Term 2, Week 4 |
24 May, 2022 |
Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School
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Mr farr's Reflection
deputy Principal
Welcome everyone to Week 4.
As you would be aware we are currently accepting enrolments for Kindergarten 2023. This is an exciting time for our school each year as we meet with and welcome new families and children to our school and meet siblings of existing students.
This year we have offered the option for parents and their children to have their Kindergarten Enrolment conversation during a Little Treasures session. This has proven to be a very popular option for many families as it means they are able to meet with one of our Kindergarten Enrolment Leaders in a space that is familiar to them and their children, a space that they feel comfortable in and in a way that is relaxed and somewhat ‘informal’.
To be honest, Mrs Seagar has been hosting the vast majority of Kindergarten Enrolment Conversations, again, with the majority of these taking place during our Setup for Success program - Little Treasures. In speaking with her yesterday regarding this I made the observation that after each of these conversations she has been coming away uplifted and seemingly reenergised. For Carol, and I must say that I feel the same way, being able to meet with each of these children and their families, and welcome them into our community is a privilege. But there are also selfish motivations behind this as we are inspired, energised and excited to see our community grow and witness new students begin their learning journey at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School.
This term we have been able to begin school prayer and, beginning this week, whole school assemblies. These gatherings have been few and far between over the last couple of years, with our school being able to celebrate the odd assembly or share a Liturgy on the top cement every so often. To be able to consistently gather together regularly now truly feels like a treat!
There is something special about gathering as a community to celebrate and engage with each other. It strengthens our community and brings our children closer together as they begin to recognise each other, learn the names of those children in other grades and recognise that they belong to something bigger than themselves and their families, our school community.
In conversation with visiting Catholic Education Tasmania employees, they often mention that there is something special, although intangible, about our community. There is a ‘feel’ to it, an atmosphere that can’t necessarily be summed up through words that they try to pin to it - welcoming, respectful, positive, uplifting. I’m not sure what the words are either, but there truly is something about our community that is wonderful. It can be ‘felt’ in the smiles and conversation with a new Kindergarten parent and their child, but it is also ‘alive’ when 400 or so students gather together in our school gym to celebrate with each other.
Now, I imagine all schools have a particular feel to them, and perhaps they reflect upon that feel in the same way that I am doing now, but I imagine each school would describe that feel differently.
Again, I don’t necessarily have the words for it, perhaps you do?
As you would be aware we are currently accepting enrolments for Kindergarten 2023. This is an exciting time for our school each year as we meet with and welcome new families and children to our school and meet siblings of existing students.
This year we have offered the option for parents and their children to have their Kindergarten Enrolment conversation during a Little Treasures session. This has proven to be a very popular option for many families as it means they are able to meet with one of our Kindergarten Enrolment Leaders in a space that is familiar to them and their children, a space that they feel comfortable in and in a way that is relaxed and somewhat ‘informal’.
To be honest, Mrs Seagar has been hosting the vast majority of Kindergarten Enrolment Conversations, again, with the majority of these taking place during our Setup for Success program - Little Treasures. In speaking with her yesterday regarding this I made the observation that after each of these conversations she has been coming away uplifted and seemingly reenergised. For Carol, and I must say that I feel the same way, being able to meet with each of these children and their families, and welcome them into our community is a privilege. But there are also selfish motivations behind this as we are inspired, energised and excited to see our community grow and witness new students begin their learning journey at Our Lady of Lourdes Catholic School.
This term we have been able to begin school prayer and, beginning this week, whole school assemblies. These gatherings have been few and far between over the last couple of years, with our school being able to celebrate the odd assembly or share a Liturgy on the top cement every so often. To be able to consistently gather together regularly now truly feels like a treat!
There is something special about gathering as a community to celebrate and engage with each other. It strengthens our community and brings our children closer together as they begin to recognise each other, learn the names of those children in other grades and recognise that they belong to something bigger than themselves and their families, our school community.
In conversation with visiting Catholic Education Tasmania employees, they often mention that there is something special, although intangible, about our community. There is a ‘feel’ to it, an atmosphere that can’t necessarily be summed up through words that they try to pin to it - welcoming, respectful, positive, uplifting. I’m not sure what the words are either, but there truly is something about our community that is wonderful. It can be ‘felt’ in the smiles and conversation with a new Kindergarten parent and their child, but it is also ‘alive’ when 400 or so students gather together in our school gym to celebrate with each other.
