Wellbeing Week 
Next week is Wellbeing Week and the theme for the week is “Being A Team Member.”

The staff have planned a number of activities for the week to build and improve teamwork skills as well as to promote wellbeing. A successful team is one where everyone's unique skills and strengths help the team achieve a shared goal in the most effective way. If you have good people skills you'll make a good team player, and skills like communication and having a positive attitude make a team great. On Thursday children will wear something that represents a team that they belong to. Please refer to further information regarding Wellbeing Week in this newsletter. 

School Musical 
We will be continuing with our school musical “Shrek.” The children cannot participate in group singing activities at the moment so we are focusing on the drama and the dancing aspects throughout the school as well as some solo performances. We are hopeful that we will be able to provide either a live or filmed version of Shrek for all to enjoy and as a keepsake towards the end of next term. Mrs Archer is doing an amazing job re imagining this performance and keeping everyone on track. 
 
The Colour Run 
This fun school event will still be going ahead. The event will be run in class groups rather than as a whole school together.
Our Year Six families will be organising a delicious lunch and goodies that can be purchased on the day. Children need to make their online profile if they intend to gather sponsors for this event. A number of children have already done so.

SCHOOL RULE : Respect self and Others

Our School Rule for this week at Corpus Christi is to Respect our Environment. We can do this by Caring for Property & the Environment.

We are encouraging students to take responsibility for caring for their belongings (which have been paid for by mum and dad/school) so they will remember to look after them. We want children to recognise that these items are provided to them, to help them at school.

Students should take responsibility for their belongings by having their names on all their belongings (jumper, hat, lunchbox, pencil cases, etc).  They can also take responsibility for putting their lunchboxes where they should be and putting things in lost property or returning the lost item to owners.

It is also important to take responsibility for the environment around them by picking up rubbish even if it is not their own and putting things in the correct recycling bins. They need to tidy up after themselves in the classroom or playground by returning equipment, tidying desks, and keeping their classroom clean.

Our School Rule for next week at Corpus Christi is to respect self and others.  We can do this by being a bucket filler.

We all carry an invisible bucket in which we keep our good thoughts and feelings. When our buckets are full, we are happy; when they are empty, we are sad. It’s important to know that we can fill our own bucket and so can others. We can also dip into it.

"Bucket fillers" are those who help without being asked, give hugs and compliments, and generally spread their love and good feelings to others. The simple metaphor of a bucket helps us understand the importance of consideration and love, particularly towards those who bully. People who "dip" into our bucket often rob us of happy feelings by refusing to help with a task or by saying or doing negative things.

ASPIRE - Achieving Specific Personal Inspiration with Real Enrichment
ICAS Assessments  

We have had an outstanding participation rate in the ICAS Assessments for 2020 with 46 students from Year 2-6 sitting the Science, English and Digital Technologies assessments last week.  All students coped very well with the online format and there were little to no technical issues.
 
Students will be sitting the Maths and Spelling Bee assessments next week.  Remember that students need to bring their own headphones to school to assist in accessing the assessments.  School devices are provided.
 
Thank you to parents for supporting their children in accessing this vital aspect of our ASPIRE program, where students are encouraged to reach their full potential by challenging themselves to engage in enriching learning experiences.

Walking the Way –walkingtheway.dbbcso.org/
In this great resource there are weekly E-Bulletins here for parents. 

Spring Has Sprung

As you know this month we have been busy discussing ways in which ‘together we can make a difference’. Each class is working on ways in which they can reach out to a local aged care facility in our local area. We have contacted Aged Care facilities and discussed how we can make a difference for them in these tough Covid 19 times.

The Aged Care Centres are:

Glenaeon -  207 Forest Way, Belrose – Kindergarten
Belrose Country Club Retirement Village – Year One
Uniting Wesley Gardens - Belrose – Year Two
Terrey Hills Nursing Home – Year Three
Bupa - St Ives – Year Four
Turramurra House - Turramurra – Year Five
Group Homes Australia – Year Six

Ask your child/ren about this great initiative. Thanks to all our class parents who have kindly agreed to deliver our letters/poems/artwork/biscuits/chocolates to these homes next week. We will be in touch with you shortly when we are ready to have these gifts delivered.

Father’s Day
This year our Liturgy will be led by Year One via Zoom. This will be held at 9am and recorded if you can’t zoom in live.  The Liturgy can be accessed by our assembly zoom link here.

Once our Liturgy has finished we will begin our normal Friday morning assembly.
Don’t forget to send your photo to penny.delmage@dbb.catholic.edu.au if you want to be included in our Father’s Day reflection.

Catholic Mission

This year we have Catholic Mission Zooming into each class to talk about their fun and exciting programs that engage heads, ears and hands in a mission to get our students kicking goals for other children around the world. Last year we had a fun day in October (second week of term) for Catholic Mission week to raise awareness and much needed funds.  Each year our schools assist Catholic Mission to ‘sock it to poverty’.  We would love you to register for this great initiative via this link.

On Wednesday 21st October, we would like our students to wear either crazy socks with their sport uniform or their favourite soccer kit.  Each class will be rostered to participate in a 'sock it to poverty' penalty shoot out with with $1 being sponsored per attempted goal.  Every child will have 5 attempts at a goal, the first goal will be using a soccer ball that is made by the class with paper and string as they do in Cambodia.  The other four attempted goals will be with a leather soccer ball.

