From the Principal
Dear Parents and Carers
I trust your holidays went well and you were able to share some special time together as a family.
Today’s reflection is on the back of last week’s celebration of NAIDOC week. NAIDOC stands for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee. Its origins can be traced to the emergence of Aboriginal groups in the 1920′s which sought to increase awareness in the wider community of the status and treatment of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians. In educating our students, we are invited to consider the theme 'Heal Country!', which calls for stronger measures to recognise, protect, and maintain all aspects of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture and heritage. Your children will learn more about this week as we continue to educate our students throughout the curriculum, at every opportunity, about our First Nations people, their story, language and culture. This is extremely important to us at Our Lady Star of the Sea where, as a catholic community and acknowledging Horizons of Hope, we embrace difference and diversity and continue to make a difference in our world.
Year 3, 4, 5 and 6 Camps this week: We are beginning this Term with our school camps. Camps and excursions are an important part of the learning experiences of students at Our Lady Star of the Sea. They can support quality curriculum delivery and can provide important social and emotional development opportunities for students that are not often available in the classroom. These might include teamwork, resilience and confidence-building through challenge, problem-solving, connecting with nature, creative and imaginative play and coordination and strength. Yesterday we sent our Year 5 and 6 students off to a two night camp at Lady Northcote near Bacchus Marsh.
Year 4 and Year 3 will have their one night camp at Camp Wilkin in Anglesea on Wednesday and Thursday night respectively.
We wish all the campers a wonderful and happy learning experience.
Multi Purpose Hall Name: We are pleased to announce the naming of our hall. Djila Tjarri which means play. Pronounced ‘jilla jarri’. Thank you all for your suggestions. The winning family is the Hall family. Congratulations to Lauren, Flynn (1 MF) and Ned (P NM). We will have a special presentation on Friday at assembly.
Special thankyou: We had a wonderful opportunity at our final assembly last term to formally thank Douglas and Eleanor Bishop (grandfather and mother to Vincent Hambleton Year 5 and Lois Hambleton Year 7) for their kind donation of 36 Indonesian Angklung instruments last year. Many thanks to Year 2BE for their brilliant performance and playing the instruments so well at assembly.
School Disco new date: It is with great excitement we can announce the new date for our school disco Friday 30 July. As previously advertised Prep-2 will be from 4.30-6 pm and Year 3-6 6.15 pm - 7.45 pm.
Southern Ocean Environmental Link (SOEL) Sustainable School Competition Winners: We are delighted to announce that we have won this award for social engagement in sustainability where we highlightied all the steps we are taking to become more sustainable.
The prize is a hands on Recycling Plastic Education Workshop Day for up to 100 students. Two of our teachers will also attend a 60 minute recycling plastic workshop.
Principal for the Day:
Congratulations to Cruz Pascoe for his amazing job as Principal for the day. So warm, friendly and confident in his work.
MACS Updated Policies:
Assessment and Reporting Policy
Our Lady Star of the Sea Child Safety Code of Conduct
Our Lady Star of the Sea School Fees and Charges Policy
Warmest wishes for the fortnight ahead
Kerryn