NEWSLETTER. 18th April 2018

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1 NEWSLETTER 30 Warrandyte Road, Langwarrin VIC 3910 Po Box 4063, Langwarrin VIC 3910 T (03) F (03) admin@sjlangwarrin.catholic.edu.au ebullybox@sjlangwarrin.catholic.edu.au OFFICE HOURS: 8:30am - 4:00pm 18th April 2018 IMPORTANT DATES Thu 19 Apr 1st Eucharist Adult Faith Development Session 2pm or 7pm Tue 24 Apr ANZAC Day Paraliturgy 2:30pm Wed 25 Apr ANZAC Day public holiday (NO SCHOOL) Thu 26 Apr School Tour 9:30am 2nd Eucharist Adult Faith Development Session 2pm or 7pm Mon 30 Apr Year 6 JPC Retreat Day Wed 2 May Summer Lightning Premiership 1st Confirmation Adult Faith Development Session 2pm or 7pm Education Board Meeting 7pm Maths Club Tue, Wed & Fri am Nude Food Days Tue, Thu & Friday Playgroup Wed am Dear Families, Welcome back to Term 2. We hope you have had an opportunity to celebrate Easter with your family and relax in the sunshine! We have had a wonderful beginning to the term with our Alleluia Day celebrations. This is a fantastic way for our students to develop their understanding of the importance of Christ s resurrection. He died but he has risen, so that we too have new life! Thank you to Mrs Kelly and the student leaders who prepared and lead the assembly to farewell Mr Kerin. It was a fantastic opportunity to say goodbye and wish him well in his retirement. Great job!

2 Appointing the next principal is an exhaustive process. It will be at least Term 3 before the next principal will begin at St Jude s. Planning for our celebration of 40 years of St Jude s Primary school are continuing. The next planning meeting will be on Thursday 17th May at 7pm in the staffroom and we welcome everyone to help prepare for a festival of celebration in October. Have a great week, Annette vfiducia@sjlangwarrin.catholic.edu.au with any inclusions for the newsletter We are esmart Smart. Safe. Responsible.

3 URGENT Updat-ed App Attention App Subscribers to Updat-ed Over the holidays our web services were upgraded with additional security patches. The consequence of this is that all Android subscribers to our phone app called Updat-ed will need to re-register. Here's what to do; ANDROID APP SUBSCRIBERS Delete the app from your phone Go to Google Play and search for 'Updat-ed by sponsor-ed' Download the app and complete the registration process We will see your registration request and mark it as approved ios APP SUBSCRIBERS Delete the app from your phone Go to App Store and search for 'Updat-ed by sponsor-ed' Download the app and complete the registration process We will see your registration request and mark it as approved We apologise for any inconvenience caused Pop up Play Hi everyone! If anyone has in good condition, barbie dolls with clothes they would like to donate to Pop up Play, it would be greatly appreciated. Other items we would love are: hot wheels/matchbox cars, magnetics, play supermarket/shopping accessories and games for juniors in good condition. Thank you, Anita Kilpatrick Mother s Day Stall - Thursday 10th of May Our Annual Mother s Day Stall will be held on Thursday May 10th, during school time. The children will have the opportunity to come and shop for something special for Mum or someone special. The price range of gifts is $1 - $6.50. Please do not send your child with any more than $20 on the day. Please also provide a bag to bring their special gifts home. Happy Shopping - Regards, Sonia, Michaela and Charmaine Enrolments Enrolments for 2019 are now open and interviews are now taking place. If you are someone you know is interested in booking a school tour please contact our office as spaces are filling up fast. To view school tour dates please have a look on our website, if none of these dates suit we can organise another time that is convenient. Uniform Just a friendly reminder that Term 2 is winter uniform Cross Country Next week cross country training will be on Monday 23rd of April at 8am as Wednesday the 25th of April is a public holiday. Training will go back to normal the week after. ANZAC Day ANZAC Day badges are now for sale in the front office. Please feel free to come and purchase yours. They range from $1 - $5.

