Dear Parents This Thursday at 4pm we are holding our ECE Grounds Blessing Event with Father Benedict officiating to bless the grounds and those involved in the project. Our PP and Kindy children and their parents have been invited to attend although we realise this may cause a dilemma for some parents in having their other children cared for. We will roster on a teacher to care for school aged children of those PP and K parents who wish to attend however we do need to know by tomorrow for catering and organisational purposes. So, if you wish to come but had found child minding the stumbling block please either phone the office or respond to the booking link sent last week to let us know you are keen to attend and let the office know if you would like your older children monitored. These children would be cared for in the Library. If any other parents from the school wish to come please also let us know if you would benefit from having your school aged child cared for between 4 and 5. As Book Week is fast approaching we thought it best to let you know, with sufficient planning time allowed, that we are holding a Dress Up as Your Favourite BOOK Character Parade. This will take place on Wednesday morning, the 23 rd of August at 8:50am in the Hall. All parents and friends are welcome to attend of course. Our Teacher Librarian, Trish Collins, will be the main judge and each class from PP – 6 will be awarded 1 st and 2 nd place. The first prize will be a book and the second a voucher to the Snack Shack canteen for some Recess tucker. The Kindy class will plan their own Book Week character dress up and Trish will also give a prize for the winners there too. This Sunday our Year 4 students and some fellow parishioners from other schools will be receiving the Sacrament of Eucharist for the first time. Today they were all enthusiastically engaged in a Retreat focusing on the sacrament and parts of the mass in preparation for TERM 3 WEEK 4 – 8 August 2017 WEEK 4 WEEK 5 Mon 7 Tues 8 Wed 9 Thurs 10 Fri 11 Sun 13 Birds of Prey - Kindy Yr 4 Retreat Mass - Yr 6 St Mary of the Cross ECE Grounds Blessing - 4pm Assembly - Yr 2 EduDance PP-Yr3 Reconciliation Yr 4 First Holy Communion 11am Mon 14 Tue 15 Wed 16 Thu 17 Fri 18 Coming Up Wed 23 Aug Sun 27 Aug Yr 6 Schoenstatt Shrine Retreat Bishops Religion Literacy Assessment - Yr 3 Mass - Yr 5 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Reconciliation - Yr 5 Assembly—Performing Arts Choir EduDance PP– Yr 3 School Disco - 5pm to 8pm Book Week Dress Up Parade 9am - PP to Yr 6 Sacrament of Confirmation 11am CALENDAR OF EVENTS Newsletter Attachments (Electronic version only): Parent Education Session by Hugh van Cuylenburg from the Resilience Project Sunday. We wish all our Yr 4 students and their families the very best for this very special day. This morning Mr Goldie and Mr Beresford attended the Catholic School’s LEAD Awards breakfast where Greg was presented with a framed certificate honouring his 30 years of service in Catholic Education. The breakfast was held at 7:30 am so Greg was able to be back, ensconced in his classroom to add to his teaching hours by 9:30am. Congratulations, Greg and bravo! Tomorrow morning our first Parish/ School mass for Term 3 will be held in our recently renovated church. We will celebrate the Feast Day of St Mary of the Cross (formerly known as Mary MacKillop). The Year 6 class are coordinating the mass. Regards Mary Bizzaca “Holy Spirit, make my heart open to the word of God, make may heart open to goodness, make my heart open to the beauty of God every day.” - Pope Francis Prayer
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Dear Parents This Thursday at 4pm we are holding our ECE Grounds Blessing Event with Father Benedict officiating to bless the grounds and those involved in the project. Our PP and Kindy children and their parents have been invited to attend although we realise this may cause a dilemma for some parents in having their other children cared for. We will roster on a teacher to care for school aged children of those PP and K parents who wish to attend however we do need to know by tomorrow for catering and organisational purposes. So, if you wish to come but had found child minding the stumbling block please either phone the office or respond to the booking link sent last week to let us know you are keen to attend and let the office know if you would like your older children monitored. These children would be cared for in the Library. If any other parents from the school wish to come please also let us know if you would benefit from having your school