St. Emilie's Catholic Primary School

Winners at the Community Science Expo

Mrs Cogger was very proud to attend the Celebration of Science Community expo on Sunday morning. She was keen to attend as we had three of our St Emilie’s students win prizes for their logo designs.

At 10am there was a beautiful welcome to country ceremony by Shaun Nannup. Shaun is a leader of reconciliation. His purpose in life is to connect people through his stories. Then we had another welcome from Paul Ng, Mayor of the City of Canning. Josh Byrne was also a special guest at the expo and he was asked to present the awards to the students.

Our three winners had their work on display for all to see.

The students were then invited up to be congratulated by Josh Byrne and Paul Ng.

Lastly Mrs Cogger had to go up too as Miss De Gooijer’s 1B class won the class award. 1B will receive a ‘free’ excursion to CREEC to learn more about the environment and nature.

National Science Week

August 21, 2018
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · Science · Uncategorized · Year 2 · Year 2 Gold · Year 3 · Year 3 Gold · Year 6 · Year 6 Blue · Year 6 Gold

This week we celebrated National Science Week with Mrs Cogger during Science. Mrs Cogger held the Brain Break quiz for the year 6 students. The students worked in teams of 3 to answer ten Science quiz questions. Mrs Cogger had plenty of prizes to give away all donated by National Science Week.

Our winners with 9/10 were Sienna, Connor and Chanel. They each received a NSW cap.

Second place was Emelia, Meilee and Isabellle. These students received a bookmark and pen.

There were several teams on equal third place.

Mrs Cogger wished to share the National Science Week fun with the teachers. So each morning she emailed out one quiz question. The teachers had to inbox the correct answer. Here are our happy winners.

There were several other National Science Week winners throughout the week. Here are some more happy winners.

Herbs for sale!

On Friday a small group of students met with Mrs Cogger to work in St Emilie’s Community Vegie Garden. Our task was to pack and transport potted herbs to take up to the hall to sell to our gathering assembly guests. Thank you to all our guests and customers who support our vegie garden project.

A cold morning in the veggie garden

August 11, 2018
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · For Families · Pre-Primary · Pre-Primary Blue · Pre-Primary Gold · Science · Uncategorized · What's On? · Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold

This morning the Devereux brothers and and the Backus children met with Mrs Cogger to work in St Emilie’s Community Veggie Garden. Today we had some seed potatoes to plant. These were left over from our donation of seed potatoes from WA Potatoes Seed Potatoes for Schools project. We had been waiting for these last few potatoes to start ‘chitting’. Mrs Devereux also brought along a few of her Royal Blue potatoes that were ready to be planted.

First of all we had to weed the garden bed.

Here we are ‘armed and ready’ with our garden tools.

Then we had to dig a hole to plant our potato.

It was so cold this morning that we were all breathing out ‘steam’. So Mrs Cogger took a photo of us all being little ‘puffing billies’. Can you see the steam?

We are still looking to fill the veggie garden roster with volunteers so if you would like to meet on Friday 17th August at 8am, then please let Mrs Cogger know. Mrs Cogger would like to thank the Devereux and Backus families for volunteering this morning.

Winners in the Celebration of Science logo competition

August 11, 2018
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · Extra-Curricular · News · Science · Uncategorized · Year 1 · Year 1 Gold · Year 4 · Year 4 Blue · Year 6 · Year 6 Blue

Mrs Cogger is delighted to announce that three of our students have been recognised for their fabulous Science designs in the ‘Celebration of Science’ logo competition. This a wonderful way for St Emilie’s to be acknowledged during National Science Week which commences this Sunday.

Our three award winners are

Ellani Limnios 1G

Kieran Ng 4B

Samara D’Souza 6B

The winning entries will be displayed at the Community Science Expo and the winners will also receive a prize. Prizes will be presented to the Logo Competition winners by the City of Canning Mayor at the welcome ceremony which starts at 10am on Sunday 19th August at CREEC.

We hope many of you will be able to attend this ‘free’ event sponsored by

Here are a few of our students entries. As you can see we have a lot of artistic flair and talent in the school!

This design is by Hannah Ozaraga in Year 6.

These designs are by Alexis O’Donnell 5B and Jaydee Laborte 6G.

This design is by Abbey Andrews

Here is Kieran Ng’s ‘highly commended’ entry

Here are a couple more entries

Congratulations to our winners and to all our students who participated in the competition.

If you wish to know more about the Community Science Expo then click on the link below.

LINK to: Community Science Expo

Bush Tucker Incursion

On Friday our Year 3 students enjoyed a bush tucker incursion with Natasha Bowden from SERCUL. The students had an opportunity to look closely at several bush tucker plant species. These are common native plants that grow in the local area.

The students learned about the growth and features of the plants and whether the plant could be used for traditional purposes by local Aboriginal people – medicine, food or tools.

Mrs Cogger has been teaching the students about the Noongar Six Seasons and the Year 3 students also learned about how the traditional landowners used the various plants at different times of the year.

Here are a few photos of the students enjoying the presentation.

We would like to thank Natasha Bowden for sharing her knowledge with us and making it such an interesting incursion.

National Science Week

August 3, 2018
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · Events and Payments · Extra-Curricular · For Families · Front Page · Kindy · Messages · Pre-Primary · Science · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

National Science Week is from 11-19 August and there are several events being held throughout the metropolitan area and many of them are free.

If you would like to find out more, click this link and you will find the WA events finder for National Science Week. Some of these events would make a great day out for a family of Science loving individuals!

National Science Week WA events finder

National Science Week Community Expo

July 30, 2018
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · Extra-Curricular · For Families · Kindy · News · Pre-Primary · Science · Uncategorized · waterwise · What's On? · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

Mrs Cogger encourages all families with a keen passion for Science to attend this wonderful community event. Our students are submitting entries to the ‘logo’ competition and hopefully some of our drawings and designs will be on display the expo.

Celebration of Science Community Expo

National Schools Tree Planting Day

July 29, 2018
Kerrie Cogger
· Classroom News · Science · Uncategorized · waterwise · Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold

On Friday it was National Schools Tree Planting Day. The Year 3 students planted a ‘Noonjar Bush Tucker Garden’ with tube stock plants kindly donated by SERCUL, one of the local environmental groups that we are in partnership with.

Groups of students worked with Kirsten Devereux and Mrs Cogger to plant out the bush tucker garden. If you would like to take a look, you will find the bush tucker garden along the fence line behind the Year 1 boat playground.

The Year 3 students have been learning about bush tucker plants during their Science lessons this past fortnight so they were very well informed about the different species and the Noonjar uses for them.

Some of the species that were planted are

The Scarlett Runner – Noonjar people use this for making crafts and tools as the stem can be used like a ‘twine’ and the leaves can be brewed to make tea.

This is known as a Bloodroot and can be roasted and eaten like a potato.

The students also planted the Bull Banksia which is used to carry a flame when moving camp sites.

Here are some images of the students working hard on Friday morning. As you can see there was a lot of work to be done.

Of course by 10:30am we were not finished. There were still 12 plants left to go in. So at 2pm Mrs Cogger invited the Year 6 Environmental Committee to help her finish off the project. Thanks Year 6.

Mrs Cogger would like to thank Kirsten Devereux for kindly helping out as it was a huge task to get all of these plants in and she did a fantastic job – helping set up all of the equipment and marking out a planting pattern.

We would also like to thank Natasha Bowden from SERCUL for supporting us with this project and for donating the plants.

Science Term 3 Newsletter

July 18, 2018
Kerrie Cogger
· Uncategorized · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

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