SCHOOL NEWS
Learning
YEAR FIVE NEWS
We have many engaging and exciting learning experiences planned for the students this term and our Integrated learning will be centred on the Gold Rush and binary coding. We will be participating in an excursion this term to the Perth Mint and Elizabeth Quay to integrate urban planning, financial mathematics and persuasive writing.
Expecting Great Things from ourselves and one another will be a continued focus this term. We encourage all students to participate and produce work samples of individual excellence. We all have gifts and talents to share with our learning community and at Infant Jesus we ensure that everyone has the opportunity to do this in their own unique way.
In Religion, the children will explore how the Holy Spirit, promised by Jesus, frees people to do good. Our learning will support us to walk alongside the Year 6 children during their preparation to receive the Sacrament of Confirmation later this term. Our second unit of work will focus on Prayer. The children will explore the wonder and
beauty of God’s creation and how this beauty signifies that God is always present. In this unit, the children will come to see prayer as a means of empowering them to respect the integrity of creation and the possessions of others. In addition, during the month of May, we will pray the Rosary to celebrate the month of Mary.
During our English Dedicated Time we will be continuing to focus on reading comprehension skills to develop our love of reading and our ability to comprehend to a deeper level. The specific strategies we will focus on are:
- making connections with texts and real life
- synthesising and combining what we know with what we have read
- visualising and creating a mental picture of what is happening in the text
- summarising important parts of the text to gain a deeper understanding
The children will be writing and constructing creative narratives, persuasive texts and a variety of poetry pieces this term. One of our integrated learning areas is centred on the Gold Rush. The children will construct a creative narrative about the life of a person during this era.
Spelling this term will continue to be a working development of recognising that a knowledge of word origins is not only interesting in its own right, but that it extends students’ knowledge of vocabulary and spelling. The children will continue to consolidate their understanding of sounds and graphemes (letter combinations that create these sounds) as we explore a variety of word lists based on a particular sound.
During Mathematics, the children will continue to expand their knowledge about fractions and decimals and the ordinary number system. We will be revising the operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and division as we build an understanding of multi-step word problems as we add and subtract fractions. The children will be making connections between decimal representations and fractions and using number lines to record their findings. The children will be required to add and subtract fractions with common denominators and conceptualise this learning to real life experiences.
They will explore language specific to chance and data and create a survey, collect data and graph their results. The understanding of perimeter will be further developed by introducing area of regular and irregular polygons.
During Art this term they will develop and apply artistic techniques and processes with:
- shape (convex, concave)
- colour (expressive colours, natural colours)
- line (implied lines for movement and depth)
- space (shading – creating illusion of depth)
- texture (textures created with a variety of tools, materials and techniques; patterning)
The children will be required to create an artwork piece independently and evoke an emotional response from the audience. A short blurb will be written about their art piece explaining why, and what they have created.
This term in our integrated work in History we will be investigating the Gold Rush, in particular the Western Australian Gold Rush and how this impacted the social, political and economical environments of our State. During this time we will explore the Eureka Stockade and we will also be investigating the Gold Rush impacts across the country and significant people that were involved in this era. For example; Paddy Hannan and Peter Lalor.
This term we will be using a SWAY to learn about our integrated topic. An amazing feature of this application is that Miss Allegretto and Mrs Edwards are able to add and change information regarding our Gold Rush topic to help us to better understand it in different ways. We will be reading information, using short video clips and using a variety of reading resource materials to help us learn.
This term during Innovation and Technology we will be constructing and creating dioramas based on our knowledge of a dairy farm and land vegetation from Term One.
We will be participating in a SKYPE session with the owner of a dairy farm, and a member of the Dairy Australia Board. He will speak with the children about dairy farming in Australia and the importance of land, vegetation, materials and resources used on a farm. The farm is located in Carlisle River, Victoria and some children will have the opportunity to justify and explain what they have put on their farm and why. The children will then be able to ask further questions that they want clarified about farming, vegetation, landscapes and farming features. After the construction of our diary farm dioramas the children will begin to investigate and explore binary coding.
YEAR TWO AND THREE INCURSION
This morning the Year Two and Three children participated in an incursion on Indigenous Australian culture and history. The children interacted with the content through virtual reality headsets and used clapping sticks and other artefacts to learn about what Australia was like before settlement.
Steam Parent Nights
This term, our school will be holding two STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Art, Math) nights. The purpose of these nights will be to share with parents what STEAM is, how it fits into the curriculum and how our school is implementing it across the year levels.
