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ST VINCENT’S VIEW

PO Box 22, Kwinana WA 6966

Telephone: 9419 2631/Fax: 9419 5991

Email: [email protected]

Web Address: stvincents.wa.edu.au

Dear Parents, Friends and Students of St Vincent’s School,

Congratulations to all our PP to Year 6 students for their wonderful efforts and good behaviour during their recent in-school

swimming lessons. The students must also be commended for their general responsibility and organisation as not too many items

have been reported lost.

P&F Busy Bee this Sunday from 11am. Our P&F would love any help you can provide towards completing our community garden.

Please BYO shovels, rakes and trailers would be handy too. There’ll be a sausage sizzle lunch.

Administration System. All CEWA schools are involved in an upgrade of administration systems through the Leading Lights

initiative. As with all things new, there are many opportunities of new learning. The school fees went out recently and our

communication methods are getting an overhaul. Our apologies for any inconvenience caused and respectfully ask for your

patience until we master the ‘newness’.

MJR Parent Information Session: We are lucky to have Peter Mitchell (Mitch), from Tasmania, visiting our school on Friday 16th

March to talk about Making Jesus Real (MJR) with our students. Mitch is also keen to talk to parents on that day straight after

assembly. Please let the office staff know if you’re able to attend. Mitch is a real character and I guarantee you’ll be inspired and

entertained.

During the morning assembly, we will be announcing our first MJR Award winner. The winner will get to foster Vincenzo (Vinnie)

the MJR Bear for a week. The MJR Award winner will be chosen from the nominations received. There is still time for nominations

to be made.

Have you noticed the lovely manners of our students? It is something noted by almost all visitors to our school. Congratulations,

parents and families, on instilling the importance of manners in your children. Your children are making a positive difference in

our community and the world. Fantabulous effort, families.

The season of Lent consists of the 40 days, not including Sundays, before Easter. The word Lent is derived from the Germanic

root word for long because it is observed in spring when the days get longer. Lent is a time to prepare for the holiest time of the

Christian year by fasting, prayer, almsgiving, and other acts of penance. Many people give up something for Lent (a food, watching

TV, etc.) or do something to bring them closer to God such as daily devotions or charitable donations. The church colour for most

of Lent is purple which symbolises repentance as well as royalty. The word alleluia is not used during Lent. Lent is a time for

reflection – what is the positive difference we give to our families, our communities and the world?

Sacramental Programme: Next weekend our 1st Eucharist candidates and their families will be commissioned during the Parish

Masses. First Eucharist is a special occasion – a further step in becoming one with Christ and united with the People of God.

Please keep the 1st Eucharist Candidates, their families, teachers and catechists in your prayers.

Staffing: Mrs Espinoza will be on leave until the end of the term, Mrs Jenny Forrest will be in 2Gold whilst Mrs Espinoza is away.

Mrs Kirsty Byrne and Mrs Charlotte Quinn will be starting their maternity leave at the end of this term, as they prepare for the

arrival of their babies. Mr Jayson Peacock will take on both Assistant Principal roles. We are currently in the process of

interviewing for the new 6Gold teacher.

Congratulations to Dominic (2Gr), Amelia (5Go) and Abigail (6Gr) on the arrival of their youngest brother, Patrick Kieran.

Congratulations to Amy and Cale; welcome to Patrick.

God Bless … Karmela Messineo – Principal

Spirit-Peace-Wisdom

VISION STATEMENT

The school is Catholic and therefore the vision is based on the

Gospel Values.

Our motto is SPIRIT, PEACE & WISDOM and we try to encompass this in

all that we do.

No. 6

09th Mar 18

2018

Thought for the Week: Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not.

Going Home:

Choir notes for Year 4-6

CANTEEN: The Canteen is open every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

Please order via https://quickcliq.com.au and check out our awesome menu!

UNIFORM SHOPUNIFORM SHOPUNIFORM SHOPUNIFORM SHOP ---- The Uniform Shop will be open on Wednesdays 2.30-3.00pm

Orders, with payment, may be placed through the office or forms can be downloaded from the website and emailed to the office

or dropped in. The completed order will be sent home with your child.

