PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF STARTING TIME Friday 20th November 11.15am pm (School Sports)

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1 ST JOHN S PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER 18 November 2015 Edition From the Principal PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF STARTING TIME Friday 20th November 11.15am pm (School Sports) Children will return to school after the Sports for a 3.20 dismissal. Heidelberg Park (West Heidelberg Football Ground) Attached to this Newsletter is a request for assistance for that day. Assistance will take the form of roles such as scorers, judges and general helpers. Replies will be required no later than tomorrow, Thursday. Assistance with walking the children down to Heidelberg Park will also be required so it would be great if you could meet classes on the top yard from about Your support would be greatly appreciated. A reminder that children will be required to wear a coloured top of their House Team on that day. The sports are arranged in a rotational fashion, so children will move from event to event throughout the day which will mean you will be seeing your child participating in an event no matter when you arrive. 55 Cape Street, Heidelberg Vic 3084 Ph E. office@sjheidelberg.catholic.edu.au

2 GRADE 3W WINNERS OF THE OCTOBER FETE DONATION Congratulations to our school community for another amazing effort to support our School Fete. As mentioned last week, October was "Bring a Lucky Dip prize". We collected over 800 items for the Lucky Dip stall. Thank you again and well done to all the classes. Last Friday, 3W had their hot chip lunch as the prize for collecting the most number of Lucky Dip Prizes. A reminder that another special lunch is the reward this month for the class that brings the most number of jars or plastic containers filled with fun items. SPORTING SUCCESS We congratulate Frankie P. (Year 6) who finished in 2nd place at the Regional Golf Championships last Friday in a very competitive situation. This wonderful result means that Frankie has qualified for the State Final at Kooringal Golf Course (Altona) on the 2nd December. A great achievement! On behalf of our community we wish him every success. 2

3 One of our School Captains, Olivia N. will be representing Victoria in the 2015 Pacific School Game (PSG) in Adelaide next week. Her campaign involves her competing in 13 swimming events, nine individual and four relays. Unfortunately, she won't be able to lead Roberts at our school sports on Friday as she will be flying out with the TeamVic. to Adelaide. Olivia has been a great competitor representing St John's at state level and competing for Victoria over many years. We are very proud of her achievements over a long period of time and we wish her a very successful competition next week. Swimming will be live streamed on Saturday November 21 st. School Sport Australia Link: Pacific School Games Link: THE WINNER OF THE DESIGN OUR FETE ARTWORK COMPETITION A special thank you to all the students that submitted their beautiful artwork for this special competition. There were over 60 students that put in a great deal of effort to create the perfect design and theme for our upcoming School Fete. The task of choosing only one winner was a very difficult one. The Fete Advertising subcommittee short-listed the entries down to three finalists that they believed best conveyed the energy, excitement and information required to promote our fete to our students, our school families and the Heidelberg community. From these, the School Fete Committee collectively voted on a winner: Congratulations to Annabel B (Year 3P), who is the winner of our Fete Artwork Competition. Annabel's impressive work will be used on all Fete promotional materials including Real Estate Community boards, posters, flyers, postcards and more. Shown below is just a small sample of the designs submitted the calibre of the work was very impressive and all children should all be very proud of their efforts! 3

4 Prep V Zahra Grade 1 Donncha Grade 2 Eliza Grade 4 Jakson Grade 5/6 Venetia Grade 5/6 Yasmin STUDENT INQUIRY ACTION FRUIT CUP DAY I would like to draw your attention to an Inquiry Action undertaken by two of our Year 6 students Alison B. and Lucy C. Alison and Lucy are conducting a number of activities to promote well being. One of their actions is to provide a cup of fruit for our students on Monday November 30th. It would be great to support Alison and Lucy with their goals. Further information is in this Newsletter and an order form for the Fruit Cup must be completed so the girls can coordinate the purchasing of the fruit leading up to the Fruit Cup day. 4

