Dear Community of St Columba’s School,
Dana and Tyson from URSTRONG are so excited to be facilitating a Day of Friendship online with our students, along with students at other CEWA Schools, on Monday 12 August in partnership with the Wellbeing Team at CEWA!😊 Research shows that relationships are the heart of wellbeing & learning. When we get friendships right in schools, children flourish!
Please note students in Years 1 – 4 will need a small, soft toy to help with role-plays (their favorite “fuzzy friend” from home)
Swimming Lessons
Just a final reminder that enrolments are now open for the October Vacation Swim Program. The link is contained within this edition of the Donegal.
St Columba’s School does not include Swimming Instruction as part of our program and parents are strongly encouraged to enrol their child in either the Department of Education VacSwim Program or another private swim program.
I would like to collect information from our families about their preference for educating their child/ren to swim. Please click the link below to complete a quick survey. The link will be open for one final week. Swimming Survey
Upcoming Events
- Thursday 8 August: Australian Maths Competition.
- Friday 9 August: Year 2 Assembly.
- Saturday 10 August: Community Mass for Confirmation Enrolments (Year 6).
- Monday 12 August: URSTRONG Day of Friendship
Mr Niall Kehoe and I will be absent from the school, attending the CEWA Leaders’ Forum, on Tuesday 13 August. For urgent matters please contact the school to speak to Mrs Leesa Vinciullo, who will be Acting Principal on this day.
Finally my sincere thanks for making Principal Appreciation Day a very special one. I’m appreciative of all your wishes, time, and spoils. I love what I do and the community in which I am blessed to be a part of.
In gratitude,
Gina Burns
Principal
P & F News
NEWS
Mid Year Raffle Success!
Congratulations to the winners! Thank you to our generous sponsors for contributing prizes and our families for buying (so many) tickets — we raised $1240 from our Mid Year School Raffle and couldn’t be happier! This fundraiser was hugely successful and we thank the subcommittee and community for getting involved.
CHECK OUT THE WINNERS: Kids — Olivia Moloney 3W, Owen Humphreys KW, Jack Wilson 5G, Grace Aldworth PPW, Megan Hutton 3W, Michael Congdon 3G
Adults — Anne-Elise PP and Kylie Harbrow (front of house legend)
Shall we start a new annual tradition!?
Bookweek is fast approaching (Wed 21st August) and with that the extra pressure of adding another item to the forever evolving to do list… The P&F would like to initiate a “share/recycle album” to help the community and keep things simple and stress free! Chances are there are a few costumes worn only once gathering dust at the bottom of our kids drawers! Please use this album to share pictures of costumes you may be looking to rehome and/or lend to another. Please get involved if you wish.
TERM 3 FUNDRAISING FOCUS
Father’s Day Breakfast Fundraiser
The Father’s Day Breakfast event is now open for your kids to invite all the awesome dads, grandads and father-figures in our community to. This year, we have a special guest performing (Parent — Stacey-Ann Duff) who we are so grateful to have volunteering her talents and time. Get involved on the day and take part in our family paper plane competition with the chance for Dad to win a $100 Bunnings Voucher — hurry, get to brekky early to start folding! Your digital invitation is attached this newsletter. Breakfast pre-orders can be placed through the invite or by clicking on the link below:
https://www.cognitoforms.com/StColumbasPrimarySchool/PFFathersDayBreakfast2024
We need Volunteers! Calling all Mums, Grandmothers, Aunties and family supports! We invite you to volunteer to help us celebrate the wonderful Dads of the St Columba’s School community at the Father’s Day Breakfast being held on the School basketball court, Friday 30th August. There are a series of specific roles that need to be filled to ensure the smooth running of the event. If a role you were particularly keen on is full, do not be deterred — you are welcome to join in on the day where help is needed. The P&F would like to thank you for volunteering your time and service in celebrating our awesome group of Fathers. Please visit the link to sign up now: https://volunteersignup.org/W4L74
gingerberry Offer
Rob and Jayne Jagger have been a part of the St Columba’s community since 2015 and want to give back. Rob designs baby & children’s feeding products and has been in the industry for 20+ years. His brand gingerberry, affectionately named after his girls Sophie and Lilah with their ginger & strawberry hair, focuses on ergonomics and provides young families with all they need when introducing a sippy cup, starting solids for the first time & teaching their little ones how to hold cutlery correctly. Rob is offering 20% off with part proceeds going to the School. Simply head to the website www.gingerberry.com.au and enter these two discount codes at the checkout (STCOLS20 + FREE) – all orders can either be collected from their home in Bayswater or the school and this offer will be on for the remainder of 2024. We understand you may be past this point or there may be another little bundle on the way, however they make great gifts and this offer can be passed onto friends. See flyer attached to this newsletter.
