Important School Dates

ST. MARK’S KEYSTONE FOR MAY IS “GROWING TOGETHER’

Volume 13 21st May 2015

Important School Dates Dear Families 22nd May - District Cross Country Carnival NATIONAL WALK SAFELY TO - Walk to School Day SCHOOL DAY 22nd 28th May - First Eucharist Reflection Day All primary school aged 30th May - First Eucharist Mass (6pm) children around Australia 31st May - First Eucharist Mass are invited to participate in (9:30am) National Walk Safely to 8th June - Queen's Birthday Holiday - School Day 2015. NO SCHOOL 12th June - Feast of the Sacred Heart Tomorrow is National Walk Safely to Mass -11:40am School Day & there are four walking 13th June - First Eucharist Mass (6pm) routes, three of them have signposts on 14th June - First Eucharist Mass the footpath. If you normally drive your (9:30am) child to school drop them at one of the 15th June - Friday 19th June - Year 6 points as teachers will be leading the Camp walk. However these routes can be used 16th June - School Education Board at any time of the year so this is a Meeting (7:30pm) chance for your children to get to know 24th June - Parent/Teacher Interviews them. (2:30pm -8:30pm) Walk Safely to School Day aims to 26th June - Last Day of Term 2 encourage each Australian child to lead a (2:30pm) healthier, more active lifestyle by TERM 2 including a walk at the beginning and end 13th July – Term 2 begins. of each day to achieve at least 60 minutes of daily exercise to help prevent obesity and other health problems. The event also promotes reduced car-dependency, cleaner air, improved *Walk to school meeting points at diets and road safety to primary school end of Newsletter, see you there children throughout Australia. tomorrow. Please see the map at the end of the newsletter for meeting areas to walk to school together. SPORTS NEWS – A reminder Mr Snell DROP OFF ZONE has still some tickets for the AFL A reminder that the only drop off zone is match at the MCG. These tickets are in front of the Church. Families are NOT for the game between Richmond and to use the crossing at Dimar Crt or Fremantle, on Saturday July 25th the teacher carpark to drop children beginning at 4.35pm. Tickets are for off in the morning. general admission and are restricted to 4 per family. ST VINCENT de PAUL...... PIETY SHOP The Piety Shop is open each week end SCHOOL FEES School fees Accounts before and after all Masses. It has been were sent home recently. Fees can be restocked with a large range of religious paid by cash, cheque or internet banking items, you can find something for all into the school bank account (BSB 083 occasions. Do have a look at our stock of 347, A/c 46545 3309 – please remember cards and Holy cards. Also open on to include your name and account Tuesday’s, 8.30am to 1pm. number). All fees must be finalised by 18th September except by pre FIRST HOLY COMMUNION is just a few arrangement. Any financial difficulties weeks away, you are invited to look at must be discussed with Mrs Darvell. the lovely gifts we have for that Special persons. As from this week end there will be a “Table of Gifts” in the Church BUDDIES OF THE WEEK: foyer. Hello from your 2015 Buddy Captain, Taylor Owens! SCHOOL NURSING PROGRAM - It is Term 2, Week 6 Erica McWilliams your visiting primary and we are half way school nurse from the Department of through Term 2. This Education and Training will be attending week’s ‘Buddies of the school during term 2 to conduct the the Week’ are Lochie Prep grade health assessments. Erica is also able to see other children as and Trent who both requested by parents or teachers (with like the colours parents’ consent). orange and blue. Lochie loves to do The purpose of the visit is to provide all sport, his best friend Victorian children with the opportunity to is Mitch and he have a health assessment; to link barracks for St Kilda. children, families and the school to Trent likes seeing Lochie, he barracks for services available in the community; and Essendon and his best friend’s are Seth to provide information and advice that and Lochie. Trent likes to eat noodles promotes health and wellbeing. while Lochie likes the sweeter option of Parents are invited to visit or telephone the visiting primary school nurse if there lollies. are any general child health issues they wish to discuss. The contact number for The other ‘Buddies of the Week’ are … the visiting primary school nurse is 0477 763 881. Stefanie and Kaylin who both like the colours purple, blue, Parents of students (other than Prep pink and yellow. students) who wish their child to be seen Stefanie likes by the school nurse need to complete a learning and having Referral form that is available at the fun with her friends, school office. This completed Referral she barracks for form needs to be returned to the school Hawthorn and likes office. to eat pizza and chocolate. Kaylin Faith in Education News likes being the ‘Leader of the Day’ Please see the back of the Newsletter for all information. and she likes eating Spaghetti. They both have 5 people in UNIFORM SHOP is open Wednesday their families. mornings 9 – 9.30 am. Order forms are available from the school office and website. They can be left at the office to Will you be the next ‘Buddy of the be completed on Wednesdays after 9.30 Week?’ am. Winter uniforms are now available.

