The Year One students planted their potatoes on Friday 24th May. Every week they visited the garden beds along with Mrs Cogger and Mrs Roberto to see how many potatoes had come up.
Every week more and more potatoes popped up! This week we counted 39 potatoes. Here are a few photos of our students examining their potato seedlings.
Thanks to Seed Potatoes for Schools WA for supporting us with this project. We are all thoroughly enjoying it.
Throughout this term, our year 6 student’s have competed in two Inter-School sporting events.
The Eagles Cup competition ran over the first six weeks of term. We played fixtures against Xavier, St.Joseph’s, St.Munchin’s, Notre Dame and Sacred Heart. These games were part of a round robin competition, seperate from the Lightning Carnival.
Both of our Netball teams were magnificent throughout the tournament. We managed to win both Netball competitions without losing a game.
Our AFL team boasted a record of 2 wins and 2 losses (with a bye against St.Munchin’s). They had hard fought wins against Sacred Heart and Xavier. Our AFL team finished the competition in 3rd position.
Our soccer team should be very proud of their efforts, winning 3 of their 5 games.
This is the best return yet from a St.Emilie’s soccer team, and was enough to have them finish 3rd on the table.
The Lightning Carnival then followed on from our Eagles Cup competition.
This was a one day event that involved playing all of our opposing schools in slightly shorter formats of the game, with a small rest between games.
All of our teams performed admirably throughout the day with both Netball teams finishing the Lightning carnival in 2nd Position and our Footy and Soccer teams both finished the day in 3rd position.
As always, we were extremely well supported by a number of parents. Thank you for taking the time to cheer us on.
A special thank you to Adam Mckie, who did a wonderful job coaching and training our Soccer team, also to Jacinta Passauer who gave up her Friday afternoons to umpire our netball, whether it be Home or Away.
A final thank you to all the staff that were involved in training and preparing the students throughout the term.
Paul Davis
Health & PE Specialist
To celebrate Mazenod House Day we followed in the example of St Eugene de Mazenod by donating to the homeless at St Patrick’s Community Support Centre. This is an important cause for our House as it is supported by the Oblates of Mary Immaculate, which as we discovered earlier was founded by St. Eugene de Mazenod.
St. Eugene de Mazenod was an important person in his support of St Emilie de Vialar. Our Mazenod House definitely followed our motto, ‘with a generous heart’ by kindly donating thongs, mugs and socks to those less fortunate than ourselves.
Cross Country Training will commence in Week 8.
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:
Tuesday 18th June
Tuesday 25th June
Thursday 27th June
Tuesday 2nd July
Thursday 4th July
Tuesday 23rd July
Thursday 25th July
please bring a bag to place running shoes in at the conclusion of training.
Paul Davis
Health & PE Specialist
Thursday the 20th June is the date for this year’s Lightning Carnival for Year 6 students.
The fixtures and oval locations are shown below.
There will also be a First Aid Officer on site, along with a coffee van.
The students are looking forward to the day and will be very appreciative of any sideline support. Permission notes went home yesterday and need to be returned by Tuesday 18 June.
This week the Year 3 students enjoyed an incursion with Jason Pitman (environmental scientist) from Perth NRM (Natural Resource Management).
The students learned about the Swan and Canning River catchment and how our actions at school and at home can affect the river ecosystem.
The Year 3 students learned about some of the species living in the river and how we can reduce some of our impacts on their habitat.
We thank Jason for coming to St Emilie’s and sharing his knowledge and enthusiasm about the Swam/Canning River catchment with us. We all learnt a lot and it was a wonderful opportunity to connect our knowledge with a real life purpose.
This week our Year One students planted their seed potatoes. This is a partnership with WA potatoes. Students all across the state are growing their own potatoes through the Seed for Schools program.
St Emilie’s received a kit with plenty of seed potatoes, educational resources for teachers to use in classrooms, and there is a monthly e-newsletter with gardening tips and stories of progress from participating schools.
This is a highly successful initiative and St Emilie’s is proud to be involved. It was great to see our students getting their hands dirty and having some fun while planting, nurturing and learning about potatoes.
Mrs Cogger would like to thank Mr Cogger for preparing the garden beds and our parent helpers for supervised the planting of our four garden beds.
We also appeared in the WA Potatoes blog. Here is a peek….
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.