We would appreciate you sponsoring your child $5 for this event to raise much needed funds for Catholic Mission again this year.
 
Thank you
 
Blessings,
Sharon Kelly
Religious Education Co-ordinator

Premiers Reading Challenge 2020…1 week to go!
 
*REMEMBER CHILDREN CAN ADD ANY BOOKS THEY HAVE READ IN CLASS*
Children need to have completed the challenge by Friday August 28^th, so they are validated in time.
 
Congratulations to Flynn (KDL), Jared (2Z), Chloe (2Z), Ayse (4KD), Eloise (4KD), Keira (4KD), Cooper (4KD), Jessie (4KD), Hannah (4KD), Jasper (4KD) Connor (5S), Christian (5S) Alice (6WG)and Benji (6WG) who have completed the challenge this fortnight.
 
There have been important updates to the 2020 PRC Challenge rules to help all students meet the Challenge requirements this year. 
Key changes include:

• All students will be able to include 10 choice books (instead of 5) on their 2020 Student reading records. Please refer to the support article for information on adding bonus choice books on the PRC website here. 
• All students will be able to include books read as part of collaborative reading with teachers or parents/ carers, either in person or online.
• Students who do not complete the Challenge in 2020 will not be disadvantaged from achieving cumulative PRC awards in the future. 

If you have any questions about challenge requirements for 2020 or require assistance in entering the books online please do not hesitate to email me at penny.delmage@dbb.catholic.edu.au. 
 

I think the weather we had for the carnival was the finest weather we have had for a carnival in years.  We couldn’t have asked for a more glorious day.
 
There was a wonderful Corpus Christi spirit and a sense of fun in the air and the teachers were blown away with the level of sportsmanship displayed by the students.  There were many students who especially went to help their friends’ mid race who had fallen over, which was just beautiful to see. 
 
Thank you to the parents who volunteered to assist us on the day, and for taking Covid safety and social distancing seriously. 
 
RECORD BREAKER
Congratulations to Jorja H (Year 5) who broke the 11 years discus record with a distance of 19.33m (previous distance of 18.81m set in 2006).  What an incredible distance to throw a discus!
 
FIELD EVENT RESULTS
Well done to all the students who placed in the 3 field events (discus, shot put and long jump).  These students received their ribbons last week at a special sports assembly.
 
AGE CHAMPIONS
The age champions were:

SPIRIT CUP
The results for the spirit cup were as follows: 1st red, 2nd Blue, 3rd Green, 4th Gold.  Well done to our house captains for leading your houses through a number of fabulous cheers and chants throughout the day, and the Year 5 students for helping our Year 6 captains. 
 
HOUSE CUP
The competition for the house cup was tough - congratulations to the Green house who took out 1st place (by only 6 points!), 2nd Gold, 3rd Blue, 4th Red  
 
Thank you all again for helping to make the Athletics Carnival such a wonderful day.
We would appreciate any feedback parents have regarding the day.  If you could please forward any comments to laura.bahri@dbb.org.au, your feedback will be greatly appreciated.  For more photos click here https://tinyurl.com/Athletics-Carnival

COLOUR RUN

As you are already aware, we will be holding a School Colour Fun Run as a major fundraising event for our school with money being raised to go towards flexible learning.
 
Thank you to the children who have set up their online profile already for fundraising.  Please refer to the sponsorship booklet which went home last week for more details.
 
Students can fund raise both through cash donations and online donations (online donations are easiest!). For raising a minimum of $10 they will be eligible for a prize and the more they raise, the better the prize is that they’ll receive. 
 
We acknowledge that this is a difficult time for some families, and it is understandable if you are not able to fund raise, your child will still be part of the fun of the Colour Run. 
 
As of Tuesday this week, we have raised almost $3,600 which is a great start.  
 
As of Tuesday morning, our top fundraising classes are:

 
As of Tuesday morning, our top fundraising students are:

 
Well done everyone so far!
 
Laura Bahri (Sport Coordinator)

Last week we had the 'Dads’ Canteen Takeover’ and the dads did a wonderful job baking and firing up the BBQ. Thank you Tim, Chris, Andrew and Cam for volunteering and taking over the kitchen!

Upcoming dates:
Wednesday - 2nd September - Year 6 Fundraiser
Wednesday - 9th September
Thursday 17th September
Friday - 25th September - Year 6 Fundraiser
 
If anyone would like to volunteer for next term, please let Ali or the office know.

The Catholic Schools Office of Broken Bay has developed a range of resources featuring some helpful tips to assist you in preparing your child at home for Kindergarten. Our Getting Ready booklet outlines a range of learning tools, each supported by an educational video, that will assist in helping to develop the necessary skills in your child to ensure a successful start to their schooling. To see our school readiness video tools please click here. 

To receive your FREE getting ready bag including booklet and other fun activities please contact our school office on 02 9988 3135 to arrange for collection. Appointments for collection are required during COVID 19 restrictions.

Private tours of our school are now on offer.  Please call our office to book a tour.

Please extend this invitation to anyone you know who is looking to enrol their child at school in 2021 or beyond.