There will also be an opportunity for parents to participate in mini STEAM activities based around what students have been learning in class.
The first STEAM Parent Night on Thursday 18 May is for parents of children in Years 4, 5 and 6. The second STEAM Parent Night will be held on Thursday 25 May for parents of students in Years 1-3.
As places are limited, please register your interest as early as possible by following the link.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/C8GGKC2
Sport News
INFANT JESUS RUNNING CLUB
As our Year 1-6 children prepare to challenge themselves at the end of the term with our Faction Cross Country Carnival I would like to introduce our Infant Jesus Running Club. This provides the children an opportunity to improve their fitness to give themselves the best opportunity to achieve their goals at the carnival and it is also a great way to improve their physical and mental health. Running Club will occur on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning at 8am on the oval right up until the carnival. All children are invited to come and challenge themselves. If you are wearing your winter uniform then wear your sport shoes and change into your black shoes ready for class. In the event of rain we will cancel for that day.
When: Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8am starting Week 5 (Monday 22 May)
Where: School Oval
Who: Year 1-6 (Pre-Primary are welcome to come and challenge themselves as well)
What to bring: White sport shoes if you are not wearing sport uniform
Why: To improve fitness for the Cross Country Carnival
2017 FACTION CROSS COUNTRY CARNIVAL
I am very happy to announce that we have a new venue for the Cross Country Carnival. We will be holding it at on at Lightning Park in Noranda on Friday 16 June. This provides the children with a larger space to run in and a similar environment to the Interschool Carnival. More details and a request for volunteers will be in the newsletter closer to the event.
I would also like to inform everyone that the distances our Year 4-6 children will run have changed so as to keep in line with the Sporting Association we are a member of. A summary of the distances is below.
2017 Cross Country Distance
Year 1 - 600m
Year 2 - 800m
Year 3 - 1000m
Year 4 - 1500m
Year 5 - 2000m
Year 6 - 2000m
I am very excited about the Cross Country Carnival and I have also been impressed by the children’s commitment to their fitness in our PE Lessons.
Michael Sheridan
Engagement
P&F News
LOOSE CHANGE CHALLENGE
Thank you to everyone who sent in their change for the challenge. We are please to announce that just over $2,000 was raised!
What a fantastic achievement from all classes but unfortunately there can only be one winner. Our winning class is 3W!! A very big congratulations to Miss Myles and her class!
The P&F will work with class teachers to organise an appropriate time for the class pizza party and secret surprise.
P&F STORAGE SHED
Thank you Paul Hille, school board and staff for organising our new P&F storage shed! We're very excited and grateful to have such a wonderful space available to us.
The shed was funded from the proceeds made at the 2015 Infant Jesus Fete, so a very big thank you to the 2015 P&F and Fete Committee.
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.
MEDIA RELEASE - Catholic School Parents left in the dark around school funding
Nicola Cecchele - P&F President
MOTHER AND DAUGHTER CAMP 2018
Due to circumstances beyond our control, there will be changes to the 2018 MAD Camp. Increases in costs of both catering and accommodation will result in the camp committee having to significantly increase the price being charged to camp attendees.
Moving forward we have two options :
Keep the existing location (Point Walter) and higher quality facilities but have the price increase approximately 40%
OR
Move the location to Point Peron (Alfred Hines - Family Camp location) and have the price remain the same. This location will involve taking your own linen, sharing communal bathrooms and assisting with cleaning of the facilities including dishes, kitchen and bathrooms.
Please click on the below link to have your say and vote for your preference. Thank you.
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/FWT5XGC
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
3 YEAR OLD (Pre Kindy) DINNER
Venue: The Queens
Date: Friday 9 June
Time: 7.30pm
RSVP: 6 June to Justyna jus@dimasi.biz or Facebook
YEAR 2 MUMS NIGHT OUT
When: Saturday 1 July
Time: 8pm
Venue: 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 COFFEE CATCHUP
Monday 29 May at Esprezzo Cafe, Noranda Shopping Centre after drop off.
YEAR 3 BRUNCH CATCHUP
Friday 23 June at Our Table, 180a Grand Promenade, Bedford at 10.30am.
Please RSVP to Justine or Sherrie for booking numbers
All welcome, see you there!
Canteen Roster
TERM 2
Friday 19 May
Rosa Ridolfo, Emma Yates, Simone McGuire
Monday 22 May
Renae Levings, Paige DiDio, Patricia Rivera
Wednesday 26 May
Mina Pillera, Marisa Gulluni, Carol Penwald
Please see the attached Canteen Winter Menu for Term 2 and 3.
