Guardian Angels' Newsletter - Term 3 | Week 9
Coming up @ GA
Week 10
Monday 12 September
Cricket Incursion - Year 4-6 PE classes - all week
Tuesday 13 September
URSTRONG sessions - Year 5/6
Year 5 Excursion - Eureka Gold Rush
Wednesday 14 September
Australian Girls Choir Assessment Workshop
P-6 Assembly
Thursday 15 September
Tuckshop (orders must be in by 7:45am)
Uniform Shop open 1:00pm-4:00pm
Year 1-6 Instrumental Music Program
Friday 16 September
Tuckshop (orders must be in by 7:45am)
Guardian Angels' Day Mass - led by Year 3B - 9:00am MC Shed (all welcome)
Last day of Term 3 - school resumes Tuesday 4 October
Week 1 | Term 4
Monday 3 October
PUBLIC HOLIDAY
Tuesday 4 October
FIRST DAY OF TERM 4
Cricket Incursion - Year 4-6 classes (all week)
Wednesday 5 October
P-6 Assembly - St Francis - led by Year 1R - 1:50pm - MC Shed
Thursday 6 October
Tuckshop (orders must be in by 7:45am)
Uniform Shop open 1:00pm-4:00pm
Principal's Tour
St Francis Liturgy - led by Year 5/6B - 1:45pm - MC Shed (all welcome)
Friday 7 October
Tuckshop (orders must be in by 7:45am)
Grandparents Day - prayer celebration - led by Year 3Y - 8:45am - MC Shed
Grandparents Day - classroom visits - 9:45am-10:15am
Sunday 9 October
Prep led Parish Mass
From the Principal
National Child Safety Week (4 – 10 September 2022)
Recently, Bravehearts visited our school and presented the ‘Ditto’ Show to our students from Prep – Year 2. Bravehearts provide a program that supports children with basic principles of personal safety, by providing them with some strategies or ‘tools’ to stay safe.
This performance supports our school’s planned National Child Protection Week activities and is a time when we revisit important safety messages with all our students.
During Child Safety Week, our students will engage in activities that provide important reminders that every student has the right to feel safe, all the time; at home and at school. Also, activities will provide opportunities for students to revisit the actions that they can take if they are feeling unsafe or need support. One of these is to identify who the trusted adults are in their lives that they can go to if they need some support. At our upcoming assembly next week, Renae Haggitt (Guidance Counsellor) will share some important reminders with our students around feeling safe and the trusted adults to speak with, including those in our school.
We all have a role to play in creating safe and nurturing environments for our children. Building stronger community awareness is a powerful way of working together to create safer environments for children, and to protect children from harm.
Student protection and wellbeing are paramount in our Catholic Schools. Our commitment to the protection of students is based in our belief that each person is made in the image of God, and our ethos is to provide a safe and supportive environment for all.
I refer you to our School website, where you can find further information in relation to Brisbane Catholic Education policy, processes and resources that are implemented by the school:
Should you have any queries or concerns, the Guardian Angels’ Student Protection Contact Officers are noted below and can be contacted via the school office:
- Mrs Veronica Tomerini-Smith. (Principal)
- Mrs Nicole Waller (APA)
- Mrs Hannah Goodwin (APRE)
- Mrs Renae Haggitt (Guidance Counsellor)
Blessings for the week ahead,
Veronica Tomerini-Smith
Assistant Principal - Religious Education
Guardian Angels Feast Day
Next Friday 16 September, we will be coming together to celebrate the feast of Guardian Angels' which our school is named after. We will pause from our everyday activities to be mindful of the presence of God and thank God for all he gives us in our Guardian Angels’ school community. Mrs Summerville, the students of 3 Blue and Father Thomas will lead us in a special Mass to celebrate this important date. We would love for you to join us for Mass in the MC Shed at 9:00am on Friday 16 September .
Angel of God, my guardian dear,
to whom God’s love commits me here,
ever this day be at my side,
to light and guard to rule and guide.
Amen
Pupil Free Day on Friday 2 September
Last Friday, our staff came together for a day of professional learning and formation. In the morning, Father Thomas, joined us and we discussed What is Liturgy?. During the day, the teachers developed a Liturgy that will be held with their class or the whole shool in Term 4. The staff were then lead through a formation module about Rationality: Faith Seeking and Understanding. This topic invited us into a process of critical theological reflection that is sometimes referred to as ‘doing theology’. The model that we looked to aid us in this process was the SEE-JUDGE-ACT model of Cardinal Joseph Cardijn. It was a great day of reflection and professional development in Religious Education.
