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TERM THREE
| WEEK 5 | |
| Friday 19 August |
School Explorers Session #6, 2pm-3pm Tuckshop - Kimberley, Lisa and Nicole |
| WEEK 6 |
BOOK WEEK - DREAMING WITH OUR EYES OPEN |
| Monday 22 August |
Tuckshop - Lisa, Candice and Jenny Counsellor visit Uniform Shop second-hand sale all week |
| Tuesday 23 August |
Year Four Art Focus Day Archdiocesan Athletics Book Fair commences 8.40am - 4.00pm |
| Wednesday 24 August |
Book Fair 8.40am - 4.00pm Performance 'The Imaginer' Mufti Day - Students come dressed in pyjamas, oodies or onesies See Library News for more details Confirmation Lesson 3.30pm |
| Thursday 25 August |
Book Fair 8.40am - 4.00pm Northern Region Principal's Meeting - Virtual |
| Friday 26 August |
Principal, REC and Clergy Virtual Meeting Tuckshop - Rebecca, Belinda and Katherine |
The School Explorers
Last Friday our pre-school friends enjoyed the 'Swipe It' technology session in the library, support by Year Five. The students used OSMO Tangrams, Numbers and Letters, IPad apps- Draw and Tell and Bob Books, wrote on our interactive panel, engaged with Reading Eggs and digital jigsaw puzzles online and coded Bee Bots.
Our last session of The School Explorers - "Play it" will run tomorrow afternoon 2pm - 3pm, with the help of our Year Five students.
Enrolments for Kindergarten 2023 are due by the end of the term. If you would like an enrolment pack sent home, please contact Belinda.
Enrolment interviews will be conducted from 17 - 28 October.
The Kindergarten Orientation Day will be held on Monday 28 November.
Baby News
Congratulations to Allison, Brendan, Ava (Year Five) and Imogen (Year Three) on the safe arrival of Henry Francis Hewitt. Henry arrived on Thursday 4 August, weighing 3.66kg and measuring 52cm. Ava and Immy were delighted to finally meet their baby brother!
Enrolling Now
Enrolments can now be placed online. Go to https://enrolments.stmarysc.nsw.edu.au/enrol/ to enrol now.
Enrolments packs are available from our School Office or can be downloaded from our website http://www.stmarysc.nsw.edu.au/enrolment.html
COMPASSION – making a difference in our school, our homes and the world
We are continuing to learn about the value of COMPASSION at St Mary’s.
What is the meaning of Compassion?
- Compassion is MORE than sympathy (more than feeling sorry for someone)
- Compassion is MORE than empathy (more than suffering WITH someone)
- COMPASSION is LOVE IN ACTION
ACTION is what separates compassion from empathy, sympathy, pity, concern, condolence, sensitivity, tenderness, and commiseration. Compassion gets involved. When others keep their distance from those who are suffering, compassion prompts us to act on their behalf.
"Compassion is sometimes the fatal capacity for feeling what it is like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too." Fredrick Buechner
Jesus showed us the true meaning of compassion.
- He could not walk past anyone who was suffering without stopping to comfort and help (‘Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Immediately they received their sight and followed him." — Matthew 20:30-34). Do we reach out to help others, especially the poorest of the poor?
- He welcomed little children (who were considered insignificant in Jesus’ time) when the Apostles tried to shoo them away. Do we welcome EVERYONE?
- He had mercy on outcasts who everyone else looked down their noses at and called sinners – in fact, Jesus even ate dinner with them. Do we have mercy rather than judge and condemn?
- Jesus even had compassion for those who crucified him…some of his last words were for them… “Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do.” Do we forgive or hold grudges?
- Jesus' very presence in the world is the ultimate act of compassion. We did not deserve His sacrifice, but because of God's great love, we were treated with compassion and mercy. Are we thankful?
We can also look to our Heavenly Mother Mary as an example of compassion. She set out on foot for another town when pregnant with Jesus, to help her cousin Elizabeth. She asked Jesus to perform his first miracle to save friends who were hosting a wedding from being embarrassed and losing face (they had faced the disaster of running out of wine, so Jesus turned water into wine). One of her last known acts of compassion was steadfastly bearing the agony of silently supporting her son as he died on the cross.
At St Mary’s School, we ask Mary to pray for us at every morning assembly… “Mary, mother of Jesus, Pray for us.”
Mary our mother, pray for us
That we may look at one another with kind, loving eyes
And with hearts and minds filled with compassion
That we might let the love of Jesus
Live in our school, our home, our community, and the world
Amen
May we all strive to follow the example of Jesus, his mother Mary, and our Australian Saint, Mary Mackillop in “never seeing a need without trying to do something about it.”
