Term 2, Week 2 2021

Dear Community Members 

Welcome back to the new term. I sincerely hope that the holiday break allowed you to rejuvenate and experience a change of routine.

Term 2 is always filled with so many events and achievements and once again I look forward to sharing another successful term with you. 

The month of May is dedicated to our Blessed Mother Mary, the mother of Jesus and the mother of our Church, and this Sunday we celebrate MOTHER’S DAY.  

We honour and give thanks for Mary, our mums and all the special women in our lives. 

We want all the mums at Dominican to know how important you are. Thank you for your constant love, care and nurture. We wish you all much love on Mother’s Day. We will be praying for you. 

This week we are celebrating Catholic Education Week on the theme: Raising Hearts and Minds to the wonder and awe of God's creation.

As a school community, we are engaging with various activities that immerse us in exploring this focus:  

• For Staff Prayer, we gathered in faith to reflect on the mystery of God’s presence in creation and the call to action to be caretakers of each other and God’s world through a guided Christian meditation. 
• All classes are engaging in the practice of daily GRACE before eating time at lunch, to pray and give thanks for our blessings and to ‘break bread’ and share a meal together. 
• All R-6 students are working on creating a design in the form of a photo or artwork to show how our school raises hearts and minds to the wonder and awe of God through creation. 
• On Friday we will share in Community Prayer with a Catholic Education Week focus led by Ms Nofi and R/1N at our R-6 Assembly. 

Catholic Education Week provides us with the opportunity to rejoice in our school as a great place of faith and learning that… RAISES THE HEARTS and MINDS of our young people to be thriving people, capable learners and  leaders for the world God desires.  

This term we will have a focus on celebrating buddy class masses at Sacred Heart Church at 12.00pm on the following dates: 

Week 3 Friday May 14 – Years 2/3C & 5/6K 
Week 5 Friday May 28 – Years 2/3D & 5/6OK  
Week 7 Friday June 11 – Years R/1N & 4/5H 
Week 9 Friday June 25 – Years R/1AB & 4/5S 

For Masses, students will walk to and from the Church supervised by their teachers. Teachers will inform families of rehearsal dates and times in preparation for these celebrations. 

These celebrations provide us with the opportunity to come together and pray as a community, and we look forward to sharing our Masses with Father Roderick, parishioners and families.   

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Volunteers 

The P&F always welcome volunteers,  who help make all our events a success.  
Any amount of time is always greatly appreciated. All volunteers must have a current Police Clearance. 

Mother’s Day Stall 

P&F will be running the Mothers Day stall on Friday 7 May. 

Children will have an opportunity, with their class, to purchase a gift if they wish,  
for the special women in their lives. The stall will also open after school for 1/2 an hour. 

Prices range from $1.00 to $15.00.

Nude food is an ongoing program at our school and involves bringing food to school that is not packaged and is environmentally friendly. 

Nude food is important as it keeps food fresh. 

Nude food helps our school reduce waste and  the amount of rubbish on our school grounds.  
It also reduces the amount of rubbish ending up in the ocean and helps all animals.

When is Nude food? We would love nude foods to happen everyday. Please speak to your child's classroom teacher for more information. 

Families are kindly asked to contact the school office by 9.30am if your child will be absent or late. Please leave the students name, class and the reason for the student’s absence.

You can do this by:

• Phoning 8114 3636 (select option 1 and leave a message)
• Emailing absent@dominican.catholic.edu.au

Please don’t email teachers directly or use Dojo for absentees as quite often these are not checked by teachers at the beginning of the school day. If an absence is unexplained an automatic SMS message will be sent to parents requesting confirmation of an absence.

If a student arrives at school after the 8.50am bell they must sign in at the Front Office.

If a student leaves the school before 3.05pm dismissal time they must be signed out in the Front Office by an adult.

Communication with the classroom teacher is required when a student needs to leave before dismissal time, is going on a family holiday or any other pre-arranged absence.

It is important that the school has up to date contact information for parents and families.

If you have changed your address, home, work, mobile telephone numbers, or email address or if your family circumstances have changed, please advise the School Office on 8114 3600 or email Wendy Benson at wbenson@dominican.catholic.edu.au

Alternatively, you can complete and sumbit the form below.

It is important that we have updated details in the case of emergency situations.

Your assistance in this matter is greatly appreciated.