Dear Parents and Carers,

Yesterday was the feast of St Ignatius of Loyola. Ignatius was born in the Basque country of northern Spain in the 16th cen-

tury and after experiencing a personal conversion following a serious battle injury he wrote an important work, The Spiritual Exercises, still used to guide personal spiritual growth today. Ignatius was a cofounder of the Jesuits, an order of priests. Ignatius developed a simple process for reflecting on one’s life each day to consider God’s presence. We sometimes use this prayer, the Examen, with our students. It is a short, simple way of taking a few moments at the end of the day to stop and take stock.

1. Become aware of God’s presence. 2. Review the day with gratitude. 3. Pay attention to your emotions. 4. Choose one feature of the day and pray from it. 5. Look toward tomorrow.

Disco Thanks The Stage 2 parents have been very busy in recent weeks preparing for tomorrow night’s Disco. Thank you to all who have been engaged in the planning, to those who will help decorate the hall, assist with sales on the night and help pack up. The Disco is a highlight of the annual calendar for our children and I know they are looking forward to it. Please be aware that children should not attend without a parent or adult accompanying them. Parents are asked to assist with supervision and invited to take the opportunity to meet others. Times are as follows: Kinder to Year 2 - 5:00-6:30pm Years 3 to 6 - 6:00-7:30pm Mary MacKillop Feast Please join us on Monday to celebrate the Feast of St Mary of the Cross. The outline of the morning’s celebration is as fol-lows: 9:30 School Mass at the church 10:45 Shared morning tea at the school with the children 11:15 Walk to Tallow Beach – sand modelling activity 12:00 Arrive back at school, ice block, return to class The walk to the beach occurs along a well-kept track that begins on the northern side of the high school. The walk takes about 7-10 minutes and brings us out where Tallow Creek meets the beach. This is the same track we have used many times for the school cross country event. If you do not give consent for your child to take part in the walk and beach activity please contact your child’s teacher in writing.

With best wishes for the coming week,

Kind regards,

John Wilson Principal Loving, growing, learning for life

Principal’s Message

Term 3 2 August 2016 Week 3

celebrating

100 years

1916– 2016 * St Finbarr’s school photos 1949—early 60’s

1 Arakwal Court, Byron Bay NSW 2481 tel: 6685 6342 fax: 6685 8784 email: bbp@lism.catholic.edu.au www.bbplism.catholic.edu.au

This week’s value: Encourage Each Other, Work and Play Together

(Friendliness, Generosity, Gentleness, Joyfulness)

Gentleness Is acting and speaking in a way that is kind and careful.

Signs of success

Playing with others without being rough

Speaking kindly so you don’t hurt anyone’s feelings

Handling things carefully so you don’t damage them or break them

First Holy Communion Program Those students enrolled in the First Holy Communion program partic-ipated in the first lesson on Friday afternoon. Our focus was to iden-tify how Jesus is with us. We looked at days of celebration in family and in Church and the students thoughtfully responded to the scrip-ture story of Jesus welcoming children. I congratulate the students on their participation and I look forward to the continued program pre-paring the children for the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Stage Masses Stage 2 celebrated mass on Friday morning. It was lovely to share this occasion with those parents, family members and parishioners who were able to join us. In class we have been looking at how the Church honours special women with feast days and prayers. Fr. Da-vid spoke with us about significant women who are models of faith and courage and how they live their faith in God. We received many compliments after mass on the beautiful singing of the children and this, along with the students’ reverent participation throughout the mass, added to a special celebration. As always you are most welcome to join us for the following Stage Masses:

Kindergarten Friday 26th August 9:30 at St. Finbarr’s Church, Byron Bay. Stage 3 Friday 9th September 9:30 at St. Finbarr’s Church, Byron Bay.

Whole School Masses As a School/Parish community we look forward to celebrating togeth-er the significant occasions of the Feast of St. Mary of the Cross MacKillop on Monday 8th August and the Assumption on Monday 15th August. Again, the masses will be at 9:30am at St. Finbarr’s Church, we look forward to seeing you there. John Burland Live in Concert Our school is fortunate to have singer John Burland performing on Thursday 25th August at 1:45pm in our school hall. Students will be immersed in a joyful and prayerful celebration of our Catholic faith. Parents, younger siblings and parishioners are also invited to attend the live concert. Alter Servers This weekend 6th August - Olivia Hosie, Suriana Mamone & Anastacia Bleakley. Students, thank you for altar serving at the 6pm St Finbarr’s mass. Your dedication is greatly appreciated by the parish community. Please arrive by 5:45. You will sign on and robe in the Reconciliation Room at the back of the church. If you are unavailable, please try to replace yourself with another Altar Server during the week. If you are unable to swap or organise another server, please call the parish of-fice on 6685 6260 (and leave a message if phone is unattended). Kind Regards, Chantelle Cotes Shayne Conlon Leader of School Catechesis Leader of School Evangelisation