5 RE News - Elizabeth Williamson, Education in Faith Leader November - Month of the Holy Souls. It is a holy and wholesome thought to pray for the dead. St. Vincent De Paul Annual Christmas Toy Appeal You are again invited to contribute to the St. Vincent De Paul (St.Vinnies) Christmas Toy Appeal which St. John's School supports each year. Your response to this appeal last year was excellent as it always is. Members of the local conference of St. Vincent de Paul will distribute the donated toys to needy children in the area. If your family would like to contribute to the appeal you are asked to purchase a gift for a child (gifts for teenagers and adults are also welcomed) and leave it with your child s teacher up to Monday December 14th. Please wrap the gift and label it, for example, Boy age 5, girl age 13. Class Masses Term 4 (9.15a.m.) Week 8 Tuesday November 24th Years 4C and 4F Week 9 Thursday November 26th Years PN and PV These mass dates and times are correct at time of publication. Sometimes unforeseen circumstances occur to change these dates/times. Memorial Book Especially through the month of November, Catholic Christians offer prayers to remember the dead and to thank God for their lives. You are invited to write the names of loved ones who have died in the Memorial Book, which is in the school foyer. The children will pray for those named throughout November during their class prayer times. Can you help? I have received a request from Vincent Chung (St Vincent de Paul, Heidelberg Conference) asking for assistance from families to sell Christmas cards after each of the weekend masses starting six weeks prior to Christmas. This would involve setting up a small table and placing packets of cards on display at the front of the church 2 minutes before the end of mass and selling cards and Columban calendars for 5-10 minutes or until no further sales are judged to be realised. If you feel your family could help the parish community in this way please complete the form below and return it to school as soon as possible. Thank you. 5

6 Family Christmas Eve Mass Each year on Christmas Eve the Family Christmas Eve Mass is celebrated. If your child/children would like to be involved actively in this Mass please complete the form below and return it to school by Thursday November 19th in an envelope marked: Family Christmas Eve Mass Family Christmas Eve Mass December 24 th 7.00p.m. Please indicate the ministry your child/children would like to be involved in on Christmas Eve at the 7.00p.m. mass. Reader (Years 4-6) Name of child and year level Please print Name of child and year level Please print Name of child and year level Please print Prayers of the Faithful (Years 3-6) All filled. Thank you. All filled. Thank you. All filled. Thank you. Offertory Procession (Years P - 2) All filled. Thank you. All filled. Thank you. All filled. Thank you. Altar server Signed: Date: Selling of Christmas Cards Family name: Eldest child's grade: Would you please select your preference. Date Saturday November 21st/ Sunday November 22nd Saturday November 28th/ Sunday November 29th Saturday 6.00p.m Brown Family Sunday 8.30a.m. Chiara Family Sunday 10.30a.m. Sunday 5.00p.m. Saturday December 5th/ Sunday December 6th Saturday December 12th/ Sunday December 13th Saturday December 19th/ Sunday December 20th Daly Family Carbone Family Csar Family 6

7 Save the date! 'OLMC Twilight Community Market' Friday 27 November 3.30pm 8.30pm This is a fundraising event and all monies raised will support the SantePheap Community in Cambodia and the Olympic Village Exodus Community Family Camp program in West Heidelberg. The Parents Association will run the BBQ and Spit and there will be various stalls selling all sorts of goods so it will be a great to do some Christmas shopping. We will be serenaded by the roving carollers to add to the Christmas Spirit. If you would like to book a stall at the market please contact Marie Jenkins T: E: mjenkins@olmcheidelberg.catholic.edu.au 7

8 Sport News - Steph Doutre, Sport and Physical Education Heidelberg lawn Bowls Last Friday the year 5/6 classes learnt and participated in lawn bowling at the Heidelberg Lawn Bowls Club. The club was only a short walk of 700m away from the school and what a wonderful afternoon it was. Thank you to Brian James from Heidelberg Lawn Bowls Club who invited us down to play. The students had a great time and learnt some new skills. We are hoping this is an event we can run in The club runs free Bare Foot Bowling on a Wednesday and Friday afternoon evening. Please visit to find out more. Sports Uniform A reminder to please return any sports uniform borrowed from the school this year or last year. We are still missing basketball, soccer and football tops. Drink bottles Don t forget to come to school with a full drink bottle. It s starting to really warm up and hydration is very important. Sports Carnival This Friday we will be running our Annual School Sports Carnival. It will be a fabulous afternoon and hopefully a lovely weather day. Please come down and watch and support the children and if you are able to help out on the day with walking or at an activity, please complete the Helper Registration Form at the end of this newsletter. Swimming Good Luck to Olivia N in Year 6 who is representing Team Vic at the Pacific Schools Games in South Australia next week! We wish you all the best Olivia! Thank you, Miss Doutre CHICK S NAMES As you may know, Silky, our fluffy white chicken is the proud new mother of two adopted baby chicks. At the moment they are too young for you to go inside the coop to see them but hopefully you will be able to see them in a few weeks. The chicks do not have names yet but four names have been selected for you to vote for. The names are: Pippa, May, Hazel and Penny. There will be a pink box in the office labelled CHICKS in which you can put a slip of paper containing your two favourite names. The two most popular names will be chosen for the chicks. Thank you and we hope you can vote for the names! Margaret Caddy & Alyssa Vonier Members of the Environment Student Action Team 8

