2024 Week 10 Newsletter - Term 2
- From the Principal - Before School Arrangements
- Important Messages For This Week
- Date Claimers
- Crazy Hair Day this Friday 21st June
- School Photo Day
- Sacrament of Confirmation
- Have you downloaded our new App yet?
- Position Vacant - OSHC Assistant
- RoboCup Competition
- More Athletics Fun
- Wearitto Uniform Shop Opening Hours
- Swap It News for You
- 2024 School Priorities
- Student Absentee Line
- Community Notices
- Caulfield 2023 Sponsors
From the Principal - Before School Arrangements
Important Messages For This Week
- SCHOOL REPORTS WILL BE AVAILABLE LATER THIS WEEK - These are available through Parent Lounge accessed via our new School APP or online.
- Information about our Rumbles Quest Program has been emailed home. Please log into Parent Lounge online or via the app to action.
- Link to last week's newsletter: https://staroftheseagladstone.schoolzineplus.com/enews?nid=96
Date Claimers
WEEK 1
P&F Meeting tonight in the Staffroom at 6:30pm
NAIDOC Week – Keep the fire burning, Blak, Loud and Proud.
CHALLENGE CUP - Our netball and football teams are away competing in the Challenge Cup from Wednesday to Friday – we wish them well.
Prep celebrate 100 days of school and they invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 12th July at 8:35am in the covered courts area.
WEEK 2
QMEA Drone Challenge – students will represent Star of the Sea at the annual Drone Challenge. Good Luck.
Year 5 Camp – Our Year 5 Students will be away at Chaverim from Wednesday 17th July until Friday 19th July.
WEEK 3
FREE DRESS DAY – Students are invited to come dressed in sun safe free dress clothes on Wednesday 24th July. A gold coin donation is required and will support our Story Dogs Reading Program.
Year 5 invite you to their assembly presentation on Thursday 25th July at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
Everyone is invited to join us for our Catholic Education Week Whole School Mass on Friday 26th July at 9.00am in the Star of the Sea Church. This Mass will also be a special celebration for our Grandparents.
WEEK 4
Year 3A invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 2nd August at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
WEEK 5
Year 3 invite you to their Liturgy on Tuesday 6th August at 9.30am in the Star of the Sea Church.
Year 4A invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 9th August at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
WEEK 6
GLADSTONE SHOW HOLIDAY – Monday 12th August.
Year 4B invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 16th August at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
WEEK 7
BOOK WEEK
Everyone is invited to attend our Book Character Parade on Friday 23rd August at 8:35am in the Covered Courts Area.
WEEK 8
Year 3B invite you to their assembly presentation on Thursday 29th August at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
PUPIL FREE DAY – FRIDAY 30th AUGUST.
WEEK 9
Year 2 invite you to their Liturgy on Tuesday 3rd September at 9.30am in the Star of the Sea Church.
Year 6B invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 6th September at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area.
WEEK 10
SCHOOL FEAST DAY – Thursday 12th September.
Everyone is invited to attend our Feast Day Mass on Thursday 12TH September at 9am in the Star of the Sea Church.
Year 6A invite you to their assembly presentation on Friday 13th September at 8.35am in the Covered Courts Area
Crazy Hair Day this Friday 21st June
Our Crazy Hair Day is a great way to raise money for those in need while also having some fun. Funds raise will support the St Vincent de Paul Assist a Student Program which assists students who do not have access to an education. $70 is all it takes to help one student have an education for one year - I wonder how many students we can help?
Students can wear sun safe free dress clothes and closed in running shoes and are invited to wear their crazy hair style and bring a Gold Coin Donation to donate to our appeal.
More information about the Assist a Student Appeal can be found here: https://vinniesyouthqld.org.au/schools/school-initiatives-programs/assist-a-student
School Photo Day
Sacrament of Confirmation
Congratulations to the following students who received the sacrament of Confirmation on the weekend.
May the Holy Spirit guide them on their journey.
Arlo Thetford
Aspen Thetford
Mechaella Ramirez
Ari Schultz
Avery Frost
Arabella Columbus
Michael Ross
Theo Hughes
Liam Alletag
“But the Helper will teach you everything. He will cause you to remember all the things I told you. This Helper is the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name." John 14:26
Have you downloaded our new App yet?
We already have way over half our parent community who've downloaded our new mobile App.
The App, Parent Orbit, which is connected to Parent Lounge, will improve our communication with each other as it offers a quick and easy way to receive notifications, add Student Absences, view and pay School Fees, accept or decline excursions via the Events and Activities, check the school calendar, update details and permissions and much more.
Some of you may already be using the Parent Orbit App for Chanel College and you will simply add Star of the Sea as another school you can access.
The App uses your Parent Lounge log in to access and will be a great way to access Parent Lounge features as you will not have to log in every time.
To download the App to your mobile device you can click on the link https://parentorbit.page.link/sosg or visit your APP store.
Most of our Term Dates for the rest of the year are already installed on the App so it really is a good resource for you.
Position Vacant - OSHC Assistant
Please spread the word - We are looking for new OSHC Assistants to join our awesome team.
RoboCup Competition
Star of the Sea recently participated in the first ever RoboCup Jr competition in Gladstone. Our teams competed in either Rescue Line or On Stage categories.
Rescue Line had 3 different courses, each with different challenges that teams had to build and program to autonomously navigate and remove a "rescue capsule" from the rescue area. The courses all had obstacles, including a couple we had to adapt to on the day. Our team, Line King (Annabelle and Bodi), made it to the finals and came 3rd for the primary school division.
On Stage challenges the creativity as well as the technical aspects of robotics to create a performance set to a song that lasts between 1 - 2 minutes. They also need to be able to set up, perform and then clear the stage area in 6 minutes. All of our teams performed amazingly and even had to overcome issues with robots during their performance.
We are very proud of the efforts of all of our competing students. They have given up many lunch breaks to get their robots, code, costumes and props together and all of that hard work was definitely on display at the competition. Special thanks to Miss Erin and Mrs Sedgwick for helping our students prepare for the day.
More Athletics Fun
Wearitto Uniform Shop Opening Hours
Swap It News for You
We are now a SWAP IT school! Here is this week's SWAP IT messages to help you 'swap' for healthier lunchboxes! Find tips on the SWAP IT website: www.swapit.net.au/tips
2024 School Priorities
Student Absentee Line
If your child is not attending school, you can call us, 24/7, to leave a message to report the absence. The phone number is 4994 8301.
This designated phone line gives you the opportunity to call the school at a time that is convenient to you.
As always, absences can be reported using Parent Lounge or by emailing your child’s classroom teacher and SOSG_Absentee@rok.catholic.edu.au).
Community Notices
