St Lawrence & Mary Immaculate Parish Balcatta:

Parish Priest: Fr Emil Ciecierega SDS Assistant Priest: Fr Leonard Macionczyk SDS

Today is the Feast of St Joachim and St Anne,

parents of Mary and grandparents of Jesus.

I would like to thank all the grandparents who make

such a significant difference for the students of

St Lawrence. In our busy world grandparents seem to

be doing more and more for our children.

ST LAWRENCE SCHOOL FEAST DAY

The school will be celebrating St Lawrence Feast Day on Friday 11 August.

The plan for Friday 11 August is as follows:

8.30am School commences as normal

11.40am Whole School Mass in the Church

12.40pm Lunch with families provided by our P&F and canteen

1.30pm – 2.30pm Fundraising activities for Kora Childcare run by the Servite Sisters

We see St Lawrence Feast Day as an opportunity to celebrate our Patron Saint but also an opportunity to

continue his work by donating funds to those most in need in our community.

ST LAWRENCE SPORTS CARNIVAL

The students of St Lawrence Primary School are starting their preparations for the St Lawrence Sports

Carnival which will be held on Friday 15 September. This is a great opportunity to showcase the many

talents of our students. In preparation for the carnival all students from Week 3 are expected to wear their

faction t-shirts. The faction t-shirts will help with easy identification during physical education lessons

and further develop a sense of pride in their factions. If parents could please get a faction t-shirt from the

School Uniform Shop as soon as possible.

St Lawrence Primary School 386 Albert Street Balcatta WA

Telephone: 9344 4944 Fax: 9344 5099 Email: admin@stlawbal.wa.edu.au

Home Page: www.stlawbal.wa.edu.au

Newsletter No. 22 26 July 2017

School Vision Statement The vision of St Lawrence Catholic Primary School, Balcatta

is to share the message of God’s love and friendship in a community of learners, developing the full potential of each child.

COMMUNION

Last night all Year Four students participated in the

Communion Family Workshop. Thanks to Melinda Italiano,

Emma Reid and Jacki Tucker for preparing and co-ordinating

First Communion which will be held on the weekend of 5 and

6 August.

FATHERING PROJECT

On Wednesday 23 August at 7.00pm in the school hall, dads and granddads are invited for a talk about

testicular cancer. This will be followed by a drink and chat about future fathering project activities. It

would be pleasing to see many dads attend this informative evening.

With God’s Friendship and Love we Grow

John Rose

Principal

St Lawrence Deacon & Martyr

Thursday 27 July: Running Club

Friday 28 July: PUPIL FREE DAY

Monday 31 July: CoderDojo

Tuesday 1 August: Communion Retreat

FROM THE ASSISTANT PRINCIPALS

FIRST EUCHARIST

Last night, our Communicants and their parents attended the Family Workshop in preparation for

receiving the sacrament. It was an informative and interactive evening and I am sure that both parents and

children were enriched by the experience. The children will participate in a Eucharist Retreat day on

Tuesday 1 August that will be run by Sister Chitra.

Our first Eucharist masses will be held on Saturday 5 August at 6pm and on Sunday 6 August at 8.30am.

Please keep the children and their families in your prayers.

CATHOLIC PERFORMING ARTS FESTIVAL

Our school choir has been working very hard in preparation for their upcoming performance on Thursday

24 August. This is a wonderful opportunity for the children to perform in front of an audience and to

listen to choirs from different schools. The St Lawrence Primary School Choir will be singing in the

1.00pm to 2.30pm timeslot. A note will be sent home outlining further details next week.

NO NUTS AT ST LAWRENCE

A reminder that our school is a nut friendly zone which means that students should not

bring ANY items of food where the key ingredient is nuts. This means pastes such a Nutella

and peanut butter, raw nuts or food with nuts as a main ingredient such as muesli bars or

chocolate bars containing nuts.

We ask that any of these food not be brought to school for the safety of students who are allergic to these

products. Thank you for your cooperation.

We are excited to be taking part in the Woolworths Earn & Learn program again

this year. You can help our school by collecting Woolworths Earn & Learn Points

when you shop at Woolworths between Wednesday 26 July and Tuesday 19

September. When you shop at Woolworths, you can collect stickers from the checkout

operator. For every $10 spent at Woolworths, you earn one sticker. Anyone from our

school community – staff, parents, grandparents, neighbours and friends can collect

stickers.

Please place the stickers, or ask your child to place the stickers in the earn and learn boxes located at the

school in the Learning Centre and office. The more stickers we collect, the more resources we can redeem

for our school. There are thousands of products available through the Woolworths Earn & Learn program.

Products in the range include resources for Mathematics, English, Science, Art & Crafts and sports

equipment. We are grateful for your continued support.

