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

Book this date in your diary now - Carols by Candlelight on Thursday 9 December 6-8pm. Padbury Catholic Primary School and Whitford Catholic Primary School will be holding Carols by Candlelight in conjunction with Our Lady of the Missions Parish on the oval right near the church. All children from PCPS are invited to attend with their families and enjoy carol singing and a picnic.

All Kindy to Year Two children will be involved in performances on the night as well as our School Choirs.

Sausage Sizzles and food vans will be available. Further details coming soon.

Children will move up a year level for the morning and spend some time with year level teachers. The Pre-primary classes will have additional parts to their transition programme to ensure that the children have been well prepared for the move to the ‘big part of the school’.

Mrs Fisher, our social worker, will also be on hand to assist, not only at the beginning of the year but also during the year, with transitioning.

The following dates and times are for the Parent Meetings and Student Orientation sessions to be held in the next few weeks:

Pre-Kindy 2022 Parent Meeting and Orientation

30 November at 9.30am in the Pre-Kindy classroom

Kindergarten 2022 Parent Meeting

16 November 1.30pm in the school hall

Kindergarten 2022 Orientation

Kindy Wallaby 18 November 1.30pm

Kindy Gecko 19 November 1.30pm

Our Pre-Kindy (Three-Year-Old) 2022 programme on Tuesdays and Thursday is full!

We are considering running another day on Wednesdays. Please contact Mrs Ellen at the office ASAP if you are interested in enrolling your 3yr old. Information can be found on our website - https://www.padcath.wa.edu.au/pre-kindy and fee information can be located at https://www.padcath.wa.edu.au/fees

There are very limited vacancies for other year levels for 2022. If you know of anyone looking for a position, please recommend our beautiful school.

The Padbury Catholic Primary School P&F (Parents and Friends) Facebook Page is a celebration of all things Padbury, with the intent to build upon our strong community spirit. The page is also a great way to share information with our community about events, fundraisers, sporting and academic achievements. Please note that Padbury Catholic Primary School Class Pages are set up in the same spirit and also follow the Code of Conduct as below.

Code of Conduct

Comments

We ask that any comments made, are done within the spirit of our school motto “Love One Another”. Any negative comments will be deleted at the discretion of Admin. No photos are to be included in comments. This is to ensure that those children who are not permitted to have their photo displayed are protected.

Raising Issues
The Padbury Catholic Primary School pages are not a forum for issues to be raised regarding staff, students or parents/families of students. This is best done directly with the school as per our school policy. We will not support interactions that incite or fuel negative sentiments.

Not Including Names
We ask that you do not use the names of our staff, students or family of students unless these are already publicised in the original post.

Advertising

The Padbury Catholic Primary School pages are not to be used for the advertising or promotion of individual and family businesses, services or products.

Underage Facebook Users
Padbury Catholic Primary School does not endorse children under the 13 year old threshold imposed by Facebook creating their own Facebook account. We all need to be good social media role models for our children. The Padbury Catholic Primary School Facebook pages operate under the Commonwealth Telecommunications Act and Facebooks Terms.

Have a lovely weekend with your families.

Mrs Margaret Williamson

Principal

Last week, on Monday and Tuesday, the Year 5 and 6 Extension students went to Scitech and represented Padbury Catholic at the Scitech Brainstorm Challenge Day. We learnt about the engineering design process and were given a challenge to solve. Our challenge was to design and make a Perth attraction, aimed at a certain group of people. We competed against other schools and got to see what they created. Once we finished building, we had to vote for our favourite attraction. We were also able to spend some time exploring Scitech and we watched a light show.

By Jasmine, Lily and Tane

All classes have been creating beautiful, interesting and colourful masterpieces this semester. These prices will be sent home in the coming weeks.

If you have art and craft materials you no longer need, we might be able to use them. A donation box will be left outside The Studio near the drink fountains and boys bathroom.

