PARISH BINGO FUNDRAISING NIGHT
FRIDAY 19th SEPTEMBER
LUMEN CHRISTI COLLEGE SPORTS CENTRE
7.30 PM EYES DOWN
Category: Messages
P&F Term 3 Milo Muffin Order Form
P&F Milo Muffin Morning Tea
Forms due back by THIS Friday 22nd August – no late orders accepted.
Morning Tea to be held on Tuesday 26th August.
milo muffins order form-1 (pdf)
Performing Arts – Choir Permission Form
Parents of choir children who are particpating at the Performing Arts Festival, are reminded that permission forms need to be returned by Monday 11th August.
If your child does not have a form, you can collect one from the School Office.
Please note that no child will be permitted to travel by bus without a signed permission note.
Book Week 2014 – Connect to Reading
Book Week Assembly 2014
- Week 5, Friday 22nd August 8.45am in school hall.
- The CBCA Book Awards shortlists for 2014 have been announced and these are now on the shelf in our library – see below.
- Children to dress up as their favourite book character
- St Emilie’s Dance Troupe will perform for us at the assembly before leaving for the Performing Arts Festival.
P&F Meeting Monday 4th August
6.30pm in Staffroom
Monday 4th August
All welcome!
Crunch and Sip starts in Week 3 this term!
ABOUT CRUNCH & SIP
The Crunch&Sip program is an easy way to help kids stay healthy and happy and it is coming to St Emilie’s as of Monday 4th August, Week 3 this term!
Crunch&Sip is essentially a whole school break at 10.00am to eat fruit or salad vegetables and drink water in the classroom. Students re-fuel with fruit or vegetables, and this assists with both physical and mental performance and concentration in the classroom.
Every day parents are asked to please make sure that children bring an extra – small piece of fruit, or a small container with cut fruit and vegetables that they can eat mid morning prior to morning tea.
Through Crunch&Sip, schools like St Emilie’s demonstrate our commitment to nutrition education both in the classroom, by making links with the curriculum and by creating a supportive whole school environment.
THE ROTTEN APPLE SYNDROME
As parents, we are only too familiar with the rotten apple or worse the mouldy orange that hides at the bottom of the school bag waiting to be discovered at the end of term.
Diligently we send our little darlings off to school every day with a piece of fruit only to be discouraged when it comes home again, a little bruised and battered. Ever hopeful we do the same thing day after day. This is what Einstein defined as insanity:
“Doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results!”
Many parents have been saved from this dreadful fate by the innovative Crunch&Sip program.
Helen Marshall, mother of Molly (7 years) said “I know that Molly will be eating at least one piece of fruit thanks to Crunch&Sip. The fruit always gets eaten. It never comes home again in her lunchbox.”
The Crunch&Sip break is not only a time to introduce children to fresh fruit and vegies it is also an opportunity to encourage the habit of drinking water. Research indicates that children rarely drink enough water and often forget to drink unless reminded.
Please don’t forget to pack Crunch&Sip in the school bag every day.
CRUNCH:
Easy-to-eat seasonal fruit such as a small apple, a container with hulled strawberries, a mandarin or banana
OR
Vegetables such as carrot or celery sticks, capsicum, cherry tomatoes or snow peas etc
AND SIP:
A clean, water bottle filled with plain water
PERMITTED FOODS
CRUNCH:
ALLOWED
Fruit
- All fresh fruit is permitted (e.g. whole fruits such as a banana or a small apple, chopped melon)
- Dried fruit is permitted, although, fresh fruit or vegetables is the first choice because dried fruit contains high concentration of natural sugar and it tends to cling to teeth, increasing risk of tooth decay (e.g. sultanas)
Vegetables
- All fresh vegetables are permitted (e.g. celery, carrot sticks, broccoli pieces etc.)
Don’t forget
- To wash all fruit and vegetables before eating
- Easy-to-eat fruit and veg is best
- Buying fruit and vegetables in season is cheaper and tastes better
NOT ALLOWED
All other foods are not permitted including:
- ‘Fruit’ products (e.g. fruit leather, fruit roll-ups, fruit bars or similar)
- Fruit jams or jellies
- Fruit pies or cakes
- Fruit canned in syrup or jelly or with artificial sweeteners
- Canned or processed vegetables
- Vegetable or potato crisps, hot potato chips, olives
- Vegetable pastries (pies, pasties, sausage rolls)
- Baked vegetable breads
- Vegetable cakes, fritters, quiches or similar
- Popcorn
AND SIP:
ALLOWED
- A clean, clear water bottle filled with plain water. Only plain water is to be consumed in the classroom
Don’t forget
- To wash your water bottles daily
- Don’t share water bottles
NOT ALLOWED
- All other drinks (including waters with added vitamins, minerals, or carbonates) are not permitted including:
◦ Fruit juice or fruit juice drink
◦ Fruit cordial or mineral waters
◦ Vegetable juices
St Em’s Interschool Cross Country – Thursday 31st July
Week 2, Term 3
Thursday 31st July – Interschool Cross Country Years 4-6 at Tomato Lake, all are welcome. The carnival will begin at 9.45am and conclude by 12.15pm. The Year 4 Girls will run first starting at approximately 10am.
School Disco – Information and Order Form
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St Emilie’s P&F School Disco! Friday 8th August, in the School Hall Come dressed up as your favourite rock star or famous person/character – celebrity, scientist, sportsperson, singer, movie star! |
Please Note:
1.Only children enrolled at St Emilie’s may purchase tickets & attend the disco.
2.Drop off & pick up is encouraged. Students will be well supervised by staff and P&F parents.
3. Only those parents who have replied to volunteer to supervise or assist on the stalls are permitted in the hall during the discos. (There is simply not enough room for parents and children).
4. Tickets can be pre-purchased by filling in the form above. Please place form in sealed envelope with correct money, labelled “Disco”, and return by Thursday 7th August. Tickets will be sent home with the child listed on this form during the week of August 4th – 8th.
5. Tickets will also be for sale by Year 6 students outside the library during lunch times the week of August 4th – 8th. Please give this completed form to your child along with the correct money for purchasing their tickets.
6. There will be cold drinks & snack foods available for purchase from 4.30pm till 8pm. (Students can also bring a water bottle clearly marked with their name into the disco). Drinks and food are not permitted in the hall – these will need to be consumed in the lesser hall.
7. A novelty stall will be open from 4.30pm in the lesser hall meeting room area to purchase glow in the dark novelties & other fun accessories.
Children may or may not wish to purchase any of the following items:
$1.50 for drinks
$0.50 – $2.00 for snack items ( chocolate bars,chips, jelly cups, fruit kebabs)
$1.00-$3.00 for novelty items ( assorted)
Looking forward to a great night
Regards from
The P&F Committee
School Banking
School Banking will now take place in the school administration building.
Banking Day and time remain the same – Mondays 8.20am to 8.40am.
Happy Banking!
Patience is a virtue…
While our Fruit of the Holy Spirit focus is actually LOVE for these first 5 weeks of Term 3, given that we are still learning how to program the sign (hence the numerous false starts!) we felt that a few thoughts about PATIENCE might also be helpful for us all 🙂 Life is way too short to sweat the small stuff – we will get there ( amidst the myriad of other new learnings we are involved in each day) and encouragement goes a long way to making things a success…
Thanks to all those parents who continue to support, proactively help, maintain a sense of humour and a positive ‘glass half full’ attitude to life, to school and especially to the little hiccups along the way! You really are awesome!
