Catholic Primary School

Volume 32 21st October 2016

Tuesday 25th October

Wednesday 26th October

Thursday 27th October

Friday 28th

October

Mater Christi Catholic Primary School 340 Yangebup Road Yangebup WA 6164 PO Box 3077 Success WA 6964

Telephone: (08) 9417 5756 Facsimile: (08) 9417 9092

Email: admin@mcps.wa.edu.au Absentees Email: absentee@mcps.wa.edu.au

Website: www.mcps.wa.edu.au

Dates for Next Week Monday

24th October

Saturday 29th October 9-10.30am

First Reconciliation

Sunday 30th October

BOOKFAIR

9am Mass (2B)

Yr9 Emmanuel visit

Yr1 Maths Diagnostic Testing NDA

Yr5 CSL

Dear Parents and Carers This term continues to be an exciting one with students and teachers building on and consolidating new learnings. The teachers continue to gather data through a variety of methods including standardised assessments to gauge students’ progress since the beginning of the year. This data is used to continue to build on student learning, as well as being used as a tool to report to parents at the end of the year and to the 2017 class teacher during handover meetings. School Board and P&F Nominations We welcome parent support and participation in the key roles of the P&F Executive, including the very vital Class Parent Representatives, and as members of the School Board. If you would like to nominate for a position for next year please read the information which can be found further along in the newsletter. World Teachers Day On Monday we will celebrate this significant event with All our staff.

On this day we think of all the work that Teachers, Assistants, Specialists, Office, Grounds and Canteen Staff do everyday in our school.

We thank and appreciate the caring, dedicated and enthusiastic staff we have at Mater Christi – staff who enjoy their work with children and happily complete all that is necessary to the best of their ability for the welfare of our children.

To all staff – You are the Difference, Thank you.

God Bless… Toni Kalat

9am Mass (5A)

World Staff Day

KA/KC Screening

BOOKFAIR

School Banking

Uniform Shop Open 8am to 10.30am

1.20pm to 3.20pm

BOOKFAIR

9am Assembly (Merit Awards)

3pm An Afternoon on the Green (P&F Free Family Event)

9am Mass (4C)

KB/KD Screening Rechecks

Parish News Sacrament of Penance – Rite of Reconciliation Please keep the children receiving the Sacrament of Reconciliation in your prayers at this special time.

Dates Times Saturday, 22nd October 9-10:30am Saturday, 29th October 9-10:30am Saturday, 5th November 9-10:30am Saturday, 12th November 9-10:30am

Religious Education Sacrament of Penance – Rite of Reconciliation This Saturday, 22nd and 29th October, 5th and 12th November the children in Year Three will be receiving the Sacrament of Penance – Rite of Reconciliation - for the first time. The children have been preparing to receive this Sacrament for many weeks, please keep the Year Three students, their families and their teachers in your prayers. Once children have received the Sacrament of Reconciliation they can collect their certificates in the Church foyer prior to the commencement of Mass over the weekend – Sat @ 6pm, Sun @ 8am, 10am & 5pm. At each of the Masses Father Dat will formally congratulate the children and the congregation will also acknowledge them. Mass On Tuesday, 1st November we are celebrating a Whole School Mass at 9am prepared by Year Two. Families and friends are welcome to attend. We will be celebrating the Feast of All Saints. The Saints were astonishing people who lived their lives with the Lord as their total focus. Best Wishes Courtney Dunsire Assistant Principal Religious Education

Our prayers and sympathies to Mr and Mrs Hall, Keegan (3C) and Nathan (1B) on the loss of their Great Grandmother. Let us keep the Family in our prayers. May their loved one rest in the peace and love of God Our prayers are with all families and those in our community who are in need.

New Reading Books!

Our school and the P&F have recently purchased some new reading books. We would love volunteers to help cover all our new resources. If you would like to help cover the books, please see Miss Emily Richards in the library.

Thank you!

Kindy Term Four is going to be filled with fun and excitement as we extend our skills that we have learnt throughout the year and become prepared for Pre-Primary!

We are continuing to focus on a story each week and will be making lots of wonderful creations relating to these texts, exploring different mediums and also Christmas craft.

