We are all down here at Election Day and your wonderful goodies are selling well and the hot food is also popular!
Thanks again to Rachel and Larissa, Gill and Rachael from the Office and all our parent helpers for all your support throughout the day…
Every $ raised will support us to continue providing great facilities and opportunities for your children!
Have a great weekend everyone! 🙂
Our newly formed MOPS (Mothers of Pre-schoolers) group is a safe and accepting place where mums of young children can find welcome, gain information, share ideas, be creative and have meaningful adult conversation. MOPS is for mothers of children 0-4 years and meets fortnightly during school terms.
Our next meeting is Monday the 27th May -9am to 11am..
If you are interested in joining the group, or if you do not have a preschooler but wish to assist with child-minding, please phone the Office and we will pass on your contact details to Sonia Pinto and Shamila McGee.
Ritchell Lim, is a talented singer/songwriter with a number of years experience in the international music industry.
She studied at WAPPA and has a powerful and versatile voice that can easily shift from the energetic and warm tones of RnB to the soft yearnings of sentimental ballads.
Blind virtually since birth, Ritchell performs around Perth and is also teaching vocals here at St Emilie’s.
Her vibrant, exuberant and joyous music and gentle teaching style is now being enjoyed by students, staff and families alike!
If you are interested in finding out more about how to join Ritchell for a vocals lesson please phone Keyed Up Music on www.keyedupmusic.com.au/
Thank you to all those parents who were able to attend the Speech and OT Meeting in our hall yesterday – it was a great opportunity for you to hear from both Wendy Marshall and Berry Johnston in regard to the assessment results and to ways you can be supporting your child’s speech and OT development at home.
The Kindy teachers have already met with both Wendy and Berry to analyse the results of the whole cohort and they will now use this valuable information to better inform their teaching and learning program – for individuals and for the whole group. 
Wendy has been a speech pathologist for over 20 years in the health, education, disability and private sectors, in both rural and metropolitan centres. She also has vast experience with Autism Spectrum Disorders and is a published author as part of the team at Autism West & the Telethon Kids Institute. We are very fortunate to have Wendy and her team working here at St Emilie’s.
Berry Johnston is the principal OT and founder of Lil Peeps OT for kids. This Occupational Therapy service provides customised high quality consultation, intervention and support for children, their families and for schools like ours. Berry and her team continue to provide quality intervention here at St Emilie’s.
Speech and language therapy is concerned with the identification, assessment and support of speech, language and communication needs of children.
Occupational therapy addresses the physical, cognitive, psychosocial and sensory components of performance. In schools, occupational therapy practitioners focus on academics, play and leisure, social participation and self-care skills.
If you have a child that you are concerned about please speak with your teacher and they can support you to connect with a therapist in our school.
On Saturday, a group of very special and very generous Mums, Dads, Grandparents , children and staff turned up to our annual BUSY BEE.
We collected rubbish from garden beds …. we shovelled mulch into garden beds and we pruned ….
Glenn, our Board Chair came along and helped us to get the job done in under three hours – many thanks Glenn!
It was awesome to have grandparents there too – way to go and THANK YOU!!!
Janine and other parents covered books in the library while Mitchell (former St Emilie’s student) came back to lend a hand – thanks for your time Mitch!
These little helpers held shovels ready for dad to use, went for a wheelbarrow ride, drew lots of pictures and were great kids all morning!
Chris and his children treated our bushland trees for dieback, and he has recommended the plants we need to plant on National Schools Tree planting day Friday 26 July.
Shirley smiled her way through carting mulch and serving morning tea – thank you for all you did Shirley!
Connor is another former student , now in high school – and it was really great to see him too!
Thank you for all so much for your wonderful help everyone – many hands certainly did make light work and we are really grateful for your generosity of time and goodwill!
This busy bee saved Glenn a good two days work which means he can now complete other more important projects around our school.
What a great bunch of people!
We now need volunteers to help sell cakes, slices and a sausage sizzle outside our school hall on Election Day, Saturday 18th May.
St Emilie’s School Hall is being used as a voting venue and the P&F are running a Sausage Sizzle and cake stall to take advantage of the crowd of people that will be there to vote.
To be able to raise some money from people outside our community is such a great opportunity, but of course we NEED YOUR HELP to get this going.
We are therefore currently seeking at least 20 parent volunteers who would be happy to come along and help us on a roster to either cook snags, sell a sausage sizzle or a cake and a cuppa. Essentially you would be placed on a 2 hour time slot between 7.30am and 3.30pm.
We are also needing as many families as possible to bake some home made cupcakes, cakes, slices or bickies to sell on the day. These are to be dropped into the office.
More details will come home in this week’s Weekly Reminders 🙂
Thank you for your anticipated support everyone!
Our school bushland is enjoyed by our students and of great aesthetic value to our school environment. Mrs Cogger enjoys taking the students to the ‘bush classroom’ each term for various activities.
Unfortunately many years ago we found out that the trees had ‘dieback disease’. Since then we have embarked on an injection program every few years. In 2013 the Dieback Working Group came to the school and supervised the students with the injection program and provided all the materials and phosphate. Here is a photo of Alyssa and Bayley from Year 6 2013.
The next time the the trees were due to be treated was in 2016 and we had the help of Conservation Volunteers WA. Here is a photo of the team.
