Mennonite pastor Melissa Florer-Bixler connects forgiveness and restorative justice:

We are told that we choose whose world we want to live in. We’ll choose wealth or God. We’ll choose violence or God. We’ll choose nationalism or God. We’ll choose racial hierarchy or God. Each case is an example of a different and incompatible operational system. One of those systems, if we live by it, binds us in endless struggle and violence that leads to our own destruction, as well as the destruction of others….

We are asked to choose which world we want to live in—a world of retributive justice or a world of forgiveness. [Theologian] Karl Barth, reflecting on forgiveness, writes, “Living by forgiveness is never by any means passivity, but Christian living in full activity.” Barth writes that, when we finally come before God, we will not be asked to give an account of our piety or morality. Instead, we will be asked, “Did you live by grace, or did you set up gods for yourself and perhaps want to become one yourself?”

Please find attached our annual reports for your perusal.

Please see the attached document, with an announcement for the 2025 student leaders. As I said in our school assembly this week, next year will bring many opportunities for all students to demonstrate their leadership, not just those who receive a formal leadership position.

Kind Regards

Joe Kinder

Assistant Principal

On Tuesday 3rd December, we invite the school community to join us for our annual End of Year Concert. As we advised you earlier in the year, this year our concert looks slightly different to what we have done in the past, with each individual class performing their own item. Our concert will begin at 5pm and we anticipate it will conclude around 6:30pm. Please find attached the information booklet for the evening - it should be a great night!

It is important that you please check your log in for SEQTA Engage as early as possible so that you will be able to access your child's report at the end of this term.

To do this you need to go to the following site:

https://holyrosarydblv.engage.cewa.edu.au/ or follow the link from our school website to “SEQTA Engage - parents” and use your username and password credentials that you used previously.

Year Six families and families not returning in 2025, please ensure that you have downloaded or printed off any reports you wish to keep a copy of. Your child will be removed from Seqta at the end of the year, and you will no longer have access to these documents.

If you have remembered your username but have forgotten your password, please click on the 'Forgot your password' link and an immediate email will be sent to you. The email will expire within one hour, so please action this immediately.

Reports will be released on SEQTA on Friday 6 December at 3pm.

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas in Pre-Primary! 🎄🎅 Our little learners are getting into the festive spirit with some fun dramatic play, dressed in Christmas accessories and ready to spread some holiday cheer! ⭐️❤️

We ❤️ to read in our beautiful Library! 📚 As the year wraps up, don’t forget to return all borrowed books—borrowing is done for 2024. A huge thank you to everyone for keeping our library shelves full and ready for next year’s adventures! 🌟📖

Parents are reminded that the 2025 school booklists have been distributed via SeeSaw.

Please note that the cut-off date to submit your orders to Campion is Friday 6th December.

We had a wonderful time at our Library Monitors farewell and thank you morning tea. Isobel, Lauren, Lotte, Sophie, Ellah, Kenzie, Francesco, Jobe, Will, Owen, Arthur and Duke thank you all for a fabulous year and I wish you all the very best at high school and beyond!!

All books are now due back at the library. There are around 30 books outstanding, and I am most grateful for your assistance in purchasing or replacing these books over the weekend.

Thank you for your support.

Mrs Butson

“Christmas doesn’t come from a store, maybe Christmas perhaps means a little bit more.” – Dr. Seuss, How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

The Year 6’s were fortunate to have a visit from ex-Newman student and 2023 Year 12 Wellbeing Captain Belle. Belle spent time with the Seasons for Growth students and then the rest of the year group, answering questions about high school and the all-important, how to use the padlock! Belle offered some great advice, and we are so grateful to her for taking the time to visit and support our HR graduates each year. I highly recommend Claire Eaton’s seminar on starting high school for any parent whose child experiencing any anxiety about the transition to high school. You can keep a look out for her events for parents and students here:

https://www.claireeaton.com.au/events/ and more details are below.

Thank you to our amazing HR community for the incredible support of the Vinnies Christmas Appeal. We will continue this service with our Year 6 council groups next year and they are most grateful for your help to keep their pantry full.

The staff vs Year 6 basketball game at lunch was a huge hit as always. Humid conditions meant for a tough game with the staff coming out on top as always! Enjoy the next wonderful week of fun and belonging at HR.

Mrs Butson

• Last order date for home deliveries before Perm-A-Pleat Christmas closure is Tuesday 10th December 2024.
• Online orders received from Wednesday 11th December 2024 will be delivered from Monday 13th January 2025.

Every parent volunteering in a school in any capacity is required to complete this. Please click on the link below and complete the declaration form - it will take you 10 seconds, thank you.

Monday 2nd December

Year Six Graduation Mass 10am followed by a BIG morning tea at 11:30am

Tuesday 3rd December

Holy Rosary Christmas Concert 5 - 7pm

Wednesday 4th December

BIG DAY OUT

Friday 6th December

Whole School Thanksgiving Mass 9am and Final Day of Term Four

Term 4, 2024 - Monday 7 October - Friday 6 December

Hi everyone,

If you could please take a moment to fill in the survey below we would greatly appreciate it!! It will make life so much easier for us to delegate roles and have an idea of what you’re able to assist with in 2025.

Kind Regards

Your P&F

If you’d like to be kept up to date on current and upcoming events and important information from the P&F please add us on Facebook.

Please read the attachment below on how to setup an account to order lunch for your child/children from Locavora.

If you need to order a Smartrider Card for your child to travel on public transport, you can now order this online by clicking on the red button below. Please be careful when ordering as there are two Holy Rosary Schools. Our school is listed as per the below screenshot.

Our Lady of the Rosary Parish

Parish Office - 9446 2055

Father Peter Hoang OP - 0412 445 199

Email: doubleview@perthcatholic.org.au

• Five days a week during term time
• Vacation Care during school holidays
• Available for children attending Kindy through to Year Six.