Entertainment Book Offer
20% of every Membership purchased is donated to supporting our fundraising efforts. Join today and help us make a difference.
Order yours today: https://subscribe.entertainment.com.au/fundraiser/83589g
Containers for Change deposits
Love to contribute to our schools fundraising efforts? Consider the St Columba’s P&F at your next Containers for Change deposit. Simply scan the QR code, download the app and add the member number to your profile. The P&F fund would be so grateful for your contribution to further aid in the students resources and equipment.
EVENTS FOR YOUR DIARY
- 30 August – Father’s Day Breakfast
- 10 Setpember – Faction Athletics Carnival Cake Stall
- 20 September — Whole School Subway Order Lunch Day
- 18 October — School Disco
NEXT P&F MEETING
The next P&F meeting will be held on Tuesday 3 September at 7pm in the Sr Irena Library. We hope to see as many new faces as possible at the next meeting.
Library News
It’s not too late to join your child for the Premier’s Reading Challenge 2024. Challenge closes 6 September. Let’s see if we can be the top school and win a school performance for St Columba’s.
Unlock the magic of reading. There are prizes to be won, fun to be had, and stories to uncover.
Details at:
https://www.premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au/parents-and-families
Make sure you join: ST COLUMBA’S SCHOOL
USED BOOK SALE
Used Books (from the Library) Sale for students and families. Money donated will be used to purchase new and up to date resources for the school library.
On sale outside the library – Before school, recess, lunchtime and after school.
Gold coin donation.
The library is open every morning before school:
All students are welcome from 8:15am
Pre-Kindy and Kindy students must be accompanied by Parent/Carer until 8.45am
The library is a calming and quiet place, making it the perfect spot for students to have a smooth and calming transition in the morning.
Students may also like to return and borrow books before school.
Looking forward to seeing you the library.
2024 CBCA Book Week – Reading is MAGIC
17 – 23 August, 2024
Dress Up Day (Kindy-Year 6) – Wednesday 21 August 2024
Parade at 8.45am in the Greg Martin Pavilion
Please refer to flyer attached to this newsletter with further details
Rita Cuthbert – Library Officer – Library - the original search engine
Pastoral Care
Happy Birthday to:
The following students who will celebrate birthday’s in the coming week:
Harriet Stazzonelli 2G
Tessa Cavalli 3G
Patrick McGlue 3G
Rosie Veale 3W
Olivia Harris 6W
Blake Kenyon 6W
PASTORAL CARE WEEKLY RAFFLE
Tickets are 3 for $1 (maximum of 3 tickets per child).
We are always looking for Volunteers to join the Pastoral Care Team. If you can spare a little time on a Wednesday morning after drop off, you can find us in the Church meeting room just as you enter from the basketball court.
WEEKLY RAFFLE ROSTER
TERM 3
Week 5 – 14 August
Week 6 – 21 August – NO RAFFLE
Week 7 – 28 August
Week 8 – 4 September – NO RAFFLE
| Kindy Green | Week 5 – Gursher Lobana Week 7 – Harrison White |
| Kindy White | Week 5 – Eliyah Kaler Week 7 – Finn Patten |
| PP Green | Week 5 – Declan McGowan Week 7 – Ezra Smart |
| PP White | Week 5 – Eva Woodley Week 7 – Florence Stazzonelli |
| Year 1 Green | Week 5 – Edith Parks Week 7 – Elise Villamar |
| Year 1 White | Week 5 – Ezra Ta Week 7 – Ffion Humphreys |
| Year 2 Green | Week 5 – Lorraine McGowan Week 7 – Heaven White |
| Year 2 White | Week 5 – Bodhi Laffrey Week 7 – Caiden Thompson Mewburn |
| Year 3 Green | Week 5 – Asher Shrivastava Week 7 – Hugo Zachar |
| Year 3 White | Week 5 – Harrison MacPherson Week 7 – Lachlan Stewart |
| Year 4 Green | Week 5 – William Parks Week 7 – Emma North |
| Year 4 White | Week 5 – Connor Campbell Week 7 – Huw Humphreys |
| Year 5 Green | Week 5 – Amelia Yee Week 7 – Theo Smart |
| Year 5 White | Week 5 – Ella MacPherson Week 7 – Alessia Marrapodi |
| Year 6 Green | Week 5 – Francis Le Week 7 – Maya Thompson Mewburn |
| Year 6 White | Week 5 – Max Pierre Week 7 – Sam Villamar |
Award Winners
MERIT AWARDS – Term 3, Week 3
PP Green – Elena Di Giallonardo, Declan McGowan
PP White – Esme Crookes, Clara Pearson
1 Green – Georgia Whelan, Violet Zachar
1 White – Alfred Eden, Holly Magee
2 Green – Aurora Cameron, Lorraine McGowan, Alliah Parker
2 White – Alessia Scagnetti, Caiden Thompson Mewburn
3 Green – Marcus Chong, Madelyn Markowski
3 White – Oaklyn Payne, Riley Wilkey
4 Green – Lucia O’Toole, Aleksander Tuma
4 White – Leo Cameron, Evie Zekas-Crooks
5 Green – Henry Garrett, Sofia Jaramillo Restrepo, Alex Pizzata
5 White – Michael Baldwin, Christian Cullura, Alessia Marrapodi
6 Green – Carys Bennetts, Chloe Smith
6 White – Grace Hartus, Keira Pollitt
Religious Education and Curriculum News
From our Kindergarten Classes :
In Kindy we have been thanking God for the wonderful world that we live in. We have had many lively discussions while sharing photos of places we’ve visited in Western Australia. Then we used water colours to help tell the stories of where we visited.