The trees in our bushland are due to be treated again. This is high priority if we have any chance of saving the most vulnerable species like the Banksias. As well as other species like Sheoak, Macrozamia, grass trees etc. Our bushland is also home to a family of Southern Boobook Owls, a Southern Brown Bandicoot, a Bobtail Goanna and other native species.
We have a BUSY BEE planned for Saturday 4th May commencing at 8am. Mrs Cogger would like to invite you to help ‘save our bushland’ by assisting with the injection program on Saturday morning. Chris (father of Kadyn Year 6 and Kiara Year 3) has kindly offered to hire the gear from Murdoch University and instruct us on how to inject the trees with phosphate. All we need now is a team of committed parents to assist us on the day. BYO drill, rubber gloves and goggles if you have any.
If you have would like to volunteer your time please register via this link
Link to Busy Bee registrations
If yo ave any questions about the dieback injector program please contact Mrs Cogger or Mr Munro.
Once our trees have been treated we will be able to commence our replanting program with the grant funds recently received from Woolworths Junior Landcare.
In anticipation of a productive BUSY BEE…
Our reported Ava Thorpe shares her experience of the day.
Hello staff, parents and students. St Emilie’s have been to the grand final of the Synergy Schools Solar Car Challenge at Optus stadium on the 9th of April 2019. We went in a maxi taxi at 9:00am. We were all feeling very excited and nervous about the day ahead.
We arrived there at 9:30am and after we got signed in, we found our table and had a look at our equipment. At this point we were quite excited but nervous. We hoped our car would be good on the day.
We went through our box to make sure we had everything. At 9:45am we got prepared for the building process. We went outside and had a look at the track to see what it was like.
By 10:17am and we were ready to start the building process scheduled for 10:30am and at this stage we were so super nervous about today’s challenge. We started off well and first we took out our supplies. First Sophia E and Jacob put the guide pins in. Sophia C, Sophia E and Jacob put the axel and the wheels into the chassis.
Jack attached the wires to the motor and switch. Jack also attached the alligator clips to the wires so it could connect. Everyone helped to put the gears into the wheels. We placed the spacers into the axels to make the wheels run more smoothly. Then we attached the cable ties to the switch to hold the switch in place. We exchanged the small wheels for all big wheels.
We kept the solar panel in the shade. We decided to elevate the solar panel a little bit so we could get more sun. Attaching the solar panel was a bit harder than it looked. Jack and Jacob also attached the battery pack in case it was too cloudy for the solar panel. It was a hot day but thankfully was also a sunny day. Placing the wires on the alligator clips was very hard to do.
Once completed we went outside to test drive it. Our car wasn’t going fast enough. Our average time for 20 metres was 8 seconds. We were confused with what was going on with our car. We spent the time trying to figure out what was wrong with our car by giving it a few more test drives. We got the time down to 7 seconds. Our car improved.
7 news were there recording our challenge. We thought we could work out what was wrong with our car. We placed the solar panel in the exact same spot as before and put the small wheels back on. We put double sided tape on the wheels to make it sort of stick. It did the trick last time, so we have high hopes for this time.
By 11:16am we were happy with our car and have we have come up with a name for our car. We named it ‘Weapon’. We polished up our car to make it the best we could. We did one more try for good measure. Our car was really slow. There were only 19 minutes left until the races start. There was so much going on!
At 11:30am we went to get some morning tea and we had a chocolate muffin. There are 5 minutes left of the building process. At 11:40am we went outside to start racing and we were really excited. We were in round 3 and we were versing Huntingdale PS and Amaroo PS. On both races we came second and on the third race we came third. Thankfully we were into the next round. We fixed our car and it was performing better.
On the next round we were versing Amaroo and Bunbury. On the first race it was a false start on the second race we came third. On the third race we had another false start. We did not go on to the next challenge. The best place we could achieve was either fifth or sixth. We did one more race and we came 6th place.
After the award ceremony a drone flew over us and took photos and videos. The school that won was Amaroo PS but overall we had an amazing time and everyone who participated should be very proud. Even though we didn’t win, we were the first year sixes to get in the grand final from St Emilie’s CPS. Thank you for reading and thank you Optus stadium, Synergy and STAWA for having us. We really appreciated it. Also thank you Mrs Andrews and Mrs Cogger for coming on this amazing journey with us. Thank you parents and everyone who came to support us.
Goodbye and thank you so much for having a chance to read this amazing journey and opportunity for us.
Thank you and have a great day!
By Ava Thorpe
Here is a video recorded and put together by Jayden Victor.
On Thursday the 4th April, St.Emilie’s took along a squad of 30 swimmers to compete in the Inter-School carnival held at Aqualife Aquatic centre in Victoria Park.
The cool breeze and weather provided challenging conditions for the children, however this did not stop us from achieving our best ever result at an Inter-School Swimming carnival.
The children should be very proud of their efforts. Many of them attending early morning training sessions throughout the term and showing great commitment to get the best out of themselves.
Our Year 4, 5 and 6 classes all performed very consistently throughout the day. On top of this, we had some Outstanding individual performances.
Nathanael was awarded the year 4 Champion Swimmer, Jessica was awarded the Open 100m Freestyle Gold Medal and was the Runner Up Champion Swimmer overall. Rory was also awarded the Runner Up Champion Swimmer for Year 6.
Final Scores were as follows:
