He wrote:

6 That's how God's Word vaults

across the skies from sunrise to

sunset, Melting ice, scorching

deserts, warming hearts to faith.

Psalm 19:6

(The Message translation)

He could see the effect of God on the

natural world from the rising of the sun to its

setting. He could see that the sun‟s journey

was not wasted; its warmth brought good

things to animals, livestock, plants and

people – in fact, it brought life! And he

knew that God‟s Word was having the

same effect on him, and on the lives of his

friends and family who believed in God.

God used this very idea when he sent Jesus

into the world. Jesus is the light of the

World. His love and acceptance can shine

into every part of us, even the dark parts

that we keep hidden from others. Jesus‟

light is life giving, bringing good things. It

sustains us, nourishes us, and illuminates

our path through everyday life. How

comforting and reassuring to know that the

light of Jesus is with us daily when we put

our trust in Him.

May God bless your week,

Kathryn

One of the things I love about my drive to

work is the beautiful sunrise and sunsets I get

to see. Their glory absolutely amazes me,

and I often wish I had a camera handy so I

could capture the brilliance. I especially love

sunrises on frosty mornings – the clear, crisp

whiteness shining and glowing in the

sunlight. One feature that has really stood

out this year, perhaps due to the number of

heavy frosts we‟ve had, has been the effect

of the sunlight on the frost as it lies on the

ground. As the sun‟s warming rays hits the

frost, it melts away. However anything that is

in shadow, for instance the area that is

blocked by a tree, remains frosty. You can

clearly see the exact shape of the tree drawn

on the ground in frost, right down to

branches and clusters of leaves. Gradually

though, the warmth of the sun has effect on

even the hidden areas that the sun doesn‟t

directly touch, and the frost melts completely.

How powerful dawn‟s sunlight rays are to

achieve this.

In the Bible David, the writer of Psalm 19:6

describes a similar effect. As a shepherd he

would have seen many sunrises and sunsets,

and seen the effect of the warming sun on

both the animals he tended and the grass he

relied on to feed his stock. His comparison

though, was comparing this to the effect that

God‟s Word has.

Chapel

Special Lunch Day

Soup (yummy)

Assembly

Maths Comp

Cosmic Cluster Camp

Chapel

Chapel

Student free day

BER Opening Service

Airshow

(87 Sleeps to GO!)

12 Aug

12 Aug

15 Aug

16 Aug

17-19 Aug

19 Aug

26 Aug

2 Sep

9 Sep

6 Nov

Newsletter Term 3, Week 3, 2011

Dates to remember:

IMPORTANT NEWS:

St Jakobi is collecting

vouchers from

Woolworths and Coles

for their respective

fundraisers. Please bring

these dockets/coupons

into the front office and

THANK YOU for

participating

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Term Dates

Term 3 – Tuesday 26/6/11 to Friday 30/9/11

Friday 2nd September (pupil free day)

Term 4 - Monday 17/10/11 to Wednesday 14/12/11

Thoughts/ Prayers/ Thanks

We thank Wayne Rosenboom for

donating part of his weekend helping

install a small amplifier and speakers

into the IT room as well as repairing

the larger amplifier in the Valley of

Hoe Centre. Your efforts are much

appreciated.

Congratulations to Rochelle Semmler

and big sister Leticia on the arrival of

a baby boy, Braxton.

Prayers are with Deb Wilson and

Teena Nicholls for a return to health

and to our school community.

Prayers are with Pastor Jim as he

concludes his services with the

Lyndoch Parish and here at St Jakobi

with thanks giving for all his support.

Prayer Families

Mon 8th – Schrier, Jesse & Hayley

Tue 9th – Semmler, Yaz & Loki

Wed 10th – Semmler , Leticia

Thur 11th – Semmler, Shiana

Fri 12th – Semmler, Cooper

Mon 15th – Sewart, Isabelle

Tues 16th – Sibbick, Ryan & Samuel

Wed 17th – Skiparis, Harrison & Haydon

Thur 18th – Smith, Matthew & Maisie

Fri 19th – Smith, Archie

Last term a survey was conducted to find out the school community‟s

wishes in relation to having a canteen back at St Jakobi. The following

was found:

60.7% families provided feedback about the canteen.

91.1% of respondents were in favour of having the canteen

The most favoured days to have the canteen were Friday

followed by Monday

Respondents favoured lunches as a higher priority than recess

foods

44% were in favour of a parent café, 51% were not.

