Term 3 Week 2 of 10
Friday, 21st July 2023
This Week’s Newsletter Items:
● Acting Principal’s Message
● Book Fair
● Book Week Parade
● Prep and Grade 5 Teddy Bear Picnic ● School Disco
● Cookie Club
● Prep 100 Days of school
● Grade 6 Production
● This Weekend’s Gospel
● Understanding The Gospel
● Term 3 Dates
● Student of the Week Awards
● Book Week Flyer
● Secondary school Flyers
Dear Parents, Students & Friends,
Next Friday we celebrate our annual Grandparents’ Day. These celebrations coincide with the feast day of Jesus’ own grandparents; St Joachim and St Anne whose feast day is on July 26th. St Joachim and Anne are examples of people who had transmitted their faith and love for God, expressed in the warmth and love of family. The message for us today is about the importance of grandparents in our families.
We look forward to welcoming our grandparent community into the school next Friday with Mass starting at 9.00am, classroom visits and morning tea to follow.
World Youth Day
I am very pleased to share with you that Mrs Shannon Betham has been selected to represent Resurrection Catholic Primary School at World Youth Day in Lisbon, Portugal. World Youth Day (WYD) is a worldwide encounter with the Pope celebrated approximately every three years in a different country. It is an opportunity for young Catholics to participate in a festive encounter centered on Jesus Christ together with their peers.
Shannon has been identified by Melbourne Archdiocese Catholic Schools (MACS) as a young leader in our system, who is strong in her faith and leadership. She has been selected to participate in the Emergent Leaders Pilgrimage program to Lisbon, home of WYD for 2023. Last Sunday, Shannon along with the other young leaders in schools across MACS participated in a commissioning Mass with Archbishop Comensoli.
Personally, I am very proud of Shannon for answering God’s call of discipleship and answering YES when being asked to strengthen her own faith. I ask you to pray for Shannon as she undertakes this great pilgrimage to WYD as many young Catholics have before her.
If you would like to find out more about WYD and track the journey that Shannon will be undertaking, please visit
https://worldyouthday.com/
I am pleased to share that all students and staff did exceptionally well during both of these drills. As these were pre planned emergency responses, we were fortunate to have staff from Dynamic onsite. Dynamic are an emergency response organisation who we have engaged with to assist in the pre planning and preparation of our response to different emergencies that may happen at school. As a leadership team, we were able to get some real time feedback in regards to how well we did in these practices. I must say that I am particularly impressed with our Prep students who, after only 6 months at school, were able to show active listening and stay calm in an emergency.
With warmest regards,
Jess Davis
Acting Principal
One of the best gifts any parent can give a child is the love of books and the joy and benefits of independent reading for fun!
Resurrection Primary School will be taking part in the Scholastic Book Fair in Week 4 of Term 3, beginning August 1st through to August 4th as part of our Book Week celebrations.
A display will be set up in the Prep learning space with students being given the opportunity to view these books with their class during designated times throughout the week. Students will receive a ‘Wish List’ piece of paper which can be used to write down all of their favourite books from the stall. A wide variety of books will be available for purchase with books starting from as little as $5.
To make purchasing as easy as possible for parents / guardians, the book fair stall will be open from 8:15 - 9:30 am and from 2:30 - 3:15 pm August 1st through to August 4th. Payment can be made via the EFTPOS machine or alternatively cash payments can also be made onsite. Please note - students will not be able to make purchases at the Book Fair during the school day.
We look forward to what will be an amazing week celebrating the love of learning through books!
Regards,
John Hein
Deputy Principal – Learning & Teaching
Book Week 10 days to go!
There are only 10 sleeps until our Book Parade. Hopefully by now you have worked out who you will come as and have made some progress what you will wear. Some of the best outfits I’ve ever seen have been made with materials from around the house. A personal favourite of mine was a student who had three things - a witch’s hat, a cardboard box and face paint. They needed a large cardboard box, that was big enough to cover from shoulder to hip, but they didn’t have one at home. So, they went to Bunnings and grabbed one. After a bit of decoration and some cutting, it was ready to be worn. Next was the face paint, yellow, orange and white, with a touch of black. His big sister did his face paint for him. Then pop on the box and the witch’s hat…can you guess what he came as? He came as the book by C.S. Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe.
