Term 2, Week 2 |
10 May, 2022 |
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School
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Mrs seagar's Reflection
Principal
Welcome to Week 2
Yesterday we celebrated Mother’s Day with our Mums in the Church followed by coffee and slice. It was so wonderful to have so many mums and motherly figures attend and to be able to share our common experience in the most important aspect of our lives: being mothers.
Below is my speech I dedicated yesterday to all mums:
We need to acknowledge and celebrate your importance, as a mother, in the lives of your children.
Your importance, your influence, your impact, most of all: your being.
Mothers are there for your children during the good, the bad and the ugly times.
Seeing the major developmental milestones from birth until their death. Connecting with our children beyond even death.
Seeing their independence develop and acknowledging this as we see our role changing too.
Seeing their struggles: friends, learning, decision making, setting their own path in life.
It is timely that at Easter time where we acknowledge the birth and death of Christ – the whole of life that we too can see how mothers support children throughout their own lives and those of their children.
Being a mum is living a daily connection with your children. This connection exists when you can see them and when you can’t. That thread that holds you to your child never leaves, no matter how old we get and we do get to be old mothers!
Most of you have two jobs – that of motherhood as well as in the workforce.
The job of motherhood: the daily grind of being a cleaner, organiser, fixer, planner, cook, chauffeur, nurse, accountant, educator, counsellor, and on it goes – wow how amazing you are.
Motherhood can be tiring, exhilarating, full of pride and full of sorrow.
We experience all emotions as mothers and that is what makes you extraordinary – why mums are so special. We carry love inside us forever and this love for our children is extraordinarily generous and unconditional.
Yet you are humble about motherhood, accepting and enduring just like Mother Mary.
Motherhood has always been a sacred and noble vocation, but Mary raised it to even greater stature when she became the Mother of God.
You are full of grace just as Mother Mary is. God lives in Mary and in you; in all mothers due to the love you give to your children.
As our spiritual Mother, Mary is always ready to help us. She sets the example of love and faithfulness to God. She intercedes for us in prayer and she bestows graces on us from God that God allows Her to.
Thank you for being mums – as simple and complex as it is.
God bless,
Carol
Yesterday we celebrated Mother’s Day with our Mums in the Church followed by coffee and slice. It was so wonderful to have so many mums and motherly figures attend and to be able to share our common experience in the most important aspect of our lives: being mothers.
Below is my speech I dedicated yesterday to all mums:
We need to acknowledge and celebrate your importance, as a mother, in the lives of your children.
Your importance, your influence, your impact, most of all: your being.
Mothers are there for your children during the good, the bad and the ugly times.
Seeing the major developmental milestones from birth until their death. Connecting with our children beyond even death.
Seeing their independence develop and acknowledging this as we see our role changing too.
Seeing their struggles: friends, learning, decision making, setting their own path in life.
It is timely that at Easter time where we acknowledge the birth and death of Christ – the whole of life that we too can see how mothers support children throughout their own lives and those of their children.
Being a mum is living a daily connection with your children. This connection exists when you can see them and when you can’t. That thread that holds you to your child never leaves, no matter how old we get and we do get to be old mothers!
Most of you have two jobs – that of motherhood as well as in the workforce.
The job of motherhood: the daily grind of being a cleaner, organiser, fixer, planner, cook, chauffeur, nurse, accountant, educator, counsellor, and on it goes – wow how amazing you are.
Motherhood can be tiring, exhilarating, full of pride and full of sorrow.
We experience all emotions as mothers and that is what makes you extraordinary – why mums are so special. We carry love inside us forever and this love for our children is extraordinarily generous and unconditional.
Yet you are humble about motherhood, accepting and enduring just like Mother Mary.
Motherhood has always been a sacred and noble vocation, but Mary raised it to even greater stature when she became the Mother of God.
You are full of grace just as Mother Mary is. God lives in Mary and in you; in all mothers due to the love you give to your children.
As our spiritual Mother, Mary is always ready to help us. She sets the example of love and faithfulness to God. She intercedes for us in prayer and she bestows graces on us from God that God allows Her to.
Thank you for being mums – as simple and complex as it is.