Blessings
Hannah Goodwin
Book Week - Dreaming with eyes open
Book Week has started with a blast! Yesterday students were entertained by Meerkat Productions bringing to life two stories – A Detective’s Guide to Ocean Travel and Stellarphant. There was singing and dancing with lots of laughs in between.
Our Book Fair is in full swing. You can visit the library before and after school to purchase books using cash or card. Each student will also bring home a wish list. Instructions to purchase the books online are on the wish list. If you do order online, it is necessary for the wish list with the receipt number be returned to school to collect the books. Teachers will collect these each morning. The book fair will continue until Wednesday 14 September (Week 10).
We look forward to seeing all the costumes at tomorrow’s book character parade. The event will begin with the Grade 5/6 book week assembly at 8:45am. Please join us in the MC Shed after drop off tomorrow for this favourited event in the school calendar.
Book Week photos will follow in the update next week.
In other news...
Drop off and pick up zone volunteers
Thank you to those parents who have already so generously volunteered their time in the pick up zones. We truly appreciate your help.
We would love parent helpers at both campuses from Term 3. Pick up zones operate from 8:00am – 8:25am in the morning and from 2:55pm – 3:20pm in the afternoons. It's an easy 25 mins, opening car doors, helping little people in and out of cars.
If you can spare 20-30 minutes once or twice a week please email Jenny Druce at jdruce@bne.catholic.edu.au with your preferred day, time and campus.
If I have nominated you for a shift, and it’s not suitable, please let me know.
A friendly reminder, before commencing your role as a volunteer or other personnel at our school, you are required to complete the online volunteer training. The training can be found here: https://www.bne.catholic.edu.au/students-parents/student-protection/Pages/Student-Protection-and-Code-of-Conduct-Training-for-Volunteers-and-Other-Personnel.aspx
You will need to download, print and complete your registration form, which is contained within your online training. Return it to the School Office prior to commencing your role.
Health and Wellbeing at GA
Update COVID-19 (7 September 2022): Changes to isolation protocols
The Queensland Government has announced changes to COVID-19 requirements in Queensland from Friday 9 September 2022. Until then, the current requirements remain in effect.
Positive case isolation protocols:
- The isolation period for people who have COVID-19 will reduce from 7 days to 5 days, provided the diagnosed person has no symptoms and doesn’t work in aged care, disability care or home care.
- All other isolation requirements will remain the same.
Over the past months, keeping up to date and remaining informed has proven a great strength in supporting our community to work together, and supports us to be able to respond and act with confidence.
Wearing of Face Masks: Encouraged but not Compulsory
Advice from BCE outlines that it supports the Queensland Government and the Queensland Premier’s recommendation that face masks should be worn indoors where possible, and where social distancing is not possible. However, the decision to wear a face mask should remain a personal one.
This means that while it is encouraged that our students, our staff, and visitors to our school can choose to wear a face mask - it is not compulsory.
Please note that primary school children have never been required to wear a mask when at school. As with the above scenarios it is completely up to parents as to whether they would like their child to wear a mask.
A reminder about other face mask requirements
I would also take this opportunity to remind our school community that the requirements to wear a face mask for 7 days after having COVID-19, or when a close contact are still in place, as well as ongoing public health requirements to wear a face mask when travelling on public transport (including in taxis and ride-shares).
COVID safe measures:
Regular COVID-safe measures will continue to be implemented at Guardian Angels to reduce the risk of transmission:
- Stay home when sick and get tested if exhibiting COVID-19 symptoms.
- If you test positive, follow Queensland Health requirements.
- If you are a close contact of a person with COVID-19 follow the Queensland Health advice.
- Practise good hygiene – including regular hand washing, use of hand sanitiser, wearing face masks as advice directs.
- Maintain social distancing of 1.5 m.
- Consider wearing a mask as adviced by Qld Health when indoors and/or when social distancing is not possible.
- All events/activities and excursions/incursions must comply with COVID safe practices.
Please keep your child at home if they are experiencing any COVID-19, cold or flu-like symptoms, however mild. If we contact you because your child is unwell, please collect your child as soon as possible. This will help us to reduce the risk of spreading infections in our school.