Now, I imagine all schools have a particular feel to them, and perhaps they reflect upon that feel in the same way that I am doing now, but I imagine each school would describe that feel differently.
Again, I don’t necessarily have the words for it, perhaps you do?
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 5 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 5 positive COVID-19 test results in the school.
Thank you for your support and co-operation.
RE NEWs
Our Lady Help of Christians
Our Lady Help of Christians Feast Day is Tuesday the 24th of May. Our Lady Help of Christians is the Patron Saint of Australia. The infant Church in Australia had a special reason for turning to Mary. In those early and mostly priest-less days, it was largely the Rosary that kept the faith alive. Catholic Australia remained faithful to Mary, and was the first nation to choose her, under the title of Help of Christians, as Principal Patron.
Fr Damien, our new parish priest, is a Salesian priest who has a special dedication to Mary Help of Christians. The Salesians of Don Bosco (officially known as The Society of St. Francis de Sales) are an international organisation of Catholic priests and brothers dedicated to the service of the young, especially the disadvantaged and marginalised. The Salesians work in collaboration with schools, youth centres, hostels, camps, parishes and other contexts to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to the lives of the young.
Please keep Fr Damien and all of our priests in your prayers this week.
Our Lady Help of Christians Feast Day is Tuesday the 24th of May. Our Lady Help of Christians is the Patron Saint of Australia. The infant Church in Australia had a special reason for turning to Mary. In those early and mostly priest-less days, it was largely the Rosary that kept the faith alive. Catholic Australia remained faithful to Mary, and was the first nation to choose her, under the title of Help of Christians, as Principal Patron.
Fr Damien, our new parish priest, is a Salesian priest who has a special dedication to Mary Help of Christians. The Salesians of Don Bosco (officially known as The Society of St. Francis de Sales) are an international organisation of Catholic priests and brothers dedicated to the service of the young, especially the disadvantaged and marginalised. The Salesians work in collaboration with schools, youth centres, hostels, camps, parishes and other contexts to bring the good news of Jesus Christ to the lives of the young.
Please keep Fr Damien and all of our priests in your prayers this week.
Prayer to Our Lady, Help of Christians
By St John Bosco (1815 - 1888)
Most Holy Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, how sweet it is to come to your feet imploring your perpetual help.
If earthly mothers cease not to remember their children, how can you, the most loving of all mothers, forget me?
Grant then to me, I implore you, your perpetual help in all my necessities, in every sorrow and especially in all my temptations.
I ask for your unceasing help for all who are now suffering.
Help the weak, cure the sick, convert sinners.
Grant through your intercession, many vocations to the religious life.
Obtain for us, O Mary, Help of Christians, that having invoked you on earth we may love and eternally thank you in heave.
Amen.
By St John Bosco (1815 - 1888)
Most Holy Virgin Mary, Help of Christians, how sweet it is to come to your feet imploring your perpetual help.
If earthly mothers cease not to remember their children, how can you, the most loving of all mothers, forget me?
Grant then to me, I implore you, your perpetual help in all my necessities, in every sorrow and especially in all my temptations.
I ask for your unceasing help for all who are now suffering.
Help the weak, cure the sick, convert sinners.
Grant through your intercession, many vocations to the religious life.
Obtain for us, O Mary, Help of Christians, that having invoked you on earth we may love and eternally thank you in heave.
Amen.
Class Masses
Fr Damien has been visiting classes to prepare the children for class Masses. At the moment due to covid class Masses will be held at school. The children have been writing prayers of the faithful and have been involved in reading. The children will participate in class Masses once a term. Thank you Fr Damien!
Mass and Sacramental Dates
Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th May
Rite of Strengthening and Healing at Mass
Please note that Fr Damien is dramatising the gospel with puppets at the 9.00 a.m. Mass in Ulverstone at Sacred Heart Church AND EVERYONE IN THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY IS WELCOME TO ATTEND.
