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Dear Parents and Carers,
The month of May is traditionally the month associated with Mary, the mother of Jesus. As such, it is a very appropriate month for celebrating the great gift of all mothers. On behalf of the students and staff, I would like to wish all the mothers in the Mary Immaculate community a very happy Mother’s Day for this coming Sunday. The special love that a mother can give is always appreciated, but not always as acknowledged as it should be. To all our mothers, please be sure to relax on Sunday and allow your family to show their love and appreciation of the invaluable role you play in their lives. Our students had the opportunity to create a gift for the special women in their lives with the support of volunteers who are supporting the wonderful work of the P&F. Gratitude is extended to all the parents and grandparents who were able to help in the creation of these gifts on Monday and Tuesday. A special mention must go to Kerry and Peter Watson who have spent many hours preparing to make this opportunity available for our students.
A PRAYER FOR OUR MOTHERS
Lord, thank you for all mothers.
For the new ones, who endure sleepless nights with infants in their arms.
For the busy ones, who juggle the pressures of home and family life.
For the steadfast ones, who nurture and care for our special vulnerable children.
For the patient ones, who always seek to forgive and engage with their pre-teens.
For the persistent ones, who cleverly find new ways to connect with their mini-adults.
For the mother aunts, who step in to cradle and care for nieces and nephews.
For all grandmas, who love and support their precious grandchildren.
For the foster mums that are called to gather and cover the fragile ones.
For the Sunday mums who care for our children and lead them in faith.
For the mums who give far beyond their own resources, who overcome disability to cherish and love.
Help us to support them and keep them in our prayers.
May you bless them now on this their special day. Amen.
Tina Murray
Principal
Thank you to all staff, who under the leadership of Leah Beckman have worked so hard to plan and organise the carnival for Thursday.
We are extremely grateful to all our staff who will be present to assist with the set-up of equipment at Campbelltown Stadium.
As always, our staff epitomise the meaning of teamwork.
Gratitude is also extended to the many parents and friends who have volunteered to assist during the day.
Without this amazing level of support, we would not be able to offer opportunities such as these to our students.
- ALL students CATCHING THE BUS are required to be at school by 8:30am
- The Grandstand will act as a resting and eating point for all age groups. During REST breaks, supervising teachers will monitor the grandstand. Students will be escorted to the canteen.
- Parents are able to meet their child at the grandstand during rest breaks.
- Please remind students to wear a plain coloured t-shirt in support of their house, and to also bring their school hat, plenty of food and water, sunscreen and a towel or mat to sit on.
- Students are permitted to utilise the toilet facilities but must seek teacher permission and travel in pairs at all times.
- Parents are to remain outside the event arenas to avoid interference and distraction. ONLY parent helpers will be allowed into the fenced area.
- PARENTS ARE NOT PERMITTED TO SIT IN THE GRANDSTAND.
- Parents are encouraged to bring a folding chair.
- NO student is to leave the carnival before the conclusion at approximately 1.45pm.
- Students being collected from the carnival must be signed out with the class teacher.
- At dismissal all students catching the bus will line up at the back of the lines to prepare to return to school.
Athletics Carnival Event Schedule K-2 students
Event Schedule – Age Groups
CONGRATULATIONS
FREE Parent engagement and literacy event – Corey Tutt OAM
The Council of Catholic School Parents NSW/ACT is excited to be able to continue to provide our families across NSW and the ACT with opportunities to build their capacity to support their child’s learning.
We are delighted to present Corey Tutt OAM, a proud Kamilaroi man and the 2020 Young Australian of the Year for NSW to read a section of his book, The First Scientists to our children and young people.
Parents and carers are encouraged to register for this online event and, on the evening of 30 May, from the comfort of their home, they can connect with us online to hear Corey read to their children.
The first 100 families to register will receive a FREE copy of the book 'The First Scientists' to read along at home.
All those who register, whether they receive a free book or not, will also receive helpful tips to support their child’s reading at home. This is a wonderful follow on from the Parent Reading Workshop undertaken at our school today. A flyer advertising this event is attached to the newsletter.
