Queen of Apostles School

Dear Lord,

On this special day, we show our gratitude for all Mothers.

We thank them for their all-encompassing love, for their commitment, care and kindness.

We thank them for their wisdom, for helping us grow and flourish.

We thank them for their strength, for their sacrifices, and for being there in times of need.

And we thank them for their encouragement, for being our cheer leaders and celebrating our achievements.

Lord, help Mothers know how much they are loved and appreciated.

We ask that you bless all Mothers, including those who are no longer with us today.

Amen.

Mrs Anderson returns from her well deserved leave tomorrow. I would like to thank Mrs Salvia for taking on and doing a great job in the Acting Assistant Principal role during her absence.

Today was Mrs Liz Kingston's last day with us after 18 years of service to the school. I would like to thank Liz for the work she has has done with everyone here at Queen of Apostles during her time. Liz will be missed but I know she is also excited by the new challenge that awaits at Clontarf College. The process to replace Liz is currently taking place and we will inform the community once this appointment has been made.

Due to the weather forecast tomorrow and staff sickness we have decided to postpone the Faction Cross Country Carnival. The Cross Country will now be held next Monday 13th May. The races will be at the same time for any parents wanting to watch and support their children. I apologise for any inconvenience caused but the health and safety of everyone in our community is of utmost importance.

Have you seen the article in the Canning Examiner about our Colour Explosion?

Check out the link below.

https://www.yourlocalexaminer.com.au/school-explodes-with-colour-and-joy/

I thank Kath Anthony for her work to promote our school and our wonderful P&F.

I look forward to seeing many of our mums and students at the P&F Mother's Day Breakfast tomorrow morning. We have a dedicated team of dads who are ready to cook up a storm and spoil our mums for their special day. I thank the P&F for organising this for our community.

The P&F are also running a Mother’s Day gift stall tomorrow. Students will be able to choose from a great selection of gifts ranging from $1 to $6. Each of the classes will take turns to buy their gifts with any leftovers being sold at lunchtime. Dads make sure you’ve got some coins/cash handy so your children can get mum a wonderful surprise for their special day.

Next Thursday (16th May) we are celebrating Queen of Apostles Feast Day as a school.

We will start the day with a Whole School Mass at 9am in the church. Ms Lesque and the Year 4's have organised this Mass and would like to invite everyone in our community to join us in the church on this day. Each class will then be completing activities where they will learn about the history of our school, complete some craft activities and have some fun. In the afternoon, the students will enjoy some tabloid sport activities organised by our Sports Leaders.

Confirmation will take place on Sunday 19th May at a special 10.30am Mass in the church. Confirmation is one of the Initiation Sacraments of the Catholic Church and helps the candidates to be united more firmly with Christ. Please keep our Year 6 candidates in your prayers during this time.

As part of our wellbeing strategy we currently implementing the URStrong programme with our students. URStrong helps our students in fostering healthy, feel good friendships and gives them a common language to use. If you would like to know more about URStrong there is an online parent/child workshop on Thursday 23rd May at 6pm. Please see the flyer later in newsletter for details on how to register. If you would like some more information about URStrong please see Mr B or your classroom teacher.

The Premier's Reading Challenge is on again this year and runs from Monday 6th May to Friday 6th September. To register simply go to premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au

I encourage you to nominate and read as many books as you can during the time period.

Good Luck!

Best Wishes

Mark Ryan

Principal

Dear Parents and Guardians,

Next week is ‘Wellness Week’ (Week 5 – Monday 13th Feb to Friday 17th May).

This is a week dedicated to promoting the physical, mental and social health of our students, teachers and community. There are some simple initiatives we are undertaking in and out of class to foster a happy and fun environment here at Queen of Apostles. Some of these include:

• Sports uniform can be worn everyday of week 5

• Extended recess Tuesday and Thursday

• Extended Lunch Wednesday

• Gummy Bears kindly provided by the P & F

• No homework for week 5

• No meetings for teachers in week 5

• Fun activities with buddy classes

• Feast Day Activities (Thursday)

We encourage families to support this initiative and discuss ways that you may be able to enjoy a calm and healthy week at home too. Are there practices that you can adopt that may continue beyond wellness week and become commonplace in your home?

