MATTHEW GIBNEY CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

30 Munday Road, High Wycombe WA 6057 Phone: 6216 8400 Email: admin@gibney.wa.edu.au Website: www.gibney.wa.edu.au

NEWSLETTER No. 37 22nd November 2018

Dear Parents, Friends and Students

Congratulations to the students from Pre-primary for their

outstanding assembly last Friday. It was so great to see

the students perform so confidently and with so much

enthusiasm. Thank you to Mrs Hawley and Mrs Moore for

all their work in preparing the students for their assembly.

It is a huge task getting them ready for this and they did it

very well. Our next assembly will take place this coming

Friday. It will begin at 9:00am and it will be held in the

undercover area. Year 1 will lead this assembly.

As you would be aware, Catholic Education WA advised

schools to postpone community meetings until next year

due to a delay in budget information being sent to us from

the Commonwealth and State Governments. As such,

ours will be held in February 2019. Schools were

instructed to advise families of school fees for 2019. At

the last School Board meeting, the Board decided not to

increase tuition fees in 2019 and to increase amenities by

a very small amount. The Fees and Charges for 2019 are

part of this newsletter and also can be found on the

school website. The Board’s decision to not increase fees

was against the advice of CEWA who advised that fees

should be increased by at least 2.5%. I congratulate the

Board for taking into consideration the financial pressures

that many of our families find themselves under and to

sensibly leave the fees at their current levels.

Our end of year Thanksgiving Mass and Farewell to our

Year 6 students will take place on Thursday 6th

December. The Mass will begin at 9:15am and it will be

held in the undercover area. All families, particularly

those from Year 6, are invited to join with us on this very

Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is God’s will for you in Christ Jesus.

(1 Thessalonians 5:18)

special occasion. At the completion of the Mass, the

award winners from Year 6 will be announced along with

each student receiving their certificate for completing

primary school. We look forward to as many families as

possible joining us for this event.

Students will be receiving their end of year report at the

completion of this term. Parents will be able to access

their child’s reports via the parent portal from sometime

on Wednesday 5th December. The school will advise

families of this via an SMS. Any parents who have issues

with their child’s report are invited to make an

appointment to discuss this with their child’s teacher

before the end of the year.

The P&F held its last meeting for the year last

Wednesday. I would like to take this opportunity to thank

all the members of the P&F for the outstanding support

that they have provided the school community this year.

The Executive of George Coldham, Michelle Steward, Joe

Rickerby and Natasha Alleway are also to be

congratulated for their leadership. The students have

benefited from the generosity of the parent group this

year through the purchase of many resources.

The students are practising enthusiastically for the

EduDance concert at the end of the school year. It will

take place on Friday 30th November, only a week away.

Please ensure that you have this date marked on your

calendars. A big thank you to the P&F who have

organised a burger for those who wish to order one.

Please send your order form to school before the closing

date.

Continued

Sheinna Amelia Nicole

GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS

Year 3 have been very busy learning all about Earth Science and Probability and Chance in Mathematics!

Cruz Jacinta Luke

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Fri 23rd Nov Year 1 Assembly

Mon 26th Nov Yr 5 Cathedral visit 9.30am - 2.30pm

Wed 28th Nov Year 2 Liturgy

Fri 30th Nov Year 6 Assembly

Fri 30th Nov End of Year Concert K-6 @ 6pm

Wed 5th Dec Semester Two Reports available to

parents

Thurs 6th Dec Thanksgiving Graduation Mass @

9.00am undercover area

Fri 7th Dec Year 6 Excursion

Fri 7th Dec END OF TERM 4 FOR STUDENTS

SENT HOME MONDAY 19th NOVEMBER

★ 2019 Pre-order form for Homework Folder, Library

Bag & Chair Bags (Kindy - Year 5 )

UNIFORM CENTRE NEWS

Please note the Uniform Centre

will be CLOSED for the

remainder of Term 4. For any

urgent uniform matters please come to the

Admin Office. Apologies for any

inconvenience this may cause.

Assistant Principal’s

Religious Education News

St Vincent De Paul Christmas Hampers

On Wednesday the parish came and collected our food

donations for St Vincent De Paul. We had over 20 boxes

of food and the parish volunteers were absolutely stunned

by our generosity. Thanks, once again, to all our families

for your efforts to make Christmas better for families that

are struggling.

Thanksgiving Mass – Thursday 6th

December

All parents and family members are invited to attend our

last school Mass of the year on the 6th December. While

we do farewell our Year 6 students, it is a time for our

whole school community to come together and give

thanks for God’s many blessings on the Matthew Gibney

community. The children really do love seeing family at

these events, so we look forward to celebrating with you.

