SCHOOL NEWS
Learning
Maths
The importance of place value in mathematics
Place value is perhaps the most fundamental concept imbedded in the Foundation to Year 6 mathematics curriculum. It is absolutely essential that students develop a solid understanding of the base ten numeration system and place value concepts.
- In our decimal number system, the value of a digit depends on its place, or position, in the number.
- Each place has a value of 10 times the place to its right.
- Zero "holds the place" for a particular value, when no other digit goes in that position.
- A whole number is separated into groups of three digits with a small space in between so that we can read the numbers in their HTO (hundreds, tens and ones) groups. (We no longer use a comma in between.)
- These three numbers are always hundreds, tens and ones, repeated into the thousands place and then the millions place and so on.
Kindy News
This term the focus is on families and their cultural background, senses and transport. Initially, we will introduce and discuss the roles our family members play within our lives and how they may be similar or different. We develop an awareness of family, friends, and others in our immediate community. This will allow children to explore the diversity of cultural backgrounds that exist within our class community. Through the use of books, photos, videos, music and role-play we will identify the similarities and differences in our own cultures in order to explore the diversity of cultural backgrounds in our community. The children will be exposed to languages, music and foods from other countries in order to develop an awareness of different cultures.
In talking about the family, the emphasis is on linking it to The Holy Family and the Church. We will identify Jesus’ family and the children will be given the opportunity to know Jesus through scripture in order to identify ways of living like Jesus. Our Bible story focus will be Zacchaeus, which will link to exploring ways of showing love, consideration and forgiveness like Jesus did.
As children learn through sensory play, our next theme explores the environment through the use of our senses. This will motivate and nurture children’s inquiry and develop communication skills. Through a variety of sensory experiences, we will expose children to vocabulary in order to develop the language used to describe what we can hear, see, touch, taste and smell.
In the second half of the term, we will identify and explore different types of transport, starting with the family car. Following this, we will explore other forms of transport that we use, focusing on emergency vehicles such as the ambulance and fire truck and their role in the community.
In Literacy, we will read books about families, cultures, countries and transport. The discussion will be on the title, author and illustrator of the story. The emphasis will include identifying the starting point when reading and directionality, ie we read from left to right. We plan to continue our learning about sounds in words and introduce the concept of rhyming words. We will focus on retelling basic stories, events and experiences in addition to taking part in conversations and sharing ideas.
In Mathematics, the focus is on counting, one to one correspondence, number recognition to 10 and beyond. We will continue to develop and explore shapes and patterns in the environment and form simple patterns using colour, shape and abstract objects.
Throughout our learning day we incorporate technology through the use of iPads for photos and appropriate Apps, the Interactive Board, You Tube clips, etc. These forms of technology help to enhance our learning and enable the children to learn visually in our
ever-changing world. The children’s work will continue to be documented through our Seesaw App which informs parents of their children’s daily learning.
Year 4 Excursion
On Monday, the Year 4 children visited the Kings Park Education Centre for a fun day of learning. The children became ‘Environmental Investigators’ and went orienteering throughout the park. We were joined by lots of parent helpers who were amazing! Thank you to everyone who came along.
Sport News
2017 WINTER LIGHTNING CARNIVAL
Next week our Year 6 children will be competing in Football, Soccer and Netball against other schools in our Association. This carnival will be held on Thursday 22 June with Netball at Noranda Netball Courts and Football and Soccer at Carine Open Space. The Year 6 children have already chosen their sports and are beginning to prepare for the day.
Thank you to the parents who have volunteered already. I will send home the equipment that you need for the day with your child next week. We are still chasing another soccer coach if anyone is available to volunteer.
Please return permission slips ASAP.
Mr Sheridan
Physical Education Teacher
Engagement
P&F News
CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL
The P&F will be in the Lightning Park canteen from 9am ready to serve you! For a gold coin donation you can have a coffee, tea or milo with a biscuit. We've also got you covered for morning tea and lunch, with plenty of options available. Cash only please.
Thank you to the parents who are donating items or have volunteered to help. If you're available to assist any any point throughout the day, please pop in and see us.
ENTERTAINMENT BOOK FUNDRAISING
Infant Jesus School is raising funds. Here's how you can help...
