“Together We Grow”

Our School Prayer

Dear Jesus Saint Elizabeth brought care to the sick, food to the hungry and hope to those in need.

Grant us the blessing that we may follow in her footsteps with love and joy in our hearts, to always be faithful and to serve with humility and compassion.

Amen

Congratulations!

On Wednesday, 9 September Oliver received the Sacrament of Reconciliation with Father Ben.

Congratulations Oliver!

NATIONAL SCIENCE WEEK

This year, National Science Week commenced on Monday 17 August through to Friday, 21 August 2020. The theme was ‘Deep Blue: Innovation for the future of our oceans.’ The week aimed to encourage young people to become fascinated by our planet’s oceans and to discover, how each one of us can be involved in caring and protecting the oceans for our future. The students were involved in many activities exploring the ocean as well as, taking part in several Science experiments. The students explored one or more of the following activities: fireworks in a jar, magic milk, dancing raisins, layers of the ocean, does it dissolve? floating egg, shaving foam rain clouds and salt ice fishing. The students also completed ocean animal mindfulness colouring activities during their daily mindfulness sessions and used ocean picture prompts to assist with their daily writing. A fun and informative science week was had by all involved! Thank you, Katie Hastie, for taking so much of your personal time to investigate and set up these science activities for the students to enjoy and learn about caring for our oceans. Gold Star Award!

Term Three - Week Nine Tuesday, 15 September 2020

St Elizabeth’s Catholic Primary School Newsletter

Bringing alive our Core Values of ‘Charity, Service, Humility and Compassion’

KINDY NEWS The kindy children planted some seedlings supplied by Mr Peter Reeves, our amazing grounds person. We planted tomatoes and celery into our ever-growing veggie patches in the early childhood area. We water them every day and check that the crows have not had too much to eat overnight!

Kindy Liturgy – Celebrating Father’s Day The kindy class invited the pre-primary students to attend our liturgy with Father Ben on Wednesday, 9 September

celebrating our fathers. It has become a day not only to honour our fathers, but all men who act as father-figures: stepfathers, uncles, grandfathers, and other significant adult males. We also remember the fathers who have been called to their heavenly home. We honour all these special men in our lives on Father’s Day.

Father Ben in his homily, spoke about Father’s Day as not just about giving presents, but remined us to tell our dads that we love them and to give them a hug. We can do this every day, thanking them for being our father figures!

National Child Protection Week 2020 Last week we celebrated National Child Protection Week. The theme this year was “Putting children first” and emphasised the need for prioritising the safety and well-being of students. To grow up well, children need to feel safe and loved, have opportunities to play and explore, have a say in decisions that affect them, and access to essential items like food, water, shelter and heath care. (Napcan, 2020) Additional to our Keeping Safe Curriculum, staff extended the learning around child safety by having class discussions and participating in an art competition where the brief for each student was to answer the statement; “ I feel safe and happy when …...”. Our students did an amazing job and it was very difficult to pick a winner from each class. Congratulations to the following winners for this year’s art competition.

Kindy Whole Class Pre Primary Ethan and Kira Year 1 Charlotte

Year 2 Isabelle

Year 2/3 Isabella

Year 4/5 Nico Pre Primary - Kira Pre Primary - Ethan

Year One – Charlotte Year Two - Isabelle

Year Three - Isabella Year Four - Nico

Supporting your children in using a Safe Technology Environment Chris Rebeiro is our Digital Technology Leader and attends meetings throughout the year with other teachers within CEWA, to keep abreast of the teaching and learning within a safe technology environment for our students. Chris has shared with us a great website for parents to assist them in guiding the appropriate use of technology with your children. Please click on this website for further information https://nationalonlinesafety.com/guides you can search most popular games, websites and apps. This National Online Safety website provides parents with a snapshot of what the application is and how it works, written by subject matter experts. The site also has suggestions for more in-depth courses if you are interested in being involved. The attached TiKTok pdf provides ample information about the website.

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Upcoming Events Wednesday, 16 September - Animal Ark Incursion, Kindy-Year One. Thursday, 17 September - School Banking. Wednesday, 23 September - School Board Meeting. Thursday, 24 September - Great Veggie Crunch and Farmer’s Day Dress Up. Friday, 25 September – School Closed, our Catholic Day

Liturgical Calendar Sunday, 13 September - Child Protection Sunday Tuesday, 15 September - Our Lady of Sorrows Sunday, 20 September - St Andrew, Kim Taegon (Priest) Paul Chong Hasang and companions

HEADS UP Thursday, 24 September Week 10 – Great Veggie Crunch

“Crunch! Crunch! Munch! Munch! Farmers are the pick of the bunch”

We now have vegetable gardens in both the kindy and pre-primary area and the central area for the students in year one to five. Kim Manov has organised a Great Veggie Crunch which the students and staff will share together. You do not need to send in the vegetables, these are provided through the Grant Kim successfully applied for in 2019. The children will also be involved in, over the day, caring for the vegetable patches and the compost units. The whole school will participate in the day, on a serious note we are trying to encourage the children to eat fruit and vegetables. Unfortunately, a lot of the lunch boxes contain packet process food. We need to work together, school and homes to ensure the children are not overweight and develop chronic illness. Simone Passera suggested, “We all dress up as farmers or gardeners and make scarecrows for our veggie patches – to keep away the crows. We will also pick and munch and crunch our harvest. Crunch! Crunch!, Munch! Munch! Farmers are the pick of the bunch” Great idea Mrs Passera! Please do not buy costumes -jeans, shorts (free dress) hats/caps will be fine. Please ensure your child/ren wear their school shoes for safety.

