Principal’s Post Dear Parents I am pleased to announce that Mrs Jacki Tucker has been appointed as our new Assistant Principal to start at the beginning of next year. Jacki is currently the Assistant Principal at St Lawrence’s School in Balcatta. She is studying towards a Master of Educational Leadership, she is enrolled at the CEWA Established Leaders Program and is a Kagan Cooperative Learning coach. I’m looking forward to welcoming Jacki to our community next year. Assembly Night A huge highlight for the students and parents is our assembly night, which will be held in the Hall tonight Wednesday 18 September for the students from Pre Primary to Year 3. The idea of the assembly night is for the students to share their learning with you from this term. It is not meant to be a competition between classes and I’m sure you will appreciate the huge amount of work that goes into preparing such events to give our students the opportunity to shine in front of an audience. As always with the little students, we are expecting a bumper crowd. The assembly commences at 6.30pm sharp and all students are required to meet in their classrooms at 6.00pm. Performing Arts Assembly Once again our students have participated beautifully in the Performing Arts Festival and we will be showcasing some of these performances at this week’s assembly. Please do come along on Friday morning to see our talented students in action. End of Term Mass All parents and extended family members are invited to our final Mass next Thursday 26 September at 8.45am in our Church. The Mass will be led by our Pre Primary students and it will focus on the value of gifts and our giftedness. Our whole school Masses have been very reverent and beautiful this year and we love having parents come along to be a part of our faith community. Dates Next Thursday is also the last day of the term for us as we are taking the Friday as our Catholic Day. Every year, all Catholic schools are granted one extra day off in recognition to the commitment we make to our faith on the weekends. We will start back at school next term on Tuesday 15 October. Holiday Works As usual, there will be work happening at the school during the holidays as it allows the jobs to be completed without the students here. These holidays, the poles supporting the verandahs in our main quadrangle in front of the chapel will be replaced as they are rusting at the bases. This is quite a big job which will ensure our verandahs remain stable and safe well into the future. I take this opportunity to wish all students and families a safe and relaxing holiday and I look forward to seeing you again next term. Yours sincerely Laurie Bechelli

ISSUE 15

18TH SEPTEMBER 2019 Cassowary Drive, Ballajura WA 6066 PO Box 2185, Malaga WA 6944

Telephone (08) 9241 7500

Website: www.mmccps.wa.edu.au Canteen (08) 9249 9190 Monday, Wednesday, & Friday

Uniform Shop: Tuesday 8:00 - 10:30am Thursday 2:00 - 4:00pm

In 1861, Mary MacKillop went to work in Penola, a small town in South Australia. Here she met a Catholic priest, Father Julian Woods.

Together they opened Australia's first free Catholic school. At that time only the rich could afford schooling.

Penola

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IMPORTANT DATES

Wednesday 18th September Assembly Night PP-Yr3 6.30pm Thursday 19th September Mass 8.45am (Yr 5) Thursday 19th September Chisholm Presentation (Yr 4) 9.30am Friday 20th September Assembly (PP-Yr 3) – Performing Arts 8.35am Tuesday 24th September Yr 6 Graduation Photo 9.30am Tuesday 24th September Keeping Safe Demonstration (Yrs 2,3,5 & 6) Justine O’Malley Wednesday 25th September Free Dress Day Thursday 26th September Whole School Mass (Pre Primary) 8.45am Thursday 26th September End of Term 3 Tuesday 15th October Start Term 4 Friday 13th December Term 4 Ends (for Students)

MAKE JESUS REAL BEARS Congratulations to our MJR winners from Week 8 Assembly. Ivy Campbell (6O), Matur Matur (2P) and Makayla Phan (3P).

CONGRATULATIONS Angelina Panpone (6P), received an Academic Scholarship to study at Mercy College for 2020. Well done Angelina.

KINDERGARTEN 2020 ENROLMENT APPLICATIONS

If you have a child born between 1st July 2015 – 30th June 2016, they are due to attend Kindergarten in 2020.

Please enrol your child immediately

Only a few places left.