Kindy 2019 Interviews will be taking place in MAY. If you are an existing parent within our school and have a 2019 Kindy

child and have not completed an enrolment form, you must do so as soon as possible. Thank you

MERIT AWARDS Term 1 Week 5

PP GO Aaria H/Adrianna D

PP GR Leona M/Anna J

YEAR 1 GO Swimming

YEAR 1 GR Tyson K/Ebony K

YEAR 2 GO Harry S/Rhiannon K

YEAR 2 GR Kyah T/Hayden T

YEAR 3 GO Abbey I/ Isaac M

YEAR 3 GR Zach C/Matthew I

YEAR 4 GO Jade O/Brendan S

YEAR 4 GR Swimming

YEAR 5 GO Noah N/Isla Ir

YEAR 5 GR William S/Sabina B

YEAR 6 GO Monique P/Bianca B

YEAR 6 GR Chloe M/Chirenda K

Term 1 2018

March

Mar 09 Assembly Prayer: Y4Gold

Virtue: Inclusivity


Mar 13 Holy Communion Enrolment:3:30pm


MJR Day

St Patrick’s Feast Mass: 9am

Mar 17 Holy Communion Commitment Mass

6pm

Mar 18 Holy Communion Commitment Mass

9:30AM


Virtue Empathy

St Joseph’s Feast Day Yr2/4: 9am

Mar 21 “Harmony Day” cultural dress up

Faction buddies


YR6 Interschool Cricket Carnival

Mar 27 Faction Swimming YR3-6

Did you know …?

• City of Kwinana is hosting the Alcoa

Children’ Festival on Saturday 17th

March at Kwinana Adventure Park 11am

-3pm. Free activities including Supersonic

Science.

• Mrs Byrne’s baby has doubled in size in

the last 4 weeks.

• The P&F are hosting a Busy Bee in the

community garden on Sunday!

• We have a cultural dress up day to

celebrate Harmony Day on 21ST March.

• Amara (5Go) always has a happy smile for

everyone she greets. Way to go, Amara!

• Father Daniel has placed nominations

towards the MJR Award.

P and F News – Term 1 Week 6 2018

Hello everyone,

Just to remind everyone that our Busy

Bee is this Sunday at 11am, everyone is

welcome! Remember to BYO shovels and

wheelbarrows. A sausage sizzle lunch will

be provided.

President:Kate Waudby

V.President: Sabina Gordon

Secretary: Tamara Nzima

Treasurer: Jessica Shephard

The Story Dogs reading program for 2018 started this week!

We have Christina and her Labrador, Jasmine working with the students in Year 1 Green, Anne and her

Shih-tzu, Alfie working with the students in Year 1 Gold and

Sue and her American Staffy, Summer working with the Year 2 students.

We are very fortunate to have Christina, Anne and Sue volunteer their time at our school as part of this wonderful reading

program "to make reading fun for children, so they become confident, lifelong readers."

If you would like to become a volunteer for this program at our school, please email the Kwinana Coordinator: Christina

Macaulay [email protected].

Alternatively, visit the Story Dogs website and click on the ‘Join Us’ subheading to learn ‘How to volunteer with Story Dogs

in Australia’.

www.storydogs.org.au/how-to-volunteer

Last week we received several boxes of goodies from Woolworths through the Earn and Learn initiative. We would like to

give a HUGE thank you to all of the families, staff and wider community members who helped us to achieve such a

fantastic result! Thank you to Mrs Bianca Van Ryt for coordinating Earn and Learn for us last year.

Religion

Holy Communion Enrolment Meeting – Tuesday 13th March

The Holy Communion Enrolment Meeting will be held this Tuesday at 3:30pm in the School Hall. It is important that a

parent/carer attends this meeting as an outline of the Sacramental Program for Holy Communion will be explained and

notes for enrolment will be distributed.

Holy Communion Commitment Masses – Saturday 17th or Sunday 18th March

Next weekend on Saturday (6pm Mass) and Sunday (9:30am Mass) many of our Year 4 students and their families will

attend a Commitment Mass to announce their commitment in the journey towards receiving their First Holy Communion. It

is essential that all preparing communicants attend one of the Masses with their parents and hand in their enrolment

forms at the Mass.

Year 4, 5 and 6 Reconciliation

Over the next two weeks, students who have received the sacrament of reconciliation in Year 4, 5 and 6 will participate in

reconciliation with Father Daniel and Father Patricio. Receiving reconciliation in the lead up to Easter purifies our hearts.

Easter is the perfect time to reconcile with Christ and it helps prepare us to celebrate Christ’s life, death and resurrection

during Hoy Week.

St Patrick’s Feast Day Mass – Friday 16th March

Next Friday, the Pre-Primary and Year 5 buddy classes will lead the parish in celebrating the Feast Day of Saint Patrick. The

Mass will be held at 9am in the Church and you are all invited to attend. Saint Patrick was a 5th-

century Christian missionary and bishop in Ireland. He is known as the "Apostle of Ireland" and he is the patron saint of

Ireland. The shamrock is used as a symbol of Ireland and as Ireland's patron saint, Saint Patrick is said to have used it as a

metaphor for the Holy Trinity – “God the Father, God the Son and God the Holy Spirit”. We look forward to celebrating the

works of Saint Patrick next week.

