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Thank you – Family Picnic
Thank you to all those families who joined us last Friday evening at our Family Picnic – it was a lovely balmy evening and a great opportunity for us all to connect with one another.
A very special thank you to our dynamic P&F duo Rachel Davies and Larissa Shaw, who organised the sausage sizzle and drinks, and to their respective husbands and children, who all lent a helping hand cooking, setting up and packing away. To other P&F members and staff members an equally big thank you also – your presence and generous service of our community is very special and greatly appreciated.
It was really great to see families reaching out in friendship to new faces and families – thank you for the consideration you showed, as it really helped to make new families feel welcome.
I think you will agree that Anna Dabbs (Mr Nick Dabbs’ talented daughter) did a fantastic job playing and singing for us throughout the evening. At just 17 she certainly has a promising future ahead!
It is always wonderful when we have an opportunity to come together as a community – thank you so much for making the effort and for the generous, positive and caring ways you interacted on the night – it means so much.
Recycling at St Emilie’s
in 2020 our Year 6 Environmental Committee will be offering the following recycling services to our school community.
Greenbatch
Greenbatch Foundation partners with schools allowing students to collect their old PET plastic bottles through recycling, providing PET which is used in research and development for 3D printer filament. By recycling through Greenbatch we can save plastic from entering landfills, oceans and waste incinerators.
Our green and purple Greenbatch bins will be placed in the undercover area on Wednesday mornings. You are very welcome and encouraged to bring in your HDPE and PET plastics. PET plastic is the type found in drink bottles and food packaging such as strawberry punnets or peanut butter jars, and has the number 1 inside the recycling symbol.
Battery Recycling
We will also continue to offer our battery collection. The yellow battery bin will be placed out in the undercover area on Wednesday morning along with the Greenbatch bins. Please bring along your unwanted batteries and place them in the bin. Once the bin is 3/4 full we contact the City of Gosnells and the batteries are taken away for recycling.
If you bring your batteries or plastics to school on any other day you will find both the yellow bins and the purple bins parked up by Learning Hub.
Thank you for your continuing support and to our students for their efforts and contributing towards the health of the planet by conducting these recycling projects.
Year 6 Science Inquiry Presentations
This week our Science Inquiry Group presented their projects to an audience of invited guests.
Throughout terms 2, 3 and 4 students have worked in partners to design, build and test an air racer vehicle. It’s been a very challenging project but well worth the effort. The learning and problem solving opportunities have been exceptional.
Each team presented a powerpoint to share their learning and the challenges that they encountered.
Then the students set up their own race track. We didn’t wish to take the parents to the basketball court in this current heat wave. So the students set up their own racetrack by putting the table together.
Mrs Cogger is very proud of the group and their achievements. Well done and keep up your enthusiasm for Science projects at high school.
Water Fun Day 2019
Our annual end of year Water Fun Afternoon was held yesterday. We set up 12 stations of water fun play for our students and they spent about 45 minutes moving from station to station.
Here are a few photos of today’s fun!!
Super soakers
Slip and slide
Party pools
Dry, dry wet game
Wet hat relay
Octopus tag
Wet sponge relay
A big thank you to Mr Cogger for setting up all the stations for our children – it was a wonderful way to finish off what has been another great year!
Chemistry comes to St Emilie’s
This week we had a wonderful opportunity at St Emilie’s. Sandra Lavery (Jack Tarandetti’s auntie) came to St Emilie’s to present chemistry workshops to the students in Years 3, 5 and 6. Sandra is a chemistry teacher at Lynwood Senior High School and she was keen to share her passionate about chemistry with he St Emilie’s students.
The students enjoyed several experiments. Here are some photos to show the experiences offered to students on Thursday.
The students got to shake this bottle and see the colour change from blue to ‘colourless’. Mrs Cogger learned something new. In chemistry liquids are never called ‘clear’. The correct term is ‘colourless’.
Sandra brought along a transportable bunsen burner. The Year 6 students can look forward to using bunsen burners at high school next year.
Jack T was Sandra’s lab technician for the sessions. He did a great job. he especially enjoyed helping out with the investigation involving a ‘flame’.
Sandra demonstrated that by heating a particular chemical in its liquid form it could be changed to a solid.
Sandra added zinc to a conical flask and another chemical and we watched it bubble. Then she placed a balloon tightly over the opening of the conical flask and trapped that was being produced.
Sandra showed us the magic of ‘elephants toothpaste’. One of the ingredients is hydrogen peroxide.
We recorded our observations and learning throughout the workshop.
Sandra used a string to ‘slice’ through an ice cube. Then she demonstrated the three states of matter by melting the ice cube and allowing the water vapour to inflate the balloon.
One of the students favourite investigations was when the egg was ‘sucked’ into the conical flask.
Sandra set up all her chemistry equipment and show the students how to create carbon dioxide. She ‘trapped’ the gas and used it to put out burning tea light candles.