Thank you for your support and understanding in these continued challenging times.
Second-hand Uniform Shop
The second hand uniform shop will be open on the first Monday of the month with the next open day on Monday 10 October.
The shop will open between 7:45am and 8:20am on the GA campus. Each item is $5. Cash only sales.
A friendly reminder regarding the process for purchasing from the second hand shop:
- only parent volunteers, managing the second hand sales, are allowed in the storeroom
- second hand items are washed and bagged according to size so that finding stock is quick and easy
- due to the demand in short opening hours please take the item as given to you by our parent volunteers. It is not possible to sift through stock; if it is unsuitable it can be returned to the Mount Carmel School Office for a refund or exchange
- the shop has a small float on the day but the exact change is appreciated.
Demand for second hand uniform items is usually high so our parent volunteers truly appreciate your kindness and patience as they help as many parents as possible when the shop is open.
Need items outside of shop open times? Please email pwynnum@bne.catholic.edu.au with what you need and one of our amazing parent volunteers will fill this order for you.
From the Tuckshop
Tuckshop Volunteer Roster
Week 10
Wednesday 14 September - HELPER NEEDED
Thursday 15 September - Simone Winsch
Friday 16 September - Karen Slater
Week 1 | Term 4
Wednesday 5 October - Louise Wise
Thursday 6 October - Kendall Trevisan
Friday 7 October - Shelley Walters
Helpers are still needed this Term. Please contact Annalise Olm if you are able to volunteer your time in the canteen.
Before commencing your role as a volunteer or other personnel at our school, you are required to complete the annual online volunteer training. The training can be found here: https://www.bne.catholic.edu.au/students-parents/student-protection/Pages/Student-Protection-and-Code-of-Conduct-Training-for-Volunteers-and-Other-Personnel.aspx
You will need to download, print and complete your registration form, which is contained within your online training. Return it to the School Office prior to commencing your role.
From the P&F
Colour Run Prizes
Prize ordering for your excellent Colour Run fundraising closes tomorrow on 9 September, so if you are yet to do so, please log on (or create) a profile page at schoolfunrun.com.au. Once logged in click ‘Order Prizes’ and follow the prompts.
Please note: If you have selected a goal prize, you still need to log on to order your prizes.
All parents and caregivers are warmly invited to the
P&F AGM | Tuesday 25 October | 6:30pm
The Principal, President and Treasurer will present their reports for 2022.
Following this all committee positions will be declared vacant, and the 2023 committee will be elected. The committee will be comprised of a President, Vice – President, Treasurer, Secretary, and general committee members.
From the Parish
CHILDREN'S LITURGY | 5:00pm Sunday Mass | 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month
11 September
25 September
9 October (Prep Led Parish Mass)
All families welcome. Make sure to let others know too.
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Enrolments
At Guardian Angels' we place particular importance in acknowledging the various gifts and talents each community member is blessed with, as we strive to unite under the theme, ‘We Are One’.
2023 Enrolments
Currently a very small number of places remain available for Prep 2023.
We encourage families with children turning 5 before 30 June 2023 to apply online as soon as possible:
http://www.guardianangelswynnum.qld.edu.au/enrolments/Pages/Enrolment-Information.aspx
Principal's Tour
The next Principal's Tour, and our last for 2022, will be held on Thursday 6 October at 9:00am. Please register by email to pwynnum@bne.catholic.edu.au or by calling enrolments on 3396 4486.
Prep 2024 enrolments
Enrolments for Prep 2024 are now open. Any existing families with children eligible for Prep in 2024 are encouraged to submit their applications now.
All enrolment applications are submitted online via our website:
http://www.guardianangelswynnum.qld.edu.au/enrolments/Pages/Enrolment-Information.aspx
For further information or interest in upcoming tours please contact Jenny Druce on 3396 4486 (ext 4) | or by email at pwynnum@bne.catholic.edu.au
From the Community...
Contact Us
Guardian Angels offers a broad-based inclusive curriculum with a range of opportunities and experiences that foster the growth of the whole student. We pride ourselves on the spirit that can be found in our students, staff and parents.
Visit us on the web at www.guardianangelswynnum.qld.edu.au
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For all enquiries please email us at pwynnum@bne.catholic.edu.au
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