St Elizabeth's News

NEWSLETTER | TERM 3 | WEEK 10 | 19 SEPTEMBER 2024

Dear Parents and Guardians

Wishing all parents, staff, and students a very happy and safe holiday break after a very busy term of learning!

Thank you to our wonderful students for all your hard work this term, and to our dedicated staff for their planning and effort in organising so many fun and educational activities. Highlights included; the Beginning of Term Mass, Kindy and PP First Athletics Carnival, MacKillop House Day, Assemblies, Year 1-6 Athletics Carnival, Class Liturgies, First Holy Communion, various incursions and excursions, Community Open Night, Book Fair, Book Week, and Loud Shirt Day, to name a few.

Next Term we welcome back Mrs Clarke from her fabulous European Holiday!

Thank you all for a fantastic term! Enjoy the break, and we look forward to seeing you all refreshed and ready for Term 4! Just a reminder that school commences on Tuesday, 8 October.

Athletics and Interschool Athletics Carnival Update

This year we were lucky enough to hold our Athletics Carnival at Mater Dei College. It was fantastic to have the opportunity for our students to run on the fill size track. The support of the students and their efforts on the day were fantastic. Thank you to all the parents that attended on the day and thank you for your patience through the rain delays. This year we are taking a team of 58 students to the Interschool Carnival in Term 4, if you child has been selected, they should have brought home a letter with the information about the day

Following some extra events performed at school after the carnival, I am now excited to announce the Runner Up and Champion. Boy and Girl for students in Year 3,4,5 & 6. The points were calculated based on race divisions and individual events and we had some extremely close results.

Year 3

Runner Up Champion Boy – Tyler and Jack S

Champion Boy - Lucas

Runner Up Champion Girl - Evelyn

Champion Girl - Kunashe

Year 4

Runner Up Champion Boy – Jack O

Champion Boy - Joel

Runner Up Champion Girl – Faith

Champion Girl - Ruby

Year 5

Runner Up Champion Boy - Jordan

Champion Boy - Ben

Runner Up Champion Girl - Aoife

Champion Girl - Ella

Year 6

Runner Up Champion Boy - Axel

Champion Boy - Donell

Runner Up Champion Girl - Makayla

Champion Girl – Muku

Well done to all of our athletes, it was fantastic to see the good spirits and competitiveness throughout the day, I can’t wait to see how we go at our next challenge of Interschool.

Our Sportspersonship Award

MacKillop Faction (Winner)

Faction Points and Winner

1st Place – Servite with 1823 points (Winner)

2nd place – Assisi with 1615 points

3rd Place – Vincent with 1594 points

4th Place – MacKillop with 1436 points

Well done to all students for their efforts on the day and good luck to those students representing St Elizabeth’s in the Interschool Carnival next term.

Chris Rebeiro - PE Teacher

VACSWIM

VacSwim programs range from 5 to 10 days in length. Your child can learn to swim in a safe and enjoyable environment at venues across WA. Enrolments for the VacSwim summer programs open on 21 August.

January Program 1

Monday 6th to Friday 17th January 2025

10 days, 35-minute lessons

January Short Program

Monday 13th to Friday 17th January 2025

5 days, 35-minute lessons

January Program 2

Monday 20th January to Thursday 30th January 2025 (no lesson on public holiday Monday 27th January) 8 days, 45-minute lessons

Have a wonderful afternoon and enjoy the beautiful weather over the holiday break!

In gratitude

Emma Fernandez

Acting Principal

Week 10 Merit and Christianity Award Winners

Pre Primary - Oliver and Eleanor

Year One - Ostin and Pantelia

Year Two - Mason, Ethan and Silas

Year Three - Klay, Evan and Dominic

Year Four - Fraser, Lucia and Ava

Year Five - Lachlan, Oliver and Aoife

Year Six - Jaxon (Week 9)

Congratulations to all of our Week 10 award winners!

Running Club Badges

Congratulations to Madison Yr5 and Ethan Yr3 for receiving your 25km badges today. Great running you two!

Week 10

Friday 20 September - 9.00am - End of term Mass Years 3 - 6 at St Anthony's Church - All Welcome.

Friday 20 September - Last Day of Term!

