SCHOOL NEWS
Learning
YEAR FIVE NEWS
Welcome to Term Four! We can’t believe there is only nine weeks until the end of the year. The children have settled back into routine and are excited about the upcoming term and all of the events and learning that we have planned at Infant Jesus School.
In Religious Education, the children will be participating in a unit centred on the Sacrament of Penance. Through this unit, the children will discuss and work together to develop a deeper understanding of how we are all different and how it is important to be accepting of others. Our second Religious Education unit is ‘Advent and Christmas’. The children will understand how Jesus’ followers celebrate the good work of Christ during this special time.
During reading, the children will continue to focus on ways to better comprehend texts and use a variety of strategies to interpret and understand the message and intent of the author. They will be participating in a variety of reading activities based on six countries within North and South America.
In writing, the children will continue to develop their creative writing skills through narratives and persuasive texts and they will also write information reports on a chosen county. They will learn how to write a script and this will be intertwined with their understandings of North and South America. The students will be involved in an iTunesU course to direct their learning through this integrated inquiry.
The students will continue to learn the intricacies of the English language. They will also continue to look at how the English language has been influenced by other languages with our study of root words, prefixes and suffixes. The children will continue to work on specific word lists identifying a particular spelling choice. They will use a variety of graphemes and will consolidate their understanding of punctuation and grammar.
In Mathematics, the children will continue to build on their understanding of the four operations of addition, subtraction, multiplication and in particular, division. Throughout the term, the children will explore angles and how to measure, draw and identify a variety of angles in their world. The children will be investigating grid references and will learn how to read coordinates and use directional language. The children will also use their knowledge of two dimensional shapes and apply rules for transformation, translations and reflections. They will be encouraged to keep up with the set tasks on Mathletics that support and facilitate the consolidation of their learning.
A weekly focus on problem solving strategies will continue throughout this term. These sessions will support the notion that, “there is no one way” to solve a problem. Trial and error, drawings and diagrams, tables and charts, are just a few examples.
The children will be investigating North and South America in their integrated and English time. They will be exploring the location of these continents in relation to Australia and will specifically focus on Canada, Mexico, Guatemala, Brazil, Argentina and Columbia. When the children investigate these different countries, they will develop an understanding of the climate, culture, landforms, vegetation and animals. They will also develop an understanding of bushfires and their impacts on communities. The children will work collaborately to better understand how our volunteers and communities work together during a natural disaster, such as a bushfire.
We will be integrating our art making and responding outcome with our geography unit about North and South America. The children will be investigating the landscapes, landmarks, climate and native animals of each of these countries and will create an art piece to represent a North or South American country.
In Science the children will be learning about physical sciences and how light from a source forms a shadow and can be absorbed, reflected and refracted.
Mrs Tania D’Angelo will be teaching Health this term where the children will be looking at ways to promote their health, safety and wellbeing. We will be discussing how to eat a healthy, well-balanced diet and also how to increase fitness for general health. Finally, we will be revisiting water and road safety and how we can play safely whilst at school.
In Italian this term, the children will be learning about different types of Italian cuisine and food. They will be discussing and learning about how Christmas is celebrated in Italy and the traditions celebrated at this time such as, La Befana.
In Sport the children will be learning about lacrosse and the skills and rules associated with this game.
In Music the children will be developing and consolidating their theory and oral skills. The will also be learning about:
- Major/Minor pentatonic scales
- 6/8 Time keyboard skills
During STEAM sessions, with Miss Phoebe, the students will be exploring micro:bits. A micro:bit is a small piece of technology that can be programmed to do a number of nifty things. It is like a tiny, pocket-sized computer and encourages students to build upon the coding and programming skills students were learning in Term Two.
Along with using the micro:bits, students will also become mini inventors! They will use the LittleBit STEAM kits and the engineering process in designing, building, testing and improving inventions. To begin with, they will be creating a self-driving car.
YEAR 3 2018 PARENT BYOD INFORMATION NIGHT
Last night we held the BYOD Information Night for Year Three 2018 parents. This evening was well attended with parents coming together to be informed more about the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) Program at our school.
In 2013, Infant Jesus School established a BYOD 1-1 iPad Program with the Year 3-6 classes. The outcomes have been extremely successful and the iPad has become an educational tool in the child’s toolkit to help meet curriculum requirements alongside (rather than instead of) more traditional tools like text books, pencils and paper.
iPads, as a tool, are fast and automated, interactive and multimodal and they support the rapid communication and representation of knowledge to many audiences and adapt to different contexts. They afford children the opportunity to transform the ways that they think and learn and give them greater control over how, where and when they learn.
All Year Three students at Infant Jesus School require an iPad.
