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FRI 24 MAY

Cross Country

Training @ 7.15am

Sorry Day Liturgy -

Year 4—@ 8.30am

WED 29 MAY

Cross Country

Training @ 7.15am

MON 3 JUNE

WA Day—Public

Holiday

WED 5 JUNE

School Photo Day

(Siblings, K, 1, 2 & 3)

THURS 6 JUNE

School Photo Day

(PK, PP, 4, 5 & 6)

FRI 7 JUNE

Cross Country

Carnival @ 11.00am

N E W S L E T T E R

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Dear Parents,

As you will no doubt all be aware, I

have been appointed as Principal at

St Augustine’s in Rivervale and will

be finishing up at the end of this

term. Whilst I am excited about the

challenge ahead I am also saddened

by the prospect of leaving a

community to which I have become

so deeply attached. I thank you all

for your support over the years and

look forward to working with you and

your children for the remainder of

my time here. Catholic Education

Western Australia will consult with

the school as they work through the

process to appoint the incoming

Principal and the community will be

notified of developments at the

appropriate time.

Making Jesus Real

At each Assembly our Year 6

students give a Making Jesus Real

award to someone in our school who

reflects Jesus to us through their

actions. A primary principle behind

the MJR program, which we run here

at St Patrick’s, is to move children

from their egocentric stage of life to

becoming a community-minded

person, reflecting the values of the

gospel in all that they do, just as

they identified in Millie last Friday.

The acronym WEST is a way of

reinforcing the basic tenets of a

community-minded person.

WELCOME: Whenever we go into a

strange place or meet new people we

always feel at ease if they welcome

us with a smile and a pleasant

salutation. Our aim is to make

children aware that it is important to

warmly greet all children—not just

their friends.

ENCOURAGE: We all like to be

encouraged. Encouragement always

From the Principal

St Patrick’s Primary School

8 Ellen Street

Fremantle WA 6160

(08) 9335 5215

[email protected]

www.stpatsfremantle.wa.edu.au

Dates for the

Diary

lifts a person when they may be

feeling down; it also helps a person

to achieve at a higher level when

they feel the positive vibes of people

around them. Developing within the

children a predisposition to the use

of positive words of encouragement

will ensure that this aim is fulfilled.

SORRY: This is a small but an

extremely powerful word. It is a

great quality to recognise that you

have done something wrong, admit it

and say sorry.

THANKS: Another word that is small

but extremely powerful. We all like to

be appreciated for the small things

that we do for others. Saying thanks

is a simple way of showing others

that we are appreciative of their

efforts.

Digital Technology

St Patrick’s has again been formally

recognised as an “Apple

Distinguished School”. The Apple

Distinguished School designation is

reserved for schools and programs

that meet criteria for innovation,

leadership, and educational

excellence, and demonstrate a clear

vision of exemplary learning

environments. We’re excited to

inform you that our school has once

again been selected and

internationally recognised as one of

470 schools from 34 countries for

continuous innovation in learning,

teaching, and the school

environment. Our teachers have

worked really hard to adapt their

teaching practice and embrace a

range of different technologies to

engage and motivate students. It is

rewarding to receive the ongoing

positive feedback from a source

outside our school community. They

stated that: “St Patrick’s is doing

great things that other schools

are only starting to think about.”

John Ryan

Principal

PUPIL FREE DAY

FRIDAY 31 MAY

Staff will be

taking part in

Professional

Development.

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Good news for next week—Mrs Miller

will be opening the canteen for business

on Monday 27th May (in lieu of the

Friday 31st May being a Pupil Free Day).

Please order via Quick Cliq in the usual

way.

Canteen Notice

Enrolments 2020

If you have a child who was born between 1

July 2016 and 30 June 2017 they will be

eligible to attend Pre Kindy next year.

Children born between 1 July 2015 and 30

June 2016 can be enrolled for 4 Year Old

Kindy in 2020.

If you have younger children who fit the

above age criteria, or you know of someone

who does, please submit the necessary

documents to the school office as soon as

possible, or contact Administration for more

information.

