Dear Families,

This Thursday we gather as a school community to acknowledge our fathers/significant males in our children’s lives. One of the greatest truths of our catholic faith is that family is the building block in our communities. In Catholic Education, we work in partnership with our families to provide the best possible outcomes for all students. The role of a father is so very important in shaping the minds of our young people. I wish all our father’s a happy Father’s Day and look forward to speaking with many of you this Thursday at 10:00am at our school Liturgy and sausage sizzle.

Afternoon Pick Up:
A reminder that pick up for students in the afternoon is as follows:

• P-3 Stop, drop and go in the parish driveway
• Year 4-6 and their younger siblings on Ascot St.

Many parents also walk on site to collect their children which is wonderful. However, if you are not going to be at school to collect your child/ren by 3 pm they need to wait in one of the above areas. Students should not be waiting unsupervised on the play equipment or on the grass area outside the hall.

Summer Uniform:
We have now begun to transition to the summer uniform. Please ensure that your children are wearing the uniform correctly including the correct coloured shoes. This unexpected warmer weather has taken us all by surprise.

Parent Teacher Interviews:
Over the coming weeks, we look forward to having our families at school to meet with the class teacher to discuss your child’s progress. As a mother of 3 myself, I have attended many interviews for my own children. I share with you some tips below to make the interview and follow up conversation with your child/ren beneficial:

• Look for areas of growth for your child. What can they do now, they couldn’t in term 2?
• If there are areas of improvement recommended, ask the teacher how you can support this at home.
• Reflect with your child on all they have achieved so far this year and speak positively about 1 or 2 ways you can support them to become an even better Lourdes Learner.

I hope to see many of you this Thursday or at the Art Show on September 6- it is shaping up to be a wonderful evening.

Kind regards,

Bridget

Ms Bridget Trenerry
Principal

Upcoming Events

Parent Teacher Interviews

On Tuesday 3^rd and 10^th of September Parent Teacher interviews will be held for most classes. These interviews are an opportunity to connect and discuss your child’s learning journey. These interviews are scheduled for 15 minute sessions. We ask that teachers and parents are respectful of these times to ensure that interviews run to time. If 15 minutes have passed and you still items to discuss, please arrange another mutually agreed time. 

To respect the privacy of all, and to minimise interruptions during these interviews, we ask that parents wait in the following locations. Teachers then will be able to welcome you in once previous interviews are completed:

• Prep to Year 4 classes will have chairs placed outside classrooms for parents to sit.
• Year 5 parents please wait in the general learning classroom located between the Art Room and the 5MG classroom. To access, use the stairs outside of the main Admin entry and enter via the upstairs Art room door.
• Year 6C parents chairs will be placed in the undercover eating area.
• Year 6M parents chairs will be placed on the handball courts.
• Year 6S parents chairs will be placed outside the learning hub doors off the handball courts.
• Students in Year 5 & 6 will be notified of these locations and can support you with where to wait should you be unsure.

Fluency

At Lourdes, staff have been working with students on Fluency in Years P-6. With the move to the version 9 curriculum, it has highlighted that practice is the essential component of improving fluency. The more frequently and regularly students practise reading, the more fluent they become.

What is fluency?

Fluency is reading expressively with accuracy and at a good pace. It is one of the key components of learning to read. It is the progression from developing automatic word recognition skills to comprehension. Fluency can be defined as the ability to read text accurately, quickly and with expression. Essentially, it is ‘reading with and for meaning’.

Fluency is made up of three core components:

• Accuracy is the reading of words correctly.
• Rate is the speed of word identification. It is usually recorded as words read per minute.
• Prosody is the sound of the reading. This can be explained as the expression used when reading.

Why is fluency important?

Fluent reading acts as a bridge between automatic word reading and comprehension. It is the link between reading words quickly, and effortlessly, and understanding and comprehending text.

The reader needs to have developed the skills of phonological awareness, phonics and have a good sight word vocabulary to develop into a fluent reader. These foundational skills of word recognition need to be recalled quickly to the point of automatic recall. This automaticity of decoding and recall of words is to become unconscious. This then allows the cognitive space for the reader to access the meaning of the text.

