Dear Parents, Teachers and Students,

Book Week
Book Week is always an exciting time at our school, and this year is no exception! The theme for Book Week this year is Read, Grow, Inspire, and our Library has been transformed into a garden of inspirational displays celebrating children’s literature. Congratulations and sincere thanks to Mrs Broers and Mrs Patmore for the many hours of work that have gone into preparing for this special week, and well done to all staff and students for their terrific book displays. Parents and families are most welcome to visit our Library to admire everyone’s work, if you haven’t had a chance already. Todays Book Week parade was tremendous fun; it’s always entertaining to see everyone’s creative costume ideas. Special thanks to Claire Pholi, Liz Da Deppo and Camille Young, for their help preparing our sausage sizzle lunch. Tomorrow, author Barbie Robinson and Illustrator Ian Robertson will be visiting to run a book talk with 3-6 classes.

Sports Uniform
For the next two Thursdays (that’s tomorrow and Week 7), all classes will be participating in AFL clinics at school, so we will be changing sports uniform days from Friday to Thursday. For the sake of clarity, and because I’m sure some students will try to wrangle it, that’s a change of uniform days, not an extra sports uniform day. We’ll return to the usual arrangement from Week 7.


Mr Tim’s School Extravaganza
A save-the-date reminder for all families. Mr Tim is visiting Mt Carmel in Week 9 for a great celebration of the performing arts in our school, culminating in a whole-school concert on Thursday 14 September at 6pm in the PAC.


Prayer Assemblies
Next week we will be holding two prayer assemblies. On Monday 28 August, 5AH will be leading a prayer assembly for the Feast of Saint Augustine, patron of our parish, and on Friday 1 September, 4TD will be leading our prayer assembly for Father’s Day. They will both be held in the PAC at 9am and families are welcome to attend.


CWA Poster Competition
The CWA Poster Competition is open again, and this year’s country of focus is Australia! There are three different classifications of entry that students can participate in:

• Colouring-in Competition (Kindergarten and Year 1) – there are two options to choose from, either a kangaroo or an emu, which can be printed from this newsletter or collected from the school office;
• Poster (all ages) – to be completed on a large sheet or cardboard, containing pictures and information about “My Australian Home”;
• Postcard (all ages) – to be completed on an A4 page, promoting an event or feature of the local area, a template/design guide can be found in this newsletter.

All entries need to be clearly labelled on the back with the school, class and name of the entrant. Entries will be collected from the school office on the Tuesday 10 October, which is the first day of Term 4. Students may choose to keep the competition aside for a school holiday project, but late entries will not be accepted. We therefore encourage interested students to complete their entry and drop it to the school office by the end of this term.


Family Event with Andrew Fuller
Catholic School Parents Canberra and Goulburn are offering a free Family Event with renowned psychologist Andrew Fuller, being hosted at St John Paul II College on Tuesday 5 September at 6pm. There is an option for live streaming for parents and carers that are unable to attend in-person. The event aims to brings families from across the Archdiocese together and give them practical ways they can support their child in their learning. A flier with registration information can be found at the end of this newsletter.

May God’s peace be in your families, 

Michael Green
Principal

Religious Education in the Classroom
Welcome to Week 6! 5KG students are examining the key parts of the Catholic Rite of Confirmation and focusing on the statement of inquiry: How does the Holy Spirit work in my life and in the lives of others? Students will be able to identify words, symbols, actions and significance in the lives of believers. During my visit, students explored the importance of the Fruits and Gifts of the Holy Spirit. 

Year 6 visit to the ACT Jewish Community

Religious Life of Mt Carmel School

Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary and Mt Carmel Day Celebrations
Mt Carmel School celebrated the Feast of the Assumption of the Blessed Mary and the Feast Day of Our Lady of Mt Carmel with a Mass on Tuesday 15 August 2023, at St Augustine’s Church. Students participated in Mt Carmel Day activities and enjoyed a special cupcake for recess. We all had a great day!

Mt Carmel’s Mini Vinnies News
Wear a Beanie Fundraiser 2023
Thank you to all the students, staff, and families who supported this event to support our local St Augustine’s Vinnies Conference. We have raised $290!

Gospel Reflection

Luke 13:22 - The Narrow Door

In Luke’s Gospel, when asked what the Kingdom of Heaven is like, Jesus portrays salvation as participation in a wedding feast where those invited have declined the invitation, thinking other commitments are more important. It becomes a feast where those least likely to be invited - complete strangers, foreigners, sinners and the poor have pride of place. If heaven is an eternal celebration, a lavish festive table to which I am invited, I need to know that those with pride of place will be most marginalised in our society, the poorest, the sickest, the least able. The question we need to ask is do we want to feast, to share a table, for eternity with them. There’s people knocking at our door. Let’s answer and generously welcome them to a place at our table. (Greg Wilson, CSYMA Manager).

