Edition 11 20th April 2015
Prayer of Remembrance
Today we remember with thanksgiving those who
made the supreme sacrifice for us in time of war.
We pray that the offering of their lives may
not have been in vain.
Today we dedicate our lives to the cause of
justice, freedom and peace, and for the wisdom
and strength to build a better world. Amen
The Ode of Remembrance
They shall grow not old,
as we that are left grow old.
Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
We will remember them.
Anzac Day March – this Saturday 25th April
This year the ANZAC Day March will be held on Saturday
25th April and we encourage all students from Kinder to
Year 6 to represent St Edward’s School in this march.
Children are asked to wear full summer uniform (including
hat) and meet Mr McSweeney, Mrs Long and the teachers
at 9.30am in Bourke Street. The march will be via Peel
Street and at the end of the march all school children will
turn from Peel Street into Fitzroy Street and Kable Avenue
and proceed to Number One Oval for dispersal. We ask
parents to please collect your children from Number
One Oval. A permission note went home last term – if
your child(ren) will be attending the March, please sign
and return to their class teacher ASAP. Thank you for
your support of this important community event.
Please note all schools will no longer lay a wreath at the
Dawn Service and this will now be held at the Town Hall at
10.45am after the March. Our School Captains and Mr
McSweeney will attend this Service. Families are still
welcome to attend the Dawn Service and the Service in the
Town Hall.
Book Fair – Friday 1st May
Welcome Back
Welcome back to the start of Term 2 and hopefully many a warm
sunny day! We trust all students and their families had an
enjoyable and restful holiday break together. Term 2 covers 10
weeks and concludes for all students on Thursday 25th June, with
Friday 26th June being a Staff Development Day.
New Students
We extend a warm welcome to St Edward’s
School to the following students and their families:
 Georgia Finlay (3M) from Trinity Lutheran
College, Ashmore;
 Bradyn Hamilton (4O) from St Joseph’s Glen Innes; and
 Marianne (5L) and Elizabeth (1R) Flood returning to St Ed’s.
There will be a Book Fair at both the Infants and
Primary on Friday 1st May (Week 2). The children will get
an opportunity to look at the books for sale during this
week, and then buy books on the Friday. This is a great
opportunity to further encourage your children to enjoy
reading.
Friday 1st May
8.00am until 2.00pm (Primary)
8.00am until 2.00pm (Infants)
Place: Primary Library and Infants Hall
Date:
Time:
FREE BOOKS – With every purchase at the Book Fair you
will receive a raffle ticket for the chance to win a book.
There will be approximately 6 books at each Campus to
win!!
School Uniform
We remind parents that the official date for changeover from
summer to winter uniform is after the June long weekend.
Requirements will be reviewed should the weather suddenly turn
chilly.
Workbooks Home to Parents this Friday
This Friday 24th April, all children in Kindergarten to
Year 6 will bring home their Religion, English and
Mathematics books for parents to see the wonderful
work they have been doing in class. We ask all
families to return the books to school by next
Monday 27th April, as the children will require the books for their
normal lessons.
P.S. Look out for some “strange characters” sneaking
around in the weeks to come!!
Special Note for Infants Students
If you are an Infants parent and you would like to purchase
a book and cannot come to the Infants Hall on the day,
please send some money in an envelope clearly labelled
with your child’s name, class and amount of money
enclosed and he/she can select a book to take home.
We hope you can support our Book Fair as the Libraries
will receive some free books depending on the number of
sales.
Marisa Cartan & Jackie Barratt
VALUE FOR THE WEEK: “INTEGRITY”
St Ed’s OPEN DAY – Saturday 2nd May 2015
Please remember to tell your friends,
family and neighbours…..St Edward’s
School is having our annual OPEN
DAY!! Encourage them to come and
visit our wonderful school and discover for themselves the
many benefits of a Catholic Education.
St Edward’s
welcomes students of various faiths and cultural backgrounds.
Saturday 2nd May 2015
Both the Primary and Infants Campus
9.00am to 11.00am
Tour of the school and visit our classrooms
Meet and talk to staff
Morning tea provided
When:
Where:
Time:
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ENROL NOW for Kindergarten 2016
Is your child commencing school in 2016?
or do you know of family or friends who
would like to enrol their child in
Kindergarten at St Edwards?, then please fill in an Enrolment
Form and return it as soon as possible. Enrolment Forms are
available from Mrs Sauer at the Infants Office, or Mrs
Richards at the Primary Office.
