Faith Family Friendship

Dear Parents/Guardians

Reconciliation In Week Seven, to help prepare for Easter, our Year 4-6 students undertook Recon-ciliation. Thank you to Fr Edward and Fr January for assisting the school with this sacrament.

Cyclone Veronica Hopefully, everyone escaped with minimal damage. Overall the school suffered some water damage to carpets in a couple of the rooms, as well as water entering two oth-er classrooms. We count ourselves lucky considering the potential damage that could have been caused. I would like to take this opportunity to thank the emergency and welfare workers, who were involved in notifying, repair works and caring for the people in our community. A thank you is also extended to the many people who noti-fied me, that they were praying for us. Thank you to the staff who helped prepare the school before the cyclone and to those who helped with the cleaning up on Monday.

Morning Tea Thank you to Mrs Kelly Gould for organising the morning tea after the Leadership assembly. We are hoping to make this a monthly occurrence to help build community at the school.

Smart TV Installation Thank you to Mr Sean Sta Maria for installing the new Smart TVs throughout the classrooms. The next step is to get IT Dynamics to ensure that all our new devices can communicate with the TVs.

National Close the Gap On Tuesday, March 19 the school held a special assembly to recognise “National Close the Gap” day. Ms Julia Dab (a local Indigenous lady) spoke to the students about this initiative and the importance of Indigenous equality in areas such as health, education and employment and so on. Thank you to Miss Lauren Greatorex for organising this assembly.

Parent Teacher Interviews A reminder that these commence the week starting April 1. Please ensure you are punctual to your meeting and keep to the allocated time scheduled. Thanks for your assistance in this. Reminder of closing date for bookings this Friday, 29 March.

Quote of the Week God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability.

Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers. Abdul Kalam

COMING EVENTS

Monday 1 to Friday 5 April Parent/Teacher Interviews

Monday 1 April Assembly in the

Undercover Area

Wednesday 3 April Incursion: 9.30am Brilliant at

being Resilient

Thursday 4 April School Banking

Friday 5 April Semester One School Fees Due

Thursday 11 April School Banking

Assembly in the hall Easter Bonnet Parade

Interschool Swimming Carnival

Friday 12 April Last Day of Term Canteen closed

Holy Week Processional Assembly

Tuesday 30 April First day for Term Two

Students return to school

Term One, Week Eight, Thursday 28 March 2019

St Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School

35 Sutherland Street (PO Box 700), Port Hedland, WA 6721 T (08) 9174 7000 E admin@stcecilia.wa.edu.au W www.stcecilia.wa.edu.au

FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK

Feast of the Annunciation of the Lord – March 25 The Annunciation of the Lord celebrates the Angel Gabriel's appearance to the Virgin Mary, announcing that she had been chosen to be the Mother of God. As the school was closed on this day, we were unable to celebrate with a Mass.Thank you to the Year Four class who had prepared to lead this Mass.

Colour Run and St Patrick’s Day Thank you to the P&F for organising this colourful event. All had a great time, and it proved to be an excellent fund raising event. Special thank you to Mrs Chantal Foster for coordinating the Colour Run and to those who support-ed her.

The generous donations of green cupcakes for St Patrick’s Day was also greatly appreciated and a warm thank you is extended to all who helped bake these tasty delights.

Harmony Day On Thursday, March 21 the school celebrated Harmony Day which is about celebrating Australian Multiculturalism. Australia is one of the most successful multicultural countries in the world. Harmony Day is about inclusiveness, respect and belonging for all Australians, regardless of your heritage.

Swimming Carnival Congratulations to all participants at the St Cecilia’s swimming carnival held in Week Seven. I was very impressed with the behaviour and attitude of all students. Thank you to Mr Jase Hayward for his thorough organisation of the event and also to the staff, parents and volunteers who assisted. Winners were announced at todays assembly and I offer a further congratulations to all of those students.

Car Park A reminder, and as stated in the parent information booklet, please stay in your car if you are using the drive-through lane. If you want to walk into the school, please park your car in the parking area. Thank you for your sup-port in this matter.

Student Leaders Well done to all our Year Six students who nominated for the student leaders roles. Unfortunately only so many can be chosen for the positions.

Congratulations to the following for being chosen as the 2019 leaders at St Cecilia’s:

Head Girl - Mia Morris Head Boy - Riley Gould Canty Faction Captain Girl - Maria Davila Canty Faction Captain Boy - Isiah Wuruki Costello Faction Captain Girl - Sienna Bennett Costello Faction Captain Boy - William McMahon Mathews Faction Captain Girl - Emmaline Whitehead Mathews Faction Captain Boy - Logan Marsden Community Leader Girl - Shayla Vanos Community Leader Boy - Ezekiel Uiduldam

Although not every Year Six child has an official position we expect all our Year Sixes to be leaders of the school.

