Dear Parents

A really good education for your children is based on a true partnership between home and school. I believe this is best achieved through the regular, open communication that partners have if their common interests and goals are to be achieved.

At its best, partners are also trusting friends who will not give nor take comments made as being intended to cause hurt, or damage to the partnership, but rather as ‘open’ communication. To attain their common goal, in our case a quality, rounded education for the students of OLG, families and the school must be honest with one another and work together.

Again, the best forum for this is the frequent chat we ask you to have with your child’s teacher.

Below are the details of a survey inviting you to anonymously put forward your thoughts about OLG. This is a valued source of feedback for the school which, over the years, has resulted in many changes to the way we do things. What would truly help is for respondents to provide, when the opportunity is given, greater detail on what we do well and should continue and what we need to improve and suggestions as to how.

The company conducting the survey for us suggests we should expect no more than a 30% response rate. Given this is about your children’s education, I would hope that every family would take the 15 minutes to complete the exercise.

Parent and Caregiver Survey (PaCS) – Parent Voice
As a parent, you are invited to participate in a survey about the school climate. You will be asked to indicate your answers by selecting the response that best describes how often each statement occurs. You will not be asked to enter your name and, therefore, your answers will be completely anonymous.

Completion of the survey is on a voluntary basis.

Your confidentiality
All answers will go directly to the National School Improvement Partnerships, where the results will be analysed for your school. Answers from individual surveys will NOT be reported back to the school. Staff of the National School Improvement Partnerships staff are bound by a Code of Ethics and follow strict professional conduct.

Use of the data
National School Improvement Partnerships will report the results to the school in an aggregated format so that individuals cannot be identified. To enable drill-down reporting, the information provided to the school will contain data based on background information.

Unless express permission is provided, neither the school nor any individual, will be able to be directly or indirectly identified in any publications. Individual responses will remain anonymous.

How to complete the survey
You will be asked whether you are completing the survey for an individual child or as a family. If the experiences of your children are similar, then responding once will suffice. If, however, your children are experiencing very different learning environments then you might want to complete the survey more than once for different children.

The survey contains statements about practices which could take place in this school. For each statement, you are asked to indicate how often the statement takes place.

There are no 'right' or 'wrong' answers. Your opinion is what is wanted. Please be sure to answer all questions.

Some statements in may be fairly similar to other statements. Don't worry about this. Simply give your opinion about all statements.

If you require more information or have any questions, please contact the NSI Team. Email: NSITeam@NSIpartnerships.com.au

Your time and consideration are much appreciated.

Given the renovations to the MPA, this year’s program is different to that of the past.

·         Grandparents, our guests, are asked to gather at the Church before 9.00am for a special mass.

·         From there they will move up to the MPA for morning tea.

·         Their eldest grandchild will come to them and so the tour will begin.

·         The art exhibition in the MPA is best left for your assembled grandchildren to walk you through after you have done the rounds of their classrooms.

In advance, I personally thank all those grandparents who will be making the effort to attend both the mass (demonstrating support for the faith development of the children) followed by the morning tea (community) and then the tour (the children).

MOST REVEREND TIMOTHY COSTELLOE - PASTORAL LETTER

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference and Catholic Religious Australia’s Response to the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse was released on Friday 31 August 2018.

Please find below a link to Archbishop Costelloe’s pastoral letter for the Catholic Community of the Archdiocese of Perth

http://perthcatholic.org.au/Our_Archdiocese-Archbishop-Latest_News-2018-ACBCCRA_response_to_the_Royal_Commission.htm

God bless
Chris Kenworthy, Principal

Sports Carnival - Friday 12th October

The Canteen will be offering Subway Meal Deal for the Sports Carnival on Friday 12th October. The order forms will be sent home on Friday 7th September.

No other lunch items will be available.

This weeks assembly is presented by students in 3G. Parents of 3G children are invited to the staff room after assembly for a cuppa with Mrs Sarah Tangifua and Mrs Anne Burke.

Congratulations to the students who received Merit Awards at last week's assembly.

Library Roster

Tournament of Minds
Our best wishes go with our Social Science team facilitated by Lisa Meyers and Arts team facilitated by Briony Elliot who will compete in the WA state final this Saturday.  

Interschool Chess
Congratulations to the OLG Interschool Chess team who represented the school at Saint Peters School last week. 