We are raising as much as we can to support our technology and Innovation Centre, and we need your help! Order your NEW 2017/2018 Entertainment Book or Entertainment Digital Membership now. You'll receive hundreds of valuable offers for everything you love to do, and help our fundraising at the same time!
"The Entertainment Book is such a great way to try new restaurants. It’s also a great opportunity to help community organisations."
A Sample Book and Order Forms are available in the Front Office if you wish to have a look.
Nicola Cecchele - P&F President
MAD CAMP PHOTOS
If you would like a copy of all the photographs taken over the MAD Camp weekend by our photographer, Maria Bellesini, please drop a USB into the school office in a bag labelled with your name. You will be notified when it is ready for you to collect.
Some photos from MAD Camp last weekend.
INFANT JESUS FAMILY CAMP 2017
Family Camp is a great opportunity to make new friends, experience a bit of the Infant Jesus tradition and this year's theme is "Heroes and Villains".
Venue: Point Peron, Rockingham.
Date: Friday 29 September to Sunday 1 October. (not the long weekend and 2 nights only).
Anticipated cost of $350 per family (this may change after budget confirmation) includes accommodation, all meals, all indoor/outdoor activities and of course lots of fun and laughter.
Places are limited. To secure your place and in fairness to everyone wanting to attend, this will be a first come first serve basis on receipt of non-refundable $50 deposit on or before 19 June 2017.
Please take your slip and the $50 deposit in an envelope with your name to the school office. The date and time will be noted on the slip. We are also asking if anyone has any items (figurines, posters, etc) in relation to the Heroes and Villains theme that you no longer use or need and are willing to donate. We will gladly collect. Please contact Ardrian on 0403439888.
We look forward to seeing you all there, especially NEW families, so start spreading the word! Any queries please don't hesitate to contact
Linda Prestianni 0433 925 857 lindaprestianni@yahoo.com
Ardrian Gonsalves 0403 439 888 ardrian_thurgood@hotmail.com
YEAR 2 MUMS NIGHT OUT
When: Saturday 1 July
Time: 8pm
Place: Minq Bar Burswood Crown
Cost: $40 PP Nibbles/Drinks provided
Contact: Nicole 0400266755 or Maree 0412336965 for payment
RSVP and Payments by 16 June
YEAR 3 BRUNCH CATCHUP
When: Friday 23 June
Time: 10.30am
Place: Our Table, 180a Grand Promenade, Bedford
Please RSVP to Justine or Sherrie for booking numbers
All welcome, see you there!
YEAR 4 MUM'S DINNER
When: Thursday 22 June
Time: 6.30pm
Place: Inglewood Hotel, 803 Beaufort Street, Inglewood.
Come join us for a catch up, something good to eat and a drink or two.
Please RSVP to either Simone simone@epswa.com.au or Tash aarontasha@iinet.net.au to let us know if you will be there.
YEAR 5 PARENT CATCHUP
When: Thursday, 22 June
Time: from 8.45am
Place: Coffee Club, Morley
Hope to see you all there!
Please let one of us know if you can make it, thanks...
Maria, Lisa and Rochelle, Year 5 Parent Reps.
YEAR 6 PARENT CATCHUP
When: Wednesday 21 June
Time: straight after drop off
Place: Jamoca in Noranda Shopping Centre
Hope to see you all there!
Canteen Roster
TERM 2
Friday 16 June
Rosanna Monastra, Belinda Chami, Sarah Ruggiero
Monday 19 June
Tracy Caputo, Louise Staltari, Wanita Gentile
Wednesday 21 June
Jenny Allpike, Emily Dayan, Louise Murace
If you cannot do your Roster please arrange with another Parent to do your Roster as a swap. Please also see the attached Canteen Winter Menu for Term 2 and 3.
Accountability
REPORT WORKSHOP
A Report Workshop will be held on Thursday 22 June at 2.30pm in the Library for Year One parents interested in learning more about the formal Semester Reports that are sent home twice each year.
PARKING - Admin
Please do not pick up or drop off students in the Admin Carpark. This Carpark is for office business and visitors to the school only. It is not a safe area for students to be at anytime, due to the amount of traffic and delivery trucks using the space. Please use the designated pick up and drop off areas.