It is the most creative and unique idea I’ve seen at a book parade. Get your creative brains in action and see what you can come up with. The internet has some creative ideas if you are running short, please don’t feel as though you need to go out and buy expensive costumes - most of the best ones are ‘home-made’. The teachers have let me know what a wonderful effort so many students have gone to for the colouring in competition, and I can’t wait to see them all. This week, we changed things up and sent home the guess the teacher and their favourite picture story book competition. The writing competition is ready to go home next week!
On Book Day, there will be a multi-age quiz! Over the coming days your teacher will read to you each of the 6 short listed books. They are:
• Dirt by sea
• Farmhouse
• Frank’s red hat
• My strange shrinking parents
• Our dreaming
• Paradise sands: a story of
enchantment
In reading,
Grant Lewis
National Teddy Bear Picnic Day
On Wednesday 12th July, the Grade Prep and Five Buddies came together to celebrate National Teddy Bear Picnic Day, and it was an absolute blast! This holiday has been around since the early 1900s when it was first created to celebrate the joy of spending quality time with friends and family.
The buddies gathered together on the school oval with their favourite teddy bears. The picnic area was filled with laughter, friendship and furry companions. They had a wonderful time eating lunch together and catching up after the school holidays.
We want to express our gratitude to all the parents and carers who helped make this picnic possible by sending their children to school with their favourite teddy bears.
Miss Carla Triotta
Prep Level Leader
RESURRECTION SCHOOL DISCO SAVE THE DATE!
The Resurrection School Disco has been booked for Friday the 18th of August. More details to come in the next few weeks …
We have some exciting news!
The student leaders through consultation with the schools fundraising committee have decided to bake, decorate, pack and sell cookies throughout Term 3 with all proceeds being split between the schools fundraising and the Parish’s Ugandan project.
We will be running a Cookie Club with the Grade 5 students and Miss Salloum. The students will be baking, decorating and packaging the cookies. The initiative in its entirety will be the responsibility of the Grade 5 students. This initiative will require students to volunteer their time during lunchtime.
The school community will have the opportunity to purchase cookies throughout the term at selected weekend masses and a Father's Day Drive. More information will be provided soon.
100 DAYS OF PREP
This term the Preps will be celebrating 100 days of learning on Wednesday 9th of August. As part of their celebration day, they will be dressing up as a 100-year -old person. This day will be filled with lots of fun and exciting activities for students to enjoy, to celebrate this momentous achievement of their learning journey.
We are so proud of all the wonderful learning our Preps have experienced leading up to their first 100 days. If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to contact your child's teacher.
Coming this term...
GRADE 6 PRODUCTION 2023
THE TREASURE MAP
An exciting & hilarious pirate adventure!!!
Wednesday 13th & Thursday 14th September in the School
Hall @7.00pm
Help wanted
We are looking for any parents or grandparents from across the school who would be able to help with sewing some of the costumes for the production. Please contact the school office to let Miss Banks know if you would be able to help with this. Thank you for your support!
Gospel Reflection
Today’s reading features three parables about the kingdom: the weeds in the field; the mustard seed; and yeast in the flour. They are three fascinating parables about something undesirable or unwanted being mixed in with something that is apparently good – and Jesus presents them as descriptions of what the kingdom of heaven is like.
Let’s look at the imagery of these parables. Darnel is a weed that looks exactly like wheat while it is growing. Only once the ears have formed can it be distinguished from the wheat. It is a malicious prank to sow darnel among wheat.
The mustard seed grows into such a large tree that birds come and nest in it. Why would any farmer want to deliberately plant a tree in the middle of his fields that attracts birds that will destroy his crops? Three measures of flour is an enormous amount of flour; enough to make 50 or 60 loaves of bread! Yeast begins to ferment the dough mixture and if not baked the dough goes mouldy and goes bad. To leaven that much dough at one time is somewhat foolish. The Hebrew word used for leavening in scripture is Chametz, it literally means 'sour'. It is that essence by which things decay. Leavening is a fermentation process – a process of breaking down or corruption.
