St. Emilie's Catholic Primary School — Archive

What a Terrific Quiz Night!

September 13, 2019
Tania Thuijs
· Kindy · Messages · Pre-Primary · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

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!!

THANK YOU TO OUR SPONSORS!!

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

September 7, 2019
Tania Thuijs
· Kindy · Messages · Pre-Primary · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

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House Athletics Carnival Yr 1 to 6 2019

September 6, 2019
Stuart Munro
· Health & Physical Education · Messages · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

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Thanks Dads and Grandads!

September 4, 2019
Tania Thuijs
· Kindy · News · Pre-Primary · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

What a wonderful turn out for our annual Fathers Day Breaky!

Many thanks to all our dads and grandads who came along and to all the staff for their very generous gift of time and breaky burger-making talent!

To see the big smiles on children’s faces is of course what we all enjoy and celebrate at opportunities such as this.

Dads and Grandads – keep on giving the very best of yourselves to your kids – time, honesty, kindness, humour, goodness, wisdom and the uniqueness that is each one of you …

It was a pleasure catching up with you all and we wish you all the very best for what is left of the year ahead!

BEESWAX WRAPS – HAPPY FATHER’S DAY

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Parent Interviews this Wednesday

August 26, 2019
Tania Thuijs
· Kindy · Messages · Pre-Primary · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

A reminder that both Two Way Parent Teacher meetings (K and PP) and Three Way meetings are being held this Wednesday, 28th August.

Please check your meeting time for your Two Way and Three Way Interview so you can be punctual and meetings can run on time.

Three way meetings are an opportunity for the child to showcase some of their work to a parent and to discuss their goals and progress. It is time to encourage the child’s efforts, and gently challenge if necessary.

Two way meetings are between the teacher and the parent only. The meeting is a wonderful opportunity to listen, to ask questions and to clarify how your child is progressing in regard to various aspects of their school experience.

Please come with a positive attitude and don’t forget to thank your teacher for their time and their efforts in relation to supporting your child’s learning here at St Emilie’s.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-01-31/adrian-piccoli-on-what-parents-should-ask-at/10761624

Student-led three-way conferences take the form of a conversation between the student, their parents and their teacher. These give students an opportunity to share their growth as a learner. They accept accountability and responsibility for their progress and achievement, and demonstrate a growing understanding of their development as independent learners.

The student is expected to take more of the central role during discussions as they get older. The teacher is involved but is not necessarily driving the interview – the teacher acts as the facilitator and prompter where necessary.

The Three way conference also involves some form of portfolio or e-portfolio that shows a range of evidence of learning that the student and teacher has selected.

Conferencing is part of the reporting process.

Three-way conferences are designed to achieve the following goals:

to help students demonstrate evidence of learning
to teach students the process of reflection and self-evaluation
to facilitate the development of students’ organisational and oral communication skills and to increase their self-confidence
to encourage students, parents, and teachers to engage in open and honest dialogue
to encourage students to accept personal responsibility for their learning
to increase parent understanding of their child’s learning through improving attendance at and understanding of the assessment and reporting process.

See you on Wednesday everyone!

Book Week Buddies.

On the 22nd August St Emilie’s celebrated Book Week with the theme, ‘Reading is my Secret Power.’ The Year 2 Blue and 6 Blue buddies spent some time participating in shared reading together in the beautiful sunshine. It was wonderful to see the students dressed creatively as a character from a book, which has inspired them.

Welcome Sister Geetha to St Emilie’s!

August 23, 2019
Tania Thuijs
· From the Principal · Year 1 · Year 2 · Year 3 · Year 4 · Year 5 · Year 6

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Japanese…Progress this term

August 20, 2019
Tracy Aroozoo
· Front Page · Japanese · Japanese News · Year 1 · Year 1 Blue · Year 1 Gold · Year 2 · Year 2 Blue · Year 2 Gold · Year 3 · Year 3 Blue · Year 3 Gold · Year 4 · Year 4 Blue · Year 4 Gold · Year 5 · Year 5 Blue · Year 5 Gold · Year 6 · Year 6 Blue · Year 6 Gold

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Cultural Fair Fun – Year 1 & Year 2

August 18, 2019
Tanya De Gooijer
· Year 1 · Year 1 Blue · Year 1 Gold · Year 2 · Year 2 Blue · Year 2 Gold

Guided Inquiry – Celebrating Differences (Social Justice)

We are enjoying celebrating our cultural differences in Year One and Year Two!

Our recent Cultural Fair allowed our students to…

Develop an appreciation of multicultural Australia, embracing different foods, games, music, and traditions from different cultures.
Show respect for those who sound, look and act differently to themselves.
Understand that although we are all different, we all hold similar values, and we all have the right to be treated fairly.

We had a wonderful time at our Cultural Fair!

A huge thank you to the wonderful Mums, Dads and family friends who volunteered their time, prepared presentations, played games with us, prepared yummy food for us to taste and passionately shared their culture…with a smile and a huge amount of patience!

We loved our morning together!