Friday 2nd August 2019
Week 2 Term 2
School Disco Information for Parents
Category: Year 6
Term 2 Letter – Happy Holidays!
Keeping Safe
On Tuesday 2nd July the Year Five and Six students participated in Keeping Safe Activities. The focus for this afternoon was on Relationships and we covered the topics; Rights and responsibilities of children and young people and Trusted Networks. The activities the students completed are all based on these focus areas.
Below is a link to the Rights of a child clip that the students viewed before completing the activities.
Overall, the teachers found that students were engaged and completed each activity, contributing some very insightful and interesting thoughts and opinions to each session. This was also a good precursor for next term’s learning about the concept of Social Justice.
Snap on Kits with Curtin STEM Outreach
This week our 6G students enjoyed an incursion with Brad and Aleesha from Curtin University.
The Curtin STEM Outreach program is committed to providing opportunities for future scientists and engineers, as well as their educators – encouraging them to learn new skills, meet like-minded people and spark excitement for science and engineering.
Aleesha and Brad presented an activity that incorporated simple circuits using electric snap on kits. They commenced the presentation by demonstrating the flow of electrons and how static electricity works.
The children were required to meet a challenge by imagining they were stranded in the in an underground cave : How would they alert rescuers? How would they keep cool in the heat? And what would they use for light in the pitch black of night?
Using the Snap on Kits, the students were able to successfully create all three devices and complete the challenge.
We thank Brad and Aleesha from Curtin STEM Outreach for an informative and exciting incursion
Eagles Cup/Lightning Carnival Summary
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
ST. EMILIE’S FEAST DAY 2019
Cross Country Training
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
Japanese Term 2
TERM 2 UPDATE
LIGHTNING CARNIVAL INFORMATION
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.
