Veritas Term 3 Week 10

Important Dates

10 October Term 4 Commences

12 October Beginning of Term Mass (Year 1)

21-22 October MAD Camp

23 October Reconcilia'on Parent Mee'ng 7pm

28 - 29 October Reconcilia'on Commitment Mass

We acknowledge the tradi'onal Owners of the lands on which we live, learn and work. We acknowledge the con'nued deep spiritual connec'on and rela'onship of Aboriginal peoples to this country and commit to the ongoing journey of Reconcilia'on.

From the Principal

We thank you Lord, for this term. For our challenges, our successes, and the mistakes from which we have learnt.

Be with us as we spend our =me with family and friends. Keep us safe in our ac=vi=es; give us good rest and good fun. Bring us back refreshed and ready for a new term. We thank you for our classmates, teachers, parents and a community that cares for us.

Amen

Welcome to our Week 10 newsle]er and the end of a very busy Term 3.

I would like to thank our wonderful staff for all of their hard work during another busy term. Their commitment to each and every student and their enthusiasm around the school is appreciated. Enjoy the school holidays!

Congratula'ons in advance to Mr John Hayden on his marriage to Heather on Saturday. We wish John and Heather all the best and a life'me of happiness.

Sadly, we farewell Ms Angie Spadaccini at the end of this term. We wish Angie all the best as she embarks on a new career change.

Well done to Miss Witkowski and all of the staff and parents who helped ensure our AthleXcs Carnival was such a success yesterday. Congratula'ons to all of our students for their par'cipa'on, teamwork and for trying their best.

We have exci'ng news to share with our parent community. Our Uniform Shop will s'll be operated by One World, but will now be on school grounds adjacent to the Pre-Kindy Classroom commencing Week 1 of Term 4. Access will be via the Kindy/Pre-Primary Carpark. The Uniform Shop will be open Tuesday’s 1.00pm - 4.00pm and Friday’s 8.30am - 11.30am

In 2024 we are celebra'ng 70 years as a school. We are looking for volunteers to help form a parent group to help organise some of our celebra'ons. If you are interested, please contact our school office.

Well done to all of our students for their par'cipa'on in the Learning Journey’s last week. Learning Journey’s are a fantas'c way for your children to explain what they have been doing in class over the term. It was lovely seeing how proud they were to show you their work.

Thank you to everyone who has supported our recent P&F events over the last few weeks. It has been a very busy calendar for our P&F Execu've and I would like to acknowledge all of their hard work.

Thank you Ladies!

Term 4 begins on Tuesday 10 October for students.

Enjoy the holidays

Mel Allen Principal

Ms Allen’s Students of the Week

Zoey Barker

Ms Allen’s Students of the Week

Dario Giorgi, Violet Legge], Jack Hannah

Well done to Violet, Jack and Dario for their awesome informa'on reports on Kangaroos. They found some amazing facts which they used in their wri'ng.

Judd Haghighi, Jordan Fuda

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 hat

Sports Uniform

Navy blue sport shorts (with school logo)

White polo shirt (with school logo) School Fac'on polo (fac'on name and logo)

White joggers

White Infant Jesus School socks

Infant Jesus School hat

Navy/white track jacket and track pant (with school logo)

Hair

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 hat

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

For health reasons all shoulder length hair needs to be 'ed back securely. Please note: This includes mullets. The school colours of blue and white should be used when using ribbon, or other hair 'es. Children’s haircuts need to be conserva've and appropriate to uniform expecta'ons.

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 distrac'on 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 rela'onships to develop and deepen, crea'vity to evolve, and physical ac'vity to take place”.

Step 2: Get CreaXve With Holiday AcXviXes

A few sugges'ons 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 Na'onal 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 ice-cream, 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-Up-S'cks, Scrabble, board games or card games will wake up parts of their brain that ofen don’t get used during the normal daily rou'ne.

• Have a “Crafernoon” – an afernoon of craf. Pull out all the craf and art supplies, look up a few crea've 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 'dy all the 'me.” 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 ac'vi'es including listening to stories, crea'ng short films and dancing!

• Visit the Museum or Art Gallery– to see and join in the free holiday ac'vi'es including ‘visi'ng Egypt’, seeing ‘remarkable rep'les’ 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

We are Called

Our Carmelite Heritage

At Infant Jesus School we are fortunate to be connected to the Carmelites who have had charge of Infant Jesus Parish since 1956.

St Teresa of Avila founded a new Carmelite convent in 1562 for the women and 1568 with St John of the Cross, her friend for the men.

St Therese of the Infant Jesus is another famous Carmelite who was born in Alencon, France in 1873 and who died in Lisieux in 1897.

St Teresa of Avila - Feast Day 15 October St Teresa was born in Avila on March 28, 1515. Avila is a beau'ful city with great stone walls all around it. St Teresa was brought up in a Chris'an home where she learned to pray. She wanted to be a martyr to see "forever". So, she ran away with her brother Rodrigo, but they were discovered by one of her uncles outside town who brought them home.

