Reflection: Dear Parents,

Tomorrow there will be a working bee at the school

commencing at 8:30am to tidy up the vegetable

garden area at the back of the school. Please bring

along suitable gardening tools including a

chainsaw if you have one. If you have not done

your turn on the garden roster this would be a good

working bee to attend to redeem yourself.

All welcome to attend. (We will need to keep an

eye on the weather!!)

Next week we will commence our two week

Swimming Program, weather permitting. Students

will need to bring their bathers (sunsmart with

upper body covered), thongs and towel. We will

change at school at 12:30 ready to commence

lessons at 12:45 – 2:00pm. Students will then

change back into school clothes, have their lunch

and a short play break ready for the last lesson of

the day. The school will provide the necessary

sunscreen.

Please ensure that you have paid your pool

membership up front or bring $4 for each day your

child swims. Please ensure you have returned the

pink parent consent form also.

On Tuesday, the whole school will be involved in

a Transition Day. Current Year 6 students to

Edenhope College and kinder kids into

Foundation. It is hoped that the new teachers will

be present in order to develop relationships with

their new cohort of students.

The WT Junior Planning Day has been postponed

until Monday, 11th December.

As Edenhope College have a pupil free day

tomorrow, only the Patyah, Powers Creek,

Chetwynd and Langkoop buses will be running. I

apologise for any inconvenience to other bus

travelling families.

Enjoy the weekend. Ang

Be Watchful, Be Alert

Important Dates Term 4

December

Fri 1st

Mon 4th

Tues 5th

Wed 6th

Thurs 7th

Fri 8th

Mon 11th

Tues 12th

Wed 13th

Thurs 14th

Fri 15th

Sun 17th

Mon 18th

Tues 19th

Wed 20th

Thurs 21st

Fri 22nd

Garden Working Bee @ 8:30am

Swimming Program

Swimming Program

Whole School Transition Day

Swimming Program

Swimming Program

Swimming Program

Swimming Program

Western Trinity Junior Planning change of date

Swimming Program

Swimming Program

Swimming Program

Swimming Program

Parent Conversations

Graduation Mass – Year 6

Western Trinity Students Break Up –

Coleraine

Last day St. Malachy’s Students – break up

Western Trinity School Review

St. Malachy’s School Review

Staff Day – planning 2018

St Malachy’s School Advisory Council

Chairperson-Stacey Dubois

Vice Chair-Melanie Mulraney

Secretary-Jess Sambell Maintenance-Darren Ferluga

Parent Representatives –

Kevin Mills Brooke White

School Association Representative

Jenny Munro

Staff Representative Melanie Mulraney

Ex-officio members

Fr John Corrigan Maureen Payne

Angela Kealy

St Malachy’s School

34 Lake St Edenhope, Vic 3318 Ph: 03 5585 1396 Mobile: 0428 913 777 E-mail: principal@smedenhope.catholic.edu.au Web address www.smedenhope.catholic.edu.au

NEWSLETTER

Vol 33 No 36 – 30th November, 2017

Pursuing fullness of life for all by inspiring faith, lifelong learning

and community engagement

Address: 34 Lake St Edenhope 3318

Telephone: (03) 55851396 Mobile: 0428 913 777 Email: akealy@smedenhope.catholic.edu.au

Catholic School Culture Sunday Church Roster

December 3rd READER:

PRAYERS:

GIFTS:

LEADERS:

MINISTERS:

CLEANING:

LINEN:

COLLECTION:

LAWNS:

K Neall

A Kealy

Neall Children

M Payne

C Middleton

G Clarke

R Burgess

G McDonnell

D Brook

Sunday Mass Times

First Sunday of Advent

Edenhope 11:00am Mass

Wake Up! Jesus Is Here Right Now Do you ever feel alone when you need help with

a problem? Pay attention to Jesus’ words: “Be

alert! Watch!” Jesus wants you to know that

God’s help is staring you right in the face. His

mission for you is right in front of you.

During Advent we join with Christians all

around the world to remember that God sent

Jesus once and will send him again at the world’s

end. Why? Because we need him. We need his

help because life is just too hard sometimes. We

need his vision because we sometimes miss the

work he wants us to do in this world.

Unfortunately, life gets so busy that we often

miss the many ways Christ tries to comfort us or

send us to others. Advent is a great time to slow

down and be watchful. When you hurt, be alert;

Christ is sending people to help you. Pray for

help to see them and the humility to accept their

help. When others hurt, Christ has important

work for you to do in healing this broken world.

Pray for help to see those people whose lives you

can change.

Let Advent remind you that Jesus really comes

into the world every day, but we miss that unless

we watch for Christ, accept Christ’s love, and

help others in Christ’s name.