How to teach fluency

Explicit teaching and instruction are required to support children in becoming fluent readers. Types of instruction include modelled fluent reading by the teacher or another fluent reader, repeated reading of texts, paired reading, wide and deep reading across many types of texts. At Lourdes, Teachers offer a wide range of strategies to support fluency development including repeated readings of class texts and poems, performances, singing songs and sharing riddles and jokes.

Emily

Emily McKay
Acting Assistant Principal

Welcome Back 

We welcome Ms Trenerry back to school this week. Ms Trenerry farewelled her dear Mum Penny last Friday. Our school condolances have been extended to Ms Trenerry, her father Merv and her family. We pray that the supportive gifts of the Holy Spirit are with the Trenerry Family as they come to terms with their loss.

Title Change

Title change for Mrs Moore – the title of Assistant Principal Religious Education (APRE) has changed to Assistant Principal Mission and Identity (APMI).

Father's Day Mass and Sausage Sizzle

Tomorrow, we celebrate our annual Father’s Day Mass. We thank all the Dads, Granddads, Pops and Pas who can come along to celebrate with us. We hope everyone – guests, students and staff enjoy our Sausage Sizzle morning tea. We thank the many cooks and helpers who are coming along to cook and serve us. Cooking starts at 8:30am - Mass at 10:00am in OLOL Hall. Happy Father's Day to all our special Dads. We look forward to a wonderful community event!

Sacrament of Reconciliation

Our next gathering for the Sacrament of 1^st Reconciliation is on Tuesday 3rd September at 7:00pm. A plan for the seating in the church will be emailed from the parish. The children will have a practise of the ceremony during school time on Monday 2^nd September and will be able to guide their chosen guests to their seats. We will have a short final meeting at 3:30pm in the church on Monday 2^nd September to check seating, certificates, and final questions. Candidates and their chosen guests are asked to be at the church on Tuesday 3^rd September by 6:40pm. The children need to know their “Act of Contrition/Sorry” prayer. If you have any questions or concerns, contact the OLOL Parish (07 4634 1453 Monday – Friday 9:00am – 1:00pm) or email  olol.parish@bigpond.com

Loving the Arts at Lourdes 

Our “Loving the Arts at Lourdes” is a wonderful community event on Friday 6^th September starting at 5:30pm– Mrs. Simmons, Mrs. Holzheimer, Mrs. Rosier, the artists, and performers are working hard to share their work. We welcome Mr Des Verdon back to do another live portrait.  Please access the forms link below to RSVP, so we can gauge our catering needs.

Forms Link: https://forms.office.com/r/N5NvrCZFk1

Crazy Sock Day

We have our Crazy Socks Coloured Clothes Day on Thursday 12^th September. Wear your craziest socks, with your sun-safe, coloured clothes, suitable footwear, brimmed hat and bring along a gold coin for Catholic Mission. Also, remember to bring in a pair of new socks for our school donation to The Base Soup Kitchen. Socks can be sent in at any time. It is amazing the sense of dignity someone feels when they have a new pair of socks to wear. Please support both these initiatives to encourage our students to be thoughtful Global Citizens for our local and global communities. 

There is no assembly on Thursday 29th August 2024 due to the Father’s Day Mass at 10:00am and Thursday 5th September 2024 due to school swimming commitments and Art Show Displays.

Pupil Free Day

 N.B. There is a Pupil Free Day on Friday 30th August 2024 – Teachers will be gathering at OLOL with St Saviours Primary, St Monica’s Oakey and St Francis de Sales, Clifton for In-service.

Early Years Day

Prep to 2 will be celebrating their Early Years Day on Wednesday 11^th September.

Our End of Term Assembly, led by 5MG, is at 12:00 noon on Friday 13th September, 2024.

If you are choosing to take your child/children after assembly, please let your class teacher know so the class roll can be marked accordingly.

Have a great week

Janice

Janice Moore
Assistant Principal Mission and Identity (APMI)

Emotional Intelligence and Zones of Regulation 

There is no denying that people's experience of stress has increased since the covid epidemic. In a fast paced ever changing world, where the cost of living, rapid changes in technology, increase in work demands, and many other stressors impact on our daily lives, the importance of being able to regulate one’s emotions cannot be understated and it's not always easy. However, children look to their parents and teachers in times of stress, change, transition, and as adults we can model healthy ways of coping. We can also promote a healthy school community environment where we model coping strategies in response to triggers. As adults, we also need to model identifying our emotions and choosing a strategy that assists us in being calm, consistent and showing composure.  

