DATES TO REMEMBER Tuesday 14 February Beginning of Term Mass 9:00am Valentine’s Day Wednesday 15 February Year 6 Parent Meeting 5:30pm Friday 17 February P & F Welcome Morning Tea

Leschenault Catholic Primary School Before School Care 7:00 – 9:00am After School Care 3:00 – 6:00pm Located in the Junior Primary Wet Area Ph: 0422 899 841 Helen and Jess

DEAR PARENTS AND GUARDIANS What a wonderful start to the school year we have had. It is great to see the smiling faces and happy voices in our school corridors. Welcome back for another exciting year at LCPS. A special welcome to our new families. I know you will feel part of our community very quickly. This week, both the P & F and School Board held their first meetings for the year. Thank you so much to our fabulous parents who take the time to be part of our wider community, We acknowledge the time it takes and are grateful for your energy and zest. This week we have seen all our parent meetings take place throughout the school. Thank you to our sensational teachers and staff for ensuring our parents are well informed about their child’s education. Our staff have been very busy over the entire holiday period getting ready for the new school year.

PARKING This is just a quick reminder about parking., For the past two weeks we have experienced some people getting flustered with parking. please take a deep breath and try to be patient and tolerant. We are blessed that the Church allows our parents to use the area near the basketball court and church as this is Church land, not the school’s land. All they ask is that we keep ten bays for our parishioners to be able to park as many of them are elderly. The only time they ask for is Tuesday to Friday from 8:45am - 10:00am Therefore I ask that you respect this and ensure that we don’t park in the bays. While on the subject of parking I thought I would mention that presently, we are placing bollards around the front of the school and extending them along to the bus embayment on Mardo Avenue. There is no parking allowed in this area, yet many parents are still trying to park on footpaths etc and this is causing issues. The safety of our children is the most important part of this and when you park in this area you endanger students.

TOLERANCE I have also noticed that now we have increased the number of drop off zones from one to two, that some parents are reluctant to allow people coming out of the church, area to merge into the line so that they can also exit the school. Please remember to be tolerant and allow others to merge; there is room for everyone. CENTURION RUNNING GROUP What an amazing turn out we saw on Tuesday; so many students, Mums and Dads. We look like we have many enthusiastic families wanting to participate. This adventure was the brain child of Mr Bree Dudek, Mrs Kerry James and Mrs Catherine Hancock. What a team of go getters! We look forward our numbers holding. We hope you are enjoying this wonderful experience.

ISSUE 1 DATE 9th February 2017

NEWSLETTER

NEWSLETTER

BUCKETS FOR JESUS

Congratulations to the community for the generous support of the buckets for Jesus. Mrs Kristy Keeler and I travelled over to the Philippines in the holidays and joined up with Ruby and Mike to give out the educational bags to the children. The families were so happy to receive them and the looks on the children’s faces were just amazing. As a community you made a great impact on their lives. Today, Kristy and I spoke and shared our story with the children and any parents at line-up. Please do not worry if you missed the line-up as we will upload the songs and photo footage onto the website. It was an amazing journey and really helped you to appreciate all we have in Australia. SCHOOL FEES PAYMENT CASH, CHEQUE OR DIRECT DEBIT Direct Debit can be set up in two ways: CATHOLIC DEVELOPMENT FUND: This is a formal arrangement between parents and the Catholic Development fund whereby periodic payments are deducted from a bank account of your choice. The forms are available from the school office. ONLINE VIA THE INTERNET: Payments for school fees can also be set up via your own Banking Institution online, in the same way you use Internet Banking for personal bill paying. Most Banking Institutions offer an online “future payments” facility which can be set up to pay on a periodic basis. The school’s BPAY reference number is shown on the bottom, left side of your Term Statement. Each family is allocated a unique Reference No which is also shown with the BPAY Reference Number on your Statement.

A reminder to parents who are taking advantage of the direct debit facility through CDF, to review the amount being deducted to ensure that it will cover your fee commitment for the year. To make alterations to current arrangements, forms are available from the school office. Please be aware that the school does not have the authority to adjust the direct debit arrangements on your behalf without written consent. HEALTH CARE CARD DISCOUNT SCHEME Holders of a means tested family Health Care Card or a Pensioner Concession Card with the code PPS are eligible to

apply for the Health Care Card Tuition Fee Discount Scheme.

To be valid, the HCC must be current in first semester—between the commencement of the school year and the end of Term 2. The discounted fee covers Tuition Fees only and all other Amenities Fees and Levies will be charged at the full rate. Please present your card at the office and complete an Application form. Fees will be processed and sent out in Week Three of Term One, therefore the cut-off date for these applications is Friday 10th February. For those families who participated in this scheme last year, YOU MUST RE-APPLY EACH YEAR to continue receiving benefit from this scheme.