9 GRADE 6 END OF YEAR PICNIC The end of year Grade 6 picnic will be held on Wednesday 16th December at POSSUM HOLLOW PARK HEILDELBERG (Beverley Road) Straight after school finishes. Bring along your picnic basket and blanket. OLMC UNIFORM FOR SALE HALF PRICE OLMC Current Winter and Summer Uniform suit ladies size (worn 2 years). No jumper. ALMOST BRAND NEW OLMC SPORTS UNIFORM PIECES - 80% OFF ORIGINAL PRICE Shorts worn 4-6 times only, jacket worn twice suit ladies size (look brand new) Enquiries: Kylie

10 On Thursday 22nd October, a dedicated group of our Year 5/6 students participated in an Italian Poetry Competition for These students were all very successful in reciting a poem they selected in Italian to our guest judge Marina Bartolameazzi from OLMC. Marina was extremely impressed with the high standard that our students demonstrated which makes me so very proud of all our participants. I would like to congratulate all the students on how incredibly successful they were and also on taking on the challenge and opportunity to extend their oral skills in Italian. What a fabulous effort! I am pleased to announce that the following students were prize winners: Congratulations! 1st Place: Cristian C 5/6S 2nd Place: Alyssa V 5/6S 3rd Place: Alex D 5/6B & Eliza B 5/6S STUDENT AWARDS Jack K PN, Lily I PN, Luca C PV, Myles H PV, Sophie C 1L, Amelia B 1L, David D 1L, Emily H 1T, Lara E 1T, Jack L 2D, Matthew D 2D, Samuel V 2P, Maya T 2P, Annabel B 3P, Jasmine L 3P, Zac H 3W, Arvin D 3W, David M 4C, Julia M 4C, Jacob F 4F, Noah H 4F, Anthony L 5/6B, Josh H 5/6B, Declan C 5/6C, Ellena C 5/65S, Margaret C 5/6S. BIRTHDAYS FORTHCOMING EVENTS 18 Nov Amelia B 1L Sarah B 2D Luca C PV 19 Nov Charlie P PN 22 Nov Nicholas F 4F Friday Nov 20 House Sport Day Monday 7 Dec School Closure Day 24 Nov Hamish S 5/6S 10

11 Hours of Operation: Before Care 6:45am-8:45am After Care 3:20pm-6:00pm Staff: Trent Harkom & Jill El-Khoury Hi Everyone, This week at OSHClub we did some great activities. We did some awesome dot-painting art with cotton tips that the children really loved doing and we got up to some really fun cooking activities like making blueberry pancakes for breakfast that all the children got involved in and making some delicious slices! Parents please keep in mind that as it is Term 4 children require a hat to play outdoors. We provide Coles SPF 50+ sunscreen for the children to wear - if your child has allergies to this sunscreen please let me know! Please be aware that as our numbers are increasing significantly it is becoming more important for parents to book their children in online or to give more notice for an on the day booking. This gives us enough time to ensure we are adequately staffed and able to provide a quality program for you and your children. If your child/ren are absent from school or other arrangements are made for them, could you please let us know that they won t be attending afterschool care. On the day cancellations/bookings must be made with a phone call or text to the program number on You will not be able to make online bookings or cancellations on the day. Online bookings or cancellations can be made up until midnight the night before. We hope to see you at OSHClub! Enjoy the rest of your week NEXT WEEKS ACTIVITY Before Care Activities Wednesday Thursday Friday Monday Tuesday Lava Lamp Make a Fishing Game Rainbow Watercolours Dye Painting Colour Changing Milk After Care Activities Build a Dinosaur God s Eyes Jelly Slice Cloud Dough Atlas Scavenger Hunt Parent Information OSHC program phone: Coordinator: Trent Harkom Assistants: Jill El-Khoury OSHClub Head Office: All families must be enrolled to attend the program, remember this is Free!! Please create an account online at all bookings and cancellations can also be managed via your online account. For on the day bookings please contact the Coordinator direct at the program. 11

