From the Principal Dear Parents and Friends,

Catholic Schools Week has been a busy celebration so far with Grandparents Day on Tuesday. The McAuley Hall was an excellent location for our Primary students to perform a mini concert. We had Singing, Poetry Readings, Line Dancing and stories about Donkeys. The audience was enthralled with how talented their Grandchildren were and greatly appreciated the opportunity to have time with the students. Many visitors commented on the great work that the teachers did with the children and the whole event was finalised with a delicious morning tea supplied by generous McAuley families.

What children need most are the essentials that grandparents provide in abundance. They give unconditional love, kindness, patience, humour, comfort, lessons in life. And, most importantly, cookies! ~ Rudy Giuliani

On Wednesday morning the school community continued with Catholic Schools Week celebrations with Mass. Fr Sijo was the celebrant with our school leaders reading the relevant parts and bringing forward the Gifts. Catholic Education is a significant contributor to the education of young Australians with 1 in 5 children in Australia attending a Catholic school. Well done to the school leaders and Miss Mason for her organisation of this significant event in the life of the school.

Today we see our Chisholm House fundraiser. Students were encouraged to dress in RED or wear something beginning with C and students brought in Cup-Cakes to sell. Thank you to all families who made a donation or provided Cup-cakes, all funds will be donated to Legacy Australia.

Legacy is a voluntary organisation supported by veterans, servicemen and women, and volunteers drawn from all walks of life. Their support and services now extend to include the dependants of members of today's Aus-tralian Defence Force who lose their lives or their health as a result of their military service. Today Legacy's caring and compassionate service assists over 70,000 widows and 1,900

children and dependants with a disability.

With upcoming Government Guideline changes for all school canteens—we are seeking interested parents who would like to contribute in sourcing new and delicious, cost effective, healthy products for our canteen. If you would like to have input, please contact the school office.

In closing don’t forget to ‘like’ our Face-book page for up to date happenings

and pictures.

Thank you for your support during this busy Catholic Schools Week.

God bless everyone.

Rod Little, Principal

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33-39 Capper Street (PO Box 453)Tumut

Phone 69472000 or Fax 69473771

Email: office.mcauley@cg.catholic.edu.au

h+p://www.mcauleytumut.nsw.edu.au

Wk 6, Term 1, Thursday 9th March 2017

Archie Webb Yr 2

Reflection “Love is donating a chunk

of your life to patch up holes in the life of another”

Richelle E. Goodrich

McAuley UNIFORM NEWS The school would like to congratulate and thank students and parents for their support in ensuring the correct school uniform is worn to school each day. There has been a remarkable improvement since school has commenced this year with many positive comments received from both our Parish and Tumut communities regarding how well presented our McAuley students are.

Swans of Tumut are currently investigating a woollen jumper for K-10 students which will be on sale during the Easter school holidays. We are sourcing a warm, machine washable, non itch, hard wearing jumper at a reasonable price. The current navy blue sloppy joe will be worn on sports days with navy trackpants/shorts/skorts, with the woollen jumper worn the other days with grey pants (boys), navy slacks and tunics (girls). The new woollen jumpers will be phased in over a 2 year period to allow students plenty of time to wear their current jumpers.

A new wet weather jacket has been sourced and will also be available during the Easter school holidays (if not before) for purchase. The jackets will begin at a size 4-6, then sizes 8,10,12, 14, 16, S,M,L,XL,XXL,XXXL, XXXXL. Cost will be approx. $60 for smaller sizes and $65 for larger sizes. This is comparative to what we currently pay. Again these jackets will be phased in over a 2 year period.

If you would like to order one of the NEW jackets, Swans has asked that you call into the shop in Wynyard Street and place your order ASAP. Some extra stock will be ordered as well. There will be a small wait (3-4 days) for jackets if you do not order. Orders will NOT be taken by the school, only Swan’s directly.

A long sleeve white girl’s shirt with a peter pan collar will also be available for primary girls to wear under their tunics and with the navy slacks for winter. Boys long sleeve shirts will remain the same. Again the new girl’s shirts will be phased in over a 2 year period. They will sell at $30.

At the beginning of 2019 all students will need to be wearing the new woollen jumpers, new wet weather jackets and long sleeve shirts for girls.

All students should now be wearing navy shorts with MCCS embroidery or Canterbury shorts with small CCC embroidery in navy ONLY or skorts with MCCS embroidery and the red polo sports shirt. These are the only navy shorts to be worn, NOT basketball type material shorts or plain navy shorts in other brands.

TRACKPANTS

Just a reminder with winter coming up that plain navy track pants purchased from Swan’s and Canterbury pants with CC embroidered in NAVY are permitted only. We appreciate your support in purchasing the correct track pants for your child.

Thank you for your support. Kerrin Henderson, Asst Principal

Coming up this week (Wk 6) Thursday 9th:

◊ CHISHOLM non-uniform day.

Friday 10th March:

◊ School (student) Banking day (op&onal).

Saturday 11th:

◊ Parish Mass 6pm—Church.