August 2016

1 English ICAS Years 2-6

3 5-7:30pm School Disco

Stg 2 Excursion—Writers Festival

5 Stg 3 Gala Sports Day

8 9:30am Feast of St. Mary of the Cross School Mass

12 NAIDOC Celebrations

15 Mathematics ICAS Years 2-6

Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Mass (Whole School) 9:30am

Term 3 School Fees Due

16-18 Stage 3 Sydney Excursion

25 John Burland performing 1:45pm School hall

26 Kindergarten & Stg 1—Mass 9:30am

27 6.00-7.00pm First Holy Communion

September 2016

2 7.30-9.30am Father’s Day Breakfast

9 Stage 3 Mass—9:30am

21-23 Stage 2 Camp

23 Last Day Term 3

October 2016

10 Pupil Free Day

11 First Day Term 4

28 4.30-7.00pm Kinder Orientation

November 2016

4 7pm Trivia Night

December 2016

3 Christmas Fair

16 Last Day of School

Evangelisation

Student Awards Congratulations to the following St Finbarr’s students whose achievements will be recognised at our next school assembly this Friday.

Classes Learning Award Value Award

Kinder Cotes Harper M. Frankie S.

Kinder Whittingham

Liliana W. Deon K-B.

Year 1 McEvilly

Lola J. River O.

Year 2 Blower

Alex H-B. Ivy C.

Stage 2 Boggis/Hill

Josh T. Oliver K.

Stage 2 Conlon

Thomas A. Paloma J.

Stage 2 Waters/Clark

Jack B. Lola O’M. Melody P.

Stage 3 Clark/Wade

Zara J. Cooper C.

Stage 3 Cronan/O’Dwyer

Joe F. (Maths) Jade H-S.

Stage 3 Morgan

Jaxon P. Selma M.

Mary MacKillop Jonah T.

Finnies Finest Noah B-H.

Quick Smarter Yr 4

Charlie B.

New Student

2B– Angus M

Learning

Sports News

Term 3 School Fees

Fees are due by 15 August Outstanding Term 2 Fees are due Immedi-ately. Payments can be made by cash, cheque, credit card or forwarded direct to: Bank account BSB 062-514 A/C No. 00900371. Please quote account number or child’s name as details. BPAY facilities are also available using biller code & reference number from statement. Please contact Alison Mason immediately, amason@lism.catholic.edu.au , if you are experiencing financial difficulty.

All students have now taken home Issue 5 of Book Club. Check out the $29 National Geographic Animal Pack or the 30 Goosebumps titles for $79. Great value! LOOP orders will close for Issue 5 on Friday, 5th August at 10:30am. All class teachers are represented in the LOOP system so please ensure that your child is enrolled in the correct class. All ordering must be managed through LOOP or the payment returned to the school in the form of a cheque made out to scholastic. Thank you, and keep opening a world of possible.

Diocesan Athletics

Reminder: All notes and levy fees($15) for the Dioc-esan Athletics Carnival are due back tomorrow . The carnival will be held on Friday 19th August at Coffs Harbour. If your child is withdrawing from the competition, a written note or email is required.

Regards

Lisa Clark Sports Coordinator

BOOK CLUB

WANTED! Parents, Grandparents, Guardians, Writers, Photographers, Artists, Ideas People! The Council of Catholic Schools Parent Assembly is seeking nominations for the annual Roger O'Sullivan award. The award is for the school who can demonstrate exemplary practice in building bridges between families and the school, that results in enhanced learning, improved faith develop-ment or greater well being. Examples of past nominations are: •art projects •achieving specified academic targets •website creation Last year's winning nomination was given to St Brigid 's Primary in Kyogle. Their submission was a 10 page retro-spective account of what they had done during the previous year - Building Pre-School connections, building rela-tionships with the men in the school, welcoming new families and more. We would like to lodge a submission this year- at the same time we need to be able to showcase the wonderful things we are doing as a school community, how we engage parents, and how it is providing a positive impact on students. Please email us with what do you think we are doing well, ideas you have that we could bring to life - it will be so much appreciated. We would love to hear from new families! Please contact Annie on 0419280461, or email at greentree118@gmail.com We only have until end of term.

Catholic Schools Parent Assembly News

Canteen Helpers Needed Helpers needed and warmly invited to join the Can-teen Roster. If interested, please contact Cyra 0419 968 611 or the School office to be added to the Roster. Alternatively, just turn up any Tuesday or Friday morning and lend a hand!

General News - On Display - Parent Notice Board

General Messages

DISCO TOMORROW NIGHT - IMPORTANT INFO Entry is $2 per person Parental supervision required. Not a drop off Event.

DRESS UP: RETRO DISCO, WINTER WONDER-

LAND OR A COMBO

GLOW STALL Bring your pocket money - there will be some exciting Glow items for sale including: Flashing Bunny Ears $4 LED Flashing Mouthguard $3 LED Tiara with Faux Fur $4

FOOD Food will be available to purchase for dinner

SWEETS Snow Cones FAIRY FLOSS with glow stick