SACRAMENTAL PROGRAMS This year the students in Year 3 and 4 will be receiving the Sacraments of Penance (Reconciliation) (Yr3), Eucharist (Yr4) for the first time, and our Year 6 students will be Confirmed the beginning of Term 3. It is important that parents and children intending to receive one of these Sacraments read the schedule of ‘Sacramental Dates’ attached to this newsletter carefully. Students who are baptised Catholic but who are not in the year groups receiving any of these sacraments this year may do so through a special Sacramental Programme. Please speak to your classroom teacher or see me if you wish your child to be included in one of these groups. Brigid Bryce

UNIFORM SHOP The Uniform Shop is open from 8:30am - 9:30am every Monday and Friday morning except on pupil free days and public holidays. Also a reminder that 1st term and 3rd term the children wear their coloured faction shirt on their sport day. Children wear the blue and gold polo shirt in terms 2 and 4 on their

AWARDS PRESENTED 10 FEBRUARY 2017

PPB Grace Young PPG Arron Kowal 1B Kai Fisher Marina Faria 1G Matthew Fisher 2B Lucas Jacob Tabitha Catalano 2G Ryan Wilson Lucas Grasso 3B Class of 3B 3G Zander Basile Zoe Williams 4B Connor Pruiti Leela Baird 4G Joshua West Thomas Jacob 5B Bayden Hancock Ben West 5G Mikayla Williams Molly Negus 6B & 6G Class Awards

sport day. They also wear this shirt for interschool sport carnivals and excursions. We now have pre-kindy t’shirts available for purchase in size 2 and 4. There is a good supply of second hand winter uniforms available if you would like to pick up a bargain. We have a number of S/H elastic loop ties available that have only been worn twice. Please find attached to this newsletter a copy of the uniform shop price list if you are unable to come into the shop during normal opening times.

Thank you, Rachel Craig - Uniform Shop Coordinator. Uniform List at end of newsletter. ENROLMENTS – GUITAR LESSONS 2017 To enrol your child/children for guitar lessons in 2017, forms can be obtained from the school office. Alternatively, you can contact Ms Cornford on 0408 902 943 or email vcornford@bigpond.com

PIANO LESSONS Qualified and experienced piano teacher has vacancies for piano students. For all enquiries, please telephone Mrs

Elma Lee on 0428 368 988.

Community News The Glen Huon Dental Clinic will be open Monday –

Friday 8am – 4pm in 2017

Staff (subject to change) for term 1 are:

Mondays Dental Officer Carl Dohse

Dental Assistant Wendy

Tuesdays Dental Therapist Jasmine

Dental Assistant Di

Wednesday Dental Therapist Jasmine

Dental Assistant Sam

Thursday Dental Therapist Jasmine

Dental Assistant Di

Friday Dental Therapist Sarah

Dental Assistant Di

WORLDWIDE MARRIAGE ENCOUNTER: Getting ready for school means lots of time spent on your children. After school begins, why not give yourselves some time together? Don't you and your spouse deserve a beautiful weekend away together? Remember the early days of your marriage. Just being together was most important. The Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekend has the same focus. The weekend centres entirely on your relationship. It is a positive, private experience between you and your spouse, that revitalises

marriage by helping you to see again those loving qualities in each other that you may be taking for granted. Take a weekend out of the busyness of your lifestyle, where there is just the two of you, free of distractions. We invite you to join us on one of our next Worldwide Marriage Encounter Weekends. 31 March – 2nd April 2017 or 11 – 13 August 2017 For information or booking contact: 0424 220 625 – George & Monica or Email: WAbookings@wwme.org.au Website – www.wwme.org.au

MARIST JUNIOR FOOTBALL CLUB (INC) Boys and Girls Registration Day 12 February at Marist Junior Football Club Rooms, Albert Oval, Bunbury Catholic College from 9:00am – 12:00pm. Come down, sig up, have a sausage sizzle and support your club or you can register online on the link below Marist JFC 2017 Registration Form For more information, call Frank on 0418 198 139

Bunbury United

Soccer Club Inc

Junior Soccer

Registrations 2017

Thursday 16th & 23rd February, 17

At: Bunbury United Club rooms, Parade Road Bunbury

Time: 4pm to 6pm

All old and new players welcome. (Ages 5-16)

(Need Girls for girls only teams 8-10 years and 11-13 years )

Parents will be shown how to register online and all NEW children must have a copy of their Birth Certificate.

Any queries please email Carmela - cgaric@hotmail.com

We will accept registrations before the registration days! Thank You!