St Teresa’s mother died when she was 13. She was very sad and asked the Virgin Mary to take her place. St Teresa felt her protec'on all her life. She always had lots of friends but afer her mum’s death she made poor choices, so her dad sent her to a boarding school in a nearby convent of Augus'nian nuns. The good friendships she found there with the sisters and friends helped her greatly to walk on the path of truth and to love God.

At the age of 20 St Teresa decided to follow God's call and entered the Carmelite convent. There she experienced the drama of being caught between between the love of God and the love of the world. She tried my best to pray and be a good nun but it was not easy for her.

When St Teresa was 39 her life was turned around when she felt Jesus heal her and lif her up. Then, by God’s love, St Teresa lived her new life with energy and courage. With a group of young friends they decided to start anew to pray and work for the healing and renewal of the church afer the divisions from the Reforma'on. They wanted to be a community of friends who were good friends of Christ, free from any prejudice where women could be their best selves. They began their first small, simple community dedicated to St Joseph in Avila in August 1562.

Many girls wanted to join their convent and St Teresa was asked to start as many new convents as possible. So, she spent a lot of 'me on the road and dealing with business

ma]ers. St Teresa also began a community of dedicated young Carmelite priests to give spiritual help to the sisters and to become missionaries, including her friend the famous poet, mys'c and Saint John of the Cross.

St Teresa started wri'ng books to guide people in their faith and prayer. Many of these are s'll read 400 years afer her death. St Teresa’s bookmark is very famous: “Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing. God never changes. Pa'ence obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing. Only God is enough”. People s'll sing this today.

On the way home to Avila from Burgos, St Teresa got very sick and died on October 4, 1582, in Alba de Tormes. Afer her death she was made a saint in 1622 and in 1970 the first woman to be a Doctor of the Church, (an official teacher of the Church).

St Therese of the Infant Jesus -Feast Day 1 October Therese Mar'n became a Carmelite nun in Lisieux when she was only 15 in 1888. St Therese always wanted to be a saint but there was nothing grand that she could do for God. She entrusted her life to God trus'ng in his merciful love which gave her confidence and hope. So, St Therese lived an ordinary way of life - her own li]le way of following Jesus where she was. Her way was a simple one based on love with no showing off. St Therese’s dad called her ‘a li]le flower’. She did not want to a]ract a]en'on - she simply did the li]le things she could do where she was: “My voca'on is love”. St Therese prayed for everyone from missionaries to those in jail.

While St Therese was s'll young she developed tuberculosis and became very weak. Her health declined but she never complained. St Therese always smiled and encouraged others. The last words she said were: “My God, I love you”. St Therese was 24 when she died on 30 September 1897.

St Therese had promised that she would spend her heaven doing good on earth. Afer her death there were many miracles associated with a shower of roses from heaven. Infant Jesus School uniform has a string of ‘li]le flowers’. Many people came to know St Therese through a li]le book she wrote about her life called The Story of a Soul. Soon St Therese was canonised and like St Teresa and St John of the Cross was recognised as a Doctor of the Church in 1997.

As we commence a new term we look forward to parents joining us for the EucharisXc CelebraXon at 9.00am on Thursday 12 October at Infant Jesus Church.

Year Three

A Trip to New Zealand

Year 3 students have been reading and researching all about New Zealand. During our research we have learnt all about Korowai Cloaks and created a collabora've art piece to represent the cloaks worn.

During our research students were fascinated to learn all about Hangi’s (tradi'onal Māori earth oven used for cooking) and other tasty dishes that New Zealanders enjoy. Inspired by the Great Pavlova Debate, students had a chance to assemble their own meringue treats before devouring them.

R U OK? Day

Thursday of Week 8 was R U OK? Day.

R U OK? Day is a na'onal day of ac'on dedicated to reminding everyone that every day is the day to ask, 'Are you okay?' and support those struggling with life's ups and downs.

In Year Four we learnt how to be a Listening Legend by following the four steps involved in having an R U OK? conversa'on. These steps are:

1) Ask: You no'ce a friend isn’t quite themselves. Ask them if they’re okay. Try to pick a suitable 'me and place.

2) Listen: Give them the opportunity to speak. Don’t try to fix the problem - just listen!

3) Encourage ac'on: Assist them to find ways to help the situa'on. This could include playing a game or going for a walk.

4) Check in: Make a note to check in with them again at a later stage.

To prac'ce how to start a conversa'on with our friends, we played a game of ‘conversa'on bingo’ as a class.

We enjoyed learning about R U OK? Day and hope to be there for our friends when they need us.

Year Four

Code of Conduct at Infant Jesus School

Purpose

The purpose of the Code of Conduct is to describe minimum standards of conduct in all behaviour and decision making to ensure the safety and well-being of students.

ApplicaXon

The Code applies to staff, students, volunteers, parents and guardians as applicable. The term ‘parents’ includes guardians.

IntroducXon

You acknowledge the inherent vulnerability of the students in your care. You recognise that the safety and well-being of students depends upon your vigilance and diligence and the vigilance and diligence of all adults. The Code does not give you detailed professional advice on specific behaviour. Rather, it describes the minimum requirements expected of you.

