From the Principal
Lord Jesus Christ,
Help us appreciate more the need to keep a good balance in our lives. May the holiday be for us a >me of rest and recrea>on to help restore us and recreate us in your image and likeness, as we enjoy more of the love and presence of our families, on whom we ask your blessing. Amen.
Dear Parents and Guardians,
Welcome to our Week 10 newsleOer.
What a busy term we have had. It is great to see so much work happening in the classrooms and a vibrant curriculum being taught to our children. We have also been involved in many events outside of the classroom and the formal curriculum. Our classes have gone on excursions, Performing Arts fesTval (both individuals, choir and ensemble), Incursions, Parent MeeTngs, Sacrament of Eucharist, School Photos, Infant Jesus Day, Father’s Day and Donuts with Dads, Book Week, BYOD Night, Open Classrooms, Cross Country, AthleTcs trials, One Big Voice, RUOK Day and the School Disco to name a few of the many events happening in the term. We would love parents to provide feedback regarding our open classrooms in Week 8. These surveys will close on the last day of this term.
This week, we need to say THANK YOU to our parents. At Infant Jesus School we have such a vibrant and acTve community. It is great to see so many people get involved and help out and support the school where needed. We also are thankful for the fabulous P&F execuOve and their team who work Trelessly behind the scenes to provide opportuniTes for our children and our wider community to conTnue to build and grow our Infant Jesus Spirit. Over the past term, our P&F has been involved in our Father's Day, Infant Jesus Day lunch, and our beloved School Disco. I know their quiet work o_en goes unnoTced, but we appreciate you and thank you for the many hours you all commit to the building of our school community.
On the 19th of October, we will be celebraTng our wonderful school by hosTng a 70th Anniversary Dinner Dance. It will be a cocktail event at $60 per person. See details and the invite below: hOps://www.trybooking.com/events/landing/1273901. Please consider booking a table at this event to celebrate our 70 Years. Several tables have already been booked for this fabulous event.
As Mel menToned, work will commence shortly on the undercover area over the basketball court and is due for compleTon by the end of the year. We will be working with the builders to try to minimise the disrupTons. The undercover will be a fantasTc addiTon to our outdoor space, which can be used in all weather condiTons. We can’t wait to see the progress that happens over the school holidays.
Some important dates are scheduled in the Term 4 calendar which is aOached to this newsleOer. Term Four will definitely be a very busy term!
Enjoy the rest of the week and definitely enjoy the school holidays—we can’t wait to see your children refreshed and in full school summer uniform for the start of Term 4 on Tuesday, 8th October 2024 (Staff commence on Monday, 7 October).
Frank Colangelo AcTng Principal
Assistant Principal’s Corner
Term Four Uniforms
A reminder that in Term Four students need to wear their summer uniform. As listed in the Infant Jesus School Uniform Policy.
Year 1-6 Boys’ Summer Uniform
Short sleeve blue shirt (logo)
Navy blue college shorts
Black lace-up school shoes
Infant Jesus School navy socks
Infant Jesus School school hat
Year 1-6 Girls’ Summer Uniform
Infant Jesus School summer dress or Navy Blue college shorts and Short sleeve blue shirt
Black lace-up school shoes
White school socks
Infant Jesus School school hat
Sports Uniform
Navy blue sport shorts (with school logo)
White polo shirt (with school logo) School FacTon polo (facTon name and logo)
White joggers
White Infant Jesus School socks
Infant Jesus School school hat
Navy/white track jacket and track pant (with school logo)
Unisex Pre-Primary Summer Uniform
Summer Navy blue sport shorts (with school logo)
Light Blue polo shirt (with school logo)
White joggers
White Infant Jesus School socks
Infant Jesus School hat
Hair
For health reasons all shoulder length hair needs to be Ted back securely. Please note: This includes mullets. The school colours of blue and white should be used when using ribbon, or other hair Tes. Children’s haircuts need to be conservaTve and appropriate to uniform expectaTons.
Radical haircuts and colour are not acceptable. (This includes gel/waxed hair, spiked hair and any hair style that would be considered radical).
Jewellery
Children should not wear valuable jewellery to school. Apart from the fact that it can be lost or broken it is a distracTon to themselves and others around them.
