St Finbarr’s Student Protection

Contacts are as follows.

Genny McNair

Kara Marsh

St Finbarr’s Parish School

Jabiru Street, P.O. Box 34 Quilpie, QLD, 4480

Phone: (07) 46561412—Fax: (07) 4656 1306

Email: Quilpie@twb.catholic.edu.au

Principal: Mrs Genny McNair

Newsletter Checklist

Book Club Cata-

logues

Term Planner

Info on P and F

and School Board

Fee Statements

Important dates

16 Oct—Combined

School Art Expo

6.30pm

19 Oct—Pupil Free

Day

20—22 Oct—Cathy

Drummond Work-

shops @ St Finbarr’s

22 & 23 Oct—

Positive Minds

Workshops @ QSC

22 Oct—Concert

combining Positive

Minds and Singing

with Cathy 6pm @

Shire Hall

26—27 Oct Musica

Viva Workshops

27 Oct—Musica Viva

Community Perfor-

mance Gypsy Tober

@ Shire Hall

30 Oct—Day For

Daniel

3rd Nov—Holiday for

Melbourne Cup

6 Nov—FETE

Dear Parents and Friends

Welcome back to the final Term for 2015.

I know I often put in our newsletter my thanks and appreciation to those who give their time to our school. I

have been in this position for 3 years now and still I am hearing of people helping out in ways I didn’t initially

realise. I guess this is what comes with living in such a small and close community. Once students leave our

school, past students and parents still have a close connection to our school. So once I again I really want to

thank each and every person in our community who helps out in many wonderful ways – those who are often

seen maintaining our grounds, those who are doing the background work in preparation for the fete with the

organisation of sponsors and the Mystery Holiday, those who help in our school, P&F and Parish fundraisers

and to all of the school community, including staff who put in such a great effort. Can I please ask that if you do

see someone doing something great, say thank you and tell them they are doing a great job. A little praise goes

a very long way.

This term is going to be very busy with events. Next week Cathy Drummond will be conducting singing work-

shops with all students between 9 and 11 on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Thursday night, students

will join with students from the Quilpie College to perform at the Hall from 6 pm in a concert held in conjunc-

tion with the Positive Minds Activities run by the Quilpie State College.

The following week on Tuesday 27th October Musica Viva is holding a concert and workshop with our students

at the Shire Hall. On Tuesday night there will be a community concert, Gypsy Tober at 6.30 pm. Students will

also be involved during the night presenting the skills they have learnt in the workshops.

Our annual School Fete will soon be upon us. The social calendar is so full in Quilpie we will unfortunately have

a number of families away. As this is the one major fundraising event for our school we are asking everyone to

pull together. It is a great night and the drawing of the Mystery Holiday is a highlight.

The Quilpie and District Swimming Carnival will be held on Friday 20th November. As this carnival is run by our

school we will be seeking people to assist with setting up, canteen and BBQ.

It is with great excitement that we can share with you the news of our successful application for the Gambling

Fund Grant for the covered area at the front of our school. The P&F has been raising funds for many years

for a project that will benefit our students now and into the future. The area is intended to be a multi-purpose

area for play, assemblies, school and community activities.

As a final word this week I want to acknowledge the efforts of Steve Bennett, principal of Thargomindah State

School and the Thargomindah State School P&F Association for all of the work they have done in the prepara-

tion, fundraising, and running of the Thargomindah Sports Camp. This is a massive undertaking by one school

and is certainly a credit to them all, to have continued this camp over 25 years. I have been to approximately

10 of these camps over the years and this year’s camp was as successful as the best that I can remember. This

year approximately 130 students attended, equalling the attendance of the earlier days, the coaches were of a

very high standard and the organisation superb. All of our students participated with enthusiasm and thor-

oughly enjoyed the week.

Warm regards

Genny

Generosity is giving more than you can and pride is taking less than what you need.—Khalil Gibran

Volume: 6

Issue: 16

Date: 14th October

St Finbarr’s Fete

Start saving your trash and treasure. Any old stuff you have at home

could be someone else’s treasure. Any items can be dropped off in the

Mary MacKillop Room.

We have sent home a plastic container today with your Newsletter. This

is for the Lucky Ticket stall. Please fill it up with anything that takes your

fancy. It could be toys, lollies, home made sweets or baking or scratch it

tickets. These can be dropped off at the office anytime.

If you have any other ideas for stalls or activities at the Fete, please let us

know. We would love to hear any new and interesting ideas.

School Fees

Term 4 Fee statements have been included with your News-

letter. Fees are due by 13th November

Bank Account details are as follows

St Finbarr’s Parish School

BSB 084 829 Ac No 50 886 7529

Craft at the Library

Michelle Donohue will be recommencing Craft at the Library on Monday 26th Octo-ber. Craft will then run through until the last week of school, 30th November.

St Finbarr’s Mystery Holiday 2015

2012—Melbourne Cup

2013—Coral Coast Fiji

2014—Dublin Ireland

Where will 2015 take you???

As always, this year’s winner will be given a

choice of two fantastic ***** options.

Prize drawn on Friday 6th November at St Finbarr's Fete. Prize must be claimed for use in 2015/2016 or it will be auctioned.

$50 per double ticket.

With grateful thanks to our sponsors

Haulmark Trailers, Proterra Group, REX Airlines, Camrandale Transport.

