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Dear Families

Welcome to this great new term. I am excited for a far brighter and more settled term ahead with many quality learning experiences taking place.

We had a surprise in store for our students as they arrived yesterday. Rei Joseph from Brighter Lines Qld had spent the last few days of the holidays painting a series of games and perceptual motor graphics to enhance our play time activities. This was a joint project with our Parents and Friends which we have been working towards for quite a while. We are very happy with the finished product and the students loved it too! A huge thank you for your contributions to the P&F Levy which helps make these projects possible.

In September we welcome Damien Kee from Domabotics to conduct a variety of robotic and programming workshops with our students. Along with technology skills and concepts, these workshops also cover other curriculum topics such as Math, Science, Technologies and Literacy whilst fostering problem solving and team work skills. This will be an amazing learning experience for our students.

We are also conducting a focused spelling project to examine the skills and strategies that our students are using and exploring ways we can improve their spelling through reading and writing. When it comes to spelling there are usually a number of misconceptions about spelling that can hinder our success in this area.

People often think that English is a complicated, random and chaotic language but in actual fact it isn’t.

Every word in English represents a story – a mini lesson in history, geography, linguistics, sociology and politics. Looking at it in this way opens up multiple ways for our children to learn to spell.

Words are much more than a string of letters and sounds and we simply cannot learn to spell every word in this way like a phone number. Our children benefit from exploring the meanings, patterns, sounds and history of these words.

Spelling is also not a sign of intelligence and it is not a natural ability that some people just have.

Research on spelling shows that we are not born naturally being able to spell. Only listening and speaking come naturally to us. Reading, writing and spelling are learned skills and how we learn depends on the structure of our brains and the kind of input we receive.

One of the most important things you can do to help your children with spelling is to get them curious about words. Start noticing patterns and interesting words together. Reading great books is one of the best ways to do this and I encourage you to read Mr King’s article this week about reading with your children. It has tips for not just school readers but for all books you share together.

If you would like to know more about helping your children with spelling please let me know. I would be happy to run a Parent Session for those who are interested.

God bless you and Live Jesus in Your Hearts Forever!

Jennett Mullane Principal

jennett_omullane@rok.catholic.edu.au

Monday 13

th

July 2020

Term 3 Week 1

P&F Meeting tonight

6:30pm (14/07/20)

Please do not attend if unwell and ensure

you maintain appropriate hygiene and

distancing practices. Join us at 6pm for a

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WELCOME HOME

‘Welcome home’ were the words Father Andrew greeted us with at the beginning of his homily at mass on Sunday. It has been many months since I was able to join with the community to celebrate the Eucharist. To hear those words from Fr Andrew was a blessing.

One of my goals on the holidays is always to read a book for pleasure. I managed to read a memoir written by a student at a school I taught at once. The heartache this young man endured as a teenager saddened me. Thankfully, he was able to show great resilience and determination to overcome the torment of his teenage years to become a very successful adult.

The book highlighted even further the importance of being kind – not just to your close friends but to everyone. There were many factors to the success of the young man in the story, but one thing that stood out was the kindness shown when he least expected it, by people he may not have expected to receive it from. CHOOSE KIND. The Responsorial Psalm on Sunday really brought this home –

‘The seed that falls on good ground will yield a fruitful harvest.’

Are you a seed that falls on fertile ground?

MJR MESSAGE OF THE WEEK

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/ 25

Be a Giver not a Taker

Happiness often comes from giving of ourselves to others. Even those considered to be very poor can be rich – rich in spirit, rich from love, rich from counting their blessings.

WEEKLY WONDERING

I wonder how we can become

‘good ground’

?

Striving for excellence is part of our mission at Star of the Sea.

Have a wonderful week and stay safe. Kellie Richardson

Assistant Principal: Religious Education

Be a lighthouse for your

family.

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Over the next few months every student at SOS will be involved in a Diagnostic Reading Assessment. Oral reading fluency, comprehension, vocabulary and word reading skills are assessed through the careful analysis of student reading behaviours and either oral or written responses. The results of these assessments provide information on the student’s independent reading level which can then be compared to an expected level for their age.

In order to help your child continue to progress with their reading and comprehension abilities, we are encouraging you all to continue to commit to daily reading at home. As a part of every year level’s homework, reading is expected. I too am a parent so I understand how hard this can be a times. Here are some tips to help you commit and enjoy your time reading with your child.

Establish a home reading routine. Read aloud with your children everyday. Ten minutes for each child around a book of his/her choice. Share your excitement for reading and this will be the model your child will adopt.

The reader holds the book! There is a lot of power and control in the world of reading. The reader needs to have the power.

During home reading time, turn off electronic devices and give each child ten minutes of your undivided attention.

Before you read a book, set your child up for success. Talk about the illustrations and the title. Read the blurb and talk about the author, talk about any unusual words, read a page here and there or every second page.

If reading time is stressful, move the reading to a new location. Instead of sitting at the kitchen bench, move to the lounge room or go outside and sit under a tree or on the trampoline.

Find a reading time that works for your family. Set a timer! At the end of the 10 minutes, ask questions that encourage discussion, for example: What was your favourite part? Tell me about the characters. What do you think will happen next? What did you think about that setting? What do you like/ dislike about this book?