41% said they would be prepared to help voluntarily to support

the canteen, 25% said they were unable to help, and 29% said

they might help if the date was suitable

In response to this feedback from our school community School Council

has decided to re-introduce the Canteen to St Jakobi, as a service to

school families. Mrs Sherree Hoffmann, a parent of the school, will be

the Canteen Manager. It will run from the Doecke Kitchen in the new

building, offering this exciting service on Mondays and Fridays. The

Canteen will operate under the South Australian Governments Right Bite

healthy eating system. Mrs Hoffmann is currently updating the necessary

qualifications, and visiting other canteens, finalising policies and working

out menus. The canteen will definitely be ready for Term 4, 2011, but it

is hoped it will be ready for operations before the end of Term 3. At this

stage the idea of a Parent Café is on hold. Stay tuned for further

announcements from our new Canteen Manager, Sheree!!

Canteen

Headlice Check

Many thanks for your support once again for the School Managed

Head Lice Program. It is wonderful to be able to share with you that at

the last check, we were down to 1.07% evidence of head lice or eggs;

we are winning the battle together! Don‟t forget to notify the school if a

bout of head lice occurs in between school checks, so that we can alert

other parents to check hair, and let school hairdressers know that any

eggs found at the next check are old, treated eggs.

Airshow T-shirts need to be in to the Front

Office by this Friday, 12th of

August, for the date

adjustment. Thank you

Name Date Age

Claire Marsh 9th Aug 10

Hector Mackenzie 14th Aug 11

Zara Stevens 14th Aug 10

Jacob Hoopmann 17th Aug 9

Samuel Hoopmann 17 Aug 6

Danielle Cannon 18th Aug 12

Julia McDonald 20th Aug 10

HAPPY BIRTHDAY

The Premiers Reading Challenge ends Friday the 9th of

September. Please encourage students to get busy

reading. If you need some book ideas please visit the

website at www.premiersreadingchallenge.sa.edu.au

After School Sports

After School Sports begins this week with Athletics this Tuesday followed by Tennis on Wednesday. Children may bring clothes

and sneakers to change into on Wednesday (Tuesday is sports uniform) and meet by the old computer room after school with

their schools bags.

If your child is not able to join in for any of the sessions can you please either let their class teacher know or Mr Lange so that

they can be marked off the roll.

Parents who have not yet returned their medical form and/or help roster notice should do so as soon as possible so that a roster

can be finalised.

We look forward to some great skill development and fun in the next 7 weeks of this term‟s program.

Ian Lange, AASC coordinator

In Week 2, students across the school completed art

activities with their siblings. Artworks will be made into

Christmas cards and sold as a fundraiser later in the

year.

2/3 Miss Juers Class News

Year 1/2 and Year 2/3 students conducted an

experiment within their unit of inquiry about water. They

used evaporation to make „clean‟ water from salty

water. Wow!

Year 2/3 visited the Southern Barossa Community Child

Care Centre in Week 2. School students worked with

the children to create their own version of Mem Fox‟s

“Where is the Green Sheep?”.

LYNDOCH LUTHERAN PARISH

WORSHIP PROGRAM* Lyndoch: St John Centre, Margaret Street

Lyndoch

Trinity Church: Barossa Valley Way,

Rowland Flat

AUGUST 2011 Church Year Lyndoch Rowland

Flat

Pentecost 8

7 August

Traditional

HC (Guest)

9am

Traditional

HC

(Guest)

10.30am

Pentecost 9

14 August

Parish

Worship

9am

Pentecost 10

21 August

Spoken HC

(Guest)

9am

Spoken

HC

(Guest)

10.30am

Pentecost 11

28 August

Lay Family

Service

10.30am

Lay-

reading

9am (Half

Yearly)

Pentecost 12

4 September

Traditional

HC (Guest)

9am

Traditional

HC

(Guest)

10.30am

*PLEASE NOTE: WORSHIP PROGRAM SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Please Note:

Sunday School @ Lyndoch will start @ 9.30am

every 1st & 3rd Sunday of the month

Term 1, 2011

3/4 Megan Nappa & Gabrielle Pisano 6/7 Paul Adler

Term 2, 2011

Rec/1 Heidi Schulz 1/2 Nina Berzins

Term 3, 2011

2/3 Joanna Juers 6/7 Ian Lange &Vivien Ahrens

Term 4, 2011

Rec/1 Tina Nicholls 5 Sarah Koop

2011 Meal Roster

Lyndoch Lutheran Parish

Book Week 22nd-26th August

Nuriootpa High School Small Schools year 7 transition day

Monday 29th September.

