Volume 19 - 29 June 2017

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Notre Dame Catholic

Primary School 360 Daly St, Cloverdale Perth WA

6105 Ph: 08 6272 7100Fax: 08 9277 2234

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THOUGHT FOR THE WEEK

Thisistheday,thisistheday. ThattheLordhasmade,thattheLordhasmade.

Wewillrejoice,wewillrejoice,Andbegladinit,andbegladinit.

ThisisthedaythattheLordhasmade. Wewillrejoiceandbegladinit.Thisistheday,thisistheday

DearParentsandStaff

The children’s spirits are certainly high today as we come to the end of our

second Term.Wearing free dress on the last day of Term has everyone in a

greatframeofmindaswecommencethebreaktorefreshandrecharge.This

morningwewerevisitedbySrMargeuritefromtheLiLleSistersofthePoorin

Glendaloughwho told us about some of thework that the Sisters and their

volunteersdotosupporttheaged.Thosewhotheycareforaregenerallynotin

a financial posiNon to pay for the support that they need. The Sisters rely

heavilyupondonaNonstoconNnuetheirwonderfulworksowewereprivileged

to present SisterMargeurite with a cheque for $1000which we have raised

throughourfreedressdonaNons.ItwasalsoagreatopportunitytoseeSister

inherfullhabit,whichisquiteuncommonthesedays.SisterMargeuritehasleT

someinformaNonforfamiliesthatwewillsendhomeatthebeginningofnext

Term.

READINGCHALLENGEThismorningIputforwardachallengetoallofthechildrenandstaff.

THECHALLENGE:IamapassionateCarltonsupporter.Mostofourchildrenandstaffareeither

Eagles or Dockers supporters. I am prepared to dress in Eagles and Dockers

coloursandhavemyfacepaintedwhen:

• EveryclassandthestaffhavemadeupatrailofA4sizedfootprintswith

thenamesofage-appropriatebooksthattheyhaveread(orhadread

to themforKindy/Pre-Primary) thatstretches fromtheirclassroomto

myoffice.

• Every child and staff member must have read at least one book.Reading only one book each, however, will not get anywhere near

reachingmyofficebut I’m surewehavemany voracious readerswho

wouldlovetoseemewearingblue,gold,purpleandwhite.

• ThechallengemustbecompletedduringnextTerm.

What you can do, we cannot do, and what we can

do, you cannot do, but together we can do something beautiful.

Mother Teresa

WEEKLY EVENTS

WEDNESDAY 19 JULY

MONDAY 17 JULY TUESDAY 18 JULY

FRIDAY 21 JULY

STAFFPROFESSIONALDAY

PUPILFREEDAY

FRIDAY 30 JUNE

Holidays commence

4YO-Yr6studentscommence

STAFFPROFESSIONAL

DEVELOPMENTDAYS

PUPILFREEDAYS

Performing Arts Opening Mass

• Ifandwhenchildrenandstaffreachmyofficeeveryonewillbeinvitedto

wearoubitsor coloursof their favourite sporNng teamsonmyspecial

“dressup”day.

So, there it is, a great opportunity to get started on the challenge over the

schoolholidays.

PARENT/TEACHERMEETINGSThank you, parents, for aLending the meeNngs yesterday aTernoon and

evening. I trust you all found them to be informaNve, providing good

informaNonabouthowyoumayassistwithyourchild’sprogress.

Thank you to the staff for the Nme spent both at themanymeeNngs and in

preparingforthem.

It isonlywhenweallworktogetherthatwewillprovidethechildrenwiththe

greatestopportunityforsuccess.

AFTERSCHOOLPICKUP• It has been brought to my aLenNon that a number of children are

waiNngforparentstocollecttheminDalySt.Iacknowledgethatitisthe

parents’ responsibility to determine where and how children will be

collected from school. However, collecNon from Daly St with children

movingoutfrombetweenparkedcarsisfraughtwithdangerasthereis

no adult supervision. I urge parents to reconsider this pick upmethod

and to use the drive through pick up in the Parish carpark which is

supervised each day by school staff. The drive through is generally

clearedwithin10–15minutesaTerthecloseofschool.

• ATer school, children will not be permiLed to walk in or through the

Parishcarparkunlesssupervisedbyanadult.Pleasedonotwaitforyour

children in areas that require this and please do not be upset by our

effortstoprotectyourchildren.