We are about to start processing

enrolments for the 2020 school year.

The results of the 2019 Italian Primary

School Students’ Competition have been

released and once again we have a winner

from St Pat’s. Urrah!!

Congratulations to Zoe from Year 2 who was

the overall winner of her respective year

group level. This is the second time that Zoe

has taken out 1st place against other

schools. Zoe will be presented with her prize

($50 cheque, trophy and certificate) at a

special presentation on Saturday.

Congratulations also to Isla (Year 1), Skye

(Year 3) and Luca and Mackenzie (Year 6)

who have been awarded Merit Certificates for

submitting entries that reflect a high

standard of achievement and great personal

effort.

The following children are also to be

commended for being finalists and

representing St Pat’s with their wonderful

entries: - Caden and Harry H (Year 1), Eddie

and Joe (Year 2), Oliver, Mia, Hayley, Izzy,

Brodie, Chloe, Cohen and Eva (Year 3),

Greta, Lila, Alex W, Saxon, Charles and

Gabbi (Year 4), Emma, Jake, Isaac, Eedi and

Amali (Year 5) and Noah, Elena, Adam,

Victor, Cinzia and Eric (Year 6).

Well done St Pat’s! A great effort!

Fantastico!

Signora Diana Ihle

Italian Teacher

Italian Competition

Please pray for our Confirmation candidates

who will receive their Sacrament on Sunday

June 9th at 2.30pm.

Our candidates for Reconciliation have

started their preparation with a parent and

candidate workshop on Wednesday. A great

way to learn together!

Bernadette Higgins

Assistant Principal

Sacrament Preparation

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The Extend Superstar is…

Michael P, for taking the initiative to help set up the environment, along with the educator, and for encouraging his friends to join in, too.

What’s Been Happening? Hi everyone—welcome back to Extend After School Care in Term 2. It’s incredible how fast

the first term of 2019 went by. We ended the term with a lovely Easter egg hunt among other interesting activities, such as slime-making, cupcake-baking, recycled craftwork,

natural art, basket weaving, and learning new outdoor games. The children have all bonded with each other and made many new friends. They explored different activities, games and projects and have even found different ways to express themselves through art, craft, song,

dance and meal-time discussions. We look forward to encouraging the children in their interests while exploring new ones.

The children were glad to be back to school and eagerly shared with the educators and friends the different things they did during their school holidays. This term we will be

focusing on a new project. The children gave lots of different suggestions and we decided to focus on a musical extravaganza that we would like to do and that we can share with friends and families for our open house towards the end of the term. We are excited to share what

we learn and we will keep you posted in our next newsletter for more updates. I would like to say a special “thank you” to Michael’s mum, Karen, for bringing in milk bottle caps/

recycled boxes/wrapping paper for our recycle basket, and for donating a beautiful car mat that the children love using. Thanks also to Isla’s mum, Veronica, for her contribution to our recycle basket. We would love your contributions that help us with our sustainability goals.

Please keep a look out for the Extend memo I will be putting out for what we are trying to collect. We look forward to a wonderful Term 2 with many exciting explorations and

discoveries, while we work together as a team. Have a lovely Term 2!

Note*: Please do take note of our service number (0498 734 300) to get in touch with me

for any enquiries, urgent messages, feedback or even to communicate any suggestions or

reminders through text messages/voicemail. You can also email to:

[email protected], and I will get back to you as

soon as possible.

Diana Robinson (Service Coordinator)

Enrol and book now:

extend.com.au

News from Extend

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Glitter Names Musical Freeze Balloon Printing Thread Painting Minute to Win It

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Around St Pat’s

Dockers Visit— Photos above.

On Monday 20th May, the

students at St Patrick's had the

opportunity to meet some of our

own very best Docker's football

stars!

It was a pleasure to

welcome David Mundy, Jessie

Hogan, Rory Lobb, Reece Conca

& Connor Blakely to our school

for the afternoon.

