Category: Year 2
A huge Walkathon THANK YOU
Dear Families,
A huge thank you for all your support in making our only P&F fundraiser for the year such a great success!
Despite the weather, your fantastic children managed to complete the event with a smile on their dial and a spring in their step!
We are currently waiting on a few families to send in their SPONSOR MONEY and then on Monday Week 4 – the 4th November the Raffle Prize of a Bike Voucher will be presented to the lucky winner at our mini assembly.
Over their time here, every St Emilie’s child has, (or will ) benefit from the many projects, capital works, resources, programs and opportunities that the P&F money helps us to achieve.
On the school holidays we have a brand new play space being constructed in the PP area – replacing the original equipment which has now reached the end of its life. We also have two very large shade sails going up over the Year 3-6 playground equipment. These represent a significant amount of money and the P&F Levy and Walkathon money will go some way to offsetting this cost.
These exciting projects will be available for you all to see when you return in 2020 next year!
Wishing you all a great term ahead,
Kindest regards
Tania and Stuart (Leadership Team) and Rachel Davies(P&F President)
Science Term 4 Newsletter
Welcome Back to Term 4 2019!
Welcome back to Term 4 everyone!
We hope you and your family managed to spend some quality time together over the holidays and that your children return to us well rested, happy, healthy and keen to embark on the next nine weeks of learning and fun with peers, staff and families!
The next nine weeks will go very quickly, so our message to children is to make the most of the time we have left together and to keep on aiming high socially and academically.
Professional Learning
All staff have had a very interesting and rewarding two days here at school attending valuable professional learning opportunities.
On Monday we looked at the impact of trauma on children with our guest presenter, Sonja Vanderaa, a Senior Training Consultant at Australian Childhood Foundation. Sonja flew all the way from Tasmania to be with us and she was an excellent facilitator. We learnt how trauma typically affects a child’s development, behaviour, emotions and wellbeing, and we explored how staff and schools can and do play a key role in supporting children who may be dealing with experiences of trauma and adversity.
On Tuesday teachers headed out to a number of other schools to view exemplary practice focusing on areas of teacher interest and on whole school focus. They returned highly energised and excited with new ideas, affirmation for their own practice and keen to try out some new initiatives in their own classrooms. Education Assistants spent their time exploring valuable resources and professional training offered by their Australia wide EA association.
Website
As you may be aware, we had hoped that our new website and school app would have been launched last term by the hard working husband and wife team of a local Perth company. Unfortunately however, one of them has suffered a severe stroke. We have decided to simply delay the launch until we have had an opportunity to meet and ensure that everything is ready to go live. We certainly aim to have these both ready for families asap and in the worst case scenario by the new year. In the meantime we will continue to use our existing website to communicate key information and we ask you to keep this family in your prayers.
Walkathon
A friendly reminder that as a school we are relying on money raised from the Walkathon (Week 2, Wednesday 25th October) our one fundraiser for the year, to raise $25.00 per family.
Correct sponsor money is due back to the CLASS TEACHER by the Walkathon in a well sealed, clearly labelled envelope. Please clearly label the envelope – WALKATHON – STUDENT NAME – YEAR LEVEL / GOLD OR BLUE.
A sincere thank you to families for your support – every cent raised is used to help offset the cost of a variety of quality projects across our school. As you would be aware big projects cost big money. To install two large shade sails over our Year 3-6 playground equipment will be close to $40 000.
Please see this week’s Weekly Reminders email and web post for more details!
Congratulations
Our Year Two teacher Miss Candice Agustsson is now Mrs McClenaghan after her holiday marriage! We wish her and her husband James all the very best for a bright and happy future together!
We pray for each and every family in our community, that you will continue to nurture your children with wisdom and love and make a positive contribution to St Emilie’s, through a friendly smile, a kind word, a listening ear, a helpful hand.
Thank you!
Term Four Parent Letter
Welcome to Term Four! We hope you and your children had a wonderful break! We are looking forward to the term ahead!
Below you will find the Parent Letter for Term Four 2019.