To describe the kingdom of God in these ways may seem a bit odd. Can the kingdom of God be a ‘corrupting’ or ‘souring’ or ‘irritating’ influence? The kingdom message of Jesus can be seen as a corrupting force in that it set about corrupting and destroying what was a flawed system. The parables also demonstrate that it only takes a tiny amount of this ‘corrupting’ influence to have a dramatic effect.
Scriptural context – Matthew’s explanation
In the gospel passage, following the presentation of the three parables, Jesus explains the parable of the wheat and darnel to his disciples. It is explained in terms of a final judgment. (Compare it with Matthew 25: 31-46.) The parable of the weeds, or darnel, and its explanation only appear in the gospel of Matthew – although the parable does occur in the non-canonical gospel of Thomas. The interpretation belongs to Matthew more than it belongs to Jesus. It is an unapologetic direction to his community that living a righteous life in the midst of wickedness will be rewarded.
Have you thought? – Leaven
The parable of the woman placing leaven in three measures of flour is an intriguing one. In some translations, the text reads, ‘The kingdom of heaven is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.’ Whilst you might initially hide yeast in some dough, it doesn’t take very long for the yeast to become apparent as it makes the dough rise. Such a large quantity of flour suggests the bread is being prepared for a festival – perhaps Passover when only unleavened bread was used? That would put a different spin on the woman’s action!
Living the Gospel – Agents of change
We often hear that to fully live out the kingdom message of Jesus is to be counter-cultural. These parables are a perfect example of that call. Jesus himself acted in contrast to his cultural context and often used examples in his teaching that flew in the face of cultural expectation. What does it mean to be counter-cultural today? Our world is driven by an emphasis on the individual; an emphasis on acquisition; an emphasis on consuming. The kingdom parables of today’s gospel call us to be the agents of change that ‘irritate’ in our own small way to make a difference in the world.
Week 3
Monday 24/07
Whole School Assembly 2.30pm
Exec Team 9.30am - 11.00am
Team Leaders Meeting 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Tuesday 25/07
Saint James, Apostle
Parent Advisory Council 7.00pm – 8.00pm
Confirmation Formation Night 6pm - 7pm
Learning Diversity Leaders Network
Staff Meeting 3.30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday 26/07
Saint Joachim & Saint Anne
Thursday 27/07
Friday 28/07
Grandparents Day
Whole School Mass
Saturday 29/07
Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus
Sunday 30/07
17th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Week 4
Monday 31/07
Whole School Assembly 2.30pm
Book Week Parade
Exec Team 9.30am - 11.00am
Team Leaders Meeting 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Tuesday 01/08
Saint Alphonsus Liguori
Staff Meeting 3.30pm – 4.45pm
Wednesday 02/08
Saint Eusebius of Vercelli
Saint Peter Julian Eymard
Year 4 Camp information night (6:00pm)
Thursday 03/08
Saint Dominic
Friday 04/08
Year Level Mass followed by parent morning tea – Middles
Saturday 05/08
Sunday 06/08
The Transfiguration of the Lord
Week 5
Monday 07/08
Whole School Assembly 2.30pm
Grade 3 Camp - Week Away
Exec Team 9.30am - 11.00am
Team Leaders Meeting 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Tuesday 08/08
Solemnity of Saint Mary of the Cross (MacKillop
Grade 3 Camp - Week Away
Staff Meeting 3.30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday 09/08
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross
Thursday 10/08
Saint Lawrence
Friday 11/08
Saint Clare
Year Level Mass followed by parent morning tea - Juniors
Staff Social Dinner
ONWZ Principals Network Meeting
Saturday 12/08
Saint Jane Frances de Chantal
Sunday 13/08
19th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Week 6
Monday 14/08
Saint Maximilian Kolbe
Whole School Assembly 2.30pm
Exec Team 9.30am - 11.00am
Team Leaders Meeting 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Tuesday 15/08
Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Staff Meeting 3.30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday 16/08