Throughout Book Week

children will participate in a

range of activities related to

the short-listed books for

2011 and the

Book Week theme.

Dress up day – Friday 26th August

Our world has many countries, with many

people that dress a certain way to respect and

represent their country. Come dressed as

someone from another country!

To help choose your country and costume, there

will be ideas sent our shortly.

Cultural foods week

Every day in book week cultural foods will be

offered to order for either recess or lunch as a

celebration of cultures around the world.

An order form will be sent home soon.

As per Government requirements, the school has compiled

the data of grades given in each curriculum area for each

year level. If you would like a copy of the comparative

grades for your child‟s year level, please contact the front

office to request it be sent home. Many thanks to those

families who have returned portfolios to the school. If you

have not yet had a chance to do so, could you please

return them as soon as possible. If you would like to discuss

any aspect of your child‟s report, please do not hesitate to

contact the class teacher.

After 10 years of service to the Lyndoch parish, Pastor

Jim will be farewelled this Sunday. It is fitting that we

too, at the school, farewell Pastor Jim, and thank him

for the loyalty and support that he has shown the

school during that time. Pastor Jim will be farewelled

during and after Worship on Friday, 26th August,

followed by a morning tea in his honour. We do

hope that you are able to join us whilst we recognise

and acknowledge Jim‟s contribution to and advocacy

for St Jakobi Lutheran School.

Reports & Portfolios Pastor Jim’s Farewell

Hi everyone and welcome to term 3!

Firstly I would like to say a big thank you to all those

wonderful people who have been cooking meals

and making goodies for our families. There have

been so many grateful people; words cannot say

what your kindness and support means to those

families who have received goodies.

However, having said that, don‟t give up cooking

yet! There is still two terms to go and our current

freezer stocks are low. If you have some spare time it

would be great if you could drop a meal into our

freezer, located in the kitchen in the Valley of Hope

Centre. Please ensure that your meal is labelled with

its name, the date cooked and the ingredients used –

thankyou.

If you would like to help us out and are unsure as to

what to cook or where to leave it, please speak to

either myself or your Class Carer.

Once again, thanks for your support.

This term we are asking families from Miss Juers and

Mr Lange/Mrs Ahrens‟ class to donate meals.

However, you can still donate a meal even if your

child isn‟t in either of these classes, basically the

more meals the more help we can offer!

Regards

Jo Herrmann (Class Carer Coordinator)

Class Carer News Michael Salmon Visit

Michael Salmon visited the school and showed off his

cartooning talents, even creating caricatures of two

senior students.

National Lutheran Principal’s Conference

Mrs Krieg will be attending the 2011 National Lutheran

Principal‟s Conference from Sunday, 21st to Wednesday

24th August in Canberra. During this time Mr Ian Lange will

be in charge. Please see Ian for any urgent matters that

occur.

PARENTS & FRIENDS CALENDAR as at 10 AUGUST 2011

DATE AND TIME EVENT/FUNDRAISER COORDINATOR/S HELP REQUIRED Friday 12 August 2011 Special Lunch Day –

Chicken noodle/pumpkin soup and bread roll

Barb Kilpatrick and Sheree Hoffman – hosted by Miss Nappa and Miss Pisano Year 3/4

PLEASE GET YOUR ORDERS IN TO BARB OR SHEREE ASAP!!! If you are able to help coordinate food and serve on the day, please call Barb on 0413 691 968 or Sheree on 0404 180 264.

Monday 22 August 2011 St Jakobi P & F Committee Meeting held in the Heloise Meeting Room, St Jakobi

Fi Jones – 0419 853 846

All welcome!!

ADVANCE NOTICE 15, 16 and 22, 23 October 2011

Williamstown Pantomime Kaylene Jaensch and Fi Jones

P & F request baked items from the school and church community to sell at the Pantomime. This is a huge fundraiser and the attendees at the Pantomime LOVE our baked goodies.