Avoid judging your child’s reading with words such as: ‘good’, ‘excellent’ or ‘getting better’. Instead say things about the strategies your child uses when reading such as: ‘I like how you read on when you came to that difficult word.’ ‘I like how you changed your voice to be the voice of the character in the story’. ‘I noticed that you reread the bit that did not make sense.’

Let me know if any of these tips work! Have a great week everyone!

Anthony King.

Assistant Principal: Curriculum

• We pray for our school community as we begin this new term: May we be filled with kindness, unity and determination in all we do.

• We pray for our leaders: May they be guided by wisdom and compassion in their decisions.

• We pray that nations will put aside their divisions and work more urgently for justice and peace.

• We pray that the sick and housebound will be renewed and sustained by the everlasting grace Christ offers.

• We pray that those who have died will come to the eternal home God has built for us.

IN OUR PRAYERS

CURRICULUM NEWS

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Despite the relaxing of restrictions across

Queensland things have not changed a lot

for schools at the moment.

Social

and

physical

distancing

protocols continue to apply to adults

in a school setting so we ask your

support in ensuring the following

measures are followed at Star of the

Sea:

• Students, parents and staff who are

unwell must not attend school

• Physical distancing of 1.5 metres is

required by all adults

• Adults must not gather in and around

school grounds, car parks, school gates

and outside classrooms

• The Church drive thro

ugh is still the

preferred way to drop off and collect

students but you are allowed to walk in to

drop off and collect if needed. Please do

not walk into collect your child until just

before the bell please.

• PLEASE NOTE

- Entry to the school

grounds during school hours must be via

the Front Office. Drop Off and Pick Up

access can be via any of the school

gates but, between 9am and 2:30pm,

these gates will be locked to redirect

visitors from the Public to the correct

entry point.

We are very grateful for the way parents

have tried to work with us to make our

afternoon pick up run as smoothly as

possible. The name cards have been a

great help and we appreciate you

displaying them prominently in your

car as you drive in.

The Car Park area is a focal point for many

of the issues we are having at the moment.

We ask that you please observe the

following points:

Children must not enter the car

park area unsupervised. It is essential

that you keep your children beside you and

safe as you approach your car.

To reduce some of the issues

we

ask

parents who are walking into the

school to use the dirt car park at the

top of the Cul-de-sac off Tank St if

possible

.

This will stop some of the

congestion occurring as people exit the

Herbert St car park.

Anyone exiting the car park

should give way to those coming

through Church Pick Up to allow the flow

of traffic to keep moving.

All cars should also turn left

when exiting the car park please. There

is definitely no right turn at this time of the

day please.

An important note re our

Term Three School Routine

SCHOOL CAR PARK AND PICK UP

ARRANGEMENTS

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Dear Friends

STAGE 3 BEGAN ON THE WEEKEND

This weekend we resumed our regular parish Mass schedule. After nearly four months of being unable to celebrate Mass together, it was a great joy to see many of you back in Church. Please remember that for now it is still necessary to register online (www.sosgladstone.eventbrite.com.au) to secure your place at any of the Sunday Masses as there are still limits on our numbers. If you need help registering yourself, please contact Bernadette Ariens (0417 513 515). Bernadette has kindly agreed to help with the registrations to take some of the load off our very hard-working parish secretary Maree.

If you are rostered on for a ministry (eg, music, reading, Communion minister, altar server, co-ordinator, etc.), please make sure you register yourself for a place at that Mass.

When you do come to Mass, please keep the following in mind:

• Try to arrive a bit earlier than normal so we can sign everyone in before Mass begins • At Star of the Sea Church, please enter only through the Herbert St side door

• Make sure the name, phone number and address of each person attending is recorded at the Church door

• Maintain at least 1.5m between you and others (including when processing forward for Holy Communion)

• Receive Communion only in the hand • At the sign of peace, refrain from physical contact

• Use the hand sanitiser provided at the Church door

• Sit only in the designated seats (1 person per small pew, 2 persons per large pew in Star of the Sea Church, unless you are from the same household)

• Avoid gathering in close proximity before or after Mass

• If giving your parish offering (either loose or in an envelope), please come forward and place it in the basket in front of the altar at the Preparation of Gifts

VOLUNTEERS NEEDED

Our COVID co-ordinating teams would be grateful for any volunteers to help with the sign-in, seating and cleaning procedures that have to happen at our Masses. Can you help with some of these jobs so that we can make the process as smooth as possible? If so, please get in touch with the co-ordinator at your church:

Star of the Sea: 8am Jun Pepito (0418 180 941) & 6pm Lisa O’Brien (0400 787901)

Calliope: Christine Holman (0431 829 835) Tannum Sands: Bernadette Ariens (0417 513 515)

LIVE-STREAMING

Masses will no longer be live-streamed on our Facebook page. With the increased numbers of people in the Church from this weekend, the presence of a camera in front of the altar will be a distraction and a potential safety hazard. For those who will still not be able to come to Mass, I would recommend accessing the live-stream from our Cathedral at 9:30am Sundays,

which can be viewed here:

https://www.youtube.com/user/StJosephsCat hRton

Don’t forget to check out our Facebook page (www.facebook.com/sosparishgladstone) for other useful information.

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