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Hi everyone,
Building Progress Update
As you may have noticed our Stage 2 Project is tracking along very well with foundations laid and external walls erected in both classroom blocks and the extension to our staffroom. Once the work for the staffroom extension is complete, the builders will start work on the carparks but at the moment, the one closest to Kindy is a great access point. It has been fun picking out colours for the new classroom blocks. The block next to the Green Block (current Year 1s and Year 3’s will be yellow and the block next to the Red Block current Year 4’s and Year 5 /6’s) will be teal.
Playground updates
The order has been placed for our senior playground after much back and forth getting the design right for our students. I have been so impressed with the maturity shown by our senior students in designing this and with the way they have liaised with the playground company to negotiate the best deal possible. Unfortunately they are very busy so construction is not likely till mid August.
As for the Early Years area, the much anticipated outdoor instruments have arrived and our landscaper will be installing them next week. Who knows, maybe the kids will get to try them out before the end of term?
State of Origin 2
Unfortunately the P&F have decided to cancel the Benny’s State of Origin event this Sunday as we are not confident in the level of interest. Raffle tickets will be drawn on Monday so if you haven’t got yours back yet, you have another day to do so. We are sorry for any inconvenience this cancellation may cause but trust you will enjoy the game wherever you are. Big thanks though,to our P&F team who did source some great prizes for the raffle.
Have a fabulous week.
Cheers
Penny
Week 9 is finished and we have nearly hit the halfway point of the year! Thank you to Year 2 Curlews who presented their assembly this week on the Feast of the Holy Trinity. The Trinity is at the core of our Catholic faith but is certainly something very difficult to explain. The Trinity refers to God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit. The difficulty in explaining this is that there are not three Gods, but the Father, Son and Holy Spirit make up One God. My favourite explanation was given to me by the late Bishop Michael Putney who explained the Trinity using the metaphor of an apple. The apple has 3 parts - the skin, the flesh and the core, which can be separated, but still form 1 apple. Perhaps the biggest difficulty in explaining this is that it is a Mystery that we can never fully understand. It is often this mystery which enables us to grow in understanding of our faith.
REPEAT MESSAGE
Save the Dates
With the end of term rapidly approaching, I thought it would be worthwhile to share information about some upcoming events which you may wish to attend:
- Whole School Meditation - Monday June 24 @ 8:45am
If you’ve ever wanted to know what Christian meditation is about or how it runs, we will be hosting a whole school Christian Meditation session in ‘the Hall’. It will only be a short session, but you are very welcome to share in this time with us.
- NAIDOC Week Celebrations - Friday June 28 - starting at 8:45am
As NAIDOC Week falls during the holidays, we will be having our NAIDOC celebrations on the last week of this term. We will begin with a short liturgy on Friday morning at 8:45am, followed by a performance from the Marian School Indigenous Dance Troupe. This will then be followed by a range of activities offered to ALL of our students happening throughout the school, mainly surrounding the Early Years Precinct. Unfortunately, ‘‘Storytime’ in the yarning circle with Uncle Russel Buttler has had to be called off due to ill health, but we look forward to welcoming him at St Benedict’s at another time.
- St Benedict’s Feast Day - Friday July 19 - starting at 9:00am
This year our Feast Day will be held on Friday Term 3, Week 1. It will begin with a Whole School Mass, celebrated by Fr Dave Lancini, followed by rotational activities for ALL the students and our 2nd Annual ‘St Benny’s Got Talent’ from 1:50pm. We would love all parents, friends and families to attend the Mass and St Benny’s Got Talent.
St Benedict's Feast Day - Donations
This year for St Benedict’s Feast Day, we have Townsville Multicultural Support Group coming in to speak to our students as special guest presenters. TMSG is a not for profit organization who welcomes every new refugee to our region and supports newly arrived migrants. Their mission is a commitment to bringing people together of different cultural backgrounds working in the spirit of friendship.
To further support the work of TMSG, we are asking St Benedict’s families to donate items to be put together to create Personal Care/Hygiene packs for men, women and teenagers, Newborn Baby Packs and Start Up School kits to families new to our region. Please see the information below for items that you might be able to contribute. All donations can handed in to the school office.
Have a great week and God bless,
Nick
The Toolbox
One of the last formal lessons involves the students consolidating all that they have learnt. They will match the zones with the tools they have identified as being useful to them when in that zone.
There is an example below. Chat to your children about what tools help them in each zone.
Whilst this brings to an end the scheduled zones lessons, the zones will be common language used throughout the class and across the whole school.
Echidnas have been learning about shapes this week. We have talked about angles, sides, vertices, lots of shape names, even a dodecagon! We liked making shapes with sticks and dough and on the geoboards. We have learnt some new tricky words that describe lines- vertical, horizontal, diagonal, and parallel.
The school Dental Van will be available during the school holidays on Wednesday 3rd July, Thursday 4th July, Friday 5th July, Monday 8th July and Tuesday 9th July
