I received a phone call yesterday letting me know that St Francis had won yet another major Environmental Award;

The Virginia Chadwick Memorial Foundation Great Barrier Reef Action and Awareness Award. This is significant National Recognition for YOU, our community, as generational custodians of the environment we share. While excited about this acknowledgement I also felt challenged and humbled at the degree of responsibility we hold for the care and advocacy of one of the worlds natural wonders. I am also so very aware that this award affirms our christian identity and franciscan spirituality as we commit to the Goodness of Gods Blessings in the beautiful environment God has charged us with caring for. I have continued sharing the story our Cambodian friends at Jumpah and New Hope with the staff and children this week. What I have tried to show them is the real difference they are making to the lives of children and families in circumstance of dire need and how we can continue to provide these children with a real chance of a future without poverty, abuse and depravation. Last week I included a flyer of New Hope in the Newsletter and this week you will find a flyer on Jumpah. This is information for you. What we and more importantly the children of Jumpah and New Hope need is action from us all. I will continue over the coming weeks to provide you all with the tools for making a difference. It will be then up to you to find the will to implement these tools. This is a significant week in education with the celebration, enjoyment and learning of books; Book Week. Those who find a love of reading early are most fortunate as this is the basis on which so much learning is built. As I have found in my own experience however, this love of reading can come at any age and impact learning continuously and life-long. One of the great values to be found in a book/story is in stimulating the imagination; I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world. Albert Einstein I continue to marvel as the wonderful discipline, commitment and cooperation of the children in preparation for our Music/Performance Quest. These attributes are often overlooked as essential learnings. I believe our world today clearly lacks these values and individuals, families and society is paying a high price for this. Thank you to all those families who have responded with their intentions for enrolment for 2014. As is the case year after year in this community we will see significant transience. Your notification is most helpful in enabling me to best guess our staff, budget and resource needs for next year. Congratulations to Kim Lowry, Corinne Wright and our Capricornia Athletics representatives who travelled to Mackay; Tyler Gscheidle - qualifying for Capricornia in the 100m sprint, Corne Boshoff was amazing in all of his events and consistently congratulated others. Georgia Wilson in High Jump - she did a fantastic job, Jesse Sharp - shotput. They all did their school and region very proud with how they conducted themselves. Make sure you have a look at Milly in the adverts at the back of this Newsletter as she is looking for a new home and loving family. God Bless Andy

Fri 23 9:00am9:45 am

Children's Book Week Parade Hall "QUEST" half day

Fri 23 Rehearsal 11:15am -2:30pm whole classes / scenes

Tue 27 Sister Beryl 1:30 pm- vocations 2:30 pm Yr 6/7

Quest Tickets on Sale Friday 23 August - Book Week Parade Friday & Saturday 13 & 14 September Quest Performances Sunday 20 October - Market Day Quest

From Lorries APREs desk:

This gospel story comes from the Gospel of Luke one of four gospels in the Bible. The gospels are the first four books in the New Testament (Matthew, Mark, Luke and John), and tell stories about the life of Jesus from four different perspectives. In many ways the gospel of Luke is a bit of a favourite, as it is the gospel where we see women mentioned the most, it has 2 of the best known parables (the Prodigal Son and the Good Samaritan) and Jesus is presented as a bloke who has to deal with challenges and issues like the rest of us. Of course there are also a couple of myths that hang around about Lukes gospel, so lets clear them up now. Myth One it was written by a jolly nice fellow called Luke. OK, brace yourself, it was NOT written by one man called Luke. Instead it tells about the experiences and memories of a community of people who lived through the extraordinary times of Jesus. So just like all eskies are not really Eskies (the brand), nor all hoovers are Hoovers, nor all liquid paper is Liquid Paper, the stories in Lukes gospel were not just Lukes experiences but belonged to a community around him. Myth Two it was written just after Jesus died. Wrong again! We actually do not know for sure when the Gospel of Luke was written (if only theyd used a computer it would have made it so much easier for us!), although we do know that it was written about 80-85 CE (or about 50 years after JC died). In todays section of the gospel, we have two different gigs going on - we hear about Jesus: reminding the crowd that they should always be prepared for the Second Coming (we will work with this doozy another time!) and asking his listeners what they truly value and treasure in life and then encouraging them to share with others. Jesus is talking to the huge crowd who have flocked to hear him and says that they need to sell their possessions and give alms (money to help the poor), as part of an ongoing way of living out Gods love. He challenges them by saying For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also. (Luke 12: 34). I reckon that would have been pretty hard to hear 2000 years ago and its about a million times harder today in our world, because we all have so many things which we often think of as treasure. But I actually think our most precious treasure is not the stuff we have (including my shoe collection!) but the people and the experiences and the memories we hold. This is particularly timely and affirming with where Andy has recently been on his leave and the many Mission and Making Jesus Real and Franciscan activities we undertake. Generally we do not retell what a bargain price we paid for our steak, or how much we saved on the loo paper. Instead, when you think about the most special stories we share, they are most often about family and friends, holidays and meals shared, unexpected surprises and challenges. Our Christian vocation is about supporting others to touch base with their treasures or to help them find new ones. Our care can involve us walking with them through their pain to gradually allow it to be turned into treasure and reminding them in that process that Gods love is experienced through love and laughter, tears and compassion. So this week as a community of believers I challenge you as I did to ask yourself what you treasure; to think about memories both big and small that you keep close to your heart; to invite others to tell you about their treasures; and to share your own.

