Dear Parents/Guardians

Welcome back everyone, I hope you all had a terrific time with your children over the school holidays. Term Two will be very busy with NAPLAN, Sporting Carnivals, incursions and re-ports. We will even manage to fit some teaching and learning in there somewhere.

St Cecilia’s is a Catholic Primary School and as such we include prayer as a way of life. We expect all parents to support the school in this matter even if you don’t pray at home. Pray-er is a way of saying thank you or it is often used as a way of having quiet time and thinking about what we are grateful for.

The prayer used in this newsletter represents the three core values St Cecilia’s holds dear-est; FAITH, FAMILY, FRIENDSHIP. If we all strive to achieve those things mentioned in the prayer we know we are walking in the footsteps of Jesus.

NAPLAN NAPLAN testing will commence in Week Three this term. It is held annually for all students in Years 3, 5, 7 and 9. It is designed to give the Federal Government data to track student progress through their schooling life. This information is used to help develop education strategies to enhance the curriculum designed by the Australian Government. It is not de-signed to classify students or put them in any ranking for further studies.

I would encourage parents to not make a ‘big deal’ out of the testing and treat it as any nor-mal test their child/children might take. Your children will reflect your attitude towards the testing and this can cause anxiety and stress. The best way to help your children is to be positive about the tests, and to ensure they have a good sleep and eat a healthy breakfast on their testing days.

No Catholic School should be using NAPLAN results as a basis of enrolment. Schools will use NAPLAN data, along with their own testing, to stream students into their ability levels.

Faith Family Friendship

School Prayer Dear Heavenly Father, thank you for keeping us safe over the holiday break.

Bless our school families as we continue our learning journey this term. Give all students the will to do their best, to be kind to others,

to have enthusiasm for things that are good. Guide them to grow their gifts and use them for you in service to others.

Bless our staff that they may meet the needs of all our students and have the wisdom for the right word at the right time as they guide student learning.

Bless our parents that they continue to give good guidance and support to their children.

Thank you for the gift of Your Son who walks with us each day and is part of our life now not just in the world to come.

Amen

COMING EVENTS:

Monday 14 May Assembly in UCA

15 to 16 May NAPLAN Y3 & Y 5

Wednesday 16 May School Photo Day

Sunday 20 May Family Mass Y6

8.00am St Cecilia’s Church

Wednesday 23 May Whole School Mass

Our Lady, Help of Christians Y3, 8.45am

National Simultaneous Storytime, 11.00am Hickory

Dickory Dash

Thursday 24 May and Fri-day 25 May NO SCHOOL Staff Retreat

Sunday 27 May Confirmation Enrolment

Mass

Term Two, Week Two, Thursday 10 May 2018

St Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School

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FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK

All Term Planners have been updated on the schools website.

web.stcecilia.wa.edu.au

Canada Study Tour I was fortunate enough to be selected to go to Canada on a study tour organised by Catholic Education Western Australia. The tour allowed a group of Principals and office staff to study and observe the Canadian education sys-tem and compare it to our own system. What we found is there are many similarities and a few differences be-tween both systems. Overall, our Catholic Education system compares very favourably to the different provinces in Canada. On a school level, we are incorporating many of the techniques and strategies the Canadian system us-es. One of the main foci we discovered was the need to develop teaching strategies and skills that will have a di-rect impact on student learning. In that area we are equal with what the Canadian provinces are doing. It was grat-ifying to learn that what we are doing at St Cecilia’s for our students is also being done in Canada.

Mothers Day We all know that mothers are wonderful people and give so much to their children and families. I would like to thank the mothers at St Cecilia’s for everything you do for your children and the school. I hope Sunday is special for you and you all enjoy the time you spend with your families.

Yours in FAITH, FAMILY and FRIENDSHIP

Peter Allen Principal

St Cecilia’s - Port Hedland St John the Baptist - South Hedland Saturday Evening Mass 5.30pm Saturday Evening Mass 7.00pm Sunday Morning Mass 8:00am Sunday Morning Mass 9:30am

Seafarers Centre - Port Hedland Sunday Evening 3.30pm (All welcome)

YOUTH GATHERING Meeting for all our Youth between the ages of 13 years to 17 years on FRIDAY 25 MAY, at 5:30pm in the Parish Centre St John the Baptist Catholic Church, South Hedland.

