The Year 5’s created games to teach invitees from Mercy Care and RAISE.org the key word signs of the Qsign Project.. Beti, St Elizabeth's, Auslan Mentor, shared her life story. She kindly finished her talk with a question-and-answer session where students gained personal insight into the life of a Deaf person.
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Quality Catholic Education – People’s Choice Award
VOTE FOR: St Elizabeth’s entry for ‘Sacred Space’ in Religious Education category
‘Be still and know that I am God’ (Psalm 46:10). The simplicity of being still can bring us closer to God. The St Elizabeth’s Catholic Primary School sacred space has embraced the opportunity to be quiet and still with God, in His creation. The space celebrates our natural bush setting. Designated pathways were created using fallen logs from the property and the purpose of the space was defined by a simple, wooden cross. The sacred space supports personal faith formation and classroom learning. Children can reflect in the space during breaks and families can access the space for personal reflection or community prayer.
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VOTE FOR: St Elizabeth’s entry for ‘Qsign Game Day’ in RELEGIOUS EDUACTION category
Quality Catholic Education – People’s Choice Award
The 20 key words of the ‘Qsign Project’ provide basic communication of an individual’s health and safety needs and supports family interactions. This has relevance for all but especially for those in aged care.The Year Five and Six students at St Elizabeth’s Catholic Primary School, learnt the project signs and created games to teach them. A group of clients from aged care and other retirees, attended a morning of learning, followed by a shared morning tea. The ‘Qsign Games Day’ is now an annual event, providing interaction with the elderly and engaging students to support the dignity and quality of life of the participants.
We have a number of recycling projects going at our school and we encourage our families and community to join us in our efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle and to minimise the amount of waste from going into landfill.
Our recycling projects include:
1. Batteries – Trolley at top of stairs
2. Aluminium cans and bottles– part of the cash deposit scheme
3. Plastic stationery items – Year 4 room
4. Plastic bread tags – Trolley at top of stairs
5. Plastic bottle tops (washed) – Trolley at top of stairs
6. Ring Pulls – Trolley at top of stairs (we have collected 9.5kg already)
7. Oral hygiene products – Trolley at top of stairs
Lachlan, Mikayla and Alyssa have been counting a lot of bottle caps and we want you to bring in more for us to count. So far, we have collected 7052 bottle caps. Please bring in your washed bottle caps today! - By the Bottle Captains
Worm Wizz’ For Sale
Worm Wizz is available for a gold coin donation. It is surprisingly great for your garden and plants. We freshly take care of our worms so your garden will be happy and healthy. We would like you to buy more wizz so we can buy more plants to help our school grow.
By the Wonderful Worms
Here at St Elizabeth’s, you can drop off your depleted batteries, the box is at the top of the stairs just outside the Year 2 classroom. So far, we have collected 3711 batteries.
By The Battery Boys
CSPWA Term 3 Newsletter
Welcome to the latest edition of our Schoolzine eNewsletter! Visit the link below to view your newsletter:
https://cspwa.schoolzineplus.com/news?nid=47
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!
St Elizabeth's Catholic Primary School
Email: admin@stecps.wa.edu.au
Website: www.stelizabethhocking.wa.edu.au
Location: 30 Ranworth Road, Hocking WA 6065, Australia
Phone: (08) 9303 7600
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Twitter: @stecps