Around The Primary

Dear Families

We had a fantastic day at today’s Interhouse Athletics Carnival for Years 3-6. We celebrated collaborative teamwork, resilience, and positivity.  It is always so wonderful to see our ovals full of our House colours, smiles and cheering!  Thank you to all the parents, grandparents and friends who came along to support our students.  A big thank you to Mr Williams for coordinating this great event and the parents who volunteered, as well as, staff for their assistance in ensuring the Carnival ran smoothly.  It was a big day that students have been working towards all term and every student should feel very proud of their efforts and the contributions made towards their House points.  

We continue to celebrate the achievements of our students for their performances in the Catholic Performing Arts Festival. Our Year 4 cohort received the prestigious Loreto Sisters’ Award for the Primary Musical, Little Shop of Horace. Congratulations to all the students and staff involved in this magnificent musical. 

Our congratulations are extended to James Haydon (Year 6) for receiving the Sisters of Mercy Award for piano. James will be performing at the final Catholic Performing Arts concert on Monday night and receive the perpetual shield. 

Our focus for the final two weeks of the term is kindness.

Children need to see, hear, and feel kindness being modelled each and every day within the context of their own family and at school. 

As parents and educators, we need to model showing kindness to those in our family and to all those we meet, through positive thoughts, generous service, and genuine compassion and forgiveness.

We have high expectations of the students in regard to their personal behaviour choices here at school. We will continue to support them to show kindness in their everyday relationships. Children will of course make mistakes – they will do and say things that they shouldn’t.  We spend a lot of time and effort helping them to learn to place themselves in the shoes of the other – having empathy will take children a long way in life.

Children need to learn to navigate their way through different peer personalities. Our job as significant adults in a child’s life, is to model confidence in their ability to work through any perceived challenges. Of course, we are all here to support them to do this. 

Amidst the hustle and bustle of the end of the term, let’s all encourage the children to act with kindness, even though this can be challenging at times. Keep in mind, one kind word, one kind act, leads to another and has a ripple effect. 

Kind regards

Antoinette De Pinto

Head of Primary 

Dates to Remember

Please check the College Website to note all the important Primary school events for your family calendar http://www.johnxxiii.edu.au/view/for-parents/calendars and subscribe to the Primary Calendar.

Family Fun

There was great excitement in Pre-Primary last Friday as we welcomed all of our Dads and significant person in for a special Fathers’ Day afternoon. Everyone had a wonderful time joining in lots of fun activities together. 

Thank you to all the Pre-Primary Dads and father figures for attending this event.

Music Update

Primary Choir Performances

Congratulations to the students in Primary Singers and Wanju Voices who performed their pieces from the Catholic Performing Arts Festival to parents, grandparents and staff on Thursday morning. The audience were impressed with the discipline, skills, story-telling and enthusiasm demonstrated by the students. Thank you to all who attended; it was wonderful to see so much support!

Primary Composers

Primary students across the year groups have been busy composing pieces for various instruments. Pre-Primary students created high-low compositions for the xylophone which they performed to their peers, while Year 5 students implemented elements of conventional score-writing in their pieces for the ukulele. Here are a selection of some of these excellent works. 

Choir Rehearsals 

Choir rehearsals for next week are as follows:

Please note that there are no rehearsals for Wanju Voices or Chapel Choir net week.  Normal rehearsals will resume in Week 10 (7:30am Monday for Wanju Voices and 7:30am Friday for Chapel Choir).

If you have any queries regarding Primary Music, please contact me via email: catherine.haydon@cewa.edu.au

Catherine Haydon

Primary Music Teacher

Sport Update

Congratulations to St Louis for winning both the Champion House and Spirit Award for the Interhouse Athletics Carnival! 

Final scores are:

The IPSHA Interschool Athletics Carnival takes place next Thursday 14 September. Further information will be emailed on Monday for students who have qualified for the team.   

Afterschool sport returns for Term 4:

• Tuesdays J&J soccer sessions - Year 1-6, Junior Primary Oval, 3:30pm to 4:20pm commencing in week 2.  Booking and payment required. Email Coach Adi at juricadi@hotmail.com We are looking to have an all-girls group, please contact Coach Adi if your daughter/s are interested. Please refer to below PDFs. 
• Thursdays Basketball with Redhage Basketball - Year 2-6, St Louis Sports Centre, 3:20pm to 4:20pm commencing in week 2.  Bookings and payments required.  Enrol at www.redhagebasketball.com

If you have any queries about anything sport-related, please contact me via email: steve.williams@cewa.edu.au 

Steve Williams

Primary Sport Coordinator