The state of composure can be defined as ‘the state of feeling of being calm and in control of oneself.” This does not mean that as adults we do not have feelings, all humans have feelings, the crucial point is that we identify our emotions and rather than being dysregulated, we take responsibility and own the emotion, then we can take an action to assist us to resolve the problem.  We also know that it is o.k. not to be o.k. and its o.k. to ask for help. Role modelling rather than hiding our feelings from children helps them learn that it’s normal to have feelings and it's normal to seek help. Talking to someone, (whilst it is not always easy) is the first step to getting assistance. At school we encourage this through talking to a friend, talking to a teacher, talking to someone that they trust. 

Professional help is only a phone call away if required. Encouraging others in the school community to talk to someone who is neutral such as a GP, or other trusted health professional.  We teach children to learn how to do this through the Zones of Regulation, through a spectrum of colours we help children identify that all colours are o.k. The hardest part is sometimes defining how we feel. As parents and teachers, we can work together to help children identify the Zone- tell me how your feeling, choose a colour if that’s easier, that best describes the emotion or feelings. Through increased language skills and comprehension, students move from a more simplified language of feeling angry (red zone) to being more articulate about the emotions and feelings they are experiencing. Emotional regulation skills in primary school become the foundation for our young adults and future leaders as they progress through their schooling to help them identify emotions such as feeling a sense of loneliness or feeling disappointed.   

The term that is often used is ‘Name it to Tame it’, indicating the need to firstly have self-awareness, knowing which adjective best describes how I am feeling. The second step is then taking ownership or responsibility for that emotion. For example, ‘Yes, I feel happy...or I feel proud because...I did well on my assignment. Whilst on the flip side, " Yes I feel tired because...I stayed up late watching the Olympics or was on technology and had difficulty focusing during the maths test....” Taking responsibility means, that if I chose to stay up late then I need to take ownership of that choice and now I’m struggling in class to concentrate on my maths tasks. 

The next step in the process is then problem solving. Through problem solving strategies we can help our children develop emotional intelligence, which is an essential skill and aptitude looked for in potential job candidates. Sometimes problem solving is best done with someone you trust and someone who is neutral.  

Emotional intelligence is the ability to identify and take responsibility for our emotions, identify others' emotions and why they might be feeling that way. Emotional intelligence also involves knowing how to interact appropriately with others even when the other person may be dysregulated. Emotional intelligence is a skill and taking control of our emotions and behaviours, like any skill requires practice, patience, time, and hard work.  

If you would like more information on emotional intelligence, zones of regulation or learning how to help your child, please feel free to contact me via email, sarah.jackman@twb.catholic.edu.au   

Sarah

Sarah Jackman
Guidance Counsellor

Prep

Welcome to Week 8. Only 3 weeks to go until the holidays!

We have had a busy fortnight with lots of learning, book week, dress-up day and readers cup. We have more exciting things coming up towards the end of the term. It has been lovely to see some warmer weather. We ask that you ensure your child brings their water bottle to school every day and a change of shorts in case they get hot and would like to change out of track pants throughout the day.

Father’s Day:
Father’s Day celebrations this Thursday morning 29^th August at 7:45 – 8:25am. All dads, grandads, stepdads or other significant men in our children’s lives are welcome to come to their child’s/grandchild’s prep classroom for ‘Tea and Toast’. Father’s Day Mass will be held in the school hall at 10:00 am followed by a sausage sizzle.

Swimming:
Swimming commences next week (week 9). We swim every day, which is very exciting so please make sure your child’s swimming gear is packed daily. Children need to bring togs, towels, jumpers and thongs. CHILDREN ARE NOT TO COME TO SCHOOL DRESSED IN THEIR TOGS – WE WILL GET CHANGED AT SCHOOL BEFORE GOING SWIMMING. Please ensure your child has practiced putting on and taking off their togs and also ensure all of their swimming gear is clearly named. Glennie provides the swimming caps.

Parent Teacher Interviews:
If you haven’t already done so please sign up for a parent teacher interview – we look forward to catching up with you to discuss your child’s progress.