"This is what the Lord Almighty said: 'Administer true justice; show mercy and compassion to one another. Do not oppress the widow or the fatherless, the foreigner or the poor. Do not plot evil against each other.'" — Zechariah 7:9-10, NIV
Archdiocesan Athletics Carnival
Best of luck to our St Mary's students competing as members of the Northern Region team at the Archdiocesan Carnival at the AIS next Tuesday 23 August.
The carnival will commence at 8.30am (warm-up from 8.00am) and finish at approximately 4.00pm.
Included is a suggested program of events which is a guide only as the convenor has the right to alter the program on the day.
Students representing the Northern Region are required to wear their sports PE uniform to the event and will receive a Northern Region Rep shirt on the day. All shirts are to be returned to the team manager at the conclusion of the carnival. A teacher representative from St Joseph’s Goulburn will supervise the team at the carnival.
SCHOOL SPORT AUSTRALIA HOCKEY CHAMPIONSHIPS
Dates
21 to 26 August 2022
Age Groups
12 Years and Under
Participating States and Territories
Boys - ACT, NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
Girls - ACT, NSW, QLD, SA, TAS, VIC, WA
Host
School Sport ACT
Venue
National Hockey Centre
196 Mouat Street, Lyneham ACT
We wish Sophia and Henry a successful and enjoyable week as they partake in the State Championships in Canberra.
They will have 8 hours of training over two days on Thursday and Friday this week in Goulburn in preparation for the Championships next week.
The Championships commence on Monday with an Opening Ceremony, then onto the pitch for game 1.
Draw is as follows. A livestream link will be available and shared via our School Social Media pages. Your support is appreciated.
Monday
Henry
- 10:20am V QLD- State of Origin
- 3:40pm V ACT- Local Derby
Sophia
- 1:15pm V WA
Tuesday
Henry
- 11:55am V TAS
Sophia
- 10:20am V TAS
- 3:40pm V ACT
Wednesday is Educational Excursion day, at a venue TBC.
Thursday
Henry
- 9am V WA
- 1pm V VIC
Sophia
- 9:15am V QLD- State of Origin
- 2:35pm V VIC
Friday
Henry
- 10:35am V SA
Sophia
- 9am V SA
The Championships will conclude on Friday with a closing ceremony and medal presentation.
Book Fair
Our school is hosting a Scholastic Book Fair in Week 6 on Tuesday 23 August – Thursday 25 August from 8:40 am – 4.00 pm.
Our Book Fair Family Event is in the School Library, and we would love to see you there!
You and your child will have the opportunity to explore a huge range of affordable books featuring characters and subjects kids love and want to read about, from newly released books and best-sellers to award-winning titles and perennial favourites.
The school receives a commission from all sales, so every book sold benefits our school, adding resources to our library.
A brochure was distributed today highlighting the books available.
Performance
On Wednesday 24 August, we are participating in a Theatre Performance/Live Show based on the CBCA Notable 2022 Picture Book, “The Imagineer” by Christopher Cheng.
The children have been exploring the themes and becoming familiar with the text. The book focuses on items used in the past.
This performance will start right on 9am, so if possible, we ask for all students to be at school by 8.50 on this day.
Wear your onesie, PJs or oodie!
Also on Wednesday 24 August, children are encouraged to wear their onesies, PJ’s, or oodie, etc, to celebrate the theme for Book Week “Dreaming with Eyes Open”.
The best way to teach boundaries is to set them
Setting boundaries is one of the toughest parts of parenting or working with children. However, it is also one of the most important. When we set boundaries for kids, we teach them how to set boundaries in their own lives. We teach them how to have physically and emotionally safe experiences and relationships. Kids need smarter, wiser, kind people to say no to them.
We need to make sure we set boundaries for three main reasons:
- It is a child’s job to explore and find boundaries and then to push against them. They push in order to figure out how boundaries work and how firm they are. If they are firm, they experience a sense of safety and attachment, even if they do say, “You’re the worst parent in the whole world”.
- If we are inconsistent, we are asking kids to exercise judgement they have not developed yet. Adolescents in particular are going through a period of brain renovation that encourages them to take more risks than they would have previously, with less consideration of consequences. Even the smartest of our young people are predisposed to making some bad decisions.
- The boundaries we set for them at an early age show them how to set and maintain boundaries in relationships with other people. This is ABSOLUTELY vital.
Setting boundaries is hard work
Experiencing boundaries as a child is one thing, learning to set their own boundaries is another, especially when other people’s feelings are involved. It’s not just kids who struggle with boundaries in relationships.
Whether you’re a conscientious student being pressured to share your homework with peers, or a parent guilted into spending money you don’t have on your kids, it’s hard. It is most difficult to say no to someone you love. At the most dangerous end of the continuum, we run into unbalanced and exploitative relationships. So, teaching a child to set boundaries and then coaching them in this skill throughout their adolescence is important.
