MISSION

Padbury Catholic Primary School is an education community committed to following in the footsteps of Jesus, living our motto ‘Love One Another’ (John 13:34)

VISION

Our Vision is to educate the whole child, Inspiring Hearts and Minds, to become faith-filled, creative, life-long learners through meaningful and innovative experiences.

VALUES

Our Vision comes to life through our core values which are inspired by the Gospels and our Mercy charism: Compassion; Service; Mercy; Justice; Dignity; Hospitality; Stewardship; Excellence

Our Pirate Cove Playground has been completed and the opening was on Monday where we had a whole school pirate dress up day, along with gold chocolate coins for all the children (supplied by the P&F). The children are loving the sunken pirate ship!

I would like to thank our wonderful Music teacher, Mrs Cusack, who has coordinated our participants in this year’s Catholic Performing Arts Festival and One Big Voice. It is a big task and there are many hours spent behind the scenes planning and practising with the students. Special thankyou to all of our fabulous staff too who have assisted Mrs Cusack throughout the festival period, it is very much appreciated.

Big thankyou to Ms Remigio for assisting the children with their preparations for the TOM competition, providing great learning opportunities for our children.

The Edu dance concerts have commenced! What an brilliant performance by our children on Tuesday. We look forward to concert number 2 next Thursday. Come and see the children enjoying expressing themselves and unleashing their creativity through the medium of dance. Big thanks to Mrs Tardrew for co ordinating Edudance this year.

Last week was busy with the Athletics Carnival. The children had an energetic day!

I would like to thank Mr Hignett for all his great work in organising the carnival Thank you to those parents who were able to help out with jumps and throws and also on the Friday the carnival, it was very much appreciated. Congratulations to John Paul faction on winning the shield this year and to Mackillop faction for winning the Mercy Shield for great sportsmanship, fantastic cheering and well organised tents.

I would like to say a thank you to all the parents who have written some lovely, heart warning emails and notes to me throughout the term or spoken to me personally. Your words of support on the great programmes we have at PCPS, your appreciation and praise of the staff and the Leadership Team and your expressed gratitude for the wonderful pastoral care for your children, is very much appreciated. I really enjoy receiving these emails and notes, thank you for taking the time to let us know how you feel as it means a lot to the Leadership Team and our hard working staff. Our school motto of ‘Love One Another’ continues to shine!

This will be the last newsletter for the term so I wish you all a wonderful holiday, enjoying this beautiful spring weather with your families and friends.

Mrs Margaret Williamson

Principal

It was great to return to a normal sports carnival this year and have our parent community there in full support. We had amazing luck with the weather again this year with beautiful Spring sunshine on display for all three days of our sports carnival. Monday and Wednesday saw some amazing individual efforts in the field events of shot-put, javelin, long jump and triple jump. We also witnessed some great races in the middle-distance events.

Congratulations to John Paul Faction who won the annual sports carnival again making it 7 wins in a row. What a sensational effort by the students in gold faction. They led from start to finish but only just managed to hold on as the other factions came home strongly in the relay events.

Thanks to all our parents who helped run the jumps and throws activities earlier in the week. I really appreciate all the time you gave up, so the carnivals ran smoothly.

The final scores were very close.

1st John Paul (Gold) 1766 points

2nd Padbury (Green) 1719 points

3rd Mercy (Blue) 1696 points

4th MacKillop (Red) 1630 points

The individual awards are listed below:

YEAR LEVEL CHAMPION RUNNER - UP

6 BOYS Champion - Eamon Stott

6 BOYS Runner Up - David Young

6 GIRLS Champion - Jasmine Giles

6 GIRLS Runner Up - Elizabeth Young

5 BOYS Champion - Kuku Chibiliti

5 BOYS Runner Up - Jack Pearce

5 GIRLS Champion - Charlotte Willey

5 GIRLS Champion - Olivia Zencich

4 BOYS Champion - Eli Staltari

4 BOYS Runner Up - Braxten James

4 GIRLS Champion - Katie Giles

4 GIRLS Runner Up - Ava Walker

Thanks to Mr von Bergheim, Christoff and all our teachers who arrived early to help setup and pack up the equipment. Thanks to Miss Vester for assisting with coaching the students again this year.

The Interschool athletics activities will take place next week at St Marks and the WA Athletics stadium. We have a team of 50 students participating on both days. We wish them good luck for these exciting days next week.

Mr Hignett

Physical Education.

Tuesdays....8:15 in the hall...Students from Years 3, 4, 5 and 6 are all welcome to come and sing. Please note there will be no choir during the last week of term.

Your school photo day is coming! Approximately two weeks prior to the photo day every student will receive a personalised order envelope to bring home from Kapture Photography. The recommended method of ordering your photos is online through Kapture’s website as your payment is secure and can be easily verified at any time. If you pay online, there is no need to return the order envelope to school.

KEEP YOUR ORDER ENVELOPE SECURE!

The unique codes contained on the envelope will be issued only once.

Alternatively you can pay by cash and return the provided envelope to the school on the photography day. Please note the photographers cannot provide change.

Order EARLY for discount photo day prices

Order your photos within 10 calendar days of photo day to receive discount photo day prices. Late orders are handled separately to the school delivery and incur a $20 custom service charge.

Other information

Late cash payment envelopes cannot be accepted by the school office or by Kapture.

Your school will notify you in a few weeks when team and special group photos are available to view and purchase on the Kapture website. Please note; class, individual and sibling portraits are not available to view online prior to purchase.

Kapture offer a money back guarantee for any parent who is not fully satisfied with their photo package. Should you have any queries before or after photo day, please check the FAQ’s on the Kapture website.

All students will be photographed individually on photo day for school administration records AS WELL as included in their class group presentation available for purchase to all families. Should there be any reason why your child should NOT be included in the photo shoot –please contact the school office.