Around The Primary
Dear Parents
This morning the Year 3-6 students participated in a Remembrance Day service with the Secondary students. Ruby Purcell (6B) and Finn Levy (6G) shared some of their insights from their Year 6 trip to the Australian War Memorial. Our Junior students commemorated this occasion with a class prayer liturgy.
Congratulations to all our Year 6 students who represented our school at the IPSHA Touch Rugby Carnival on Thursday. We are very proud of the students’ effort and achievement, however, even more importantly, we celebrate our students’ growing understanding of what it means to be part of a team; of representing our school by showing good sportsmanship, being gracious in defeat and celebrating the success of others. A sincere thank you to Mr Alderman and Miss Graves for their hard work on the day and to parents who were able to attend.
We are looking forward to seeing all our wonderful parent volunteers at the Wembley Golf Course next Wednesday evening.
Kind regards
Antoinette De Pinto
Head of Primary
Gardening Club
Many students attend Gardening Club at lunch-time each week with our parent volunteer, Mrs Woodland.
This week our young gardening gurus proudly presented some of the Secondary staff with bunches of fresh herbs. They also shared the big news that the ‘working worms’ produced four buckets of worm wee for the garden. The gardening club will be in full swing again next week with all that goodness, love and sunshine that comes with Spring.
Australian Mathematics Competition
Well done to all the students that participated in the Australian Mathematics Competition. Congratulations to the student who received a distinction.
Year 3
Lydia Defrancesco (3G)
Sophie Litic (3B)
George Foster (3G)
Joshua Standen (3G)
James Bradock (3G)
Tahj Arundell (3B)
Year 4
Thomas Walsh (4B)
Carla Kavanagh (4G)
Lauren McLernon (4G)
Oscar Croudace (4G)
Poppy Finucane (4G)
Oliver Byrnes (4G)
Year 5
Bianca Petsos (5G)
Thomas Townsend (5B)
Jennifer Ong (5B)
Sofia Lamattina (5B)
Joshua Tyson (5B)
Austin Vujcich (5B)
Jackson Bosnich (5G)
Year 6
Jonathan Foster (6B)
Jude Knowles (6B)
Riel Abrio (6G)
Remembrance Day Reflections
Ruby Purcell (6B) and Finn Levy (6G) shared their insights from their Year 6 trip to the Australian War Memorial in Canberra.
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I learnt how hard it was to be a soldier in the world wars. There was a display that made us see what being in the Airforce was really like. We experienced lights, loud sounds and voices which were very intense. It really made us wonder what it would actually be like to fight in the war with all that commotion going on.
Like our school there are many examples of others showing ‘competence, conscience and compassion’ at the Australian War Memorial. Just as we try to show these values every day, all the people that fought in the world wars tried extremely hard to demonstrate these no matter how difficult.
Ruby Purcell (6B)
Our visit to the Australian War Memorial consisted of a guided tour, where we learned about everything from World War One to the modern-day battles occurring in Afghanistan.
At the close of the day, a respectful silence fell upon the attending schools as we learnt about a fighter pilot who passed away in the line of duty. We laid a wreath at the base of the Pool of Reflection to express our gratitude to the this pilot and others who died.
We all left the memorial with a heightened appreciation and respect for those who have laid down their lives to fight for our freedom. It was a very humbling experience.
Finn Levy (6G)
Primary Sport
The IPSHA Year 6 Touch Rugby Carnival was held at the College on Thursday. We had 32 Year 6 competitors consisting of 16 boys and 16 girls. Our mixed teams performed outstandingly well, although there were no points scored or a shield to be won, we were highly competitive against the eight other schools. In fact, one of are teams won all seven rounds of fixtures and the other team only lost one game. A big thank you to our Year 6 teacher, Miss Graves for her fabulous assistance both at the Carnival and the Touch games leading-up to the Carnival and special thanks to the parents who supported our competitors during the day.
We have two more significant sports events remaining this term. In Week 7 our Year 6 students will be competing in a Milo T20 Cricket Carnival at Melvista Oval, Nedlands. They are training very hard after school on Tuesday afternoons.
From 19 November, PP-3 students will commence Swimming Lessons at Claremont Pools.
John Alderman
Primary Sports Coordinator
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Dates to Remember
Thursday 15 November Volunteers Thank You Evening (Parent Assoc) 7pm
Friday 16 November 4G Mass 9am (Chapel)