Saint Stephen of Hungary
Student Wellbeing Leaders Network
Thursday 17/08
Friday 18/08
Proposed Student Disco Night
Year Level Mass followed by parent morning tea - Prep
Deputy Principals Network
Saturday 19/08
Saint John Eudes
Sunday 20/08
20th Sunday In Ordinary Time
Week 7
Monday 21/08
Student House Activity Day
Saint Pius X
Whole School Assembly 2.30pm
Exec Team 9.30am - 11.00am
Team Leaders Meeting 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Tuesday 22/08
Staff Meeting 3.30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday 23/08
Saint Rose of Lima
VRQA Compliance & Preliminary Visit - Judi Gurvich
Thursday 24/08
Saint Bartholomew
Friday 25/08
Saints Louis and Joseph of Calasanz
Year Level Mass followed by parent morning tea - Seniors
Religious Education Leaders Network
Saturday 26/08
Sacrament of Confirmation
11.00am
1.30pm
Sunday 27/08
Saint Monica
21st Sunday In Ordinary Time
Week 8
Monday 28/08
Saint Augustine
Whole School Assembly 2.30pm
Grade 4 Camp - Wyuna
Exec Team 9.30am - 11.00am
Team Leaders Meeting 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Tuesday 29/08
Parent Support Group Meetings
The Passion of Saint John the Baptist
Parent Advisory Council 7.00pm – 8.00pm
Grade 4 Camp - Wyuna
Staff Meeting 3.30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday 30/08
Parent Support Group Meetings
Grade 4 Camp - Wyuna
Thursday 31/08
Parent Support Group Meetings
Friday 01/09
Instalment 3 - Family Fee Payment Due
Father’s Day Morning Breakfast
Saturday 02/09
Sunday 03/09
Father’s Day
22nd Sunday In Ordinary Time
Week 9
Monday 04/09
Whole School Assembly 2.30pm
Exec Team 9.30am - 11.00am
Team Leaders Meeting 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Tuesday 05/09
Parent Support Group Meetings
Staff Meeting 3.30pm - 4:30pm
Wednesday 06/09
Parent Support Group Meetings
School Review Day 1
Thursday 07/09
School Review Day 2
Parent Support Group Meetings
Friday 08/09
The Nativity of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Year Level Mass followed by parent morning tea – Middles
ONWZ Principals Network Meeting
Saturday 09/09
Saint Peter Claver
Sunday 10/09
23rd Sunday In Ordinary Time
Sacrament of Confirmation
1.30pm
4.00pm
Week 10
Monday 11/09
Whole School Assembly 2.30pm
Exec Team 9.30am - 11.00am
Team Leaders Meeting 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Tuesday 12/09
NO Staff Meeting
Wednesday 13/09
Saint John Chrysostom
Senior School Production
Thursday 14/09
Senior School Production
Friday 15/09
Our Lady of Sorrows
Whole School Mass 9.00am
Last Day of Term 3
Footy Colours Day
Dismissal Time 3.15pm
WEEK 2 STUDENT AWARDS
PA - Anna Druitt
Lucy F - For being a knowledgeable learner when writing a detailed recount about what you did on the holidays. Keep up the great learning!
Isak C - For your positive attitude and outstanding efforts in settling into your first week at Resurrection.
PC - Carla Tirotta
Serah C - For being a knowledgeable learner when independently writing a sentence to describe Firefighter Fred. You are doing a wonderful job recording the sounds you hear in words.
Cristian K - For being an effective communicator and building the confidence to answer questions during our whole class discussions.
1A - Enza La Rosa
Noah V - For displaying positive behaviour towards his peers and for showing great motivation in his learning by making good choices in the classroom in order to get his work done.
Nizapar H - For building confidence in contributing in whole class discussions and for having a positive attitude with her learning. Well done Nizapar!
1C - Natalie Donevska
Elvis Z - For being a resilient learner and developing confidence to contribute to class discussions and attempting class work with a positive attitude. Well done Elvis.
Vanessa M - For being a kind and caring member of our classroom. Always helping other students and other members of the school community. Well done Vanessa.
2A - Rebecca Koutivas & Shannon Ziebell
Mia R - For being a risk taker with your learning and writing your holiday recount independently. Well done Mia!
Kara F - For being an excellent communicator in reading groups when discussing the text and sharing your thoughts. Well done Kara!
2B - Ric Martin
John A - For being a risk taker with your learning, often sharing your knowledge with your peers. Awesome job John.
