St Elizabeth's News

Good afternoon parents and caregivers,

I hope everyone had a lovely, relaxing extra-long weekend and managed to enjoy some family time. On Tuesday, as a whole staff we ventured to Good Shepherd Catholic School in Kiara to participate in Berry Street Educational Model training. The Berry Street Education Model (BSEM) upskills staff, not matter what role the have in our school, with practical, classroom-based strategies to increase the engagement of all students. The model enables schools to support students’ self-regulation, relationships and wellbeing to increase student engagement and significantly improve academic achievement. One of our bold goals in our Strategic Direction Plan was to create calm, orderly and engaging places of teaching. The BSEM compliments our URStrong Wellbeing program and ensures that we are achieving our bold goal.

Wednesday was the official launch of the Archbishop’s LifeLink Day 2024. This year was the 25th anniversary of the initiative and I was honoured to be accompanied by our four Student Leaders, Erika, Donell, Faith and Axel, along with Mr Rebeiro to Newman College to participate in the official launch. Next Thursday, we will host ‘Pyjama Day for LifeLink’ where students are able to wear their pyjamas to school and asked to make a gold coin donation. All monies raised will be donated to LifeLink.

Please save the date for the St Anthony of Padua Parish, Wanneroo will be celebrating their 92nd Annual Festival and Procession which will be held on Sunday, June 16. St Elizabeth’s community will join with St Anthony’s School and the parish to form a celebratory procession starting at 2pm. It would be lovely to have a large sea of red as a strong representation of our school community in the procession.

Finally, another reminder regarding student drop off and pick up. Please be patient and ensure that you are entering the carpark safely and aware of your surroundings. Students should be dropped off and collected in Kiss and Drive, not in the driveway. Also, no student should be dropped off or collected near the front gate. Please park in the allocated bays. Thank you to those families that are adhering to the guidelines.

Wishing you all a wonderful weekend!

God Bless

Rebecca Clarke

Principal

Next awards assembly will take place next term.

WEEK 9

Wednesday 12 June

Cross Country PP-Year 6

Thursday 13 June

St Anthony of Padua Feast Day - Pyjama Day for LifeLink (gold coin donation please)

Friday 14 June

2.20pm Year 3 & 4 Liturgy - all welcome!

Sunday 16 June

St Anthony of Padua Annual Festival and Procession - Please see poster below for more information - all welcome

WEEK 10

Wednesday 19 June

2.20pm Kindergarten /Pre Primary Liturgy - all welcome

Thursday 20 June

Servite Day (wear blue)

8.45am Servite Day Assembly - All welcome

Friday 21 June

Interschool Cross Country (selected students only)

We are proud to be a URSTRONG School and are committed to empowering your children with friendship skills.

You are invited to take advantage of a FREE Parent Membership to access hundreds of resources – including an 8 session video series. This will allow you to learn the same language & strategies being taught in the classroom through the Friendology 101 curriculum. We hope that, as a URSTRONG Family, you will reinforce the important messages of empowerment, self-compassion, & kindness at home.

As a next step, we would recommend:

• Click here to view an overview of URSTRONG.
• Activate your FREE Parent Membership and explore all the resources available to your family.
• Explore the hundreds of resources available to you!

We believe that empowering our students with these skills will create a culture of kindness at our school and we hope that, together, we can support your children to have healthy, feel-good friendships.

All Uniform Items INCLUDING new faction coloured reversible hats and two pack of socks ONLY $5.00

Please come to the office to purchase on Thursday, available only until the end of this term!

limited sizes, please email admin to request or pop in.

We have a LARGE collection of lost property! if you are missing items from jumpers to hair bows, please come and look in the box outside the school office and a small reminder to please label all items!

Thank you

The Premier's Reading Challenge runs from the 6th of May to 6th of September. You need to try to read as many books as you can in this time.

It's a competition right across the state and there's some great prizes - including a Nintendo Switch.

So, everyone get on board with the Premier's Reading Challenge for 2024, Get to your books and read away!

Bookmark reading records will be coming home in library bags for children in PP to Year 6 to record all your books read through the challenge!

Use the QR code below or head to https://www.premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au/ for more information.

Thank you, Mrs Burgess

See the display outside the office of the addicted to bows range and to see the fab faction coloured bows available!

Better Health Program focuses on healthy eating, physical activity, sleep and screen time for children in their primary years. Children receive free resources and families are support by a dietician/nutritionist each week. Resources are designed by our Better Health Company qualified health professionals, and include recipe books, water bottles, sports equipment and more!

This year the Year 6 students are raising money through the Containers for Change initiative to donate to LifeLink. If you and your family have spare cans or bottles that you would like to contribute to our school collection, please scan this barcode when you are returning your containers, every container counts!

Term 1: Wednesday 31 January - Thursday 28 March

Term 2: Monday 15 April - Friday 28 June

Term 3: Monday, 15 July - Friday, 20 September

Term 4: Tuesday 8 October - Friday 6 December

Tuesday, 5 March

Tuesday, 4 June
Monday 15 July

Tuesday, 16 July (note date change)
Monday 26 August
Monday 7 October

Please note, these dates are subject to change. Parents will be notified well in advance.

Email: admin@stecps.wa.edu.au
Website: www.stelizabethhocking.wa.edu.au
Location: 30 Ranworth Road, Hocking WA 6065, Australia
Phone: (08) 9303 7600
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Twitter: @stecps