Dear Parents and Guardians

Today St Jude’s School hosted a regional Spelling Bee

for students in year 4, 5 and 6 from Queen of Apostles,

St Jerome’s, St Munchin’s, Notre Dame, Star of the Sea,

Yidarra and St Benedict’s schools. It was an excellent

competition and demonstrated the high calibre of all of

the competitors from all of these schools. Our

representatives were:

Year 6 Amanda D’Cruz, Man Fai Yang, Ruby D’Castro

(Reserve)

Year 5 Paris Hoang, Sophia Lu, Benny Mangoba

(Reserve)

Year 4 Lara Delilkan, Caitlyn Pettersen, Benjamin

Heslop (Reserve)

We are thrilled to announce that Amanda D’Cruz

won the Spelling Bee Shield for Year 6.

Congratulations Amanda!!

I am also very happy to share with you the wonderful

compliments offered to the year four class after their

visit on Monday to their pen-pal friends in year four at

Our Lady of Lourdes in Nollamara. This is an excerpt

from the email I received from the principal of Our Lady

of Lourdes – “just wanted to send you a quick email to

say how wonderful your students were today. Their

respect, manners, behaviour and participation were

impeccable. Together with your staff members who

attended, the children were glowing ambassadors for St

Jude’s. It was a delight for us to welcome them and

spend time with them. Please pass on my gratitude and

congratulations to your staff and students”. We feel very

proud of them and congratulate them on their wonderful

behaviour!

At this time of the year all classes are still very busy with

their learning programmes. As I move through the

classes, I am always very impressed to see the level of

integration of technology in the daily learning of the

students.

The use of computers, iPads, Interactive Boards and

Apple TV’s has enabled the widespread use within

classes of many learning applications and programmes

such as word, powerpoint, publisher, excel, iMovie,

garage-band and various others.

The enhancement to learning and engagement with

learning is a clear demonstration of the place of technology in today’s classrooms.

Our school has invested carefully in ensuring that

our technology infrastructure can support the

school’s many requirements for internet coverage

and usage, as well as keeping up with the prescribed

changes from the Catholic Education Office. We

have achieved a very high level of Operating system

currency with the introduction of Office 365,

Windows server 2012 R2, Windows 8.1, Apple

10.10 and IOS 8.1. We look forward to moving

towards a 1-1 laptop programme for our students

from year 4 to year 6, beginning with year 4

students in 2016 and expanding our programme of

iPads in 2015, so that all students have the

opportunity to integrate technology into all of their

classes.

We are extremely grateful to the FOSJ for their

continued support for the purchase of iPads and to

the School Board for their support and endorsement

of our technology programme.

Once again, I remind parents that all staff members

at St Jude’s are very grateful for the support and

encouragement which is received throughout the

year from parents and friends of our school. We also

appreciate your support in filling the hamper

baskets for the St Vincent de Paul Christmas Appeal

– thank you for your generosity! As a small sign of

our appreciation, we would like to invite all parents

and helpers to a Thank You Morning Tea in the

hall on Friday 28th November at 10.00am,

immediately after the year 1 led whole school Mass

at 9.00 am. An invitation accompanies this

newsletter and we hope that you will be able to

come along.

Our year 4 class will lead the assembly this Friday –

see you there!

God bless

Lyn Stone, Principal

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Jesus

Jesus, You are the light of the world.

Your light shines before all people.

Help us to live in your light in all that we do and in all that we say.

May we bring your light to others by the way we live our lives. Amen

Newsletter No. 36 19 November 2014

St Jude’s School is a caring Catholic community. Through education of the whole person, that has Christ as its foundation,

we strive to develop and affirm each individual child’s talents and qualities.

CHRISTMAS STORY PRACTICE SESSIONS

Thank you to all the families who have volunteered to

participate in this year’s Christmas play at Christmas Mass

on 24th December 7pm. Practice for the play will be on the

following dates in our Parish Church:

Wednesday 19th November at 4.00 – 4.40pm

Wednesday 26th November at 4.00 – 4.40pm

Wednesday 3rd December at 4.00 – 4.40pm

St Vincent de Paul Christmas Hampers

Kindy Christmas Pudding, Custard, Tinned Fruit

P/P Bon Bons, Tea, Coffee

Yr 1 Long life milk, Milo, Cereal, Dried Fruit

Yr 2 Fruit mince pies, Sweet biscuits, Savoury biscuits,

Candy canes

Yr 3 Jelly, Jams, Long life juice, Christmas cake

Yr 4 Christmas napkins & tablecloths, Pancake mix,

Tinned vegetables.