Karen Keddie

Assistant Principal RE

Thanksgiving & Graduation Mass

You are all warmly invited and encouraged to join us for our Thanksgiving and Graduation Mass on

Thursday, 6th December at 9.00 a.m. at Matthew Gibney Catholic Primary School undercover area.

Please join our school community on this very special occasion.

We require some help to put up the stage in preparation

for the EduDance Concert. We will be putting up the

stage on Tuesday 27th November at 3:15pm. If you

could spare 15 minutes to help set this up, please contact

the school office. Many thanks in advance.

Have a great week!

Mark Powell PRINCIPAL

CAN YOU HELP We are in need of some help

with putting the stage up on

Tuesday 27th November at

3.15pm.

Please let the office know if you can help.

Minnie Vinnies Christmas Appeal!

CANTEEN ROSTER

Fri 23rd Nov Saroya P & Sylvia S

Tues 27th Nov CAN YOU HELP

Fri 30th Nov Natalie F & Therese B REMINDER SEMESTER 2 REPORTS

Parents/Guardians please note it is important that you

please check your log in for SEQTA Engage as early as

possible so that you will be able to access your child’s

report at the end of this term. To do this there are 2

options; you can either go to the following site:

https://gibney.coneqt-p.cathednet.wa.edu.au/ or go

to the school web page https://www.gibney.wa.edu.au/

and click on the SEQTA icon located on the home page

which will take you to the SEQTA Engage parent portal.

If you have forgotten your password, please click on the

forgot your password link and an email will be sent to

you. If you have forgotten your username then please

contact the school and we can remind you of your

username only.

If you are new to using SEQTA Engage then you will

receive an email to set up a new log in account.

If you are having any issues please contact the school.

Christmas Concert

Friday, 30th November Come along for a great

start to the festive season!

Bring a rug! Bring a picnic!

Gates open 5.00pm

Concert begins 6.00pm sharp

ENTERTAINMENT BOOK RAFFLE

Many thanks to all our families that participated in the

Entertainment Book Raffle.

Congratulations to our winners!!

Arlt Family Pre-Primary

Nascimento Family Pre-Primary

Pillera Family Year 3

Moore Family Year 4

David Family Year 5

Hogg Family Year 5

A big thank you to Narelle Gielingh for taking on the

organising and selling of the Entertainment Books and

the raffle.

LIBRARY NEWS

A reminder to students and parents that all library books were due back last Tuesday 20th November. If you have forgotten, can you please return your books promptly. There will be a library box in the Admin office to return your overdue books. This would be appreciated as we will be commencing a stock-take next week.

Have a happy and safe holiday and remember that the public libraries have a good source of books and material for you to enjoy over the holidays!

Thank you. Lucy and Sylvie

MUSIC NEWS

Once again 2018 has proved to be a very busy year. It has been a very successful year for MGCPS in the performing arts festival with

5 out of 5 awards. We were successful in the following performances. The Outstanding award along with the overall shield for

Christian Drama. The Outstanding award for Choral Speaking - Year 5.

The Excellence award for the musical ‘Cock A Doodle Dandy’ - Year 3 and 4.

Angus and Eli receiving a meritorious award for their piano performance. Angus and Eli also were successful in passing their AMEB piano exams. An excellent result and well done to all. A sincere thank you to the teachers for your help and cooperation.

We performed ‘Cock A Doodle Dandy’ at Midland Nursing Home last week and it was a pleasure to see the resident’s happy faces. We will once again perform this in the foyer of St John of God on the 5th December at 10.30am. All welcome.

I look forward to 2019 with some more ideas and I wish you all a very happy Christmas and an enjoyable time with your children and family.

If anyone has white or ivory wedding gowns or dresses and no longer want them I am very happy to take them off your hands.

Teresa Aldred

YEAR 5 NEWS

Next Monday we are off the St Mary’s Cathedral in the

city to see where Matthew Gibney is buried and to attend

Mass. We will be spending the day reflecting on how we

will become leaders in our school in 2019, and what we

can learn from Matthew Gibney.

Last Friday, Maddy, Zavier, Olivia and Eli represented

Year Five at the inaugural “Primary Leadership Youth

Summit” at Chisholm College, along with 140 other

students, from across Perth. They were certainly a credit

to our school. As part of our leadership day on Monday

they will be sharing some of the things that they learnt

and took away from the day with the rest of the class.

Karen Keddie & Jess Bettridge

YEAR 3 NEWS

In Year Three students have been very busy with all their

end of year testing and have produced some amazing

results. Well done on all your hard work throughout the

year!

This week we started our Christmas craft and students

have made some very interesting and colourful designs.

Christina Zurzolo

Raffle tickets coming home Monday 26th November