ART NEWS (Mrs Deed)

Grandparent’s Day Art Exhibition
Children love to share their art-work with their families.  Each year, all children at OLG have the opportunity to display their favourite piece at the Grandparent’s Day Art Exhibition.  This year all families are invited to view the show. I hope you will join us.

Grandparent’s Day Art Exhibition
Friday 7th September, 3.00pm – 5.30pm In the MPA

Free Outing for Children
Over the past couple of years the work of Sidney Nolan has been investigated by our year three and four art classes.  The children particularly love his iconic Ned Kelly Series.  This very famous group of masterpieces is currently on loan from the National Gallery of Australia and can be seen at The Art Gallery of Western Australia in Northbridge. The show offers our children a rare opportunity to view this renowned sequence depicting the story of the fabled bush outlaw.

I encourage each of you to take your children to view this free exhibition.  It is very child friendly and the gallery has created labels and discussion questions to engage children. I loved my visit and will be taking my grand-daughter during the holidays.

You can find out more at http://www.artgallery.wa.gov.au/exhibitions/sidney-nolans-ned-kelly.asp

Dear Parents/carers,
The CEWA School Psychologist, Leigh Thomas, is available on the 6th September, 9-12am, for short parent consultations. If you have a learning/behaviour/parenting issue with your child and would like a brief consultation to provide you with some information or direction please contact Catherine Cutrona (Catherine.cutrona@cewa.edu.au) to register. Sessions will be 20 minutes only.

Leigh Thomas
Senior Psychologist, Psychology Team

“The Fathering Project” Launch
We successfully launched “The Fathering Project” last Wednesday night. It was fantastic to have so many dads come along and show their interest in getting involved with this valuable initiative. Paul Valentino, The Fathering Project WA school’s manager provided support to set up our own Dads Group at OLG. If you missed the launch and would like to know more, please contact Damien Newbold on 0417 906 502 or email the P & F exec@olgpf.com.

Further information about The Fathering Project is on their website: http://thefatheringproject.org

OLG Business Community

If you own your own business, we invite you to be part of our OLG Business Community. You can support this initiative by taking up one of four levels of P & F Sponsorship, which provides the option of including your business in our OLG Business Directory.

Your sponsorship will help fund many projects around the school which directly impacts our children’s school experience, and more information will follow next term as we progress this beneficial project.

To find out more and register your interest email OLGBIZCOM@cewa.edu.au or drop your business card in the office.

 Friday 7th September – Grandparents Day
8.45am – 11.00am

Parents can you please contribute by bringing in a plate of food in the morning for the Grandparents to share for morning tea.

Surnames A-L please bring savoury (sandwiches, mini quiches, frittatas, sausage rolls, dips etc) and surnames M-Z please bring sweet (cakes, slices, biscuits, scones, fruit etc).

If you are available to help in the morning, please contact Di Guttridge on 0415 096 740

Have a great week everyone!
P&F Executive Committee

Fathers Day Thank You
Thank you all for attending the Fathers Day breakfast on Thursday morning. It was a wonderful opportunity to celebrate Fathers Day with our school community.

Thank you to all our wonderful volunteers on Wednesday and Thursday. This event would not be possible with you. A big thank you also to the Pafumi family for donating the bacon. Also to those who kindly donated prizes.

As we had a lot of food left over, we decided to donate it to worthy causes. We donated food to Shelter WA and St Vinnies who were very appreciative of our donation.

You have all helped to make this another successful OLG family event.

Netball
Team 2 "Thunderstruck" took to the court on Saturday to play the first semi-final and came away with a great win over St Anthony's 23-17. The girls really stepped up to the challenge and are now rewarded by going straight through to the grand finals on 15th September at 11am. We wish them the best of luck.

Fathering Project Event - Save the Date
Wednesday 10 October: OLG Fathering Project Lawn Bowls – North Beach Bowls Club 5:30pm

SACRAMENTAL PROGRAMME
FIRST RECONCILIATION
Enrolment - 8th/9th September  

Enrolment will take place on the 8th between 1 pm and 4 pm in the Parish Centre and then again after the 9.30 mass on Sunday the 9th.  If your child was NOT baptised at OLG you will need to attach a copy of your child's baptismal certificate to the enrolment form.

If you do not have an enrolment form they can be filled in when you arrive.

