Newsletter No 7 December 2016 No 39

Welcome to Week 9 This week the Year 6 students have some interesting news. See the back page to read about some of

the fun activities.

SCHOOL FINISHES AT 2.30pm EVERY Wednesday

Dear Parents and Guardians

Our Praise Thanksgiving and Graduation Mass today was a wonderful celebration of a very busy year together as we celebrated the achievements of the year and gave thanks for the many blessings received by all of us. Our Catholic faith is the heart of our School and so it is fitting that our final celebration together is one centred on the Eucharist and our community of faith. As always, our students are reverent participants in the Mass and are a credit to their teachers and their parents.

I also thank the many parents, grandparents and friends who were able to attend and enjoy our End of Year Concert on Monday – this too was a wonderful celebration of our year and I congratulate all of the students and particularly Mrs Murray for their fine performances!

Congratulations to our Graduating Year Six students - we wish them well as they continue their journey to secondary education and thank them too for the gift of their presence and their contributions to St Jude’s School during their time here.

Sincere thanks to all members of the St Jude’s teaching team for their commitment and caring and conscientious support to all students’ learning journeys during 2016. We are blessed to have a School team of this calibre and our School community reaps the benefits of the special gifts of each member.

And, of course, thank you to our students! All our students bring wonderfully different talents to our School and today we acknowledged these gifts in our School community. Firstly, through the Christian Living Awards, the heart and soul of our Catholic School, and secondly through the Achievement Awards, which honour the attitude and achievement that individual students bring to their year’s work.

Christian Living Awards Achievement Awards PP Harsimran Dhillon Dunamis Isaot Y1 Andre Ty Josh Vergara Y2 Joshua Win Pe Ethan Wu Y3 Ryker Stubbs Ashley Laxina

Y4 Putmony Chhim Elijah Moonemalle Y5 Vincent Ty Emma Pickering

The Year Six Graduating class awards: Christian Living Adam Min

Academic Excellence Caitlin Pettersen Outstanding Effort Ayden Ratnasekera Academic Performance Award Year 4,5 & 6 Lara Delilkan Academic Performance Award Year 4, 5 & 6 R/U Stephni Jesuthasan Quiet Achiever Nejini Mohankumar Citizenship Award Adam De Souza Science Awards Benjamin Heslop, Man Yin Yang Sportsmanship Awards Danny Htoo, Goretty Otim Japanese Studies Chanmollika Chhim

We also announce and congratulate our Student Leaders for 2017: HEAD BOY: Vincent Ty HEAD GIRL: Phoenix Wu

COMMITTEE LEADERS Pastoral Care: Chanelle Min Environment: Kaitlyn Moro Assembly: Emma Pickering Sports: Jasmine Heron Technology: Kim Y Sov

FACTION CAPTAINS Foley: Eileen Sunil, Zachary Pentony Petry: Hemy Whanga Katipa, Connor Doherty Mercy: Anna Holland, Taj Watson

A Christmas Prayer

Father of love and mercy, we thank you for sending your Son, Jesus, to us.

As we get ready to celebrate the holy feast of Christmas,

help us to share love with others. May we live the spirit of the Christmas season each day

through the year. Help us to live always in hope and joy because of all

You have done for us. May we always remember that Jesus Christ is the true

gift of Christmas. We pray this through the Holy Spirit who guides our

hearts and our lives. Amen.

I look forward to greeting you next year as school returns on Wednesday 1st February 2017! Enjoy the holidays everyone and may the peace and joy of the Christmas season remain with you through the coming year.

God bless

Mrs Lyn Stone, Principal

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St Jude’s Parish Mass Times

Sunday Masses: (Vigil) Saturdays: 6.30pm Sunday: 7.30am 9.00am and 5.30pm

Weekday Masses: Mon to Fri: 9.00am followed by Recitation of the Rosary

Altar Servers: Sat 6.30pm: Leander & Amanda D’Cruz

Sun 9.00am: Charles Tint & Kaitlyn Moro Sun 5.30pm: Benjamin Heslop

Christmas Mass Times

Christmas Eve, 24 Dec: Vigil / Family Mass: 6.30pm Carol Singing: 11.30pm Midnight Mass: 12.00 midnight

Christmas Day, 25 Dec: Morning Mass: 7.30am and 9.00am No Evening Mass Feast of the Holy Family, 29 Dec: Morning Mass: 9.00am New Year’s Eve, 31 December: No Morning Mass Thanksgiving Mass: 6.30pm

Feast of Mary, Mother of God / NYD, 1 Jan: Morning Mass: 9.00am

ST JUDE’S PARISH

BRILLIANTLY BEHAVED MORNING TEA

TERM 4, 2016

Congratulations to the following students for receiving an invitation to the Morning Tea for their outstanding behaviour during Term 4

