Please check the community calendar for upcoming and future dates as the calendar is regularly updated.

https://www.padcath.wa.edu.au/community-calendar

Due to the recent announcement of a Perth lockdown from Premier Mark McGowan, purchasing of tickets for the Performing Arts Festival will be kept on hold and re-open on Friday 9 July, from 8am. This decision will be pending on any further announcements from the Premier and directives received from Catholic Education WA which may affect seating capacity restrictions at venues.

Please check the website www.catholicarts.wa.edu.au

Mrs Sylvia Grigoroff-Cusack

Music Teacher

Research from around the world supports the view that outdoor play is fundamental to childhood and helps children develop to their full potential. Research shows the importance of nature play (free-play outdoors) to children's cognitive and emotional development, capacity to learn and behaviour.

Griffin Longley, CEO of Nature Play WA, states "We are in the middle of the single biggest change in childhood in human history and it has never been more important to understand the impact that physical, unstructured, outdoor play has on the way our kids develop, relate to the world around them and learn".

Nature play spaces are recognised as:

· allowing for overall physical development, with research showing that active children perform better at school

· providing children with opportunities to develop self-regulation and executive function – a child’s ability to make decisions, resolve conflict, create and execute ideas

· helping children to learn to recognise, assess and negotiate risk and build confidence and competence

· encouraging imaginative play which helps build curiosity and creativity

· reducing children’s stress and inattention through a connectedness with nature

Our playground redevelopment at PCPS will enable our children to enjoy the many benefits of nature play in a state-of-the-art natural playground environment created by an innovative designer. There will be opportunities for children to play, climb, swing, create, imagine, problem solve and have loads of fun. Our playgrounds will include timber logs, timber forts, sand kitchens, balance courses, natural balance logs and steppers, swing logs, stilts, platforms, climbing walls, timber bridges, water play, art studio, staged decks, nets and cubby spaces just to name a few.

I have given a few hints of what is to come however there is going to be one playground area, in particular, that is going to be bespoke and an absolute standout in our playground redevelopment. Keep a look out in the playground mid-July when works commence!

Mrs Margaret Williamson

Principal

It is well documented that creativity developed though nature and unstructured play early in life, can contribute to an openness to life and can be linked to positive self-esteem.

Many studies also demonstrate how creating art builds positive emotions and reduces anxiety. It is with this in mind, that we have embarked on some exciting projects at Padbury Catholic Primary.

Over the last twelve months, our Early Childhood staff has been focused on developing engaging opportunities for our students through creative play spaces and learning experiences. Early literacy and numeracy skills are being taught through a variety of resources, including the use of nature and art in the outdoor spaces, as well as bringing nature indoors.

During the July holidays work on a beautiful mural will begin outside our Early Childhood classrooms. Mikaela Miller is a young Western Australian artist who will be running some art workshops with our Pre-Primary children to create a unique interpretation of our beautiful school, people, stories and local flora.

The children will be working with images of native flora and will explore how our native flowers are so important to our natural environment. These workshops will directly link to developing a love of our natural environment, whilst enjoying being a part of this creative art project.

We are so looking forward to the development of this creative open space that will be the gateway to our Early Childhood classes and an inviting space for families to meet and greet each other.

Mrs Loretta Hutcheson

Assistant Principal

Children will best develop their ability to recognise and name emotions through lots of practice. It’s easier for children to practise through play, when they’re relaxed, or before their emotions get too intense.

Here are some ways you can help your child practise recognising and naming emotions:

• Talk about the emotions that characters in books, TV shows or movies might be experiencing. For example, ‘Look at Bluey’s face. She looks sad’.
• Read books about emotions with your child. To start with, you could try The way I feel by Janan Cain, All about feelings from Usborne, or F is for feelings by Goldie Millar and Lisa A. Berger.
• Show your child how you recognise your emotions and help them to recognise theirs. For example, ‘When I broke that glass, I yelled really loudly. Does that happen to you when you make a mistake and feel angry?’
• Help your child work out how their body feels when they’re experiencing an emotion. For example, ‘You look nervous. Have you got butterflies in your tummy?’
• Give your child opportunities to explore emotions through play. Play ideas to develop preschooler emotions and play ideas to develop school-age emotions include messy play, drawing or painting, puppet play, dancing and music play.
• Do an emotions activity with your child. You choose an emotion like ‘excited’ and act it out with your child. You can turn this activity into a simple guessing game.

You can also start helping your child learn simple strategies to manage their emotions. For example:

• Teach your child ways to calm down from strong emotions like counting to 10 or taking five deep breaths.
• Suggest ways to react to strong emotions – for example, clap your hands when you’re excited, ask for a hug when you’re sad, or squeeze your cushion really hard when you’re angry.

It can be hard for your child to use strategies like these when they’re very upset. They might shout, hit things or behave in other inappropriate ways instead. So you might need to help your child calm down. When they’re calm, you can help them understand that strong emotions are OK, but bad behaviour isn’t.

Mrs Ali Fisher

Social Worker

Saturday 5th June

Feast Day: St Boniface

Sunday 6th June

Feast Day: The Most Holy Body & Blood of Christ

Mass Times

All Masses are held in the Church

Saturday - 8:30am; 6:30pm

Sunday - 8:00am; 9:30am; 11:00am; 5:45pm

Monday to Friday - 7:00am; 9:00am

24:7 Youth Group

For all youth in Years 6 to 12

1st and 3rd Friday @ Parish Hall, 7pm

Call Luke 0401822932 for more information.

Rev Fr Cyprian M Shikokoti - PP

Our Lady of the Mission, Parish Website : www.olm.myparish.net.au