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Tenison Woods Catholic School ‘In all things love’

68 Brooker Terrace, Richmond SA 5033 www.twcs.catholic.edu.au [email protected] Telephone: 08 8131 7900 Absentee SMS: 0408 788 659

Calendar Dates

FEBRUARY

Monday 12th

Swimming Trials 3.30-4.30pm

Tuesday 13th

Carnevale Parade 9.00am

Shrvoe Tuesday Pancake recess

11.00am

Wednesday 14th

Ash Wednesday Mass Years R-4

9.00am

Years 5-7 Aquatics Day

P&F Meeting 7.00pm

Thursday 15th

Ash Wednesday Liturgy Years 5-7 10.30am

Monday 19th

Assembly 9.00am

Swimming Trials 3.30-4.30pm

Wednesday 21st

Board meeting 6.00pm

Monday 26th

Swimming Trails 3.30-4.30pm

Tuesday 27th

Police Band Visit 10.00am

MARCH

Wednesday 7th

Principal Tour 9.30-11.00am

Attachments

Helping children make a bright start to school

Parenting for Resilience

Term 1 Week 2 8 February, 2018

Dear Parents, Friends and Guardians,

Welcome to the start of the 2018 school year! The Christmas holiday period was a wonderful opportunity to spend time with family and relax before embarking upon another busy year! I know that the staff are also refreshed and enthusiastic to embark upon a new and exciting year of learning ahead.

We have 22 new Reception students whom we officially welcomed at our Welcome Mass last week. The Welcome Mass was facilitated by our new Parish Priest, Father Peter Zwanns; I take this opportunity to officially welcome Fr Peter to our community. We are delighted to have Fr Peter with us, he brings great wisdom, knowledge and youthful enthusiasm with him and we look forward to working with him in our community over the coming years. I wish to welcome to our community Jade in year 3 and the following new reception students who have officially commenced their educational journey at TWCS; Adam, Alexander, Alyssa, Aydin, Caden, Elizabeth, Eva, Eve, Gunocean, Gurnoor, Harry, Isaac, Ivy, Jack, Jaxson, Leo, Mayra, Mira, Primrose, Ralph, Sienna and Tejas.

Starting school is a significant milestone in a child’s life and each family digests this day differently. I noticed that this year there was much emotion exuding from our parents as they departed the school grounds leaving their precious cargo with us for the entire day and week! This is an enormous responsibility and I again thank you for entrusting us with your children. We do not take this responsibility lightly; we have mechanisms in place to ensure that every child matters and we take extra time to carefully observe our starting reception students in particular.

Additionally, I wish to welcome Nicole Musolino who has joined our staff as a Reception/Year 1 Teacher.

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Tenison Woods Catholic School is a faith filled community with a commitment to

INSPIRE, INNOVATE and EXCEL

AGM (Annual General Meeting) /School Board Nominations/Strategic Plan: the AGM is scheduled for Wednesday 14 March

commencing at 6pm. This is a community event and you are all warmly invited to hear about the school and it’s progress.

Most importantly, we are seeking nominations for three positions on our School Board.

I wish to thank the following members whose tenures have expired, Jenni Carberry (6 years!), Karen Williams and Jackie

Stepien-Hulleman.

I have often heard from ‘new’ parents saying, that perhaps I am not eligible to nominate for these positions as I have just

commenced my time at TWCS. I can assure you, that is not the case and that your involvement in the school in this way is

extremely beneficial and most rewarding at any stage of your child’s journey. Therefore, if you wish to nominate yourself

for either one of these three, two year tenures and are able to commit to two meetings per term, then I ask that you forward

your nomination to [email protected] by no later than 9 March 2018.

Strategic planning workshop- Immediately following the AGM, I will facilitate a strategic planning process with our

community. I ask that you consider making this workshop a priority so that you can be involved in the discussions and

deliberations pertaining to the schools future development. The collection of the data accrued on this evening, coupled with

the data collected from the staff (from the same process) will yield a 5-year strategic plan.

For catering purposes for both events, I ask you to RSVP to Anna at [email protected]

Charter for Parents from the Federation of Parents & Friends Association – as an enrolling parent at a Catholic School all

parents are required to abide by the policies and conditions by which we operate. All Catholic School Parents are therefore

obliged to align themselves with the Charter for Parents. This charter articulates clearly defined processed and behaviours

that parents in Catholic schools are expected to adhere to.

It is unacceptable and a serious breach of the charter, for parents to talk with or remonstrate with any child on the school

grounds at any time. As stated above, if there is a matter of concern, which involves your child, you must direct these

concerns to the appropriate staff member at an appropriate time. Attached is the link for all parents to acquaint themselves

with this document: www.parentfederation.catholic.edu.au

Grievance Procedures- Like in all organisations we have specified grievance procedures in Catholic Schools. If you have a

concern pertaining to your child, the process that we ask that you employ at TWCS is to first make an appointment with your

child’s class teacher/or the teacher directly concerned. Leadership team members will also be available to listen to

grievances, however ultimately matters of difference or concern must be discussed with all parties involved. It is always best

to address matters as they arise, as managing retrospective, historical issues is extremely problematic.