aged child cared for between 4 and 5. As Book Week is fast approaching we thought it best to let you know, with sufficient planning time allowed, that we are holding a Dress Up as Your Favourite BOOK Character Parade. This will take place on Wednesday morning, the 23rd of August at 8:50am in the Hall. All parents and friends are welcome to attend of course. Our Teacher Librarian, Trish Collins, will be the main judge and each class from PP – 6 will be awarded 1st and 2nd place. The first prize will be a book and the second a voucher to the Snack Shack canteen for some Recess tucker. The Kindy class will plan their own Book Week character dress up and Trish will also give a prize for the winners there too. This Sunday our Year 4 students and some fellow parishioners from other schools will be receiving the Sacrament of Eucharist for the first time. Today they were all enthusiastically engaged in a Retreat focusing on the sacrament and parts of the mass in preparation for
TERM 3 WEEK 4 – 8 August 2017
WEEK 4 WEEK 5
Mon 7 Tues 8 Wed 9 Thurs 10 Fri 11 Sun 13
Birds of Prey - Kindy Yr 4 Retreat Mass - Yr 6 St Mary of the Cross ECE Grounds Blessing - 4pm Assembly - Yr 2 EduDance PP-Yr3 Reconciliation Yr 4 First Holy Communion 11am
Mon 14 Tue 15 Wed 16 Thu 17 Fri 18 Coming Up
Wed 23 Aug Sun 27 Aug
Yr 6 Schoenstatt Shrine Retreat Bishops Religion Literacy Assessment - Yr 3 Mass - Yr 5 Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Reconciliation - Yr 5 Assembly—Performing Arts Choir EduDance PP– Yr 3 School Disco - 5pm to 8pm Book Week Dress Up Parade 9am - PP to Yr 6 Sacrament of Confirmation 11am
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Newsletter Attachments (Electronic version only):
Parent Education Session by Hugh van Cuylenburg from the Resilience Project
Sunday. We wish all our Yr 4 students and their families the very best for this very special day. This morning Mr Goldie and Mr Beresford attended the Catholic School’s LEAD Awards breakfast where Greg was presented with a framed certificate honouring his 30 years of service in Catholic Education. The breakfast was held at 7:30 am so Greg was able to be back, ensconced in his classroom to add to his teaching hours by 9:30am. Congratulations, Greg and bravo! Tomorrow morning our first Parish/School mass for Term 3 will be held in our recently renovated church. We will celebrate the Feast Day of St Mary of the Cross (formerly known as Mary MacKillop). The Year 6 class are coordinating the mass. Regards
Mary Bizzaca
“Holy Spirit, make my heart open to the word of God, make may heart open to goodness, make my heart open to the beauty of God every day.” - Pope Francis
Prayer
SCHOOL NEWS
Happy Birthday Aug 9 Klaudia Youlton Yr 1 11 Kai Wheeler Kindy 11 Rohan Kennedy Yr 2
Catholic Performing Arts Festival Year 4 & 5 CHOIR
Performance Date/Time: Tuesday, August 22nd at 1pm
Performance Location: Vasto Club, Balcatta
Audience Cost: to assist in covering costs, Festival organisers are charging the following admission fee for audience members: Adults - $4.00; Children - $3.00(school age, not performing); children under school age – free.
A note went home on Monday to all Year 4 & 5 students, including information regarding uniform for the performance.
Any questions please speak to Mrs Parrella, Mr Goldie or myself.
Library Could all those lovely children and families with my spare library bags labelled “please return to St John’s Library” on them, please RETURN them ASAP as we currently have none left.
I would also appreciate any spare bags you don’t need anymore.
Thank you. Trish Collins
Blessing for the Children
Loving Father, You are with these children
as they partake of the Sacrament of Eucharist for the very first time. Open their ears, minds, and hearts
to the teaching of your Son. Fill them with the
Spirit of love,
peace, joy and kindness. Amen
Anica Alo
Ayla Barrett
Logan Blake
Jackson Cattalini (will make
FHC at a later date)
Charlie Cossom
Luke Durkin
Tahlia Dwyer
Mackenzie Easton
Audrey Fitzpatrick
Summer Gascoyne
Ren Glauert
Addison Heatley
Sarah Hill
Bailey Hoffman
Jessica Keeler
Jake Kennedy
Frances Knox
Kobe Lawrence
Jessica Marafioti
Chloe Ottobrino
Aqua Samuels
Poppy Thorpe
Sanna Twite
Andie Watson
Eva Willcock
Ethan Williams
Alec Zampogna
Madeleine Hemington
Krystian Martyniuk
Adelaide McDonald
Ben McDonald
Aaron Speck
Hayden Speck
COMMUNICANTS
Leo Kelly
Baxter Robertson
Neeti Sheth
Nick Star
Lily Sweeney
PARTICIPANTS
Spheros - Yr 5 Year 5 using the new spheros with Mrs Bottega, having a lot of fun learning to control it, by developing our own block codes, using an iPad.