St Joseph’s Feast Day Mass – Monday 19th March

On Monday 19th March, the Year 2 and Year 4 classes will celebrate the Feast Day of St Joseph at the 9am Mass in the

Church. Saint Joseph was the husband of Mary and guardian of Jesus. Saint Joseph was the protector of the Church and is

the patron saint of workers. He was a very faithful man and willingly acted upon God’s will. We look forward to celebrating

the Feast Day of Saint Joseph and we hope you can join us for the celebration.

Harmony Day

Wednesday 21st March is Harmony Day! 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. Held every year on 21 March,

the Day coincides with the United Nations International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. The message of

Harmony Day is ‘everyone belongs’, the Day aims to engage people to participate in their community, respect cultural and

religious diversity and foster sense of belonging for everyone. This year to celebrate Harmony Day, we will be hosting a

Cultural Dress Up Day for a gold coin donation. All donations will go towards our Mini

Vinnies Appeal for the St Vincent De Paul Society.

Sacramental Dates 2018

Holy Communion (Year 4) – Sunday 10th June at 11:30am

Confirmation (Year 6) – Friday 7th September at 6pm

Reconciliation (Year 3) – Saturday 10th, 17, 24th November & 1st December from 9:30am – 10am or 4:30 – 5pm

Kirsty Byrne Assistant Principal

Administration

Parent Views and Information Needs – Online Safety

A publication from the Office of the Children’s eSafety Commissioner provides a summary of the information that

parents want regarding online safety.

https://www.esafety.gov.au/-/media/cesc/documents/infographics/ocesc-kids-online.jpg

For more information about any of these topics please go to the following website

https://www.esafety.gov.au/education-resources/iparent

Social Media

There has been discussion around the school community about children and the use of social media. The Terms of

Service make it very clear that the minimum age for most social media is 13 years and for some it is even older.

All of the following Social Media Platforms have a minimum age of 13. If your child is using them, it is a breach of the

Terms of Service: Facebook, Facebook Messenger, Instagram, Kik, Snapchat, Twitter and Youtube.

Jayson Peacock – Assistant Principal

Science News - Biological Sciences.

Year 6 – The last few weeks we have looked at the effect of yeast in bread and how living micro-organisms have an impact

on our environment. We are also looking at how mould grows. We have started to look at fair tests how we Change one

thing, Measure one thing and keep all variables the Same. (Cows Moo Softly)

Year 5 – We have started to create our own animal that could survive in the desert, an animal with physical and behavioural

adaptations.

Year 4 – Some of our plants have grown to nearly 50cm tall. It has been great to see the children coming into the Science

room each day with family members to show and explain the changes that have taken place.

Year Three – This week we learnt how to use a branching key. A branching key uses yes/no questions and uses arrows to

follow the path of questions and answers. We learnt that animals can firstly be categorised into vertebrates and

invertebrates and then different categories like insects, molluscs, amphibians, fish, birds and mammals.

Year Two – We had a very exciting lesson looking at the life cycle of a mealworm. Did you know that a mealworm changes

from an egg, to a larva, a pupa and finally a darkling beetle? Come and have a look at our metamorphic changes and let

your children explain to you what is happening. We have started a piece of work that will explain the stages in great detail.

Year One – We have been looking for ants in our school and trying to attract them so we can follow their trails.

Pre-Primary – This week we learnt that in Science we don’t have pictures, we have labelled diagrams. The students created

a piece of art work and labelled the parts of a plant. Please come into the Science room and see our display.

Kindy – We have been working on a rotation of activities, painting a tree using our arms as the trunk, using eye droppers

to make shades of green and collecting/sorting things found in our environment.

The Science room is open in the mornings from 8.20am to 8.30am, Monday to Thursday. It is closed on Fridays. Please feel

free to come and visit with your child or children to see what they have been learning about and see their workbooks.

Michelle Barjaktarevic – Science Specialist

In-Term Swimming

Well done to all the Year 1-6’s who tried their very best over the two weeks of swimming lessons. Congratulations to those

who managed to pass their levels. Sandra, the lady in charge of the swimming programme said if you haven’t passed a

level this time, please don’t be upset! Sometimes there are little things that need perfecting first, so keep trying. The higher

levels are especially hard to meet all of the criteria. She encouraged everyone to keep practising and spoke to the year 6’s

about all of the opportunities that may be on offer when they get to Senior school.