Teach them to know themselves first
Kristina Morgan is a clinical psychologist at Lourdes Hill College. She explains that if we want kids to respect themselves and other people and learn about setting boundaries, we must first teach them to know about themselves.
“We often ask children to tune into other peoples’ emotional states, wants, and needs but not their own. We encourage kids to heed the feelings of the adults in their lives or their friends. They need to tune into their own emotional, moral, and physical states to connect authentically with themselves.”
Kristina says, if kids are confused about who they are, they become inconsistent and can be easily led. “They give in to others when they don’t want to, and they can accidentally misrepresent who they are and what they want. Their inability to know and name their values gets in the way of their goals and their relationships.”
In short, kids need to learn what they like and don’t like. They need to be able to name and own their values. When we don’t let our children grow into who they are, we accidentally stop them from knowing where their boundaries need to be.
Part of knowing yourself is knowing how you feel and listening to those feelings. When someone is crossing one of your boundaries, you feel uncomfortable. Your heart might go fast, you might feel hot or you might not be able to say the things you want to say… you’re tongue-tied.
When kids do get the concept of boundaries, they really get it. They will be able to give you examples of incidents when their boundaries have been crossed because they felt it so viscerally.
Helpful tips for parents teaching kids about boundaries
When it comes to teaching boundaries, Kristina says, “We need to turn up for kids and show them how it is done. It involves a lot of modelling and coaching.” She offers the following tips:
- Be confident saying no to your children. They need to hear how to say no and the words to use. This sort of modelling also allows them a chance to see when it is appropriate to say no. For this reason, never just say no to exercise power.
- Set your own boundaries. Simple things like asking children to wait while you speak to another person instead of cutting in. Teach them to attempt age-appropriate tasks for themselves. If you stop everything the moment they want your help, you teach them that you have no boundaries and your time is not important.
- Give kids structure and be consistent. By making boundaries very clear, you show your child that boundaries make life more comfortable. There is less conflict and negotiation over every decision, they don’t have to keep pushing to find the edges.
- Help your child practise with little boundaries. Everyone should have and complete household jobs, everyone maintains contact with relatives, everyone contributes. Kristina sees in her work with families how this makes managing bigger issues like curfews.
- Make sure having a different opinion is okay in your home. It is possible to hold different opinions and still be friends. We can disagree and both still be important awesome human beings. This extends to people of other cultures and those who hold different values.
Finally…
It’s unreasonable to expect that things will always run so smoothly. They won’t…but let’s face it, smooth isn’t the end goal.
Tuckshop
New Fridge
Thank you to Daniel Camilleri for sourcing and installing a new fridge in the tuchksop on behalf of the P&F.
Crookwell Community Fun Run
Student of the Week Awards
The Student of the Week Awards go to...
Kindergarten: Macie-Lee Charnock, Elaine Hannan, Laela McIntosh, Hadléy Reynolds
Yr. 1: Henry Butler, Digby Price
Yr. 2: Rory Bensley, Flynn Doran, Luca Morning
Yr. 3: Imogen Hewitt, Harley White
Yr. 4: Tahlia Naughton, Elkie Storrier
Yr. 5: Will Croker, Charlie Tarlinton
Yr. 6: Rorey Hearne, Ava Nicholson
Japanese Award
The Japanese class award of the week goes to... Year 4
School Spirit Award
Joe Hayes for always showing and demonstrating compassion
Certificate of Appreciation
Awarded to Abigail Crosbie and William Millett for wearing our St Mary's Primary School uniform with pride.
Second-hand clothing pop-up sale- NEXT WEEK
Next week during Book Week, we will be having a pop-up stall of second-hand school clothing for sale on the stage in the Old Hall. There is a variety of items available.
Please contact Belinda if you would like to come during School Hours, otherwise feel free to pop in from 3.00-3.30pm all week.
Also displayed will be the lost property that is currently in our hands- please ensure to check it out!
Well done to Sophie Culley who recently passed her karate grading test to become a blue belt. Sophie then competed at the NSW Karate competition and achieved 1 silver and 2 bronze. Congratulations!
Basecamp- Yr 5-7 Retreat in Goulburn
For Parish and Sacramental matters, please forward your enquiries to Goulburn Parish Secretary, Sharon Cashman, via email. Alternatively, call into the Parish Office at the Old Convent Building. Sharon is available in Crookwell on the 1st and 3rd Thursday of the month from 11.30am-3.30pm
Parish Associate: Sr Rosemary Hart
Email: Crookwell@cg.org.au
Website: http://cg.org.au/crookwell/Home.aspx
Phone: 48321 633
Address: 55 Wade Street (the Old Convent Building)