Birds of Prey Incursion - Kindy The Kindy are very involved and interested in the environment. On Monday, Yvonne from birds of prey visited us to show us the birds she protects and keeps safe. We are conservation warriors in Kindy. We are learning about sustainability
and recycling, as well as conserving all our precious wildlife for the future.
For your convenience, now available from the office.
Any queries phone
Sharlene 0420 586 855 or Taya 0407 644 671
VOLUNTEER ROSTER:
Wed Aug 9 VOLUNTEER NEEDED - YR 1 (only 1 please) Wed Aug 16 Kylie Edwards (PP)
Thank you to all volunteers who help in the canteen.
Many thanks Sam Haslam Mobile: 0438 010 801
*** Lunch bags AVAILABLE for purchase from the office - $10
Start collecting today
Anyone can help our school earn amazing resources: Earn one sticker for every $10 spent at
Woolworths. Complete Sticker Sheets. Drop sheets in a collection box for our school or
collection box in the school office.
Runs 26 July to 19 September 2017.
Woolworths earn & learn is on again
Weekend Netball Results Mt Lawley 15 def St John’s 13 Well done girls you played so well, leading, throwing in front and playing forward up the court. Very proud of you all.
Yr 6 - Iona 22 def St John’s 16 It was a very exciting game against a strong team. The level of skills displayed were fantastic, making brilliant leads and finding space on court, great passing, wonderful shooting and awesome defence. Very proud of your achievements girls. Lets start the game this weekend exactly how we finished on Saturday, woohoo!!
Guild Long Jump & Teeball Throw Competition
Wednesday 30 August 9.00-10.30am : Year 3 11.00-12.30pm : Year 4
Thursday 31 August 9.00-10.00am : Year 5 Girls 10.00-10.30 & 10.50-11.30am : Year 5 Boys 11.30-12.30pm : Year 6 Girls 1.15-2.15pm : Year 6 Boys
Parent helpers are required to assist with the running of the competitions. Please let your child’s teacher or Mrs Washer know if you are available to help during the class timeslot. Guild Athletics Carnival PP - Year 6 Abbett Park Thursday 7 September Interschool Athletics Carnival Year 3-6 Squad WA Athletics Stadium Monday 18 September
COMMUNITY NEWS
SPORT NEWS
Athletics Training Abbett Park Wednesday and Thursday 8.00am Sharp start
FREE Safeguard Protective Behaviours
Workshop
Tuesday, 5 September 2017 7:00pm
Before School Care
Mulberry Tree Kids Club at Scarborough Primary School will now offer Before School Care to St John's students. If you would like more information or to make a booking, please contact Claire Francis on 9244 2920 or [email protected].
learning spaces of the future. Meet our College Principal, Mr John Finneran, the Senior Leadership Team, staff and students, as we tell our story, grounded in high expectations for academic and personal
success.
Tours will commence at 6.00pm from the Champagnat Chapel, Marcellin Campus and conclude at the Marist Auditorium in time for
our presentation at 7.00pm, 216 Empire Avenue, Churchlands.
To register your attendance for both the tours and Information Evening, or if you require an Enrolment Pack, please contact the Enrolments Office on (08) 9204 9405 or [email protected]
Applications close Friday 25 August 2017.
SUBIACO MARIST CRICKET CLUB
Welcome to the 2017/2018 Subiaco Marist Cricket Club cricket season! Registrations are open and the big news is that we have an U13's and U15's team for girls this season! Online registrations are now open. Requests regarding age group and teams are to be included in the 'Comments' section of your registration. Please register online via the link below as it reduces the work for club volunteers!
Registration Day is Saturday the 19th of August 9am-12 noon in the Newman spor ts complex at Newman College on Tuscany Way, Churchlands. Registrations will be closed two weeks after Rego day to facilitate organisation of teams. Uniforms will be available to try, purchase and take on the day (or to order if stocks run out). Clothing can also be ordered with your online registration. Please contact Zana Appelbee with registration queries [email protected]