Mrs Gabrielle Brennan and Mrs Jacki Tucker

CLASS NEWS

PRE KINDY

Just a reminder that we will have a short meeting in the Library at 2.00pm

tomorrow relating to the Take Home Story Books. This will be very helpful for

developing the children’s oral language. You will receive your child’s package -

a story book and a reminder letter which is a guide for what to do. At the

conclusion of the meeting your child can be picked up for home time.

In our class, the children have some great toys and games to play with that will

help them to learn about Sensational Shapes. They are coping very well with all

our activities and games.

We wish to say a BIG thankyou to Mr Tonge for the wonderful playground

he has created for us. Thanks also to Mr Rose and our wonderful

P&F for helping to make it happen.

Mrs Kaylene Bozich, Pre Kindy Teacher

KINDERGARTEN

We had a great start to the term last week and the children have settled back well into the routine.

We have a short week this week as there is a Pupil Free day on Friday.

Our focus for the next few weeks is 'Community Helpers' and we start this week with Police Officers. We

will talk about how to recognise these people and what they do to help us.

A big focus this term is 'Independence'. We are encouraging the children to do more for themselves and to

'have a go'. They are more capable then we think and by giving them opportunities to show independence,

we are helping them to become better learners and build their self-esteem. This is as simple as letting

them dress themselves and carry and unpack their bag each day.

Have a wonderful week. Mrs Simone Covich, Kindergarten Teacher

PRE PRIMARY

The Pre-Primary students would like to thank the P&F for funding the new

additions to their playground. We would also like to thank Mr Tonge for

the absolutely fantastic work he put into creating the new structures. The

Pre-Primary students have been creating new games and their excitement

towards play is beautiful. Thank you both Mr Tonge and the P&F for

allowing us to expand our playground.

Miss Laura Byrne, Pre Primary Teacher

YEAR ONE

The children are continuing to work hard this term. In Science, we are looking at ‘weather’ and are

enjoying looking outside to see the different types of weather. We have seen sunshine, rain, black, grey

and white clouds and the direction that the wind is blowing the trees and the rain. In Geography, we are

looking at ‘natural’, ‘managed’ and ‘constructed’ environments and will be focusing on farms as distinct

environments.

If you have any resources you are happy to share with the class please bring them in. A reminder that

Friday is a pupil free day. Have a great week.

Mrs Roselyn Pizzino, Year One Class Teacher

YEAR TWO We had great fun this week with one of our Team Builders called Straws. You may

like to ask your child to teach your family how to play this game the next time you

are looking for something to do on a rainy day.

This week during our Literacy time, we have been reading Ernie Dances To The

Didgeridoo by Alison Lester. This book is about a boy who spends a year in

Arnhem Land and tells about the different seasons recognised by the Aboriginal

people. We have also been learning some words in Noongar and it has been

challenging getting our tongues around some sounds that are unusual to us!

During our Numeracy time, we have been learning about different strategies to help

us improve our mental calculations. Some of the strategies we have been looking at

are using doubles and near doubles, looking for a pattern and using our ten friends.

We also collected some data about the colour of cars in the teacher’s carpark and we

used tallies and MAB ones to record the information we gathered.

Our news topic for this week is My Favourite Holiday. Please note that we will be

telling our news on Thursday this week as Friday is a pupil free day.

Next week’s news topic will be My Favourite Season. Mathletics homework will

commence from next week.

Mrs Jacki Tucker, Year Two Teacher

CLASS REPRESENTATIVE NEWS

Year 4 Mums Let's get together Friday 8 September 2017 at The Oxford Hotel 368 Oxford Street, Leederville,

7:00pm. RSVP 1 September 2017 - Dee 0408 560 006

Year One students rewarded with

their ‘teddies’!

LIBRARY NEWS

Term 3 is once again a very busy time for us in the library as we celebrate Children’s Book Week with a

range of activities.

The theme for this year’s Book Week is

“ESCAPE TO EVERYWHERE”. This

theme allows us to focus on how reading

books allows us to escape this world and go

into places where we can experience other

countries, cultures and times both real and

imaginary.

In our library lessons this term, we are

focusing on some of the books on the Children’s Book Council Short List. So far, we have listened to,

and looked at, The Snow Wombat; Nannie Loves; Rockhopping and Out.

Our celebrations will include the following activities:

Week 6, Tuesday, 22nd

August: Book Character Dress Up Day for Years K – 6.

Children are invited to come dressed up as a book character or as something connected with this

year’s Book Week theme. There will be a grand parade in the School Hall commencing at 8.40am.

All are welcome to come and join us for this event.

Week 6, Tuesday, 22nd

August at 1.30pm: School Incursion for Years PP – 6

“Super Duper” – a Book Week Musical presented by Perform Educational Musicals.

Week 6, Friday, 25th

August, 10.30 – 11.00 am : Mad Hatter’s High Morning Tea Party. 24

lucky children from Years 3-6 will join us for a Mad Hatter’s themed High Morning Tea in the

library.