PENOLA Community Mass Times: Sat 6.00 pm, Sun 8.00 am, 9.30 am, & 5.00 pm PAGE 3 FACTION CARNIVAL Last Thursday the annual Faction Carnival was completed after events such as 100m, 400m, long jump and shot put were held earlier this term. On a beautiful Spring day, girls and boys from all years competed to place their faction as winners. The winner on the day by a very small margin of just three points was O’Sullivan Green (1389) followed by MacKillop Blue (1386), McCormack Gold (1302) and MacDonald Red (1240). Mr Power would like to thank all the staff for their great work helping on the day and congratulates all the students in competing to their best on the day. Champion Boys and Girls competitions resulted in some tied placings. Congratulations to all our champions on the day. Champions Runner-up Champions 4 GIRLS Natalie Thong Jade Do Sascha Loncar Sienna Hornbuckle 4 BOYS Kobe Lam Callan Symonds Carl Milner Jaxon Prior 5 GIRLS Ava Santos Joanne Ugle Maia Pizzuto Megan To 5 BOYS Dinien Majak Ben Daniel 6 GIRLS Ruby Lam Mia Vroomans Tina Truong 6 BOYS Lucas Mucciarone Joel Rizg-Faragalla

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Dinien Majak Kobe Lam Jacob Carlson

Joel Rizg-Faragalla

Ryan Beeck Ryan Etoum Samuel Brown

Dylan Khuu Adam Etoum Callan Symonds Jaydon Prior Tyson Nguyen Jordan Sangiacomo Robbie Hawkins Henry Nguyen Mason Chapman Vaughan White Yr 6 Girls Yr 5 Girls Yr 4 Girls Yr 3 Girls Ysabella Black Ava Santos Natalie Thong Chenelle

Fisher Ruby Lam Maia Pizzuto Sascha Loncar Summer

Claxton Tina Truong Tayla Fuda Shelley Chan Mikaela Phan Annie Hunt Megan To Jade Do Isabella

Sciorsci Madison Lill Nyinuer Matur Sienna

Hornbuckle

Mia Vroomans Le’Shae Borrowy-Mase

Sophie Lee Joanne Ugle Denae Tsilivis

Djinda Kaatijin Incursion On Monday and Tuesday the Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company performed a production for us that incorporated the importance of stars in Aboriginal culture. The children and staff thoroughly enjoyed the performance and learnt about a number of different constellations through Dream time stories brought to life. SCIENCE The Science Room is still in the need of Paper towel tubes Old CDs Old keys Bottle Caps – plastic and metal Small boxes (tissue, tea, muesli bars, etc) Small plastic containers (yoghurt, butter, etc) Thanks Barb Stojkovski and Helen Jerkovich

PENOLA Community Mass Times: Sat 6.00 pm, Sun 8.00 am, 9.30 am, & 5.00 pm PAGE 5 CATHOLIC PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL The Performing Arts Festival for Catholic Schools and Colleges has now finished for another year. This year the festival was celebrating its 30th year, with record numbers of students participating from across Western Australia. As a participant of that first ever festival 30 years ago, I would like to thank all the students who entered for helping to keep such a wonderful event going. We are so lucky to have so many talented students who are also brave enough to share their talents with others! 2019 Entries

Creative Dance MM Boys Rock the Beat MM Girls Rock the Beat Instrumental Solo – Strings Davonn Lortan received an Excellence Award for his guitar solo Jhouella Vo received an Outstanding Award for her violin solo Choral Singing Senior Choir STAR Choir received an Excellence Award for their performance in the Selected Choir category Year 3 Choir received a Merit Award for their performance in the Class Choir category Combined Choir received a Merit Award for their performance in the Sacred Choral category Instrumental Solo – Piano Issabella Chen (Yr 5) Leah Jenkin (Yr 5) Congratulations again for being such wonderful representatives of the school, and a special thank you must also go to all of the teachers, parents and families who helped to prepare the children in any way. Performing Arts Assembly You are all invited to attend a special assembly on Friday 20th September at 8:35am. There will be performances by the choirs, dance troupes and Soloists. Once again, congratulations to all those involved, and I look forward to seeing you all at the assembly on Friday 20th. Vanessa Hince Performing Arts Coordinator

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LIBRARY NEWS

The Ballajura Lions Club has donated some great books to the Library. Below is a picture of a display of these books. We thank the club for their generous donation.

Please return all Library books by the end of Term. I hope you enjoy your holidays.

FREE DRESS DAY Our students have managed to fill up the first jar of 5 cent pieces, therefore they will be rewarded with a FREE DRESS DAY.

Wednesday 25th September. Well done.

PENOLA Community Mass Times: Sat 6.00 pm, Sun 8.00 am, 9.30 am, & 5.00 pm PAGE 7 CANTEEN NEWS The new Semester 2 CANTEEN MENU for 2019 is available on the MMCCPS website or alternatively if you require a hard copy, at the office or canteen. Please refer to this new menu ONLY, as many changes have taken place, with freshly made products. The canteen operates on Monday, Wednesday & Friday. To alleviate using money, Mary MacKillop Catholic Community Primary School has an online ordering system for Canteen orders. This enables a more efficient and effective service available to you and your family. You can visit www.ouronlinecanteen.com.au if you wish, just to have a look at what the school is offering. If you have any queries, please come and see either myself or Kath and we will be happy to help. Regards, Sylvia Campbell UNIFORM SHOP Tuesday Morning 8.00am-10.30am Thursday Afternoon 2.00pm-4pm EFTPOS AVAILABLE Julie Uniform Shop Manager P&F SECOND HAND UNIFORM SHOP Mrs Anita Andrews will be running the second hand uniform shop. If you require any items please contact Anita on 0412 866 588. The P&F Second Hand Uniform Shop gladly accepts donations of second hand uniforms. All proceeds from the sale of these uniforms go back to the students and the school.