Our focus points are: • Speaking in short sentences, news telling and

narrative retell skills. • Learning the sound of the letters

S,A,T,P,I,N,M,R,C,H,E,D,K,F,L,O,B,U,G • Beginning to sound out three letter words with the

letters above. • Awareness of print concepts. • Exploring the mathematics concepts of money,

numbers, counting, ordering, addition, subtraction, sharing, fractions, graphs, patterns, subitising and using calculators.

• Making Jesus Real in our lives and learning about the Church, families, Catholic life and the Christmas story.

• Developing our fine and gross motor skills.

News telling/ Sound Development During the literacy rotation activity time each week Kindy children will continue with news telling.

At the beginning of the week we ask that Kindy children continue to bring in one item (with their name marked on it) that begins with the letter/sound of the week.

An outline for the letter/sound is as follows:

Week Letter/sound 2 Letter H items. 3 Letter E items. 4 Letter D items. 5 Letter F items. 6 Letter L items. 7 Letter O items. 8 Letter B items.

The focus of your child’s news telling is to describe the object. Children need to provide pieces of information about their object including its colour, shape, size and parts, along with the greeting and thank you.

When practicing news encourage your child to use full sentences rather than just one word when providing information about the item.

Kindy Con’t

Essential Items to bring in this term:

It is required that each child brings in the following items by week four:

• 1 White pillow case for Christmas craft • Toy catalogues

Important Dates for the term Some important dates to be aware of for this term:

• Mini Marathon – Kindy A/C - 19th October , Kindy B/D - 21st October.

• Bookfair – 26th October – 31st October. • Grandparents Day- Kindy A/C - 11th November

12pm. • Volunteers Morning Tea – 2nd December. • Transition to Pre-Primary – 5th December (all

Kindy children) 9-10.30. • Big Day Out – 6th December 9.30 – 11.30. No

afternoon session on this day. • Kindy Farewell – Kindy A/C - 7th December 2.30 –

2.55 in the classroom (Last Day of Term 9th December).

• Kindy Farewell – Kindy B/D - 8th December 2.30 – 2.55 in the classroom (Last Day of Term).

Parent Roster

Thank you for all support with parent roster last term. We really appreciate having parents in our classrooms. Our parent roster is from 9:00am to 11:45am. The first forty minutes involves our literacy groups. These activities are essential for your child’s language development and readiness for Pre-Primary. To ensure smooth operation of our groups, it is very helpful to have parent helpers, so if you can only stay for these rotations please still place your name down on the roster. It is okay to leave early if you need to.

We look forward to another wonderful term with you and your child.

Pre Primary What a busy and exciting term we are going to have in Pre-Primary!

Our theme for the first half of Term Four is ‘Jungle Animals’ We have many exciting activities planned and our learning will culminate in a visit to the Zoo to observe the animals in their habitats.

In addition to this we will look forward to revising and consolidating our learning as we work towards becoming independent readers and writers.

In the last few weeks of term we will enjoy many and varied activities based on Christmas.

In Religion we will discuss the Christmas story and the reasons why God chose to send Jesus to earth. We will conclude the year by transitioning the children into their new Year One classes and then in celebration of our year together we will have a fun ‘Big Day Out’ at Chipmunks indoor playground!

Drama

This Term in Drama the students will prepare for the end of year concert. Each year level will go through the process of a rehearsal schedule. Learning choreography, practising, collaborating as a group and putting the song and dance routine together for a performance as a whole school.

Both Junior and Senior students will also be given the opportunity to further develop their Creativity with the focus on Process Drama. Where groups of students collaborate within role-play situations to explore and express ideas with the use of props and materials.

Making Jesus Real

With the beginning of this last term for 2016, the importance of reflection is encouraged as we keep our focus on the important question - Where was Jesus in my Life today?

The students are taught about the importance of including people, about

body language, eye contact and the importance of forgiveness and gratitude. With a welcoming attitude and the willingness to say sorry and thank you our students and teachers Make Jesus Real at Mater Christi.

Our Focus - Social Decision Making

Developing social decision-making skills helps us to consider the consequences of our actions for ourselves and others and helps us to make thoughtful, effective decisions. This involves:

• Understanding how a social situation makes us feel

• Considering the different choices, along with the positive and negative consequences of these actions, when making a decision

• Making positive choices, while considering how these choices may affect ourselves and others

Through explicit teaching and role play the children will be learning how to respond safely as a bystander in a bullying situation.

