28 July 2021

From the Desk of the Principal

Happy Catholic Education Week! The theme for this year's Catholic Education Week is "A Spirited Tomorrow" which acknowledges the long tradition of Catholic education and its continued relevance in preparing students for the future. Our "Spirit of Catholic Education" award recipient for 2021 is Mrs Debbie Hocking. Deb will receive her award at a special presentation this evening which we will share on our Facebook page. We congratulate Deb and thank her for she has contributed and continues to contribute to Catholic education. Also, as part of Catholic Education Week, our students will be participating in Acts of Kindness this week. Stay tuned for photos on our Facebook page.

As an entree into Catholic Education Week, we had eight of our students perform at Mulkadee on Friday night. Lillian, Jasmine, Riley, Lillian-May, Indigo, Kailey, Mia and Bryton joined approximately 700 other students to perform "The Wizard of Oz" on Friday night at the Entertainment Centre. Well done students and thank you to Mrs Turley for accompanying the students all week.

On Monday night some of our Year 5 and 6 students competed in the Les Stagg Rugby League Challenge. This is an elimination competition for primary schools in Townsville. We played the two twenty minute halves with only 13 players and no subs and ended up drawing with Wulguru State School 20-20. Unfortunately Wulguru was the first team to score so they will progress to the next round and we have been eliminated. Our students should be so proud of how they represented themselves and our school community at this event as they were very unlucky to lose the game. Thank you so much to Ms Alisha Foord and to one of our Dads James Tapau in preparing the team for this competition.

Today and tomorrow we have a number of students competing in the Challenge Games. We look forward to sharing photos with you on our Facebook page and in next week's newsletter. Good luck kids and have fun!

Don't forget we are holding "A Cuppa With The Leadership Team" after Assembly this Friday. I look forward to having you join Judy, Maxine and myself for a cuppa. Enjoy the rest of your week.

Glenda Scrase

Principal

gscrase1@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

From the Desk of the Assistant Principal Religious Education

This week we are celebrating the great things that take place in Catholic schools, especially Good Shepherd, every day.
The theme for this year’s celebrations is:  A Spirited Tomorrow.
This theme acknowledges the long tradition of Catholic education and its continued relevance in preparing students for the future.

On Monday, our School Captains – Emmi McCartney and Matthew Milne – joined Ms Scrase and me at the annual Catholic Education Week Mass held at Sacred Heart Cathedral. Coming together with other schools from the Townsville Diocese was a great way to begin the week.

Here are a few pictures of classes participating in other CEW activities. Check next week’s Newsletter for more!

Please join us at Assembly on Friday for our Catholic Education Week Liturgy, led by 1A and some of their Pal class buddies from 3C.

Judy Bell

APRE
jbell17@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

From the Desk of the Assistant Principal Administration

Good Shepherd is once again taking part in the Premier’s Reading Challenge. The challenge is not a competition but aims to improve literacy and encourage children to read widely for pleasure and learning. For students to successfully complete the challenge they must read or experience the allocated number of books based on their year level before Friday, 27 August 2021. 

Prep to Year 4 students are required to read 20 books to successfully complete the challenge and Year 5 and 6 students are required to read 15. Reading independently, shared reading and being read to can all be counted towards the challenge.

A variety of texts can also be counted: 
    printed books
    e-books, virtual books and digital publications
    graphic novels and comic books
    audio and braille books
    newspapers, magazines and recipe books
    books in additional languages. 
Throughout the challenge individual student’s reading achievements will be celebrated.  Each student that completes the challenge will receive a Certificate of Achievement that will be mailed to schools in October.  Those students that do not complete the challenge will have their reading achievements rewarded with a Certificate of Participation.

Our school librarian, Mrs Cameron, has entered each class into the challenge, and students have individual reading record forms. Encourage your child to take part, and if you have read to them, remember to add those books to their reading record.

If you have any questions, please contact Mrs Cameron on 4774 0477.

At Good Shepherd, we are lucky to have a modern, well-resourced Library, and it’s great to see so many students making use of it at break times.
Please also ensure your children are borrowing books during their class visit to the Library. Each student must have a library bag to borrow – a pillow slip, supermarket “green bag” or other cloth bag is sufficient. When your child brings a library book home, please take some time to read and discuss it with them. Once children can read fluently and independently, it’s tempting to leave them to it. However, being able to reflect on what has been read and discuss aspects of the text is an important skill throughout school.

Franki will be in the Library again this Friday, to read stories with students. 
Come along at 1.10pm, give Franki a pat, and relax while listening to stories being read.

Maxine Nolan

APA

mnolan@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

What's Happening in Our Year 6 Classes

In our Science unit this term, Year 6 are investigating how environmental factors affect the growth and development of living things. We began our research experiment this week to see what environmental factors have an effect on the growth of mould on slices of bread. We used several different samples including a control slice of bread and placed them in different places - in the dark, in the cold and in the outdoors. Over the next few weeks we will be measuring and recording the growth of mould every few days. This experiment is helping the students to test the hypothesis that different conditions will help or hinder the growth of mould. Make sure you check in with us in a few weeks to find out our results!!

Awards For The Week

Birthdays For This Week

~ Tui    PrepC         ~ Leon 2A          ~ Cynthia  3C         ~ Samuel  5A         ~ Michell  6A

Assembly

1A will be presenting our Assembly this Friday in the BBC at 8:40am.

Our lucky Praise Note winners for last week were: Jarli (PrepA), Keona (1B), Troy (2C), Sharaye (3B), Riley D (4B), Ava (5B) and Lola (6A).

The Good Shepherd Way

This week our Good Shepherd Way Gospel in Action value is Endeavour where we are encouraged to challenge ourselves to do our best.

Our Endeavour 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: Before School, Classroom, Eating Area, and Playground.

Congratulations to our GSCS Way VIP winners last week - Ryder, Riley and Troy.

FACE (Family And Community Engagement) Network News

Our next meeting will be held on Tuesday 12 October at 7:00pm in the Staffroom.

We are looking for donations ahead of our Fathers' Day Stall on 1 September. Can you help?

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.

Library News

Commonwealth School Data Collection Notice

NCCD Fact Sheet for Parents & Caregivers

Environmental Tips

The long term vision for Catholic Schools in the Townsville Diocese includes the following key principles:

•    The natural world has value in itself and not merely for its use by humans. 
•    Earth belongs to God and is only on loan to humans who are called to care for it. 
•    Ecological education provides the background for wise and moral decisions. 

The right to a safe ecological environment is a universal human right.

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