God bless,
Carol
COVID-19 Update
Term 2 COVID Changes
Close Contacts
Household close contacts of a confirmed case are no longer required to quarantine at home. For a close contact to leave home they must:
Colds & Flu
If symptoms are mild e.g. a runny nose, there is no coughing, sneezing or a green runny nose and the person has twice tested negative on successive days for COVID-19 and the person has indicated, if asked, that they feel well then the person is permitted at school.
Provision of RATs
The school will provide 1 RATs to students when requested due to the person being symptomatic.
The school will provide 5 RATs to primary students, when they notify the school of household close contact status. Parents will need to source the additional 2 RATS for the 7 days testing as a household close contact.
We will continue to follow COVID Safe Behaviours
This week we have had 0 positive COVID-19 test results in the school.
Thank you for your support and co-operation.
- The school is no longer required to inform families of COVID-19 cases in their child/children’s class or grade. This means we will no longer be sending out Compass Posts for COVID- 19 cases in the school.
- The school will follow advice from Public Health on when to communicate to families in the case of an Outbreak.
- We will continue to provide families with a weekly COVID-19 update in the school newsletter.
Close Contacts
Household close contacts of a confirmed case are no longer required to quarantine at home. For a close contact to leave home they must:
- not be symptomatic (must remain at home if they are)
- return a negative test each day before leaving home for the 7 days following their last contact with the confirmed case.
- wear a face mask in all indoor settings when outside the home. Primary students deemed to be a household close contact will not be required to wear a mask when at school.
- notify the School of their close contact status.
- If they become symptomatic whilst at school to immediately return to their home.
Colds & Flu
If symptoms are mild e.g. a runny nose, there is no coughing, sneezing or a green runny nose and the person has twice tested negative on successive days for COVID-19 and the person has indicated, if asked, that they feel well then the person is permitted at school.
Provision of RATs
The school will provide 1 RATs to students when requested due to the person being symptomatic.
The school will provide 5 RATs to primary students, when they notify the school of household close contact status. Parents will need to source the additional 2 RATS for the 7 days testing as a household close contact.
We will continue to follow COVID Safe Behaviours
- Stay away if unwell & take a RAT/PCR Test.
- Wear a mask inside the school
- Practice good hand hygiene, covering coughs & sneezes and remember to social distance.
- Daily cleaning of high touch surfaces.
- Exemption from testing for Covid 19; 12 weeks since person released from isolation for Covid 19.
- Exemption from close contact for Covid 19; 12 weeks since person released from isolation for Covid 19.
This week we have had 0 positive COVID-19 test results in the school.
Thank you for your support and co-operation.
RE NEWs
May is the Month of Mary
The devotion to Mary during the month of May started sometime in the Thirteenth Century. During this month, Catholics will offer up prayers and adoration to Mary both in Church and at home.
For Catholics and many other Christians, May is an opportunity to speak to Mary and get to know her better. We can read the Gospels, discover her as the Mother of Jesus and how as a young girl, she too would have felt fear of the unknown. We can also look to her faith and trust in God, knowing that He walks beside us and will catch us as we fall, always helping us to get back up again. Mary’s complete trust and obedience in God’s plan for her is inspirational.
Many people aim to live by the example of Mary as they recognise how she can fill them with courage and strength. Mother Teresa was inspired by and devoted to our Lady and she said:
The devotion to Mary during the month of May started sometime in the Thirteenth Century. During this month, Catholics will offer up prayers and adoration to Mary both in Church and at home.
For Catholics and many other Christians, May is an opportunity to speak to Mary and get to know her better. We can read the Gospels, discover her as the Mother of Jesus and how as a young girl, she too would have felt fear of the unknown. We can also look to her faith and trust in God, knowing that He walks beside us and will catch us as we fall, always helping us to get back up again. Mary’s complete trust and obedience in God’s plan for her is inspirational.
Many people aim to live by the example of Mary as they recognise how she can fill them with courage and strength. Mother Teresa was inspired by and devoted to our Lady and she said:
“Mary, give me your heart: so beautiful, so pure so immaculate;
your Heart so full of love and humility
that I May be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life
and love Him as you love Him and serve Him
in the distressing guise of the poor.”
your Heart so full of love and humility
that I May be able to receive Jesus in the Bread of Life
and love Him as you love Him and serve Him
in the distressing guise of the poor.”