Gymnastics:
Our gymnastics excursion this term will be on Thursday 12^th September Week 10.  If you haven’t already done so, please give permission for your child to attend via parent portal. It is a free dress day. Please ensure your child wears appropriate clothes and shoes for gymnastics and that your child can manage to take off and put on their shoes by themselves.

Important dates

Pupil Free Day – Friday 30^th August

Swimming – Monday 2^nd September – Friday 6^th September

Lourdes Art Show – Friday 6^th September 5:30 pm in the school hall

Early Years Celebrations Prep – 2 – Wednesday 11^th September

Crazy Sock Day – Thursday 12^th September – Gold coin donation towards Catholic Mission

Gymnastics Excursion – Thursday 12^th September

End of Term Assembly – Friday 13^th September 12 noon

Thank you for your ongoing support in your child’s learning this term. We hope that you have a fun and safe September holiday. Please let us know if you intend on leaving early so we can adjust the roll.

Melita, Amy and Becky   

Year 1

Welcome to Week 8! What fantastic learners the children are becoming! The children had an amazing day at the Pilton Zoo last week, making observations and taking note of the animals there and their habitats. They will now take what they have learned to build a diorama of an animal habitat. We were very proud of the way the children behaved during the day: they were fine examples of Lourdes Learners.

Next week is swimming week. Now is the time to check togs, towels, goggles, shoes, and permission. Children travel by bus to Glennie and get changed in the Glennie change rooms. We will speak to the children about appropriate behaviour but it would be appreciated if this could be reinforced at home as well.  Remember children swim every day so they will be very tired by the end of the week!  

We are looking forward to celebrating Mass this Thursday with our fathers for Father's Day. Fathers are welcome to sit on the floor with us.

On Wednesday, 11^th September, the Prep-Year Two students will celebrate the Early Years. The celebration commences at 10:00 with a special Liturgy that everyone is welcome to attend. The children will then participate in lots of fun activities from 11:00 am-12:45 pm, before enjoying a sausage sizzle for lunch. We will need parent helpers to supervise the Year One craft activities – we will need at least two helpers for each class. Please let your child's teacher know if you are available to help.

Have a great week and we are looking forward to catching up with all of you at our parent-teacher interviews in the coming weeks. Just a reminder that 1T interviews will be in Term 4.

Thanks,

Laura, Jenny and Liz

Year 2

What a fantastic Book Week we had last week! It was wonderful to see all the creative costumes and the wonderful participation in the Book Week activities.

We are busy completing our Term 3 units at the moment and it is pleasing to see the effort and thinking students are putting into their learning.

Over the next couple of weeks, we have a lot happening. Tomorrow, we celebrate Father’s Day with our school Mass and sausage sizzle. A reminder that this Friday is a pupil-free day.

Next week is swimming week – please ensure you have read all the information that has been sent home and in the PE section of the newsletter. Also, please make sure that all swimming items are named clearly. The Loving the Arts at Lourdes exhibition will also be held on Friday 6^th September.  

In Week 10, we have the Celebrating the Early Years Day on Wednesday 11^th September, Crazy Sock Day on Thursday 12^th and our End-of-term assembly at 12 noon on Friday 13^th.

Have a wonderful week!

Ange, Ange and Sarah

Year 3

Welcome to Week 8!

What a busy 2 weeks we have had. At the end of Week 6, the Year 3 classes along with some amazing parent helpers, jumped on a bus and made the trek down the range heading towards Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary. A wonderful experience was had by all, with many students taking the time to rest and recover on the return journey home.

Have a read of some of the favourite experiences from the students:

Georgia L, Hector, Carter – I liked patting the koala.

Alex, Lyla, Llewellyn, Gabby– I liked feeding the kangaroos.

Levi, Hollie, – I liked seeing the snakes.

Joel, Emma, Xander– I liked seeing the dingos.

Saxon – I liked meeting Domino the tree frog.

Nhial, Mac – I liked seeing all the animals.

Paxton – I liked seeing the lizards.

Lewis – I liked patting and holding the baby chickens.

