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. 17 13th June 2019

Dear Parents, Friends and Students

Last weekend the Church celebrated the Feast of

Pentecost, a day which many call the birthday of the

Catholic Church. It was on this day that the Holy Spirit

came upon the apostles of Jesus and gave them gifts in

order to spread His message throughout the word. As

Catholic people we call on these same gifts in order to

continue to spread His message. On Monday morning the

Year 5 class led us in a short prayer service that reminded

us of the gifts and wonder of the Holy Spirit. Last weekend

we also were informed of the next stage of the Plenary

2020 process, the ‘Discussion and Discernment’ stage.

Six major themes have been identified from the ‘Listening’

stage that concluded on Ash Wednesday earlier this year.

Our hope is that the Holy Spirit will breathe life back into

our Church and that the Plenary 2020 will be a new

Pentecost and a new beginning.

Congratulations to our Interschool Cross Country team

who competed last Thursday. They finished fourth out of

nine schools, which was an outstanding achievement

considering many of our selected students were unable to

compete due to sickness. Those who had to substitute for

sick students did an outstanding job, as did the whole team

who worked so hard on the day. Congratulations to all our

students who achieved a medal. Thank you to the parents

who went along to support the students. Congratulations

and thank you to Miss Andersen who prepared the

students to compete. We look forward to our next event,

the winter sports lightning carnival. This will take place on

Friday 21st June. Miss Andersen will send home details to

the students in Years 5 and 6 with regard to this event.

The Year 1 class will hold their Liturgy of Word on

Wednesday 19th June. This will begin at 9:05am and it will

be held in the Sacred Space. All parents and members of

our community are invited to join with the Year 1 students

and then stay for the morning tea that will follow.

It is with more than a tinge of sadness that I inform the

school community that Mrs Sue St Jorre, our school

Finance Officer, has informed me that she will be retiring at

the end of this term. Sue has been a part of the school

community since 1996. I was fortunate enough to be on

the panel that employed her when I was at Matthew

Gibney as an Assistant Principal. From the moment that

Sue joined our staff she has been an invaluable member of

the community. She began working in a combined role of

Finance Officer and Administration Officer. As the

workload increased, due mostly to government

compliance, the role separated out into two and Sue

worked as our Finance Officer. Sue’s attention to detail,

her diligent work ethic and her strong care and concern for

everyone will be sorely missed by all. There is so much

that Sue does that it is impossible to fully appreciate this in

a few short words in a newsletter. As a school community

we wish her well in her retirement and trust that she will

enjoy this new stage of her life.

I would like to advise the school community that Mrs Krista

Gregory has been employed as our new Finance Officer.

Krista comes to our school with over 10 year’s experience

working in finance, many of these in a Catholic secondary

college. Krista will begin work in our school on Monday

24th June, working with Sue St Jorre in order to receive a

thorough handover. We welcome Krista to our community

and trust that she will enjoy her time here with us.

Have a great week!

Mark Powell PRINCIPAL

Diana Olivia

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

Year Sixes Fibonacci Spirals!

Fiona

Jesus answered, “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to

the Father except through me. (John 14:6)

Nicholas Noah

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Fri 14th Jun Year 3 Assembly

Sun 16th Jun Trinity Sunday

Wed 19th Jun Year 1 Liturgy

Wed 19th Jun First Eucharist Retreat & Rehearsal

Wed 19th Jun School Open Event 4.30 - 5.30pm

Wed 19th Jun P&F Meeting @ 7.30pm

Fri 21st Jun Lightning Carnival Yr 5 & 6

Sun 23rd Jun First Eucharist Mass @ 9.30am @

St Francis of Assisi Parish

Mon 24th Jun Constable Care Incursion

Fri 28th Jun Pre-Primary Assembly

Mon 1st Jul NAIDOC Week

Mon 1st Jul First Aid Incursion

Wed 3rd Jul Year 4 Mass

Fri 5th Jul END OF TERM 2 FOR STUDENTS

Mon 22nd Jul STUDENTS RETURN TERM 3 2019

YEAR 2 NEWS

During Religion we have read the story of Jesus in the Temple and have looked at how Jesus loved and obeyed his parents. The children were also amazed to learn that even at a young age, Jesus was a teacher.