Feedback at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School
In 2022 the Tasmanian Catholic Education Office are implementing guidelines regarding Online Feedback. Our school is adopting these guidelines and implementing Online Feedback, which we see as sitting within our Feedback Culture. By consistently providing a representative sample of the feedback that students receive each lesson, day, week, learning sequence etc to Seesaw, we are striving to support students and parents / caregivers with opportunities to engage with the learning process as it is happening.
Our aim is that through the provision of consistent Online Feedback our students and parents, will have clarity of understanding in regards to the three below questions:
To ensure this is in place we will continue, and build upon, the work already undertaken in this space during Term 1:
Feedback that is posted to Seesaw may take the form of:
This three step process will be ongoing throughout Term 2 and the remainder of the year. However, as with all new initiatives, there may be some challenges to begin with. Our teaching staff will be doing their best to ensure this is a smooth process and will become more skilled as we continue to strengthen our implementation which we began in Term 1.
As we move deeper into Online Feedback, there will be implications for Reporting at Mid Year and End of Year, which we will explore in the coming weeks. But effectively, as we provide consistent ongoing feedback that continues to inform each student, and will inform parents / caregivers of where their child/ren are at in their learning, where they need to get to and how they can get there, there will be less need for the high levels of detail to be contained in half yearly summative reports, as there has been previously.
If you have any questions regarding Online Feedback, please speak with your child's teacher or myself. You can view our document 'Feedback at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School' below if you would like a more in depth read of how we are enacting this Tasmanian Catholic Education Office initiative.
Our aim is that through the provision of consistent Online Feedback our students and parents, will have clarity of understanding in regards to the three below questions:
- Where am I (is my child) at in regards to this learning?
- Where do I (does my child) need to get to in regards to this learning?
- How will I (my child) get there?
To ensure this is in place we will continue, and build upon, the work already undertaken in this space during Term 1:
- At the beginning of each unit of Religious Education, English, Maths, Science and HASS a single point rubric will be shared via Seesaw that outlines the Learning Intentions and Success Critieria for the unit.
- Throughout each unit for Religious Education, English and Maths (not HASS or Science for 2022), students will consistently be provided feedback in regards to their learning. 2 pieces of this feedback will be posted to Seesaw during a 10 week unit.
- At the conclusion of the unit, each student will be assessed against the Learning Intentions and Success Criteria identified for the unit. The assessment will be recorded on the Single Point Rubric and shared to Seesaw for each individual child and parent / caregiver to view.
Feedback that is posted to Seesaw may take the form of:
- An image of a student's work sample with written feedback.
- A voice recording over the top of an image of a student's work sample.
- A recording of a student / teacher conference.
- Comments directly typed into Seesaw, accompanying the student's work sample.
- Student work samples that have been directly assessed against the single point rubric for the unit.
This three step process will be ongoing throughout Term 2 and the remainder of the year. However, as with all new initiatives, there may be some challenges to begin with. Our teaching staff will be doing their best to ensure this is a smooth process and will become more skilled as we continue to strengthen our implementation which we began in Term 1.
As we move deeper into Online Feedback, there will be implications for Reporting at Mid Year and End of Year, which we will explore in the coming weeks. But effectively, as we provide consistent ongoing feedback that continues to inform each student, and will inform parents / caregivers of where their child/ren are at in their learning, where they need to get to and how they can get there, there will be less need for the high levels of detail to be contained in half yearly summative reports, as there has been previously.
If you have any questions regarding Online Feedback, please speak with your child's teacher or myself. You can view our document 'Feedback at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School' below if you would like a more in depth read of how we are enacting this Tasmanian Catholic Education Office initiative.
School news
Face Mask Reminder
FACE MASKS ARE REQUIRED TO ENTER THE SCHOOL.
If you forget please come to the office and we can supply you with one.
Emergency Practice
This term we will hold an unannounced emergency practice with staff & students, to test our response to a potential scenario that staff identify a threat warranting the school go into lockdown (opposite to evacuation).
