Click the link to read about our MacKillop Day celebrations on the 8th of August.
Go MacKillop!
MacKillop Staff & Students.
Category: News
Frontiers of Science Expo in Cannington
Mrs Cogger would like to remind all our science enthusiasts about the
FRONTIERS OF SCIENCE EXPO
on Sunday 20th August.
This is always a wonderful ‘free’ event in our local area (Kent St Weir in the Canning River Regional Park) to celebrate National Science Week.
Here is a link to the event details.
P&F Raffle Winners–Congratulations
Congratulations to the winners of the St Emilie’s P & F Raffle for 2017. The money raised from this raffle will be used across the school to add the wonderful resources at the school.
Merrick from Year 2’s family won the Bali Holiday.
Keeley from Year 3’s family won the first bookseller prize which was a pizza oven.
Isabelle from Year 2’s family won the second bookseller prize – a family movie voucher.
A huge thank you to Bec and Alison from the P&F for all their hard work in coordinating the raffle ticket book distribution and collection. Thank you also to Lynsey from the P&F for organising the main raffle prize.
Please consider coming along to our P&F Meetings each term to add your valuable ideas – these are held on Wednesdays of Weeks 4 and 8 each term! Please check the web calendar for dates and times.
St. Emilie’s Christian Dance Group
Today the Year 5 & 6 students from the St. Emilie’s Christian Dance Group expressed their love and faith, through movement and dance, as part of the Performing Arts Festival for Catholic Schools. All of the students danced with joy and honesty, and received wonderful feedback from the guest adjudicator present. Luckily for the community of St. Emilie’s, the Christian Dance Group will also be performing their liturgical dance at the upcoming Feast of Assumption Mass, and would love you to be present. Here are some snapshots of the performance at today’s showcase.
Enjoy,
Miss Goodall, Miss Foong & Miss Massimi
St Emilie’s Band Wows at Festival
Our very own St Emilie’s Years 4 to 6 Band saw their many hours of dedicated practise truly pay off when they took the stage at the Performing Arts Festival.
Under the special guidance of Mr Nick Dabbs, they were not prepared to let the fact they were the only Primary School band on the program get the better of them. They combined, beautifully, to provide wonderful renditions of South Africa and Calypso that were both melodic and highly entertaining.
Thank you to all band members for representing yourselves, and our school, so well – both on and off the stage. Thank you also to the many proud parents who came along to support.
Finally, a huge thank you to Mr Dabbs! We greatly appreciate the time, energy, creativity and passion you give to nurturing our children’s love of music and the Arts. The fruits of your labour were certainly on show today!
Interschool Cross Country
Congratulations and well done to all members of our Cross Country Team who braved Friday’s wild, windy weather to represent St Emilie’s at Friday’s Inter-school Carnival. Your combined efforts helped us to achieve a very credible second place – overall.
Our Team Captains, Taylah and Taj, lead by example – winning their respective races in style. Our other runners also placed well.
Thank you to Mr Paul Davis for his great organisation, and for running our well attended before school training sessions. Thank you also to Mrs Harvey, Miss Ryan, Miss
who looked after the team and acted as marshals and place judges.
2018, could very well be our opportunity to take out the top spot – so start training everyone!
Celebrating National School Tree Planting Day
It was in blustery wintery conditions that the Year 3 students bravely tackled their planting project this morning. 100 tube stock native plants were donated to schools in the southern suburbs by the City Of Canning. This was part of an initiative to celebrate National Schools Tree Planting Day.
The students planted kangaroo paws and Banksia seedlings as well as smaller bushes and ground covers. The 3B students planted their tube stock in the early childhood and Year 1-6 bushland.
The students had fun using the ‘tube stock planter’. It’s like a big pogo stick!
Mrs Cogger was impressed with the care that the students used to dig a large hole for their seedling and the gentle way seedlings were removed from their container.
3G planted their tube stock plants along the entrance to the school and by the exit gate where the Busy Bee helpers worked very hard to clear the weeds and dense scrub in Term One.
Mrs Cogger sincerely thanks the wonderful parents who volunteered to help. We had a wonderful time and much was achieved with their help and supervision of the students. We also thank the City of Canning for the generous donation of tube stock. You will see our fantastic work when you use the drive through.
Well done Year 3s!
House Cross Country Results
The House Cross Country Carnival, held last Friday morning, was the most hotly contested we have ever had!
The result was decided by only 1 point!
Congratulations to GANNON, winning their first ever trophy!
The final scores were as follows:
1st – GANNON 171
2nd – DE VIALAR 170
3RD – MACKILLOP 157
4TH – MAZENOD 138
Individual results were as follows:
Our year 3 Girls placings: 1 Daisy Jeeves, 2 Sophie Wheat, 3 Reece Anticevic, 4 Lila Seberry
Boys placings: Rory: 1, Nicholas Milosevic, 2 Louis Hammond, 3 Roman Dilello, 4 Callum Costelloe
Year 4 Girls placings: 1 Caitlyn McInerney, 2 Mia Sutton, 3 Gabriella Grima, 4 Saraab Cortez
Year 4 Boys placings: 1 Rory Darrah, 2 Ethan Carroll, 3 James Free, 4 Jacob Andrews
Year 5 Girls placings: 1 Suzy Jeeves, 2 Annette Craven, Loren Wilde, 4 Emilia Quartey
Year 5 Boys placings: 1 Josh Hockey, 2 Drew Marshall, 3 Alexander Milosevic, 4 Luke Hodge
Year 6 Girls placings: 1 Taylah Haboldt, 2 Arielle Martino, 3 Saoirse Dwyer, 4 Maddison Clayforth
Year 6 Boys placings: 1 Taj Forrest, 2 Kade McMillan, 3 Ky Catalano, 4 Patrick Shaw
All the above students are now a part of our Inter school cross country team that will represent our school this Friday at Tomato Lake.
We will be training on Tuesday and Thursday morning (weather permiting)
Paul Davis
Health & PE Specialist Teacher
Celebrating 10 Years as a Waterwise School
The important work being carried out at St Emilie’s, under the guidance of Mrs Kerrie Cogger, to assist our children to understand water as a precious commodity we must preserve and use responsibly, was formally recognised at our recent assembly. It was a special occasion with Mrs Tracy Martino, a St Emilie’s parent, being part of the delegation from the Water Corporation. Please follow the link below to view the related media release. Well done, St Emilie’s – well done, Mrs Cogger!!
A Sincere Thank You