4 From the R.E.C. Mrs Judi Essing Dear Parents Gospel: John 10: /4/2018 Gospel Challenge : Who have been the shepherds in your life who have guided and protected you? Welcome back! I hope you all had a wonderful Easter and a fantastic few weeks holiday with families and friends and feel ready for Term 2. Already the holidays seem a life time ago with the busy week that we have all encountered on our return to school. The children all came back happy and refreshed the whole school being involved in Alleluia Day a day of celebration associated with Jesus Resurrection. Throughout the course of the day, the children worked in their family groups and were involved in making rainbow people, Easter baskets, headbands, bunny rabbit puppets and learning Easter hymns with Liturgical movements. The day concluded with a Prayer celebration that incorporated all of the day s activities. It was a wonderful way to commence our term - working in family groups and then joining as one school family at the end to celebrate this amazing event. Easter has come and gone but with the holidays it seems to sneak by without a great deal of acknowledgment. It is the most important event in the church s calendar. It is the event that determines who we are and what we believe. As a school it is the reason for our existence as we are Catholics first. Easter is the greatest feast in the Christian calendar. On this Sunday, Christians celebrate the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead. For Catholics, Easter Sunday comes at the end of 40 days of prayer, fasting, and almsgiving known as Lent. Through spiritual struggle and self-denial, we have prepared ourselves to die spiritually with Christ on Good Friday, the day of His Crucifixion, so that we can rise again with Him in new life on Easter. Easter is a day of celebration because it represents the fulfillment of our faith as Christians. St. Paul wrote that, unless Christ rose from the dead, our faith is in vain (1 Corinthians 15:17). Through his death, Christ saved mankind from sin, and He destroyed the hold that death has on all of us; but it is His Resurrection that gives us the promise of new life, both in this world and the next. In the Our Father, we pray that "Thy Kingdom come, on earth as it is in Heaven, and Christ told His disciples that some of them would not die until they saw the Kingdom of God "coming in power" (Mark 9:1). The early Christian Fathers saw Easter as the fulfillment of that promise. With the resurrection of Christ, God's Kingdom is established on earth, in the form of the Church. As part of a reflection on this important feast I would encourage you to slowly read One Solitary Life and think about the sentiments contained within. The church founded on the life of Jesus is going through a period of turmoil, but we need to reflect on what it stands for and where we are in relation to our belief in Jesus and what he means to us. Our religious beliefs are a part of who we are and we need not confuse the message by the actions of some. e was born in an obscure village, the child of a peasant woman.

5 He grew up in still another village, where he worked in a carpenter shop Until he was thirty. Then for three years he was an itinerant preacher. He never wrote a book. He never held an office. He never had a family or owned a house. He didn't go to college. He never visited a big city. He never travelled two hundred miles from the place where he was born. He did none of the things one usually associates with greatness. He had no credentials but himself. He was only thirty-three when the tide of public opinion turned against him. His friends ran away. He was turned over to his enemies. And went through the mockery of a trial. He was nailed to a cross between two thieves. While he was dying, his executioners gambled for his clothing, the only property he had on Earth. When he was dead, he was laid in a borrowed grave through the pity of a friend. Twenty centuries have come and gone, and today he is the central figure of the human race, and the leader of mankind's progress. All the armies that ever marched, all the navies that ever sailed, all the parliaments that ever sat, all the kings that ever reigned, put together have not affected the life of man on Earth as much as that. ~~Dr James Allen Francis, 1926 Project Compassion 2018 The final tally for Project Compassion 2018 is $ from the class boxes + $ from our Term 1 Social Justice day - a grand total of $541.20! With trying times affecting most of our families, THANK-YOU again for finding that extra money to give to the many people in our world who are not nearly as fortunate as ourselves. Dates for Term 2: 1) Adult Faith Session 1 Eucharist (Parents Only) - Thursday, 19 th April, 2018: 7.00 pm: A.J.G.E.C 2) A. N.Z.A.C. Day Paraliturgy Tuesday, 24 th April, 2018: 2.30 p.m. (Prepared by SM and JA) 3) Adult Faith Session 2 Eucharist (Parents Only) - Thursday, 26 th April, 2018: 7.00 pm: A.J.G.E.C 4) Eucharist Scrutiny Masses - Saturday/ Sunday Masses: 28/29 April, ) Year 6 Confirmation Retreat Monday, 30 th April, 2018: pm: JPC 6) Bishop Elliott visit TBA: Confirmation candidates 7) Adult Faith Session 1 Confirmation (Parents Only) - Wednesday, 2 nd May, pm: A.J.G.E.C 8) Anointing Mass Thursday, 3 rd May, Senior classes only