Like for fire evacuation drills, we recognised the worth to test this process.
We have plans in place to make this practice as least disruptive as possible.
If you have queries you are welcome to call our Safety Officer Simon Natoli on 0400 105 476
Asthma Students
Could parents of asthma students (if you have not done so) please update student's Asthma Plan and ensure students have an asthma puffer in their school bag.
Retrieving of Soccer Balls From Private Residences
From time to time our students unintentionally kick soccer balls into the neighbour's property on Stewart Street. It would be appreciated if parents do not enter this property to retrieve balls but ask at the office and we will get the ball back to the student.
Breakfast Club
Breakfast Club will be operating this term.
Canteen
Snacks from the Canteen will be now available at first lunch. Snacks can also be ordered online (no ice creams).
Before placing your first order, please update your child/children's class.
Kinder Enrolments
A reminder to families, new and existing, to fill out Kinder enrolments for next year (2023).
Uniform Shop
Shop hours will change for 8 weeks commencing Monday 9th May through to Wednesday 29th June. New opening hours will be:
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons ONLY 1:30pm - 3:30pm.
Order forms are available on the website or at the school office. Orders will be attended to in the afternoons and placed in class trays.
Collection of Children
Can parents please make contact with the school if there are people, relatives or friends that are not permitted to collect children or if they come on site is a concern for families.
Student Medical Plans for 2022
Could parents of students who are on Medical Plans in 2022, please have current plans signed by a doctor - ready to hand into school on their child's return.
FACE MASKS ARE REQUIRED TO ENTER THE SCHOOL.
If you forget please come to the office and we can supply you with one.
Emergency Practice
This term we will hold an unannounced emergency practice with staff & students, to test our response to a potential scenario that staff identify a threat warranting the school go into lockdown (opposite to evacuation).
Like for fire evacuation drills, we recognised the worth to test this process.
We have plans in place to make this practice as least disruptive as possible.
If you have queries you are welcome to call our Safety Officer Simon Natoli on 0400 105 476
Asthma Students
Could parents of asthma students (if you have not done so) please update student's Asthma Plan and ensure students have an asthma puffer in their school bag.
Retrieving of Soccer Balls From Private Residences
From time to time our students unintentionally kick soccer balls into the neighbour's property on Stewart Street. It would be appreciated if parents do not enter this property to retrieve balls but ask at the office and we will get the ball back to the student.
Breakfast Club
Breakfast Club will be operating this term.
Canteen
Snacks from the Canteen will be now available at first lunch. Snacks can also be ordered online (no ice creams).
Before placing your first order, please update your child/children's class.
Kinder Enrolments
A reminder to families, new and existing, to fill out Kinder enrolments for next year (2023).
Uniform Shop
Shop hours will change for 8 weeks commencing Monday 9th May through to Wednesday 29th June. New opening hours will be:
Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons ONLY 1:30pm - 3:30pm.
Order forms are available on the website or at the school office. Orders will be attended to in the afternoons and placed in class trays.
Collection of Children
Can parents please make contact with the school if there are people, relatives or friends that are not permitted to collect children or if they come on site is a concern for families.
Student Medical Plans for 2022
Could parents of students who are on Medical Plans in 2022, please have current plans signed by a doctor - ready to hand into school on their child's return.
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Policy in Focus
This week in our Policy in Focus section of the Newsletter we have attached our Pastoral Care Policy. Pastoral Care is the network of care, which exists in a school. Students, staff, parents, the parish, parish priest and the wider community all contribute to this care.
OUR LADY OF LOURDES CATHOLIC SCHOOL PASTORAL CARE POLICY
OLOL School Calendar
2022 Term Dates
2022 TERM DATES
TERM 1
Thursday 3 February - Thursday 14 April
TERM 2
Monday 2 May - Friday 8 July
TERM 3
Monday 25 July - Friday 30 September
TERM 4
Monday 17 October - Thursday 15 December
2022 TERM DATES
TERM 1
Thursday 3 February - Thursday 14 April
TERM 2
Monday 2 May - Friday 8 July
TERM 3
Monday 25 July - Friday 30 September
TERM 4
Monday 17 October - Thursday 15 December