The students are learning that to support someone when you see bullying happening has two benefits;

1. It helps the person being bullied

2. It sends a clear message to the person engaging in bullying behaviour that this behaviour is not tolerated in our school.

PE

Term four is a short one but we are going to pack a lot of things into it. The students will get to try their hands at a number of different sports. The senior students will be partaking in some cricket, netball and potentially some European handball. The ankle biters (juniors) will get to play some cricket, basketball and a variety of movement games.

At an Interschool level the school will be participating in two carnivals namely the Athletics and Cricket Carnivals. Training has already commenced for the Interschool Athletics and the students are raring to go.

Ryan Donnelly HPE Specialist

School Fountain The new school fountain has been closed temporarily for maintenance due to foreign objects being lodged in the fountain. We ask that when the fountain is re opened that children are watched closely so the problem does not re occur. Thank you

Purchasing of Student MacBooks

A reminder that payment of $300 is due to the office by Monday Week Four (31st October). Thank you to those that have already paid. Katie McNally IT Co-Ordinator

Year One Welcome back to Term Four! The children had a great start to the term. We can’t believe how far they have come since the beginning of the year, we are very proud! This term we are looking forward to our incursion in Week Six and our Big Day Out towards the end of the term. Advent is always an exciting time of the year as we prepare to celebrate the birth of Jesus. The Units of Work we will be covering in Religious Education this term are: Loving Others, Just Imagine and Prepare. In literacy we will continue to explore a range of text types including fiction, non-fiction, procedural and persuasive texts. We will keep practising our reading and comprehension skills. In writing we are working on our sentence structure, using punctuation effectively and applying our knowledge of spelling sounds and sight words. In numeracy we are focusing on statistics and probability and building on the number of mental strategies we can use to solve addition and subtraction problems. We will alsorevise the various concepts taught throughout the year. Let’s finish the year strong!

Year Two Welcome back to our fourth and final term together, I can't believe we are here already! This term promises to be an exciting one as the warm weather makes it all that much easier to get up in the morning. We will be going on an excursion to the Zoo and Big Day Out promises to be a great day for all :) This term we will be learning about: Religious Education- Empowered to Love (Confirmation) and Truth of the Gospel (Advent/Christmas) Literacy - Exposition and persuasive writing and reading comprehension strategies Numeracy - Mass, chance and data, and number and operations revision Inquiry - Our nation and the Noongar culture

Year Three The term ahead is definitely a busy one for the Year threes. We begin the term with final preparations for the Sacrament of Reconciliation and then we move into our final units of work for the year, Gathered As One (Church) and Gifted By The Word (Advent/Lent). During Literacy we will tackle both Poetry and Myth, Legends and Fables with the students. Our Numeracy program sees us continue to focus on number and place value with students revising and consolidating concepts such as addition, time, subtraction, multiplication and division. Our HASS program takes us back to in time as we explore the past and present. In Health we will be focusing Protective Behaviours. We are looking forward to a fantastic term in Year Three.

Year Four It’s the home stretch! Term Four sees our amazing students round out their final nine weeks before the long break; however, there is little respite as this term shapes up to be absolutely jam-packed! In Religious Education, students explore their conscience and how their inner voice affects how they act. They also learn about advent in the lead up to our Christmas celebrations. In Mathematics we take a close look at Capacity, Mass and Temperature, as well as Statistics and Probability. Later, we delve into Angles and Mapping and finish the term with some Word Problems and Patterns. In Writing, Students will work to create persuasive texts, developing tools to effectively argue their opinion on a range of topics. In Reading, we take a look at a variety of texts to consolidate the reading comprehension strategies taught throughout the year. HASS sees students investigating the effects of European Settlement on Indigenous Australians, culminating in an exciting opportunity to create some 3-D art made from recycled materials. In Health, our school counsellor, Rebecca Rowland is working through the Highway Heroes program with students to help build resilience and be stronger, more confident people. This Term is set to be a cracker and we can’t wait to see what the students achieve!

