Dear Parents

WELCOME

I would like to welcome Mrs Dom Soroka, Miss Amy Houghton, Miss Emily Geling, Mrs Bree Smith, Mrs Alex Manning, Mrs Loret Gorrill and Mrs Jo Croft onto our 2020 staff. I would also like to welcome all of the new families as well as existing families to Star of the Sea Catholic Primary School.

It was wonderful to see everyone’s faces when they walked into our new school. There has been a great deal of planning and organisation to get to this stage. It is going to be even more exciting when the entire build has been finished and all of the builder’s fences removed.

I would like to thank all of the parents for sending your children to school prepared to learn. It makes an enormous difference when teachers can concentrate on teaching and not have to waste their valuable time checking uniforms, hair, jewellery etc. Everyone has settled into the new school year and I’m excited about what we can achieve this year.

There are still many small projects to be completed, too many to list, but the main ones in the immediate future are the covered walkway, nature playground and landscaping. I am hoping all of the above will be completed by the end of this month.

When we loaded the furniture from the village into the containers it took 2 days. The unloading of furniture into the classrooms only took four hours. I would sincerely like to thank all of the staff, parents, students and especially the Kolbe Catholic College students who gave up their time to help us move.

PARENT/TEACHER INTERVIEWS

Next week all year levels will be holding a Parent Information Session. It is extremely important that at least one parent from each family attends these meetings. There will be a great deal of information shared by the staff and it is an opportunity for you to meet the teachers and other parents. Children are not to attend the meetings. They will be supervised in the Library by specialist staff and teaching assistants.

I am looking forward to a very exciting and rewarding year.

Our Lady Star of the Sea Lead Us and Guide Us

Steve Dowie

Principal

Hearing that John had been arrested Jesus went back to Galilee, and leaving Naza-reth he went and settled in Capernaum, a lakeside town on the borders of Zebulum and Naphtali. From that moment Jesus began his preaching with the message, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand.” Matthew 4:12-23

REPENT

COMMITMENT

COMMITMENT is caring deeply about something or someone. It is the

willingness to give your all to a friendship, a task, or something you believe in.

COMMITMENT is the ability to make decisions and follow through with them.

COMMITMENT is keeping your promise.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Ask not what your school can do for you; ask what you can do for your school.

DEAR GOD,

THANK YOU FOR THE GIFT OF

EDUCATION IN EVERY FORM.

AS OUR CHILDREN PREPARE TO START A NEW SCHOOL YEAR

MAY CONFIDENCE BE THEIR FOUNDATION,

MAY GRACE BE THEIR GUIDE AND

MAY HOPE BE THEIR COMPASS TOWARDS A BRIGHT FUTURE.

I PRAY THEY WOULD HAVE EYES TO SEE

THE NEEDS OF THOSE AROUND THEM

AND A HEART TO LOVE WELL.

MAY THEY FACE EACH DAY WITH POSITIVITY

KNOWING THAT NO MATTER

WHAT COMES THEIR WAY,

THEY DO NOT HAVE TO FACE IT ALONE.

Uniform Shop Opening

Hours 2020

Monday 2:30pm-3:30pm

Enter through the front office

Friday 8:30-9:30

WASTE WISE

FOOD

Skip the store-

bought dressings

and make a salad

dressing at home.

Ingredients 80ml (2½ fl oz) olive oil

3 tablespoons lemon

juice

1 small garlic clove,

crushed

salt & pepper

Method

Combine all ingredients

in glass jar

Put the lid on and

shake for 30 seconds

RECYCLABLES

Collect ends of soap bars

to make liquid soap for

handwashing or wool-

wash.

Ingredients

2 tablespoons soap ends

750ml water

Method

Boil soap ends in pot for 5

minutes

Reduce heat, simmer for 5

minutes, stirring through-

out

Once soap has dissolved,

let mixture cool, pour into

a bottle

OTHER

Homemade glue

Ingredients

1 tablespoon flour

Water

Method

Mix flour and small

amount of water to

make a paste

Use a paintbrush to paint

glue onto paper

BEYOND

Suggest a beach or

river litter clean-up.

It’s a way to teach

others about

reducing packaging

and keeping our

valuable local water-

ways clean.

There are still adults who are too shy to read or even speak

in public because of the humiliations they suffered when

performing in front of a class.

Reading aloud from a book to a loving parent can be fun and

free from fear. But it can also be a disagreeable and

unpleasant struggle if it isn't done properly. There is no room

for impatience. There is no room for failure. There is no room

for struggle. Sighs, nervous tics and anxious questions from

the children like, “How long to go? are sure signs that all is

not well.

This unpleasant battle with oral reading can happen at home

or school. The consequences of a child failing with reading

aloud can last a lifetime. Once a child relates books to pain

we have a big problem. Parents must also look as if they are

enjoying the experience.

Children are very sensitive to non-verbal messages.

