Around The Primary

Dear Parents

Presentation Night

Our College Presentation Night will take place in the St Louis Sports Centre on Wednesday 27 November at 7:00pm. As this is an important community event for our College all students from Years 5 and 6 are expected to attend. The Primary Singers and Wanju Voices will be providing some special musical entertainment alongside the Secondary students.

Final Assembly

Please join us on Friday 29 November at 9.00am in Roncalli Hall for our final Primary Assembly of the year. The students of Year 2B are hosting this Assembly and we will also be farewelling our long-standing staff member, Mrs Morell.

Swimming Lessons

The PP–Year 3 swimming lessons commence on Monday 25 November. The children are certainly getting very excited about making a big splash at Claremont Pools.

Celebrations

Over the next three weeks we will be hosting a number of special events, please make note the dates/times of these events on your family calendar:

• 5 December Pre-Primary Christmas Liturgy - 9:00am
• 5 December Kindy Concert – 11:00am
• 5 December Music Soiree – 6:00pm  Held in our beautiful amphitheatre, this is always a wonderful family event.
• 6 December Christmas Liturgy – 9:00am (Hosted by 1G)
• 10 December Year 6 Farewell Mass & Morning Tea – 9.00am

Christmas Hampers 

We traditionally collect Christmas Food Hampers to St Vinnies for families in need. Families are asked to consider donating a special Christmas food item and placing it the baskets located in the classrooms or front office.

GATE

This Saturday Mrs Purcell (GATE Teacher/ICT specialist), Miss Graves (Year 6 Teacher) and our Year 4 and 5 GATE students are heading to Edith Cowan University for the Game Changer Awards. We wish our competitors every success in this exciting challenge.

Kind regards,

Antoinette De Pinto

Head of Primary

Dates to Remember

Please check the College Website for Term 4 to note all the important Primary school events for your family calendar. http://www.johnxxiii.edu.au/view/for-parents/calendars

Cultural Excursion 

Last week the Year 3 students visited the Hyogo Cultural Centre.

Students learnt about the shichi go san (7 5 3) festival which is celebrated on 15 November celebrating children turning 3, 5 and 7 years old.  Students made their own chigiri e which is a collage picture using Japanese paper and wrote the numbers shichi go san (7, 5 and 3) using the calligraphy brushes. They particularly enjoyed eating their obento for lunch.

Rowson sensei

Japanese Teacher

Super Scitech

It was probably the best excursion ever and I am looking forward to going there again later in life. Visiting Scitech was a cool experience that I will remember for a long time. Luca Robson 5G

The highlight of the excursion was the Science Fiction section, where we got to see lots of possibilities the future could offer us. There were mind control games and you could draw what you thought the world would look like in 2099! Watching the Maths and Explosions show was great too. The presenter combined maths and explosions by creating a rocket and putting it at different angles to hit a target. The planetarium was awesome as we got to see so many cool planets and what space looks like. It made me dizzy! Raphael Budimlich 5B

A highlight was when we played with little micro coding devices and we were given the task of designing and building a machine that could draw. We used Lego and little device called Mini Bits. This was such a fun experience and we could share our ideas in a group. Sophia Negus 5B

Cookie Creations

As a part of the Design and Technology unit, the Year Fives have been busy researching, designing and creating their own biscuits. Students were lucky enough to use the Secondary Domestic kitchen for the baking experience.  The real challenge was to make the actual biscuits look like their initial designs and the students had a great time decorating their biscuits.  Everyone was very excited about the final stage of the project - the taste testing!

Ms O’Connor and Mrs Goss

Year 5 Teachers

Counsellors Corner

It’s hard to believe we are so close to the end of the school year. I hope you and your children are feeling proud of a what has been achieved this year and confident of the move forward. If you have any concerns about your child please don’t hesitate to contact me. Information about an upcoming parenting webinar which is part of our Parenting Ideas membership is outlined below for those interested.

Kind regards

Anne Murphy

Primary Counsellor