Monday, 7 October - School Closed (Staff Development Day)

Tuesday, 8 October - Term 4 Begins for Students

Term 4 Parent Planner attached below

Please note - we do our best to plan ahead, however there may be occasions where these dates change. Thank you

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Catholic Education WA Priorities

Western Australia is the only State in Australia which does not provide any capital grant assistance to non-Government schools. Much of the capital costs, such as new buildings and playgrounds, are made possible through fees and fundraising efforts from parents, like the Bake Sale at yesterday’s Faction Carnival.

As we approach the State Election, Catholic Education WA seeks a commitment from the Government of Western Australia for an annual capital grant of $25 million for Catholic schools and an injection of funds to support capital works in the Kimberley regions where CEWA is the sole provider of education. Please see the below key facts to assist all parents to be advocates for their child’s Catholic education.

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St Anthony's Parish Website

Swimming Lessons - Term 4

Swimming lessons commence in early term 4 for years 1- 6 . Swimming enrolment forms and information letter went home this week in communication bags.

Please return the forms by Friday 20 September. Thank you

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LOST PROPERTY

Our Lost property box is over flowing with jumpers and hats and hair accessories and keyrings!

Please come and look through the box located outside administration by the end of term.

Please label every item of clothing, especially Jumpers and hats!

All items not collected or claimed by the end of term will be donated to charity! Thank you

Uniform Reminder

With the warmer weather ahead and heading into term 4 , please make sure you are heading to Tudor uniforms in Wangara for all your uniform purchases. A reminder that now is great time to purchase summer uniform in preparation for next year too, where our new uniform will be compulsory for all years.

Uniform Information

Semester 2 Uniform Days

A special big special big sincere thank you to all our generous families who attended and donated books to our Library at our Book Fair this year. Your kind “Charity” will now enrich our students with their education. We are so thankful! We managed to sell a massive $5,020.00, giving our school a whooping $1,757.00 to spend on brand new books for our school library!

Our Scholastic Fair winners of the colouring in competition are as follows:

Harper (Kindy), Annie L. (Pre-Primary), Ava (Year 1), Lincoln (Year 2), Mia (Year 3),

Faith (Year 4), Sammy (Year 5) and Gloria (Year 6).

Congratulations to our winners!

Our Lolly Jar winner was Locklen with the exact amount of 408 Lollies. He had help from a valuable class member Donell. They used mathematical equations to work this amount even though we know it is still the maths of chance.

We truly appreciate all those parents who have given up their time to cover books for our library. You all are fantastic role models for your children. Thank you.💖

Kind Regards

Alli Burgess

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Tea Towel & Apron Fundraiser

The P & F are excited to introduce the 2024 St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School limited edition tea towel and apron designed by all our students and staff.

Can you spot your child's drawing? 🤩

They are available for purchase through Expressions Fundraising online only through the link below!

Orders close October 22nd. These will make great gifts for Xmas.

Towel and Apron Order here!

🚗 🚗 Car Bay Raffle Winner! 🚗 🚗

Thank you everyone for picking your number and fundraising in our car bay raffle - you will see the spot filled by Ruby (yr2 ) & Beau's (PP) family in their assigned bay! VIP parking here we come! 🚗

Dear Parent and Carers,

This 2024 survey is a follow up to a similar survey conducted by Catholic School Parents Australia (CSPA) in 2022, which was completed by 6,286 Australian Catholic school parents.

The parent views and experiences shared through the 2022 Parent Survey on Student Wellbeing and Learning, helped CSPA to advise the Australian Government, the National Catholic Education Commission (NCEC) and State, Territory and Diocesan Catholic Education Offices on key issues concerning parents with children and/or young people in Australian Catholic Schools. The 2022 survey clearly identified the concerns that many parents/carers have for their children’s wellbeing.

By completing the 2024 survey, you will be helping CSPA to continue reporting on existing and emerging affirmations/challenges, in relation to the wellbeing and learning of our school-aged children.

It is only by having your voice heard that you can make a difference and influence decisions. We have noticed that wellbeing is now high on the agenda for most of our school communities, for both staff and students and in many cases the wider community - this is a positive step forward for which we are most grateful.

To continue to inform the discussion please feel free to complete this current survey by clicking on the link or scanning the QR code: 2024 National Parent Survey

Regards,
Siobhan Allen
Executive Director

Families Webpage / Handy Links / Church and Sacraments

Containers for Change

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!