16 June 2021

From the Desk of the Principal

This year Good Shepherd Catholic School is celebrating 25 years. On Monday we invited back Paul Cosgriff (Foundation Principal 1996-2005), Ed Burke (Principal 2006-2017) and Fr Dave Lancini (Parish Priest 1996-2021) to feature in a special film we are producing to commemorate this milestone. We will be celebrating this special event with a celebration mass on Friday 10 September. I hope you will all be able to join us. More information will be sent home next term.

On Friday our 10-13 years competed in Field Events ahead of this week's Athletics Carnival. Thank you to Ms Foord for organising a great day for our students and well done to all students on their performances throughout the day. Congratulations to Charli Cox who set three new records for 11 years - High Jump 1.15m (old record 1.1m), Long Jump 3.38m (old record 3.14m) and Shot Put 8.67m (old record 6.08m) and Heidi Grinham who set a new 10 year record for High Jump at 1.02m (old record 0.95m). 

This Friday all age groups will compete in our Athletics Carnival. Students are encouraged to wear their house colours and friends and families are also welcome to attend. An approximate timetable for the day is included in our Upcoming Events below and also on our Facebook page. Good luck to all students and I hope to see you all there. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Glenda Scrase

Principal

gscrase1@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

From the Desk of the Assistant Principal Religious Education

The next Mini Vinnies visit to Parklands Aged care Facility will be this Saturday 19th June 9:30-10:30.

Please remember the following conditions stipulated by Parklands:

• Parents are no longer allowed to stay during the visit.
• ALL students need to have had a flu vaccination to visit the facility and proof of receiving the vaccination (Flu Vaccination Certificate) needs to be shown each visit.
  

St Vincent de Paul Society 'Peace Out Issue 5'

Judy Bell

APRE
jbell17@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

From the Desk of the Assistant Principal Administration

Literacy and numeracy are two fundamental skills that help people achieve success in daily life.  Literacy – the ability to understand language confidently for learning and for participating effectively in society – is quite rightly given a lot of attention. Many people, however, do not understand the great importance of numeracy.
Numeracy is defined as the ability to access, use, interpret and communicate mathematical information and ideas. To be numerate is to confidently and effectively use mathematics to meet everyday demands of life. We need numeracy to solve problems, make sense of numbers, time, patterns and shapes. We use it for activities such as cooking, reading items with numbers such as receipts or prices, reading instructions and timetables and even playing sport (just to name a few). Numeracy also helps us to think logically and use reasoning strategies.
In the Australian Curriculum, students become numerate as they grow in confidence with using the knowledge and skills they develop in Mathematics across all learning areas at school and, more broadly, in their own lives as they learn the role of numeracy in the world. Often we are using numeracy without even realising it!
Parents and carers can have a big impact on their children’s education. By providing learning opportunities and support at home you can help support your child to become numerate from an early age, right through to high school. Here are some fantastic numeracy tips and inspiring ways parents and carers can be more involved in children’s learning.

•    Relate maths to real life: Talk to your child about how you use maths everyday so they can see how the maths they’re learning at school relates to real life. For example, explore how you use fractions in cooking, percentages while shopping, distance in driving, keeping score in sports games and telling the time.

•    Discover the beauty of maths: What shape can be made by unfolding a carton? How many apples can be packed into the fruit tray? What shape is that box? How do you draw a circle with a piece of rope? Next, explore mathematics in nature, music, visual arts, music and architecture.

•    Cook together: Cooking with your child is great for developing early maths skills. Talk to your child about shapes, sizes and quantities while they watch or help you cook. You could say, for example, “I need one large carrot and one small potato” or “I am cutting our sandwiches in triangles today.”

•    Encourage mental maths: Encourage children to solve simple maths problems in their head. How many pieces do you need to cut the birthday cake into so that everyone has a slice? What’s the cost of discounted items, e.g. 25 per cent off $20? It’s 4:15 pm now and it will take 30 minutes to get home: what time will we arrive? If your child struggles to work it out, suggest they show you on paper or talk you through how they’re trying to work it out so you can help them.