St Augustine’s Parish News

Parish Mass
Click on this link for further details http://staug-yass.org.au/wp/sacraments/.

Have a lovely week!
Eva Karakotas
Religious Education Coordinator

Love One Another

“This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you” John 15:12

Todd Woodbridge Cup
What is the Todd Woodbridge Cup? 
The Todd Woodbridge Cup is a primary school competition for Stage 2 (Years 3 and 4) that uses modified equipment, numeric scoring and mixed gender teams. 

The competition commences with school zone events followed by regional playoffs (Term 3) and finally a state final that is held at Sydney Olympic Park each year (Term 4).

The Todd Woodbridge Cup will be held at the Hume Tennis Club Yass on 30/08/2023. If you are in Year 3 or 4 and would like to enter the event, please use the link below to register.

A cost of $5 per student will be required once nominations have been made.

This event is next week so this is your last chance to register for it if you wish to play.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1JmhkyKGzWNp4UNiRaEuHZI06etO-7hqGP_Z0Z_5IzCk/edit

Archdiocese of Canberra Goulburn Athletics Carnival
Congratulations to those students who represented the Northern Region at the Canberra Goulburn Archdiocese carnival at the AIS yesterday. Congratulations to Alan McRae, David Watson, Reese Flynn, Henry Gooley, Jacob Osborne, Emmett Crocker, Sid Luckie and Connor Hackett who all made it through to the MacKillop Championships, which will be held at Sydney Athletic Centre on 18/09/2023.

Congratulations to Reese who beat the record in the 800m by 6 seconds and Henry Gooley who was awarded the U11 Boys Age Champion. 

Touch Football Gala Day
All Stage 2 and 3 students had a great day yesterday at the Yass Touch Football Gala Day at Walker Park. Everyone enjoyed themselves and had fun participating in mixed teams. Thanks to Yass Touch Association and NSW Touch for putting on such a well-run event.

AFL Clinics
AFL Canberra is kindly providing free clinics to the entire school over the next two Thursdays. Just a reminder that Sports Days for Week 6 and 7 have moved from Friday to Thursday to accommodate this. Don’t forget your uniform!

Trials
Please check the C & G website and the Facebook page for information about upcoming events https://www.sport.cg.catholic.edu.au/calendar.

Ted Dunstan
Sports Coordinator

Book Week is here!
We have had a wonderful start to Book Week. The students are enjoying visiting the library to see the displays. Thank you to the students and staff for the thought, time and effort that went into creating them for us all to enjoy. It was nice to have so many visitors to the library today. Thank you for showing your support.

Story Time
Yesterday at lunch time, a number of K-2 students joined Mrs Hall in the Library for Story Time. Everyone enjoyed listening to the short listed book 'The Best Hiding Place'. Thank you to Mrs Hall for reading to the students. 

Book Parade
The Book Parade was a great celebration today! It was lovely to see so many visitors to the school enjoying a joy-filled community event. Many thanks to the students and their families for preparing such inspiring book week costumes. 

Visiting Author and Illustrator
Tomorrow as part of our Book Week celebrations, we are fortunate to have author Barbie Robinson and illustrator Ian Robertson visiting Mt Carmel. They are an award winning team who have created three books together. All students in Years 3-6 will be attending a presentation by Barbie and Ian about how books come from concept to product, with particular reference to the way their three books were created.

NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge
The NSW Premier’s Reading Challenge has now concluded.

Congratulations to the following students who have recently completed the challenge for 2023.

Atticus Gilchrist
Jack Butt

Term 3 Dates
Book Week - Week 6 Monday 21 August - Friday 25 August

Author Visit - Sarah Davis - Week 8 Wednesday 6 September

Nat Broers
Teacher Librarian

Congratulations to the recipients of last week's Mt Carmel Awards.
 Awards will now be handed out at morning lines each Friday..

KAA Claire Kundolam Brock Flynn	KJG Evelyn Harris Meave Mondragon
1AH Elsie Townsend Rafaela Tapia-Jeffrey	1KG Benny Shoring Shasha Ramadan
2LS Johnathon Hamilton Hudson Mackay Delilah Inglis Roy Mitchell	2SS Adalyn Harvey George Pidgeon
3ER Franklin Pitt Atticus Gilchrist Esther Payne	3ML Sophie Donoghue Joshua Salzke
4SS Mabel Adie Xavier Arnold Lachlan Walker	4TD Ruby Laughton Magnus Felizardo Kalon Vu
5AH Zali Lenon Olivia Scanlon Lucas Marchei	5KG Teia-Rose Hackett Harry Donoghue
6EG Imogen Maher Josh Miller	6JR Hayden Vu Jayden Smith

If you would like order from Issue 6, orders need to be placed by tomorrow, Thursday 31 August.

 Please note that the front office is no longer able to accept cash/order forms for Book Club Orders. All orders must be placed via Loop. 

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