Sunday 5th June @ Our Lady of Lourdes 2:00pm - 4:00 pm
Saints Afternoon for CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES
Monday 20th June @ Our Lady of Lourdes 5:30pm
Reconciliation and Rehearsal for CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES
Tuesday 21st June @ Sacred Heart 5:30pm
Reconciliation and Rehearsal for CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES
Saturday 25th June @ Our Lady of Lourdes
Sacrament of Confirmation – 6:00pm
Sunday 26th June @ Sacred Heart
Sacrament of Confirmation – 9:00am
Fr Damien has been visiting classes to prepare the children for class Masses. At the moment due to covid class Masses will be held at school. The children have been writing prayers of the faithful and have been involved in reading. The children will participate in class Masses once a term. Thank you Fr Damien!
Mass and Sacramental Dates
Saturday 28th and Sunday 29th May
Rite of Strengthening and Healing at Mass
Please note that Fr Damien is dramatising the gospel with puppets at the 9.00 a.m. Mass in Ulverstone at Sacred Heart Church AND EVERYONE IN THE SCHOOL COMMUNITY IS WELCOME TO ATTEND.
Sunday 5th June @ Our Lady of Lourdes 2:00pm - 4:00 pm
Saints Afternoon for CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES
Monday 20th June @ Our Lady of Lourdes 5:30pm
Reconciliation and Rehearsal for CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES
Tuesday 21st June @ Sacred Heart 5:30pm
Reconciliation and Rehearsal for CONFIRMATION CANDIDATES
Saturday 25th June @ Our Lady of Lourdes
Sacrament of Confirmation – 6:00pm
Sunday 26th June @ Sacred Heart
Sacrament of Confirmation – 9:00am
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
Attendance
Please remember to notify the school office if your child/children are not going to be at school. This can be done by either leaving a message on the school answering machine (6424 1744) or adding an attendance note to your child’s profile in Compass. Instructions on adding an attendance note in Compass are as follows. (attachments below)
Please make sure that you notify the school by 8.55am.
Please remember to notify the school office if your child/children are not going to be at school. This can be done by either leaving a message on the school answering machine (6424 1744) or adding an attendance note to your child’s profile in Compass. Instructions on adding an attendance note in Compass are as follows. (attachments below)
Please make sure that you notify the school by 8.55am.
How to complete and Attendance note on Compass
Open the Compass App.
Open the Compass App.
OLOL Cross Country
OLOL Cross Country will be held in Week 5 during PE lessons.
Below are the times the children will be running:
Wednesday (June 1st)
9.45 - 5 Boys
10.00 - 5 Girls
11.30 - 3 Boys
11.45 - 3 Girls
12.30 - Kinder Boys
12.40 - Kinder Girls
Thursday (June 2nd)
9.45 - 2 Boys
10.00 - 2 Girls
11.30 - 1 Boys
11.45 - 1 Girls
Friday (June 3rd)
9.45 - 6 Boys
10.00 - 6 Girls
11.30 - Prep Boys
11.45 - Prep Girls
12.30 - 4 Boys
12.45 - 4 Girls
Any children in grades 3-6 wishing to join our run club starting this Thursday week 4 until week 8, may wear their PE uniform to school on Thursdays to attend running training.
Assemblies & Whole School Prayer
From Saturday 21st May event management requirements and density restrictions will no longer apply to any school-related activity.
This means that parents are welcome to attend Assemblies and Whole School Prayer.
Please make sure that you only attend if you are well, wear a face mask and sanitise on entry.
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.
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.
OLOL Cross Country will be held in Week 5 during PE lessons.
Below are the times the children will be running:
Wednesday (June 1st)
9.45 - 5 Boys
10.00 - 5 Girls
11.30 - 3 Boys
11.45 - 3 Girls
12.30 - Kinder Boys
12.40 - Kinder Girls
Thursday (June 2nd)
9.45 - 2 Boys
10.00 - 2 Girls
11.30 - 1 Boys
11.45 - 1 Girls
Friday (June 3rd)
9.45 - 6 Boys
10.00 - 6 Girls
11.30 - Prep Boys
11.45 - Prep Girls
12.30 - 4 Boys
12.45 - 4 Girls
Any children in grades 3-6 wishing to join our run club starting this Thursday week 4 until week 8, may wear their PE uniform to school on Thursdays to attend running training.
Assemblies & Whole School Prayer
From Saturday 21st May event management requirements and density restrictions will no longer apply to any school-related activity.
This means that parents are welcome to attend Assemblies and Whole School Prayer.
Please make sure that you only attend if you are well, wear a face mask and sanitise on entry.
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.
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