Items we love: scrapbooking paper, card board tubes (not toilet rolls), plastic or foam trays, wool, fabric scraps, old curtains, shoe boxes, gift boxes, thick packing cardboard, bubble wrap or plastic table cloths. These just a few ideas. Please do not buy items, we just want to reuse or use items you have no use for.

Mrs Tamara Bastow

At Padbury CPS we teach the children Protective Behaviours through the evidence based ‘Keeping Safe Child Protection Curriculum’ (KSCPC) which assists children to recognise unsafe situations, respond to unsafe situations and tell a trusted adult if they feel unsafe. The trusted adults in children’s lives might include parents, teachers, neighbours and emergency helpers such as Police and Counsellors from the Kids Help Line.

Protective Behaviours education through the Keeping Safe Curriculum is about providing children with information and skills that can help prevent abuse, without making children frightened of their world and also includes topics such as:

• Feelings
• Body signals/warning signs
• Networks (trusted adults)/Persistence
• Safe and Unsafe Secrets
• Correct anatomical names for body parts
• Rules about touch
• Personal space and consent
• Assertive skills – the right to say no
• Problem solving strategies
• Responding to emergency situations
• Online safety

KSCPC is integrated into the Health Curriculum and taught in every year group from Kindy to Year 6. Classroom teachers also integrate the KSCPC topics into other curriculum areas. Every staff member at Padbury Catholic finds teachable moments to reinforce key safety messages such as “We all have the right to be safe” and “We can help ourselves be safe by talking to people we trust”.

There are many useful story books that can assist you in having safety discussions at home. WA Child Safety Services has an online bookstore Shop - WA Child Safety Services Protective Behaviours Books (wacss.com.au) or request to borrow from your local library. Some suggested titles include:

• Everyone’s Got a Bottom
• My Body Belongs to Me
• My Body What I Say Goes
• My Body Your Body
• My Underpants Rule
• No Means No
• Only For Me

If you want to follow up the recent situation with some targeted discussions about strangers – instead of sharing the ‘stranger danger message’ try these…

1. Most strangers are good people
2. However if you are ever approached by a stranger check with a trusted adult that you know before doing anything with a stranger
3. If you are going somewhere with a stranger, stay in public (eg approaching the security guard when lost at the shops)
4. If you need to ask a stranger for help because the trusted adults on your network are not available, try and find someone wearing a uniform or a Mum with children to ask for help. (Jasmine’s Butterflies reinforces this message when she asks the zoo keeper for help).
5. If a stranger invites you into their house or car always so no and tell a trusted adult or someone wearing a uniform as soon as you can.
6. If you every feel unsafe, like a stranger is following you or a strange car approaches you, find a trusted adult from your network or someone wearing a uniform to tell.

If you have any further questions please contact your child’s classroom teacher or me, Ali Fisher (Social Worker).

Mrs Ali Fisher

Social Worker

Tuesdays....8:15am 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.

Mrs Cusak

Music Teacher

We warmly invite all families to celebrate a special family mass at Our Lady of the Mission on Sunday, November 14 at 11.00am. At this mass the families from PCPS will be participating in all parts of the Mass along with the parish community.

There are several opportunities for students to be involved in the Mass, particularly with Readings, Prayers of the Faithful and the lighting of candles.

It would be lovely to see volunteers from across the year groups if possible.

Please click on the link below to register your interest https://tinyurl.com/PCPS21

If you or your child would like to play guitar at the Mass, please email allenmk@iinet.net.au ASAP to register your interest.

There will be a sausage sizzle after the Mass in the parish hall, with sausages and icy poles provided for all families. We would love some volunteers to help with this as well, so please add your name to the above link if you are able!

Please mark Sunday, November 14, 11am on your calendar, and we hope to see as many PCPS families as possible celebrating this special Mass.

Emma Marpole, Nat Bullen, Liz de Haas and Kate Allen

PCPS Parish Family Mass co-ordinators