Thank you, God for our beautiful land.
From our Pre-Primary classes :
During our mathematics lessons in Pre Primary Green, we have been learning about patterning. We know patterns can follow an ABA pattern, ABBA pattern or even an ABC pattern. We made fruit kebabs using our favourite fruits and repeated the pattern on the skewers. We recorded the pattern represented on our kebabs. The best part was eating all the delicious fruit.
Great patterning PPG!🍊 🍎 🍉 🍐
Community Notices
SCHOOL PHOTO DAY IS COMING!
Monday 26 August, Tuesday 27 August and Thursday 29 August
School photo day is coming! Every student will have received a personalised flyer that was sent home yesterday from Kapture Photography containing your child’s unique codes for ordering school photos online.
KEEP YOUR FLYER SECURE!
The unique codes contained on the flyer will be issued only once.
Order EARLY for sibling photography
Sibling photos can ONLY be ordered online. Once you receive the personalised flyers for your children, it is imperative that you order your sibling photo early to avoid missing out! There is a physical limit in the school schedule to how many sibling photos can be taken. Once the maximum capacity of sibling orders has been reached, no more sibling orders can be placed.
If maximum capacity is not reached, sibling orders close 12pm midday sharp, one business day prior to the first photo day.
The school or the photographers cannot accept late orders for sibling photography. Please do not ask as your request simply cannot be accommodated.
Order EARLY for discount photo day prices
Order your photos up to 10 calendar days after photo day to receive discount photo day prices. Late orders are handled separately to the school delivery and incur a $30 custom service charge.
Other information
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.
We request that students who are displaying signs of respiratory and / or gastrointestinal illnesses do not attend school specifically to be included in their class photo. Having students with communicable illnesses attend the photography venues puts other students, school staff and Kapture staff at risk – especially those that are already immunocompromised. Students who are unable to attend school photo day can book a studio appointment at our Malaga office to be photographed during school holidays. We appreciate your understanding in this matter.
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.
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.
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East Perth Football Club is inviting all Royals District School families to attend next Saturday’s WAFL match between East Perth FC and East Fremantle FC on Saturday, 17th August.
East Perth FC is offering FREE ADULT and CHILDREN TICKETS to from Royals District Schools in the Bayswater area to take up the below offer and cheer on the Mighty Royals! Tickets are usually $18pp.
The match is poised to define the home & away season, with something for every member of the family.
Get EXCITED for:
- Great Games, Great Entertainment, Great Fun
- Kids Fun Zone & Activities
- Little League, Kick 2 Kick on the Oval, 3 Quarter-Time Mascot Race
- Club Merch Stores
How to claim FREE TICKETS
- Please head to: https://www.intix.com.au/event/east-perth-v-east-fremantle-round-20-2024
- Create an account (go to the top tab on your screen and select ‘have a East Perth Football Club Account? Login/Create’ and click ‘create). Fill in the details and click submit
- Buy Tickets (back at the home page – select ‘click here’ to buy tickets and then click ‘General Admission – EPFC District Schools – Adult‘ or ‘General Admission – EPFC District Schools – Child‘
- Enter billing details (enter your billing details as follows and then select ‘next’)
- Review Ticket Summary (you will be taken to your ticket summary where you can enter the individuals name on the ticket – after which select ‘continue’)
- Click ‘Add Promo Code’ and enter the code school24 to continue
- Please Note – there is no need to put in your credit card details as tickets are free with the promo code
We hope to see you all at the WAFL!