National Assessment Program-Civics and Citizenship (NAP-CC) This year, a sample of Year Six and Year Ten students from across Australia will take part in a national online sample assessment in Civics and Citizenship. The NAP–CC sample assessment supports the goal of Australian schooling that students become active and informed citizens. In doing this, the assessment collects information about students’ civics and citizenship-related knowledge and understanding, attitudes, beliefs and behaviours. The purpose of the online assessment is to inform schools, education ministers and the community about the levels of student achievement in civics and citizenship education among Year Six and Year Ten students across Australia. As one of the nominated schools across Australia, 20 students from our Year Six classes have been randomly selected to take part in this assessment. If your child is selected to take part, he or she will participate in a world-class assessment designed by education experts in civics and citizenship. The online assessment, scheduled for Monday 24th October, is not a reportable assessment within our own school reports, and as such any last minute preparation is unnecessary. If you have any questions about the NAP–CC sample assessment please feel free to contact me, alternatively further information is available at www.nap.edu.au

Thank you Nicole Cloutt Acting Assistant Principal Admin

Year Six Term Four is tipped to be our busiest yet. There is a lot going on and there won't be any time to take it easy. We have hit the ground running at our final athletics carnival and we are already preparing for our graduation with weekly dance lessons.

In Religious Education we are enjoying participating in Parish Masses, as we deepen our understanding of prayer. We are also looking forward to the season of Advent which is rapidly approaching.

In our Numeracy Dedicated Time, we are rolling the dice, taking a chance and recording the data! Human calculator status is near, as we put our decimal knowledge into practice, converting a variety of metric units of measurement. Deep down in the dark alley of doom...we hope to thrill you with our short story narratives. Gruesome, gory and ever so frightening.

Literacy will also see us delving into ‘Wonder’ by Raquel J. Palacio as we analyze figurative language and deepen our understanding of comprehension strategies. The Year Sixes are excited about their final term in primary school and are working hard to make it their best yet!

Year Five What a whirlwind of a year it has been.

This term is not for the faint hearted. We have begun with a bang, with all year five classes being set up in a contemporary learning style. This means that students do not have assigned seating and utilize the pigeon holes in the classrooms to store their belongings. This layout allows students to determine where they want to work and what style whether it be individually, in a small group or with the whole class. By exposing students to this in term four, we hope to improve their transition to year six. We are beginning the term off by looking at reviews, recounts and procedures.

In Mathematics we are focusing on location and transformation, as well as patterns and algebra. In Health we are exploring safety and in Digital Technology we are experimenting with Scratch. In History we are going back in time and learning about the first fleet and key events in Australia’s history.

The Religious Education units of work we are teaching are ‘The Church Community’ and ‘Helped By The Word.’ We are busy preparing our assembly item for week seven and looking forward to our big day out excursion to Rosemount Bowl and Hyde Park at the end of the term.

Christian Service will continue this term as the festive season students will be sharing in the joy of Christmas with our elderly community.

TERM 4

Wednesday 26 - 28 October and Monday 31 October

Before school: 8:00-9:30am After School: 2.30-3.30pm

Picture Books, Novels, Activity Books, Fiction, Non-Fiction and more!!!

Eftpos and cash will be accepted on site.

‘My Wish List’ forms are available for parents that can’t make the book fair. Children will be able to view books on sale during their library time. They can fill out their ‘Wish list’ form to bring home and discuss. Credit Card payments can be made online and then children can bring in the receipt number to collect

their purchase.

Book Fairs are rewarding for our students and our School. It is a great way to celebrate reading and earn valuable resources

for our school through the rewards earned from sales.

2017 Booklists The stationary requirements list for 2017 have been sent home with the Students. The hardcopy booklist orders need to be returned to school on or before the 28th October and online orders close on the 1st November. We encourage you to order using one of these methods as we get a rebate via our booklist provider, which is used in a variety of ways to benefit our students. Homework Satchels, Library Bags and Desk Mats are on the list again for next year and only for those classes, where a request was made by a Class Teacher. If in good condition these items can be retained from previous years. If you do not require any items, all you need to do is cross them off the list. Copies of the lists have also been placed on the Class Portal area of the school website. Thank you Nicole Cloutt Acting Assistant Principal Admin

2017 School Board Nominations

This year we will are seeking nominations to fill three positions on the Board and would really like to hear from at least one person with an Accountancy background or Architecture Industry background or knowledge.

Nomination forms can be requested at the school office and are due by 3pm Friday 11th November.

