Our Lady of Mount Carmel, Mullewa
Newsletter - Term 2 - Week 10 Tuesday 1st July
Nano Nagle Prayer
Holy Spirit of God, enlighten us to understand how we can use our gifts to give you praise and serve your people in works of justice and mercy. Teach us to listen, that we may hear your words, give us vision born of faith to know your way for us and courage born of love to follow it.
Dear Parents,
Term Two has been a very productive term with many happenings across the school in a range of areas. Students have been working hard on practising and consolidating their learning, especially in their targeted small groups. I would like to thank our teachers for their hard work in collecting and preparing the information they require to report well to parents through the End of Semester One reports.
We finished the term with a wonderful Quiz Night organised by our P&F Association to raise funds for the school. A very special thank you to Rebecca Dreghorn for her work in coordinating this and to Sheree Tropiano, Morgan Pope, Jemma Mills and Anthony Dreghorn for their assistance with Rebecca. Past parents, grandparents and the wider Mullewa community joined with our current parents to share their combined knowledge of the “Australia” theme. We are very grateful to Brett Steele for taking on his long held role as Quiz Master with his own brand of humour for the night!
This term we said our final farewell to Mrs Deb Kerkmans who had been our Finance Officer for a number of years. We thank her for her meticulous attention to detail in this role and ability to keep us always running within our budget each year.
Many thanks to Mrs Messina for the work she put into preparing the students for our Cross Country carnival and for the setting up and running of the races on the day. I was extremely pleased with the way in which every student approached their Cross Country race; their enthusiasm and delight was evident on their faces all morning. Another close finish of only 3 points dividing Blue from Gold as the winners, made the morning even more exciting.
I recently attended a course in Perth for 2 days and in my absence Mr Simon Place and Mr Murray Gardiner, Assistant Principals at St Francis Xavier and Nagle Catholic College in Geraldton, travelled out to be in charge. It was heartening to hear their comments on how wonderful it was to be at OLMC with students so enthusiastic and happy to be at school.
Our staff spent the Pupil Free Day after the Long Weekend participating in our annual retreat day led by our RE Consultant from CEWA. We focused on the work of the founder of the Presentation Sisters, Nano Nagle, who established our school 111 years ago. Sister Flora, one of the last of the Presentation Sisters in Geraldton, shared her life story on becoming a Sister and working throughout the MidWest over many years.
The Australian government has implemented an annual national data collection on school students with disability. This data collection process has been in place for some years. Our Lady of Mt Carmel will collect the necessary data and forward it onto the Federal government. The process is confidential and there is no personal information disclosed to the government. If you have any questions, please contact me.
End of Semester One Reports have been sent home in the mail. Please note that every endeavour has been made to ensure your child’s report has been edited correctly, but if in the case of a typographical error, please feel free to let the school know so we can make an amendment, as this is an important document.
As we head to school holidays, I wish everyone a happy break with their children and encourage you all to keep safe.
God bless and keep safe.
Jill Hollands
Principal
Our Gardens
The autumn weather has seen our school gardens flourishing with green crops, fruiting trees and steadily growing vegetables in our new moveable garden trolleys. We had a visit from senior dieticians from the WA Centre for Rural Health who were impressed with the amount of fresh vegetables and herbs growing in our school grounds. The Year 5/6 students are enjoying the responsibility of watering and monitoring the crops for pests and moving the trolleys to ensure the picking salad crops are catching the sun.
Mothers Day
All of the students gathered together as a school with their mothers and grandmothers to read books, create gifts, have a photo taken at the photo booth and enjoy spending time having their family with them at school. Thank you to those mothers and grandmothers who were able to attend.
WA Army Reserves
OLMC was very fortunate to have a visit from members of the WA Army Reserve who had been on a training exercise around Mullewa. They drove 2 massive vehicles into the school grounds and allowed the students to safely investigate inside and over the vehicles. They also presented a talk on what it is like to join the Army Reserves. A special thank you to Mr David Tropiano for organising for this to happen for us.
Faction Cross Country
Our individual winners were:
Sportsmanship Medal Yr 1/2 – Zac
Sportsmanship Medal – Year 3/4 – James
Sportsmanship Medal – Year 5/6 - Asha
Champion Boy Yr 3/4 – Ned
Champion Girl Yr 3/4 – Aliyah
Champion Boy Yr 5/6 – Roman
Champion Girl Yr 5/6 - Tanya