Key Dates

• 29^th August – Father’s Day Mass @ 10am
• 30^th August – Pupil Free Day (CTJ Day)
• 3^rd September – Sacrament of Reconciliation @ 7pm in OLOL Church
• Week 9 – Swimming Week (2^nd September – 6^th September)
• 11^th September – End of Term Line Dancing Liturgy @ 2pm in Hall
• 12^th September – Crazy Sock Day – gold coin donation
• 13^th September – Last day of Term 3 - Year 2 Retreat - Newtown Park - bring a towel and End of Term Assembly @ 12pm

Thanks for reading!

Mel, Demi, and Renee

Year 4

Welcome to Week 8! 

What a wonderful time we had in Brisbane on our excursion! It was a beautiful sunny day, and we had great fun exploring SparkLab, interacting with the many hands-on activities,  learning more about the convicts and early settlement at The Convict Museum. Thank you so much to the parent volunteers for joining us on the day!

Book Week  
Thank you to our amazing teacher librarian, Mrs Leathart for organising the awesome Book Week celebrations.  Our classes were filled with magical characters dressed up for Book Week.  Mrs Leathart’s Reader’s Cup, as always, was hotly contested and enjoyed by all.  We thank Mrs Leathart for all the extra work that she did last week, we are grateful for the wonderful support of Mrs Monte as well. 

Father’s Day Mass 
Father’s Day Mass will be in the in the hall at on Thursday 29^th August at 10am. We would love to see dads, grandfathers, and other father-like figures join us for this special time to celebrate these wonderful men in our lives. 

Year 4 Gala Day 
Our Year 4 Gala Day for Touch Football will be held on Tuesday of the final week of this term – 10^th September. Please complete permission slips on Sentral. Students will need to be at school by 8.30am to be on the bus.  Many thanks to Mrs Wigan for organising this exciting day for us. 

Coloured Socks Day 
‘Crazy Coloured Sock’ Day is on Thursday 12^th September.  Wear your craziest socks, wear your sun-safe coloured clothes, suitable footwear, brimmed hat and bring along a gold coin for the Catholic Missions. We are also asking families to donate a new pair of socks with their gold coin – The Gold coin going to Catholic Mission and Socks to The Base Soup Kitchen. 

As the term end nears, this is a great time to remind your child to be resilient and show persistence and kindness, both within the classroom and in their friendship groups. The teachers certainly encourage this at school.  

Have a great couple of weeks everyone! 

Suzanne, Aleisha, Jessica and Danielle

Year 5

Can you believe that it is week 8?! We certainly cannot believe how quickly this term has flown by.  With only two and half weeks remaining, we will be heads down for the remainder of the term, doing our best learning in preparation for our final term of Year 5.

Camp:
This week we had an information session in the lead-up to camp. If you were unable to attend, please refer to the PowerPoint that was emailed out to all parents. If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact your class teacher.

Acts of Service:
We acknowledge all students who humbly engage in acts of service every day. Recently, a group of students have been giving up their time to decorate positive messages, which have been sent to Tony’s Kitchen. These messages have had a positive impact and brought a smile to the face of many.

Key Dates

• Week 8 – Thursday 29^th August- Fathers’ Day Liturgy and sausage sizzle @10am
• Week 8- Friday 30^th August- Pupil Free Day
• Week 9 – Swimming Block
• Friday 6 September – Art Exhibition 5:30pm
• Thursday 12 September – Crazy Sock Day
• Friday 13 September – End of Term Assembly 5MG at 12 noon

Curriculum:
Religion – Students have explored influential individuals that have shaped the early Catholic Communities. These individuals include Mary MacKillop and Caroline Chisholm. Students are now beginning their next religious unit that explores the fertile question: How can believers live in their faith? Throughout this unit, students will identify ways in which faith can be shared and strengthened in communities of believers, including the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist.

English – Students have commenced writing their English Assessments for this term. One assessment piece involved the students drafting, editing, and publishing a historical narrative. They will also use their knowledge of a historical event or person from Australia’s history to write an informative brochure.

Maths – Students have commenced the next impact cycle, which involves describing and interpreting data sets. During this impact cycle, students will also create graphs, including side by side column graphs to display data sets. We will be continuing to touch on division, as continual practise in this concept will help consolidate the students' ability to solve problems as remainders, fractional remainders and as decimals. Students also learnt about transformations and estimated, measured and drew angles. Don’t forget to encourage number facts (multiplication, division, addition and subtraction) at home, to assist automaticity in this area.