The NEW ALEX & FLORA CLUB (Before and After School Care at the Church) The Alex and Flora Club has a new supervisor Melissa Tartaglia, she is an early childhood facilitator and play enthusiast. Melissa’s contact number is 0447 019567 or alternatively email her on office.marymackillop@bigpond.com

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WASTE WISE

Recycling at Mary Mac We have a number of recycling projects going at our school and we encourage our families and community to join us in our efforts to reduce, reuse and recycle and to minimise the amount of waste from going into landfill. Our recycling projects include:

1. Batteries – In partnership with Battery World Malaga 2. Old mobile phones and accessories – In partnership with Mobile Muster 3. Oral hygiene products (empty toothpaste tubes, toothbrushes, dental floss containers and all

their packaging) – through Terracycle 4. Soft plastics – part of Redcycle 5. Aluminium cans – through Auscon (so far we have raised $12.60 for our Cash for Cans) 6. Plastic bread tags – through Terracycle 7. Old pens, textas, whiteboard markers – teracycle. 8. Old printer and ink cartridges – Planet Ark

Our worm farms and compost tumblers are collecting all leftover fruit and vegetable scraps on a daily basis. Even the Canteen saves their food scraps for our worms. ‘Worm Wizz’ For Sale at Assemblies We have been able to collect some amazing ‘Worm Wizz’ which is great for the garden. Please have a look as we will have some bottles available at assemblies so first in best dressed. A gold coin donation will give you a bottle of ‘nature’s nutrients’ that your garden and plants will love. Sustainability Club Last Wednesday we had a number of students and staff take part in our new Sustainability Club. All students and staff are welcome to help out with gardening and other sustainability projects each Wednesday during lunch time. On our first day we weeded some of our garden beds, pulled out some enormous carrots and planted some corriander. Some of the carrots were used by the Canteen in their soup, some were sold at our assembly and the rest were happily eaten by the students during lunch. Woolworths Discovery Garden Promotion If you shop at Woolworths and spend $30 you will receive a seedling kit. We would love any donations for our school vegetable garden beds if you do not require them for you home. Don’t forget to ask your neighbours, family and friends too. Please drop in to 4A. Nude Food Challenge Next term, during the month of October our school will be taking part in a number of Nude Food challenges. Wednesday 16th October is WORLD NUDE FOOD DAY and we would like to reduce or possibly eliminate waste from all recess ad lunch items. Please see some examples below on ways to reduce food wastage and packaging. We conducted an audit on the amount of soft plastic collected in just one day and we collected 816 pieces of waste. We will conduct another audit on Nude Food Day and compare the results. Stay tuned!

PENOLA Community Mass Times: Sat 6.00 pm, Sun 8.00 am, 9.30 am, & 5.00 pm PAGE 9 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED We are looking for volunteers to assist with collecting and dropping off our soft plastics to either Woolworths or Coles stores. Both supermarkets are a collection point for Redcycle. To find out more please go to https://www.redcycle.net.au/school If you are able to assist please see Sue Curtis in 4A. Thank you for all of your support Waste Wise Team

P&F NEWS Congratulations to the whole school for filling up our first jar in the 5cent challenge. You will now receive your reward. Wednesday 25th September will be a FREE DRESS DAY for everyone from Kindy to Year 6. Children are encouraged to continue bringing in their 5 cent coins as we are already half way. If we can fill the jar by next week, the second reward will be revealed. Thank you once again for your wonderful contributions to our fundraiser event, your support if greatly appreciated. Thank you to all our dedicated helpers who supported the sports carnival zinc and hair spray stalls. It was a wonderful school community builder and it was so lovely to see how great our Yr 6s were with running the event. The team spirit began at the stalls and continued throughout the day. Thank you to everyone who donated their time to the stalls, the funds will be going towards our continuing support of the health and well-being program at school. Just a reminder, please bring in your orders for the 30th Anniversary pavers. The pavers will be produced over east, hence the reason why we need the orders placed this term. Please contact the school office for more paver order forms or contact the pandf@mmccps.wa.edu.au if you require further information. We have also begun planning our Quiz Night for 2019 which will be held on Saturday 26th October. The theme will be ‘IN THE 90s. The event will be hosted by Dux Nuts and we are sure they will host a fun-filled night. Tickets will be $15 each and the event will be BYO food and drinks. Further details will be revealed shortly, however, we are keeping an eye out for sponsorships and donations from small businesses or families within our school. If you or someone you know owns a small business and would like to get promotions out to the community, please contact the P&F to find out further information. We are in need of items for raffle prizes, winner’s prizes, decorations, bar items/staff, small monetary donations towards the hire of quiz masters, etc…if you are interested in joining the quiz night committee, please contact Joyce Jakob (pandf@mmccps.wa.edu.au) or Taryn Prior (t.prior82@hotmail.com). Our next P&F Meeting will be on Monday 21st October at 7:30pm in the staffroom. Feel free to come along to join in discussions regarding our quiz night, school fundraising projects and other family oriented programs. Taryn Prior P&F President

