Our Lady of Lourdes Primary Newsletter

The gospel passage tells us that after the five thousand people had eaten as much as they wanted, the remaining scraps filled twelve baskets. What is significant about twelve baskets of left-overs? Twelve was an important number – it represented the twelve tribes of Israel. Whenever the gospels mention twelve things they are symbolically talking about the nation of Israel. In this case, the message is that no matter how many people feast on the message of Jesus and accept the reign of God, there will still be enough to ‘feed’ the twelve tribes of Israel. No one need be left out!

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Thank you to everyone who has donated to the Winter Woolies Appeal. Next Monday will be the last day for collections, so if you have not yet donated and wanted to do so please send in your donation by Monday.

The children will celebrate the Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus at mass next Friday 24th June as a school community. We will present our donations as part of this Mass.

We’d like to welcome you to our Compass Parent Portal, a new way to engage with our school community.

Compass will be our primary communication tool that will facilitate effective communication between home and school, Skoolbag app will no longer be used. 

A letter was sent via email to all enrolled families with your login details for Compass. It is most important to keep your Username and Password secure, just like your bank account details, they should not be shared with anyone, including your children. If you have not received the email please contact the office. 

Using the Compass Parent Portal you will be able to:

• Be informed of important updates, events and reminders

• View your child’s timetable

• Review your child’s attendance

• Provide explanations for periods of absence

• Update your contact details

• View School reports

  
  

  For further information on how to use Compass and Compass Parent Guide please see link 

At the end of each term we hold an assembly to present the Principal and

Citizenship Awards. Each class teacher selects one student from their class to receive a Principal’s Certificate and one student to receive a Citizenship Certificate. The criteria for selection is listed below:

Criteria for Principal’s Award

Students may have shown one or more of the following:

• Achieved high standard results this term
• Continually produced work of a high standard
• Have shown outstanding effort in their school work
• Participated most enthusiastically in all class activities
• Made great improvement/progress in their school work

Criteria for Citizenship Award

Students may have shown one or more of the following:

• Treated others with care and respect
• Helped other students
• Considered the feelings of others
• Demonstrated the values taught in our school
• Cared for the environment
• Displayed skills taught in our Social Skills Program
• Parents of children receiving an award are welcome to attend.

Class teachers will notify parents of children receiving an award via email next week.

Parents are invited to an open day in the classrooms in Week 10, Tuesday 28th June between 9:30 am -10:45pm. We ask parents to spend no more than about 15 minutes in their child’s class so that the classrooms do not become too crowded. 

This is an opportunity to see some of the wonderful work your child is doing in class.

An information evening regarding the E-A scale, reports and assessment will be held for parents in the school library on Tuesday, 21st June at 6.30pm.

This session will be particularly useful for Year 1 parents who are receiving an E-A report for the first time.

Kindergarten parents do not receive an E-A report.

Please be considerate of others at morning drop off. There is No Parking in front of the school from 8am. The parking zone is there, in addition for the safety of our community. 

You can stop only to drop off or pick up passengers or goods and you must not stop for more than 2 minutes and the driver must stay within 3 metres of your vehicle. Stopping includes when the vehicle is not moving but the engine is still running.

A parking ranger was onsite this week and appeared to be booking people who were not following the rules. 

If you need longer than 2 minutes, please find an appropriate parking spot.

Thank you for your understanding in this matter.

We have a number of school and sports jackets in the office, all with no names or names of children that have left our school. 

Please ensure your child's jackets are correctly labelled. 

School Jacket:

Size 4 x 1, Size 6 x 3, Size 12 x 2

Sports Jackets:

Size 4 x 1, Size 6 x 3, , Size 8 x 1, Size 10 x 1, Size 12 x 1

Congratulations to the Wesser family, Dante (6M)) on the birth of a baby sister. Alice.

Responsibility through play - Peaceful playground people

• Being a good winner
• Being a good loser

Parents are invited to come and watch their child in either their Skipping or Dance Lesson on Friday the 1st of July, in Week 10. The lessons will be located on the Top Playground. Please bring a chair to sit on and enjoy the lesson. 

The timetable is below: 

Skipping: 

Year 3: 9.00am-9.30am

Year 4: 9.30am- 10.00am

Year 5: 10.00am-10.30am

Year 6: 10.30am-11.10am

Dance: 

Kindy: 11.45am- 12.25pm 

Year 1: 12.25pm- 1.05pm 

Year 2: 2.05pm- 2.45pm 

We look forward to seeing you then!