Dear Community of St Columba’s,
Last week was a busy and exciting time for our school, filled with memorable events that brought joy and learning to students and families. One of the highlights was the Year 5 Assembly, where students put on a fantastic performance dedicated to their mums. Their creativity, confidence, and enthusiasm made for a heartwarming celebration that was enjoyed by all who attended. We also hosted a highly successful Neurodivergence Conference at the Bayswater Tennis Club, which welcomed 55 parents for an engaging and informative session. I would like to thank our Social Worker Nicole Leach for her organisation. The event fostered meaningful conversations and strengthened our community’s understanding and support for neurodivergent learners. To top off the week, Italian Day brought a burst of culture and fun to the school. Thanks to Simona Castro for her organisation and love for Italian Day. Students had the chance to experience the pizza-making process, colouring in competitions and several games at lunch time.
Year 6 Winter Carnival
Congratulations to our Year 6 students for their fantastic participation in the Winter Carnival on Monday at the Kingsway Sporting Complex. It was great to see everyone getting involved and enjoying the chance to choose between soccer, football, or netball. Your enthusiasm, teamwork, and sportsmanship made the day a huge success—well done!
Reconciliation Workshop
We were delighted to see so many parents and their children attending the Reconciliation workshops held at the parish on Tuesday evening. These sessions provided a meaningful opportunity for families to reflect, learn, and grow together in faith, and it was heartwarming to witness such strong community involvement and support.
National Simultaneously Storytime
Today we celebrated National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) with all classes viewing the chosen story for this year ‘The Truck Cat’ by Debroah Frenkel and Danny Snell. National Simultaneous Storytime (NSS) is an annual event in Australia that celebrates the joy of reading and storytelling. Organised by the Australian Library and Information Association (ALIA), it involves schools, libraries, childcare centres, and families across the country all reading the same book at the same time on the same day. The event aims to promote the value of reading and literacy, especially among young children, and to highlight the role of libraries and educators in fostering a love of books. Each year, a picture book written and illustrated by an Australian author is selected for the event, and it’s read aloud simultaneously by thousands of participants nationwide. It’s a fun, unifying experience that brings communities together through the power of storytelling.
Other upcoming events:
Please be sure to check out the school calendar on our website to stay informed of dates and events for Term 2.
- Thursday 29 May: Cross Country
- Thursday 29 May: Reconciliation Ceremony Year 3
- Friday 30 May: Pupil Free Day
- Tuesday 3 June: Year 2 Assembly
- Tuesday 3 June: Year 4 – First Eucharist Family Workshops
- Friday 6 June: Mercy Mission/ St Columba’s Day / Monstar Fun Run
Kind regards
Niall Kehoe
Acting Prinicpal
Assistant Principal's Updates
Playground Equipment
We would like to remind parents that the playground equipment on the school grounds is not to be used after school. It is your responsibility to ensure that your children refrain from using the play equipment. Thank you for your support and understanding.
WINTER UNIFORM
A reminder that all students must now be wearing full winter uniform. As we move into the cooler months, we remind parents that children must only wear the school jumper with their academic uniform and the school sport jacket must we worn with the sport uniform.
Please click here for the school’s uniform policy:
NOTE: Students attending Columba Runners after school are permitted to wear their sport uniform to school on those days.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the school uniform, please contact the school.
Mrs Leesa Vinciullo
Assistant Principal
P & F News
TERM 2 FUNDRAISING EVENTS
Mercy Mission Day Colour Run! — Friday 5th June
With the traditional Mercy Day celebrations in the first half of the day, the P&F will be running a Colour Run fundraiser in the afternoon.
HAVE YOU CREATED YOUR ONLINE PROFILE? Please use the link: www.myprofilepage.com.au
There are only 103 students with a profile created. The class who raises the most money, will win a special prize donated by the P&F. Currently our top 5 classes are: 2G, 1G, 4G, PPG and 5W. We have FIVE students who have already raised over $250! AMAZING! Thank you for your efforts, keep going to help achieve our school goal!
Mid Year Raffle — Commencing next month
Watch this space for more details on prizes up for grabs and ticket sales!
REMINDERS
Containers for Change
Get involved with our School yard fundraising by joining the containers for change group. All you have to do is scan the barcode attached to the newsletter with your containers from home — all funds from your deposit goes directly back to fundraising for items that benefit the kids at St Cols.
School Rewards Program — THE ATHLETE’S FOOT Morley Galleria
With $5 from every pair of shoes purchased being donated back to our School, This applies to the whole family across their fantastic range of school, sports, work and casual shoes. Make sure you mention St Col’s!