Leadership Structure 2018- this year we have re-structured our leadership portfolios and re-named these positions as

Leaders of Learning. The following staff will make up our leadership team in 2018:

Matthew Harrison- APRIM / Special Education / sustainability projects

Jill Kehoe- Curriculum coach-consultant

Tom Atyeo – Relief teaching / science & digital technologies / extra curricula sports programs

Sophie Smith- Numeracy / NAPLAN

Paula Burns – English / EAL / PAT testing

Gina Margush – General curriculum policies / JP pedagogy / Data base

Each of these leaders has time out of their classrooms allocated to undertake these positions.


mailto:[email protected]


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In 2016, the School Board approved the implementation of an application (App) for phones and tablets, which can be used

by parents to pay for school fees, camps, excursions, uniforms etc. To access this app, simply go to the App store to locate

QKr! by MasterCard. A full ‘How to guide’ is attached to this newsletter for your convenience. This year in 2018 all payments

will be paid for through this App (this includes, uniforms, subway lunch orders, excursions, sports carnivals etc.).

Please note: when paying school fees, you will need to nominate the amount you are paying as this app is a third party and

as such, it cannot be integrated with our finance system and thus does not identify your personal balance details.

Following this, you will be asked to register and account and to locate the school for which you wish to use the app for. We

anticipate that this will assist families who are already very busy to make payments in a quick and secure way. The App is

now operational and we trust that you enjoy the ease and convenience associated with this.

Please also note: we have contacted Villi’s to ask if they could accommodate their ordering process on this app, however

they do not have the resources to support an online ordering process and thus you will need to continue with the current

ordering process.

Subway lunch orders: due to the success of the online ordering Subway will also be available on Fridays. We thank John Barr

from Subway at Torrensville for supporting the online ordering and to accommodating our school on another day. Friday

lunch orders will begin on Friday 16 February.

OHSC – As you know, our OHSC facility is out sourced and run but Camp Australia. It is important to note, that several years

ago, the school did run its own OHSC program. However, like many small schools, that program was not financially viable and

was subsequently outsourced to Camp Australia. Additionally, because of families not having morning care available at TWCS,

we introduced an early 8am start to assist families; this too has a financial expense associated with it.

The fees and administrative structures aligned with this service are centralised and applied to the hundreds of OHSC centres

across Australia run by Camp Australia. Unfortunately, we do not have governance over fee increases of fee structures. I

understand that the costs have increased with this service and as a result are making this care facility potentially inaccessible.

I will continue to work with management on their pricing structure behind the scenes to try to alleviate future increases. In

the meantime, please feel free to write to Camp Australia expressing your thoughts.

RAN-EC Training- I am delighted to report that at least twelve parents have already completed their RAN-EC training online.

Please note, as per my email earlier in the week, all volunteers in Catholic schools are required to complete this online course

in order to be eligible to assist in our schools. The link for this training is: https://www.plink.sa.edu.au/pages/external-

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Parenting corner- I have attached two articles from parenting expert Michael Grose for your perusal; they include, helping

children make a bright start to school and Parenting for Resilience. Each fortnight I will include articles or links to digital

mediums which are designed to assist in parenting your children, I hope that you find these useful!

The Pupil Free dates for the year as located on the website http://www.twcs.catholic.edu.au/news-events/events

include:

Term 2: Thursday 5 July 2018, Friday 6 July 2018 (Early Closure day, no students at school) Term 3: Monday 23 July 2018 Term 4: Monday 15 October, Friday 14 December 2018 (Early Closure day, no students at school) Regards Mark Battistella Principal


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Dear Families,

We have had a great start to the year finishing our first week with a Welcoming Mass lead by our new parish priest Fr Peter

Zwaans. We welcome Fr Peter and look forward to building a strong partnership with our Tenison Woods students, families

and the community.

Commissioning Blessing

As part of the Welcoming Mass, Fr Peter offered Staff, School Board and Parents and Friend’s representatives a

Commissioning Blessing. Those who were able to be present were asked to accept their commitment of service to the

Church and our school community throughout 2018.

Ash Wednesday

Ash Wednesday Mass for will be held in the Saint Aloysius Parish Church on Wednesday 14th February

at 9:00am.

During the Mass the students will receive ashes signed as a cross on their forehead. The Ashes come from

palms used on the previous Palm Sunday. The cross is to remind us that we are entering into the 40 day

season of Lent. Lent is a time of prayer, almsgiving and fasting (Matthew 6:1-4).

Unfortunately, our Year 5-7 students will be on their aquatics excursion on Wednesday and will not be able to attend the

Ash Wednesday Mass.