Mr B.

Dear Parents,

URSTRONG’s whole-school friendship strategy has improved the social climate in schools around the world, connecting over a million kids, parents, and teachers with a common language of friendship. We are proud to be a URSTRONG School, empowering your children with friendship skills through their award-winning Friendology curriculum.

You are invited to attend an ONLINE Language of Friendship parent-child workshop for URSTRONG Schools on Thursday 23 May at 6:00pm. Dana Kerford (Founder of URSTRONG) will teach you and your children skills + language to foster healthy, feel-good friendships.

Registration Required: CLICK HERE TO REGISTER

*You will receive an email within 48 hours of the event with the zoom details.

We believe that empowering our students with these skills will create a culture of kindness at our school and we hope you can attend.

Thank you

Mr B

Dear Parents,

We have some EXCITING CHOIR NEWS and some very excited choir members.

This year, we have registered with One Big Voice and will be performing at the evening concert at RAC Arena on the 22nd of August.

Further details with regards to the concert will be sent out closer to the date, outlining the specifics and how to purchase tickets.

This event will be attended by Year 3 to 6 choir members so please SAVE THE DATE!

Thank you

Sheryl Perry

Dear Parents and Guardians

In 2024, we will again be giving our students in Years 3-6 the opportunity to participate in the ICAS Assessments.

What is ICAS?

ICAS is an online academic competition that gives students the opportunity to challenge their higher order thinking and problem-solving skills in English, Mathematics, Science, Writing, and Spelling Bee.

Every student who participates is celebrated and recognised with a printed certificate in each subject area, and an online results report to track development each year. Top performers are eligible for one of the highly coveted ICAS medals.

To learn more about this year’s exciting ICAS competition, visit: (icasassessments.com/products-icas/)

How to participate in ICAS

If you wish for your child to participate in ICAS this year, please:

1. Read about ICAS subjects and prices here: (icasassessments.com/products-icas/)

2. Read the Privacy Collection Statement below.

3. Read the terms and conditions here: (icasassessments.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/2023-ICAS-Assessments-Schools-TsCs_S2023.V6-1.pdf)

4. Go to the Parent Portal to sign up to chosen subject areas here: (shop.icasassessments.com/pages/pps

5. Enter our school’s access code – OYU794

6. Enter your child’s details, select the subject areas your child would like to participate in, then proceed to payment.

After payment is made via the Parent Payment System, you will receive an order confirmation email, please keep this for your records.

ICAS results and certificates
All assessments will be conducted online, at school. We will notify you of the date(s) that we will run ICAS assessments, and when your child’s ICAS results are ready. Your child’s ICAS certificates will be delivered to school. Once we have received them, we will present them to your child to bring home. The back of the certificate will show your child’s ICAS results and the login details, “TAP ID and Pin”. - Use these to enter the Results Portal orti.icasassessments.com/ortiStudent.

Privacy collection statement
The following information is a privacy notification about how your child’s data is kept private and secure.

ICAS Assessment is owned by Janison Solutions Pty Ltd (We, Us, Our).

To deliver assessment products, Janison will require your child’s School to obtain your consent to provide Janison with certain personal information of students. Janison will collect, store, use, disclose and otherwise deal with such personal information in accordance with its privacy policy (below). We are aware of our responsibility to protect personal information related to children and students from being disclosed when we deliver an ICAS Assessments product. Unless you, as the child’s legal guardian consents, we will not:

• collect any personal information or data of children other than the information we need for the successful completion of an assessment, test, or exam.
• transfer any personal information we obtain from a child in the delivery of assessments and tests to any jurisdiction outside of Australia.
• share any personal information relating to children with any third parties (except for those third parties necessary for us to carry out our Services or provide our Products e.g., medal engraving).
• use any personal information or data relating to children for marketing purposes.

You can view our full privacy policy at https://www.janison.com/privacy-policy/.