Faction Swimming

Letters for Faction Swimming (Yr 3-6) on Tuesday 27th March have gone home. Please return them ASAP so I can start

planning the events. Any parental volunteers will be most welcome as we need helpers for ribbons, placings and of course

jumping in the pool just in case anyone needs some help!

Coles Schools for Sports Vouchers

We are collecting vouchers from Coles for some new sports equipment. St Vincent’s have collection boxes down at Coles

in Kwinana Hub, in the Church and also the Front Office. You can also collect them if you shop online by selecting St

Vincent’s to receive online vouchers. Thank you for everyone who has collected so far!

Before School Sports Program

ALL SESSIONS START AT 8am SHARP ON THE OVAL (NO SUPERVISION EARLIER THAN 8am)

TUESDAY THURSDAY FRIDAY

WK 6 6/3

Leisurely Lappers

8/3

Interschool Cricket

Team Training

9/3

Running Club

WK 7 13/3

Leisurely Lappers

15/3

Interschool Cricket

Team Training

16/3

Running Club

WK 8 20/3

Leisurely Lappers

22/3

Interschool Cricket

Team Training

23/3

Running Club with

guest coach Miss

Brabin

WK 9 27/3

FACTION SWIMMING

29/3

Cricket Finished

30/3

GOOD FRIDAY

WK 10 3/4

EASTER TUESDAY

5/4

Cricket Finished

6/4

KSSA SWIMMING – no

running unless

another staff member

can take it

WK 11 10/4

Leisurely Lappers

12/4

PUPIL FREE DAY

13/4

PUPIL FREE DAY

Leisurely Lappers Just turn up, no instruction, just keep moving (running and walking laps) around the oval

at your own pace.

Years 4 – 6, parents and staff, all welcome!

Any Year 3 and under welcome but with parents/other adults please, otherwise there

can be too many for me to look after.

Cricket Training Selected Year 5 and 6 students only for Interschool Cricket Team Training.

Running Club

Years 3 – 6 only, parents and staff welcome, must be willing to train hard and run, run

and run!

Parents with other children waiting during training are reminded that the Spider Web is out of bounds before school and

ball sports are not permitted. Children not participating should be supervised and sitting down.

Miss Robbins– Physical Education Co-ordinator

COMMUNITY EVENTS

PLAY CAFE Harmony Week Picnic Date: Thursday 15th March 2018

Time: 9:00am to 10:30am

Venue: Kwinana Adventure Playground, Gilmore Ave, Walgreen

Cres, Kwinana

Everyone’s welcome, just come along for a morning of fun and

celebrating. For further information phone: 9367 0960 or email:

[email protected]

Please bring along a hat, water bottle and healthy snack.

Help us celebrate the diversity of our community at our Harmony Week Picnic at Kwinana

Adventure Playground.

Breast Screen WA is in your neighbourhood – Kwinana

The mobile will be parked at the Koorliny Arts Centre carpark,

10 Hutchins Cove, Kwinana – 19 March-6 April 2018.

COMMUNITY EVENTS

Kolbe Catholic College 2020 Expression of Interest for Enrolment

The College is calling for the submission of Expression of Interest for Enrolment Forms from current Year 5 students who will be entering Year 7, 2020.

Interviews have now commenced. Early submission of your application is requested.

Should you have any queries, please contact the College on 08 9592 1500.

John XXIII College Discover the whole-person approach of WA’s leading coeducational Catholic college, where academic

excellence goes hand in hand with humanity. Get all the facts about our extraordinary facilities, programs and opportunities, and, just as importantly, get a sense of a welcoming community that truly lives its values. →

Tours every half hour → Principal’s address 9:30am → Final tour 11:00am

OPEN DAY 2018, Saturday 10 March, 9am–12pm Please visit our website to register: www.johnxxiii.edu.au | Enrolment enquiries: (08) 9383 0400.

Mercedes College Early in 2018, Mercedes College will commence interviewing Year 5 students who are due to start Year 7 in

2020. If you are considering enrolling your daughter at Mercedes College and have not yet requested a

Prospectus, please contact Mrs Julie Lamb on 9323 1340 as soon as possible. Further information about the enrolment process is available on our website at www.mercedes.wa.edu.au.

Emmanuel College Applications for Enrolment for Year 7 2020 are now due and available on our website. Interviews have commenced and we envisage all places will be filled by the end of Semester 1 2018. Catholic students and siblings need to enroll now, as late applications will be placed on a waiting list.

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