St Finbarr’s will be participating in the Day for Daniel on Friday

30th October. St Finbarr’s students can come to school on 30th

October dressed in red. Students will learn about the Daniel Mor-

combe Foundation with the help of resource packs provided.

The Daniel Morcombe Foundation Inc. (DMF) is committed to

Keeping Kids Safe. It was established by parents Bruce and Den-

ise Morcombe in 2005 after their son Daniel was abducted and

murdered in December 2003 while waiting to catch a bus on the

Sunshine Coast. The Foundation was established as a lasting

legacy to Daniel and now has two main aims; to educate children

on how to stay safe in a physical and online environment and to

support young victims of crime.

BOOK CLUB

Issue 7 Catalogues are out with this Newsletter. Or-

ders will be due back at school Friday 30th October.

Book Fair will be on again at the Fete just in time for

Christmas shopping for your children or friends.

All the support from Book Club and Book Fair allows

us to buy books for the students and the library.

SCHOOL PHOTOS

Donna from Country School Photos has just returned from holi-

days and will soon start work on our School Photos which were

taken right at the end of Term 3. She expects that they will be

ready to post in early November.

Donna and Paul also take Santa photos in the MYER Centre in

Brisbane so if you are there before Christmas, drop in there and

get the kids photo taken with Santa.

Mass Times for Term 4

October 25th @ St Finbarr’s at 6.00pm

November 22nd @ St Finbarr’s at 6.00pm

December 21st Monday Christmas Mass at St Finbarr’s 7pm

DON’T MISS THE COMBINED SCHOOLS ART EXHIBITION AT THE

VISITOR’S CENTRE THIS FRIDAY NIGHT 16TH COTOBER AT

6.30PM. THE STUDENTS HAVE BEEN BUSY WORKING ON DIFFER-

ENT ART WORKS AND IT SHOULD BE SPECTACULAR.

During November, the Church gives us the opportunity to remember and give thanks for those from our families

and communities who have died.

The celebrations for All Souls on 1 November helps us call to mind those people dear to us who have died. We

pause to remember them and the blessing they were to us. On All Saints day, we remember the Saints, those

men and women of all times and all places who lived lives of exceptional goodness and compassion. We espe-

cially remember St Mary MacKillop, the first Australian to be recognised by the Church for her extraordinary com-

passion.

To celebrate these special days, we invite all families and members of the Parish to gather in St Finbarr’s Church

on Monday 2 November to remember with love and celebrate with thanks All Souls and All Saints.

As part of the ritual, each person attending is asked to

recall the name of someone they would like to pray for

as the light a candle in his/her memory.

“I light this candle in memory of…………”

On that same day (2 November) we will gather in the

Mary MacKillop Room for our celebration of World

Teachers Day. World Teachers Day celebration will

commence at 11.30am and Morning Tea will be

served after the prayer service.

We invite you to be part of these times of remem-

brance and thanks

Sr Marg

3 - 6 Class News Term 4. WOW! This year has flown by. We have had many things happen since our last newsletter.

Thargomindah sports camp

All of the 3-6 students loved the week we had at Thargomindah. They participated in 6 different types of sports. These included; Rugby

league, Indigenous games, Tennis, Softball, Swimming and Netball. The students had fun meeting new friends and catching up with old

ones. It is a fantastic week.

Newspaper articles

This term in English we are looking at newspaper articles. We will be writing articles as a class and the students will have an assignment

in the middle of term where they will be creating a newspaper article and the front page of a newspaper. The students are very excited

and some have already come up with some awesome topics they could write about.

Parent teacher interviews

Thank you to all of the parents who took the time to have a parent/teacher interview with me this week. It is great to be able to show

off some of their child’s results from the past term.

Visitors to our classroom

On Monday and Tuesday this week we had two special visitors to our classroom. Erin and Ethan Forbes were in Quilpie and decided to

come and join our class for the two days. They are from Perth and they have been doing their own school work and also seeing what we

do in our classroom. They think it’s funny how we say “cool” .

Swimming

Swimming started on Friday last week and the students were very excited to get back into the pool after a few months break. Please

remind students to bring their swimming togs, goggles, towel and a swim shirt on Fridays.

Until next time…

Miss Taylor

Thargo Sports Camp was a huge success again this year with 26 out of our 30 students

attending all the way from Prep to Year 6. Hayden enjoyed the Indigenous Games including

throwing the Frisbee and the Vortex, Catherine enjoyed learning about all 6 of the differ-

ent sports, Cody said the food was really great and had a ball during the water fights with

the coaches on the last day, Anna enjoyed meeting new people and making new friends,

Georgia and Mia Mason enjoyed the swimming with the blue boat and learning about

water safety, Ardie liked the Indigenous games especially the kangaroo game where they

threw tennis balls at a big bag which was supposed to be the kangaroo and Mia Haylock

enjoyed the softball and learning how to catch the ball with the softball glove. Here a few

photos of the students participating in football, netball and cricket. More photos have

been uploaded to the School website in News and Events. Check them out!

Congratulations to Toby, Miss

Sarah and Millie who were con-

firmed at St Matthew’s Church

on the 9th September by Bish-

op Cameron Venables and Fa-

ther Geoff Reader. Thank you

to Miss Tina for making the

beautiful cake.

A huge effort was put in to this year’s

Show Display using the theme of Pop-

pies. All staff were involved in some

way and everyone would agree that it

was very impressive. The school work

entered into the show received many

placings across all grades and was of a

very high standard. WELL DONE