Cross Country Training will commence in Week 9.
Any children in Year 3,4,5 or 6 are welcome to attend.The purpose of training will be to help build stamina and fitness.
Training times will be from 8:10am – 8:30am
Training Dates are as follows:
Monday 22nd June
Thursday 25th June
Monday 29th June
Thursday 2nd July
After Holidays:
Tuesday 21st July
Thursday 23rd July
please bring a bag to place running shoes in at the conclusion of training.
Paul Davis
Health & PE Specialist
This morning Kylie and Tracey, two lovely ladies from Perth Rescue Angels, arrived to rescue a stray black kitten found by Mr Cogger at the back of the school. They did a great job catching the kitten, who will now be fostered until a family adopts him.
Perth Rescue Angels is a not-for-profit charity that specialises in rehabilitating undomesticated cats and kittens, as well as special needs cats and kittens.
If you would like to support this organisation please go to their website:
https://www.facebook.com/perthrescueangels/
As you can see by this photo, the girls braved the awful weather conditions today and St Emilie’s is very grateful to them both!
Father Giovanni will be coming live on youtube each Sunday so that families and parishioners are able to access the Sunday Mass.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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
