Around The Primary

Dear Parents

On Wednesday evening we hosted our annual College Presentation Evening in the St Louis Sport Centre. Congratulations to all the Primary students who received an Award/s on the night. We are very proud of your efforts and achievements.

As we now prepare to welcome the Season of Advent, may we all try hard to support our children to appreciate the little things we are ‘gifted’ with each day, and to find the real Christmas message in the small acts of kindness we do for others.  Special thanks to all families who have generously donated food items for our St Vincent de Paul Christmas hampers for families in crisis situations – every little bit helps those in need to know, they are not alone.

It is beginning to feel a lot like Christmas around the Primary school!  This week our Kindy, Pre-Primary and Year 2 students shared the Christmas story in a variety of delightful ways with their family and friends in our community. In doing so, they helped us think about the real reason we celebrate Christmas and reminded us to be a kind, patient, loving and generous to each other, to our children and to our community!

May we continue to support each other and our children in this final busy week of school, to be a real gift’ to one another.

Kind regards

Antoinette De Pinto

Head of Primary

Years 6 Awards

Outstanding student

Massimo Torre

Religious Education

Angelique Watson

Simon Casey Sports Award

Frederick Gleghorn

Design Technologies

Hunter Giles-Shanley

Digital Technologies

Georgie Tudori

English

Gemma Bailey

Visual Arts

Hunter Giles-Shanley

Health

Finn Levy

Humanities & Social Sciences

Jonathan Foster

Languages—Japanese

Gemma Bailey

Mathematics

Massimo Torre

Performing Arts - Music

Riel Abrio

Physical Education

Wim Parker

Physical Education

Tenley Burton

Science

Luke McLernon

Service

Max Watt

2019 PALS

A very warm welcome to our 2019 PALs! Year Group Coordinators are an integral part of the Primary community and we thank the following parents for volunteering their time in this invaluable role for 2019.

Kindy

Elle Rohr

Davinia Finucane

Emma smith

Jenelle Moloney

Pre Primary

Natasha Harris

Catherine Natale

Katherine Potter

Hannah Hewer

Year 1

Caroline Di Costa

Kate O’Toole

Emma Humphreys

Rachel Hurley

Year 2

Priscilla Grainger

Alyssa Swan

Cindy Tonkin

Julie Bosnich

Tiziana Battista

Year 3

Mimma Nikoloski

Renee ralph

Katerina Pruiti

Sue Briede

Year 4

Barb Fullerton

Chris Stewart

Serena Hewes

Cherish McNamara

Year 5

Pip Paton

Jo Pazin

Bobbie Mignacca

Gemma MacMillan

Year 6

Bec Owen

Celia Gardner

Sue Matera

Jo Kenny

Lidia Fethers

Sarah Fitzhardinge

Newsflash

Congratulations to Bianca Petsos (5G) who was awarded with a Distinction in the Australian Mathematics Competition. She also received the ‘Best in the Primary School’ award based on her fantastic standardised score.      

GATE IS Great!

We have had an amazing year in GATE! We have researched and presented notable people from around the world, spent $2 million dollars, studied philosophy through literature, entered competitors both as individuals and in teams, and most importantly every GATE year group has reached out in various ways to support others in the College.

Congratulations to Lucy Morgan (4G) for receiving a Gold medal in the Young Australian Art Awards with her piece titled “The Whirlpool” and to Elizabeth Levey (4G) for receiving third place in The Children’s Book Council of Australia’s ‘Make Your Own Story Book Competition ‘with her book titled ‘A Leap to a Different Land’. Well done!

Congratulations to the Year Six ‘Supa Novas’ for receiving the ‘Gracious Professionalism’ Award in the First Lego League competition. This means in competition conditions they treated each other and other competitors with respect and kindness. The Supa Novas also made it through to the State Finals in The First Lego League. Fantastic effort!

Tara Purcell

GATE Teacher

Out and About

This week the Year 4 classes embarked on a trip to Brownes Dairy in Balcatta. Our teachers organised this experience for us to learn about the technological process of making dairy products. When we arrived,  Farmer Damien taught us about how yoghurt, milk and other products are made at Brownes. After that, the classes split into 2 groups. One group did yoghurt experimenting. We made curds and whey by pouring vinegar into warm, full cream milk and then mixing them vigorously together. Meanwhile, the other group watched iced coffee and orange juice being packaged in the production factory. After swapping, both classes came back together and we each got the opportunity to milk ‘Jersey’, a real cow. Some parent helpers even had a go! Then everyone said goodbye to Farmer Damien, got given a yoghurt pouch and then hopped on the bus and headed back to school. Special thanks to the kind parent helpers, including both of our Mums.

 Matthew Mignacca and Oliver Wever (4B)

Scitech is Super!

I enjoyed the free time in the discovery zone at Scitech and trying out all of the exhibits and seeing what they do.

Lana O’Gorman (5B)

I enjoyed learning new things at the CSIRO Lab and discovering new things about energy, magnetism and light.

Ella Matthews (5B)

I enjoyed it when lots of people got together to make it rain with paper cups in the ‘Blow Your Mind’ section.

Josh Tyson (5B)

Scitech was an absolute hit! We all loved it! It was an educational experience that really got us

thinking about all sorts of things. Lots of us had never been to Scitech before and the ones that

had been before still had a great surprise because so much of Scitech had changed. We ventured into a new lab called ‘CSIRO’ then saw a brilliant show called ‘Ignite your Curiosity’. It was filled with loud bangs and applauses from the intrigued crowd!

We moved on to another activity call ‘Map your World’, where we worked in groups to find out

where all these unique symbols go on the map. After lunch we excitedly scrambled into the

Planetarium where we learnt about the theory of a mysterious 9th planet. Then to finish off our

day we had some free time at Scitech to do whatever we liked until 2:30pm.

George Griffiths (5G)

Semester 2 Reports

As you are aware the College is now using ‘SEQTA’ as a learning platform and parents can interact with this product via a website known as ‘SEQTA Engage’. When parents log in to this website you are able view your children’s academic reports which are generated as PDF files.

To access SEQTA Engage please use the following link as the URL in your internet browser.

https://parent.johnxxiii.edu.au

Once you have logged in, the reports can be accessed under the ‘Assessment’ tab.

If you have any difficulties accessing your child’s report at the end of the term, please send any enquiries to ithelpdesk@johnxxiii.edu.au

Reports will be ready from 3.00pm on Friday 7 December.

Dates to Remember

Monday 3 December                    Pre-Kindy 2019 ‘Meet & Greet’

Tuesday 4 December                    Yr 6 Farewell Mass 9:00am & Morning Tea

                                                                   Yr 6 ‘Big Day In’                

Thursday 6 December                 Yr 6 ‘Big Day Out’

                                                                   Final day for Kindy

Friday 7 December                       PP – Yr 9 Mass 9:00am

                                                                 Term 4 ends