As a Waterwise School, we encourage all our families to participate in Seek a Leak Week. This activity can be done at home.
As part of our Seek a Leak Week Waterwise schools are encouraged to take the time to spot a leak with some activity plans.
Leaks can be extremely wasteful and costly. Did you know that a leaking toilet can result in nearly 3 buckets of wasted water a day!
Here is a link to the Waterwise website with details on how to run your own Seek a Leak at home.
Congratulations to St Emilie’s for being recipients of a Woolworths Junior Landcare grant this year. The grant will be used to sustain the various environmental projects that we offer our students.
Our project is planting and managing our vegetable garden. We will be planting in six garden beds and the produce will be harvested and used; students will create and develop their own recipes using produce from the garden. Students will use natural resources to construct an outdoor bush ‘classroom’. The students will monitor the activity of the bandicoot and ensure which flora species is needed to provide enough food for the bandicoot. The students will also monitor and manage invasive weeds in the bushland.
Gosnells Cricket Club will be holding trials for the Premier District U13s, U14s, U15s and U17’s squads for the coming 2019/2020 season. Trials will be held at Sutherlands Park, Gay St, Huntingdale. If you are looking to take the next step in your cricketing pathway then register your interest.
Trials will be held on
U13s and U14s – Monday 11th, 18th and 25th March. Register at 4:30pm for a 5pm start.
U15s and U17s – Wednesday 13th and 20th March. Register at 4:30pm for a 5pm start.
Focus points are all as important as each other. Coaches will be looking at
batting
bowling
fielding
keeping
fitness.
As well as your performance and attitude.
Age based criteria for the applicable junior competition are as follows
Under 17 – must be less than 17 years on June 30.
Under 15 – must be less than 15 years on June 30
Under 14 – must be less than 14 years on June 30
Under 13 – must be less than 13 years on June 30
You will be require your community club training uniform and full cricket kit. Trials will last for approximately 1.5 hours depending on numbers. All players who wish to join the 2019/2020 district squads must attend these trials.
Please register your interest below
email – fizzkickcreations@gmail.com by Friday 8th March.
Include the following in your registration
Player name, parents name, player date of birth, current community club, contact email and mobile number.
Gosnells District Cricket Club is holding a
Zone Carnival
on Monday 4th March 7am for a 7:30am start
at Sutherlands Park, Gay St , Huntingdale
Cost – $15 per player to be collected on the day
Player eligibility – U11’s, U12’s and U13’s playing this season and NOT currently playing in district cricket.
The Zone Carnival is for developing players (girls and boys) who are interested in playing at a WACA Premier Cricket Club. The Zone Carnival will be played on ‘turf wickets’ at Gosnells Cricket Club.
Important registration information
Online registration by Friday 22 February via this link
https://form.jotform.co/80150768743864
or email cricketburah@gmail.com. Include in the subject line ‘Zone Carnival’
or phone Dinesh on 0416644717
Include your
full name, date of birth, playing age group, community club/school name, contact mobile and contact email.
Gosnells Cricket Club talent scouts will be out and about looking for potential new players to the club.
Mrs Cogger managed to get some photos of the owls just before school closed in December. They had vacated the hollow. On the odd occasion over December and January Mr Cogger found the owls in the trees in the bushland.
Here are a few photos of the three babies owls.
On Wednesday afternoon the staff gathered together to farewell our precious friends who will not be returning for 2019.
Here are a few photos of our farewell speeches.
Mrs Roberto entertained us with her version of ‘Hi my name is Jo’.
To finish off the afternoon the teachers enjoyed some Kris Kringle gift giving and fun.
On Thursday Father Tony Chiera shared his experiences with us about Faith, Spirituality and Wellbeing and encouraged our to further explore our own faith journey. It was a day filled with sharing our own faith experiences and engaging with God’s creation.
Dear Parents and Students
The team in MPR – Music, Physical Education and Science, would like to wish all our families and student’s a very happy Christmas and a safe and peaceful holiday break.
We look forward to seeing you all in 2019.
From Mr Dabbs, Mrs Cogger and Mr Davis.
Many of you in the school community are aware that we have two Southern Boobook Owls living in the school bushland. In February Mrs Cogger took these photos of the owls.
In early November Mr Cogger found a baby owlet at the base of a tree.
He climbed a ladder to put it back in the hollow of the tree and then found two more babies.
Over the next 3-4 weeks we were all aware of the baby owlets in the tree hollow. An adult owl kept watch on a branch in front of the hollow day after day.
Mr Cogger was very interested to find out what went on in the hollow in the night so he set up the schools ‘night activation camera’. This is the same camera that we use to get coverage of the bandicoot when he/she visits.
Here are a few video clips of the owlets at night.
Watch this owlet swivel its head.
There are two adults in the hollow feeding the owlets
Adult delivers a live mouse to the hollow
Adult delivers a live moth to the hollow
Owlet nearly choking on the moth
The baby owlets have grown up and this week we found that the hollow is now empty. We are happy that this family of owls found our school bushland to be a safe place to breed and hope that they’ll return to St Emilie’s next year.
If you are interested in reading more about Southern Boobook Owls follow this link
This afternoon the students and teachers celebrated the conclusion of the school year with the annual St Emilie’s Water Play Fun Day.
Here are a few photos of our students enjoying the water games.
Year 5 enjoying the Party Pools.
Year 3 enjoying the Slip and Slide
Year 4 playing the Over/Under Wet Sponge Game
Year 1 playing Dry, Dry Wet
Year 6 playing Octopus Tag
A big thank you to Mr Cogger who helped set up all the pools and the slip and slide games.
On Wednesday afternoon the Year 6 Science Inquiry Group shared their STEM challenge journey with an invited audience of their parents and peers. This year a group of students applied to join the Solar Boat STEM Challenge. Throughout terms 2, 3 and 4 the students met with Mrs Cogger each week to plan, design and construct a solar boat.
Here are a few photos of the students giving their presentations and sharing their solar boat journey.
Once the presentations were over the students took their boats outside to the paddling pools and each boat was assessed to see if it had met the criteria that the students as a group had determined at the start of this project.
The criteria for a successful boat
Well done to all the students in the Science Inquiry Group. You have been a delight to teach and it has been an honour to watch you grow and challenge yourselves.
