Holy Rosary

Last Friday was all about family! 🥰👵👴 Our students enjoyed a special Grandparents Day filled with delicious lunches and heartwarming classroom visits. A huge thank you to all the grandparents for making the day extra special! 💖✨

Author Lydia Wylie-Kellermann describes her approach to helping her children fall in love with a place:

When I think about parenting in this moment, I often think about the words from the Senegalese environmentalist Baba Dioum, who said, and I paraphrase, “You can’t save a place you don’t love. You can’t love a place you don’t know. And you can’t know a place you haven’t learned.”

I think that is some of the most important and radical work we can do as parents of young kids: help them learn the land that holds them. By doing so we are nurturing them to fall in love with this place—and ultimately that love may lead to imagination and action for climate justice….

Hi Everyone,

Thank you to everyone who attended the Annual School Community Meeting on Tuesday. This is an important opportunity to hear about so much of the work undertaken this year in this community by so many. This is what makes community real and we are so incredibly grateful for your support.

Class arrangements for 2025 were revealed this week. These take plenty of investment and I thank our staff for doing exactly that. The Transition Day has been wonderful where the children have had the opportunity to meet their teachers. Kindy ‘Get to Know You Day’ takes place on Monday and we hope that the Kindy 2025 Gang and their parents love this opportunity too!

It is P&F Party Time next Friday, on the oval 3.30-6.30. Hope to see you there!

Have a lovely weekend

Tegan Back

Short-Term Principal

Transitions this week were fantastic. Children know their classes and have had the chance to meet together and hang out with their teacher for 2025, together with the new children joining them from other schools. What a great opportunity to connect. Many I know will catch up again over the holidays, which is wonderful.

By now you will have received both the class lists together with the staff list for 2025. Class lists take a lot of work to bring to fruition and I thank all in our team for being so invested in the process.

To all of you, thank you for your contribution to making 2024 such a good year. We are truly grateful for all that you have done in your time here and wish you every success and every happiness for 2025.

And now to staffing:

Farewell!

After more than 40 years of service in Catholic Education, Mark de Kluyver is hanging up his boots ready for retirement.

Tegan Back who leaves us after three amazing years to take up a new position at St Anthony’s in Greenmount. You will be very missed Tegan.

Angela Mazzura has worked in support this semester all over Holy Rosary. Thankyou Angela! I’m sure we will see you back here!

Alex Coltrona in Year Three Catherine leaves us and we wish her an amazing!! journey ahead!

Au Revoir!

Kaity Neil in Year in Year One Dominic leaves to live and work overseas with her partner for twelve months. Kaity, we wish you both a fabulous adventure ahead!

Teresa Willett in support in Year One will be on leave for twelve months. Have a wonderful holiday Teresa!!

Sylvia Ryan in Siena is on leave for another twelve months and we wish her another wonderful year.

Welcome!

Michael O’Dwyer, Principal who is looking forward to commencing. Welcome Michael!

Maddison (Maddi) West joins us and will be found in Year One Dominic alongside Riana Hornby. Welcome Maddi!

Jason Riddle will be moving into Year Three Catherine and will be working alongside Trish Berry. Welcome Jason!

Welcome Back!

After being on leave for 18 months Fiona Ayling returns to Holy Rosary in a part time support capacity. People are so looking forward to having you back Fiona!

Our Year 2s have been hard at work writing animal reports and bringing them to life with creative dioramas of Australian animal habitats! 🐨🌿 In their technology lessons, they’ve built detailed homes for their favourite animals while learning all about their unique environments. Amazing work, Year 2! 📚🎨

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.

Year 3 is having a blast with pattern blocks! 🔷✨ Exploring patterns in math, they’re building skills in creativity, problem-solving, and sequencing—one colourful block at a time! 🧩💡

Parents are reminded that the 2025 school booklists were distributed today via SeeSaw.

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

It was a very emotional final library session with our Year 6’s this week. I read to them for the last time “Oh the Places You’ll Go” by Dr Seuss and we talked about challenges ahead, making good choices and always being kind. Their Holy Rosary friends and community will always be a big part of their lives and I hope they have enjoyed their years of library sessions (and chats). 6C made it extra special by all remembering their library bags and books and have taken out the Library Trophy for the last time in 2024. Well done to you all! I wish them all the very best for high school and the years ahead and hope they take very fond memories with them.

This week, all classes borrowed for the last time for the year. All library books must be returned by next week, Week 7 on your usual library day. Along with the books borrowed this week, there are 77 overdues. If your child has a lost or damaged library book, they must replace it by week 7. Do not hesitate to email me should you have any queries. Thank you for your support of your school library.

Mrs Butson

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who'll decide where to go...”
“Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” ― Dr. Seuss

With “Feeling and Friends” finished in 2D and all Year Four “Seasons for Growths” groups completed, connectors will continue for the other SFG groups with extra support provided to our Year Sixes preparing for the big move into high school.

Our Year Six Council Groups are still working hard preparing for the Staff v Students Basketball game as well as the Vinnies Christmas Hampers. If you can donate anything to help please add to the tub in your child’s classroom by Thursday 28th November.

Thanks for your support.

Mrs Butson

Please place your donations in the designated tub in your child's classroom or in reception, thank you for your kind genorosity🎄🥫🧴🪥🎁.

• 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 18th November

Kindy 2025 'Get to know you day'

Friday 22nd November

P&F Christmas Event 3.30 - 6.30pm

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

SAVE THE DATE!

You won’t want to miss this one.

The P&F is holding this amazing event as a massive thank you to all the HR families who have contributed to our school this year. Whether by attending an event, volunteering within the school or helping with fundraisers... Thank You!!

We will have plenty of fun activities for the kids, face painters, a silent disco, stalls, food trucks and rides.

P.S. Please note this is a private event and not open to the public.

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

Delight in a spiritually fulfilling mission. You will receive effective Catechist training - no teaching experience required. See the notice board for more information or contact Elle in the parish office.

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