Accountability
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.
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
Feastday of St Matthias 14 May
People may have been surprised when Matthias was elected to take the place of Judas among the apostles after Jesus’ death and resurrection. The New Testament mentions Matthias only once, and that is in the account of how he was chosen to become one of the apostles.
After the death of Judas, the apostles met to elect someone to replace him. Peter presided at this meeting and reminded the others of the qualification necessary for being an apostle: The candidate had to have been a follower of Jesus Christ from the time of Jesus’ baptism by John until his Ascension into heaven. Soon the choice was narrowed to two men: Joseph, so good and holy that he was known as 'Joseph the Just,' and Matthias, also a very good and holy man. At this point it would seem as though Joseph had an edge over Matthias, but God’s ways aren’t the same as our ways. After the apostles prayed for divine guidance, they cast lots and Matthias was chosen to share in the ministry of the apostles.
So Matthias became an apostle and a witness with the others to the Resurrection of Christ. Tradition links Matthias with the country of Ethiopia, where he is believed to have met his martyrdom. The known facts about the missionary work and martyrdom of Matthias are not many. What is known is that he loved Christ and that he lived and died to spread the Good News as far as possible.
Volunteering - Living a Life with Meaning
Recently we celebrated Volunteers Week and the feast of 'St Joseph the Worker,' (1 May) which is also called "International Workers Day" - may the dignity of work be experienced by all. To see a world where we acknowledge that all work is about contributing to the good of the community and human flourishing. Where people have a safe, respectful and positive work environment that enables them also to enjoy the other good things in life.
One of the best decisions in my life was to begin volunteering with a group which was reaching out to people seeking asylum in our country. My reason for volunteering was that our government wasn't doing enough for these people. Fifteen years later I am still trying to do myself out of a job. Thursdays my volunteering day, have become sacrosanct. Many come to the Asylum Seeker Resource Centre to volunteer for all different reasons: 95% of the volunteers do so for the common good, others for social reasons or professional development. The ASRC is the largest not for profit organisation of its kind in the southern hemisphere. Volunteers make up 94.5% of its workforce - no other organisation can boast the same.
We now know that volunteering is not just good for our physical health, but for our psychological and emotional health too. Giving is one of the strongest predictors of increasing our health and happiness. Research shows that volunteers live happier and healthier lives. There is so much more to volunteering than simply giving your time and skills to help others. So we go forward together as volunteers, together in the spirit of St Joseph the worker, living a life with meaning. (Associate Professor Dr Thomas Nielsen, University of Canberra, advocates a ‘Curriculum of Giving’. )
enews@josephite.org.au (Sisters of St Joseph Newsletter Rita Malavisi rsj)
Parish News
THINKING OF BECOMING CATHOLIC?
BAPTISED BUT NOT CONFIRMED?
If you would like to find out more about what is involved in becoming a Catholic, or if you or another adult you know would like to receive the Sacraments of Communion or Confirmation, please come along to our enquiry night on Wednesday 24 May at 7pm. All are welcome. Please call the parish office on 9276 8500 if you would like any more information or just turn up on the night.
CONFIRMATION
Important Reminders
Parents and Child Workshop:
· Monday, 22 May 7.00pm at Infant Jesus Parish Centre
Please remind your children to bring their pencil case.
Confirmation Retreat, Formal Visitation and Mass Practice:
· Friday, 9 June starts at 9:00am at Infant Jesus Parish Centre
Confirmation Mass:
· Saturday, 10 June at 12.00pm and at 3.00pm
(For your child’s allocated Mass time, please check your enrolment confirmation email)
SAINT NAME & SPONSOR NAME: We are now finalising the certificates of all the children, please submit your child’s Confirmation-Saint and Sponsor Name Card as soon as possible.
SASH: Each child will receive a plain white sash on the day of Confirmation, but if you would like to have it decorated/embroidered, you may collect your child’s sash early from the parish office starting during office hours. Monday-Thursday 9.30am to 12.30pm.
Please note that sash decoration is optional only.
Yours in Christ,
Faith Rico - Sacramental Co-ordinator
MORLEY YOUTH GROUP
Infant Jesus Parish 24:7 Morley Youth Group
All youth in Years 6-12 are invited
Join us this Friday night, 6-8pm in the Parish Hall
For more info call Roger 0434 988 711 or Elizabeth 0410 554 393