Please note classes are filling quickly, so please get your
forms in ASAP.
Missing Items
At the Primary Campus: a black watch with a big red ring on
the face and black band belonging to Blake Hutchinson in 4S.
At the Infants Campus: size 8 jumper belonging to Ally Gruber
in 2U.
Parents are asked to please check your children’s belongings
and if found return to the respective class teacher.
Found at the Infants Campus
A girls Pandora bracelet found in the Infants playground.
Please see Mrs Sauer at the Infants Office to describe and
claim this bracelet.
“KID’S CORNER”
“Tweety”
One day there was a yellow bird named Tweety.
She was having a lovely warm bath.
But then Sylvester was spying on her.
He was going to eat her from head to toe.
He could even smell her flesh!
Tweety heard a loud scratching noise on
one of the trees.
She thought it was Sylvester the cat.
He was always spying on her.
After a while she said to herself she’d better get
out because she had to see her Grandma.
But first she had to go to the shop to buy some
bread for Grandma.
Luckily Tweety found a safe spot at her
Grandma’s house.
Back in the woods Sylvester was looking for
Tweety, but he could not find her anywhere.
He looked and looked and looked but he
still could not find her.
Suddenly he heard a tweeting sound.
It was Tweety! Sylvester had a naughty
grin on his face.
Eventually Tweety scared Sylvester.
He ran away terrified and never came back again.
The End.
By Hannah Briley (2R)
Canteen Roster
Date
Primary
Infants
Tues 21st April
Kristie Ferris
Grant & Wendy Lee Kelly Musgrave
Wed 22nd April
Lisa Reabow
Thurs 23rd April
th
Fri 24 April
th
Mon 27 April
Kellie-Ann Hansen
Erin Wood
Pam Newman
Fran Hutt
Belinda Hayman
Mckyla Hull
Narelle Greenaway
Natalie Studte
Jo Kapeller
Rosalie Uetzmann
Nicole Williamson
Melanie Carroll
FREE Centacare Program - “Resilient Kids”
The Family Rural Resilience Program at Centacare NENW
will be conducting a free 5 week “Resilient Kids” program in
Tamworth commencing Thursday 30th April. This program is
for kids aged 9 to 11 years of age and aims to develop
resilience, increase self-esteem, enhance communication
abilities and improve coping skills. This program will run
Thursday afternoons from 3.30pm to 5.00pm. Afternoon tea
is included. Places are limited. For further information or to
register a child in the “Resilient Kids” program please contact
Centacare NENW on 6762 9200.
Student of the Week (first name shown)
& Curriculum Award (second name shown)
Curriculum Focus: Computers
KBC Deegan Musgrave
Riley Miller
KL
Landyn Nicholls
Kane Glasby
KR Kody Sylvester
Jayden Howe
1M Scarlet Clark
Sienna Pepperell
1P
Bailee McClurg
Kaelanie Sutcliffe
1R
Olivia Dau
Emma Newlan
2E
Annabelle Stuart
Baden Lewis
2R
Georgie Redmond
Max Sartori
2U
Jack Benjamin
Alexis Masters
3B
Sophia-Rose Markham
Mikayla Hardy
3G
Matthew Tocknell
Hallie Scott
3M
4O
4P
4S
5A
5L
5M
6C
6G
6M
Grace Shanley
Ethan Allen
Liam Clarke
Bailey Wills
Sebastian Lawler
Innes Munro
Erin Hansen
Jake Salvestrin
Geoffrey Larkham
Braiden Fenwick
Jayden Pengilley
Myah Trindall
Codii Butler
Maddison Dawson-Hirst
Aiden Cosgrove
Sebastian Smith
Rebecca Cameron
Phoebe Porter
Ayden Burn
Values Award -“Friendship”
Kinder – Jake Saddler, Matilda Lace, Haydon Allan-Saunders
Year 1 – Logan Rust, Francine Baga, Ben Cunningham
Year 2 – Aiden Jameson, Nicola Fox, Mia Pengilley
Year 3 – Rachael Golledge, Laila Hutt, Thomas Waugh
Year 4 – Rylea Felstad, Annalise Hewitt, Ben Chick
Year 5 – Kyson Cooper, Macy Brooks, Jack Coster
Year 6 – Sara Sinclair, Clair Stuart, Macy Gillies
House Award
Primary: Therry Blue
Infants: Kennedy Green
Pride & Presentation Award
Infants: KL
Respect Rules Award
Congratulations to Will Ashton (5L) for always being such a
happy chappy and greeting everyone with a smile and a
good morning! You are an asset to your family
and our school.
