Tenison Woods Catholic School ‘In all things love’ 68 Brooker Terrace, Richmond SA 5033 www.twcs.catholic.edu.au [email protected]Telephone: 08 8131 7900 Absentee SMS: 0408 788 659 Calendar Dates FEBRUARY Monday 12 th Swimming Trials 3.30-4.30pm Tuesday 13 th Carnevale Parade 9.00am Shrvoe Tuesday Pancake recess 11.00am Wednesday 14 th Ash Wednesday Mass Years R-4 9.00am Years 5-7 Aquatics Day P&F Meeting 7.00pm Thursday 15 th Ash Wednesday Liturgy Years 5-7 10.30am Monday 19 th Assembly 9.00am Swimming Trials 3.30-4.30pm Wednesday 21 st Board meeting 6.00pm Monday 26 th Swimming Trails 3.30-4.30pm Tuesday 27 th Police Band Visit 10.00am MARCH Wednesday 7 th Principal Tour 9.30-11.00am Attachments Helping children make a bright start to school Parenting for Resilience Term 1 Week 2 8 February, 2018 Dear Parents, Friends and Guardians, Welcome to the start of the 2018 school year! The Christmas holiday period was a wonderful opportunity to spend time with family and relax before embarking upon another busy year! I know that the staff are also refreshed and enthusiastic to embark upon a new and exciting year of learning ahead. We have 22 new Reception students whom we officially welcomed at our Welcome Mass last week. The Welcome Mass was facilitated by our new Parish Priest, Father Peter Zwanns; I take this opportunity to officially welcome Fr Peter to our community. We are delighted to have Fr Peter with us, he brings great wisdom, knowledge and youthful enthusiasm with him and we look forward to working with him in our community over the coming years. I wish to welcome to our community Jade in year 3 and the following new reception students who have officially commenced their educational journey at TWCS; Adam, Alexander, Alyssa, Aydin, Caden, Elizabeth, Eva, Eve, Gunocean, Gurnoor, Harry, Isaac, Ivy, Jack, Jaxson, Leo, Mayra, Mira, Primrose, Ralph, Sienna and Tejas. Starting school is a significant milestone in a child’s life and each family digests this day differently. I noticed that this year there was much emotion exuding from our parents as they departed the school grounds leaving their precious cargo with us for the entire day and week! This is an enormous responsibility and I again thank you for entrusting us with your children. We do not take this responsibility lightly; we have mechanisms in place to ensure that every child matters and we take extra time to carefully observe our starting reception students in particular. Additionally, I wish to welcome Nicole Musolino who has joined our staff as a Reception/Year 1 Teacher.
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Tenison Woods Catholic School ‘In all things love’
Welcome to the start of the 2018 school year! The Christmas holiday period was a wonderful opportunity to spend time with family and relax before embarking upon another busy year! I know that the staff are also refreshed and enthusiastic to embark upon a new and exciting year of learning ahead.
We have 22 new Reception students whom we officially welcomed at our Welcome Mass last week. The Welcome Mass was facilitated by our new Parish Priest, Father Peter Zwanns; I take this opportunity to officially welcome Fr Peter to our community. We are delighted to have Fr Peter with us, he brings great wisdom, knowledge and youthful enthusiasm with him and we look forward to working with him in our community over the coming years. I wish to welcome to our community Jade in year 3 and the following new reception students who have officially commenced their educational journey at TWCS; Adam, Alexander, Alyssa, Aydin, Caden, Elizabeth, Eva, Eve, Gunocean, Gurnoor, Harry, Isaac, Ivy, Jack, Jaxson, Leo, Mayra, Mira, Primrose, Ralph, Sienna and Tejas.
Starting school is a significant milestone in a child’s life and each family digests this day differently. I noticed that this year there was much emotion exuding from our parents as they departed the school grounds leaving their precious cargo with us for the entire day and week! This is an enormous responsibility and I again thank you for entrusting us with your children. We do not take this responsibility lightly; we have mechanisms in place to ensure that every child matters and we take extra time to carefully observe our starting reception students in particular.
Additionally, I wish to welcome Nicole Musolino who has joined our staff as a Reception/Year 1 Teacher.
Tenison Woods Catholic School is a faith filled community with a commitment to
INSPIRE, INNOVATE and EXCEL
In 2016, the School Board approved the implementation of an application (App) for phones and tablets, which can be used
by parents to pay for school fees, camps, excursions, uniforms etc. To access this app, simply go to the App store to locate
QKr! by MasterCard. A full ‘How to guide’ is attached to this newsletter for your convenience. This year in 2018 all payments
will be paid for through this App (this includes, uniforms, subway lunch orders, excursions, sports carnivals etc.).
Please note: when paying school fees, you will need to nominate the amount you are paying as this app is a third party and
as such, it cannot be integrated with our finance system and thus does not identify your personal balance details.
Following this, you will be asked to register and account and to locate the school for which you wish to use the app for. We
anticipate that this will assist families who are already very busy to make payments in a quick and secure way. The App is
now operational and we trust that you enjoy the ease and convenience associated with this.
Please also note: we have contacted Villi’s to ask if they could accommodate their ordering process on this app, however
they do not have the resources to support an online ordering process and thus you will need to continue with the current
ordering process.
Subway lunch orders: due to the success of the online ordering Subway will also be available on Fridays. We thank John Barr
from Subway at Torrensville for supporting the online ordering and to accommodating our school on another day. Friday
lunch orders will begin on Friday 16 February.
OHSC – As you know, our OHSC facility is out sourced and run but Camp Australia. It is important to note, that several years
ago, the school did run its own OHSC program. However, like many small schools, that program was not financially viable and
was subsequently outsourced to Camp Australia. Additionally, because of families not having morning care available at TWCS,
we introduced an early 8am start to assist families; this too has a financial expense associated with it.
The fees and administrative structures aligned with this service are centralised and applied to the hundreds of OHSC centres
across Australia run by Camp Australia. Unfortunately, we do not have governance over fee increases of fee structures. I
understand that the costs have increased with this service and as a result are making this care facility potentially inaccessible.
I will continue to work with management on their pricing structure behind the scenes to try to alleviate future increases. In
the meantime, please feel free to write to Camp Australia expressing your thoughts.
RAN-EC Training- I am delighted to report that at least twelve parents have already completed their RAN-EC training online.
Please note, as per my email earlier in the week, all volunteers in Catholic schools are required to complete this online course
in order to be eligible to assist in our schools. The link for this training is: https://www.plink.sa.edu.au/pages/external-
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Parenting corner- I have attached two articles from parenting expert Michael Grose for your perusal; they include, helping
children make a bright start to school and Parenting for Resilience. Each fortnight I will include articles or links to digital
mediums which are designed to assist in parenting your children, I hope that you find these useful!
The Pupil Free dates for the year as located on the website http://www.twcs.catholic.edu.au/news-events/events
include:
Term 2: Thursday 5 July 2018, Friday 6 July 2018 (Early Closure day, no students at school) Term 3: Monday 23 July 2018 Term 4: Monday 15 October, Friday 14 December 2018 (Early Closure day, no students at school) Regards Mark Battistella Principal