Sacrament of First Holy Communion We pray for our students who are preparing to make their First Holy Communion later this term. Children have been attending the Sunday Masses and have been receiving weekly activities to complete at home with their fami-lies. These activities are important as they support the learning that is taking place at school during Religious Edu-cation lessons and involves the family in the spiritual journey that these children are preparing for. These activities are handed out at Mass each week so it is important that you are attending Mass to receive these activities. If you are unable to attend the weekly Mass, please speak with your parish priest. Important dates for Communion are as follows: Second Family Meeting : Thursday 17 May 6:30pm, St Cecilia’s school hall Rehearsal : Saturday 19 May (St John the Baptist 1:00pm; St Cecilia’s 3:00pm) First Holy Communion : St John the Baptist – Saturday 02 June 7:00pm

St Cecilia’s – Sunday 03 June 8:00am

Confirmation Next week, enrolment letters for the Sacrament of Confirmation will be sent home with Year Five and Six students. The enrolment date for Confirmation is the weekend of Saturday 26/Sunday 27 May at your local parish. This is a very important sacrament and as is mentioned in the letter, it is important that you carefully discuss this sacrament with your child to ensure that they are ready to take part. As with all sacraments, it is important that you make the commitment to attend Mass regularly and the family meetings to help support your child with their preparation. Important dates for Confirmation are as follows: Enrolment Mass: Saturday 26/Sunday 27 May – Local parish times First Family Meeting: Thursday 14 June 6:30pm St Cecilia’s school hall Second Family Meeting: Thursday 02 August 6:30pm St Cecilia’s school hall Confirmation Retreat Day: Friday 10 August Rehearsal: Saturday 11 August (St John the Baptist 1:00pm; St Cecilia’s 3:00pm) Confirmation: St John the Baptist - Saturday 18 August 7:00pm (TBC) St Cecilia’s – Sunday 19 August 8:00am (TBC)

Whole School Mass Our next Whole School Mass will be on Wednesday 23 May. The Year Three class will lead our Mass to celebrate Our Lady, Help of Christians. Please join us in St Cecilia’s Church at 8:45am.

Caritas and Project Compassion Our fundraising for Caritas and Project Compassion has come to close. At the beginning of Lent, each family was given a Project Compassion box to collect loose coins at home to go towards our donation to Caritas. If you still have these boxes at home, we ask that they are all returned to the office by Monday 14 May so that we are able to

RELIGIOUS EDUCATION

PARISH NEWS

send all donations to Caritas Australia. A final total of the amount donated by St Cecilia ’s will be included in the Week Four newsletter.

Communio Week Communio is a name given to a plan to help the needy people in our own Diocese of Geraldton with money col-lected through Communio being shared amongst various charities and support groups within the Diocese to help those in need. Each year we recognise Communio Week in our school and this year, Communio Week will be during Week 6 of this term. This is a time to learn more about some of the people that our Diocese supports, to pray for these peo-ple and to raise funds for them. We will be celebrating Communio Week with a Free Dress Day and pre-order lunch to raise money to support the needy people in our diocese. A letter containing more information about Communio Week and other fundraising activities we will be doing for the Diocese will be sent home next week.

Mother’s Day Wishing all our Mums, Grandmothers and Aunts a wonderful Mother’s Day on Sunday 13 May. I also want to ex-tend an extra special wish to those that are mother figures; those that may not biologically be a mother but have selflessly taken on the role of mother to help make the life of a child a better one. While every day should be Mother’s or Father’s Day, I hope you enjoy this extra special day that is just for you

and being your special day, I hope you get a quiet five minutes to enjoy one of those elusive hot cups of tea or

coffee!