For safety reasons the only acceptable earrings are studs. Children who wear studs may wear only one in each ear. Studs must be plain gold or silver.
Makeup
Children should not wear make-up, nail polish, shellac, or acrylic nails with the school uniform.
A Three-Step Recipe to Great School Holidays With Your Kids -
Step 1: Limit The Kids’ Screen Time
“Time off screens allows for more relaTonships to develop and deepen, creaTvity to evolve, and physical acTvity to take place”.
Step 2: Get CreaOve With Holiday AcOviOes
A few suggesTons include
• Go outside for a walk around your local area. Walk the dog while the kids ride their bikes. Explore streets you’ve never been down before. Chat with the kids about their favourite houses, gardens and street names.
• Go ‘camping’ – in the garden, backyard or loungeroom.
• Take the kids for a day walk in a NaTonal Park, on a beach or in the city. Pack a picnic lunch to save money. Create a ‘treasure hunt’ list of things they can look out for on their walk. At the end of the walk share a reward like an icecream, or sit down together to make a video or photo album from the day.
• Have a holiday or ‘Read-a-thon’ day.
• Open the games cupboard and get your kids playing the simple old-fashioned entertainment you used to enjoy yourself as a kid. Games like Kerplunk, Jenga, Pick-UpSTcks, Scrabble, board games or card games will wake up parts of their brain that o_en don’t get used during the normal daily rouTne.
• Have a “Cra_ernoon” – an a_ernoon of cra_. Pull out all the cra_ and art supplies, look up a few creaTve ideas on the internet or at the library, and create something memorable.
• Hold a bake-off. Let the kids loose in the kitchen to cook something. Supply them with ingredients, recipes and ideas. “They’re going to make a mess, deal with it,” says Dr Coulson. “Kids are not meant to be Tdy all the Tme.” At the end of their session, turn up the music and help them clean up.
• Visit the local Library – to borrow books and join in the free holiday acTviTes including listening to stories, creaTng short films and dancing!
• Visit the Museum or Art Gallery– to see and join in the free holiday acTviTes including ‘visiTng Egypt’, seeing ‘remarkable repTles’ and cracking codes.
Step 3: Remember - Boredom is OKAY!
While you can plan ahead to fight the boredom blues, remember that it’s actually okay for your kids to get a bit listless
VacSwim Enrol in school holiday swimming lessons
VacSwim offers fun swimming lessons over the December and January school holidays. These lessons give children across Western Australia the skills to stay safe and confident in the water.
Who can enrol
Children aged 5 to 17 years across swimming stages 1 to 16. For specific stage information, refer to our website.
When enrolments close
Enrolments close on Wednesday 16 October 2024.
How to enrol
It is easy to enrol online.
You can also download an enrolment form to complete, print and mail by the enrolment closing date to: VacSwim, Department of Education, Statewide Services Centre, 33 Giles Avenue, Padbury, WA, 6025
Program locations and times
Available on our website.
Website: education.wa.edu.au/vacswim
Email: vacswim@education.wa.edu.au
Telephone: 9402 6412
Program lessons and times
Safe School Framework
Conduct Statement 12
You allow students to have a voice in their educaOon, safety and well- being.
Guidelines
1. You recognise that while you and all adults have responsibility for the safety and well-being of students, students have opinions and ideas about their educaTon and well-being.
2. You allow age-appropriate opportuniTes and forums for students to reflect on and express their opinions and ideas and you treat those expressions with respect and care
3. You regularly invite students to parTcipate in decision making about their educaTon and wellbeing and offer them construcTve feedback on their ideas and opinions.
4. You encourage students to inform you or the Principal of any concerns they have about their own or other students’ educaTon, safety or well-being. You follow up those concerns and keep students informed of how they are resolved.
Staff Example of Specific Behaviours but not limited to:
• Listen to students and respond to their needs.
• Provide feedback to students.
Parents Example of Specific Behaviours but not limited to:
• Listen to children and respond to their needs.
• Provide feedback to children.
Students Example of Specific Behaviours but not limited to:
• Share views and opinions respecsully.
Volunteers/Visitors Example of Specific Behaviours but not limited to:
• Listen respecsully to the students.
Year Three
It’s All About The Maths…..
Year Three Students have been busy learning all about two and three dimensional shapes, symmetry and transiTons of shapes.