Fr Peter has kindly offered an Ashes Liturgy in the Saint Aloysius Parish Church on Thursday 15th February at 10:30am.

Project Compassion – For a Just Future

On Tuesday we attended the Western Region Caritas Project Compassion Launce

“For a Just Future,” at Nazareth College. Lily, William D, Tom and Angelina from

Year 6/7 accepted this leadership responsibility on behalf of their peers and were

great ambassadors for our school. Lily and William D received our Caritas school

candle and front office Project Compassion box for next week.

At the Ash Wednesday Mass and Thursday Ashes Liturgy we will distribute the class sets

of Project Compassion boxes and commence Crossways Religious Education units as we

support the students in their understanding of Lent and importance of the supporting our

neighbours through Project Compassion.

Enjoy the weekend,

Matthew Harrison

Acting APRIM

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Welcome to 2018! I would like to welcome all new families to Tenison Woods Catholic School. My role as Sports

Coordinator involves organising after school sport and supporting Matthew Harrison with the organization of sporting

carnivals throughout the year. I would also like to welcome back all of our returning families and I look forward to

another fantastic year of sport at TWCS and building on the great year we had in 2017.

South Australian Catholic Primary School Sports Association Swimming Carnival

The main event for this term is the South Australian Catholic Primary School Sports Association Swimming Carnival on

Thursday March 15th at Magill Pool. The students from Yr 4-7 have received a note asking for expressions of interest for

this carnival and trials have begun. For more information about being involved in the swimming carnival contact

Matthew Harrison via email [email protected]

Basketball and Kanga Cricket

Notes regarding Basketball and Kanga Cricket for Term 1 have gone home already and it is great to see teams are filling

up fast. The basketball season begins in week 4 and confirmation of teams and a roster will be distributed in the near

future. Kanga Cricket season begins this Saturday 10th February and information regarding the schedule and team has

been distributed to registered players this week.

I wish you all a fantastic 2018 and I look forward to busy but most of all an active year.

Tom Atyeo

Sports Coordinator


PE & SPORT NEWS




In the first two weeks, the Year 4/5 students have been busy looking at the concept of ‘Identity’ and have

completed a half face art activity as seen below.


4/5T CLASSROOM NEWS



In Maths, the students have been learning about factors and multiples. They have been creating

arrays as a way of understanding the factors of numbers.

Tom Atyeo

4/5 Teacher




Benvenuti ad un nuovo anno scolastico!

(Welcome to a new school year!)

Our year has begun well - the students have settled in well to Italian classes and are extending their learning.

Many students will be exposed to a language other than English for the first time and I hope that, as their

learning evolves, they will enjoy participating in Italian lessons.

Learning a language enables students to have an appreciation of other cultures: their language, their belief

systems, their traditions and their history. It is against this backdrop that we will celebrate CARNEVALE on

Tuesday, 13 February. La Sfilata delle Maschere (Masks Parade) will begin at 9am in the Courtyard Area e

siete benvenuti a celebrare con noi tutti (and you are welcome to celebrate with us)! Any younger brothers

or sisters who wish to participate in la Sfilata may bring their mask with them on the day and join their

brother’s/sister’s class during la Sfilata.

During our Italian lessons children will be learning that, during Carnevale, Italy comes alive and, everywhere

you look, you can see beautiful colours, beautiful costumes and beautiful masks. This beauty will be

reflected in the masks that the children will be decorating (perhaps at home!) and I am certain you will be

delighted with la Sfilata!

A presto, Signora Ciocca


LE NOTIZIE ITALIANE



Welcome to all our new families and welcome back to our existing ones. A big thank you once again to everyone

who helped the P&F in 2017.

The Parents and Friends Committee is YOUR voice- so if you think there is something the school

needs, have a fundraising idea or a suggestion please let us know.

Our next meeting will be Wednesday, February 14th at 7pm- I really hope to see you there.

Kirsty Miller

P & F Chairperson

PARENTS AND FRIENDS NEWS


Over the holidays the second, junior sized, drinking fountain has been

installed and both fountains are now connected to power and

providing chilled water for the children.

Our first event this year is cooking pancakes, for recess, for all

the children on Shrove Tuesday, the 13th of February.

Thank you to everyone who has already volunteered to help, the

response has been overwhelming.

Our first meeting of the year will be held next Wednesday

night at 7pm in the staff room. I warmly invite all parents

along to enjoy a drink, some nibbles and to join our Parents

and Friends Committee.

If you are unable to attend this meeting (I know it is

Valentine’s Day- sorry!) but would still like to be involved,

please leave your details with Anna in the office. We would

love to see some new faces and fresh ideas.



“The services and events contained in this bulletin are in no way connected with the school and are

included in this newsletter for your information only. Parents and caregivers need to make their own

enquiries and assessments about the suitability of these events and services for their needs and those

of their children.”


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