Our classroom has been invaded by Monster Glyphs! The children created these amazing Monster Glyphs with Miss Bettridge during Digital Technology and have done an awesome job.

Gina Nickels

YEAR 5 NEWS

This week we have been further exploring and reading

Greek Myths. The two myths we focused on this week,

were “Arachne and Athena”, and “Daedalus and Icarus”.

We have been weaving on old CD’s like Arachne (who

Athena turned into a spider) and then, over the past two

days, we had fun but also lots of learning, creating a craft

to safely carry Icarus to freedom. There were some

amazing flying craft that glided to safety, though a few

crash landed and we thought that Icarus wouldn’t have

survived without some serious injuries. In Science the

Year 5s are investigating how animals adapt to their

environment and they are using their writing skills to

create an information report.

Karen Keddie & Jess Bettridge

CANTEEN ROSTER

Fri 14th June CAN YOU HELP?

Tues 18th June Kristie T

Fri 21st June Debra K

CAN YOU HELP?

YEAR 3 NEWS

Our focus these last two weeks have turned to POETRY!

We have been engrossed in learning all about similies,

metaphors, alliteration, personification, onomatopoeia,

word play and other very exciting figurative language

techniques that can bring our writing to life. Stay tuned on

Seesaw to read the poems that we will be writing in the

coming weeks. We have also been busily turning into

little actors, comedians and singers in preparation for our

assembly on Friday morning. Please check Seesaw for

the latest note in regards to costumes. We hope to see

you all at our performance. A note in regards to our

upcoming excursion to Woolworths will be coming out

very soon. Please keep an eye out in your child’s

homework bag for the permission slip.

Felicity Martinz

MATTHEW GIBNEY CATHOLIC

PRIMARY SCHOOL

OPEN DAY AFTERNOON Wednesday 19th June 2019

4.30pm to 5.30pm

Dear Parents/Guardians

If you know of any family or friends that might be

interested in their children attending Matthew Gibney

Catholic Primary School in 2019/2020, please invite them

to come along to our Open Day for a tour of our school

and to receive a welcome pack.

All are welcome!

Assistant Principal’s

Religious Education News

LIFELINK 2019

Thursday 4th July

Pyjama Party For all students

K-6 Raising money for Lifelink

2019.

Bring in a GOLD coin to

contribute to Lifelink, to help those in need.

We will be also donating all Milo Money raised that

morning to LifeLink.

Karen Keddie

Assistant Principal RE

Friday Giving

Don’t forget our Friday Giving Appeal to

help the needy.

Please bring your donations of canned

foods or non-perishables, etc. to school

for collection each Friday.

Parents & Friends Association

Agenda item request for meeting - Wednesday 19th

June @ 7.30pm.

Please submit your Agenda item request either through

the Skoolbag app - eForms - P&F Meeting Agenda

Items or through the Matthew Gibney website

http://web.gibney.wa.edu.au/pandf.html

You must attend the meeting if you wish to submit

an agenda item.

P & F Meetings Term 2 2019

Wednesday 19th June @ 7.30pm

Semester One Reports Reminder

Dear Parents/Guardians,

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 you need to go to the following site: https://gibney.coneqt-p.cathednet.wa.edu.au/ and use your current username and password credentials.

If you have remembered your username but have forgotten your password, please click on the ‘Forgot your password?’ link and an immediate email will be sent to you. The email will expire within one hour, so please action this immediately.

If you forgotten both of these, then please contact the school and we can remind you of your username.

If you are new to using SEQTA Engage, then you will receive an information letter and an email to set up a new log in account. This email will expire within 7 days so please, action this as soon as possible.

If you have any issues, please contact the school.

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