12 Father Mario s Sermon 15 November 2015 (33 rd Sunday in Ordinary Time, Year B) Daniel 12:1-3; Psalm 15:5,8-11; Hebrews 10:11-14,18; Mark 13: The Son of Man is coming with power and glory! As we continue celebrating the month of November, with its special connection with our beloved sisters and brothers who have gone before us, and as we approach the end of another liturgical Church year next week, our thoughts inevitably turn to the end times. The Lord is coming! The Lord is here! Maranatha! Making use of imagery from the books of the prophets Isaiah, Joel and Daniel, the gospel according to Mark speaks of a time when the world order as we know it today will no longer exist: the sun, the moon and the stars will no longer give light and will fall from the sky. The authors of the book of Genesis speak of a God who creates and gives light and life; today s gospel passage reverses creation, the light created in Genesis is now turned off. Although this sounds very similar to what scientist tell us will eventually happen to our sun and the universe, the gospel of Mark is following a different logic. The aim of our Christian life is to become disciples of Christ; to familiarise ourselves with God s will and open our lives through faith in order to respond to God s call to enter into a deep relationship with him. At the end of this journey we will then come to meet God face to face. When the time comes the world as we have built it around ourselves, the world as we experience it today, will collapse around us, so that we would be able to see God face to face. In his letter to the Corinthians, Paul tells us that now we see things in a reflection, as in a mirror. (1Co 13:12) The world and the environment we have constructed around allow us only to see a dim reflection of God; this is enough for now. But we look forward in hope to the moment when we can experience the fullness of God s glory. The style of literature we read in the book of Daniel and in this passage from the gospel according Mark are called Apocalyptic. We often tend to associate this style of literature with end of the world prophecies; many of us tend to read these texts with fear and trepidation. The term apocalyptic or revelation actually refer to a type of literature whose message is to remove the veil in order to show us what is being hidden from us. In the book of Genesis God created the universe for us to live in; he also created us in his own image and likeness. The whole of creation is in the image and likeness of God. All that is, all that has being, is in the image of God whose name is I am who am, being itself! God reveals himself to humanity through all of creation so that all humanity can come to know, love and acknowledge God. At the end of days, when our journey here on earth is finished, we will no longer need creation to talk to us about God. At the end of days if we hang on to the creation as we know it now, instead of leading us to God it will become an interference. When the time comes creation will need to be put aside so that we can see the fullness of God. This is the message Mark is giving us today. Often people ask when will all this happen? When will the end of days come? Each one of us will see the Son of Man coming in power and glory when we breathe our last breath and are welcomed into God s presence as we pray in our funeral liturgies: Saints of God, come to her aid! Come to meet her, angels of the Lord! Receive her soul and present her to God the most high. For us death is the moment when the sun loses its light so that we may enter into the presence the real light. Our job now is to remain faithful to our journey, keeping the fig tree as our example! We need to keep our eyes open to recognise Christ as he walks past because the Son of Man is coming in power and glory; but the Son of Man is already here and we need to learn to see him. Maranatha! Come Lord Jesus! The Lord Jesus is here! Fr Mario 12

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15 City of Banyule Children s Week Book Competition Last term some children from 2P and 4C entered a competition to be a part of a celebration for Children's Week with Banyule City Council. Five children were lucky enough to be chosen to have their picture and text included in the book, we are very proud to share it with you all. Congratulations to everyone who entered. 15

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17 ST JOHN S SCHOOL SPORTS FRIDAY 20th NOVEMBER PLEASE NOTE CHANGE OF TIME HELPER REGISTRATION Dear Parents, The St John s School Sport Carnival will be held on Friday 20th November at Heidelberg Park (West Heidelberg Football Ground) from 11.15am until 2.30pm. The children will be required to wear their sport uniform and wear their house colours to school on the day. The children will be departing school at approximately 10.40am and will be walking to Heidelberg Park. In order for this Carnival to run smoothly I will require the help of a large number of parents. If you are able to help could you please fill in the permission slip below and return to your classroom teacher. Please feel free to contact me if you require any further information. Thanking you, Miss Stephanie Doutre sdoutre@sjheidelberg.catholic.edu.au Please return by Thursday, November 19. I am able to help at the St John s Schools Sport Carnival on Friday November 20. I understand that the Carnival will begin at am and will conclude at approximately 2.30pm. Name: Signed: 17

18 FRUIT FOR MENTAL HEALTH We are Alison and Lucy and for our personal inquiry we are raising awareness for mental health. As part of that we will be conducting a mental health awareness week running activities to promote mental health and wellbeing from Monday 30th November to * Friday 4th December. On the Monday we will be providing fruit cups for $1 which you will have to pre-order and return this form by Friday 27th November with money enclosed. Name: Class: Yes my child would like a fruit salad cup for $1 18