FOR SALE Secondhand Uniform 1 Summer Dress Size 8 $30 Wednesday Morning I Winter Tunic Size 8 $38 Fruit Thank you to all those 1 Girls Skort Size 10 15 parents who came to cut up fruit for the 1 Girls White Shirt L/S Size 6 18 children this week. If anyone else is 1 Bomber Jacket Size 6 30 interested in helping please let Andrew Davies know or send 1 Woollen V-Neck Jumper Size 10 60 him an email: 1 Sport Tee Shirt Size 8 22 [email protected].

1 Sport Windcheater Size 8 30 FOOD TECHNOLOGY Please try some of the recipes at the 1 School Bag 35 end of the newsletter. This week we have coleslaw, easy scroll rolls, 1 School Hat (wide brim) 5 ratatouille and fresh guacamole. All in excellent condition. Prices can be STEPHANIE ALEXANDER KITCHEN negiotated. GARDEN is again continuing in the 3/4 year level. We are looking for volunteers Please phone Christine on 0411 574 518 to assist with cooking and gardening particularly when their child is involved in ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS Last call for the 8 week program. This year the the Entertainment Books, there are still children will be preparing and enjoying a outstanding books. Please return books light meal together. If you have platters immediately, if you do not wish to or bowls that you would like to donate purchase the book. Thank you. please bring them along to school. CADBURY CHOCOLATE FUNDRAISER GARDENING HAS FINISHED Our Cadbury Chocolate Any plant donations or equipment Fundraiser drive is now complete and the donations are eagerly appreciated. We final stages of collection are underway. are desperate for garden rakes and long Reminder notices have been sent home handle shovels. to families this week. Please make sure all money and unsold MATHEMATICS Mrs Selby is looking for chocolates are returned to the office as some help to cut out math’s resources for soon as possible. Thank you for your the classrooms. This can be done at support. Follow up calls will be made home. If you are able to assist please soon to those that have not returned the send an email to chocolates. Nadia Gillam. [email protected] with your name, child’s name and teacher. APPLICATIONS FOR YEAR 7 2016 Instructions and resources will be sent home for you to do. Year 7 2016 State Secondary College Thank you information and enrolment form is now Joanne Selby available at the St Mark’s school office. Please contact the office for a copy. If TUCKSHOP: you are intending to send your Next Tuesday’s special is fried rice $4.00. children to a State Secondary College Many thanks Carm. applications must be returned to

St Mark’s Office, tomorrow to the school, could you please provide 22nd May 2015. emergency details on CareMonkey. By using Care Monkey the school is able to The Department of Education and have medical information about your Training (DET) recently published a new child during excursions. webpage for families regarding the Year 6 Excursion notices will also be sent by to Year 7 transition process. Please Care Monkey requiring your permission see: http://www.education.vic.gov.au/sc for the teachers to access this hool/parents/secondary/Pages/enrol.aspx information. If you have not replied to the notice sent home or have any further queries please do not hesitate to contact the office. GLEE CLUB PERFORMANCE AT KINGSWOOD PRIMARY FOR SALE On Thursday 13th of May twenty two 1 x Quality Black Communion Suit Size students from year 2 to 6 attended a 10 – 12 in excellent condition. Community performance. We sang two Worn once. Comes complete with White songs then watched Kingswood Primary Shirt. Price $55.00. Please ring perform. They have a junior and senior Linda 9551 0109. choir. We also watched Dingley Primary School who have a very large Glee club of Thought for the week: 40 students. At the end we all joined together to sing rounds of the song “One Happiness is not perfected until it is bottle of pop”. It was an enjoyable shared. afternoon and our students loved the opportunity to perform in a casual atmosphere for an audience. We hope to Regards meet again later in the year. Thank you to Carol Widman who gives up her time to teach the Glee club also to Stella and Ms who accompanied us.

