Newsletter Newsletter No 7 September 2016 No 28

Welcome to Week 8 This week the Year 5 students have some interesting news. See the back page to read about some of

the fun activities.

SCHOOL FINISHES AT 2.30pm EVERY Wednesday

Dear Parents and Guardians This week is National Child Protection Week and it invites all Australians to play their part to promote the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. “Protecting children is everyone’s business.” This year NAPCAN (National Association for Prevention of Child Abuse and Neglect) encourages us to build on “Protecting Children is Everyone’s Business: Play Your Part” by focussing on the theme ‘Stronger Communities, Safer Children’. This theme emphasises the importance and value of connected communities in keeping children and young people safe and well.

Communities in which children are seen and heard, where their participation is valued and where their families can get the support they need are stronger communities which contribute to keeping children safe and well.

Our focus at St Jude’s School is to support our students and their families to keep children safe at all times. The Protective Behaviours Program as well as resilience building and the development of compassion and empathy are all key elements of this strategy to empower and support children.

Our Pastoral Care Worker, Sister Sandra, is always available to support children and families as they work through difficulties in family life and other situations. Our Teachers and the Religious Education programs also empower students to understand the support and guidance to be found through our faith.

We continually strive to work with families to resolve problems and encourage happy and thriving children. The formation of the St Jude’s Social Justice Group also offers students an opportunity to focus on and seek to help others who are in need of this – a great way to develop empathy and concern for others.

At our assembly on Monday morning this week, all students were congratulated on their participation

and behaviour at the Faction Sports Carnival last Friday. They were truly wonderful! Congratulations to MERCY Faction for winning the shield in 2016 and to both Petry and Foley Factions for their spirited competition!

The weather on Friday was the beginning of some lovely Spring weather and provided the perfect backdrop for a wonderful opportunity for families to enjoy lunch together. Thank you to the many parents, grandparents and friends who attended and special thanks to the Friends of St Jude for providing the delicious morning tea and lunch treats for us to enjoy. Thank you also to the many parents who supported the finger food stall with their donations and those parents who helped to set up in the morning and pack up at the end of the day. We thank everyone sincerely for all of your work!

Our School is always busy with varied learning and challenge opportunities for students! I congratulate the following students who are our recent Times Tables champions : Yr.2 Champion: Edna Sunil R/Up: Ella Thuo Yr.3 Champion: Harry Gao R/Up: Athei Younis Yr.4 Champion: Alena Sunil R/Up: Elijah Moonemalle Yr.5 Champion: Eileen Sunil R/Up: Kiara Severin Yr.6 Champion: Stephni Jesuthasan R/Up: Noah Moonemalle

All students should continually work on remembering their times table, as the ability to have this instant recall supports all other mathematical operations. The Challenge will be on again in Week One of Term Four – keep practising!

The St Jude’s Spelling Bee for Years Four, Five Six is coming up soon – Week One of Term Four! This is a great preparation opportunity for the Interschool Spelling Bee to be held in Week Three of the Term and so interested students should register their participation with their class Teacher so that they may receive the word lists and start practising!

Another opportunity to demonstrate Learning is the Japanese Speaking Contest to be held on Wednesday 14th September at 9.00 am in the hall. Several students from Years Two to Six will demonstrate their excellent Japanese language skills to an invited panel of three judges. Mrs Mariko Waghorn has organised this special event for the students and we are really looking forward to hearing their expertise! This Friday Year Three students will present the assembly at 9.00am—I hope you can join us! God Bless, Lyn Stone, Principal

From the Principal

St Jude’s Parish Mass Times

Sunday Masses: (Vigil) Saturdays: 6.30pm Sunday: 7.30am 9.00am and 5.30pm

Weekday Masses: Mon to Fri: 9.00am followed by Recitation of the Rosary

Altar Servers: Sat 6.30pm: Aldric & Ayden Ratnasekera

Sun 9.00am: Kyla Almeida & Goretty Otim Sun 5.30pm: Noah Moonemalle

Friends of St Jude Group

Father’s Day Raffle Father's Day raffle was a huge success, with so many families getting involved with donating and buying tickets. We thank you all so much for your support with this fundraiser. We raised an amazing $351 which is fantastic! Cake Stall and BBQ As always we were completely spoilt for choice with this year’s cake stall. Our St Jude’s community has some amazing chefs, we are so lucky! The FOSJ were completely overwhelmed with helpers on the day, and appreciate all of you who helped out on the BBQ, selling cakes, setting up and packing away, donating food. You are all amazing! We appreciate you all so much and hope that you will all volunteer again soon! A total of $1040 was raised on the day, a tremendous effort!! St Jude’s you are amazing! well done to us all! Movie Afternoon Here at the FOSJ we don't believe in taking a rest! So we are super excited to hold our popular movie afternoon fundraiser this Friday from 3-5pm. We will be playing the colourful and fun movie "Two by Two" and would love to have you all join us. Entry is free and snacks can be purchased inside. Permission slips must be back at school by this Wednesday and are essential for entry. Please note that Kindy and PP children must have an adult present with them at all times. Noted on the permission slip are rules in regards to prompt picking up times and cleaning up rules that must be followed at all times. Breakfast Club Our busy morning breakfast is still extremely popular. We are open every Monday morning from 8:10-8:30am and would love to see you there for a milo, toast or cereal. Cheesy Day We will be selling Cheesies for $1.00 only next Wednesday 14th September from the Canteen!! FOSJ Committee