We may retain personal information and data relevant to a child for their future purposes or for research purposes by Janison for the duration of the school life cycle of the child. However, if you or your child at any time wish to have their personal information or data removed from our systems, they or you may opt out by simply contacting our Privacy Officer at privacy@janison.com or by contacting icasassessments@janison.com.

We are excited to be offering ICAS to our students this year and look forward to celebrating their achievements. Please do not hesitate to contact the school office if you have any questions.

Just a quick reminder that the Mother’s Day Breakfast is coming tomorrow – Friday, 10 May from 7.30 to 8.30am. Orders for the breakfast have now closed, so if you have placed your order, be sure to join us for a chance to win a door prize in the raffle draw at the breakfast!

Also, don’t forget about the Mother’s Day Gift Stall hosted by the P&F on the same day. Kids can purchase gifts ranging from $1 to $6, with a limit of one item per child. Please send cash as EFTPOS won’t be available and bring your own bag for carrying your items. Any remaining gifts will be available for purchase at lunchtime.

We would like to take this opportunity to wish all our Mum’s and Grandmothers a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday.

Congratulations to Ryan Italiano for your excellent tipping in round 8, please see the front office to collect your Rustico voucher and certificate.

First place on the overall leaderboard is Steven Heffernan.

The P&F Colour Explosion Event at Queenies was a big hit. We brought everyone together for a fun afternoon and raised over $10,000. Thanks to all the students and our community for your generous support.

A special congratulations to our top fundraisers:

· Felicia from Year 6 took the 1st Prize by raising an impressive $610.

· Georgia from Kindy followed closely with $430, securing the 2nd Prize.

Congratulations to the Kindy class, who collectively raised $1,889. They have won a well-deserved pizza party and a day of free dress!

We also want to thank these students who each won a $30 gift voucher for their efforts in raising money:

· Kindy: Ada, Chelsea, Ella, Georgia, Samuel, Thomas

· Pre-Primary: Charlotte, Gus, Noah, Rana, Yan, Zachary

· Year 1: Ethan, Lucas, Mabel, Harrison

· Year 2: Charlotte, Sharwin, Sonny

· Year 3: Emily, Evie, Hazel, Noah, Noelle, Oscar

· Year 5: Alice, Jack, Korben, Nathan

· Year 6: Felicia, Kyra, Min Jae

We want to say a big thank you to Dr Jags Krishnan MLA, Member for Riverton, for donating a bike voucher from Georges Bikes Willetton; Beyond Skate Cannington for the skateboard and clinic vouchers; and Chris Lark from Running Works for the inflatable arch that marked our course.

A big thank you to our P&F volunteers, too. Your hard work made this event happen.

Thank you again to everyone who took part and helped make the Queenies P&F Colour Explosion Event a fun and unforgettable day!

Dear Parents,

The Catholic School Parents WA Inc (CSPWA) Annual General Meeting will take place on Saturday the 8th June, as part of our 70th Anniversary conference.

We are currently in the process of setting the agenda and so we are calling for agenda items or motions to be included. Please forward any items to admin@csp.wa.edu.au by Friday 24th May.

We also invite members from schools who are financially affiliated with CSPWA to consider nominating to Council at the AGM. In addition to contributing to the work of council at state and local level, Council members have the opportunity to represent CSPWA on national, state and Catholic education sector committees and working parties according to their experience.

If this is something you might be interested in or if you would like to find out more, please contact Siobhan Allen, Executive Director CSPWA on 0409 025 683.

Please find below the link to the 2024/25 Council nomination form.

Councillor Nomination Form 2024-25

The event is a great opportunity to chat to City of Canning representatives, WA Police, Neighbourhood Watch WA, Department of Fire and Emergency Services, State Emergency Service, Department of Transport and more. There will be information, giveaways and educational activities for all ages, including interactive displays and live demonstrations from a variety of stallholders.

What to Expect:

• Emergency Vehicle Tours: Meet your local Emergency Services and enjoy a free interactive tour of a Fire Truck and State Emergency Response Trailer 🚒

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• Competitions and prizes 🏆

• Ranger Buddy mascot appearance 🐶

• Lawn games 🎳

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