Debbie Darvell

Well Done to all who participated.

CARE MONKEY is still being used by the school to provide valuable information especially for excursions. For those new 1/2XR Alex Escudier for being a kind and considerate friend, and helping others with their Maths tasks. 3/4C Hayley Trinh for being such an active and enthusiastic participant in the Stephanie Alexander Garden Program. 3/4F Luke Gough for researching his Inquiry question and assisting others to find information. 3/4KD Sienna Pasitchnyj for her continued commitment and positive attitude she displays towards her learning- thank you Sienna. 3/4MC Jasmine Gillam for being a good role model by helping her peers when they need or in group work. Well Done Jasmine! 3/4S Matthew Balogh for always considering the feelings of others first and being more than happy to help anyone with MAY care and support. ”Growing Together” 5/6C Liam Cole for being a respectful team Foundation E member during Genius Hour and Amelia Kiley for being a respectful class Inquiry. member who always offers to help Well Done Liam! teachers and her classmates. 5/6D Foundation K Raymond Luu for the way he has grown Joel Crothers for developing his and shown maturity settling into Year 5! self-confidence as a learner and being a 5/6M role model to others! Tiana Wanigasekera for sharing her Foundation T American adventures and experiences Two Awards Next Week. with her classmates which extended her 1/2B learning to our community. Thank Vincent Bago for always offering to help you Tiana! other students during Maths for seeking 5/6N feedback to improve his learning. Great Josh Mauerhofer for his co-operation and work Vincent! assistance to other students during his 1/2D visual-arts lesson on Monday. Ethan Blampied for the help and support Well Done Josh! he has provided to his partner during 5/6P Maths. Well Done Ethan! Jay Coleman for making wise choices to 1/2M assist him with his learning across all Thomas Lloyd-Smith for his co-operative areas of schooling. attitude he displays when working with others. Well Done! 1/2P Mia Monahan for reminding her peers to move carefully around the learning area. Way to Go! 1/2R Noah Mina for sharing his insights about the ‘Wedding at Cana’ Biblical story with his peers. First Eucharist Program

Over the course of this term the Year 3 children have been learning about the Sacrament of the Eucharist. Part of this preparation has meant attending a Commitment Mass and a Parent/Child Information Night. The children been participating in a special Reflection Day on Thursday 28th May. On this day the children will be involved in a series of rotating activities that focus on what the Sacrament of Eucharist means to them. Lastly the children have made some prayer cards that are found in St Mark’s Church foyer. Families are invited to take a prayer card and prayer for that child over the next 3 weeks. The First Communion masses are: Saturday 30th May (6pm), Sunday 31st May (9:30am), Saturday 13th June (6pm) and Sunday 14th June (9:30am). It would be lovely if families from our school community could like to one of these masses to support these children. Below are the names of the children making First Communion. Please keep them in your prayers.

Ruby Beaufort Bianca Danzo Sienna Quill Joshua Valvo Megan Phillips Alex Widman Elise Farrington Nicholas Holden Ricky Nguyen Charlotte Nguyen Claire Nguyen Tyler Connolly Caitlyn Alexander Flynn Groves Chloe Lieu Cody Goonewardene Aaron Rabaut Callani Sollis David Pham Rivali Brown Rosi Cappellari Matthew Balogh Antonio La Verde Jasmine Le Jasmine Gillam Amber Bui Jeslyn Bui Charli Benton Giulia Magagna Michael Ebejer Charlie Lalor Lachlan Trinh Seth Monahan Kosta Barlow-Papandreou Ana Santos Alexander Smythe Noah Rachor Charlotte Marchese Aspen Chamberlain Isabelle Crawford Jackson Dance Calvin Nguyen Xavier Mauerhofer Sienna Pasitchnyj Kyle Stutz Bainca Anderson Nicholas Farr Jack Ferraro Brendon Dutton Dylan Myers Sam Pertile Paul Rahilly Luke Gough Mitchell Bakker Kobe Wanigasekera Justin Samachetty Charlotte Fox Viven Owens Justin Xuereb Julian Sesa Jonathon Kotsiopoulos Stella Sciacca Rogan Kitts