6 9) Junior School Family Mass: Saturday, 5 th May, 2018: 6.30 pm 10) Adult Faith Session 2 Confirmation (Parents Only) - Wednesday, 9 th May, 2018 : 7.00 pm: A.J.G.E.C 11) Mother s Day Paraliturgy: Friday, 11 th May, am. 12) Mother s Day High Tea Friday, 11 th May, ) Confirmation Scrutiny Masses - Saturday/ Sunday Masses 12/13 May, ) Sacrament of Confirmation Wednesday, 16 th May, 2018: 7.00 pm 15) Family Week Monday, 21 st May Friday, 25 th May, ) World Environment Day Paraliturgy Tuesday, 5 th. June, 2018: 2.30 pm: Church (Prepared by MDM and JTD) 17) Feast of the Sacred Heart Thursday, 7 th June, 2018: am: Church (Prepared by SKE and JR) 18) Year 5 Prayer Night Wednesday, 13 th June, 2018 : Year 5 students and their Parents: pm: A.J.G.E.C 19) Eucharist Scrutiny Masses - Saturday/ Sunday Masses: 16/17 June, 2018 Have a wonderful week! Grandparent s Day 2018 This semester, we are learning about choices and how our choices affect waste. So we took recycled rubbish and made a robot out of them. Here are some of our robots and their story

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10 Recycle Your Batteries Battery recycling is a recycling activity that aims to reduce the number of batteries being disposed as municipal solid waste. Batteries contain a number of heavy metals and toxic chemicals and disposing them by the same process as regular trash has raised concerns over soil contamination and water pollution. If you have any used batteries at home. Don t throw them in the bin! Bring them into the St.Jude s office. We will collect them and take them to the tip for you. For more information about how batteries are recycled, use the link below. d/

11 INTEGRATED PSYCHOLOGY CHILD & ADULT CONSULTANT PSYCHOLOGISTS Dear Parents, For those who do not know me, my name is Carol, and I have been consulting as a Counselling Psychologist onsite at St Jude s Primary School, for over a year now. I see children for psychology appointments under Medicare s Better Access to Mental Health Programme where these appointments are bulk-billed. This means I can see your child during school hours, with no out of pocket expenses, with a referral from your local GP. I have been working in Private Practice for over 5 years around the Mornington Peninsula area, and have extensive experience working with people of all ages with a vast array of presenting problems. My experience extends to working in primary schools with children. Some of the common issues I see children for include: Anxiety (worry, social problems, separation anxiety, performance anxiety, panic, phobias and generalised anxiety) Depression Adjustment disorder (such as adjusting to family separation) Attention Deficit & Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) Grief and loss Trauma Behavioural disorders Sleep issues Stress and anger problems Obsessive Compulsive Disorder Evidence-based approaches are utilized and include: Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy (CBT), Mindful Meditation, Child-Centred Play Therapy, Relaxation Strategies, Skills Training, and psycho-education. These aim to help children to: Improve social skills through clearer communication Develop more rational and helpful thinking styles to improve coping Developing stronger positive attitudes and self-assurance Learn to relax and understand the physical benefits of relaxation Improve their ability to deal with anger and stress Learn how our self-created thoughts impact on our feelings and behaviour. I trust this information is helpful to you and your child. Please do not hesitate to contact Fred Martens, Wellbeing Officer, at St Jude s Primary School if you require further information or if you are interested in psychological support for your child. Kind regards, Carol Craigie Counselling Psychologist BASSc (Couns), DipCouns, GradDipPsychStudies, GradDipPsych, MPsych (Couns.), MAPS