MOTHER’S DAY

Next Wednesday 22^nd May, Year Three and Year Four will be attending Mass at 9:30am in All Saints Church. Parents are welcome to join us.

MINI VINNIES

Members from the Nazareth Mini Vinnies will be coming to each class to label clothing. We are doing this because our lost property basket is overflowing with clothes that are not labelled. We would like to remind parents to label your children’s clothing. Members of the Mini Vinnies team will be visiting classes in Week 4 to label clothing. All clothing in lost property will go to the second hand shop if not labelled at the end of Week 6.

Thank you

Dakota and Olivia (Media Officers for Mini Vinnies)

FIRST HOLY COMMUNION – PARTNERS PROGRAMME 2019

For those enrolled the First Session Commences in the Grealy Centre on

Wednesday 22^nd May, 7:30pm

Thursday 23^rd May, 1:30pm

Sunday 26th May, 2:00pm

Parents are to attend any ONE of these sessions.

ALL SAINTS PARISH ROSARY GROUP

The Rosary is prayed every Monday from 9:30am in our Parish Liturgy Room at All Saints Church. Followed by Readings and Reflection and a cuppa. As Catholics we pray the Rosary as a means to spiritual growth. Throughout Church history many saints and popes have highly recommended that we pray the Rosary. St Pope John Paul II declared the Rosary as his favourite prayer, a “prayer for peace and for the family”. Come join us in asking Mary to intercede for us with her Son, Jesus.

In Year 1 we have been learning about Easter. We painted the most important part of the Journey to Emmaus story using water colour paints. In this story Jesus appears to two disciples and they don't recognise him until he breaks the bread with them. We know that Jesus is with us in all different places. 

Jesus is with me when we are in the church - Olivia
Jesus is with me when when I am alone - Marisa
Jesus is with me everywhere! - Archie
Jesus is with me when I am at school - Cristian
Jesus is with me when I am lonely - Layla 

MOTHER'S DAY 

On Sunday we celebrated Mother’s Day where we appreciate our loving mothers who care for us and love us very much. We normally give presents such as chocolate, flowers and other nice little gifts that show our appreciation, however on Friday morning at Nazareth we had our own Mother’s Day celebration where we had breakfast, coffee and tea. We also had our mothers, grandmothers, great grandmothers and anyone else that is like a mother to anyone come to visit. After the breakfast all the children and most parents came and joined together in the hall for a beautiful Mother’s Day liturgy produced by Kindergarten.

By Lincoln C

NIGHT OF THE NOTABLES

This term Year 6 is focusing on the Night of the Notables, we will all chose a certain notable person and learn about them and then become them for one night. I have chosen to share Eugenie Clark’s story, Eugenie was an ichthyologist, which is the study of fish, she was also a marine conservationist. She loved to study sharks and in her time was known as, ‘The Shark Lady’. In class time we are working on writing biographies about our notables, we have read biographies and learnt the difference between autobiographies and biographies.

By Taylor D

This term in Year Six we are working on ‘Night Of The Notables’. This is where you pick a notable person and do research on them, then on Thursday night in Week 9 you set up in the hall and re-enact the person’s life. I have picked Janine Shepherd. Year Six have been working very hard on it and we would love for you to come along. It will be on Thursday night at 6:00pm, week 9 in our school hall.

By Isabel H

SCHOOL DISCO

The school disco is being held tomorrow Thursday the 16th May.

(K, Yr1, Yr2) will be from 5.30-6.45pm and Seniors (Yrs 3, 4, 5 & 6) will be 7.00-8.30pm.

Entry is $5 per family and each child will receive a free popper upon entry.

A sausage sizzle will be available for purchase along with drinks, glowsticks and snacks.

Volunteers are required to help serve at either sessions, so any amount of time offered would be greatly appreciated.