Working Bee There will be a gardening working bee after

Mass this Sunday. Please bring along suitable

gardening tools to assist if you are able.

Year of Youth The Australian Bishops have identified the

liturgical year of 2018, beginning this Sunday,

the first Sunday of Advent as a national Year of

Youth. The theme of the Year of Youth is Open

New Horizons for Spreading Joy.

Christmas Gifts If you would like to give a little extra to those

who need it most at Christmas time, Caritas

Australia offers Global Gift Cards. Donations go

towards empowering the most marginalized and

impoverished of our brothers and sisters across

the world.

Visit: fundraise.caritas.org.au/globalgifts

Learning and Teaching Reports Teachers have been busy finishing off units of

work and writing reports. Hopefully, student

reports will go home on Monday, 11th with the

Parent Learning Conversation on Friday,15th

December.

Please see attached to the newsletter a list of

conversation times. Where possible we will

endeavour to meet your preference. If you do not

return the slip with a time, you will be given a

time where there is a vacancy. Please return this

form by Wednesday, 6th December so we can

give you your Conversation times with next

week’s newsletter.

Parish News

In the 2/3

Classroom Religion

We have been discussing what we would need to

prepare if we were able to bring a new pet home.

We have also had a visitor – Mrs Coxon talking

about the preparations she is making for a new

baby next year. She was also showing some of

the items she might be taking with her when she

goes to the hospital to have the baby. This will

then link into what Mary & Joseph had to prepare

in advance for the arrival of Jesus.

Literacy

We have been continuing to work on Narratives.

Our focus has been on writing plans and using

these to tell our story to another person before

starting to write. We have been developing our

skills to use descriptive vocab to make our stories

more interesting.

We have been looking at ways we can make sure

we understand text we have read. We can re-read

the sentence or passage, we can ask someone or

we can use a dictionary or glossary to help us

with unfamiliar words.

Maths

We are continuing to work on telling the time,

using digital and analogue clocks. Grade 2s are

expected to read times to the quarter past and

quarter to while the Grade 3s are expected to read

all analogue and digital times.

Assembly Awards

Student:

Taewyn – working hard on improving her

handwriting

Hudson – trying hard in maths

Jess – Following directions in writing tasks

Lucas – Following directions in writing tasks

Molly – trying hard and asking for help to

improve her tennis skills

Dalbir – great golf technique – Jason Day of the

future!

Brolga Awards for students who went above

and beyond to help with St. Malachy’s Brolga

Art Piece

Lucas, Edwina, Marcus, Dalbir, Jaali

Reading Awards

150 nights of Reading

Gabi, Hudson, Ayla, Max

200 nights of Reading

Nyima

House:

Mercy

Behaviour of the Week:

Picking up litter and paper

Leadership & Stewardship OH&S Next week we will have a visit from CCI to

provide an OH&S audit of the school. This report

will give some direction as to what we need to

fix, change, alter, adapt etc.

SAC The next meeting of the School Advisory

Council will be held on Thursday evening at

6:30pm in the Staff room.

Wellbeing Be Safe Be Respectful Be Responsible

Sport Shorts

Golf By all accounts, Tony has been very impressed

with the skill levels of students who have

participated in his school clinics. He was also

impressed with the Foundation/Year 1’s for their

excellent listening and paying attention.

Hot Shots Tennis The Year 2-6 students have visited the local

tennis courts this week to try their hand at tennis

after a number of weeks developing skills

through “Hot Shots”.

Community Engagement Gardening Roster

Castignani Family

Please trim and weed plants

along the bus path, especially the

over grown ‘grasses’.

Red Tail Gallery It was a pleasure to be at the opening of the

Brolga Exhibition last Saturday evening to see

the effort and end result of student involvement

in a Brolga Display. Many, many thanks to

Rachel who inspired the students and led the way

with the amazing piece of work. Please pop into

the Red Tail Gallery to have a look if you haven’t

already done so.

School Parents’ Association Attached to this week’s newsletter you will find

an order form for sausages for the end of year

BBQ being held at Henley Park after the

11:00am Mass. Please return this note by the 12th

December to assist with catering. Thank you.

Please see the attached

Think U Know Minecraft flyer.

Music in the Park Bands and Burgers

Featuring: Jalen & Randa

Saturday, 2nd December

5:00pm – 10:00pm Henley Park

BYO Chair or blanket

Sponsored and Catered by our very own local

businesses and organisations.

Presented by Vision & Voice Edenhope

Newsletter Attachments Parent Conversation Times

Mindcraft for Parents

Sausage order form - Graduation BBQ

Henley Gate Roster 2018

The Black Cat