16 November 2022

From the Desk of the Principal

It's been another busy week as we wind down to the end of the 2022 school year.

Semester 2 Academic Awards

This afternoon we celebrated our Semester 2 Academic Award recipients. These students were celebrated for their academic achievement, academic endeavour or for demonstrating our Good Shepherd Way. Congatulations to our award recipients:

2023 Classes

Planning for our 2023 classes was finalised late yesterday. Thank you to Townsville Catholic Education for financially supporting an additional teacher for us. Our student numbers were lending us to have two very large Year 4 classes and two very large Year 5 classes. We have been financially supported for an additional teacher across these two year levels. In 2023 our class break up will be:

• 3 x Prep classes
• 3 x Year 1 classes
• 3 x Year 2 classes
• 3 x Year 3 classes
• 5 x Year 4/5 classes
• 2 x Year 6 classes

We are very excited to be offering Year 4/5 classes. Research indicates many advantages to multi-year classes including the ability for children to mix socially and academically with a wide range of students and children being able to work at their own rate with a community of learners and are able to learn from and with each other. We are very excited to be housing our five classes in the current Year 5 and 6 area of our school (I and J Blocks).

We are finalising the appointment of our additional teacher and will advise our school community next week of what teachers are teaching what classes.

Disco

This Friday night we are hosting a Disco. Thanks to Mrs Herrod and her band of helpers for organising this event for our school community.

Transition Day

Our whole school Transition Day will be held on Tuesday 29 November. Information about the day is attached below. Our class teachers will be finalised and our students will have the opportunity to spend the day with their 2023 teacher.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Glenda Scrase

Principal

gscrase1@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

From the Desk of the Assistant Principal Religious Education

THE GOOD SHEPHERD WAY

The Good Shepherd Way is our Gospel in Action here at Good Shepherd Catholic School. It encourages students to live out the following ten values by thriving to follow the action associated with it:

• Community - I connect and engage
• Compassion - I show care and concern for others
• Endeavour - I challenge myself to do my best
• Hope - I see good all around me
• Inclusion - I involve and accept others
• Justice - I make right choices
• Love - I share my good heart with others
• Reconciliation - I am fair, forgiving and respectful
• Service - I help and respond to the needs of others
• Stewardship - I care for all of creation

Each week we focus on one of these values and an award is presented at assembly to a student in each class who has demonstrated the value that week.

This week we are focusing on Love.

‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’ Matthew 25:40

Rebecca Kershaw

APRE

rkershaw@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

From the Desk of the Assistant Principal Administration

Glasses
What do you do with your old glasses when you get a new pair? If you’re anything like me, they get shoved in a random cupboard, where they seem to accumulate very quickly, especially if multiple family members wear glasses. If you have a hidden pile of old or unwanted glasses – bring them in to school! 
As part of our National Recycling Week activities, we have been collecting old and unwanted eyeglasses. These will be donated to YWAM, who will distribute them to people throughout Papua New Guinea via their medical ships.
Representatives from YWAM will be at our assembly on Friday 18 November to collect the donation. Please drop any reading, prescription, or sunglasses into the office by end of school on Thursday. 

Thank you for your support!

Reports
Semester 2 reports will be released on Compass in Week 9. Please check that you can log on to the Parent Portal so that you can access you child’s reports.
If you are unable to access the Parent Portal, please contact the office.

Maxine Nolan

APA

mnolan@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

What's Happening In Our Year 4 Classes?

This term as part of their English and HASS assessment students have been looking at sustainability. Each child has chosen an environmental school project and written an action plan of how it can be implemented. The English component of the task was to write a persuasive text to explain why and how their project will improve our environmental stewardship. Our Science unit has focused on the properties of different packaging materials and their impact on the environment. The Technology element was to design an environmentally friendly package that would safely deliver a fragile item. Students have been involved in a number of hands-on-activities to examine the properties of a variety of materials. Strength and durability, water resistance, absorbency and malleability are some of the properties that students tested.

Awards For The Week

Birthdays Being Celebrated This Week!!

~Taylor (PrepC)    ~Averley (2B)       ~Leila (2B)      ~Chad (2B)      ~Charlee (3A)       ~Samuel (3A)

~Brax (4B)    ~Chloe (6B)

Assembly

6B will be presenting our Assembly this Friday in the BBC at 8:40am.

Our lucky Praise Note winners last week were: Hunter (PrepB), Arianah (1B), Lily (2C), Audrey (3A), Jaxon (4A), Jack (5B), Heidi (6B).

The Good Shepherd Way

This week our Good Shepherd Way Gospel in Action value is Love where I share my good heart with others.

Our Love 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: In the toilets.

Library News

Breakfast Club and Running Club

Both Clubs will run every morning. Breakfast Club will run from the Tuckshop from 8:10am and Running Club will be held on the Junior Oval from 8:10am as well.

Environmental News

Be a good gardener – leaves, grass clippings and other shredded garden waste spread over soil inhibits weed growth and retains moisture, which means you have to water less.

Parent Portal

Parent Portal

If you have any problems accessing please send an email to the school office at rsmssn@tsv.catholic.edu.au or call the office on 4774 0477.

The Parent Portal allows you to:

• View your child’s timetable and the school calendar
• View up to date attendance information for your child
• Enter details of upcoming absences or explain past absences or late arrivals for your son or daughter
• Access your child’s Semester reports
• Make bookings for Parent Teacher Interviews
• View a news feed of school announcements, alerts and updates
• Provide consent for school events/excursions
• Communicate by email with your child’s teachers
• Update your contact details (email and mobile phone number).

The parent portal is a web-based system that can be accessed by clicking this link:

An app called Compass School Manager is also available for both iPhones/iPads (via the App Store) and Android phones/tablets (via the Google Play Store). When you have installed the app, search for “Good Shepherd Catholic School – Rasmussen”.
The browser version of the Parent Portal contains more features than the app.  Please click the link below to access the Compass website which has an online guide and video for the Parent Portal.

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.

Flexischool How To Guides for Parents and Caregivers
• Online help is available any time at Flexischools via the link below.
• Phone between 8am - 12pm (AEDST) on weekdays or on the parent phone line (1300 361 769). 

How-To Guides for Parents
Flexischool has spent some time over the holidays developing some quick how-to guides for  parents. If you'd like to see these, please click the link below.
They include: 
•    Introduction to Flexischools;
•    How to Register; 
•    How to Top-Up;
•    How to Place an Order. 

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