HASS – We have started our Civics and Citizenship unit where students are investigating how democracy impacts the lives of citizens and society. In particular, they will look at democracy in our country, voting and decision making and resolving differences and achieving goals.  

Science – Students have explored  natural sources and artificial sources of light, described how light travels, and completed annotated diagrams showing both reflection and refraction of light.

Thanks for reading,

Garry, Lisa, Jess and Sandra       

Year 6

Upcoming dates   

Thursday August 29 – Fathers’ Day Mass 10 am   

Friday August 30 – Pupil Free Day  

Monday September 2 – Friday September 6 – Swimming Week

Friday September 6– Loving the Arts at Lourdes 5:30 pm  

Thursday September 12 – Crazy Sock Day  

Term 4

Tuesday October 1 – Camp Meeting 5 pm

Wednesday October 30 – Friday November 1 – Camp: Total Adventures: Noosa North Shore

Camp:
A camp meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, October 1 Week 1, Term 4 at 5:00pm. On Tuesday evening, a form was sent to indicate your child’s attendance for camp. This will determine our final costs to be shared with you before the holidays along with a "what to bring" list.

Arts Night Wait Staff:
Thank you to the following students who have volunteered to be wait staff at our Arts Night which will be held in the school hall on Friday 6^th September from 5.30 pm. Please wear formal summer uniform and meet Mrs Hohn in the hall at 4:55 pm. Students are to be collected from the Prep rooms or hall by 7:00 pm. Please let Mrs Hohn know that your child has been collected.   

Our Learning: 
English/ HaSS: We are creating multimodal persuasive texts to visit an Asian country of our choice. Sophistication of language features including rhetorical questions, imagery, modality, and use of noun groups form our success criteria. Check these WAGOLL’s:

Abbey: Would you like to escape to an archipelago paradise?

Emilyn: Step back in time and visit the Angkor Wat temple, the crown of Cambodia.

Benjamin: Thailand is the land of smiles. Be sure to visit Phuket, home to spectacular sandy beaches.

Homework:
Please note that homework runs from Friday to Friday and the option of Wednesday lunch time is encouraged for students who are finding these times frames difficult to balance. Homework for Year Six is minimal. The practice of completing homework and having a routine helps prepare our students for when secondary demands increase next year. Homework is necessary for consolidation, revision, and deliberate practice. The Homework Club is one of our Servaim opportunities and Year Six peers and Mr Shoebridge are available to help.

Mathematics Competition:
Congratulations to Nate, Rylan, Emilyn, Euan, Joey, and Jake who recently competed in the first round of the QAMT (Queensland Association of Mathematics Teachers) Mathematics Competition. Our students competed in team events alongside Year 5 students- Sarah, Oscar, and Eli. All three teams progress to the next stage – The Darling Downs Mathematics finals in Term Four. This is great learning engagement as students were invested and driven to value their learning and act collaboratively with others.

Kylie, Shauna, and Steve

Swimming Lessons

In Week 9 of this term, we will be conducting swimming lessons at Glennie for all students, including Prep. A parent portal request has been sent home requesting your consent. Please take the time to answer the included questions to ensure we can best provide for all student levels and needs. Please see below for a summary of the information sent home via the portal:

Lesson Times – Subject to Change:

Just as with any other classes, swimming is part of the curriculum and children are expected to participate unless a note of explanation is provided.  Participation in this program is highly recommended for the students in Grades 4, 5 & 6, as many of the activities on camp are water-based.

We respectfully ask parents and other spectators to refrain from attending swimming lessons. It is important that the children are focused on their instructor and what they need to do in the pool. We appreciate your support.

Grade 4 TCPSSA Gala Day – Touch Football

During the last week of this term the Grade 4 students will attend the Toowoomba Catholic Primary Schools Grade 4 Touch Football Gala Day. This is a social carnival aimed at providing students with a further opportunity to participate in team sport.

Who: Grade 4

When: Tuesday 10^th September 2024

Time: 8:30am -1:00pm

Where: Kearney's Spring Reserve

Cost: $7 to be charged to your school account.

What to Wear: OLOL Sports Uniform

What to Bring: Morning Tea, Lunch, Water Bottle, Hat. NO CANTEEN

Transport: students will travel to and from the venue by bus

Please keep your eye out for the parent portal permission request. It will be released next week.