“Books are for people who wish they were somewhere else.” (Mark Twain)

Mrs Lyn Archer, Teacher Librarian

UNIFORM SHOP NEWS

FACTION CARNIVAL T-SHIRTS

Factions t-shirts are available for purchase from the Uniform Shop for Pre-Primary to Year 6

students. Students may commence to wear faction t-shirts on sport days commencing Week 3, 31 July

for sports carnival training.

Sports Faction Carnival will be held on Friday 15th September. Faction t-shirts are available in Blue, Red,

Green and Gold in sizes 4 to 16, selling price is $12.00 each.

OPENING HOURS

Wednesday 8.30am - 9.30am & Thursday 2.30pm - 3.30pm

Mrs Angie Miola, Uniform Shop Manager

CANTEEN NEWS

FRIDAY 11 AUGUST 2017

Thanks to the P&F, all students will receive a hamburger and a juice box.

Parents and siblings are also welcome to join us for lunch.

A flyer has been sent home for you to complete for catering purposes.

Please return the slip by 4 August 2017.

MENU SPECIAL

Order a Mac Cheese or Satay Chicken with a Lol for only $5.00.

Sushi

Thursday 10th August any Sushi order you will receive a bottle of water complimentary.

Cost is $6.50.

Teriyaki Chicken, Tuna, Combo or Crispy Chicken.

All orders in by the Wednesday the 9th of August.

MENU CHANGE

Please be aware nuggets will not be available on Thursday instead will now be available on a

Wednesday.

Hotdogs will be available on a Thursday and Friday only.

There are many events happening! If you are able to help in

the canteen, we need volunteers for the following events:

St Lawrence Feast Day

Father’s Day

Sports Carnival

Please see us in the canteen if you can spare some of your time at any of these events. Your help is always

very much appreciated.

THANK YOU

To Mary Mucciarone and to Antonella Crupi for your help on the last day of Term 2.

We really appreciated your help.

Mrs Amanda Xigas, Canteen Manager,

Nancy Donatelli and Christina Russo Canteen Assistants

NETBALL NEWS

We had a slightly wet return to netball on Saturday, but then the sun came out and it was beautiful netball

weather.

The morning started with another wonderful win by our Year 2/3 team under the guidance of their

manager and temporary coach Antonella Deluca. There were big smiles all around, which is clearly

evident in the photo below. Thank you to Carlo Deluca in Year 2 for filling in while teammates are away.

Thank you also to Anthony Russo (Year 2) who will be filling in this week.

The Year 4 and Year 5 teams played some tough matches, but they didn’t go down without a fight. I

know more wins will come their way very soon.

Saturday finished with a fabulous win by our Year 6 team who are first on the ladder in their division, and

heading towards playing finals in September.

A very big thank you must go to my volunteers, Alan and Carrie who are Takari parents from the Year 3

team. They joined me at the barbecue area on Saturday to assemble burgers and rolls. We were all

resplendent in our hair nets and gloves.

Reminders: 1. Photos: Please take photos of games and training sessions so that I have something to work

with for the end of season trophy presentation day.

2. Team photos: Team managers will be organising to take team photos at some stage in the

coming weeks.

3. Spring Season in Term 4: Is anyone keen to play? Probably Wednesdays afterschool for 8

weeks in Term 4. Details have not been finalised yet but the approximate cost is:

Year 2/3/4 teams: New player: $115.00

Year 2/3/4 teams: Existing player: $$75.00

Year 5/6 teams: New player: $105.00

Year 5/6 teams: Existing player: $55.00

4. New netball committee: Anyone interested in volunteering for the new netball committee for

next year, please let me know as the current committee will finish at the end of the year as we

are all Year 6 parents.

If you have any queries please contact me on 0403 317 850 or pbulich@bigpond.com

Good luck everyone for this Saturday, and remember to have some fun out there.

Mrs Paula Bulich, St Lawrence NC

P&F NEWS

Saturday 19th

August is our Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser at Balcatta Bunnings.

As it is a whole day event, we would appreciate helpers on the day. Please return the slip below to the

office.

Shifts will be divided into three timeslots being: 7am – 11am

11am – 2pm

2pm – 5pm

We know that time is precious so any offer would be greatly appreciated. Class Reps have been emailed

all the information. Please contact your class rep if you can help. Helpers are needed in order to make

this event a success.

Donations of drinks to be sold on the day would also be welcome. Donations can be left at the office.

Drinks can include: Cans : Coke Zero, Sunkist/Fanta, Pasito

Thank you in advance.

P&F MINUTES

Minutes of the P&F Meeting held on 12 June 2017 are attached.

Caterina, Anja, Fran & Laura

P&F Committee

pandf@stlawbal.wa.edu.au

Please complete slip and return to the school office.

Bunnings BBQ Fundraiser

I am able to help with the Bunnings BBQ on Saturday 19th

August.

My preference of time is: 7am – 11am 11am – 2pm

2pm – 5pm

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