Pupil Free Day - Friday 18 June

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

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

‘Reach Out With Love' is our Christian service learning project encouraging our students to see the needs of others and act in the service of others. This year we are collecting winter items to be distributed by our local St. Vincent de Paul branch. Items we are collecting are:

• Blankets
• Winter Pyjamas
• Socks
• Beanies

These items, in new condition, can be brought in to your child’s class and placed in the container provided until 1st July.’ Thank you for your support of those in need in the community.

Mrs Megan Woodall

Reach Out With Love Co Ordinator

Semester 1 Reports will be uploaded to SEQTA Engage in Week 11 on Wednesday 30th June @ 3:30pm. This is for Pre-Primary to Year 6 families only.

A reminder that when accessing your child's reports on SEQTA Engage, you will have 2 reporting documents to read.

1. Formal academic report (PP-Year 6)

2. An Elaborations Document (Year 1-6 only) - These elaborations break down the Religious Education, English and Mathematics learning areas into a range of main outcomes under each of the different subject strands, and your child's progress against these outcomes is reported through a tick-box, indicating their level of achievement. Both documents will be uploaded to SEQTA Engage.

The picture with this Newsletter item shows that when you log in to SEQTA Engage, there are two documents to access Semester 1 Reports:

2021Semester 1 and

2021 Semester 1 Elaborations

It is important that you please check your login for SEQTA Engage as early as possible so that you will be able to access your child's report at the end of this term. To do this go to the following site: https://padbury.coneqt-p.cathednet.wa.edu.au/ and use your current username and password credentials.

If you have remembered your username but have forgotten your password, please click on the “Forgot your password” link and an immediate email will be sent to you. The email will expire within one hour, so please action this immediately. If you have forgotten both of these, please contact it@padcath.wa.edu.au and we can remind you of your username.

Each Newsletter we will share some Curriculum updates with you to keep you up-to-date with what is happening curriculum-wise in our amazing school!

LITERACY BLOCKS

Since 2019 PCPS staff have been working on developing our Literacy blocks to ensure they are consistent throughout the whole school and that our teaching and learning programs align with best-practice and current theory in the area of Literacy teaching. We have done a huge amount of work in this area, with Staff Meetings, Professional Development days and external training dedicated to ensuring we are offering the best possible Literacy program to our students at PCPS.

You will notice we have uninterrupted dedicated Literacy blocks throughout the whole school:

Junior classes in the Morning block and Middle/Upper classes in the middle block. Each daily Literacy block contains a spelling, reading and writing session. These sessions are highly differentiated to ensure students of all ability levels are being catered for in each classroom.

We also have Mrs Holness and Mrs Tardrew as our Key Literacy Teachers. Both of these staff members are outstanding Literacy teachers and they are helping to lead the way with staff in this area.

It was very encouraging on a recent CEWA Literacy PD that Mrs Tardrew and I attended, that the CEWA Literacy consultants praised the Literacy work that has been achieved at PCPS since 2019 and recognised what we are doing throughout the school as well researched and 'best practice'. Our ongoing professional development in this area ensures PCPS remains a progressive and outstanding school, particularly in the crucial area of Literacy.

Unstructured play and play dates are so important for your children. I am not meaning organised sports or activities that maybe they do with a friend. I am talking about good old-fashioned play where they create and imagine and dream. Sometimes on their own and sometimes with a friend. This is so vital for our children on so many levels but unfortunately is something that so many kids are missing out on.

More and more often kids are detailing their overly organised lives outside of school and so often I am having kids tell me they have never been on a play date or had someone over to play. This means kids are missing out on opportunities to build friendships, learn about relationships, establish connections within their community and to just be a kid that gets to play creatively.

Please support your child’s friendships by ensuring they have regular playdates with their friends and please resist the temptation to organise these plays with structured activities. Let them experiment and learn together. This is one easy and guaranteed way you can support your child’s emotional and social development.

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

NAIDOC Week - Heal Country, Heal Our Nation

The City of Joondalup is celebrating NAIDOC Week with some free events for children.

NAIDOC Week from Sunday 4–Sunday 11 July is an annual national celebration of the history, culture and achievements of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Join the City in celebrating and commemorating the culture of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people at one of the many NAIDOC events across the month of July, including theatre performance Bilya Kaatijin, presented by Yirra Yakkin Theatre Company.

Bilya Kaatijin (which means “Fresh Water Knowledge” in Noongar) is the fourth and final story in Yirra Yaakin’s Kaatijin series. Connecting stories from Noongar land (south-west Western Australia) to Wonguktha land (the northern Goldfields), Aotearoa (New Zealand) and the Kikuyu people of Kenya, Bilya Kaatijin teaches us about the importance of water to First Nations people around the world.

Journeying through global dreaming stories, the show teaches its audience about the importance of accepting others, the power of empathy and the impact of climate change to the land and the Noongar seasons.

Bilya Kaatijin

Saturday 3 July 2021

Session One 10.00am – 10.45am

Session Two 12.00noon – 12.45pm

Redmond Theatre

Prendiville Performing Arts Centre

Free, ticketed event

To register for tickets , visit Joondalup.wa.gov.au