The information from the evening can be found on the school website and an informative interactive book about the BYOD Program can be found at the following link;
https://geo.itunes.apple.com/au/book/infant-jesus-school-byod-program-2017/id1170893594?mt=11.
CPSSA INTERSCHOOL ATHLETICS CARNIVAL
On Friday 27 October 2017, our Interschool Athletics Squad will travel to the State Athletics Stadium to compete in the CPSSA Interschool Athletics Carnival. All parents need to return the permission slip to your child’s classroom teacher if you have not already done so.
Training has already begun every Monday, Wednesday and Friday leading up to the carnival starting at 8:00am on the oval. Many children have already been out there training hard and it has been wonderful to see their will to improve. I hope to see all of the squad members attending.
Details of the carnival are below and due to the early start I ask that the children come to school on the day at 7:40am dressed in their sport uniform ready for the bus. More details can be found on the permission note.
Date: Friday 27 October 2017
Venue: State Athletics Stadium,
Underwood Avenue, Floreat.
Entry Via Challenge Stadium
As always we need some parent volunteers to assist on the day. If you are able to help then please indicate this on the permission note.
Mr Sheridan
SPORT NEWS
In very exciting news for our Year 5 children, the CPSSA has announced a Summer Lightning Carnival! This will mean the children will compete in either Tennis, Ultimate Frisbee or Cricket against other schools in our association. This is a great privilege as it will be the first year that this has been held.
The Carnival will be on Friday 17 November from 10.00am to 2.00pm. In previous calendars, it was on a different date; however, due to many schools having Remembrance Day commitments the association decided to move it back one week.
Both Ultimate Frisbee and Cric
Engagement
PARENT & FRIENDS NEWS
SCHOOL DISCO
This years disco will be held Friday 3 November in the Parish Hall and our theme is ROCK STAR! Please see attached flyer to purchase tickets.
DISCO PROPS
Calling all artists!! We are in need of someone with exceptional drawing skills to help with disco props. Please email president.pafc@gmail.com if you can help. Thank you!
QUIZ NIGHT RAFFLE
We are still trying to hunt down the second prize of our quiz raffle. If you are the owner of raffle ticket ORANGE B007 (Amber) please email president.pafa@gmail.com
Thank you
LOST PROPERTY
Our wonderful Parent Rep Nicole Mammone has kindly been sorting the lost property box and she has returned all labelled items to their owners. There are several jackets/jumpers that have no name or a name which can’t be read. If your child is missing an item, please check the lost property box outside the iLab at your earliest convenience.
Nicola Cecchele
P&F President
PRE PRIMARY PARENTS CHRISTMAS GATHERING
This has been set for Friday 27 October 8pm, 663 Newcastle Street, Leederville. Please contact Belinda 0410682991 or Gabrielle
0402 140 181 for details.
YEAR 4 MUM'S END OF YEAR FUNCTION
Date: Sunday 12 November 2017. Start time is 1pm
Cost is $50 per person, this includes a beautiful grazing table from Carnival Creations, Champagne, Soft Drink and Water.
Location is : Matilda Bay - Site 4
If you are thinking about attending, now would be the time to let us know and get your payment to us to secure your place. We do have a maximum for this event, so unfortunately when we reach that we will no longer be able to accept any other bookings. Please let us know you will be attending via email aarontasha@iinet.net.au. Please contact Simone McGuire on 0414 719 009 to arrange for transfer of your payment. Once payment is received we will email to confirm your place.
Thanks ladies, we are looking forward to a wonderful end of year celebration with as many of you as possible.
Tash, Simone. M, Simone. S and Joanna
FATHER AND SON CAMP
Please see attached information regarding this year's Father and Son Camp.
CANTEEN ROSTER
Term 4
Friday 20 October
Rosanna Franceschino, Marisa Gulluni
Monday 23 October
Louise Staltari, Wanita Gentile
Wednesday 25 October
Jenny Allpike, Emily Dayan
Our Canteen runs with the Summer Menu during Term 4. See attached. We are also in need of helpers on Wednesday Roster. If you are available that would be appreciated.
Accountability
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.
VISITING THE SCHOOL - SIGN IN PROCEDURES
An iPad is now available for entering the school during school hours. This replaces the sign in book. Please follow these procedures:
- Sign in and receive a Lanyard or Exit Card
- Enter the school
- Sign out and return the Lanyard
All visitors to the school must sign in i.e. Parents dropping things off, Parents picking up students, Volunteers helping Canteen or Class, Students arriving late, Maintenance workers etc.
PROLONGED ABSENCE FROM SCHOOL OF A STUDENT DURING SCHOOL TERM
There is an approval procedure that must be followed if you are taking your children out of school for several days.
- Letter or email must be sent to the Principal and Teacher advising the school of the circumstances of the absence.
- School then formally approves the absence with a letter sent to Parents.
