8 March 2023

From the Desk of the Principal

Swimming Results

Thank you to all families and friends who supported our swimming carnival last Thursday. Stuart were our overall winners with Bohle taking out the Spirit Award. Thanks again to Ms Foord for organising this wonderful event for our school community.

On Monday our swimming team competed in the Interschool Swimming Carnival and finished third overall. Well done students! Thanks to Ms Foord, Ms Ellis, Mrs Sallaway and all families and friends who also attended and supported our team.

Principal Meetings

This week I have been attending Principal Meetings. Our agenda has included topics around inclusive education, school improvement, learning and teaching, staffing and resilience. I will return to school tomorrow.

Prep Open Day

We will be holding a Prep Open Day for prospective 2024 Prep students on Tuesday 21 March. This is an opportunity for prospective students and families to explore our Prep area, meet our staff and participate in a range of activities. If you have a child commencing Prep in 2024 or know of someone who does, we look forward to having you visit and spend time with us on the 21st.

Fun Run Fundraising

Information about our upcoming Cross Country and Fun Run is making its way home this week. We are continuing to fundraise for a covered area in our Stop Drop Go area. We raised just over $20,000 in 2022 and are hoping to match that or beat it in 2023 so we can complete this project.

Enjoy the rest of your week.

Glenda Scrase

Principal

gscrase1@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

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From the Desk of the Assistant Principal Religious Education

Laxmi lives with her mother and siblings in Jajarkot, one of the least developed districts in the remote Karnali province, with almost half of the population living below the poverty line.
Tragedy struck when Laxmi was 10-years-old. Her father, who worked hard to pay for his children’s education, passed away. Laxmi was devastated. She used to love to go to school but for the first time she stopped attending her classes.   
Before her father’s passing, Laxmi joined a child's club at her school that was run with the support of Caritas Nepal, through the Nepal Livelihoods and Resilience Program. Child's clubs support students to develop their speaking, writing and leadership skills through extracurricular activities. 
Thanks to the support of her child's club, Laxmi was encouraged to resume her education. She
became an active member of her child's club, where she developed the skills and confidence to
become a leader, advocating for clean water taps at her school.

See a short video about Laxmi’s
story here -

 Project Compassion at Good Shepherd Catholic School.

Don't forget to continue to use your Project Compassion box for your donations or you can donate online via the Caritas Australia website at lent.caritas.org.au

Rebecca Kershaw

APRE

rkershaw@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

PARISH MASS

Friday 18th March at 10am
Good Shepherd Community Centre
Prep 1B and 3B will be attending.
Parents are also welcome to attend.

From the Desk of the Assistant Principal Administration

N - National

A - Assessment

P - Progam

L - Literacy

A - and

N - Numeracy

Maxine Nolan

APA

mnolan@gstsv.catholic.edu.au

What's Happening In Our Year 1 Classes?

Year 1 have had a fantastic start to the year! We have settled into our new routines and have been working hard in Numeracy and Literacy. 

Numeracy
The students have been recognising, modelling, reading, writing, and ordering numbers to 100. We have enjoyed participating in hands on activities, number games and songs. This week we have begun exploring shapes. Over the next few weeks, we will be recognising and classifying familiar 2-dimensional shapes and 3-dimensional objects in our everyday surroundings. We are looking forward to becoming shape investigators and finding various shapes around our school environment. 

Literacy
The students have been demonstrating their fabulous phonemic awareness and are practicing blending and segmenting phonemes to read familiar and unfamiliar words. We have been applying this learned knowledge when writing sentences about various topics we are focusing on. Through our focus on fairy tales, we have been sequencing stories and making short oral presentations. Students have been showing active listening skills and turn taking when asking questions.

My New Gallery

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Government Collection of Student Address Data

The Student Residential Address and Other Information Collection (Address Collection) is used and combined with other data to calculate a non-government school community’s capacity to contribute to the costs of schooling. This can influence the level of Australian Government recurrent funding for non-government schools. The information is also used to inform Australian Government school education policy.

Please see the notice of this below:

School Photo Day - Monday 13 March 2023

Don't forget we have our school photo day coming up on Monday 13th March.  Parents can either order on line or bring the correct money on the day in the envelopes that will go home with your student/s on Wednesday the 22nd of February.  Sibling forms can be collected from the office. 

Awards For The Week

Birthdays for this week!

~Dominic (PrepB)  ~Kaitlyn (Prep C)   ~Alyx (2B)   ~Corbin (3B)   ~Zavier (3B)   ~Ryder (3B)                               ~Reece (4/5C)    ~Anarchy (4/5D)   ~Emma (4/5E)    ~Jay (4/5A)   ~Ethan(6A)

Assembly

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

Our lucky Praise Note winners last week were: Harrison (PrepC), Isaac (1C), Ayden (2A), Ned (3A),  Claira(4/5E),  Xavier (4/5E),  Jack (6A)

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 Inclusion 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 Eating Area.

Parent Library Borrowing

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

Pesticides in the Garden

If you must use pesticides in the garden, opt for those made from natural ingredients, such as pyrethrum.  Birds, frogs and reptiles can become sick or die if they feed on insects sprayed with pesticides.

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 contact the school office or Ann-Maree at Tuckshop with any enquiries.

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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