All Schools Touch Football

Congratulations to our Year 5 and 6 Touch Team on their premiership win!  Thankyou to Kris Lobwien for coaching the team.

Representative Team Selection

Congratulations to Hudson in Year 5 on his selection in the Darling Downs Track and Field Team.  Good luck at the State Titles Hudson! 

Upcoming Representative Trials

Throughout the course of the year Toowoomba Primary School Sport and Darling Downs School Sport offer trials to eligible students for a variety of team and individual sports.  To be eligible for selection, students need to be born in 2012, 2013 or 2014. Strict nomination requirements apply, and it is at the sole discretion of the school to decide whether to nominate individual students. 

In order to gain interest levels and an idea of previous experience, an electronic representative Sport Nomination Form has been sent out.  This form outlines all relevant information regarding the trials for the whole of 2024.  Please thoroughly read all information. If your child is of a high standard in their chosen sport/s and would like to be considered for nomination, please complete the nomination form.  No student will be nominated for a trial without a completed form.

Here is the LINK to nominate a student. Please submit a new response for each individual child.

Please see below for upcoming trial dates. Please ensure that you confirm these details when the trial notice is released.

Rachel.Wigan@twb.catholic.edu.au

Book Week Gallery  

Lourdes – you certainly know how to Book Week! We had the best time last week celebrating the Magic that is READING! Below are some photographs of our dress up day and other Book Week activities. Thank you, as always, for supporting the library as we work to develop a love of reading in your child/ren. 

Congratulations to all the WINNERS announced on Assembly last Thursday and to the classes for their AMAZING Door displays. We appreciate the effort you all went to make Book Week great.  

Holiday Borrowing 

Students who have NO outstanding loans will be able to borrow for the upcoming school holidays in Week 10. Parents don’t forget that you are also able to loan 10 books at a time anytime, including holiday breaks. 

Library Bags 

It is expected the library books travel to and from school in a Library Bag. Please ensure that your child has a suitable (preferably waterproof) bag for borrowing each week.  

Chess 

On Tuesday 27th August, two teams of Lourdes children participated in the 2024 Chess Teams Tournament. They played 7 rounds, had some wins, had some losses, enjoyed their day and learnt a new move (or two). We are so proud of the way these students conducted themselves. Please be reminded that we do not offer Chess in Term 4 at Lourdes and we will resume lessons in Term 1, 2025. Thank you for supporting our Chess club in 2024.  

Book Club Issue 6 

Issue 6 Orders have been placed. Orders usually take about a week from the due date to arrive.  Thank you for supporting Book Club at Lourdes in Term 3.  

Keep Reading, 

Mrs Leathart, Mrs Monte and Mrs Kemp

There is always something fun and exciting happening in our drama lessons.  This is what we have been up to this term so far!

PREP students have been sharing in The Very Bear series of stories by Nick Bland.  We are learning about feelings and how these emotions can be shown through our facial expressions, body movements and voice.  We are having lots of fun pretending to be happy, sad, angry, confused, scared, excited and anything else we can think of!

Drama in YEAR 1 has seen us learning all about the Aboriginal Dreamtime story of Tiddalik the Frog.  We have looked at lots of different Australian animals and have come up with some creative ideas about how each animal could make Tiddalik laugh. We are looking forward to performing our puppet shows.

YEAR 2 students have been looking at the Aboriginal Dreamtime story of How the Birds Got Their Colours.  We have explored the different ways and reasons that stories can be shared.  We are looking forward to sharing our puppet shows to the class over the next couple of weeks.

Along with some character work and drama games, the YEAR 5 and 6 students have been very busy preparing for their performance at our upcoming Art Show, "Loving the Arts at Lourdes". We are looking forward to seeing you all there on Friday 6^th September and showcasing our wonderfully, talented students!

Amanda

Amanda Holzheimer
Drama Teacher

Amanda.Holzheimer@twb.catholic.edu.au

With only one week to go before judging for the Chronicle Garden Competition, the kids are naturally getting very excited. The recent rain and warm weather has certainly helped to boost their little plants along. It is such a beautiful time of the year in our gardens. Please feel free to come and have a look at their gardens at school drop off or pick up.

Jo

St Patrick's - Annual Carnival of Flowers Presentation