Mrs Mandy Sheen Religious Education Coordinator

ICAS Testing Just a reminder that the first ICAS Test will be held this week. For parents that have looked on the website, I have changed the testing dates and all will take place on a Thursday afternoon due to my after school availability. This week is the Digital Technologies Test. It will begin at 2:45pm in the Library with all students being finished by 3:30pm. SMS reminders will be sent out a day or two before the tests with any changes to finish times included in the message.

Uniforms With winter just around the corner, now is a good time to begin thinking about winter uniforms. We have a number of winter jackets in stock in the uniform shop and while it is still relatively warm, we don ’t want students getting caught out by a cold day and not having a jacket to wear to school. In addition to the jacket, other winter uniform requirements: Boys may wear black trousers with their shirt (dress uniform) and girls may wear green tights only (not black leggings) under their dress. Green tights are available from the uniform shop but plain black tracksuit pants and trousers will have to be purchased from retail stores. Please note, black trousers does not include black jeans or tracksuit pants; black tracksuit pants are only permit-ted to be worn with the sport uniform

Students arriving late A reminder to all parents, if your child is arriving at school late (after 8:25am), a parent or guardian must accom-pany them to the office to sign them in as being late. We have had a number of students recently coming in to the office on their own to sign themselves in. It is a school requirement that an adult accompanies all late children to the office to complete the late sign in on the iPad. Thank you for your cooperation.

ANZAC Day It was wonderful to see a number of our students attend the Dawn Service for ANZAC Day during the recent school holidays. Our student group joined other dignitaries in laying a wreath at the memorial before students joined the march from the Memorial by the Esplanade Hotel down to Marapikurrinya Park. Thank you to all those that attended this special day.

Coles Sports for Schools Thank you to all our families for their support in the collection of the Coles Sports for Schools vouchers. Mrs Gould and Mrs Rozario had a lot of fun counting and bundling the 36 387 vouchers that were collected during the promotional period. These vouchers have all been posted away and Mrs Fimmel is now creating her wishlist of new sporting equipment for St Cecilia’s.

Lunchboxes A reminder that we promote healthy eating at St Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School. A number of children are regu-larly bringing lollies and chocolates to school each day. While these items are nice to have as a treat every now and then, they can cause changes to behaviour and can affect student concentration and energy. Please remem-ber to pack a healthy lunchbox for your child to ensure optimal learning can take place at all times throughout the day.

Mrs Mandy Sheen Assistant Principal CONDOLENCES RIP Judi Grey, previous St Cecilia’s School Secretary/Registrar and Parent of St Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School. Thank you for all your kindness and support to the St Cecilia’s com-munity. In God’s care now. Our thoughts are with her family and friends at this time.

GENERAL CAMPUS NEWS

Congratulations to the following students who celebrated their birthday.

May 1 WHITEHEAD-HOVEY, Stevie Y4 3 HUCKETT, Archie K 3 PRINDIVILLE, Winter PP 3 DI PALMA, Bryce Y6 5 CLARKE, Harrison Y6 7 FERNANDES, Rory PP 8 CLARKE, Sophia Y1 9 FLORENCE, Ryan Y1

Thursday 10 May 2018 PP: Whitney Chikwaka Noah Price Y1: Zane Cowen Courtney Mpisa Y2: Olive Collins Lucas Etiennette Tyler Godden Jacob Macek Y3: Year Three Class Y4: Liam Smith Benjamin Thomas Lincoln Vile Y5: Logan Marsden Y6: Kayleigh Curtis Jaden DeLeon Kaitlyn Russell

LEXILE CERTIFICATES Blue Star Award: Emmaline WHitehead Red Star Award: Oscar Thompson

2019 KINDERGARTEN ENROLMENTS

St Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School is now accepting enrolments for Four Year Old Kindergarten 2019.