Parent/child Workshop - 13th September

Commitment - 15th/16th September

PREP Retreat - 13th October

Sacrament of First Reconciliation - 17th October

Thanksgiving Mass - 21st October @ 5.30 pm

Child Protection Week 3rd to 9th September  2018
Our Lady of Grace Safeguarding Officers attended the Child Protection Week Breakfast last Tuesday which is an official annual State event and is hosted by the Safeguarding Office. The Archbishop, Timothy Costelloe SDB, announced and presented the prizes to the winners of the Safeguarding Competition whilst recognising all entrants and thanking them for their participation.  The Archbishop also launched the latest safeguarding resource – a handbook designed for teenagers – Love, Sex & Relationships, The Basic Essentials for Teenagers.  This is a sequel to the Protecting God’s Children Handbook that was launched, and very well received, last year.  Unlike the first handbook, which is aimed at educating parents the new handbook is aimed at the teenagers themselves.  Copies of the handbook are available following the 9.30am Children’s Mass on Sunday.  There are a number of resources in regard to the Safeguarding Project available for your information, if you are interested please contact your Safeguarding Officers.

The Safeguarding Officers, Susan Roccheccioli, Joan Burke and Sue Wright will be hosting the morning tea following the 9.30am Children’s Mass on Sunday, everyone is invited so please come along and enjoy!

Pristine Events, a local community singing and acting group is currently working hard to deliver their annual musical. This year OLG’s very own, the lovely Mrs Elliot is Director, and as luck would have it a few of the stars of the show also go to OLG (Eloise Hamilton 3G and Angelina Trichilo 2B). Please come along and support this hard working young group, and allow them to entertain you.

Mater Dei College 25th Anniversary Showcase Fair
To celebrate the 25th years since foundation, Mater Dei College is holding a community fair on Saturday 8th September 11am – 3pm. It will be fun for all the family with the following activities:

• Face painting
• Small Animal Farm
• Giant Blow-up slide
• Art exhibition
• Craft stalls
• Music
• Zorb Ball games
• Bouncy Castle
• Food Trucks
• Coupe Car Club display
• Big Kahuna Slide
• Hawks AFL Academy demonstration and more…

Entry is FREE

Mater Dei College is located at the corner of Treetop Avenue and Joondalup Drive, Edgewater.

Please download a flyer HERE.

Open Afternoon at Mater Dei College
All families are invited to come and view the facilities and the learning activities of Mater Dei College on Monday 10 September at 4.00pm-5.30pm.

Mater Dei College is a co-ed secondary Catholic College located on the corner of Joondalup Drive and Treetop Avenue in Edgewater.

To register your interest in attending, please email: enrolments@mdc.wa.edu.au
If you have any further enrolment questions please phone us on 9405 4777.
To download a flyer, please follow the LINK.

Iona Presentation College warmly invites you to attend an Open Morning of the Senior School for prospective students in Years 7-12, Monday 10 September 2018.

Presentations will commence at 9.30am in the College Sports Centre followed by a guided tour and morning tea.

Bookings can be made at: www.iona.wa.edu/openmorning

We look forward to meeting you there!

Are you searching for ways to enrich your understanding of the Catholic faith and tradition? Would you like to find out more about a particular sacrament which your child may be receiving? Then the Centre for Faith Enrichment is for you! We offer a wide range of face-to-face and online courses and events on topics ranging from spirituality, Church history, theology, scripture, Christian living and much more. No exams or assignments, just a relaxed and friendly learning atmosphere. To know more visit our website www.cfe.org.au where you will find our courses and events page and explore our new sacraments website.

HILLARYS YACHT CLUB
Join us for three days during School Holidays and learn how to rig your rod, casting practice, fishing on Hillarys Yacht Club boats, fish weigh-in competition, heaps of prizes, two sausage sizzles and loads of fun!

25-27 September 2018  (Ages 9-16)

Register online: www.hillarysyachtclub.com.au   (under the Courses tab)

Contact Mel:   9246 2833  |  development@hillarysyachtclub.com.au

VacSwim:  With swimming pools and beaches a big part of the Western Australian lifestyle, ensuring your children can swim competently and safely is essential.

You can now enrol your children in VacSwim swimming lessons during the October and December/January school holidays.

VacSwim is for all children - from beginners to more advanced swimmers and young people doing their Bronze Medallion. Your children can start as young as five years old.

Your children can join in the fun of learning to swim at pools and open water venues across the State.