Yr 5 Confectionery, Muesli bars, Pasta, Pasta sauce

Yr 6 Vegemite, Soft drinks, Cordial

THANK YOU MASS AND PARENT MORNING TEA

We invite all parents to join us for a Thanksgiving mass (lead by

the Year 1 class) followed by “Thank you” morning tea in the

school hall at 10.00am. The staff of St Jude’s would like to thank

parents for their support throughout the year.

Booklists

Booklists were handed out last week. Please ensure that they are

returned to school by this Friday 21 November. Online orders

can still be placed after this date. Please check the booklist for

all the required information and dates.

Book Club Thank you to all parents for your support in 2014.

The final Book Club for the year will be due on Friday, 21st

November. Unfortunately, late orders are unable to be

processed. Carey O’Brien, Book Club Co-ordinator

UP & COMING WEEK 6

Thurs, 20 Nov:

9.00am Playgroup

2.15pm PP-Yr1 Orientation

Fri, 21 Nov:

KINDY

Assembly Yr 4

Sat, 22 Nov:

FOSJ Quiz Night

WEEK 7

Tues, 25 Nov:

Edudance

6.30pm AGM

Wed, 26 Nov:

Yr.5 Leadership Retreat Day

Thurs, 27 Nov:

2.15pm K-PP Orientation

Fri, 28 Nov:

9.00am Mass led by Yr.1

Thankyou Morning Tea 10.00am

WEEK 8

Tues, 2 Dec:

Edudance

Brilliantly Behaved Morning Tea

Thurs, 4 Dec:

Yrs.K-6 End of Year Excursion

2014 (FOSJ) Committee

3 YEAR PRE- KINDY ST JUDE’S 2015

We are taking enrolments for children

who have reached three years of age, or

are reaching three years of age in 2015.

The programme is play based and provides

meaningful experiences that promote the

development of spiritual, social, emotional,

language, intellectual, creative and

physical skills.

We currently offer the option of one

half-day session 9.00am to 11.30am or

two sessions 9.00am to 2.30pm on

Wednesdays

For further information, please contact

the office on (08) 6350 2500.

FROM THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS

AQUAPOD BOTTLE ROCKET CHALLENGE

The Year 5 children are doing a challenge in science over the last few weeks of the year.

They will require 2 litre soft drink bottles. We will need about 12 bottles by Friday 21st

November.

If you have clean bottles that could be donated to the class it would be greatly appreciated.

PRE PRIMARY

We are reading and writing our words. We are

writing and copying our words like big kids. We eat our 'recess' and lunch in the undercover

area.

We are playing in the Adventure playground with

some of the bigger kids and we love it!

Do you think we are NEARLY ready for Year One

yet?????We think we are!

Our Teacher thinks we are too, too clever.

We have a secret about the assembly on (Friday -

sshhhhhhh!!!) We might be singing with our Big

Buddies (Ssshhhhhh)

YEAR 2

This week in year 2 we have been talking about some of

the different theories surrounding the extinction of the

dinosaurs. Below are some of the reasons why we think

the dinosaurs became extinct.

Mercy: I think the dinosaurs died because the sun was

too hot and a volcano erupted at the same time!

Elijah: I think the dinosaurs died because there was a

flood and there were lots of sink holes.

Abbey: I think the dinosaurs died because it got really

hot and there was an earthquake!

Mekhi: I think the dinosaurs died because there was an

earthquake, volcanos erupting everywhere and asteroids

crashed into the earth!

Jevon: I think the dinosaurs died because there were

carnivores surrounding all of the plant eaters and when

comets crashed into the earth heaps of the baby

dinosaurs were crushed and killed.

Charlotte: I think the dinosaurs died from an

earthquake and an exploding volcano.

Gilang: I think the dinosaurs became extinct from an

earthquake and lots of crashing rocks killed all of the

dinosaurs.

Alena: I think the dinosaurs died because there was an

earthquake. Also the earth became very hot and all of

the water dried out which made the dinosaurs thirst to

death.

Julia: I think the dinosaurs died because a volcano

exploded and the sun was exploding too.

YEAR 4

This week in year Four we had the Privilege of

going to visit our Pen pals at Our Lady of Lourdes.

The day was filled with lots of fun activities and

we all enjoyed catching up with each other for the

day.

YEAR 4 (Continued)

The year fours at Our Lady of Lourdes put on a

Sausage Sizzle for lunch and gave us Freddo’s as we

left. We also got to experience how their classroom

works and even attended a sports lesson.