Sunday 12th:

◊ Come & Try Soccer—9am to 11am. Bull Paddock.

More info from Brian on 0427 538 318

◊ Parish Mass 10am—Church.

Coming up next week (Wk 7) Tuesday 14th:

◊ Yr 5/6 Come and Try League Day. Twickenham Oval.

Wednesday 15th:

◊ Blakeney Lodge visit Yr 9.2

◊ Mass presented by Yr 9.1

Friday 17th March:

◊ School (student) Banking day (op&onal).

◊ St Patrick’s Day Luncheon in St Mary’s Hall.

All welcome—12noon.

Canteen Roster next week SECONDARY CANTEEN

Mon 13th: Leanne Adams

Wed 15th: Leanne Adams

Fri 17th: Leanne Adams

PRIMARY CANTEEN

Mon 13th: Narissa Wa<s

Wed 15th: Liz Austen and Mary Ra?ery

Fri 17th: Jane Dean and Patrina Buckmaster

Have you

tried the

Apple Juice

ice-blocks? Many thanks to Wayne

Skein from the “Apple

Shed” who has donated -

pure unfiltered

apple juice ice-blocks with

no addi&ves to our canteen. Just 50cents! They are

selling really well. Students K-10 are really enjoying them.

SRC Update Our SRC Student Reps (and Miss Mason) are working hard to create a

fantas&c school environment for everyone at McAuley. Generous parents

are currently dona.ng balls, skipping ropes etc. to our K-6 campus for the

children to play with during break .mes. SRC students and parents are also

sending in Easter-eggs which will be raffled towards the end of term.

THANK YOU EVERYONE!

Pictured above are Lachlan and Seth McMahon with li�le sister

Alayna who recently donated 2 great balls to bump up the school’s supply.

Creating 3D

Objects.... Yr 2B explored 3D objects last

week and enjoyed crea.ng

their own fabulous structures.

The McAuley Tumut Show Display

received great critique!

Yr 2C created the giant Rooster which formed the back-drop to

our school display depic.ng the Chinese Year of the Rooster

Hannah & Ava

Max and Archie

Aiden Teak and Ian

Last Wednesday our Fire

Cadets had an opportunity

to visit our local airport and

look at some of the fire

figh&ng gear/ helicopters

etc . Unfortunately the

original helicopter the

students were inspec&ng,

received a call out and had

to travel to Taree for a fire.

Not to be disappointed, however, the students had

the opportunity to look at the hanger and another of

the helicopters. Our McAuley Cadets would like to

thank all the people who allowed them to visit the airport and

the &me they put into organising the a?ernoon. - Kerry Cro", Cadets Coordinator.

Enthusiastic Cadets visit Tumut Airport

Money Maters Year 9 students enjoyed a very informa&ve talk from Mrs Jodie

Hamilton represen&ng the Na&onal Australia Bank last week.

The students have been learning about interest rates and

Personal Loans during their Year 9 classes. - David Turnbull

Potential Prize Winning Birds Year 7 Agricultural Technology students are pictured with

McAuley’s poten&al prize-winning meat birds. Yr 9 and 10 Ag

students enjoy an end of Term excursion to the Sydney Royal

Show—compe&ng against 90 NSW schools. The students

received the special delivery of the day old chicks

recently as part of a strict program which aims at

maximising their growth in &me for the Show. The

compe&&on provides students with a glimpse into the

Poultry industry and works to dispel hormone myths

surrounding chicken meat produc&on. with the birds

they have reared and fa<ened. Best wishes to these

students.

Yr 9 learning skills for the future.

Chicken Meat Production

Jessica Kelly has enjoyed learning to sew! All the way from Myrtleford for Grandparents

Day was Bridget Ryan’s mum; grandmother of

Missy and Jordyn. Hannah Griffiths was

thrilled to join the happy group.

Marco and Angus

Eadie and Tyler

Zoey

Year 5/6B sang Wonkey Donkey to

the delight of all in a<endance.

Olivia Year 3/4V line-danced to Achy Breaky Heart

Paul Dean with son Lucas Angus, Hunter and Ethan with Nan Maureen Young

Nans Marilyn Pearce and

Carmen Cribb enjoyed coming

together to support Chloe in

Kinder and Joe in Year 1

Hannah Cohen

Sammi Ryan, Jed, Sophie and Travis

Ma.lda and Claudia

Parking Infringements We have received a phone call from Valmar in regard to parents parking in their driveway and driving into their yard to turn around at afternoon pick up time. Valmar operates like a school and as such has clients walking in the yard. We ask that you please do not do this. Sadly police have been notified of this situation.

We also ask that parents DO NOT drop off and pick up children of a morning and afternoon, in the designated SCHOOL BUS ZONE. This is located in Capper Street outside the church and runs along the side of Capper Street for quite a distance. Signs are provided to assist you. We have noticed that parents are using this area to drop off children when they are running late of a morning. Please drive around to the back of the church and ask your child to use the back gate.

A REMINDER that all students and parents are to exit the school through the back gate, NOT through the bus lines please.

Thanks for your support in keeping our children safe.