wednesday, 6th August Years 2, 5 and 6

will be wearing their sports uniforms as they will be

involved in Physical Education lessons. Next week, on

Wednesday 13th August Years 1, 3 and 4 will need to

wear their sports uniforms.

English / Maths Competitions Mathematics This week students from Year 3-10 sat English tests organised by the University of New South Wales. Next week students will be sitting the Mathematics Tests on Tuesday, 12

th August. Year 6 students are involved in

a Confirmation Retreat Day on this day and will sit the test on the following day, Wednesday.

Sporting Events

Secondary

Thu, Aug 7 Diocesan Secondary Athletics (Bathurst)

Sept 11-12 Quinn Cup (Oberon)

Fri, Sep 12 CCC Athletics

Primary

Fri, Aug 8 Diocesan Primary Athletics (Bathurst)

Fri, Sep 5 Polding Athletics

Netball NSW Schools Cup Regional Finals On Tuesday 29 July our Stage 3 and Stage 4 Netball teams travelled to Orange to contest the second round of the Netball NSW Schools Cup, the Western Region Finals. Stage 3 After an excellent performance at the regional carnival in Bathurst, our Stage 3 girls were excited to contest the regional finals of the Schools Cup. The girls started with a tough game against St Mary’s Orange, going down by a few goals. The second game was another tough game against St Mary’s Warren. After a close and hard-fought game the girls were eventually defeated by 2 goals. The other games saw the girls play St Laurence’s Forbes and St Matthew’s Mudgee, with convincing wins against both teams. Congratulations must go to the girls for their excellent participation and sportsmanship in both the regional carnival and finals. Thank you for your dedication and hard-work, you did us proud! A special thank you also to the support from parents and for transporting the girls on the day. The team consisted of Zara McKenzie, Ruby Frazer, Matilda Proctor, Mackenzie Bone, Natalie Banks, Kate Price, Emma Chalker, Olivia McNamara and Madeline Webster. Stage 4 Our girls under direction of "new to Netball" coach @coachthos (yes you can follow Coach Thomas on Twitter) started the group stage of the competition very strongly with an outstanding performance against St. Matthews from Mudgee. With our team tiring late in the second half Mudgee started to expose some questionable decision making by our girls. Fortunately they had amassed a lead that was unreachable in the short period that was left and held on for the win. The other group stage games were against Walgett High School and Oberon High School. Now, not being one to boast, but the performance of these two teams could best be described as "comme ci, comme ca". Through to the Semi-Finals in first place! Matched up with our fiercest rivals, Cowra High School. With the CHS team sleeping in the sun and eating hot chips. @coachthos demanded more from the girls, from the grueling warm-up to the last whistle. The result, we ran rings around them. #proudcoach


With only moments before the Final, our team was visited by Mr Scott Hudson, he gave a short, profound motivational speech, our team found a new level of awareness much like Neo after he takes the red pill in the Matrix. Dubbo South, loaded with representative players and full of sass, started strong and led the final match after the first minute 3-1. The girls fought back, levelling the scores and going 4-6 up by half time. After the break St. Raph's kept fighting and never let Dubbo have a easy pass and it showed in the score line as the girls stretched the lead out to 13-6 by the end. Inaugural Western Regional Champions of the Netball NSW School Cup. #Sydney-bound Well Done girls you did St. Raphael's proud.

Bishop Michael’s visit Bishop Michael visited our school in Week 1. Part of his visit included a talk with the Year 6’s about their Confirmation this year.

Outward Bound We now have a "monster raffle" for sale at the front office. Items include a patio heater, swag, cordless drill, carpet cleaning voucher, beauty voucher, special products amongst other things. Please support our students. This raffle will be drawn at our cabaret evening on August 14th. Mrs Inel Date - Outward Bound 2014

“Passport to Paris” Bonjour all! One week left of preparations for our whole school "Passport to Paris" event! The primary classes are putting their final brushstrokes on their auction canvases. They are a delightful mix of Eiffel Towers, Van Gogh, Toulouse Lautrec, Tour De France and Even a kindergarten Monet! Please share in their enthusiasm and support the upcoming events.

A reminder of the "Passport to Paris" happenings: Monday and Tuesday 11 and 12 August- Milkcrate events, from Sydney, will be workshopping with students to build an "Eiffel tower" out of milk bottles in St Raphael’s Hall. Year 5 and 6 are actively building and constructing. Mrs Finlay has created a roster for the whole primary to visit and have a "go" on the bicycle-power generators. Mrs Lil Wilson will be assisting with these two days. She will be explaining the proceedings and introducing our visiting artists to the visiting classes. Students get their "passports" stamped once they have seen the exhibition and watched the Eiffel Tower under construction. Wednesday 13 August- during the day students will be visiting the exhibition. Anyone from the community is welcome to visit after 12, especially if they are not coming to the opening. The opening is at 6pm that evening. Guest judge, Ann Morton, will be handing out prizes. These prizes have been sponsored by the P&F. This will be followed by the art auction conducted by St Raph's parents Patrick Waters and Jon Sullivan. Kindergarten French portraits, taken by Sonia Turner, will be on sale for $3. The tea towels that kindergarten and Year 1 have purchased will be ready for collection at the "tea towel wagon". Rebecca Bennett will be facilitating the tea towels on the night. Mrs Bischof and her food tech students are providing canapés. Mrs McCabe and her team will be providing some champagne, wine and soft drink. Entry is gold coin which enters you into some wonderful door raffles. We look forward to seeing you there and supporting our students and staff! Thursday 14 August is our "Le Cabaret" evening. An evening of entertainment has been organised by our talented Mrs Swansborough and her students. Be delighted by our own "Edith Piaf" and a visit from the "can-can" girls! It is a supper theatre format. After some initial canapés, you are seated and Mrs Bischof


and her team bring on a delightful 3-course French themed meal whilst you enjoy the entertainment. A lovely relaxed evening, hopefully our Eiffel Tower will be "lit up" and we will feel we are sitting in the streets of Paris. This evening is BYO. Tickets are on sale at the front office- $30/person. Outward Bound students will have their "monster raffle" for sale at the door and this will be drawn on the evening. We look forward to you support! Merci beau coup (thank you)! Au Revoir Liverpool Street changes fro Monday 4

th August

Council have phoned to advise us that today, from 4:00-6:00pm Liverpool St will become a heavy vehicle bypass. This will be to cover the commemorative events taking place at the Peace Bell taking place at this time. Canteen Update This week’s roster is as follows:

Tues 5

Wed 6

Thurs 7

Fri 8

Mon 11

Karen Budge

Lisa Day

CLOSED

Tracey Gunnyon

Jane

Stendell

Margie Thomas

Rachael

Duff

Dawn Stedman

Sally

Bruncher

WELL DONE Congratulations to the following students who have achieved the

next level on the Behaviour Management Programme.

Level 5 Louis Johnson 3M Level 6 Codie Thompson 3M Matthew Banks 3S Georgia Buchtmann 3S Imogen Chambers 3S Bridie Connor 4J Michelle Grech X2 Brittney Irvine R2 Darcee Nixon K1 Julia Cains K1 Xavier Lynch X1 Lilly Pilcher X1 Benjamin Price R1 John Terry R2 Mia Ashton R2 Jonathon Day X1 Matthew Terry R2 Bradey Trethewey K2

Your Teachers are very Proud of You!

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