AVOCADO AND CORN SALAD

Ingredients:

 2 firm ripe avocados, halved, stones removed, peeled, finely chopped  1 x 410gm can corn kernals  3 shallots, ends trimmed, thinly sliced  ¼ cup chopped fresh coriander  2 tablespoons fresh lemon juice

Method:

1. Combine the avocado, corn, shallots, coriander and lemon juice in a medium bowl. 2. Serve!

CREAMY SPINACH DIP Ingredients:

 250gms cream cheese  150ml sour cream  1 packet spring vegetable soup mix  2 tablespoons chicken stock  ½ red capsicum  2 spring onions  ½ packet frozen spinach  ¼ bunch parsley

Method:

1. Place cream cheese, sour cream, soup mix and chicken stock into a bowl and mix well. 2. Chop capsicum very finely, add to cream cheese mix. 3. Using scissors, snip spring onion and parsley very finely and add to bowl. 4. Add defrosted spinach and mix well together. 5. Serve with biscuits and vegetable sticks. POTATO AND HERB CROQUETTES

Ingredients:  4 large potatoes

 ½ cup of tasty cheese

 Finely chopped fresh herbs as available

 breadcrumbs

 cooking oil

Method: 1. Chop potatoes into approximately 1cm cubes. Boil with a little water until very soft then mash and season. Set aside and allow to cool for 5 minutes, then stir through cheese and herbs.

2. Place the breadcrumbs in a bowl. Scoop up one tablespoonful of the potato mixture and roll into a flat circular shape. Roll the croquette in the breadcrumbs shaking off any excess.

3. Place on a plate. Repeat with remaining potato mixture.

4. Add enough oil in a non-stick frying pan. Heat oil over medium- high heat around 7/8.

5. Add croquettes to the oil and cook for 2-3 minutes or until golden brown then turn to cook the other side.

6. Remove using a slotted flip to transfer to a tray lined with paper towel. Keep in oven prewarmed to 120C.

7. Repeat, in batches, with the remaining croquettes, replenishing the oil between batches. Basic bread

Ingredients:

 600ml warm water  2 tbsp honey  800gms plain flour  200gms whole wheat flour  1 tsp salt  14gms instant dry yeast  vegetable oil for oiling bowl

Method:

1. Combine the water and honey in a small bowl, and stir to dissolve the honey. 2. Tip the flour into a large bowl and add the salt and yeast. Stir once or twice with a wooden spoon. 3. Make a well in the centre of the flour, then pour the water and honey mixture into the well. 4. Stir to mix the flour and water to form a heavy dough. 5. Sprinkle flour on a clean dry surface. Pat some flour onto your hands. 6. Tip out the dough and pat all the pieces into a pile. Squash it down, using your hands to put it all together. 7. Knead the dough for 5 minutes. 8. If the dough feels sticky, sprinkle it with more flour. 9. Lightly oil a large bowl and put the dough inside. 10. Cover the bowl with a clean tea towel and leave it for at least 30 minutes in a warm place (not too hot) 11. Preheat the oven to 200 degrees celsius 12. When the dough has doubled in size, make a fist and punch straight down once into the dough to release all the air. 13. Tip your dough onto the floured surface and knead again for 30 seconds. 14. Shape the dough into a round ball and place on an oven tray. 15. Cover with a teatowel and leave to rise again for 30 minutes. 16. Put the dough in the tray with the dough in the oven and bake for 20-25 minutes. 17. After 20-25 minutes carefully take the tray out of the oven. 18. Tap the bottom of the bread with a finger and listen carefully. The sound should be a hollow ‘tonk’ like a muffled drum. Allow to cool a little before serving. Dingley Village Shops, Corner of Pauline Ave and Centre Dandenong Road.

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