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Mary MacKillop Catholic Community Six National Themes for Discernment have resulted from the first phase of the Plenary Council. In Phase 2 (Listening and Discernment), we are being asked to continue to seek the wisdom of the Holy Spirit in considering “How is God calling us to be a Christ-centred Church?”.

All parishioners are now invited to take part in communal discernment on the National Themes by attending one or more “Listening and Discernment” sessions. These will be held from 7.30-9pm in the Church Dungeon on:

Wednesday, 25 September- Missionary and evangelising Wednesday, 23 October - Inclusive, participatory and synodal (collaborative) Wednesday, 27 November - Humble, healing and merciful

Visit www.plenarycouncil.catholic.org.au for snapshot reports on each of the National Themes. In addition, click on the “Discernment” tab to view three brief videos on the Christian practice of discernment “An Introduction to Discernment 1, 2 and 3”.

Sessions on the three remaining themes will be held in early 2020. Registration clipboards are available near the Piety Stall in the Church.

Please let us know if we have omitted any group leader from this email distribution.

With prayer

Cora D’Souza, Glen Canham, Dominic Sandon, Sabrina Scarvaci and Lenny White Plenary Council Animator Team St Mary of the Cross MacKillop Catholic Community

MATER DEI COLLEGE

Year 7, 2020

This is to notify you that a number of your students will be attending the

Mater Dei College Orientation Day for students commencing Year 7, 2020.

30 October 2019 Time: 8:30am – 2:30pm

(Students to arrive from 8:15am)

Please include this information in your newsletter (parents will be notified individually).

Thank you

Angela Lourens Enrolments Officer Tel: 08 9405 4777

Fax: 08 9306 2629

enrolments@mdc.wa.edu.au

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AUSTRALIAN CATHOLIOC YOUTH FESTIVAL

December 8-10th 2019 Perth Convention and Exhibition Centre Approximately 9.30am – 8.30pm each day

Young people from year 9 (in 2019) to young adults 30 years of age are invited to the event.

The theme for this year’s event is ‘Listen to what the Spirit is saying’ (Rev 2:7)

The Australian Catholic Youth Festival (ACYF) is a national gathering of Catholic young people established by the Australian Catholic Bishops Conference (ACBC). Perth is very privileged to be hosting this wonderful event this year. It exists to provide young people with opportunities to deepen their relationship with Jesus, be empowered to be disciples in the world today and encounter and celebrate the vitality of the Church in Australia. It is hoped that approximately 6000 young people from across Australia will be in attendance. Some amazing speakers and workshops will be on offer over these three days.

The Australian Catholic Youth Festival exists to:

Provide a high quality formative and experiential opportunity for young Catholics to encounter Jesus Christ, in the context of the Catholic Church in Australia;

Listen to and discuss the issues and challenges in the lives of young Catholics in Australia; Provide young people with local examples and connections of vocations, social action, liturgy and

prayer, catholic music and catechesis. Early registration date 12 September. Cost $250 per person . Some financial assistance may be available from the parish. Fundraising may be a another option Please contact Susan Sorensen mb 0417967067 or Aimee Sorensen mb 0467280990 for further information / queries or to add your name for registration . It would be wonderful if our parish can be well represented at this special event.

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BALLAJURA COMMUNITY CAROLS

Expressions of interest Community Choir Calling all singers

Welcome to all who love to sing Send you expression of interest

To Chris-Elsa

Mobile 0417 946412 desouzacrise@gmail.com

by no later than 26 Oct 2019

Event Date Saturday 14th December from 5.30pm

Family Event

Kingfisher Oval Illawarra Crescent Ballajura

First Choir Rehearsal Sat 2nd November 2019

Ages 13-99 Youth, Adults, Male & Female