Criteria for Board Membership

As per the Catholic School Board Constitution the following are criteria for Board membership:

(a) possession of special skills that will be an asset to the Board;

(b) a deep interest in the welfare of all students and staff;

(c) a desire to give service to the Catholic School Community;

(d) a keenness to promote Catholic schooling;

(e) an ability to work cooperatively and constructively with all other members of the Board; and

(f) a sufficiency of time to devote to Board duties.

The Board meets on the Third Tuesday of the Month at 7pm.

Music

Welcome back to the best term of the year… TERM FOUR!

Preparations are underway for the 2016 Mater Christi End of Year Concert. Students from Pre-Primary to Year Six will be preparing for our annual concert during Music and Drama lessons. More information regarding times and costumes will be placed in the newsletter further in the term.

During music lessons our junior students will focus on the following musical elements: beat, rhythm, dynamics and tempo. Our senior students will be researching and presenting information about music from around the world.

Our Instrumental Programme is up and running. Forms to learn an instrument in 2017 will go out in week Seven, so please keep an eye out.

*Please note that students do not automatically stay in the Instrumental Programme. You must re-enroll your child if they wish to continue in 2017. Please feel free to come and see me in the Music Room if you have any further questions.

I look forward to seeing you all in the Music Room. Ms Alison Ross Music Specialist

MATER CHRISTI CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

2017 P&F ASSOCIATION

Nomination Form

I wish to nominate for election to the P&F Association Committee

Name: ______________________________________________________________________ Mob: _______________________________________________________________________ Signature: ___________________________________________________________________ Position Nominating For: President Vice President Treasurer Secretary General Committee Member Reason for nomination: __________________________________________________________ Seconded by: __________________________________________________________ Signature ___________________________________________________________________

Please return to school office by 3pm Friday 11th November 2016

P&F News

Our P&F thrives on the support of many members of our community, and for 2017 we invite you to consider nominating for a position. This is the current situation: The School Board and P&F Annual School community Meeting (AGM) is scheduled for 7.00pm Wednesday November 23rd in the Mater Christi Community Centre. • All positions will become vacant at the meeting. If more than one candidate is put forward for any one

position an election will take place. • We hope to get nominations for all of the positions this year. Please consider supporting your school

through the P&F! If you would like to nominate for a position please have the form below completed and returned to our office by 3.00pm Friday 11th November.

Teresa Lawson P&F President

Science Where did the year go, Term Four already!!

Earth and Space are the science topics this term. Our focus is also on the Students Science Inquiry Skills and seeing how well they have developed over the year.

It is a very full term so maximum concentration is needed encouraging some reading on the topics is always helpful.

Finally, if anyone has any spare square ice cream container lids could you please drop them into the Science lab and say Hi!

Thanks and enjoy the term

Brendwyn Ziegelaar

Year Level Topic overview

PP

Weather in my world. - Weather Students develop an understandings about;

• the air, sun and wind. Students will investigation;

• how the characteristics of weather affect their daily lives.

1

Up, down and all around - Seasons Students explore;

• natural, made and managed features that undergo change. Students investigate;

• the daily, weekly and seasonal changes in their local environment.

2

Water works. - Water Students develop;

• an understanding of, and appreciation for, a precious natural resource. Students explore;

• how water is used, • where water comes from • how to use it responsibly.

3

Night and day. – Rotations of the earth / moon /sun. Students explore;

• The sizes, shapes, positions and movements of the Sun, Earth and Moon. They investigate;

• How shadows change throughout the day and link these changes to the Sun’s apparent movement across the sky.

• explain night and day in terms of the Earth spinning on its axis.

4

Beneath our feet. - Erosion Students explore;

• how natural processes and human activity shape their surroundings. • understanding of soils, rocks and landscapes and how they change over time.

Students investigate; • factors that affect the erosion of soils.

5

Earth’s place in Space – Rotation of the planets, space, solar system Students explore:

• how the patterns in the sky relate to days, months and years. • How observation and models can be used to shape ideas.

Students also investigate: • The elements of our Solar System and Earth’s position within it.

6

Earthquake explorers. – Creators and Destroyers. - Students develop;

• an understanding of the causes of volcanic eruptions • structure and formation of volcanoes • how they change the Earth’s surface.

