We Can’t Bypass Reality

Experiencing difficult realities while honoring our God-given dignity.

We must begin with honoring—respecting the inherent dignity and value that we and our fellow image bearers share. We honor our stories, our pain, and the actual flesh-and-blood realities we live with. There is no bypassing reality, and there is no bypassing the bodies that have carried us in and through this reality. This is where we must begin. Not because all truth is found here, but because without our whole selves there can be no true healing. When we experience difficulty through the lens of respect and dignity, we are more likely to be able to move through what comes our way.

Aundi Kolber

Hi Everyone,

We begin Holy Week this Sunday, Palm Sunday, the most important week in the Christian calendar, reflecting on our own journey.

Next Thursday, Holy Thursday, sees our children in the gym participating in the 9.00am Holy Week Liturgy prepared for them by our Year Four children. We would love you to join us.

Thank you Rob, our staff, and the record number of parent volunteers for Friday’s Years 3-6 Swimming Carnival! A great event conducted in perfect weather! Rob reviewed last year’s carnival and the changes for 2023 reflect that. Thankyou Rob for a great day!

The number of parent volunteers, evident in the canteen roster, swimming carnival, and more, is just amazing. School could not run as it does without you. Thank you so much for your generosity.

We hope you enjoyed the 'Harmony Day' photos taken yesterday - this was a lovely day for all of us!

Have a great weekend,

Mark

So much fun to see the children involved in this term’s before school Numero Club having such a good time of it. Numero is amazing! Numero Club will resume in Term Three.

No excuses now! The lines are as clear as!

Meeting the demand - the number of children who play before school continues to grow, hence the extra court. Many thanks to Dave Prior, assisted by daughter Lauren who completed the car park and hand tennis court!

Nearly done! Huge thank you to Rose and the P&F who have funded and driven this project. This part of our school gets so much use!

Finally, all the permissions are in. Arts Building is being reroofed these holidays, and the roof above Year One Dominic and the Staff Room is planned for the July holidays. Big thankyou to City of Stirling Councillor Liz Re who assisted in the part of the process at local level.

Pre-Kindy Making Jesus Real Display.

Our diversity makes Australia a great place to live. Harmony Day is a celebration of our cultural diversity – a day of cultural respect for everyone who calls Australia home. Students were encouraged to wear orange today to celebrate!

We have had quite a few children (and some staff) away the past couple of weeks and the reasons are many - covid, flu, gastro for example. Our wish is for everyone to be well and at school, but our appreciation goes to you for really helping your children to get well more quickly and to minimise the spread of sickness at school, by keeping sick children home. This means a great deal to our community. Thank you very much indeed for being so mindful.

On Monday the 18th of March the Student Leaders, along with Miss Rees and Mr Kinder, participated in the GRIP Student Leadership Conference at the Perth Convention Centre. We took part in a number of sessions, joining in with over a thousand leaders from other schools. The first session was about ‘How Everybody Can Step Forward and Lead’. In this session we talked about how to use our talents to help make change within our schools. In the second session we talked about the sacrifices of a student leader, what others may think of us, and that we shouldn’t expect anything in return for our leadership. After a quick break we continued onto topic 3 where we discussed ‘Stepping Forward With New Ideas’. We brainstormed ideas about how we can expand, improve and make a positive impact at our school. It was a great day, and all the Student Leaders cannot wait to share some of their new ideas over the rest of the year.

Written by Izzie F - Student Leader.

SEQTA Engage Parent Log-in

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 WASN number.

It will show under your Reports Tab as: STU0123456_SCSA_Number_.pdf

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

https://holyrosarydblv.coneqt-p.cathednet.wa.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.

New Families, Kindy and Pre-Primary parents were sent an email link inviting them to setup a username and password to SEQTA Engage. You will have 7 days to setup your username and password.

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.

If you forgotten both of these, then please contact the school and we can remind you of your username or re-send a link.

A reminder for all Project Compassion collection boxes to please be returned to the school by Monday 25 March.

This year's Project Compassion theme is 'For All Future Generations'. This message invites us to step up for those who do not have the essential resources they need for their survival and those whose needs at this time are far beyond ours. By putting compassion into action, we can make a difference today, 'For All Future Generations'.

The new Executive Directive from Catholic Education Western Australia requires schools to alter the Administration of Medication Request Forms for children being administered medication at school.

If your child has any medicine kept at school, please click on the link below and complete the new form.

Please use the form in the link HERE.

We appreciate the tremendous support Holy Rosary receives from our parent community, with no shortage of volunteers to help run tuckshop, school events and carnivals as just a sample. If you anticipate volunteering at Holy Rosary this year, please complete the short online form below. The declaration lasts for one year. The requirement is common to all schools.

Mon 25 March

Year Six Confirmation Retreat

Thurs 28 March

End of Term One - Free Dress

Tues 16 April

Term Two commences for students - Winter Uniform

Term 1, 2024 - Wednesday 31 January - Thursday 28 March

Term 2, 2024 - Tues 16 April - Friday 28 June

Term 3, 2024 - Wed 17 July - Friday 20 September

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

Thank you to our amazing Library Monitors and HR community for a fantastic Second-Hand Book Sale yesterday. It was a huge success and lots of fun and we raised $360.90 for Project Compassion. I hope everyone enjoyed themselves and got to take a bargain book home for the weekend! Next week is a busy term with the Scholastic Book Fair in Week Four.

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

1 x Ticket - $5

5 x Tickets - $20

10x Tickets - $40

Good Luck!!!

80’s Night is going ahead!!! Thank you to everyone who has purchased their tickets… it’s not too late to grab yours. Link below 👇

GUESS WHAT?? Thanks to the Blackman Family/Holy Rosary Dad Kane who is the Good Sammy CEO….

Good Sammy are supporting our 80s prom attendees by offering a 25% discount on 80s prom outfits at their op shops!

This applies to the Balcatta, Osborne Park and Subiaco Good Sammy’s stores only (the 3 stores closest to school).

Just show your prom invitation at the counter and receive 25% off your outfit …and anything else in that transaction! Valid from now until the ball. (Your prom invite is above)

Good Sammy’s core mission is to provide employment and development opportunities for people with disability, which aligns nicely with our school’s inclusive ethos.

Thank you Kane!! Happy outfit shopping and see you at the prom! 💃 🪩 🕺

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Discovery Kids runs the before and after school care at Holy Rosary School.

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

https://www.discoverykidsoshc.com/

Our Lady of the Rosary Parish

Parish Office - 9446 2055

Father Peter Hoang OP - 0412 445 199

Email: doubleview@perthcatholic.org.au

Holy Rosary School

Email: admin@hrs.wa.edu.au
Website: hrs.wa.edu.au
Location: 35 Williamstown Road, Doubleview WA, Australia
Phone: (08)9203 4500
Facebook: facebook.com/holyrosaryschooldoubleview