Queen of Apostles School

God of all creation,

as we journey together in this Great Southern Land,

we pray for healing, forgiveness and unity,

creating a path of good will, with justice and compassion.

Jesus, through the power of your love, you have given us the courage,

wisdom and strength to share our gifts and talents in humility.

In peace and understanding we reconcile with each other.

Creator Spirit, we come together in prayer and thanksgiving for the many blessings we have received. Allow your Spirit to wash over us and give us strength to walk together as one.

Currently we have a whole school focus on following school and class rules, wearing uniform correctly and general use of manners. Our teachers can spend a great deal of time dealing with these issues which then takes away from important teaching and learning time.

Managing student behaviour is the key to successful classroom outcomes. We need to support our students by proactively teaching them clearly what behaviour is expected of them and how it will help them to succeed. When our rules or routines are broken or not followed the students will have a consequence to help remind them of our expectations. Currently this consequence is time out at recess or lunch time. For more serious issues, leadership will be involved, and parents informed. It is also important to note that our teachers are using a range of extrinsic and intrinsic rewards to encourage and value good behaviour.

The targeted whole school approach has so far had a positive effect in the classroom. If parents/carers could reinforce the importance of this at home with your children, it would be greatly appreciated. I thank you for your support as we work in partnership to assist the students in achieving positive outcomes.

This week is National Reconciliation Week and the theme for 2024, Now More Than Ever, is a reminder to all of us that no matter what, the fight for justice and the rights of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will —and must —continue. National Reconciliation Week started as the Week of Prayer for Reconciliation in 1993 (the International Year of the World’s Indigenous Peoples) and was supported by Australia’s major faith communities. In 1996, the Council for Aboriginal Reconciliation launched Australia’s first National Reconciliation Week.

In 2001, Reconciliation Australia was established to continue to provide national leadership on reconciliation. In the same year, approximately 300,000 people walked across Sydney Harbour Bridge as part of National Reconciliation Week-and subsequently across bridges in cities and towns-to show their support for reconciliation. Today, National Reconciliation Week is celebrated in workplaces, schools and early learning services, community organisations and groups, and by individuals Australia-wide.

Our Grandparents and Friends Mass and Morning Tea on Tuesday was a fantastic celebration and very well attended. The students did an amazing job and were very well prepared by our teachers. It was great to have our special visitors in the classrooms and around the school. I have had some wonderful messages from parents, grandparents, staff and students saying how much they enjoyed the morning. Thank you to the P&F for organising the food, coffee and tea, they went down a treat! Well done to everyone involved.

Please remember that Tuesday 4th June is a Pupil Free Day. This is the day after the WA Day holiday. I hope our families enjoy the extra long weekend and the children come back to school ready to get stuck into the last few weeks of Term 2!

The next P&F meeting will be held on Friday 7th June at 9am in the staffroom. This is the first day meeting of the year so if you can make it we would love to have you there.

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

We have our Edu-dance Concert happening in Week 9 (Wednesday 12th June) in the Parish Hall. As in previous years, two concerts will be held to enable all family members to attend if they wish. The PP – Year 6 students will be attending both concerts.

Details of the concerts are:

CONCERT 1: 2.10pm (Years 6, 2, PP and 4)

CONCERT 2: 2.35pm (Years 5, 1, 3 and 6)

Parents and family members are asked to attend only the concert/s of their child/ren’s class. This is to ensure that everyone can attend and have the opportunity to view their child’s performance. There will be a 5-10 minute changeover at the end of the first concert to allow parents/family members to exit the hall and the new parents to enter. The Hall will open at 1.40pm.

Semester One reports for students will be available for parents on SEQTA Engage at the end of Term 2, so now is the time for you to check your login to make sure you have access.

New families from Year 1 to Year 6 and all Pre Primary families will have received a welcome email this week directing you to set up your account for SEQTA Engage. Both parents have been sent the email, however if you are happy to operate just one login for both parents, you don’t need to set up the second one. If you can’t see the email in your inbox please check your Junk or Spam folders as sometimes these emails will appear there as they are sent in bulk.

Kindy reports are sent home with the children and are not available on SEQTA Engage.

Please check your access now and contact the office if you have any problems. Don’t wait until the last week of term to check.

Lunchtimes

It has been lovely to see so many children enjoying our library on Wednesday and Thursday lunchtimes. Children can read a book, colour and play board or card games with friends. Another popular lunchtime activity is crochet. We have plenty of wool and hooks for anyone that wants to join in.

Library Closed

The library will be closed Week 7 and 8 reopening on Wednesday 12th June.

Dates for your Diary

Book week parade Wednesday 28th August

Book Fair Wednesday 11th September

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.

Grandparents Morning Tea

It was wonderful to see so many Grandparents attend the Grandparents Mass and Morning Tea on Tuesday.

I would like to say a special thank you to Aislinn Trodden for organising the morning tea and to Kerri Condon, Taryn Jepson & Orla Heffernan who helped with setup and serving.

Also to all the parents who baked or purchased the delicious morning tea for our Grandparents, we couldn’t have done it without your generous donations, thank you so much.

Queenies P&F Footy Tipping Competition

Congratulations to Darren McDonnell for your excellent tipping in round 11, please see the front office to collect your Rustico voucher and certificate.

Also in first place on the overall leaderboard is Jessica Page.

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

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