Students explore : • viscosity of magma and its relation to volcano shape

Athletics Carnival Our annual Athletics carnivals were held last week. Both carnivals were held in glorious conditions. What a turn out! There must have been more than 1000 spectators over the two days. It was great to see the high level of participation and the fantastic spirit that all events were contested in. Both junior and senior students competed in a plethora of challenging team game events. On top of all this action we witnessed the students run like mad in all the varied sprint and relay races. It was a massive programme and everyone should be proud of their efforts. I can imagine that all students and teachers had no trouble going asleep after their carnivals. I know I sure did.

Our Champion Boy and Girls Results

Thank you to the Parents that have helped out in anyway. You were sensational.

Congratulations must go out to the intrepid teachers. Without everyone’s help the carnivals would not be such a spectacle. Well Done!

Students who will be required for Interschool duties will be notified very soon. Check your notes for training times.

Bring on the Interschool Challengers!

Ryan Donnelly HPE Specialist

After two days of intense competition, everyone had given their all, but at the end of the day there can be only one. The results were as follows:-

1St BANDICOOTS (1077pts)

2nd HONEYEATERS (1055PTS)

3RD MAGPIES (1028PTS)

4TH BOBTAILS (982PTS)

THE MOST CO-OPERATIVE TEAM WINNER WAS THE BOBTAILS

Years Place Boys Girls 3 1st Korey Sweetman Madison Hadley 2nd Preston Cifuentes Hannah Petrovich 3rd Cj Murray-Smith Emily McCay

4 1st Nicholas Velezmoro Brooke Battison 2nd Zachariah Zammit Maia Clayden 3rd Lucas Artemis Madison Hall

5 1st Jacob O’Brien Kuleng Forgol 2nd Stanley Brown Alicia Savy 3rd Aaron Clarke Sofia De Bernardis

6 1st Riley Lawton Tijan McKenna 2nd Jack Hadley Chantel Zumerle 3rd Charles Betts Madeline Artemis

P&F News Paul Litherland will deliver 'Surf Online Safe' presentations to parents on Wed 2nd Nov, 1.20pm or 6.30pm in the MCCC. RSVPs are required by Friday 28th October to admin@mcps.wa.edu.au. We strongly recommend this to all parents to assist with helping our children to be safe while they are online. We are truly in the digital age and so much has changed since us parents were at school. As mentioned already in the newsletter, our last P&F meeting is the AGM on Wed 23rd Nov. Please consider nominating yourself for a P&F position for 2017. All positions are vacant and it would be much appreciated if people would be willing to help out by taking on a P&F role. Mater Christi P&F are proud to fund and present a free family event - An Afternoon on the Green - after school NEXT Friday 28th October until 7pm. There will be vendor-operated inflatable rides, food trucks and lots of other fun stuff. Please put it in your diaries and come along to a great family event. The P&F is seeking businesses and sporting groups within our community who wish to have a market stall at the event. Please email Michelle at michellehall080@gmail.com to book your stall or for more information. CLASS REP EVENTS

The P&F office bearers for 2016 are: Teresa Lawson (President) Karen Simons (Vice President and Board Rep) Belinda Weeks (Secretary) Belinda Stokes (Treasurer) Leonie Jones (Class Rep Coord) Michelle Hall (Sun Smart Rep) Marina Hayward (Parish Rep) Any comments, suggestions or queries are warmly welcome. Please contact us on: pandf@mcps.wa.edu.au

CLASS REPRESENTATIVES FOR 2017

Are you interested in being a Class Representative in 2017?

Please email Leonie Jones @ dj.lones@westnet.com.au to nominate for a position by 28th November 2016.

Please include your phone number, email, your child’s name and current class.

Class reps positions for 2017 will be decided on 29.11.16 after the class lists have been displayed.

All classes are open for nomination. If there is a single nomination for the class the role will go to that person. If there are multiple nominations the decision will be made by “name in the hat draw” by one of the staff.

Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have any questions or would like more information on what’s involved in being a class representative.

Thank you for your support.

Leonie Jones Class Representative Coordinator

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After-School Soccer Coaching Clinics (Term 4)

All Kindy to Year Two children were given a registration form for an After-School Soccer Coaching Clinic starting Wednesday the 26th of October (3.25pm – 4.25pm). We will conduct it on the school grounds.

