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Dear Jesus,
You entered our world on Christmas as the Prince of Peace. This Advent, as we strive to become the-best-version-of-ourselves, fill us with a deep and abiding peace. Help us share that peace with everyone we encounter, especially those who need it most.
May we stay aware of the joy you bring into our lives. We want to find you in the everyday moments and come with hearts of gratitude to your manger on Christmas.
May the light of your love always shine in our hearts. As Christmas draws closer, we marvel at your great love for us. Let your love transform every aspect of our lives and touch everyone we encounter. Our hearts are open to you, Jesus.
Amen.
Dear Parents and Carers
As the 2021 school year draws to a close, the first 3 Advent candles have now been lit: Hope, Peace and Love.
Pope Francis asks us to be humble enough to prepare a manger in our hearts to receive the Christ Child, and to see the Light of Christ in others. Our 2021 year has certainly continued to challenge us with the pandemic continuing. However I feel, as a community, we have continued to be faithful to our vision and ensure we have been respectful, nurturing and engaging with each other. If we truly reflect on our own individual actions over the year, I am sure you will be able to recall many moments where you reached out to others or had others reach out to you with kindness, and therefore saw the Light of Christ in others.
I would like to take this opportunity to thank each and everyone of you, for working so well with your children and all staff, to ensure our students managed and in fact, achieved their own personal successes. We look forward with hope to the year ahead.
Year 6 Families who have their youngest child moving on to Year 7. It is with a sense of sadness and hope and optimism that we send off our amazing families who are leaving at the end of 2021. We wish you all the very best and look forward to hearing of your successes moving forward. We cannot thank you enough for the positivity you have shared with us and the value you have added as part of our learning community.
Farewell to the following families: Ashton, Azzopardi, Coghlan, Connell, Connolly, Cook, Cruz, Curtain, Duckett, Eyck, Farrell, Geracitano, Gibbon, Hughes, Hutchinson, Leen, McDonald, McNulty, Nutt, O’Neil, Payne, Sampson.
Other families: We also thank and warmly wish our existing families, who are moving onto other locations and journeys, all the very best. Farewell to the following families: Whitten, Malik, Dean and Mackay.
School Advisory Council News: Certainly the light of Christ was also evident in the final School Advisory Council meeting where we farewelled our current Chairperson Briony Darcy and Council Member Meg Poirier. It is with much heartfelt gratitude we thank Briony for sharing her wisdom, kindness, voluntary skillset as Chairperson of the School Advisory Council over the last 2 years. Especially in these challenging years we will be forever grateful for Briony’s presence, leadership and clarity as she represented the voice of the parent community so beautifully and contributed greatly to our new building project. Click here for the C2021 Chairperson report. We also thank Meg Poirier who, with her educational background and beautiful nature, also added many positive contributions and made a difference to the decision making of the school over the last 4 years.
Next year we welcome Hayley Bennett and Teneille Pasque onto the council as new members. We thank Peter McKinnon who will step into the Chairperson role and thank him for accepting this offer.
PFA Members Leaving: Many thanks to all the voluntary work Pip Hughes has done as secretary and Sue Azzopardi to organise events, build community, connect families and provide extra resources for the school. Your positive contributions have been greatly valued. Also to Kelly O'Neill for all her great work as administrator of the Parent Facebook page. This is greatly appreciated and we wishyou all the best.
Extra curricula events: We certainly hope you have felt the love from the school and maintained a sense of connection and belonging as we progressed though this term. It has been wonderful to enjoy some activities with you this term and see the children have extra curricula events to see the year out such as excursions, hub gatherings, Mission Fete, beach day and tonight's wonderful Year 6 Music Night. Many thanks to all the teachers and students for their extra planning of these events.
Christmas Eve and Christmas Day Mass: It has been suggested by the Parish as a wonderful activity for families who are attending these Masses, to ask you as families to find out the greatest gift each family member has given to you over lockdown. If you can please record these gifts individually and place in a decorated envelope with your family name, you will be invited to place it in a basket in the foyer and this will be taken up to the altar during the offertory and placed in Baby Jesus’ crib.
May the Christ Child born to us at Christmas, come into our hearts and be present to us in a special way this Christmas.Have a wonderful holiday season together and we look forward to reconnecting for the 2022 school year.
Kerryn
A note of sincere gratitude to the community of Our Lady Star of the Sea School.
My thanks to all the wonderful students and their families that I have had the honour and privilege to learn with over 22 years. From the first day our school opened in 1982, our community has always had a fantastic sense of welcome. I was fortunate to be part of our early days ( 1982 - 1990 ) and then to return in 2008 till the present day. My time at Star of the Sea has been immensely rewarding both professionally and personally. I have loved watching our school community grow and flourish over the years. You have much to be proud of! It has also been a privilege to be part of an inspiring group of colleagues, whose talents and gifts have been generously shared over the journey.
I wish each and everyone of you the joy, peace, happiness and blessings of this Christmas Season and on into the New Year. I will keep you all in my thoughts and prayers and will most likely drop by from time to time to say hello.