NSW K-2 English and Mathematics Syllabuses
As mentioned in previous newsletters, all schools in NSW are implementing the reformed NSW English and Mathematics K-2 syllabuses. These syllabuses highlight foundational literacy and numeracy skills. Please find below suggestions about what you can do as a parent or carer to support your child in Early Stage 1 and Stage 1 in the area of Number and Algebra in Mathematics.
Helping your Early Stage 1 child at home with Mathematics
Number and algebra
Forming groups
Forming groups focuses on:
- forming groups through sharing and counting objects
- making and continuing patterns which repeat.
You can help your Kindergarten child at home by:
- teaching them to share cutlery for each place when setting the table
- sharing a packet of lollies equally between siblings or family members by repeatedly giving each person one in the same order until the packet is empty. Discuss what it would be fair to do if there are leftover lollies
- identifying and discussing patterns in and around your home such as lounge or curtain material colours or shapes. For example, blue square – yellow circle, blue square – yellow circle, blue square – yellow circle
- singing songs, making dances and readings books with repeating, rhyming or rhythmic numbers
- making patterns from objects in nature. Start with a repeating pattern of 2, then 3 and then 4. For example, leaf – rock – leaf – rock – leaf – rock (repeating pattern of 2). Also, flower – stick – rock – flower – stick – rock – flower – stick – rock (repeating pattern of 3).
Helping your Stage 1 child at home with Mathematics
Number and algebra
Forming groups
Forming groups focuses on:
- using groups to solve multiplication problems or share to solve division problems.
You can help your Year 1 and Year 2 child at home by:
- playing skip counting games or taking turns to count by 2s, 3s, 5s, and 10s
- using 5 cent, 10 cent or 2 dollar coins to skip count money
- drawing a skip counting hopscotch path with chalk. Use the hopscotch path in reverse to skip count backwards
- using collections of objects to show groups. For example, share a container of marbles equally between groups. Discuss the number of groups and the number of objects in each group. Refer to the leftover marbles as remainders.
MRS LILLIAN DEL GIUDICE
ASSISTANT PRINCIPAL
ST EUGENE LITURGY
We will be celebrating the Feast of St Eugene on Friday 19 May at 10:00 am.
You are warmly invited to share this special celebration with us in the Church. St Eugene is the founder of the ‘Oblates of Mary Immaculate’.
We are extremely blessed to have these religious men leading our parish.
Each term, as teachers plan for a new writing focus, they look at ways they can build content knowledge and essential vocabulary that will allow their students to be successful when writing. One way that teachers achieve this is through providing an immersion experience for students at the beginning of a teaching and learning cycle. This not only aims to build students' field knowledge of a topic, but it has also been a fantastic way to spark the students’ interest and build excitement for the upcoming learning.
Here are some of the immersion experiences we have created to begin Term Two with:
“Reading for the mind is what exercise is to the body”
Housekeeping - Congratulations to all the students who have been using SORA (the online library accessible to all students) to enjoy books of their choice. We received news that Mary Immaculate made the top ten schools (7th) across all schools in the 14 participating Sora consortium CEnet Dioceses for SORA check-outs. That is a lot of schools! It is wonderful to know that there are so many students reading for enjoyment and accessing books both at home and at school. Keep it up!
Please remind your child to bring their Library Bag for their fortnightly visit to the library so that they can keep reading and keep learning!
New library monitors - This term, we have a new group of students who have volunteered to be Library Monitors at lunch times. These Year 5 students have given up their time to assist younger students to learn how to use the Library at lunch times as well as help complete small tasks that help the Library to run efficiently. They have already demonstrated leadership qualities and we are very proud of them.
Our Term 2 Library Monitors are:
- Harper
- Bronte
- Tiffany
- Claire
- Summer
- Bonnie
- Jaime
- Shaashini
- Nyadeng
- Nathaniel
- Koi
- Ella
- Marcus
- Tateum
Happy reading,
Mrs Biviano and Mrs Mae
- All staff will be involved in professional learning on this day.
- Students are not required to attend School on this day.