To finish off her chemistry extravaganza show Sandra seta taper candle flame to a balloon filled with hydrogen gas. And the students were delighted to see the balloon explode!
Mrs Cogger interviewed some of the students on Friday morning and prepared this short iMovie about our chemistry with Sandra. Please click the link below to view the imovie.
Mrs Cogger and the students would like to thank Sandra for providing this wonderful opportunity for the students.
Basketball – Champions Cup
Last Thursday, saw St.Emilie’s compete in the 2019 State Basketball Champions Cup.
To qualify for this event, our boys and girls team had both won our regional carnival earlier in the term.
Our boys team were outstanding. They finished on top of their pool without losing a game.
They then won their Quarter Final in convincing fashion.
Unfortunately for the boys, they lost their Semi-Final by 1 point to the eventual champions ( Good Shepherd).
It has been an amazing effort from our boys, who this term have played 10 Inter-School games for 9 wins and 1 loss ( by a point!)
Our girls team played 5 games; which included 2 wins, 2 losses and a heartbreaking Tie.
This cost our girls a spot in the Quarter-Finals.
The girls played with great tenacity, but also demonstrated terrific sportsmanship.
Parent’s from opposing schools went out of their way to find me and mention how impressed they were with the sportsmanship and attitude our girls demonstrated.
Once again, a big thank you to Mr. Carroll and Mr. Cottrell for coaching our teams.
We were also very lucky to have such great support from our parents, which i know the kids really appreciated.
Paul Davis
PE Teacher
Inter-School Athletics
The Inter-School Athletics Carnival took place on Tuesday and Thursday this week.
On Tuesday we were greeted with blazing sunshine and perfect conditions for our children to compete in the 400m, Long Jump, Turbo Javelin and Shot Put events.
St.Emilie’s began the carnival brilliantly by dominating the 400m events as well as some very strong performances in the Jumps and Throws.
At the half way mark of the carnival, St.Emilie’s were placed in second position, very narrowly behind St.Joseph’s.
Day Two of the carnival was Thursday.
We were greeted with contrasting conditions. Wet, wild and windy conditions ensured the running events and team games would be very hard work for all competitors.
Once again, St.Emilie’s students performed consistently well throughout the day across all events. Our team game performances were a highlight, with over 350 of our points coming from these events.
We also had 3 of our students rewarded with medals for their own individual performances throughout the carnival.
Amy P in year 6, Louis H in year 5 and Sophie A in year 4 were recognised for their outstanding efforts.
St.Emilie’s finished the carnival in 2nd position. We are very proud of the effort from all of our team members and we continue to lead the way with the sportsmanship and attitude that we display.
A very big thank you to all the staff that assisted on the day and to the parents who braved the conditions to give us your support.
The final scores are listed below:
1st – St.Joseph’s 1937
2nd – St.Emilie’s 1659
3rd – Sacred Heart 1391
4th – Xavier 1363
5th – Notre Dame 1315
6th – St.MUnchin’s 1279
Numero!
On Friday of Week 2, some of our Year 5 students took part in an interschool Numero competition.
Numero is a maths card game that requires players to create number sentences using all four operations, percentages, fractions and decimals! Year 5 have been playing this game all year, and on the last day of Term 3, we took part in a round robin competition to help select our two teams.
This was the first time St Emilie’s has ever competed in such a competition, and both of our teams did a fantastic job. We finished 8th and 11th out of 18 teams! The highlight of the day was our Gold team scoring the 3rd highest score in the SCRAMBLE TEAM TAKE round. I would also like to say a special thank you to the 6 stewards for the day, who helped with the running of the event, and a BRAVO to Holly who filled in for a different school!
We will all be much better for the experience and we can’t wait to improve on our finish next year! Well done guys!
Inter-School Basketball
Last Friday, St.Emilie’s entered two boys teams and a girls team into the Lakeside Basketball Slam Series.
The competition was divided into 4 pools. Each team played in Three qualifying games, with the top placed side in each pool to advance to the semi-finals and then the grand final.
Our Girls team began with a draw, followed by 2 convincing wins- taking them directly to the semi-finals. Once again, the girls put in a dominant performance to advance to the grand final.
After a low scoring and tough first half, the girls eventually ran away with a grand final victory after defeating Willetton Primary School.
Our two boys teams were placed in separate pools.
Our A team went through the qualifying rounds unbeaten, with some terrific basketball and some big wins!
They then won their semi final in convincing fashion to make the grand final.
The final was a very physical contest and our boys went into half time with scores level. After digging deep in the second half, our boys eventually pulled away to claim victory, winning by 6 points.
Our B team had a mixed day. They had an excellent win, but also suffered a number of close losses. Unfortunately they missed out on the semi-finals.
Overall it was a hugely successful day for St.Emilie’s, winning both the boys and the girls competition. These teams have now qualified for the State Championships to be held at Bendat Stadium on November 21.
A huge thank you to Mr. Mckie, Mr Carroll, Mr Cottrell and all the parents who turned up to cheer and provide support.
Paul Davis
PE Teacher