LOVEGROVE WAY
Please consider others and park correctly along Lovegrove Way to help with the flow of traffic in that area.
VOLUNTEER WORKSHOP AND CODE OF CONDUCT
To assist with school based events, please ensure that both of these have been completed.
1. Complete the Volunteer Workshop
2. Read and Sign the Code of Conduct which is new in 2017.
It is a requirement that not only the Parent Volunteer Workshop has been completed, but the school based Code of Conduct has been signed and returned to the office.
Copies of the Code of Conduct are available from the front office or online.
Discipleship
REPORT WORKSHOP
A Report Workshop will be held on Thursday 22 June at 2.30pm in the Library for Year One parents interested in learning more about the formal Semester Reports that are sent home twice each year.
PARKING - Admin
Please do not pick up or drop off students in the Admin Carpark. This Carpark is for office business and visitors to the school only. It is not a safe area for students to be at anytime, due to the amount of traffic and delivery trucks using the space. Please use the designated pick up and drop off areas.
LOVEGROVE WAY
Please consider others and park correctly along Lovegrove Way to help with the flow of traffic in that area.
VOLUNTEER WORKSHOP AND CODE OF CONDUCT
To assist with school based events, please ensure that both of these have been completed.
1. Complete the Volunteer Workshop
2. Read and Sign the Code of Conduct which is new in 2017.
It is a requirement that not only the Parent Volunteer Workshop has been completed, but the school based Code of Conduct has been signed and returned to the office.
Copies of the Code of Conduct are available from the front office or online.
REPORT WORKSHOP
A Report Workshop will be held on Thursday 22 June at 2.30pm in the Library for Year One parents interested in learning more about the formal Semester Reports that are sent home twice each year.
PARKING - Admin
Please do not pick up or drop off students in the Admin Carpark. This Carpark is for office business and visitors to the school only. It is not a safe area for students to be at anytime, due to the amount of traffic and delivery trucks using the space. Please use the designated pick up and drop off areas.
LOVEGROVE WAY
Please consider others and park correctly along Lovegrove Way to help with the flow of traffic in that area.
VOLUNTEER WORKSHOP AND CODE OF CONDUCT
To assist with school based events, please ensure that both of these have been completed.
1. Complete the Volunteer Workshop
2. Read and Sign the Code of Conduct which is new in 2017.
It is a requirement that not only the Parent Volunteer Workshop has been completed, but the school based Code of Conduct has been signed and returned to the office.
Copies of the Code of Conduct are available from the front office or online.
Discipleship
Feast Day of St Anthony of Padua 13 June
One of the most loved friends in heaven is St. Anthony of Padua. Your church might have a statue of him, and you might even have a holy card with his picture on it. People ask St. Anthony for help all the time, and for the most ordinary things, and that’s okay. Like a good friend, St. Anthony is always willing to help. People especially like to ask St. Anthony to help them find things that are lost. In a minute, we’ll find out why.
We turn to St. Anthony for help with our ordinary problems, but his life was really anything but ordinary. St. Anthony was born in Portugal, and when he grew up, he studied to be a priest. He was a brilliant student and knew the Bible backward and forward. Someone once said that if all the Bibles in Europe were burned, it wouldn’t be a terrible problem. People could just go to St. Anthony, and he could write the Scriptures down for them!
Anthony was a good teacher, but one day something happened that inspired him to follow Jesus in a slightly different way. Five Franciscan priests had travelled to Morocco, a country in Africa, to preach the good news about Jesus. They were brutally killed, and what was left of their bodies was brought to the town where Anthony lived. Anthony couldn’t sit still any longer. More than anything, he wanted to go to Morocco himself and try to give the love of Jesus to the people who had done this terrible thing. No one seemed to need Christ’s love more than people who would torture and kill innocent men. So Anthony joined the Franciscan order, got on a ship, and sailed to Morocco. Things didn’t work out as he had hoped, though. He fell ill soon after he arrived and had no choice but to return to Europe.
Anthony’s plans weren’t working out, but perhaps that’s because God had something else in mind for him. The ship Anthony was on, the one he thought was taking him back to university life in Portugal, got blown off course by a sudden strong wind. It went straight to the island of Sicily, where a huge meeting of Franciscan brothers happened to be taking place at that very moment.