The activity is coordinated and run by Physical Education and/or Soccer Specialists; all with their Working With Children Checks. The Clinic focuses on Maximum Participation during Organised and Fun 7 x 1 Hour sessions. The cost for the clinic is $70.00 per child.

If you are interested in letting your child learn and play this World Game in fun sessions and you have not yet registered, then please register online at www.play4life.com.au or complete the registration form and return it to reception by Tuesday the 25th of October. (Spare registration forms are available at reception). If you have any queries, please call Jacob Aquino on 6162 0932.

Merit Awards 28th October 2016

Year PPA Joseph Orlando, Kingston Gee, Poppy Marchant, Isaac Collins

Year PPB Leo Musulin, Thomas Boatwright, Catia Letizia, Patrick Day

Year PPC Samira Bicknell, Kiara Artemis, Thomas Zuvela

Year 1A Leon Larner, Hudson Rank

Year 1B Nathan Hall, Gisele Grasa

Year 1C Amber Davey

Year 2A Olivia Babich, Heidi Day

Year 2B Nicholas D’Couto, Gemma Wright

Year 2C James Artemis, Serena Duffin, Lucas La Macchia, Zara Formato

Year 3A Jack Manning, Ruby Dobson

Year 3B Josef Kwaitkowski, Ryan Pymont, Lincoln Carradus, Xavier Correia

Year 3C Mason Bull, Joshua Jones

Year 4A Ava Daniel, Alyssa Hearn, Aston Clothier

Year 4B Angela Fianacca, Emily Haley

Year 4C Samuel Jones, Georgia Rooney, Daniel Khan

Year 5A Alicia Trolio, Kaleb Cumming, Zac Hampel

Year 5B Stanley Brown, Connor McCay

Year 5C Daniel Holm, Tate Simons, Jayla Oliver

Year 6A Joseph Manning, Jack Quinlivan

Year 6B Darcy West, James McAleer, Monique Correia

Year 6C Talia Jones, Caitlin Phillips, Lucas Henderson

MATHEMATICS ACCELERATION PROGRAM: YEAR 7, 2017

Corpus Christi College, Bateman, is continuing to cater for the most Mathematics students by offering Acceleration Programs in Years 7-9. Many boys and girls start secondary school with a mathematical understanding beyond that required in the Year 7 Western Australian Curriculum. It is our belief that these students, with the proper guidance, would benefit from undertaking an Accelerated Program which focuses on the Year 8 Western Australian Curriculum.

There are numerous benefits to accelerating students appropriately, such as improving their skills and motivation, and creating opportunities in their pathways of study through to Senior School.

Any current Year 6 student wishing to be considered for the Mathematics Acceleration Program in 2017 is invited to complete an assessment at the College on Saturday 12 November. This assessment is designed to identify students who possess the innate ability to cope with challenging Mathematics.

This opportunity is open to students who are currently enrolled at the College for commencement in 2017, as well as those who are not currently enrolled but who are considering attending the College in 2017.

For further information about this program, please contact the College at fitaliano@corpus.wa.edu.au

Jimmy’s Tennis Do you want your child to become the next Stan Wawrinka or Angelique Kerber? Jim Guilfoile, a Tennis Australia Junior Development Coach, is offering tennis lessons at Mater Christi in Term 4 on Wednesday afternoons from 3:15 to 4:15 starting on the 26th of October. The cost for the 7 week term is $115, and all eligible students will receive a free ANZ Hot Shots T-shirt! Contact Jim now to register your interest at jimmystennis@iprimus.com.au

1-2-3 Magic and Emotion Coaching Parent Course. To help manage difficult behaviour in children 2 to 12yrs. All 7 to 9.30pm. $180pp or $340 per couple Wed 9th, 16th & 23rd Nov (parents of 2 to 5yr olds) Tue 29th Nov, 6th & 13th Dec (parents of 2 to 12 year olds) Protective Behaviours $65pp or $120 per couple Wed 19th Oct, 6.30 to 9.30pm. Engaging Adolescents (11 to 16yo) $150pp or $270 per couple Wed 30th Nov and 7th Dec. Parenting Information Session (Including 10 take home tips) This 2 hr seminar is designed to improve your knowledge and confidence as a parent. In House only. All courses available In House. Private Consultations Available. To enquire/register call 9382 1182 or www.behaviourtonics.com.au