Board Members Thank you to all who nominated for the School Board. I am pleased to announce the St Cecilia’s School Board as follows: Chairperson: Stephanie Holmes-Leonard Treasurer: Lucy Heke Secretary & P&F Rep: Rebekah Hagan General members: Feleena Attwood Helena Murphy Lorraine Muzambwa Father Edwards – Ex-officio Robert Palladino – Ex-officio

Leadership Away Mrs Mandy Sheen and I will be away between Monday, 8 April and Wednesday, 10 April undertaking Evangelisa-tion Planning in Perth. Mrs Jody Tait will assume responsibility for the school in our absence.

Weekly Humour - Children From Around the World Responses About Marriage. HOW CAN A STRANGER TELL IF TWO PEOPLE ARE MARRIED? You might have to guess, based on whether they seem to be yelling at the same kids. (Age 8)

WHAT DO YOU THINK YOUR PARENTS HAVE IN COMMON? Both don't want any more kids. (Age 8)

Enjoy the coming weekend

Mr Robert Palladino Principal

UNIFORM SHOP Please place uniform orders via Flexischools by midday on Wednes-

days for delivery to students on Thursday afternoon. The uniform shop is open each Thursday after assembly.

St Cecilia’s - Port Hedland St John the Baptist - South Hedland Tue to Fri 8.00am Mon & Wed 6.00pm, Fri 8.00am Saturday Vigil 5.30pm Saturday Vigil 7.00pm Sunday 8:00am Sunday Morning Mass 9:30am

Seafarers Centre - Port Hedland Tuesday 7.30pm Sunday 3.15pm

St Cecilia’s Church Golden Jubilee St Cecilia’s Church will be celebrating the 50

th Anniversary of its construction on the cur-

rent site on Sutherland Street. The event will be commemorated on Sunday 28 July with a Mass and shared meal in the Undercover Area of St Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School. We would like to invite as many people as possible that have been involved with St Ce-cilia’s Church. If you know anyone that has been involved in the St Cecilia’s Church com-munity in any way over the past 50 years, for example, architects, builders, priests, sis-ters, families, parishioners or parish council members, please contact Father Edward (9173 1687), Mandy Sheen (9174 7000) or Arnold Carter (0400 205 173). Additionally, we are seeking assistance from parishioners to plan and organise the cele-bration. If you have any photos that show the history of St Cecilia’s church (e.g. past celebrations, Sacraments, former priests), have stories to share, if you have any suggestions for the celebration day or if you would like to be involved in the planning committee, please contact Father Edward (St Cecilia’s – 9173 1687) or Father Janu-ary (St John the Baptist – 9172 1254).

First Holy Communion A reminder for those families with children wishing to take part in the sacrament of First Holy Communion this year – the enrolment Mass is next weekend (06/07 April). Please bring your completed enrolment form and a copy of your child’s birth certificate and First Reconciliation certificate to Mass on either Saturday night or Sun-day morning. Remember, this is a parish event not a school event so you must enrol at your local parish. When you hand your enrolment form to the priest, you will receive the first of the home tasks. Please note that home-based activities will be handed out at the weekend Masses, excluding those weekends during the school holidays. These activities are important for you and your child to work through together to involve the family in the sacrament and to reinforce the belief that the parents are the first teachers of their children. If you miss any of these activities, you will need to see your parish priest for the copies missed. Furthermore, a reminder that the first Parent Meeting will be held in the St Cecilia’s School Hall at 6.30pm Thursday, 02 May in the school hall.

Values At our last Values assembly, we explored the value of Love. Unfortunately, it has been many weeks between our Monday Values assemblies so we are looking forward to being able to discuss our next value this coming Mon-day. Please join us as we discuss the value of Kindness. We will also find out which students have been nominated by their peers to receive Values awards for demon-strating our Values through their thoughts, actions and words.

Holy Week Special Assemblies Please join us on the last day of term (Friday 12 April) for our Holy Week Processional Assembly. As with previ-ous years, we will be having one assembly beginning with Pre-Primary in the Hall at 8:45am. The Pre-Primary class will lead the Palm Sunday reflection before the assembly progresses to the Undercover Area for the Year Two Holy Thursday reflection. The assembly will then make its way up to the church for Year Three’s reflection on the Stations of the Cross and Good Friday before Year One conclude the assembly with an Easter Sunday reflec-tion. We hope you can join us us in our recognition of such a significant time of our Church’s calendar.

Caritas Project Compassion Our fundraising for Caritas Australia’s Project Compassion has begun at St Cecilia’s. Tomorrow, our Year Six Community Leaders will be visiting classrooms to collect the class money boxes and begin our graph in the dis-play board located near the Undercover Area. I would also like to thank the P&F for organising the delicious cupcakes for St Patrick ’s Day. The gold coin dona-tions for Green Dress Day and St Patricks Day cupcakes raised $283 for Project Compassion.

