St Elizabeth's News

Good afternoon parents and caregivers,

Last Saturday, the P&F held a very successful Quiz Night. It was a wonderful night of quizzing with some great prizes on offer ... the silent auction became very competitive! Well done to the winning team and thank you everyone who were able to attend and support the fundraising efforts of the P&F. Congratulations to the P&F team and thank you to those businesses who donated prizes.

Today we recognised the Feast Day of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop and our MacKillop House Day with a sea of green. St Mary MacKillop was the first Saint of Australia, and her influence in the country has spread far and wide. She is recognised for her commitment to the poor, helping those who needed it the most in any way she could and providing an education to all children. The Year Six MacKillop students led a wonderful reflective assembly honouring St Mary MacKillop, and all students participated in various activities with their buddy class. To honour St Mary Mackillop's love of education and helping the less fortunate, families were asked to donate pre-loved uniforms in good condition which will be donated to a school in the Philippines through the charity ClutterBugs. Again, the support from our school community was astounding with bags overflowing with donations. Thank you to the MacKillop House staff for organising a great day.

A reminder that next week is our Whole School Photos Day. Students need to be looking their absolute best, with a focus on personal presentation/appearance and also wearing the school uniform with pride. Please make sure you have ordered online using shoot key FN3T95K.

Finally, with the school growing and the beginning of our double stream journey beginning next year, I would like to welcome two new staff members to our school community. Please welcome Mrs Skye Sanders and Mrs Brooke Davison to our teaching team for 2025.

Have a wonderful weekend.

God bless

Rebecca Clarke

Principal

WEEK 5

Monday 12 August

• SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS - See below for more details!

Tuesday 13 August

• SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS continue morning only - See below for more details!
  
• 1:30pm Reconciliation Year 4 (Father Peter)

Wednesday 14 August

• 1:30pm Reconciliation Year 4 (Father Peter)
• 2.20pm Kindy and Pre Primary Liturgy - in the classrooms

Friday 16 August

• Holy Communion Retreat Day - Year 4 students only (free dress)

Saturday 17 August

• Sacrament of First Holy Communion

Sunday 18 August

• Sacrament of First Holy Communion

WEEK 6

📚 BOOK WEEK 📚

Monday 19 August

• 6.00pm P & F Meeting - New Faces welcome :)

Tuesday 20 August

• 6.00 - 7.15pm - U R Strong Parent/child workshop

Thursday 22 August

8.45am Book Week Assembly and Dress Up Parade!!

Updated Term 3 Parent Planner attached below

Dear Parents/Guardians 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 Tuesday 20 August at 6:00pm. Dana Kerford (Founder of URSTRONG) will teach you and your children skills + language to foster healthy, feel-good friendships.

Registration Required: https://urstrong.com/event/language-of-friendship-for-urstrong-schools-wa-2/ *You will receive an email the day prior to 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.

Holy Communion Retreat Day - Friday, 16 August at St Anthony's

8:40am Bus Departs St Elizabeth's

2:15pm Bus Departs ST Anthony's

Students can wear Free Dress

Please bring water bottle, recess and lunch on the day

In gratitude

Emma Fernandez

The Australian Catholic Bishops Conference is undertaking a research project aimed at investigating why some Catholics do not participate in regular weekly Sunday Mass (Sunday Mass includes the Saturday Vigil). The project will provide in-depth information about contemporary religious practices and beliefs of Catholics in Australia. The insights would enable parishes, movements, and school communities to respond to the trends in participation in the Church, update the Church’s awareness and understanding of the present-day context, and enable responses and collaboration around the underlying factors for non/dis-engagement.

We would like to invite you to take part in this research. Please click on the link below (or copy and paste the link into your browser) to access information about the project, and to enter the survey itself.

The survey will run from Monday, 17 June 2024 and close on Tuesday, 20 August 2024. Thank you for considering this invitation to participate.

God Bless

Fr Peter

The Premier's Reading Challenge runs from the 6th of May to 6th of September. You need to try to read as many books as you can in this time.

It's a competition right across the state and there's some great prizes - including a Nintendo Switch.

So, everyone get on board with the Premier's Reading Challenge for 2024, Get to your books and read away!

Bookmark reading records will be coming home in library bags for children in PP to Year 6 to record all your books read through the challenge!

Use the QR code below or head to https://www.premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au/ for more information.

Thank you, Mrs Burgess

A huge thank you to all parents and friends that attended our Quiz Night on Saturday August 3rd. It was a sell out event, with some very competitive teams.

As usual, this event would not have been so successful if it weren’t for our wonderful team. Thank you to all the people who volunteered their time sourcing prizes, setting up on the day, and helping things along on the evening. Your dedication and energy are greatly appreciated.

Thank you also to all members of the school community who donated or sponsored prizes for the raffle, silent auction, our quiz champions, and our game winners.

The event raised over $5000, which will be put towards our Nature Playground.

With the Sports Carnival coming up, we will have some coloured faction accessories on sale. We will also be asking for contributions to our cake stall. Please keep an eye on Seesaw and social media for further information.

The next P & F meeting is on Monday, August 19th. We welcome any new or returning family members to attend.

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!

Term 1: Wednesday 31 January - Thursday 28 March

Term 2: Monday 15 April - Friday 28 June

Term 3: Monday, 15 July - Friday, 20 September

Term 4: Tuesday 8 October - Friday 6 December

Tuesday, 5 March

Tuesday, 4 June
Monday 15 July

Tuesday, 16 July (note date change)
Monday 26 August
Monday 7 October

Please note, these dates are subject to change. Parents will be notified well in advance.