Enrol your children in VacSwim now at education.wa.edu.au/swimming

2018 MARIST CRICKET CARNIVAL
Newman College is honoured to be the host of the 2018 Australian Marist Cricket Carnival.  The Carnival will run from Tuesday, 4 December through to Tuesday, 11 December 2018.  Five Marist Schools from Australia will compete and 65 competitors will take part.

Tournaments such as the Marist Cricket Carnival can only be held because of the generosity of those families who billet visiting athletes and we thank those families who have already offered their support.  The financial implications of accommodating athletes in hotel/motel type accommodation would soon put an end to such competitions as for many families the cost of the trip would then be beyond their means. 

We ask that the Newman Community rally and assist in accommodating visiting athletes as we endeavour to make this Carnival a success.  Having children on the 7 – 12 Campus is certainly not a pre-requisite for billeting athletes.  We would be delighted to accept an offer to billet from families with children on our K – 2 and 3 – 6 Campuses. 

The responsibilities of the billet family include providing the athletes with meals, a bed, laundry facilities and ensuring that the athletes meet all the Carnival requirements. Billeting athletes is a wonderful and rewarding experience for both the athlete and the host family.  Perhaps one day your child may be fortunate enough to be selected to represent Newman College at a Marist Sporting Carnival and require the generosity of a Marist Family during their interstate stay! 

If you are able to assist in providing a visiting athlete with accommodation during the Cricket Carnival please phone me on 9204 9444 between the hours of 8.00am to 4.00pm Monday to Thursday.  I look forward to hearing from you and am very happy to answer any questions you may have with regard to the Billeting Programme.  An advertising flyer with an offer to billet form is attached for your convenience.

Tania Bailey
Billet Coordinator

An amazing offer from Breakers Swim Club
Breakers Swim Club prides itself on being one of Perth’s strongest swimming clubs, having some of WA’s fastest junior state through to open national swimmers. At Breakers we are a welcoming and sociable club that offer squad sessions for everyone ranging from stroke development at 6 years old to national open level at 18 years and over.  We encourage and teach all of our swimmers the most current stroke techniques, so they are not only equipped to be the best swimmer they can be but are inspired for life!

As a club, we are invested in swimming and passionate about expanding our swimming family at Breakers. If you have a child that is 6 years and over and is able to swim 25m of Freestyle, Backstroke and Breaststroke, our amazing coaching team would love to hear from you! If you think your child would like to be involved but are unsure of their swimming ability, please feel free to contact us anyway.

As a welcome to Breakers, our Leisure Park Balga centre is offering a 1-day FREE trial lesson followed by 2 weeks of FREE lessons while only paying entry cost to the centre and if you sign up to Breakers within those 2 weeks you can have the full month of lessons for FREE with entry cost at ONLY $34.65 for the month.

Our stroke development classes run 3 times a week, Juniors 5 times, Inters 6 + times, National Development 8 + times, National Age 9 + times as well as land training sessions for Inters and above and gym sessions for National Age. For Only $34.65 you can join in on all lessons in your allocated squad for that month.

Swimming is such a beneficial and important asset to have especially living in Perth, WA and we would love for you to share that passion with us at Breakers! 

To book in your free trial and ask any questions please email our Head Coach Cameron Hawthorn at headcoachlpb@breakerswaswimclub.org.

Take a 3D tour of the newly renovated LeisurePark Balga on our website.
Web: https://www.breakerswaswimclub.org
Email: headcoachlpb@breakerswaswimclub.org

Learn to Swim at Scarborough Beach Pool
Learn to Swim Holiday Program - September/October 2018

Week 1            Tuesday 25 to Friday 28 September              Cost $52.00
Week 2            Monday 1 to Friday 5 October                       Cost $65.00

Small morning classes for preschool to Level 14 and fee includes one swimming sibling.

Term 4 2018 Learn to Swim - 8 October 8 to 16 December

Enrolments for term 4 open September 25. Enrol now and you can choose your day, time and/or the price of your lesson with prices starting at $9.50 per lesson for a 10 week program.

ENROL TODAY! For further information visit www.stirling.wa.gov.au/lts or email SBP.Reception@stirling.wa.gov.au

Pool to Beach Program - ENQUIRE TODAY!

 Exciting new program only at Scarborough Beach Pool! We believe ensuring your child can swim safely and competently in both controlled and natural open water environments is vital.

Tuesdays and Thursdays 4:00PM

*Students must have passed Level 9 RLSSWA