StPeter’sPrimarySchool
IssueNo.27
22August,2016
Principal-MrShaneWharton
Dear Parents and Carers,
This week is Book Week - have you been into our
Library?? It looks amazing! Rosalee has done an
incredible job of transforming our library into the
Book Week Theme of ‘Australia - Story Country’.
Please come in and have a look if you haven’t seen it
yet.
Mary McDougall
I am conscious of us all keeping Mary in our thoughts
and prayers as she con+nues to receive treatment to
assist in her regaining full health. Your prayers and
support are great appreciated by Mary and her family.
Prep Transion begins
This Thursday we begin our transi+on days for Preps
who will be star+ng school in 2017. This will start at
9.30am in the library and go through un+l 11.00am.
The main purpose of this first day is to help the
children become familiar with the school environment
and to start to get to know the people they are going
to be around next year.
Catholic Schools Athlecs Carnival
Next Monday, August 29th students from Years 3 - 6
will represent our school at the combined Catholic
Schools Athle+cs Carnival at the Flora Hill Athle+cs
track. Children were selected for events based on
their results at our recent athle+cs day here at school.
Parents and Carers are most welcome to come along
to this day and support their child in their athle+c
endeavours.
Sandhurst Arts on Show
The Catholic Educa+on Office’s Performing Arts Event
for 2016 Sandhurst - ‘Arts on Show’ is only weeks
away. The three day event where students from
primary and secondary schools come together at
Shepparton, across five venues, involves fantas+c
Song, Dance and Drama workshops. At the end of
each day all students will par+cipate in a Reprise
Performance at 4pm.
This is a preliminary no+ce that St Peter’s Year 5 & 6
students will be aAending this ac+vity on Thursday 1st
September. More informa+on will follow.
This week’s Story…
Long ago, there lived a little boy named Sammy. He was a good boy.
He was good in his studies, obedient to his parents, more intelligent
than many other boys in his class and kind to everyone. Grown-ups
as well as those junior to Sammy loved him very much. But that
aroused jealousy in many other boys who longed to be as loved as
Sammy.
Now there was another boy named Timmy who studied in the same
class as Sammy. Unlike Sammy, he was not good at studies and
always liked to play during school hours. He misbehaved with his
parents, bullied his classmates and even ill-treated Sammy. He
always tried to put Sammy down and belittled him before other kids in
the class. But no matter what he did, Sammy's grades kept getting
better and better. Whether in studies or in sports or from his
classmates, Sammy kept getting accolades from everywhere.
On his eighth birthday, Sammy got a nice pen as a gift from his
parents. He brought it to school so that he could use it to take down
the notes of the lessons that the teachers gave in class. This was a
very beautiful pen and it could help one write very fast. When Timmy
saw it, he was very jealous of Sammy. He asked Sammy,
"Hey, where did you get that? Did you buy it?"
"My parents gave it as a birthday gift to me." replied Sammy.
Timmy was overwhelmed with anger and jealousy. The bad boy that
he was, he rarely got any present from his parents. He decided to
steal Sammy's pen. During recess, when everyone had gone out from
the class, Timmy opened Sammy's bag and took out his pen. Then he
hid it inside his bag and went out to have his snacks.
When Sammy came back and could not find his pen, he informed his
class teacher about it. There was a hunt for the missing pen and the
class teacher ordered the class monitor to search the bag of every
children inside the class. The missing pen was soon found out of
Timmy's bag and the furious teacher asked the errant boy,
"Now Timmy, what do you have to say about it?"
Timmy was in tears. He had nothing to say.
When Sammy saw Timmy cry, he took pity on the boy. The kind boy
that he was, he had no ill-feeling against his classmate. He requested
his class teacher not to take any action against Timmy, now that his
stolen pen was found.
This opened Timmy's eyes. He could now see what a good boy
Sammy was. He asked for forgiveness from his teacher and Sammy.
From that day, he became friends with Sammy and gradually
changed himself to be as good as Sammy. Everyone began to love
Timmy and Sammy was proud of his new friend.
Despite being hurt by Timmy, Sammy gave him back only love in
return. This is how we should also treat our enemies. Who knows?
One day, our behaviour may just change themselves for the better.
Moral: Do not harm someone even if he harms you.
Be good to all.
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Principal’s Awards in Week 6 Term 3
Extend OSHC at St Peter’s Primary School
Mitchell Rees: playing great soccer
Maddison Burns- Wigney: excellent manners
Iteakah Mulcahy: very helpful at assembly
PARENT PORTAL: extend.com.au
St Peter’s Calendar
TERM 3 - Monday 11 July – Friday 16 September 2016
WEEK 7 - TERM 3
Mon 22nd
AUGUST
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Tue 23rd
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Wed 24th
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Thu 25th
Fri 26th
Book week commences
Scholas+c Book Fair commences
Megan out - Lauren in
Shane (& Jen Roberts) Principal mee+ng
Echuca
Book Week Dress up day & Parade 9am
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Shane (& Jen Roberts) Principal mee+ng
Echuca
Megan out - Lauren in
Prep 2017 Transi+on
BLURBS Concert
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Assembly 9am
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Thanks, Hannah
This week’s activities
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WEEK 8 - TERM 3
Mon 29th
AUGUST
Hi Everyone,
We had a massive week last week, the children were
very imaginative when working on their wooden peg arts
and crafts. We had a few sea creatures that would open
their mouths when you squeeze the peg as well as a few
beautiful butterflies. We also continued our Extend
Olympics with both indoor and outdoor games, this time
the children had to work in teams rather than individually
to complete the games set out. Well done to everyone
who participated! During the week the children helped
me to make pancakes with choices of strawberries,
blueberries and choc chips for their decorations. To end
off our week, the children made up some mission
impossible obstacle courses with the large foam blocks.