P & F NEWS

CRAZY CAMEL ‘CHRISTMAS IN JULY/AUGUST’ The artwork has been done by the talented students of our school!!! Artwork and order forms should be coming home very soon so please look out for them – please consider ordering your children’s masterpieces to raise funds for our school. THANK YOU. SEMESTER 2 NEW FAMILITIES MORNING TEA We hope that the new families who made it to the morning tea after Chapel last Friday enjoyed the beautiful homemade goodies and conversation. On behalf of the P & F, I would like to welcome you all to our community and hope that your children enjoy their time at St Jakobi. Thank you very much to Kaylene, Antonia, Marianne and Sheree for baking delicious goodies for the morning tea and for all of the P & F members who were there to say hello to our new families. Have a great fortnight. Kind regards and blessings

Fi Jones President St Jakobi P & F

The Southern Barossa Scouts in association with Rotary are collecting ring pulls

from drink cans. The ring pulls are made from titanium and can be recycled to

assist in the provision of free prosthetic limbs for land mine victims in Thailand.

Removing the ring pull doesn‟t change the 10c recycle value of your cans. We

would love you to start saving your ring pulls and they can be forwarded to the

scouts via Karlson Jaensch Class 2/3 Juers or any other scouts at our school.

“Ring up’s for Limbs”

OSHC Board of Outstanding Behaviour

We would like to congratulate the following students, who have displayed outstanding

behaviour at OSHC,

Nalieka H for helping others

Jock D for showing patience

Daniel K for thinking of others

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Seasonal

Craft

Cooking

Outdoor

Games

Games on the

Smart Board

Movie

St Jakobi After School Care Program

Term 3 2011

Vacancies Available For All Ages. Bookings Essential

For more information or bookings call Megan the OSHC Director on 0429137066 or the School’s

Front Office.

A healthy afternoon tea provided every session.

Boat Licences Here at St Jakobi

Mon 5th Sep

6:45pm to 9:00pm

Adults $45.00

Students $20.00

Ladies Night In

Want a fun night in without the children or your partners? Come and support the Southern Barossa Childcare Fundraiser on Friday 2

nd September at 7pm in The new “Valley of Hope”

school building. Admission $10 includes a glass of bubbly on arrival, coffee, tea

and a dessert. Plus be in the draw to win one of two dinner vouchers.

Get your Christmas shopping done early or just pamper yourself with products to purchase from our stall holders.

Smelly Pots soy wax candles, The Learning Ladder (children’s books), Tupperware,

Body Shop, Kaszazz Scrapbooking, Chelenie’s Crafts, Bright Star Kids are just some of the stall holders on the night.

Pre- buy your tickets from the front foyer of the school or the childcare centre.

Enquiries: Susan Carbone (centre Director): 8524 5395

Community News

The German Choral Association of

Australia in conjunction with Tanunda

Liedertafel presents:

Sängerfest 2011

2 concerts will be held in the

Barossa Arts & Convention Centre,

Magonlia Road, Tanunda.

Saturday 1st October

(featuring 18 individual choirs from

across Australia)

Sunday 2nd of October

(featuring massed choirs & guest

artists)

For further information please the

notice board for or please contact

Fay Mahlo on 8524 5640 for

tickets.

FREE HELIUM

BALLOON Take this voucher to THE HELIUM HOUSE and they will give you a FREE helium filled balloon. Your name will go into a draw for a party pack valued at $100. Winner drawn 1st Sept 2011. Name ______________________________ Email Address ________________________ ___________________________________ Phone number ________________________ School_______________________________ THE HELIUM HOUSE, 55a Murray St, Gawler Phone – 85233800 parties@heliumhouse.com.au

WILLIAMSTOWN CHILD PARENT CENTRE WILL BE HOLDING A PARTY PLAN EXPO

August 19th

Williamstown Soldiers Memorial Hall

$5.00 ticket with Champagne /Orange on entry, Free Tea & Coffee supplied .

Raffle Draws Door Prizes For tickets Ph: Debbie 85 246481 or on Mob 0417851061

Funds raised to improve outdoor environment

Displays by Stampin Up Total Learning Body Shop @ Home K-biz Kids Clothing Enjo Tupperware Postie Smelly Pots –candles Smallprint Jewellery Handmade Scarves

& more

7.15pm DOORS OPEN 7.30pm TUPPERWARE

Cooking Demonstration 8pm FASHION PARADE BY Postie