Take care
(Ms) Lib Macpherson
Dear Marianne
i hope this email will find you well
Thank you very much for all your hard work and Generosity I have no word to express how I am so grateful for all your help it is a lot of money thank you very much please pass my greeting and that I am grateful for all their hard work and kindness this coming week we will say mass for all the people who are helping us so your schools children and families will be one of them.
The poverty I can’t tell you how it is getting hard every day people come to me looking help, for Food, Clothe, school fee, school materials, repairing house, skill training and medical treatment ....extra but for all their questions you answered them thank you and for all the children ,staff and families may the good God bless
Dear all of you i wish you a happy and blessed christmas again again thank you thank you
from all my heart and with all my prayer and love
love you all
Sr Abeba Kidane
Merry Christmas
Dear Marianne Caddy
May the peace and grace of Christmas be with you during this special time so it is my joy to wish you a happy Christmas and New Year? Here we are all well thanks be to God. Every year we always look for the coming year. Last year at this time we all worried about the COVID 19 and we were worried about the people who died of it and the people especially the children who are left behind because of it. But now in the case of our country if you see the suffering of people is unpredictable and it is very sad. Maybe we are forgetting to recognize him in our daily life by being selfish, not respecting each other and not sharing with the poor. so it looks like the time of Christ. When I saw the time of Jesus coming to this world Mary our mother didn’t get a place to give birth for her child no one was responding to her need except a few. So I believe that in this mess-up situation of the world that Christ will come at this special time of Christmas with his grace, love, and peace. So I thank God for his grace, protection and gift of unconditional love that he provides us through the year. With this in mind I want to express my joy for the gift of life that God saved us through his son so let us ask him to give us his grace at this special time of Christmas to honor him in our heart.
So with all challenges we are here to serve him through our brothers and sisters to share all what we have and be in the midst of them and we have tried as much as possible to tress the demands and improve the quality of life of the poor. Here in Bulbul we are working in Education and with the children who are with Disability supporting them with medicine, medical treatment and food after they finish their treatment, we encourage them to join school like their brother’s sisters.
The new program is the spinach program the aim of this program to prevent who born with the disability which acquire lack of balance food when the mothers are pregnant which was very interest we found that very good but the obstacle of this program is to get water at dry season. The rainy season was very good.
We are also working for the elderly by providing food, medical treatment and clothing and repairing houses for the poorest of the poor. We have also children who are poor that we supporting them school uniform, school fee, exercise book pen and pencils clothes and also we provide food for children who are poor. Without your great support and generosity we wouldn’t serve the poor people, of course your support brought to the life of the poor lot changes of attitude know their right and dignity, hope and able to support themselves. The number of poor people who are benefited ;- in the school 860 children, Disable children 43 elderly and poor 85 sponsorship 80 total 1070.
Your great support helped us to help the poor and to have hope in their future life to improve their life. Still, we need your great support as the demand for the poor is increasing.
Once again I am grateful for your immense support for our mission. May the grace of the Christmas be with you and happy Christmas and new year.
With love and prayer
Sr. Abeba kidane DC Bulbula
You may remember the students raising just over $1,000 for Vinnie’s Hampers by wearing casual clothes recently. Since then, the Year 5 students were allocated a family from Vinnies and planned and budgeted for a special Christmas meal for their family. On Wednesday, the students took their shopping lists to Woolworths and shopped for their family. This is a wonderful activity on so many levels and we are very proud of the students involved! As a result we made up 18 hampers which will make 18 families very happy this Christmas.
Staff Return: Friday 28 January
Term 1 Students return: Tuesday 1 February - Friday 8 April
Easter - Friday 15 April - Monday 18 April
Term 2 Tuesday 26 April - Friday 24 June
Term 3 Monday 11 July - Friday 16 September
Term 4 Monday 3 October - TBA December
Code Camp is excited to be back at Our Lady Star of the Sea with their fun and engaging after-school coding and animation program for Term 1 starting Tuesday 8 February, running from 3:30 PM - 4:45 PM.
In our coding program, your child will design games, jam-packed with awesome features including, zombies, invisibility cloaks, and so much more. And then the real fun begins, as they use coding and logic, from drag and drop to JavaScript, to connect all the elements and bring their games to life!
The Code Camp after-school curriculum is designed to ensure that all children progress in their learning and advance their coding knowledge week to week and caters to the variety of abilities within the classroom. There are always heaps of new features and concepts to learn which your child will love.
Plus…DC Super Heroes are back at Code Camp after-school for Term 1! Your child can now design, code and create their own BATMAN, WONDER WOMAN or SUPERMAN game.
Animation after-school is the exciting connection between storytelling, art and technology! Over the course of the term, your child will create movies from scratch using stop-motion animation. Stop-motion is the process of taking multiple images of objects and stitching them together to look like they’re moving - it’s an incredibly fun and creative way to tell a story! Working with both clay and LEGO, they’ll develop an idea for their first short film, create a set, design and build characters and bring it all to life taking hundreds of photos to create an animated movie! In post-production they’ll edit their masterpiece and add music,
Code Camp will be hosting their popular Kahoot trivia quiz each week.
To enrol your child, visit codecamp.com.au/olsps. There is an Early Bird sale running for the next two weeks using the code AutumnEB15."
The canteen will reopen on Wednesday 9 February
The canteen will be open Wednesday, Thursday and Fridays in 2022.