Catholic School Athle+cs
Corey Durston 1st yr pre-service teacher
School Board Mee+ng
Shane out—Jen Roberts in for the week.
Tue 30th
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Wed 31st
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Megan out - Lauren in
Thu 1st
SEPT.
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Megan out - Lauren in
Prep Transi+on Day
Pastoral Care Groups
Fri 2nd
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Assembly 9am
Division Basketball
Yr 3/4 Movement Day
Parent Car Park-Safety concerns
Can we please get everyone’s assistance in ensuring
our parents and visitors carpark at the front of the
school is as safe as it can be? We have staff in the area but s+ll incidents are occurring. Drivers need to be
aware that children need to safely get in and out of
cars. Could you please check if children are near your
car or if car doors are open before you move your car
or un+l all is safe to do so.
We all need to be very aware in and around our carpark to ensure the safety of our students, parents,
carers, staff and visitors.
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Monday 15th August
Outdoor Group games
Tuesday 16th August
Olympic Torches
Wednesday 17th August
Jigsaw Puzzles
Thursday 18th August
Balloon tennis
Friday 19th August
Student Free Days - Reminder
We would like to remind parents and carers that we
have the following Student Free Days in Term 4:
• Wednesday 26th October - Bendigo Cup
• Tuesday 1st November - Bishops Holiday
• Monday 28th & Tuesday 29th November Report Wring and 2017 Planning
• Friday 16th December - Students finish school
UNIFORM SHOP OPENING HOURS
MONDAY: 8.30AM - 9.00AM
WEDNESDAY: 3.00PM - 3.30PM
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Payment methods: Cash or EFTPOS
Community News
Collect a flyer from the school office
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Spor+ng Club Registra+ons
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Special Events
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Community Services
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And more!
St Kilian’s Mass Times
Tue - Fri: 12.10pm
Saturday morning: 8am
Saturday Vigil: 6.30pm
Sunday: 7am, 10am, 6pm
YingardiImmersionTrip
Last week I was very fortunate to go on a road trip to Mungo National Park, New South Wales.
Twelve staff from over the diocese travelled by bus to Mungo. It is a very signi6icant place in
Australian history. It is the country of the Mutthi Mutthi tribe and home to Mungo Lady and Mungo
Man. Mungo Lady and Mungo Man are perhaps the most important human remains ever found in
Australia. Their discovery re-wrote the ancient story of this land and its people.
These 42,000 year old ritual burials are some of the oldest remains of modern humans (Homo
sapiens) yet found outside of Africa. Mungo Lady is the oldest known cremation in the world,
representing the early emergence of humanity's spiritual beliefs. Mungo Lady and Mungo Man are
particularly special to their Aboriginal descendants who still live around the Willandra Lakes area,
the Paakantji, Ngyiampaa and Mutthi Mutthi people.
Vicki Clark, a Mutthi Mutthi
woman, was our leader and she
shared with us her story and her
culture. She has an amazing
connection to her land and was
very generous sharing this with us.
Vicki worked for Aboriginal
Catholic Mission, in Melbourne, for
25 years and has now returned
home. We watched a very moving
video called ‘KnowingHome’
whichwasVickispeakingata
conferenceaboutherSpirituality
andCatholicbeliefs.Ifeltreally
inspiredwatchingthisclip.
Ihopetosharesomeofmy
experienceswithstaffand
studentsovertherestoftheterm.
-BethCarr.
Start collecting your preloved
goodies to donate to our Market Day
Stay tuned for more details...
Monday 22 - Friday 26 August
CHILDREN’S BOOK FAIR
The Children’s Book Fair will run all week, before and after school in the Library Classroom.
8.30am to 9.15am Before School
3.00pm to 3.45pm After School
On Wednesday 24th the book fair will remain open until 6pm!
Times:
CASH
OR
CARD
Books * Posters * Stationary
Items priced from just $1.00 All purchases benefit our school!
DRESS UP DAY AND PARADE - Wednesday 24th August
Wear a book related costume or something Australian is suggested but come along
in whatever dress up you have to join in on the day.
This year the BLURBS
CONCERT
will be on Thursday 25th August at
Families are welcome to join us.
2pm.
Remember to come along and check out the ‘Book Week’ displays around the school.
LEARNING & TEACHING NEWS
As we continue our whole school inquiry into Reading, here's some more wonderful thinking about
Reading from our beautiful ELC children.
What books do you like to read?
Ones that are not too scary. Grandpa’s teeth. There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed A Mozzie
Books about… “cats, kittens, puppies, rabbits, nature, books with hard words, my
reader and all the books at school, Dogfish, To Town, books on the IPAD, books
about cars, trucks, Cat in the Hat, Disney Princess, I like to read pieces of paper
that mum writes and I like to read my writing in my writing book.
I like fairy books."
We are so excited to be celebrating Book Week next week.
We can't wait to see everyone's fabulous costumes!
Happy reading everyone