PRINCIPALS AWARD

Layla M 

Niamh H

Jye V

James S

NAZARETH AWARD

Calahni D

MERIT AWARDS

Eli B, Jade N, Taj A, Stirling R, Alissa S, Murphy B, Brax S, Jackson H, Patrick E, Hannah K, Madison L, Bella M, Gabby O, Max P, Ari K

Please keep an eye out in school bags for information on sticky beaks resuable lunch bags! 

PARKING FROM DROP OFF AND PICK UP 

Please refrain from parking in our neighbours carpark at Wallaroo preschool.

FREE CLASSROOM FURNITURE

We have classroom furniture within the undercroft that we no longer require, if you would like to take any please see the front office. 

DIOCESAN CROSS COUNTRY

Congratulations to all the competitors who ran the cross country course on Tuesday May 7th at Willandra Farm Camberwarra. Despite the chilly start to the day, all runners proudly represented our school, achieving excellent results and displaying wonderful sporting spirit.

Thank you to all the parents,grandparents, family members and friends who supported our students with transport and their cheering voices. Special thanks to the following parents who were marshalls on the day- Mrs Lawler, Mrs Coelho and Mrs Dimech and to Mr Markovski for assisting with the pack up of the area.

The following students have gained qualification to the next round of competition at Eastern Creek on Friday June 14th: Denver S, Layla M- 4th place, Zali P- 7th place, Declan D- 2nd place. 

Training will continue on Wednesday and Thursday recess time for the children who have qualified and any other students from the Diocesan Team who would like to join in.

NSWPSSA SELECTION TRIALS

This year there is a special selection trial due to the School Sport Australia Track and Field Championships being held in the Nothern Territory, this trial will be held on Thursday the 8th August 2019 at Homebush. Please see the attached PDF for more information. If your child meets the criteria, they will need to obtain an application from the office. Entries close on the 26th June 2019. 

ATTENDANCE POLICY

Please click on the below attachment to view the attendance policy.

LILY CASSAR TYPE ONE DIABETES FUNDRAISER

Luke and Natalie Cassar (parents of Lily Cassar in Year 4) are joining JDRF (Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation) for an epic challenge trekking the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea in 2020!  Next ANZAC Day we’ll be deep in the jungle, trekking to raise money for research to change the lives of the 120,000 Australians living with type 1 diabetes including our daughter Lily. JDRF is a nonprofit organisation that funds type 1 diabetes research and advocates for regulation favourable to medical research and that makes it easier to market new medical devices to T1D patients.

Lily is a Type 1 Diabetic, she is currently 9 years old. She was diagnosed at the age of 5 with this disease. For the past few years Lily has been injecting herself with insulin needles up to 7 a days, on top of multiple finger prick tests to check her blood sugar levels. In March this year Lily started on an insulin pump machine. Whilst this reduced her insulin needles from 21 needles every 3 days to only 1, she is now connected to a machine 24hrs a day. This is by far not a cure but a better way to manage her diabetes. Our greatest hope is to one day find a cure.

Each $1,000 we raise could fund a month of testing and glucose monitoring equipment for one person enrolled in a clinical trial. Clinical trials are the final step in getting new treatments and therapies for T1D to the people like Lily.

We will be training over the next months to cope with trekking the 96km in 9 days over varied, rugged and remote terrain. This will challenge us both physically and mentally. We will track through mountain streams, up rugged jungle trails and into remote villages retracing the steps of the ANZAC soldiers. Best of all, we will be trekking for JDRF and raising funds for innovative research that will change the lives of people living with type 1 diabetes including Lily.

Our goal is to raise $7000, so if you are able to support us with a tax deductible donation we would greatly appreciate it. Together we can make a real impact to research in Type 1 Diabetes. It’s much easier than you think.

You can make a tax-deductible donation directly to JDRF via our Everyday Hero fundraising page

https://jdrf-kokoda-2020.everydayhero.com/au/trek4lj2020

Please also follow us on our journey via Facebook page #Trek4LJ2020 and Instagram @Trek4LJ_2020 and feel free to share with all your family and friends.

We are holding a private movie screening to help raise funds which you and your family are welcome to come. See attached flyer for further details.

Thank you for any support you can give.