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May 17, 2012: National Year of Grace
This year, starting on Pentecost Sunday ( May 27th ), has been designated as the Year Of Grace by the
Australian bishops. As Catholics we are encouraged to ‘start afresh from Christ’
All children at Queen of Apostles will receive a Year of Grace prayer card. I encourage you to visit the
website which is a goldmine of resources, prayers and other ideas to help adults, parents, children, families,
parishes and schools in this special year of grace: www.bne.catholic.net.au/yearofgrace
May 10, 2012: Woolworths Earn & Learn
We will be participating in the Woolworths earn and learn program again this year, hoping to earn learning resources for
our school. Please support us by collecting a sticker from the Woolworths checkout for every $10 spent. A sticker card
came home today to assist you with your collection of stickers. Once completed, please place your sticker cards in the
collection box in our school office. The program commenced on 9th May and will continue through to 1st July.
May 3, 2012: Mother's Day Stall
The Craft Group Mothers’ Day stall will be held next week as follows:
Chuter Street campus: Wednesday 9 May and Friday 11 May
Thuruna Street campus: Wednesday 9 May and Thursday 10 May
There is a huge range of gifts available, with prices ranging from $1.00 to $6.00.
Please support the Mothers Day stalls on your child’s campus. If you are also able to assist on
the day it would be greatly appreciated; just contact Jen Davissen. Thanking you all in advance for your support.
April 26, 2012: ANZAC Day
Thank you to those families and children who were able to attend the Kedron Wavell
RSL ANZAC Day march yesterday. Over 60 children and families represented our school
at the march.
Thank you to Melissa Spiteri, Michael Bruynesteyn and Bianca Morschel
for their time in attending the march.
April 19, 2012: Caritas Fundraising during Lent
The children, parents and staff at Queen of Apostles
school have been extra creative this Lent in thinking up
clever ways to fundraise for Caritas. All of the activities
have a distinctly ‘fishy’ flavour, ranging from selling
raffle tickets for two Siamese Fighting fish, Project
Compassion boxes in each classroom and selling fish
fingers for lunch to fishing for the elusive prize of $500.
In total over $3529 was raised for Caritas. Everyone
is to be congratulated for their generosity and
fundraising initiatives.
March 29, 2012: Easter Liturgies
This Sunday the church remembers Jesus’ entry
into Jerusalem before his death on Good Friday.
We call this Palm or Passion Sunday and it begins
the time in the church’s calendar called Holy Week.
This week both campuses reflected on the events
of this week – Thuruna St on Tuesday led by Year
7 students and Chuter St on Wednesday led the
Preps and Year 2 children.
March 22, 2012: Enrolments for Prep 2013
Applications for enrolment in Prep for 2013 will close on
30th April to enable us to prepare for our information
sessions and interviews. If you have a child who is
eligible for enrolling in Prep and have not yet completed
an application of enrolment, I would ask you to please
do so as soon as possible. I would appreciate if you
could let any friends or acquaintances who may be
considering enrolling at Q of A to please contact the
office for an application of enrolment or to download a
copy from the school’s webpage. Children must have
turned 5 by 30th June to be eligible to attend Prep for
the following year.
March 15, 2012: New Casual Seating for the Libraries
On Wednesday we received the casual seating for
both libraries. While the staff were very
excited with this delivery the greater joy has been
to see the children’s reaction to the furniture. You
are all most welcome to visit the libraries and see
for yourselves the added transformation the
furniture has made.
March 8, 2012: Disco Thank You
QOA would like to extend a very big thank you to all of the
families who supported the Yr 3-7 disco last Friday
evening. It was wonderful to see so many students
attend this first social event for the year. They had a
wonderful time dancing the evening away. It is your
attendance at events like this that helps build a spirit of
community. Thank you to the many teachers who came
along to assist. It was also wonderful to see their skills
on the dance floor. Finally, to Mr Stower and the Year 7
families on the disco committee, thank you for
organising a wonderful event.
February 23, 2012: Swimming Carnival
On Tuesday, our inter – house swimming carnival was
held at the Stafford Heights State School Pool. It was a
wonderful day for all of the children who competed in all
the events over the day. Congratulations to the Green
team for being the champions for 2012 and to the Red
and Gold team for their competition right throughout the
day. Thank you to our Year Seven House Leaders and
other Year Seven students who assisted at the carnival.
Thank you to all the parents who were able to join us on
the day to cheer on their children and to all the parents
who gave their time to assist us in running the carnival.
It was much appreciated.
February 16, 2012: Welcome BBQ Success
On Friday, 10th of February Queen of Apostles P&F
hosted a welcome barbeque for the families and staff
of our school. It was a great opportunity for everyone
to mingle with our school community while enjoying a
great Aussie barbecue! A special thanks is extended to
the P& F for organising an enjoyable and social
evening out.
February 16, 2012: Leadership Day
On Friday, 10th February, Grade 6 and 7 students
participated in Leadership Day which was led by
Project Hatch. We participated in a superb day of
leadership skills and games. During the day we
learnt important life skills about leadership that we
will strive to follow this year. The team presented
these activities in a humorous and enthusiastic
manner.
We would like to give a great big thank you to
Project Hatch for leading us through an enjoyable
and rewarding day.
January 27, 2012: Welcome to QOA BBQ
Our Parents and Friends Association extends an
invitation to all of our families to join with the staff for the “Welcome back to Q of A” barbecue on Friday 10th
February commencing from 5:00pm at the Thuruna
Street Campus. The evening will be BYO drinks with a
steak burger or sausage sizzle available on the night.
Soft drinks will be sold for the children.
January 27, 2012: Welcome to the 2012 School year
I would like to, on behalf of all the staff, extend a warm
welcome to all of our families and especially the new
families and children who have joined us this year. It
has been good to see the children’s smiling faces and
they have settled in well despite all of the inclement
weather. A special welcome to all the Prep children
who are commencing their primary education with us
this week.
We welcome to our staff for 2012, Mrs Melissa Spiteri,
our Assistant to the Principal – Administration and Mr
Michael Bruynesteyn as our Assistant to the Principal –
Religious Education, Mrs Jen Kowalenko who is
teaching Year One, Miss Tammy Charlton who is
teaching Year Two, Mrs Ann Hammond who is teaching
Year Three and Mrs Natalie Sallese and Miss Kristy
Taylor who are teaching Year Four. We also welcome
Mrs Lisa Allely who will be teaching music from Year
1 to 7.
January 16, 2012: Welcome to our new School Website
Welcome to the 2012 school year and thank you for visiting our new school website! The site is still under constuction, so content and information will continue to be updated in the coming weeks. Please visit regularly to keep up to date with news, events and information about our school.
If you are unable to find or access any information you feel should be available on the site, please feel free to contact the school office.