Running Club – 8:15 am Wednesdays Every Wednesday at 8:15am, Naomi Clarkson and I will alternate the Wednesday mornings to take the children from years two to five, who want to participate, for a fifteen-minute session on the oval to improve their aerobic fitness and allow them an opportunity to increase their muscle tone. Please note the children do not arrive to school before 8:10am. They know to leave their school bag near the front office and come to the oval for a warmup and then run at their own pace. If they arrive at 8:25am they will need to go to their classroom as this will be too late to participate. Last week we had about twenty-five children turn up! Well done Champs!

Reminders Swimming Enrolment Forms Swimming enrolment forms are due this Wednesday, 16 September. If you have misplaced your form, please contact the office as soon as possible for a replacement. We must have an enrolment form for your child, or they will not be able to participate in the swimming lessons. Thank you!

School Fees Please make every effort to pay some or all your outstanding fees for services rendered. We are almost to the end of term three. The announcement this week from our Executive Director, Dr Debra Sayce was a welcome relief for our parents to hear that Catholic school fees will remain at the current 2020 level.

School Nurse Our school nurse sends through flyers for upcoming parenting and welfare seminars quite frequently, please check our website regularly for these flyers. They are under “Communication” ‘Nurse.’

Term Four School opens for kindy to year five students on Tuesday, 13 October.

Updates for Term Four Next week, in the final Newsletter for this term, we will release some tentative dates for school events for next term. However, you need to be aware that these dates may change as we still have three and a half weeks before Term Four commences and no one can guarantee certainties given COVID -19.

‘May God bless you and keep you safe in the palm of His hand.’

Carmel J O’Shaughnessy

Carmel O’Shaughnessy Principal

Catholic School Parents Western Australia – Working for all parents in Catholic Schools

Parish News ‘THE GATHERING’ Northern Suburbs Social Group – 10: 30amThursday 17 September at St Anthony’s Parish Hall, 15 Dundebar Road Wanneroo. Following COVID 19 Guidelines In accordance with the Catholic Church Protocol. You are invited to ‘The Gathering’ our monthly social meeting of music, quiz, entertainment, and community information (Parking at rear of Church). Enjoy good old sing along music, meet new friends and hopefully win a prize. Due to COVID-19 guidelines there will no bring a plate to share. You may bring your own lunch if you wish to do so. Tea, coffee, and water will be supplied as usual. Music will be provided by Bernard Carney, OAM and John Bromfield. Special Guest Speaker, Vibe Legal – David Endersby. Registration 10.15am and $4:00 contribution. All welcome! Further information; Sean McDonagh 0431 018 388 and Jim Egan 0413 866 320.

Welcome to the latest edition of our Schoolzine eNewsletter! Visit the link below to view your newsletter: https://cspwa.schoolzineplus.com/news?nid=24 Regards, Siobhan Allen Executive Director

SCHOOL HOLIDAY PROGRAMS

October 2020School holiday fun for kids aged 2 to 12 years.

Be active, improve skills and make friends.

Enrol now at wanneroo.gov.au/kingswayschoolholidayprograms

Terms and conditions apply, see website for details.

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WEEK 1

Kindy Sports/Gym (2-4 years) Tuesday 29 September 9.30m-10.30am $13

Basketball Camp 1 (5-12 years) Tues 29 to Wed 30 Sept 9am-12pm $60

Soccer Camp 1 (5-12 years) Tues 29 to Wed 30 Sept 1pm-4pm $60

K-Pop 1 (4-7 years) Wednesday 30 September 9am-10.30am $15

K-Pop 1 (8-12 years) Wednesday 30 September 10.45am-12.45pm $20

Cheerleading 1 (6-12 years) Wednesday 30 September 1pm-3pm $20

Netball Camp 1 (5-12 years) Wed 30 Sept to Thurs 1 Oct 1pm-4pm $60

Cricket Camp 1 (5-12 years) Thursday 1 October 9am-12pm $30

Basketball Camp 2 (5-12 years) Friday 2 October 1pm-4pm $30

Tennis Camp 1 (5-8 years) Friday 2 October 9am-11am $20

Tennis Camp 1 (9-12 years) Friday 2 October 11.15am-1.15pm $20

WEEK 2

Basketball Camp 3 (5-12 years) Monday 5 October 9am-4pm $70

AFL (5-12 years) Mon 5 to Tues 6 October 1pm-4pm $60

Netball Camp 2 (5-12 years) Tuesday 6 October 9am-4pm $70

K-Pop 2 (4-7 years) Wednesday 7 October 9am-10.30am $15

K-Pop 2 (8-12 years) Wednesday 7 October 10.45am-12.45pm $20

Cheerleading 2 (6-12 years) Wednesday 7 October 1pm-3pm $20

Soccer Camp 2 (5-12 years) Wed 7 to Thurs 8 October 1pm-4pm $60

Kindy Sports/Gym (2-4 years) Thursday 8 October 9.30am-10.30am $13

Tennis Camp 2 (5-8 years) Friday 9 October 9am-11am $20

Tennis Camp 2 (9-12 years) Friday 9 October 11.15am-1.15pm $20

October School Holiday ProgramsRegistrations open Monday 31 August 2020.Enrol now at wanneroo.wa.gov.au/kingswayschoolholidayprograms

This flyer is available in alternative formats, call 9405 5645 or email kingswayindoorstadium@wanneroo.wa.gov.au

Kingsway Indoor Stadium also offers programs throughout the school term. Visit the website to find out more.