CALENDAR WEEK 8 Thurs, 8 Sept Edu Dance Social Justice Group 3.15pm in Library Fri, 9 Sept KINDY FOSJ Movie Afternoon WEEK 9 Tues, 13 Sept Board Meeting 6.30pm Thurs, 15 Sept EduDance Japanese Speaking Contest 9am

Fri, 16 Sept Yr.5 Mass 9am Interschool Athletics WEEK 10 Thurs 22 Sept Edu dance Edu dance Concert 2.15pm Open Night Fri, 23 Sept KINDY Yr. 4 Assembly Footy Colours Day LAST DAY OF TERM 3

KINGERGARTEN 2017 Parents are reminded that all students eligible for Kindy, 2017 (turning 4 by 30th June, 2017) require an Application for Enrolment form to be completed and returned to the School Office. If you know any families or neighbours who have children of this age and may be looking for Kindergarten next year, please let them know that we have places available for 2017.

Confirmation Photos

Year 6 Parents proofs of the Confirmation Photos

have arrived and are at the office to view and

order. Payment can be made by Cash, Cheque or

Money Order (No Credit Card) and must be

included when placing the order.

FACTION SPORTS CARNIVAL

The Champion and Runner-Up students for 2016 are: Yr.4 : Champion Girl: Michelle Otim Champion Boy: Wani Longun R/up Champion Girls: Hai Ying Yang & Julia Moe R/up Champion Boy: Elijah Moonemalle Yr.5: Champion Girls: Hemotu Whangakatipa & Florance Isaot Champion Boy: Taj Watson R/up Champion Girl: Jasmine Heron R/up Champion Boy: Zachary Pentony Yr.6: Champion Girl: Goretty Otim Champion Boy: Jobert Layola R/up Champion Girl: Stephni Jesuthasan R/up Champion Boy: Harrison Jackson-Schildbach

Congratulations to them all! And a very big ‘thank you’ to Mr White for organising and co-ordinating a wonderful day, and to all school staff members for their hard work on the day.

Tomorrow 8th September, we celebrate the birthday of Mary the Mother of Jesus.

Dear Mary, you are the Mother of God and the Mother of all the Church.

We honour you and your role in our salvation. We ask your prayers for all of us as we follow Jesus

Christ. Pray for us to God that we may be faithful to God’s

will in our lives. Amen

As we begin the season of Spring it is amazing to think about how quickly the year is passing and how busy we are!

Term 3 has been filled with so many varied learning experiences including a visit from the Constitutional Centre and an Excursion to Herdsman Lake.

Our MAPPEN topic of Money Matters challenged us to create a Savings plan and to focus more on identifying our needs and waiting for our wants.

The class Bank Incursion-Start Smart was inspiring and challenged us to think of different ways of saving. To complete the unit we visited Perth Mint and witnessed the process of melting gold, the making of coins and saw the amazing one tonne largest gold coin in the world.

In R.E we celebrated the Feast of Mary McKillop and The Assumption of the Blessed Mary and completed our unit on the Spirit Frees which was an introduction to the sacrament of Confirmation. A very special spiritual moment for us all was the visit we made to the Door of Mercy at St Mary’s Cathedral and the welcome and blessing we received from the Dean of the Cathedral, Monsignor Keating.

Year 5 NEWS

This Term has seen a strong immersion in the Arts with Edu-dance, The Poetry Competition, Song Fest and a performance by the choir at Performing Arts Concert. Our literature interests were sparked during Book Week by an Excursion to Amherst Library to hear author Christie Byrne speak about her writing. After this we challenged ourselves to improve our Narrative writing by applying editing skills to improve punctuation and the complexity of our sentence structure and to increase the use of descriptive vocabulary.

Our eco team has kept up the class scrap paper recycling and we are still collecting aluminium cans to fundraise for Caritas. We are working towards waste free lunch boxes and alternatives to the use of plastic bags and lunch wrap. REDUCE, REUSE, RECYCLE, RESPECT REPLENISH, REFUSE.

With all the busyness we have enjoyed the moments of mindfulness and our weekly meditation which has helped us to focus and relax.

Mrs Lissiman and Mrs Cattrall Year 5 Class Teachers.

St Jude’s Catholic Primary School

We centre our learning in

Christ and strive to achieve excellence.

Tel: 6350 2500 Fax : 9356 5486 Email: admin@stjudes.wa.edu.au Website: www.stjudes.wa.edu.au