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731 Eighty Road PO Box 4200 BALDIVIS WA 6171

Phone: 08 9591 7100 Fax: 08 9591 7105 CATHOLIC COLLEGE Strong in Faith and Love

NEWSLETTER 3.4 TERM 3 (2017)

Dear Parents and Carers With only one week of our jam-packed Term Three remaining it’s a good time to slacken

the pace of life a little – and to be consciously more gentle with one another in our

families – both at home and here at MTCC. It’s also a good time to acknowledge some

wonderful achievements:

CONGRATULATIONS to our own athletes acknowledged later in this newsletter as

Champions and Runners up at our own MTCC Athletics Carnival.

Congratulations also to our squad of students who were all praiseworthy ambassadors

of our college at our first Interschool Athletics Carnival on Wednesday this week.

Working together as our MTCC Interschool Athletics team, they brought home all three

shields on offer – Team Games, Handicap Shield and the Overall Athletics Interschool

Sports shield for their division! Special thanks to Mrs Davies, and to the staff and

parents who assisted in various roles at these successful events.

Yesterday we celebrated R U OK? day in style, with the help of a parent’s drone which

was generously loaned to us for the occasion – Thank you Mr Ian Newlands! Still photos

from the drone were shown to students and parents at yesterday afternoon’s Assembly.

Below is an extract from another parent’s email which we received this morning:

“Would just like to praise the school on the organisation of the R U OK day today. The

drone photo looked amazing and more importantly my 2 boys came home delighted

with the time spent with their older faction buddies. . . . . . .Thank you to all who

organised and helped my boys to truly understand what the day was all about.”

UPCOMING EVENTS

Week 9 Saturday 16 Sept. Firsty Holy Communion (6-7pm)

Week 10 Sunday 17 Sept. Firsty Holy Communion (9:30am-10:30am)

Tuesday 19 Sept. School Board Meeting (6:30pm – 7:30pm)

Wednesday 20 Sept. Year 5 MASS (10am)

Thursday 21 Sept. Year 3B Assembly & Student of the Month Assembly (2:15pm)

Friday 22 Sept.

LAST DAY FOR STUDENTS Wear your Team Colours

(Fundraiser for Story Dogs

& KidsMatter)

Term 4 - Tuesday 10 Oct.

STUDENTS RETURN

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Thanks to Robyn Dixon (our KidsMatter/Wellbeing Team Convenor) and Charlotte Morgan (our Making Jesus Real

Team Convenor) for organising the morning’s activities.

BEFORE-SCHOOL ARRANGEMENTS

At yesterday’s Assembly all present were reminded that children who arrive at school before 8:15am are required

to be registered to attend OSHClub. There should not be 25 children (as there were yesterday morning – some

from as early as 7:45am) wandering around the school and not registered in OSHClub before 8:15am any morning.

Children who arrive at school between 8:15am and 8:30am are required to sit in the Covered Area where they will

be supervised by an MTCC teacher. The OSHClub children who have arrived earlier (from 7am) may also be in the

Covered Area at this time, but in a differentt demarcated area of the 340sqm space. OSHClub cannot have more

than 22 children housed in the multi-purpose room, which they would normally use before school except for those

mornings when more than 22 children are registered to attend.

Parents will be contacted if children continue to arrive before 8:15am without being enrolled in OSHClub for that

morning. Thank you for your cooperation with this matter.

May God continue to be blessing for each of us.

Geri O’Keefe - PRINCIPAL

FINANCE OFFICE NOTICE

Important Reminder

Are your School Fees paid up to date?

It is important that our families settle their school fees by due dates, as this enables us

to honour our financial commitments. The final payment date for 2017 School Fees is

drawing near, with all fees to be paid in full by

Friday 21st September.

If you have a direct debit in place, please check the period payment amounts are

sufficient to clear your fees in full by the due date. If your periodic payment needs to be

adjusted please contact Sue Quigg on 9591 7100.

Thank you …. MTCC Finance Office

Monday 25 Sept. - Monday 9 Oct.

Classes resume - Tuesday 10 Oct.

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ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

Our athletics carnival was on the 25th August this term and was held down at the Eighty Road reserve. This was our first PP-Yr6 carnival and all of the student had a great time. A huge thank you to the parents who volunteered to help throughout the day. The carnival wouldn’t have happened without you. Congratulations to KAAL who won the overall shield followed very closely by BOODJAR, KEP and MAAR.