Our symmetry monsters didn’t turn out as scary as we had first anTcipated, as we pracTsed how to measure from the line of symmetry, and rule guidelines to create a mirror image as close as possible to the original.
Students have also been invesTgaTng properTes of various shapes and deciphering crypTc clues to create “What Shape Am I?” puzzles.
One Big Voice
The excitement was palpable as our school choir took the stage at the RAC Arena in Perth for the One Big Voice fesTval. From the moment we arrived, the atmosphere was electric. The students were buzzing with anTcipaTon, eager to perform the songs they had pracTsed for months.
Our choir’s performance was nothing short of spectacular. The students sang their hearts out, delivering each song with passion and precision. Highlights include their rendiTon of “Do the Right Thing,” an original song about making posiTve choices, and “Yellow” by Coldplay, which had the audience swaying along.
Here’s to many more harmonious adventures in the future!
Pre-Primary Health
Slip, Slop, Slap, Seek, Slide
This term we have been learning about how to keep our bodies healthy.
Sid the Seagull helped the Pre-Primary children learn about sun safety.
We must Slip on a shirt, Slop on some sunscreen, Slap on a hat, Seek shade and Slide on some sunglasses.
P&F and Community News
Infant Jesus Day
This year the P&F supplied over 170 pizzas for lunch to the students, staff and parents. Thank you to the parents who collected the pizzas and helped run pizzas to classrooms. Thank you to the volunteers who also helped run the drinks stall. We would like to say a very big thank you to the following businesses for supporTng us and donaTng to the pizza lunch.
Nu-Style Shufers Ross Realty
Pop and Rock Disco
Domino’s Pizza Noranda
What an incredible response we had to the disco! Over 380 children turned up in their best pop and rock outfits to dance the night away. They had so much fun, and it was great to see so many of them enjoying themselves with their friends.
This year we included a sausage sizzle and juice box in the cost of the disco Tcket, and it was very well received. The children were able to collect their hot dog and juice throughout the night and purchase food and glow sTcks from the canteen. A big thank you goes out to Adam, Mark, Dom, Eric, Awlio and Daniel for cooking and making the sausage sizzles.
The night would not have been possible without the many volunteers who helped make it happen. An enormous thank you goes to Melissa Tartaglia and Lara Cameron for taking on the organisaTon, coordinaTon and execuTon of the decoraTons. The hall looked incredible, and the children and parents were blown away by what you had created. Your talents and Tme are very much appreciated, and we couldn’t have done it without you! Thank you also to all the people who volunteered their Tme during the day to help set up the decoraTons.
A big thank you to Nell, Victoria and Marion, who spent majority of the day making sure everything was ready so the night would run smoothly, and to everyone who helped on the night with supervision, the canteen and the clean-up. These events aren’t possible without the support of the community, so thank you very much!
We would also like to thank these businesses for supporTng us and donaTng to the disco.
RusOco Gourmet Grocer
Bovells Bakery Princi the Butcher North Perth
Your support is very much appreciated and valued!
Sports Carnival – Week 1, Wednesday 9th October
We will be running a FacTon Colours Stall in the morning from 8am on the oval. We will have some face paint and coloured hair spray to help get the children into the carnival spirit. It will be $2 for the face paint and $2 for the hair spray, so bring your coins along! We will be needing some parent volunteers to help spray hair and paint faces. If you’re available please send us a message or email president.pafc@gmail.com
Instead of a cake stall at the carnival there will be two food trucks. Steep Hill Coffee and So_ Serve White Cruiser will be there to sell food and drinks throughout the day.
Have a wonderful break and we look forward to Term 4!
BEECHBORO DENTAL THERAPY CENTRE
Please be advised that Beechboro Dental Therapy Centre will be closed during the school holidays from 19th September and will re-open on 7th October.
For dental emergencies during working hours, please contact the following clinics: 24th - 25th September: Caversham Valley DTC (9461 2713) 26th September - 4th October: Aveley DTC (6296 5237)
For a_er-hours emergencies, please contact 1800 098 818
UNIFORM SHOP: The uniform shop will be open on Friday 4th October from 8am - 12pm
Thank you to these businesses for supporting the P&F and our school this term!
Domino’s Pizza Noranda