The Reading Bug PAUL JENNINGS -

IMPORTANT DATES

Fri 7/02 NO ASSEMBLY

Yr 3-6 Swimming Trials

Mon 10/02 Monday Assembly

Parent Information Meetings

Yr1 in 1W 3:15– 3:55

Yr4 in 4B 4-4:40

Tues 11/02 Gardening Club

Parent Information Meetings

PP in PPG 3:15-3:55

Yr 5 in 5B 4-4:40

Wed 12/02 School Welcoming Mass Yr1-6 (Yr 4

Hosts)

Parent Information Meetings

Kindy in KW 3:15– 3:55

Yr 6 in 6W 4-4:40

Thur 13/02 Parent Information Meetings

Yr 2 in 2G 3:15 –3:55

Y 3 in 3B 4-4:40

Fri 14/02 Friday Assembly

Commissioning of the 2020 Leaders

Fiva for the Fires Free Dress Day

Please support local businesses

that support our school

This Month’s Community Networks Healthy Eating and Nutrition

Free healthy eating and nutrition workshops held throughout the year in our local Rockingham community.

Website: https://rockingham.wa.gov.au/community/community-support/health-and-wellbeing

Relationships Australia

Provides resources to couples, individuals and families to help enhance and support relationships.

Website: www.relationships.com.au

Bookstars Club

Bookstars introduces the benefits of using the library and promotes the joy of reading through a variety of activities. In February Bookstars kids will be making

recycled wind chimes.

Website: https://rockingham.wa.gov.au/events-culture-and-tourism/events/what-s-on-calendar/2020/february/bookstars-club

If you would like further information regarding local services that assist, please see the Parent/Families Community Link folder kept in the OSHC

Foyer and ELC This folder is update Monthly and we welcome families input in services that may be of assistance to add to this folder.

A friendly reminder to all families that a Family Suggestion Box has been placed in the front foyer of the OSHC and by the entrance of the ELC

for any suggestions and feedback regarding the Centre. We are always looking at how we can improve and we value your input.

SOTS EARLY LEARNING

& CARE CENTRES

Early Learning Centre News

7th February 2020

Another year has begun over in the ELC and we are off to a flying start! Vacation Care was so

much fun and you will be able to see all of the exciting things that we did soon in our Vaca-

tion Care story book which will be in the ELC. The beginning of Term 1 has brought us lots of

new friends to play with and we are all so excited to get started. We also have so much new

equipment and toys for the children to play with which we hope they will truly enjoy. If you

have not yet had a chance to look at our amazing new outdoor Tepee and balance beams

yet please do! They are amazing and the children are having so much fun with them!

We have lots of new and amazing things happening in the Early Learning Centre these next

few weeks including our introduction to our AMAZING new reading den which will be intro-

duced to the children next week! We have paired up with Rockingham Council for ‘Paint

Rockingham REaD; this amazing scheme has meant that we are able to provide a book

swap for the children and the families. All of the children will receive a REaD wallet for their

books and a letter providing more information on the day! We can’t wait to get started swap-

ping books with the children and you the families and having so much story telling fun start-

ing next week with a surprise visit from Widi the Penguin!!

We would also like to say a big thank you to all of the families for helping us through the mi-

gration over the summer; it took a lot of patience and we are

truly grateful to everyone for this.

Thank you to all of our families for your continued support.

The ELC Team

This Month’s Community Networks Healthy Eating and Nutrition

Free healthy eating and nutrition workshops held throughout the year in our local Rockingham community.

Website: https://rockingham.wa.gov.au/community/community-support/health-and-wellbeing

Relationships Australia

Provides resources to couples, individuals and families to help enhance and support relationships.

Website: www.relationships.com.au

Bookstars Club

Bookstars introduces the benefits of using the library and promotes the joy of reading through a variety of activities. In February Bookstars kids will be making

recycled wind chimes.

Website: https://rockingham.wa.gov.au/events-culture-and-tourism/events/what-s-on-calendar/2020/february/bookstars-club

If you would like further information regarding local services that assist, please see the Parent/Families Community Link folder kept in the OSHC

Foyer and ELC This folder is update Monthly and we welcome families input in services that may be of assistance to add to this folder.

OSHC News

A friendly reminder to all families that a Family Suggestion Box has been placed in the front foyer of the OSHC and by the entrance of the ELC

for any suggestions and feedback regarding the Centre. We are always looking at how we can improve and we value your input.

SOTS EARLY LEARNING

& CARE CENTRES 7th February 2020

It has been an exciting first few days of term for us here at OSHC Club. School has just started,

and we welcome our Kindys and all children who have joined Star of the Sea OSHC for the first

time.

We’ve had lots of laughs, a few cries, plenty of fun and made lots of new friends. We’ve built

boats made from Lego, animals from play dough, played dodgeball in the hall, made a race

track for our hot wheels cars and even opened our own little restaurant and shop.

We would like to thank all our OSHC kids for being welcoming and supportive to all the children

who have started this week. Thank you for showing the children around and helping them when

they need your help.

You have made us proud, and we love having you all here.

Here’s to an amazing Term One.

QA1 – Educational program and practice QA3 – Physical environment Q A5 – R e la t ions h ips w i th ch i ldr en