Mrs Mandy Sheen Religious Education Coordinator

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

PARISH MASS TIMES & NEWS

Harmony Day Last Thursday, 21 March, we recognised Harmony Day at school. Harmony Day is a time for all Australians to re-member and respect our diverse cultural backgrounds and to share what we have in common. Throughout the day, students took part in activities that helped them to understand the diversity we have in our school, town and coun-try. Unfortunately, our kites did not arrive in time for our whole school kite making and flying. We are hoping they ar-rive soon so that we are able to take part in this final activity.

Woolworths Earn and Learn With the end of the Disney collectable letter tiles approaching, there is a new reason to shop at Woolworths - the Woolworths Earn and Learn is back! From 01 May, for every $10 spent on groceries at Woolworths you will receive a sticker. Place these stickers on the sticker sheet sent home with your child and when it is full, bring it in to school and place it in the box in the office. These sticker sheets earn our school points that can be redeemed for items to be used in the school. Modern Teaching Aids have teamed up with Woolworth’s and the more points we earn, the more items we can purchase from MTA. Sticker sheets will be sent home with each child in the first week of Term Two. Each child will receive one sticker sheet with more available from the office as required.

Mrs Mandy Sheen Assistant Principal

MARCH 18 MORRISON, Brayden Y1 18 MORRIS, Abby Y3 21 BLATCH, Sean Y3 21 BENNETT, Brooklyn Y4 22 WITHAM, Evelyn PP 25 VRANCIC, Jake Y5 26 LOVE-JONES, Braxton Y4

Thursday 28 March 2019 PP: Athena Daublin Nadia Kasemets Wyatt Lockyer Y1: Mutsa Chamboko Skyla Bradbury Y2: Abigail Bridgeman Decklynn Walker Y3: Janisha Patel Blaze Vanos Y4: Nokutenda Chamboko Henry Lockyer Y5: Nuha Jasil Regan Johnson Y6: Mia Morris Oscar Thompson

SCHOOL BANKING Thursday mornings in the

K-PP Foyer 8.00am to 8.30am Families who want their children to participate in the school banking program need to open a bank ac-count for their child/children with Bankwest. No forms to complete just take your child’s birth certificate into the bank. If parents are not members of Bankwest they will need to take their drivers licence with them.

GENERAL CAMPUS NEWS

MERIT AWARDS

BIRTHDAYS

On Monday 18 March 2019, the St Cecilia’s Annual Faction Swimming Carnival was held at the South Hedland Aquatic Centre. The students were excited and raring to go! Everyone had fun and (most importantly) all students competed fairly and competitively. For the first time, some Year One Students participated in swimming events and this was warmly welcomed by all. On behalf of myself and the school, I would like to send out a very big thank you to the students, parents/ guardians and all staff who offered to assist on the day. Without your help, the event would simply not work as well as it did. Included below are the final overall results:

Faction Totals:

1. Canty (744 points).

2. Costello (592 points).

3. Mathews (421 points).

Pre-Primary and Year One Students having lots of fun playing Land games.

Individual Winners:

(please note, there are NO Year 4 Champion / Runner-Up girls as they did not complete in the required events).

Isiah Wuruki - Faction Captain of Canty holding the Winners Shield (Absent: Maria Carvalho Davila)

Year Level

Champion Boy

Champion Girl

Runner-Up Boy

Runner-Up Girl

2 Aidan Hawes

Lilly Leonard

Thomas Hawes

Milla Tesar

3 Kingston Bradbury

Isla Mellberg

Taj Heke

Alaina Love-Jones

4 Brooklyn Bennett

N/A Hezekiah Uiduldam

N/A

5 James Hawes

Charlotte Schmich

Charlie Drysdale

Rutendo Kuzamba

6 Isiah Wuruki

Sienna Bennett

Oscar Thompson

Emmaline Whitehead

We are bananas about Kindy

This Term we have been busy making new friends and discovering all the animals that live in the Rainforest. We are learning to identify our name and recognising two dimensional shapes. We learnt a song about the colours of the rainbow called ROYGBIV. Can you name the colours of the rainbow?

Learning through play

Water fun day

ASH WEDNESDAY Mrs Sheen came to visit and placed a cross on our forehead made out of ash. The ashes were made from our Lenten promises which were burnt and turned into ash.

St Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School P&F Email: stcecilia_pandf@outlook.com

The P&F would like to say a BIG Thank you to all the students and parents that helped fundraise for the Col-our Fun Run. It was a HUGE suc-cess and we raised approximately $6,500.00 for new sports equipment!!! Don’t forget that this Sunday, 31 March is the final day to order your prizes. Firstly a BIG congratulations to Lilly Leonard who raised over $700 which is an amazing effort!! There are a few special thanks to mention: Sir you are always there to help us out in any way you can even though I do see those funny/angry faces you pull!! Ms Batchelor, thank you for your amazing MC skills and for volunteering your time off to do this for us.

FMG KMS Truck Hire Titan Tyres South Hedland Volunteer Fire & Rescue

To all that helped out on the day from the parents and family members to the teachers and office staff a very BIG thank you. It is greatly appreciated and without your help these activities would not be possible. From the P&F