Feast Day – August 15th
Father in heaven,
all creation rightly gives you praise,
for all life and all holiness come from you.
In the plan of your wisdom
she who bore the Christ in her womb
was raised body and soul in glory to be with him in heaven.
May we follow her example in reflecting your holiness
and join in her hymn of endless love and praise.
We ask this through Christ our Lord.
Dear Parents,
I am very pleased to be back on deck after taking leave to have recent knee replacement surgery. The school was left in good hands with our visiting Acting Principal, Mr Damien O’Malley from St Lawrence’s school in Bluff Point and then a week led by Mr Jesse Yock from St Columbas’ School in South Perth. Both thoroughly enjoyed their time at OLMC and spoke highly of the students and the supportive staff and I thank them for their willingness to travel to Mullewa and for looking after the school so well in my absence.
At the end of Term 3, we farewelled Mrs Tanya Moffat as she left to spend to spend time travelling with her husband. Her presence in and around the school will be greatly missed, especially by the Kindy/Pre-Primary students who loved their Thursdays and the storytelling sessions she was so talented at. Mrs Moffat will be back to assist us with relief teaching toward the end of the year.
We also recently farewelled Mrs Rachel Steele on maternity leave as she awaits the birth of her baby. The students prepared some lovely written messages and spoke beautifully of their gratitude for all she had done for them as their classroom teacher over the years. We thank Rachel for her hard work and commitment to the students’ learning and wellbeing. Rachel was an integral part of our full-time teaching staff and we will miss the many roles she undertook across the school. We are fairly hopeful we will see her back at some stage in the next few years and wish her and her family all the very best. The Year 1/2 class is currently being covered internally by Mrs Caroline Pace and Mrs Heille-Marie VanWyk and we thank them for their care in ensuring a seamless transition has occurred for the students.
We have had a busy first four weeks of the term; students and staff have been working hard and enjoying a number of different events. Our school grounds are looking wonderful with the beautiful rains we’ve had; our citrus trees are forming fruit and the children have been enjoying picking strawberry guava from the tree in the Kindy/Pre-Primary yard. The Year 4/5/6 boys have been tending diligently to their crops of wheat, barley, oats, lupins and canola at the front gate and these are a source of interest to the many tourists walking the Monsignor Hawes trail.
God Bless,
Jill Hollands
Ministries
Our Year 4/5/6 students were recently presented with their new Ministry badges blessed by Father Robert during a lovely ceremony in which they presented speeches they had prepared on the work they will be undertaking as part of their roles. Thank you to those parents and grandparents who were able to attend.
Poetry Awards
A very special congratulations to our Year 6 student, Flynn for his second placing in an important poetry competition he entered based on the Round House in Fremantle, and to Asher in Year 5 who has been nominated for the Randolph Stowe writing competition in Geraldton. A big thank you to Mrs Caroline Pace for the time she put into encouraging both students in the craft of poetry writing, with such splendid results.
Peter Cheong
Author/Illustrator Peter Cheong visited to talk to the 4/5/6 students about his work. He shared his journey as a writer and worked with the students on creating simple plots using a character, an animal and a feeling. Everyone was very interested in his talk. We bought two of his new novels.
This year we planted 5 different crop variants. At the end of term 2 we planted wheat, oats, barley, canola and lupins. We haven't had to water them with the hose yet as we have been getting a lot of rain. We have been fertilising our crop, a few have been going a bit brown, mostly the oats and wheat but everything else has been going well. The wheat has been growing heads and the canola has started to flower.
Flynn - Communication Ministry