STAFFINGI was informed yesterday that ChrisNne Padua has been offered a teaching

posiNon at Infant Jesus School in Morley. ChrisNne has been on her final

teaching pracNcum at Infant Jesus and it is a credit to her that she has been

offered this posiNon. ChrisNne hasworked as an EducaNon Assistant at Notre

Dame for a number of years and this year she has also taken on the role of

Teacher in the 3 Y.O. Kindergarten on Tuesday and Thursday aTernoons.

ChrisNne has been a highly valued member of our staff and I am sure all

members of our community join with me in wishing her all the best for her

futureendeavours.

ChrisNne’sdeparturehasfacilitatedthefollowingstaffingchanges:

• LindaHarlandwillnowteachthe3Y.O.KindergartenaTernoonclasses

aswellashermorningclass.LindawillalsoconNnue inherteaching

rolewith4Y.O.KindergartenonMondaysandFridays

• ClaireParnhamwillbeteaching4Y.O.KindergartenonWednesdays.

• Kathy Sheehan will conNnue in her EducaNon Assistant role each

morningintheYear1Mclass.

• Luan Dique will be the EducaNon Assistant in Year 6M on Monday

mornings and in the Year 5 classes on Tuesday and Wednesday

mornings.

Iwishallof these staff success in theirnew rolesand thank them for their

conNnuedgreateffortsinsupporNngthechildren’slearning.

THURSDAY 20 JULY

3YOstudentscommence

CLASS NEWS

DarrylWinsor

Principal

Year Six OurfabulousYearSixesarenearingtheendoftermanditiscertainlyhardtobelievethattheyarehalf

waythroughtheirfinalyearofprimaryschool!We’vehadanotherbusytermintermtwoandourYear

SixesareverymuchanNcipaNngthestartoftheschoolholidays.ThistermtheyparNcipatedininterschool

sports and competedagainstother schools in theEaglesCup,GloryCupandFeverCup.All the teams

representedNotreDamewithdisNncNon throughout the tournamentand shouldbeproudof theway

theyconductedthemselvesineachgame.

Intheclassroom,theYearSixeshavealsobeenworkingveryhardandhavebeenpulngtheircreaNve

talents to use. In art, they have beenworkingwithMrs Flexman to create amosaic paLern on a Nle,

whichalllookfantasNc.Atthebeginningofterm,theYearSixesalsoproducedapoemonWarandPeace

whichNedinwithourANZACDaycelebraNons.ThestudentsalsoputtheirICTskillstoworkandcreated

anAboriginalDreamNmeRetellusingpagesandepubtocreatean iBook for theirYearTwobuddies to

enjoy.Our learningfocus innumeracythistermhasbeenunderstandingdecimalnumbersandlearning

about 24-hour Nme and how to interpret a Nmetable. Finally, our students are looking forward to

preparingfortheirsacramentofconfirmaNonnexttermandareexcitedaboutsomeinteresNngprojects

thatwehaveinstoreforthem.Wehopetheyhavearelaxingandsafebreakovertheholidays.

GONSKI2.0FUNDINGThe following informaNon has been provided by Dr Tim McDonald, ExecuNve Director – Catholic

EducaNonWA.

23June2017

DearParentsandCaregiversFollowingtheannouncementoftheFederaleduca>onfundingreformpolicylatelastnight,Iamwri>ngtoallfamiliesinCatholicschoolsacrossWesternAustraliatoprovidemyassurancethatCatholicEduca>onWesternAustralia(CEWA)willmaintainalaserfocusonaffordability,toensureaccessibilityforeveryfamilyseekingaCatholiceduca>on.Ourcurrentfederalfundingarrangementswillremaininplacefor2018.AsasystemwearecommiNedtoensuringfeesareaslowaspossibleonaschoolbyschoolbasis.Thenext12monthswillalsoprovideCEWAwiththe>metoconsiderhowtheaddi>onalfundingprovidedbytheFederalGovernmentwillbedistributedacrossthesystem,mee>ngtheneedsofourstudents.YourssincerelyDrTimMcDonald

SPORTS NEWS

Mrs Boyle, Mrs Jennings & Mr Seers

2017JUMPROPEFORHEARTCongratulaNons to all students from years 1-6

involvedintheJumpRopeforHeartprogramthis

term. This is the culminaNng week run in both

sportclassesand lunchNmeacNviNes.Wewillbe

running our last jump off circuit on Thursday

lunchNme, run by the year 6 facNon captains.