From Nanettes APC desk:

Last week I touched on an area of teaching and learning called teacher feedback. It is timely and effective feedback given to students on how they are going; where they are going; and then where to next, which has been proven to be the most powerful agent for positive change in students learning. Popham, W. (2008). The following information given to teachers in preparation for our processes of interschool moderation further explains these things. Timely - The timing of feedback is important. For greatest impact feedback should be given immediately after a task. The more delay before feedback is given, the less improvement there is in achievement (Marzano, Gaddy, & Dean, 2000). Often teachers spend hours marking, marking, marking It is a never ending task. However, if teachers do not share the knowledge gained with each individual about how they are progressing with learning then the practice is essentially wasted time. Specific - Feedback should be directly focused on effort and be constructive. Constructive feedback can enhance future performance. Feedback should focus on the behaviour to be reinforced, by specifying it clearly (Gaskill & Woolfolk, 2002). It is again totally ineffective to say encouraging words like: Great job! or Try harder next time! What is needed is for children to be told what they need to do to improve in whatever task they are doing. Understandable - If feedback is to be effective it must be clearly understood by students (Tomlinson & McTighe, 2006). Many times when talking with children I see them nodding as if in understanding but when asked, they struggle to tell me what I have said in their own words. Allows for adjustment - The best feedback, according to Marzano et al (2000) involves clarification as to what is accurate and what is inaccurate in terms of student response. In fact, their findings show that simply telling students that their response is either right or wrong has a negative effect on achievement (Marzano et al., 2000). By showing students why they are wrong they are able to learn more appropriate strategies (Dweck, 2002, 2008). You may hear terminology such as checklists for success during discussions about learning: hopefully this will be from students as well as teachers as it is they who need the knowledge of what they need to do to improve after receiving effective feedback from teachers. Yours in Education Nanette

Yours in Christ Lorrie Columbus

Date Claimer

Book Week Parade

Friday August 23rd at 9am in the Hall.

This years theme is Read Across The Universe so get your thinking caps on!!!! (Children can come dressed as their favourite book character or something from this universe) **Please come and have a look at the

display that your children have contributed to in the resource centre. It is out of this universe!**

???What do you think St Francis Staff will come dressed as this year???

Tuckshop TalkNews from the Snack Shack

Dear Parents and Students Thank you to the parents of grade 4L that are helping in the tuckshop this week as well as the parents of grade 4P that are helping in the tuckshop next week. A reminder to the parents of grade 5G that your tuckshop turn is in week 9 and the class roster response is due back this Friday 23 August 2013.

WEEK

TUESDAY

VOLUNTEERS 4L C Backman

THURSDAY

VOLUNTEERS 4L Steff Human

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20/08/2013 Natasha Gardiner Suzy Chandler 4P C Backman

22/08/2013

David Donpon Tien Donpon 4P Deb Shaw

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27/08/2013 Deb Shaw

29/08/2013

Jenny Appleton

Important Notices: The Tuckshop is now open on a Wednesday as well, but only for online orders and over the counter sales. Please note that no written brown paper bags will be accepted. Tuckshop online ordering system: Go to www.flexischools.com.au and click on Register Now. Enter your e-mail address and follow the prompts. Please note that the cut-of time for online orders are 08:10 am each Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Please remember to order your sushi order on a Wednesday before 12:00. Sushi can only be ordered online via Flexischools. If your child is sick please make sure you cancel the flexischool order before the cut-off time of 08:10 am. If you do not make the cut-off time please phone the school office. The slush puppie machine is working again. Slush puppies can be ordered via flexischools or students can purchase a slush puppie over the counter. Please note that the price has increased to $2.20. Congratulations to Kaitlyn Deakin and Isabella Smithson for winning prize A (a scooter) in the slush puppie competition. Please contact me if you have questions or queries and also if you want to volunteer in the tuckshop.
Parents/ Guardians of grade 5G Parents/ Guardians of grade 5G

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03/09/2013

05/09/2013

Below is a reminder to the parents/guardians which classes and the weeks that you will be responsible for tuckshop in term 3. WEEK Week 0827/08/2013 and 29/08/2013 Week 0903/09/2013 and 05/09/2013 Week 1010/09/2013 and 11/09/2013 Week 1117/09/2013 and 19/09/2013 CLASS 4P 5G 5W 6G

Very Important Information:

If you order via a written brown paper bag, please make sure that you have the new limited menu . This menu was distributed in the last week of the 2nd term. If you do not have a new menu please get a copy from the office or the tuckshop. If you order anything that is not on this menu, the order will be changed to an item available on the menu with the same monetary value. When ordering from tuckshop via a written brown paper bag please also include the correct money for 1st break and 2nd break as this will greatly help and reduce the time it takes to stick change on the bags.

Elize Bazuin E-Mail: elizabeth_bazuin@rok.catholic.edu.au Mobile: 0412135718

To access the full menu you will need to register and place your order via flexischools.
Students can still buy ice blocks, slush puppies, cold drinks and certain snacks over the counter.

Late NoticeDate to change keep watch

Milly -Beautiful 2 year old Pointer Cross. -Very gentle, affectionate and playful. - Needs a family to love her as her owner is not returning from overseas. -She will soon be off to the Dog Pound if no home is found.

Phone: 0408 733 700