KG: Mikhael BORGONIA & Jenica JHUREMALANI

PP: Sajeevan RAJEEVAN & Holly WALKER

Yr.1: Rohani SIDHU & Zachary HODGES

Yr.2: Matthew O’BRIEN & Teegan CARAFFI

Yr.3: Mary-Jane HOOD & Deaken NICHOLSON

Yr.4: Julia MOE & Putmony CHHIM

Yr.5: Florance ISAOT & Isaac DELA FUENTE

Yr.6: Nejini MOHANKUMAR & Adam MIN

The St Jude’s School staffing for 2017 is as follows:

Principal Mrs Lyn Stone Assistant Principals Ms Mel Allen, Mrs Elle Fonseca Three-Year-Old Kindy Mrs Lu Lambert Kindy Mrs Lu Lambert Mrs Fiona Muir, Mrs Inoka Ratnasekera, Ms Sharon MacFarlane PP Miss Natalie Guagliardo Mrs Jane Grupillo, Ms Sharon MacFarlane, Mrs Amanda MacSween Year 1 Mrs Elle Fonseca, Mrs Gaylor Murray Mrs Jackie Edwards, Mrs Lily Ty Year 2 Miss Elena Carey Mrs Buddhi Thiranagama Year 3 Miss Laura Reese (Sem 1) Miss Laura Reese, Mr Bruce White (Sem 2) Mrs Emilia Berger Year 4 Mrs Samantha Throssell Mrs Justine Throssell Year 5 Mrs Rachel Renton Year 6 Mr Joseph Giorgio Science & IT Ms Mel Allen PE Mr David Andersson (Sem 1) Mr Bruce White (Sem 2) HASS Mrs Janet Cattrall Japanese Mrs Gaylor Murray (Sem 1) Mrs Mariko Waghorn (Sem2 ) Music & Drama Mrs Gaylor Murray Literacy Support Mrs Tina Hunter, Mrs Linda Raj School Counsellor Sr. Sandra Smolinski Administration: Mrs Annette Bowman, Mrs Arlene Dique, Mrs Yvonne Nicholls Uniform Shop: Mrs Linda Aldworth Canteen: Mrs Lily Ty

The Year six students have concluded their final year of primary school and have made fond and long lasting memories. The class concluded 2016 with their final assembly, excursion, Graduation, Disco and Graduation Mass. Looking back on the year, all of the students had a defining memory from Year six and wanted to share them with you…

My most memorable moment from Year 6 was ……….

JB – when we were all having fun together. We have fun together every time we do activities.

Jaxon - winning my race at the school faction carnival. I also enjoyed the school camp because I played with all of my friends there.

Trey – at our camp when I was talking, swimming and canoeing with everyone. I also liked getting up early in the morning at camp, washing the dishes and playing all of the games.

Caitlin – when I became best friends with Chanmollika! She became my best friend when we sat on the bus together to go on our camping trip and she has been there every moment for me and I love her!

Nejini - at camp when we got to play games together and I really just enjoyed being a Year 6 student.

Noah - at Nanga Bush Camp when we all got to go on the zipline. I also liked the canoeing activities and games at camp.

Danny - our camp because we did lots of fun activities such as the canoeing and raft building.

Justin - at Nanga Bush Camp when we did all of the fun activities. The activity I liked the most was the water activities.

Lara - when I went to Camp with all my friends and went rowing! It was SO much fun getting wet! When I started rowing, I NEARLY tipped the canoe over!

Benjamin - when we went to camp and got to hang out with all my friends. We did not have to do any work and got to go on the zipline, it was scary but a ton of fun!

YEAR 6 NEWS

My second most memorable moment was when we did the canoeing and swimming in the river.

Ayden - at Nanga Bush Camp when I went first on the zipline and did a no hands and upside down move! I also loved winning the egg protector competition and beating the teachers!

Drew - helping all my friends and the school with technology when I was nominated as the 2016 Technology Committee Leader. I also enjoyed camp when I talked and played with some boys and girls in my class.

Goretty - when our Year 6 class went to camp, it was amazingly FUN. I enjoyed all the fantastic challenging games we played as a class.

Stephni - when we went to CAMP and presented our graduation assembly! I hope we all have a nice last week at Primary School!

Man-Yin - when we did an art project on Ancient Greece and made patterned paper mache vases.

Chanmollika - when I became BEST FRIENDS with Caitlin on the way to camp! Throughout Year 6 she has helped me and comforted me through my darkest moments, and is now the closest friend ever!

Adam. M - when we were doing all of the water activities at Nanga Bush Camp in term one.

Harrison - going to Nanga Bush Camp. My favourite activity on camp was when we went to the river and built our own rafts to use in the water.

St Jude’s Catholic Primary School

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