The Guidelines are illustra've and not an exhaus've list of the behaviours covered by the Code. If your behaviour varies from the standards described in this Code and Guidelines, you should be prepared to explain and jus'fy your decisions and ac'ons. While mandatory language such as ‘must’, ‘shall’ and ‘will’ is not used throughout the Code, there is a presump'on the conduct described is mandatory and therefore not discre'onary. The Principal expects you to conduct yourself personally and professionally in a way that maintains public trust and confidence in your school and the Church. You have a responsibility to students and their family, other members of the school community and the wider community to provide and support safe and competent educa'on and care of students. You will do your best to support other members of the school community to comply with the Code.

In cases of conflict between parts of the Code, between the Code and other school policies, or in any decision making choices, you give priority to the outcome that will be in the best interests of the safety and well-being of the child.

Breaches

Breaches of the Code must be no'fied to the Principal and it is a breach of the Code not to do so. A breach of the Code may cons'tute a failure to follow a lawful direc'on from the Principal and therefore the Principal will have the discre'on as to what ac'on to take, which may include counselling, professional development or sanc'ons under any agreement between you and the Principal. If you are a parent, volunteer or visitor, the Principal may take such ac'on as is appropriate in your circumstances to maintain the safety and well-being of students. The Principal must no'fy the appropriate authori'es of any breach of the Code that was grooming behaviour: ie. deliberately undertaken with the aim of befriending and establishing an emo'onal connec'on with a student, to lower the student’s inhibi'ons in prepara'on for engaging in sexual ac'vity with the student. Examples include:

• developing rela'onships that could be seen as favouri'sm (for example, the offering of gifs or special treatment for specific students)

• being alone with a student in circumstances where you are unseen or unlikely to be randomly interrupted

• ini'a'ng unnecessary physical contact with students or doing things of a personal nature that a student can do for themselves, such as toile'ng or changing clothes

• engaging in personal disclosures (including personal contact details), or exchanges containing sexual content with or in the presence of a student

• organising contact with a student or their family outside of school without the Principal’s knowledge and/or consent (e.g. tutoring, sport coaching).

• having any non-curriculum related online contact with a student (including via digital media) or their family

• using any personal digital media account to contact students or their family

• photographing or videoing a student without the consent of the parent

• being in the presence of a student whilst under the influence of alcohol or non-medically prescribed drugs or offering either to a student

The Principal must no'fy the appropriate authori'es of any breach of the Code that was sexual abuse of a child: ie sexual behaviour in circumstances where:

• the student is the subject of bribery, coercion, a threat, exploita'on or violence;

• the student has less power than another person involved in the behaviour; or

• there is a significant disparity in the developmental func'on or maturity of the child and another person involved in the behaviour.

P&F and Community News

P&F News

P & F UP COMING EVENTS

P & F Mee'ng - Tuesday 7th November

ACM Mee'ng - Tuesday 21st November

Friday 24th November - School Disco - Save The Date!

P & F MEETING

The next P & F Mee'ng will take place in Term 4 on Tuesday 7th November. Please remember, if you have any agenda items to raise or fundraising sugges'ons please email them to secretary.ijpaf@gmail.com

POP AND ROCK MUSICAL BINGO

The school community came together last Friday night for our Pop and Rock Musical Bingo evening. A packed out school hall enjoyed music from the 1960's through to the 2020's, with everyone singing and dancing along. It was a wonderful event that raised in excess of $5000 for our school and a huge thanks must go to all the families and businesses who donated items to make the night a success. Thanks must also go to our school staff and admin, who not only came along and rocked the evening, but also helped with many jobs both on the night and behind the scenes. Thank you!

SPORTS

CARNIVAL P & F FOOD STALL

We hope all the students and the community thoroughly enjoyed the sports carnival yesterday. A big thanks to those families who donated food items for our stall and to those parents who gave up some of their 'me during the day to assist with sales for their allocated 'me slot. And also to the parents who offered a spontaneous helping hand throughout the day we thank you!

SCHOOL DISCO

Our school disco has been booked in for Friday 24th November. More informa'on will follow next term. We always require many volunteers on this busy and enjoyable afernoon/evening so if you are able to volunteer to help out for one or more year group sessions, please email Vanessa at president.pafc@gmail.com

We hope all families have a wonderful school holiday break. Please stay safe, enjoy the 'me with your families and we will see you all next term.

FATHER AND SON CAMP 2023 REGISTRATIONS

The camp will be held at Nanga Bush Camp in Dwellingup from Friday, November 3 to Sunday, November 5. The cost is $365 for families with one child and $415 for families with two children. This will cover all food, accommoda'on and ac'vi'es over the weekend.

What you need to do: Email ijfathersoncamp@gmail.com with the following details:

1. Dad's name

2. Child/children's name(s)

3. Dad's mobile number and email address

4. Year level(s)

5. Does the father or son have a birthday while on camp?

6. Does anyone have any allergies?

7. What family would you prefer to bunk with?

(Please Note: Bunking arrangements will be accommodated where possible but there are no guarantees).

We will accept registra'ons on a first-come, first-serve basis and will be in touch within a few days once you have emailed to confirm your registra'on and provide more details in regards to payment informa'on.