•    Work together: Count things with your child every day or work on a project together. Sew, knit or build something with Lego. Perhaps you can get together and sort different things by size, shape or colour, like blocks, clothing, toys and pegs.

•    Play games: Playing with puzzles is another great activity that can help your child develop their maths skills. Explore spatial games, board games, card games, jigsaw puzzles and logic puzzles. Play “shops” with things from around the house, using shopping bags, old purses or wallets and real or play money.

•    Study statistics: Talk about numerical information, statistics and data that you see in newspapers and online, such as weather information from the Bureau of Meteorology or sporting statistics.

If your child is having problems with maths, write or talk to your child’s teacher.  We are here to help. Maths is a learned skill that improves with practise. Talk positively about maths and encourage your child to practise as much as possible as part of a regular routine. Talk about how everyone can do well at mathematics, and how everyone has unlimited mathematics potential.
(Adapted from Splash.abc.net.au)

Maxine Nolan

APA

mnolan@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

What's Happening in Our Year 2 Classes

This week, Year 2 just had their Showcase where we presented our slideshows and scientific observations to our parents. We really enjoyed learning about mealworms and their life cycles and were even happier to take our pet mealworms home, some of which were now either pupa or darkling beetles. We thank all the parents and carers for coming and sharing this experience with their children as we very much enjoyed having everyone in our classes and being a part of our learning.

Awards For The Week

Birthdays For This Week

~ Ethan    PrepC           ~ Harper     1A            ~ Lily     1A           ~ Jordyn     1B             ~ Abigail  1C

~ Lane    2A                    ~ Hendrix   2C           ~ Warlu   3C          ~ Kohen    4A               ~ Ace    4B         

Assembly

There is no Assembly this week due to the Athletics Carnival.

Our lucky Praise Note winners for last week were: Gabriel (PrepC), Amelia (1C), Jacob (2A), Cynthia (3C), Theo (4A), Kohen (5B) and Riley (6A).

The Good Shepherd Way

This week our Good Shepherd Way Gospel in Action value is Service where we are encouraged to help and respond to the needs of others.

Our Service prayer is also below:

The GSCS Way

The GSCS Way is our positive behaviour support program here at Good Shepherd Catholic School.

All in our community are encouraged to:

• Give My Best
• Show Respect
• Compassion and Care
• Safe Responsible and Fair

Each week we focus on a different area of our matrix.

This week we are focusing on Give My Best: Assembly, Community Centre, Moving Around School, Pick Up Zone.

Congratulations to Eve, Jacob and Khloe who were our GSCS Way VIPs last week.

FACE (Family And Community Engagement) Network News

Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 13 July at 7:00pm in the Staffroom.

Running Club

Running Club is back each Tuesday and Thursday on the oval and is open to all year levels and age groups. Can you help us get to Tokyo for the Olympics?

Have You Enrolled For Prep 2022 Yet?

Students turning 5 by 30 June 2022 are invited to enroll for Prep 2022. Applications are available from our School Office. Alternatively they can also downloaded from our website at https://www.gstsv.catholic.edu.au/enrolment/enrolment-package/

Tuckshop

Wednesday - Thursday - Friday

Please place your order with Flexischool no later than 8:30am on the day you wish to order. You will find a menu on our webpage. If you wish to place an order of cupcakes for your child's birthday please place your order the week before.

CUTOFF time to order TUCKSHOP
from FLEXISCHOOLS
is 8:30am.
PLEASE NOTE THAT ALL ORDERS ARE TO BE PLACED ONLINE AT THE LINK BELOW. Please visit the website to set up your account if you are new to Flexischools.

NCCD Fact Sheet for Parents & Caregivers

Environmental Tips

Plant trees or grass to reduce areas of exposed soil.  This stops soil and fertilizers from being washed into waterways.

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