Anthony didn’t speak at the meeting, since he was really an outsider. He sat silently and listened. Perhaps he even heard St. Francis of Assisi speaking of holy poverty as the way to follow Jesus and of how important it is to preach the love of Jesus to all people, especially the poor.
After the meeting, Anthony continued to live a quiet life as a friar, working in a hospital in Italy, taking the humblest jobs of all. Back in Portugal, Anthony had already begun to gain fame as a scholar and teacher, but he said not a word about that in the hospital. He worked hard in the kitchen and the garden, helping the sick in the most ordinary, everyday ways.
Then one day something happened that was almost as strange as the ship wandering off course. There was a large meeting of Franciscans and Dominicans, but oddly enough, the plans for who would give the sermon at the meeting fell through. There were plenty of fine preachers present, but none of them were prepared.
Those in charge of the meeting went down the line of friars. “Would you care to give the sermon, Brother? No? What about you, Father? No? Well, what about you, Fr. Anthony—is that your name?” Slowly, Anthony rose, and just as slowly, he began to speak. The other friars sat up to listen. There was something very special about Anthony. He didn’t use complicated language, but his holiness and love for God shone through his words. He was one of the best preachers they had ever heard!
From that point on, Anthony’s quiet life in the hospital kitchen was over. For the rest of his life, he traveled around Italy and France, preaching sermons in churches and town squares to people who came from miles around. His listeners heard Anthony speak about how important it is for us to live every day in God’s presence. As a result of his words, hundreds of people changed their lives and bad habits, bringing Jesus back into their hearts.
Anthony wasn’t always successful, though. In most cities, businesspeople would shut down their shops to come listen to Anthony. But in one city the townspeople closed their hearts to him and listened with hard faces and harsh eyes. St. Anthony had done his best. He shrugged and turned around. The fish in the bay poked their heads out of the water to see what was going on, and St. Anthony started preaching to them instead!
Now, back to the first question. Why do we ask St. Anthony to help us find lost things? St. Anthony had a book of psalms that was quite special to him. It was special because in those days before the printing press, books were rare and expensive. But it was also special because it contained many notes Anthony had made to help him in his preaching and teaching.
Late one night, a young Franciscan decided to leave the community. He’d had enough of that life, so he made plans to just sneak out in the middle of the night. He saw Anthony’s book of psalms on his way out, and he snatched it up and ran. He knew that he could sell this precious book for a good deal of money.
Of course, Anthony was quite upset. He prayed that God would change the young man’s heart and bring him back to the Franciscan life. He also hoped that while God was at it, he would return Anthony’s book too.
The next day, the young man returned, tired and ashamed, with Anthony’s book. He also brought back his own gifts and talents, which he decided once more to offer to the Franciscan community.
So that’s why we like to ask St. Anthony to help us find lost things. He was an extraordinary man who can still help us from heaven, even in the most ordinary ways.
POPE FRANCIS SPEAKS
"The family is experiencing a profound cultural crisis, as are all communities and social bonds. In the case of the family, the weakening of these bonds is particularly serious because the family is the fundamental cell of society, where we learn to live with others despite our differences and to belong to one another; it is also the place where parents pass on the faith to their children."
(From The Joy of the Gospel (Evangelii Gaudium) by Pope Francis #66)
Parish News
CONFIRMATION PHOTOS:
The professional photographer’s photos are now available for viewing at the Parish Office.
Office hours are Mon-Thurs. 9.30am -12.30pm.
Prints are available in
7 x 5" ($12) and 8 x 10" ($26).
Please note that payment by cash or cheque is paid at the time of ordering
SACRAMENT OF FIRST EUCHARIST - ENROLMENT
Enrolment Masses - Saturday, 22 July at 6:30pm or Sunday, 23 July at 9.30am or at 6.00pm
Commitment Masses- Saturday, 19 August at 6:30pm, or Sunday, 20 August at 9.30am or at 6.00pm.
MORLEY YOUTH GROUP
Infant Jesus Parish 24:7 Morley Youth GroupAll youth in Years 6-12 are invitedJoin us this Friday night, 6-8pm in the Parish HallFor more info call Roger 0434 988 711 or Elizabeth 0410 554 393