Over the year it has been fantastic getting to know

our Pen Pals and communicating with them by letter

or through iMovie and Skype. It has been lots of fun

as we have been able to share what we have been

doing in the classroom and at our school. It was a

fantastic opportunity and we hope to keep in

contact over time.

Just a reminder our school assembly is this Friday

the 21st of November hope to see you all there

Year 6 – The Graduation Class The Year 6 students of 2014 are becoming rather anxious and

excited about moving onto their new school locations. Below are

some of their thoughts about this transition beginning a new

stage in their education journey!

Chris – I feel excited but scared at the same time as there will

be lots of new faces.

Carol – I really don’t want to leave St Jude’s.

Savannah – I will feel nervous but so excited to meet new people.

Nisarg – I will feel sort of lonely as I will not have my friends

around

Man-Fai – I feel like I am leaving half the universe behind.

Mariam – It was short, but sweet.

Brenden – I am going to be scared because I will now become one

of the small people.

Grace – I wish I would have been here longer.

Connor – I wish I would stay with my friends forever. I hope that

the transition will be smooth and clean. I do hope that I reach

the pinnacle of my educational abilities whilst in secondary

school, as I have done in Year 6.

Dasy – I will feel sad leaving all my friends, including the crazy

ones, behind as I leave for secondary school.

Keely – I feel like I am leaving family behind as we are all so

interconnected.

Nathaniel – I am looking forward to the pool at St. Norbert’s.

Janae – Saying goodbye to my class mates will be like leaving my

family behind.

Justin – I hope that everyone in secondary school is as sweet as

my Year 6 class.

Manaz – It feels pretty sad leaving Ms. Mcloughlin.

Curtis – It is a bit sad leaving your friends. I wish they could

come to my secondary school.

Jade – I feel that the journey ahead is unpredictable, like trying

to guess all of the stars in the sky. I know that I will have some

friends from St Jude’s by my side. I have learnt so much this

year and I will lose a greater amount of what I care for as I

leave this school.

From the Classroom

ST JUDE’S

PARISH Mass Times

Sunday Masses: (Vigil) Saturday: 6.30pm

Sunday: 7.30am 9.00am and 5.30pm

Weekday Masses: Mon to Fri: 9.00am followed by

Recitation of the Rosary

St Jude’s School Newsletter 19.11.2014

St Jude’s Catholic School, 17 Barnston Way, Langford WA 6147

Tel: 6350 2500 Fax : 9356 5486 Email: admin@stjudes.wa.edu.au Website: www.stjudes.wa.edu.au

KidsHelpline, We care. We listen. Want someone to talk to?

24 Hour (Free) call 1800 55 1800 or website: www.kidshelp.com.au

ALTAR SERVERS

St Jude’s Students on roster for this weekend

are:-

6.30pm: Aldric Ratnasekera

9.00am: Lauren and Christian Moro & Nathaniel

Morgan

ST JUDE’S PLAYGROUP

Playgroup is on tomorrow from 9.00am to

10.30am. If you have children not old enough to

attend school we would like to invite you to come

along to our playgroup held every Thursday

throughout the school term. It is free to attend

so come in and have a cuppa and meet other

Mums, Dads and carers from the St Jude’s

community. We look forward to meeting you and

your family at the school hall.

Kindergarten Enrolments for 2015

Learning through Faith, Love and Laughter

If your child turns 4 before 30 June 2015, you

may be looking for a place in our Kindergarten.

Our Kindergarten Offers:

A Warm and Caring Christian Environment

Professional, Nurturing Staff

Learning through Play

Intentional Teaching, developing Oral

Language and Social Skills

Excellent Classroom Facilities and an

Extensive Outdoor Play Area

Please contact the School Office for an

application form.

Victoria Square

PERTH WA 6000 Early in 2015, Mercedes College will commence

interviewing Year Five students who are due to

start Year Seven in 2017. If you are considering

enrolling your daughter at Mercedes and have

not yet requested an information pack, please

contact Mrs Julie Lamb on 9323 1340 as soon

as possible.

Further information about enrolments is available

on the website, www.mercedes.wa.edu.au

The St Vincent de Paul Society is opening a new

Vinnies shop in December located on Albany Hwy,

Cannington. Volunteers are required for a variety of

jobs. Shop open from 9am to 5pm Mon-Fri and 9am

to 4pm Saturdays. Donations are also welcome and

can be dropped off at the Vinnies shops located in

Willetton, East Vic Park or Belmont and mark it “for

Cannington”.

Please contact Alex on retailvolunteer@svdpwa.org.au

or phone (08) 9475 5435