2017 Results

Runner up Champion

PP Boys Oliver Lyon Tyler Scott & Daniel Albert

PP Girls Evie Craig Macee Roberts

Year 1 Boys Liam Whelan Aiden Aurisch

Year 1 Girls Kiahna Louw Hayley O’Dea

Year 2 Boys Ben Osborne Dylan Aurisch

Year 2 Girls Payton Bell Gracie Dabala

Year 3 Boys Jayden Yakani Joel Edwards

Year 3 Girls Inisha Langmaid Abbey Lea & Erin Thompson

Year 4 Boys James Whelan Russell Chadzamira

Year 4 Girls Philippa Cook Siara Boullineau

Year 5 Boys Dylan McCormick James Reynolds

Year 5 Girls Charlotte Sampson Madison Stennett

Year 6 Boys Jack Harvey Joshua Dodson & Jermaine Burgoyne-Autagavaia

Year 6 Girls Abigail Edwards & Dailin Milanes Lozano Dailen Milanes Lozano

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INTERSCHOOL ATHLETICS CARNIVAL

The interschool athletics carnival was held on the 13th September at Mandurah Primary School. The schools participating in Division E were St Joseph’s Catholic Primary School, Austin Cove Baptist College, Living Waters Lutheran College and Mandurah Primary School. We took a squad of 73 students who all participated and showed great enthusiasm for each other and the participating schools. I would like to thank the following parents who put their hand up to help - Rory MacKenzie, Gayle Mills, Colette Thompson, Almitra Woods-Armes and Nicole O’Neill. Mother Teresa had a fantastic result. We took out all 3 shields – Team Games, Handicap Shield and the Overall shield. Congratulations to the following students: Year 3 Runner up Boys – Suwilanji Sibale, Jayden Yakani and Hunter Frawley Year 3 Champion Boy – Joel Edwards Year 3 Runner up Girl – Erin Thompson Year 4 Runner up Boy – James Whelan Year 4 Champion Girl – Philippa Cook Year 5 Champion Boy – James Reynolds Year 6 Runner up Girl – Dailen Milanes Lozano But a huge congratulation to all the students who participated. Without you, we wouldn’t have had such an amazing result. Mrs Christina Davies Physical Education Teacher

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KIDSMATTER & MAKING JESUS REAL

MINI VINNIES

Each class has a donation box for toiletries. These donations will be collected at the end of Term 3 and given to the Saint Vincent de Paul Society. They make up toiletries kits to be given to those in need in our community, for example the homeless and the sick.

Items must be new and preferably in packages.

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P&F NEWS

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MTCC SPORTS CLUB Auskick 2017 The MTCC Auskick program has concluded for the year. This year we had 36 participants, ranging in age from PP to Year 4. Auskickers gathered each Wednesday afternoon at Eighty Road Reserve to learn a range of AFL skills including kicking, handballing, and gamesmanship. It was terrific to see the children participate so enthusiastically in the weekly drills and games. We concluded with a wind-up and medal presentation on 16th August, which was enjoyed by all. Thanks to Baldivis Pharmacy for their generous donation of a first aid kit, which luckily we did not use (except for the odd bandaid!) Thanks also to Talk the Talk Speech Pathology for donating afternoon tea for our first session and our wind up. Thank you to all parents who helped the coaches by volunteering to man goals and umpire during the season. Your assistance was greatly appreciated. Dave Forbes Auskick Coach

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COMMUNITY NEWS

FREE POSITIVE PARENTING PROGRAM

You are invited to attend a Group Triple P - Positive Parenting course.

Triple P teaches positive, practical and effective ways to manage

common issues which most parents will face.

Parents will learn effective parenting strategies such as ways to

encourage behaviour you like, how to promote your child’s

development and how to prevent or manage common child behaviour

problems.

The next FREE 8 week Group is held:

When: Starting 11 October 2017

Location: Darius Wells Library Kwinana

Crèche: Available

RSVP: Bookings are essential and places are limited.

Please call Joanne Tel: 9419 2266

on Wednesdays and Thursdays only

for more details or to book your place.

To find other available programs visit our website

www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/Triple_P