Bronze Awards
Congratulations to the following students who
have been awarded a Bronze Award for a
consistent effort to be well behaved:
Lexi Maguire (2U); Naricah Geia (2U); Katelin Abra (4O);
Evie Bower (4S); Jake Salvestrin (4S); Ben Chick (4S);
Robbie Lay (4S); Charlotte Collins (4S) and Michael
Lewington (5L).
St Edward’s Parent
Association NEWS
Easter Raffle Winners
Thank you to all our wonderful families who sold
Easter raffle tickets last term.
Congratulations to our lucky Easter Basket Raffle
Winners:
1st – Geoffrey Larkham (5A) 7th – Kierra Moyo
2nd – Tash Doust
8th – R. Munn
3rd – Jay Playfair (5L)
9th – Nick Healy
4th – Kelly O’Gorman (5A)
10th – Mrs McNeill
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5 – Mel Nicholson
11th – Max Simpson
th
6 – Michelle Kapeller
12th – Elaine Barton
Next Meeting
A reminder that there will be a Parent Association
Meeting next Monday 27th April at 7.30pm in the
Primary Staffroom – ALL WELCOME.
Jenny Maloney – President (0419 139 737)
YOUNG LEADERS’ DAY, SYDNEY – 23rd March 2015
RE News
Easter
We come back to school in the Easter Season. We
remember that on Easter Sunday we celebrated Jesus
rising to new life and we continue to reflect on what
that means for us. We are called to give witness in our
own daily lives to the risen Christ, by actions and
words that reflect his great love for us. By living the
Good News we encourage all around us to grow in the
knowledge of Christ and love of God.
Easter Sunday Liturgy
Kindergarten will lead us in celebrating Jesus’
Resurrection during our Easter Sunday Liturgy in the
Infants’ Hall at 11.40am, tomorrow Tuesday 21st
April. All visitors are welcome.
Year 3 held an Easter Sunday Liturgy today at the
Primary Campus, reminding us of the importance of
Easter Sunday.
ANZAC Day Liturgies
The children at both the Primary and Infants’ Campus
will take time to reflect upon the great sacrifices
made by all those who went to war to make Australia
the great nation it is today. Each Campus will hold an
ANZAC Day Liturgy this Friday 24th April and pray
for all of those brave men and women and their
families and for our world today.
Primary Liturgy at 10.40am this Friday, Primary
Quadrangle – parents welcome.
Infants Liturgy at 11.40am this Friday, Infants’ Hall –
parents welcome.
No Mass or Reconciliation this week.
ADVANCE
NOTICE:
First Eucharist Parent
Information Night for Year 3 families - Tuesday 28th
April, 6.30pm Mary Help of Christians Hall.
Amy Elliott & Sally Clarke
WISE WORDS FOR FAMILIES – “The Trolls
Inside”
Trolls are part of ancient Nordic Culture. They inhabit the world of
folk and fairy tales. Trolls lived under bridges and in dark places.
Short, hairy and ugly trolls were rarely seen, however just the
thought of them was enough to send shivers down the spine. As a
kid you had to be wary of trolls.
Now the worst trolls live inside children's heads. The voice of
insecurity, self doubt and fear is the worst troll of all. This is the
troll that kids have to be most vigilant about. It's the job of parents
to help kids defeat trolls. Kids need to face them to defeat them.
That's not easy. Don't let them feed the troll with doubt and negative
self-talk. Don't let them be trapped by the troll. Inaction through
fear is what a troll loves. Help kids be brave and tackle their fears,
rather than be held back by the troll inside their heads. Action is the
troll's worst enemy. It hates kids tackling their fears. Help them be
brave. Help them feign confidence. Help them do. That's how they
will defeat the troll inside their heads.
By Michael Grose www.parentingideas.com.au
Notes Home Today
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Term 2 Parent Calendar (all families)
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Canteen Menu (all families)