OLOL SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

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1 OLOL SCHOOL NEWSLETTER Oakland Avenue, Baulkham Hills South Telephone: Facsimile Term 1 Week 7 14th March, 2014 The Second Sunday of Lent This Sunday s Gospel reading is from Matthew and tells of the Transfiguration. The Transfiguration celebrates the revelation of Christ's divine glory on Mount Tabor in Galilee. After revealing to His disciples that He would be put to death in Jerusalem, Christ, along with Peter, James and John, went up the mountain. Matthew writes, "a change came over Jesus: his face was shining like the sun, and his clothes were dazzling white.. while he was talking, a shining cloud came over them, and a voice from the cloud said, This is my own dear Son, with whom I am pleased listen to him!. Lord Jesus, help us to recognise your presence in our daily lives, not only in the glorious moments but in everything we do, We ask this through Christ Our Lord, Amen. Saint Patrick s Day. Next Monday, 17 th March we celebrate the feast of St. Patrick, the patron saint of Ireland. O God, who chose the Bishop Saint Patrick to preach your glory to the peoples of Ireland, grant, through his merits and intercession, that those who glory in the name of Christian, may never cease to proclaim your wondrous deeds to all. Ref: Collect from the Mass of the day. Catholic Schools Week Last Sunday we celebrated the First Sunday of Lent and the commencement of Catholic Schools Week with a Parish / School Mass. It was wonderful to see that so many of our families were able to attend this special event. It was also pleasing to see so many people visit our school on Tuesday for open classrooms and picnic lunch. I am sure everyone was very impressed by how engaged your children were while taking part in the various activities. PE Teacher We welcome Miss Boulos to Our Lady of Lourdes. Miss Boulos will be teaching PE to our students each Monday and Wednesday for the remainder of School Hours Our school bell indicates the end of the school day a t p m e a c h afternoon. Many classes are having lessons interrupted by children being collected early for appointments. Please try to make these routine appointments outside of school hours as some children are missing valuable class time. School Fees School fees for Term 1, 2014 are now overdue. If you have not made a Flexible Payment Plan arrangement and your Term 1 School fee account remains outstanding, please finalise this account as soon as possible to avoid your account being transferred to the Catholic Education Office for further action. Privacy Amendment Act 2012 The new Privacy amendment Act 2012 introduces significant changes to collection, use and disclosure of Private Information. Please take time to read the new Standard Collection Notice attached to this newsletter.

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3 Kindergarten 2015 Enrolments Our Lady of Lourdes Primary School is now taking Kindergarten enrolments for Please download the enrolment form from the school website complete the form and return it to the school office with all the required documentation. All families will be interviewed on Saturday, May 3rd by a member of the leadership team. If your child has any special physical or learning needs please make an appointment to see Mr Haskins for a more extensive interview. New families may have a tour of our school on: Thursday, March 20th, 2014 at 10.00am Thursday, April 3rd, 2014 at 7.00pm Thursday, May 1st, 2014 at 10.00am Please the school ololbhills@parra.catholic.edu.au to inform us if you wish to attend any one of these sessions. Quality Catholic Schooling Project 2014 From 17th-28th March 60 parents, who have been randomly selected by the Catholic Education Office, will receive a survey to complete. You are asked to either complete the survey on-line or on paper. If you choose to complete it on paper could you please return it as soon as possible to the office. If you complete it on-line could you inform the office that it has been done. Students from Years 5 and 6 will also complete a survey as will all staff. The completed surveys will then be sent to Insight SRC, the survey consultants. The school will receive an information report from the survey in June to help with our planning. Money to School for Activities All money for school activities should be sent to the classroom teacher as it is recorded before being sent to the office. Please ensure each envelope has your child s name and class clearly marked. Mother's Day Stall We are looking for raffle prize donations for this year's annual Mother s Day Stall fundraising raffle. If you would like to make a donation, please bring it into the school office. The Mothers Day Stall itself will be held on Thursday, 8th May. Phone Alison Urquhart on if you have any queries. Parent Group Meeting The first Parent Meeting for the year will be held at 7.00pm on Tuesday, 18th March in the school open learning area. The Agenda for 18th March meeting is attached. Minutes from the previous Parent Group Meeting and AGM held last year in December, 2013 are now available at the school office foyer. Uniform Shop The uniform shop will be open on Wednesday, 19th March from 2.45pm till 3.30pm, Friday, 28th March and Monday, 7th April from 8.45am till 9.15am FUN RUN A reminder to all families that all sponsorship forms and monies are due back to school as soon as possible. Easter Raffle This year, as part of our fundraising efforts, we are holding an Easter Raffle. This week the eldest child from each family was sent home with a booklet of 10 raffle tickets. Tickets are $2.00 each 1 st Prize Family Pass to the Sydney Royal Easter Show 2014, which includes ride coupons (total value $220) 2 nd Prize A Family Movie Pass to Events Cinema 3 rd Prize An Easter Hamper We would appreciate if all tickets sold or unsold are returned with monies to the school no later than Friday 1 st April. We thank-you for your ongoing support, The Social & Fundraising Committee Canteen Lost Property A number of articles of clothing have been left in the canteen by volunteer parents. Please check at the office if you have misplaced any items. Respect feeling good about yourself and others March Sun 16th Mon 17th Tues 18th Wed 19th Fri 21st Sun 23rd Thurs 27th Valuing self / being yourself SCHOOL EVENTS Second Sunday of Lent Feast of St Patrick 9.15am Yr 2 Mass Reconciliation 5C 2.20pm K-6 Assembly, Year 1 Feast of St Joseph Harmony Day Third Sunday of Lent School Photo Day

4 In Term 1, Year 2 have been learning about Jesus Helps Us To Love. They have created Baptist posters shared with their class. Year 2 have looked at scripture stories such as the 10 Lepers and the Good Samaritan looking at what Jesus has taught us about love and life.

5 Last Friday Year 5 participated in the Hills Shire Council sponsored Environmentors Program. We participated in many activities and learnt many new things. A lady named Emma also taught us things about composting and what to put into to it and what not to. We learnt that we couldn t put meat or dairy into the compost bin because the worms can t eat it. We also learnt about how we could fix problems in our compost bin like when it was too dry we needed to put Green Materials into it and when it was too wet we needed to add some Brown Materials. We played a game where we got a card and we had to collect brown and green materials and put them in the correct places. We were all very happy that we got to stick things on the board and learn new things. All of Year 5 had so much fun and we are very glad that we got the opportunity to do this and we thank the teachers for organising it for us.

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