Dear Families

Welcome to our Federal Election newsletter! It is our aim to make sure you have the information that relates to Catholic Education. We provide this information in the hope that you will be fully informed on the issues relating to Catholic Education.

Catholic Education’s key election objectives

Catholic schools are a vital part of Australia’s education landscape; from humble beginnings almost 200 years ago, Catholic Education is now the nation’s largest provider of education outside the government.

The key national issues for Catholic Education at the upcoming federal election are:

• increased capital funding
• more resources for early childhood education
• religious freedom in schools

To find out more, you can find each of the three Election updates, from the National Catholic Education Commission, as part of this newsletter.

NCEC Paper 1
NCEC Paper 2
NCEC Paper 3

Dear Families,

Every three years Catholic Schools are required to develop a Strategic Plan. All stakeholders in the process (parents, students and staff) are given an opportunity to shape our new framework and future directions. Come and join members of the School Board and Parents and Friends at this meeting. This opportunity will be held on Tuesday May 21st 7:00-8:30pm in the Hall (wine and cheese tasting is included).  We will be facilitating a process to gather feedback about Rosary School and to plan for the development of our school over the next three years. What do you like about our school? In what are areas would you like to see Rosary school develop further?

SACRAMENTAL PROGRAM: Parents wishing for their child to receive the Sacraments of Confirmation and First Communion in 2019 will soon receive information about how to register, dates for sessions etc. Through our Religious Education program, our year 4 classes will be covering the faith formation components. At this stage, I can tell you that the choice of Confirmation Liturgies will be Friday 23rd August or 30th August.The school will send further information out next week.

Please join us on Friday, May 10 from 9am in the Rosary School Hall. Mums - please click here to register!

Monday 27^th May at 6:30pm in the Hall.

This presentation is a must attend to ensure we all have the skills to help teach our children about online safety. A presentation will also be available for our years 5 & 6 students on the Tuesday morning.

Click to register for the Parent Online Safety Presentation.

Congratulations to all students that competed at SANTOS Stadium on Monday 6 May. It was an opportunity to test our skills against others and experience performing at this amazing facility. The next stage for Athletics is the State Championships for selected students. The Rosary team consisted of: Yolanda, Estella, Kim, Isabelle, Anastasia, Jorja, Sienna, Ruby P, Ruby C, Scarlett, Isabella, Charlotte, Lillemor, Emma, Sidiki, Ethan, Hamish, Max, Ben, Connor, Joshua, Luka, Archer, Giuliano, Matteo, Tomas, Ollie, Ivan. Thank you to Mrs Price and parents who helped out on the day. Thank you also to the class teachers for all of their support.

Unofficial place getters: Charlotte (shot put 2nd place), Oliver (relay 3rd place), Matteo (relay 3rd place), Ivan (relay 3rd place), Tomas (high jump 2nd place), Estella (high jump 2nd place), Lillemor (high jump 1st place), Giuliano (long jump 1st place & relay 3rd place), Ruby (discuss 1st place & shot put 2nd place). Congratulations to all!

Thank you all for your generosity in supporting this organisation and its many projects around the world. If you have a money box at home, please send it back to school by the end of the week.

We had an amazing time on camp at the end of Term 1.
Click here to see what we got up to.

• Catholic Education Week & World Environment Week - This year the dates are June 3-9. Further information will be provided next Newsletter.
• Hot chocolate to start in Week 3 - Stay tuned for our pre-order form and our new "tasty" hot chocolate.
• Assembly - Week 2 - 6AP
• Liturgy - Week 3 - Receptions in the Hall

Our Lady of The Rosary Church would like to be able to have a Children’s Liturgy at each Sunday 10am Mass. We would love to hear from families who would like to take part. We would also like to hear from high school students and adults, especially parents, who would be willing to be Liturgy Leaders. Please email, office@napparish.org.au if you are interested and we will arrange a time to do some planning.

What a colourful day it was with children and staff dressing up in the Italian flag colours of verde, bianco e rosso.

Rosary school had an informative assembly with some year 5 students singing the Italian National Anthem and year 6 students talking about their research on different foods of Italy.

We were entertained by the Year 2 children singing, Il Coccodrillo Come Fa? and Cosa ti piace?

The children were then able to enjoy a great production from Make a Scene - Fooling in Love, followed by enjoying some delicious gelato.