Tiana Massimi and Candice McClenaghan
Year Two Teachers
Japanese term 4
Term 3 Post Week 10
Open Night 2019
Dear Families,
Many, many thanks for coming along to support your children and our school last night – your presence and generosity of time and St Emilie’s spirit was greatly appreciated!
A sincere thank you to our most wonderful staff, who once again went ‘above and beyond’ to be able to provide this special opportunity for your family.
Many thanks also to Rachael and Larissa from the P&F and to all the parents and staff who organised and ran the sausage sizzle – it was extremely well supported and so delicious!
While the weather wasn’t ideal, in the grand scheme of things, it was better than it could have been!
To have Father Robert drop in was a very special treat! In walking around with Father he is still very connected to so many families at St Emilie’s and he will always hold a very special place in our hearts! He was very impressed by the work on show, the changes we have made to our buildings and he also expressed how happy he was that the wonderful spirit of St Emilie’s was still so vibrant and community minded.
Bravo one and all!
Father Robert was our original Parish Priest here at St Emilie’s and he is a very special friend of our school and parish community!
He had some lovely catchups with families he has known for many years!
Fr Robert has baptised many of our older students and he speaks warmly of his days as the foundation priest!
Thank you to all our wonderful grandparents who came to support their families – very special!
Many thanks to these special members of our community who popped their name on our roster for cooking and serving the snaggers – you are WONDERFUL people – Larissa S, Rachel D, Nicole G (P&F), Denise H, Julie A, Kevin R, Rochelle F (parents), Gina D, Dave D (new family this year), Gloria B, Helen A (EA’s) Rachel V (Admin staff) and Nick Davies (former student), Ethan T, Gracie C (student teachers). 400 sausage sizzles were sold!
Smiling sausage sizzler extraordinaire – Kevin Renting – thank you so much! 🙂
It was great to see OSH club personnel on hand, ready to answer questions for any families interested in before or after school care.
A huge thank you to Gillian and Janine on all their hard work with the Book Fair this year. Thanks also to families for your most wonderful support! Each year our commission helps to inject new book titles into our library, helping us to maintain a great collection of books for all ages!
A special thank you to all our Mums and Dads with babies and small children – it was a big effort to come along and we are very grateful!
What a Terrific Quiz Night!
The 2019 P&F QUIZ NIGHT has now come and gone, however we sincerely THANK the Coordinator of the evening – Mrs Teena Wheat, for her most wonderful organisation and hard work in getting the evening together.
Rachel Davies, the P&F President and the whole team of parent helpers and staff who supported Teena, are also to be greatly thanked and congratulated!
To all of you who came along to enjoy the night – many, many thanks! You were all a great bunch and it certainly appeared that much fun was had!
While the evening was largely offered as a community builder, thanks to the wonderful support of those who attended, an awesome total of $6,500 was raised (after expenses).
Below is a list of all the wonderful sponsors who supported us by providing so many fabulous prizes. Please look out for these businesses in the future as their input to the success of the evening was so appreciated.
The only other Fundraiser we have scheduled for the year is the whole school WALKATHON on Week 2 Term 4 Wed 23rd October. Please get behind your school and help your children find some sponsors over the school holidays!
Photos were kindly taken by Mr Dean Newman ( one of our parents) and who, among other talents, is a professional photographer! Many thanks Dean – your presence and contribution was fantastic!!
| Welding Solutions |
| HIIT Factory |
| Natalie’s House of Hair |
| Cleo’s Bloom |
| Petite Treats |
| Harbour Scents by Emma |
| Nauti Picnics |
| Edge Conveyancing |
| MOD Build Systems |
| Anchor Foods |
| Jump Swim |
| CY O’Connor Village Pub |
| Canning Vale Car Service |
| Musa Spirit |
| Bickfords |
| Dean & Donna Newman |
| Sharon Pendal |
| Three Rivers Drilling |
| Younique |
ST EMILIE’S OPEN NIGHT – WED 18th SEP 4-6pm