Applications for children with birth dates between the following dates will be accepted: 01 July 2014 and 30

June 2015. If you wish to enrol your child, we require the following to be provided to the school office:

Completed Application Form

Birth Certificate

Baptism Certificate

Parish Priest reference form (if applicable)

Immunisation record

ENROLMENT POLICY Being a Catholic school we enrol children according to the following policy: 1. Catholic students from the Parish with a Parish Priest Reference 2. Catholic students from outside the Parish with a Parish Priest Reference 3. Other Catholic Students 4. Siblings of non-Catholic students 5. Non-Catholic students from other Christian Denominations 6. Other non-Catholic students Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander students shall be given enrolment preference wherever possible and practicable. The Principal may vary the above priorities to suit particular local circumstances prevailing at the time after prior consultation with the Director of Catholic Education and written confirmation of the out-come. Please note that if you already have a child attending this school and you will have a child starting Kinder-

garten in 2019, you will also need to complete an Application Form. For further information or an Applica-

tion Form please contact the school office or on the schools website at www.stcecilia.wa.edu.au.

Applications close Friday 29 June 2018. Interviews will be conducted during Term Three, 2018.

FOR SALE IN THE OFFICE Library Bags $6.00 each Spencils book covers: A4 & Scrapbook $2.20 each Recorders $9.90 each Black Satchels $14.30 each Chair Bags $7.70

GENERAL CAMPUS NEWS

DONATIONS PLEASE We would appreciate any donations of the following items: Used stamps Aluminium can ring pulls Ice-cream containers and lids Small Shoe boxes These can be brought into the front office. Thank you Mrs Rozario School Secretary

BIRTHDAYS

MERIT AWARDS

SPORT NEWS

Hockey Australia - Pilbara Community Hockey Program Today we had a visit from three representatives from Hockey Australia - Pilbara Community Hockey Program. This visit is week one of four visits to the school in Term Two - 2018 with an interschool carnival in Term Three. They also brought with them a Gold medal won by the Kookaburras Australian Men's Hockey Team at the recent Commonwealth Games held at the Gold Coast. Many of us got to hold and see the medal.

I love my mum because...

I love you to the moon and back.

She goes to work.

She protects me, she cares for me and my

mum is the best.

She loves me and helps me.

She is the reason I am here.

She loves me and she looks after me.

I love you Mum!

My mum takes care of me.

You are the best Mum in the world.

She helps me to get better at Maths.

She is kind and loves doing things with me.

She takes care of me.

She’s always there for me and is super nice.

She takes care of me.

She gave me life, she likes doing stuff with me

and keeps me safe.

She is kind, nice and lets me do things my Dad

doesn’t let me do.

She gives up things for me and gave me life.

You do everything for me and be kind.

She loves me and is nice.

She helps me to improve in my life and helps me to

reach my goals.

She loves me, she’s creative and makes

delicious food.

She loves me and cares for me.

She always gives up good things for me and I know

she always loves me.

She loves me and does lots of cool things

for me.

She takes me places.

She takes great care of us.

UNIFORM POLICY REQUIREMENTS

GIRLS BOYS

KINDERGARTEN and PRE-PRIMARY

Black unisex sport shorts or skorts School t-shirt

Shoes or sandals, not thongs

Black unisex sport shorts School t-shirt

Shoes or sandals, not thongs

FORMAL UNIFORM YEARS 1 – 6

Green checked dress (with school crest) White fold over socks

Brown sandals, black leather lace up or Mary Jane Shoes (no boots, runners or surf style sandals)

Green shirt (with school crest) Black dress shorts

Grey fold over socks Brown sandals, black leather lace up shoes

(no boots, runners or surf style sandals)

SPORTS UNIFORM YEARS 1 – 6

Green polo shirt with faction colour insert Black unisex sports shorts or black skorts

Predominately white runners with white laces White fold over socks (must be above the ankle)

Green polo shirt with faction colour insert Black unisex sports shorts

Predominately white runners with white laces White fold over socks (must be above the ankle)

COLDER WEATHER ADDITION TO NORMAL UNIFORM YEARS 1 – 6

Green tights (for under dress) Black tracksuit pants (sports uniform only)

Jacket with school crest

Long Black pants (with green shirt) Black tracksuit pants (sports uniform only)

Jacket with school crest

BAGS AND HATS

The St Cecilia’s School Bag is compulsory for all students from Years 1 to 6 School hats with the school crest must be worn throughout the year by all students.

The ‘No Hat, No Play’ rule is enforced.