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
27th May – P&F Meeting in School Library 6:30-7:30pm
6th June – Mercy Mission Day Colour Run (PM time)
Month of June – Mid Year Raffle
Library News
DISCOVER THE MAGIC OF READING
Register your child for the Premier’s Reading Challenge! From 7 April to 27 June 2025, students from Kindergarten to Year 12 can discover the joy of reading and log their progress for a chance to win weekly prizes.
Visit https://www.premiersreadingchallenge.wa.edu.au for more information.
PLEASE REMEMBER TO REGISTER AS
ST COLUMBA’S SCHOOL BAYSWATER
BOOK COVERING HELP REQUIRED
The library has lots of new and exciting books needing covering. If you can help by taking a small number of books home to cover, please call into the library. Precut covering for books is supplied. Your help is greatly appreciated by students and staff.
Many thanks.
Rita Cuthbert – Library
Pastoral Care
Happy Birthday to:
The following students who will celebrate birthday’s in the coming week:
Riley Bowker – KG
Jordan Coniglio – KW
Rumi Duff – KW
Ciara Carruthers – Y3G
Zozie Higgs – Y6G
Lilah Jagger – Y6G
Sasha Mazurak – Y6W
Would you like to Volunteer with us?
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 entrance. Come say Hi and see what we are all about or please feel free to reach out to us by leaving a message with Lisa or Kylie in Administration and one of our amazing volunteers will talk you through volunteering with us.
WEEKLY RAFFLE ROSTER
TERM 2
Week 5 – 28 May
Week 6 – 4 June
| Kindy Green | Week 5 – Louis Vu Week 6 – Meabh Stafford |
| Kindy White | Week 5 – Andy Telmuun Week 6 – Logan Salt |
| PP Green | Week 5 – Charlie Williams Week 6 – Harrison White |
| PP White | Week 5 – Ishant Setty Week 6 – Zara Parker |
| Year 1 Green | Week 5 – Lynnette Toh Week 6 – Saoirse Stafford |
| Year 1 White | Week 5 – Laila Vu Week 6 – Adam Tuma |
| Year 2 Green | Week 5 – Molly Veale Week 6 – Isaac Tran |
| Year 2 White | Week 5 – Kanishka Setty Week 6 – Violet Zachar |
| Year 3 Green | Week 5 – Orlando Smith Week 6 – Jesse Smith |
| Year 3 White | Week 5 – Ross Smith Week 6 – Heaven White |
| Year 4 Green | Week 5 – Roisin Veale Week 6 – Jude Stubbs |
| Year 4 White | Week 5 – Lachlan Stewart Week 6 – Thomas Pinnington |
| Year 5 Green | Week 5 – Quill O’Brien Week 6 – Aleksander Tuma |
| Year 5 White | Week 5 – Jonathan Truong Week 6 – Shaan Tah |
| Year 6 Green | Week 5 – Alana Raj Week 6 – Milana Zachar |
| Year 6 White | Week 5 – Hunter Sardelich Week 6 – Lucinda Tran |
Religious Education and Curriculum News
Year 2 classes
In Year 2, we have been learning about the rules that God gave us to protect us and to show His love for us. These rules are called the Commandments. We understand that Jesus was called a teacher by His followers, who came to learn from Him. Jesus summarised the Commandments into two key teachings. We have explored the second Commandment of Jesus which teaches us that people must love others and themselves. We have discussed and reflected on various ways we can show love for others and for ourselves, while acting with respect and integrity in our words and actions.
Recently, Year 2 led the school in a special Mass celebrating our wonderful mothers for Mother’s Day. Students created their own special message of love for their mum.
Italian Day:
Our Italian Day last Friday was a great success! It was wonderful to see the students so excited. Students were immersed in an authentic cultural experience of seeing a wood fire oven pizza truck and tasting the pizza from Mio Sapore. Juliano did an awesome job of getting so many pizzas out in the short time we had. Our library was transformed with a beautiful Venice backdrop for students to participate in an Italian photo booth. The masks and soccer balls were a hit!! Thank you also to the enthusiastic Year 6’s who organised some lunch time activities for the day such as colouring in competitions. The winners received lovely prizes.
Grazie a tutti / Thank you everyone!
Signora Castro
Community Notices
School Counsellor News
Ngala are running a free event with Karen Young Strengthening Children & Teens Against Anxiety workshop:
Date: Thursday 19th June 2025
Times: 6.30pm – 8.30pm
Venue: Our Lady of Grace Primary School
5 Kitchener Street, North Beach
Multi-purpose area (MPA)
Click on the below link for further details:
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