It is important to note that the Education Act states that all children need to be at school at all times during the school year.
Prolonged absences should only be taken if it is essential for illness, pastoral and family reasons. In this instance it is a requirement that parents provide a valid explanation, in writing, for children’s non-attendance at school.
It is also important to note that prolonged absence from school will impact on children’s learning.
Discipleship
CATHOLIC MISSION MASS
On Wednesday 18 October four Year Six leaders attended the Catholic Mission Mass at our Infant Jesus Parish. Our leaders were very fortunate to serve at the mass and come together as a community with other schools from the Archdiocese.
Catholic Mission offers assistance to those in need in Australian and in over 160 countries throughout the world. Various needs are identified by local communities and through the work of Catholic Mission people are provided with support. This year the mass acknowledged the works of other Catholic agencies in the Archdiocese that work tirelessly to care for all in our communities. Bishop Don Sproxton especially thanked the work of Caritas Australia, Catholic Mission, Life Link Agencies and St Vincent de Paul.
WHOLE SCHOOL MASS
On Wednesday 1 November the whole school will gather to celebrate the Feast of All Saints at the 9.00am Mass at the Infant Jesus Church. This is very significant feast in the Church year and calls us to recognise and remember all those who lived their life serving God.
All parents are very welcome to join us for this special celebration.
PARISH NEWS
Reconciliation - Parents Information Night (Parents Only)
Monday 23 October at 7pm at the Parish Centre
Reconciliation Retreat at Schoenstatt Shirne
Wednesday 25 October
First Reconciliation and Family Retreat
Monday 6 November at 5.30pm or 6pm or 6.30pm or
Thursday 9 November at 5.30pm or 6pm
First Communion Photos Now Available for Viewing
All those beautiful memories of the First Communion will last a while— the children looked so lovely and the families so happy. Mayfair Photography have delivered the proofs of the photos for viewing. Please come to the Infant Jesus Parish Office, Monday - Thursday 9.30am - 12.30pm to view the proofs and to place an order if you wish. Please note that photographing the proofs is NOT permitted, since all photographs are copyrighted to Mayfair.
Infant Jesus School Band - Photos from Jubilee Mass
These photos are now available for viewing on the following link: https://photos.app.goo.gl/uSOlPeL5OFflf0G12
Infant Jesus Parish 24:7 Morley Youth Group
All youth in Years 6-12 are invited to join us this Friday night, 6-8pm in the Parish Hall. For more info call Roger 0434 988 711 or Elizabeth 0410 554 393.
FATHER GREG BURKE OCD - PARISH PRIEST INFANT JESUS PARISH MORLEY SPEAKING ON ST TERESA OF AVILA
St Teresa was born in Avila, Spain, in 1515. This was the era when much of the modern world was being shaped. Printed book made personal reading possible from the 1450’s, this in turn brought about a change in how people understood themselves—the modern sense of the individual self was born. The Protestant Reformation began in 1517 bringing enormous political and religious changes throughout Western Europe. Globalisation began in 1492 with the discovery of the New World. The Scientific Revolution began with the publication of Copernicus’s work in 1543. In Spain, however, there were the dark shadows of anti-Semitic racism and oppressive patriarchy as society and church could not give a free and equal place to those with Jewish blood or women.
Teresa can be considered the patron saint of mid-life transformation. At the age of 39 she had an experience before an image of the suffering Christ which changed her life. For twenty years she had been trying to live a life of prayer, but had failed. She now felt that Christ came down to her and lifted her up. She discovered we are saved by God’s grace not by our own efforts. She also felt that Christ accepted her, though she was a woman with Jewish blood. She was helped to understand her new life through conversations with learned priests from whom she got guidance and a theological base for her life. As they listened to her they also learned that the risen Jesus was not just a person of history but was present to them in interior prayer.
She listened to the aspirations of young women and guided them. In the process she became a spiritual mother. She became a founder of new communities. She founded her Carmelite nuns in 1562 and the friars in 1568. She was a woman of strength and character unafraid of the Inquisition, the Hierarchy or the other powers of the day. She dared to write books teaching from experience the way of contemplative prayer- the most controversial topic of the day. She was a charming, wise and witty woman who delighted in friendship. Teresa died in 1582. Today, I give thanks for her life and teaching. (Father Greg Burke)
POPE FRANCIS AND THE JOY OF THE GOSPEL
"I invite all Christians, everywhere, at this very moment, to a renewed personal encounter with Jesus Christ, or at least an openness to letting him encounter them; I ask all of you to do this unfailingly each day. No one should think that this invitation is not meant for him or her, since "no one is excluded from the joy brought by the Lord. The Lord does not disappoint those who take this risk". (Evangelii Gaudium...The Joy of the Gospel... #3).