Michelle K - For being a caring member of our school community and showing respect to all students across the school. Well done Michelle!
2C - Dorothy Hall
Levi C - For being an effective communicator when writing a detailed recount about his winter holidays.
Athieng M - For being a risk taker when challenging herself to solve two-digit addition problems using an empty number line.
3A - Ella Nowak
Vadao So K - For being a motivated learner when writing her procedure on how to make a jam sandwich, ensuring she included all information needed. Well done Vadao So!
Kayla V - For being a motivated learner and ensuring that she asks questions to clarify her understanding of learning tasks. Well done Kayla!
3B - Emma Lyons/Sophie Duddington
Elizabeth C - For being a motivated learner by brainstorming as many different compound words that you could think of and sharing these with your classmates. Fantastic work Elizabeth!
Nina S - For thinking critically about the book 'The Good Times' and making lots of text-to-self connections before and during reading. Keep up the amazing attitude towards your reading Nina!
3C - Joss Coaley
Jessica R - For being a resilient and motivated learner when exploring the nets of 3D objects. Congratulations Jessica!
Isaac Mi - For being a dedicated learner and working on his classroom goals as he returned to school for Term 3. Congratulations Isaac, keep it up!
4A - Lavina Stewart
Van T - For being a risk-taker and reflective learner by demonstrating his understanding of the repeated addition strategy. Awesome learning Van!
Riley M - For beginning the new term with a positive and resilient attitude towards his learning. It’s great to see your confidence continue to grow. Well done Riley!
4B - Thomas Pham
Adit A - For being caring in her Maths by showing progress in your multiplication grid, setting times table goals and completing your ‘Goodies and Baddies’. Well done Adit!
Andre C - For being a communicator by sharing his prior knowledge and experiences related to our new Inquiry unit in Term 3. Congratulations Andre!
4C - Brittany Davidson
Apiok M - For approaching the start of Term 3 with a positive attitude and giving her 100 percent in all learning tasks. Well done Apiok!
Louis D - For being a reflective learner and returning to school with a positive, can do attitude and being an active contributor in group learning tasks. Keep it up Louis!
5A - Katherine Salloum
Jasper H - For returning to school with a positive and can-do attitude towards his learning. It is wonderful to see you offer your thoughts and ideas in classroom discussions.
Tlae Men T - For being a reflective learner by asking the teacher for assistance when identifying and organising angles. Keep up the great learning, Tlae Men!
5B - Shannon Betham
Vanceubik Z - For being a responsible learner when completing your classroom job with enthusiasm and maturity. Well done for showing some great initiative!
Bawi Van Thang T - For your fantastic creative efforts in producing a detailed and well presented visualisation of a passage in the book 'Fox'. Well done Bawi Van Thang!
5C - Malae Suaesi
Miranda L - For being a reflective learner by asking her teacher to clarify her understanding when explaining different types of angles.
Madison M - For being a knowledgeable learner by accurately applying apostrophes to indicate possession in her sentences. Great learning!
6B - Lena Aloi
Michael H - For being a motivated learner and always contributing to whole class discussions.
Lina Mai - For being a caring member of the class and always showing kindness to the teaching and learning support staff as well as her peers.
6C - Jane Huang
Alannah V - For being a kind and caring member of the learning community by showing empathy towards other learners and offering to help your peers when they are upset.
William H - For being a respectful learner by actively listening to the reader when participating in whole class learning.
Specialist Awards
Performing Arts: Jody Banks
Sahasrith R (1A) - for being a knowledgeable and reflective learner in Performing Arts, and for displaying all-round excellence in music activities and learning concepts. Well done Sahasrith on displaying such outstanding music skills and natural ability in this subject area!
Visual Arts: Jake Moloney
Dylan T (6C) - For being a reflective learner when contemplating his design for his watercolour Koi. Great reflecting Dylan!
S T E M: Matt Dalton
Jordan L (6A) - For being an inquisitive learner during STEM. He demonstrated enthusiasm and creativity while coding. Well done Jordan!
P.E: Jen Barresi
Thiik D (2A) - For being an enthusiastic, responsible and respectful student in P.E. You are a pleasure to teach every week Thiik. Keep up the great work!