Thursdayisthelastdaytoaddtoourtallyof

$3,537...almostatourgoalof$4000.Wewillhave

prizesorganisedfor thehighest fundraisingclass,

as well as the highest fundraising student from

each class next term. It would be a great

achievementifwecanreachthistotal!Hereisthe

linkagainforthosethatwouldliketosignupand

donate - hLps://jumprope.everydayhero.do/

j u m p r o p e 2 0 1 7 /

Notre_Dame_School_CLOVERDALE_WA_128106.

Interschool Sport & Lightning CarnivalLast Thursday, Year 6 students and selected Year 5 students parNcipated in the annual Interschool

Lightning Carnival held at Maida Vale Reserve. This day is a culminaNon of the Interschool Sport

compeNNonthathasbeenheldonFridayaTernoonsthisterm. Studentscameintothedayextremely

excited and keen to end the compeNNon on a high, with our Netball A girls coming into the day

undefeated looking tobringhome two trophies forNotreDame. The studentswere lucky enough to

haveseniorumpires fromall sporNngassociaNons (Netball,AFLandSoccer)helpingouton theday. I

wouldliketopersonallythankShonaChiltonandSallyWalshforpulngtheirhandupandassisNngour

Netball teams this yearandassisNngwith coaching roleson theday,aswell as,Danielle Lawrie,Deb

TaylorandAmandaMillingtonwiththeirassistanceofvariousduNesthroughoutthecompeNNon.Notre

Dame had some good results with the Netball A girls taking out both the Fever Cup and Lightning

carnival compeNNon. Well done to all students involved in AFL and Soccer, demonstraNng great

progression throughout the compeNNon and coming home with a couple of wins. Well done to all

studentsandspecial thanks toMrSeersandMrs Jennings forall theirsupportandcommitmentwith

theirrespecNveteamsthisterm.Belowaretheresultsfortheday.

LightningCarnivalPlacings

NetballA:NotreDame1,SacredHeart2,StJoseph’s3,StEmilie’s4,Xavier5,StMunchin’s6

NetballB:SacredHeart1,StJoseph’s2,StMunchin’s3,StEmilie’s4,NotreDame5,Xavier6

Soccer:SacredHeart1,StJoseph’s2,Xavier3,NotreDame4,StEmilie’s5,StMunchin’s6

AFL:StEmilie’s1,SacredHeart2,StMunchin’s3,NotreDame4,StJoseph’s5,Xavier6

CHOIR NEWS

Brett WebbSports Teacher

Thankyoutothechoirmembersfortheirsplendideffortsthisterm.Theyhaveworkedveryhardandare

growinginconfidence. InaddiNontoFirstHolyCommunion,thechoirhasbeenbusypreparingforThe

PerformingArtsFesNvalnextterm.Iwillsendthedetailshomeinweek1ofnextterm.Thankyoualsoto

you,theirparents,forthesacrificesyoumaketogetyourchildrentochoirpracNseandourotherevents.

Iamgratefultoyouall.

JustareminderthatchoirpracNsewillbeonday1nextterm-Wednesday19Julyat8am.Ilookforward

orseeingallourchoirmembersthere.

Mr LoiaconoMusic Teacher

UNIFORM NEWS

P & F NEWS

ENTERTAINMENTBOOKSTHEENTERTAINMENTBOOKSHAVEARRIVED!!!TheP&FaresellingEntertainmentBooks.Everybookpurchasedraises$14.00forourschool.

Adisplaybookisavailableintheofficeforyoutoviewallofthegreatoffers.

Topurchaseabookoradigitalmembershippleasereturnyourorderformandmoneytotheofficeor

completeyourorderonlineathLps://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/86014g.

IfyouneedassistancewithyourorderpleasecontactLizDwyeron0405774455oremail

edwyer4@gmail.com.

Thankyouforyoursupport.

COMING SOON TO NOTRE DAME BOGAN BINGO

2 SEPTEMBER 2017

ThiswillbetheP&F’smajorfundraiserfortheyear. Pleaseconsiderhowyoucansupportthiseventwith

donaNons of aucNon and raffleprizes. Funds raisedwill go towards an upgradeof our library including

books,furnitureandequipment.

Manythanksandkindregards,

Julie-AnneBeasley

Chair

NDCPSP&F

The Uniform Shop’s opening times:

Monday 1.30pm to 3.30pm

Wednesday 8.00am to 10.00am,

Danielle LawrieUniform Coordinator