Lap-a-thon—Photos above. Congratulations to everyone who participated in the P & F Lap-a-thon,

and thank you for the sponsor sheets and money that has already come in.

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Around St Pat’s (Cont.)

School Altar Servers—Photo above. Here

are our new Year 5 altar servers. With

Elena in Year 6 also trained, Father

Sebastian is very ably assisted during

school Masses.

Mother’s Day—Photo above. We hope our mums and

grandmothers enjoyed their Mother’s Day morning tea

at St Patrick’s, and went on to be spoiled by their

families the following Sunday.

Meditation—Photos above. Over the last couple of weeks the students and teachers have all been

welcomed to participate in a short ten minute lunchtime meditation practice held in the school library.

As you can see from the photos, the children (and Mrs Cooks) are all deeply relaxed after their

meditation. A big thank you to those who have been attending. I look forward to many more.

Nicole D'Alessandro

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Wow! What an extremely busy day we had on Friday 10th May. Even though it was busy it was a fantastic day. Thank you to all those who assisted with the Mother’s Day morning

tea, the Year 4 parents for putting on a fantastic Lap-a-thon, and to those parents who assisted with either the Junior or Senior discos. Without your support we would not be able to have such events.

Now that the Lap-a-thon has been completed it is time to get your donation form and monies back for collection. Please place both in an envelope and hand them back to either

the front office or class teacher by next Thursday 30th May.

Congratulations to the Pre-Primary Class who ran a fantastic Mother’s Day raffle. Their

generosity with such great donations for prizes and selling so many books is really appreciated. The raffle raised an amazing $989, so well done. Congratulations to those

lucky winners; 1st Prize: Leesa Stefanatos

2nd Prize: Gina Blake Moore

3rd Prize: Carine Johnson 4th Prize: Sheila Irving

5th Prize: Peta Taylor

It is great to see the tally board for the Year 2 “5c piece fundraiser”. It looks like all classes

are determined to win the class party at the end of term. Don’t forget to keep collecting and bring them in, and I have been told that 10c pieces are allowed, too!

Term two P&F meeting will be held on Tuesday 11th June at 7pm in the Staff Room, and we hope to see as many of you there as possible.

The school canteen will be closed on Wednesday 12th June, and so a group of wonderful parents will be putting on their famous Pasta Day to raise money for the P&F. Keep an eye

out for order forms so the kids don’t miss out.

A reminder that School banking is every Wednesday morning between 8.15am to

8.45am in the banking room. For all the new parents who would like to receive information on student banking please come to the banking room on Wednesday mornings and Jacinta Edwards our banking rep will be more than happy to provide information packs to you.

We are still looking for somebody to take over the position of President of the P&F. The past President will be there 100% to support the new President and ease them in showing

them what to do. Please let the front office know if you are interested and Peta Evans is happy to have a chat and outline what is involved in the position. You have a great team

P&F Exec to support you.

P & F Executive Committee

P & F News

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Dates for your diaries 2019 WEDNESDAYS—SCHOOL BANKING

DAY between 8.15am – 8.45am

Term 2 Term 2 P&F Meeting – Tuesday 11

th June, 7pm

– Staff Room Pasta Day – Wednesday 12

th June

Quote:

“In life you can never be too kind or too fair; everyone you meet is carrying a heavy load.

When you go through your day expressing kindness and courtesy to all you meet, you

leave behind a feeling of warmth and good cheer, and you help alleviate the burdens everyone is struggling with."

-Brian Tracy

Gilberts Support Our Schools

Do you shop at Gilbert's Fresh

O'Conner? If you do, have you joined

up to the St Patrick's Support our

School's program?

We currently have 62 supporters

signed up since we joined last year in

March and the program has raised

$627 for the school P&F. If you have

not joined, it just takes two seconds

when you are at the check out to fill

in a form and grab your card. Then

you just get it scanned each time you

shop!

P & F News (Cont.)

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Community News

The following information has been sent to St Patrick’s for inclusion in our

newsletter. Please note that the information is for your interest but does not imply that St Patrick’s Primary School endorses these activities or the information.