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Last Sunday’s Gospel…
Last Sunday we celebrated the Feast of the Assumption. This very important Feast – of equal importance to a Sunday Mass because it is a Holy Day of Obligation, commemorates the doctrine that Mary, having carried Jesus in her womb, was so pure that she was taken to heaven body and soul. This highlights her importance to our Faith. We are in particular need of her care right now so remember to ask her to accompany us.
From the Principal...
We continue our remote learning journey with Fr Peter watching over us. I thank you for your understanding and support of staff attending his funeral online last week.
To give us a bit of a break from the rigour of our learning schedule, we have declared this Friday to be Flourishing Friday. A very extensive range of activities have been prepared, all aimed at reducing stress for students and their hardworking teachers and parents! Hopefully it is a life giving day for everyone! We ask that the student complete nine tasks and colour in a little picture to mark this. Some are very short so we want to keep the students busy for you. Please don’t worry if they don’t get nine done! We hope it gives you all a happy day.
On Friday, Mrs Smith and I will be joining the P&F for a bit of a different meeting and we hope you will join us. It’s have a cuppa time. We thought it would be timely to be available for a chat with everyone and answer any questions or listen to any suggestions you may have rather than hold the formal P&F meeting. It will be nice to see your faces again so please grab a cuppa or a drink and join us if you can! We can say hi to your children as well.
As you will be aware Book Week is coming up. There’s also Father’s Day and some other different themes happening with learning. We are doing these things to try to keep the students interested. Please don’t feel under pressure if you can’t do all of the activities asked all the time. Just do what you can!
Remember that if you are an authorized worker and have to bring your children to school to drop them at either gate in the morning but only pick up from Koala Park in the afternoons. And no parent is allowed on school grounds at all at the moment except for in the office. I realise this is different to last time but with the extra contagious nature of this strain of Covid, we have to put some different safety measures in place. We are just trying to keep everyone who must come to school - staff and students, safe. I thank you for your support with this so far.
Please take care of yourselves and those you love and keep in touch.
God Bless
Michelle Rolfe
Principal
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION REPORT with Mrs Deanna David
Greetings and many blessings to you all. Here are some updates and resources that I feel will be of benefit to you.
Feast of the Assumption
On Sunday we celebrated the Feast of the Assumption which is when according to our faith, the Holy Mother, “having completed her course of her earthly life, was assumed body and soul into heavenly glory”.
The Assumption signals the end of Mary’s earthly life and marks her return to heaven to be reunited with Jesus.
Many families have already accessed our Feast of the Assumption liturgy. If you haven’t had a chance to see it yet, this is the Youtube Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrKrxe3ksg0
Sacraments
Unfortunately all Sacraments are on hold due to the current pandemic. Once we know more about when these celebrations can recommence in some form, we will let you know.
Fathers Day
If you would like to share a photo of your child/ren with their father or father figure, please share the photo via email with your child’s class teacher by Monday Week 7 (next week). ** Just 1 photo per child please **
Below are some photos of the Dads in my life- my husband Ben with my three boys and myself with my Mum and Dad a few years ago (Dad is now in heaven amongst the stars).
Digital To Know, Worship and Love books and Understanding Faith
Your children’s class teacher should be posting work every so often linked to the Digital to Know Worship and Love texts. You don’t need to wait for a lesson to get online and have a look at this beautiful and useful resource.
See the login and password details below:
Username: wingleburn
PW: wingleburn
Season of Creation
Pope Francis is encouraging parishes and schools to participate in a Season of Creation, which starts in September and ends on October 4, the Feast of St Francis of Assisi. We are called to prayer, reflection and action towards care of our common home, the planet Earth. Keep a look out!
Podcast: Ripples Ripples is a PODCAST developed for staff and parents on-going spiritual formation.
It seeks to offer a space where people can draw on the wisdom of a series of guest speakers and can
experience some treasured stillness through meditation. See the link - you can either download the
files as podcasts or listen to them directly from the website.
Weekly Mass Online:
Many parishes are providing a live streaming of Sunday Mass so that we may all participate in the celebration of the Eucharist.
Bishop Brian and other clergy are live streaming Mass every Sunday. If you are interested, go to their Facebook page:
Catholic Diocese of Wollongong - Home
Do you yearn to have a moment of stillness or inspiration?
Have you listened to one of the CEO Ripples Podcasts?
Scan here to access the podcasts and download onto your phone.
House Colours
This week the PB4L committee will deliberate and a short list will be compiled then shared to you for your final vote. I was hoping to have the short list ready to go for this week's newsletter however we have been in contact with CEDow personnel regarding this matter as we were hoping to get input from the Aboriginal Education Officer.
Flourishing Friday
On Friday students will be taking part in Flourishing Friday. We hope you and your child/ren enjoy the day that the staff have planned. The day will be a great opportunity for the children to recharge themselves and put them in the right headspace for remote learning in Week 7. The slides will be shared with students in the coming days. Classroom teachers will organise a time for students to attend a Zoom meeting where they are able to catch up with their peers and classroom teacher/s on the day.
Social and Emotional Learning
Over the last few weeks staff have been adding various social and emotional activities that students can take part in whilst engaging in remote learning. These social and emotional activities help students understand their emotions, manage their emotions, maintain positive relationships and make responsible decisions.
Smiling Mind is a free app that parents and children can download on their iPad and select age appropriate mindful and meditation programs. Some of the strategies presented are Confronting your fears, let it go, feather breathing mindful hugs and gratitude before bed.
Wonder Bread Competition
Throughout Term 2 students, families and staff were hard at work collecting bread bags and bread tags. We are proud to announce that the final weigh in of bread bags was 20kg. This allowed the school to order some new playground equipment for students to use when remote learning ends.
I would like to thank all of you for your extra support during this time. 
Regards,
Alana Stroligo
Our students have been working hard at home and we have put together a video to showcase some of the wonderful work you have all been doing! We hope you enjoy it!
Preview YouTube video Learning From Home #1Learning From Home #1
Book Week
23rd -27th August 2021
CatholicCare have created some wellbeing packs for families during lockdown....Please see the link below: