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Dear Parents/Guardians
Enrolment Mass – First Holy Communion On the weekend of March 21 and 22, some of our students will be participating in the Enrolment Mass to receive the Sacrament of The Eucharist. Please keep these stu-dents and their families in your prayers, as they prepare themselves for this sacra-ment.
COVID -19 Update Please read the extract below issued by the CEWA ltd. The World Health Organisation and the Department of Health continue to advise that the current risk of transmission in Western Australia remains low. As misinformation is likely to heighten concerns, please encourage parents and caregivers to visit the WA Department of Health as a source of accurate information https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/coronavirus We will endevour to keep you updated with all information and bulletins we receive.
Thank You – Year Sixes A great effort by our Year Sixes, who collected over 30 kg of rubbish during Clean Up Australia Day. Thank you to Ms Mullins and the Year Six students on your efforts in caring for our environment.
Commissioning Mass Staff members were commissioned on the afternoon of Tuesday 3 March, by Fr Ed-ward and Fr January. Guests from the Catholic Education Offices from Geraldton and Perth were also in attendance. Thank you to all involved in the Mass and ceremony.
PD Day Tuesday March 3 Staff undertook Accreditation training on this day as part of CEWA requirements. Training was provided by staff from the Catholic Institute of Western Australia and
St Patrick’s Day – March 17 Next week we celebrate St Patrick’s Day.
Did you know ... Saint Patrick's real name was Maewyn Succat. For his first 16
years, Maewyn lived a normal life as the son of a wealthy landowner and magistrate in Britain.
At 16, Maewyn was captured and sold into slavery by a group of pirates who raided his village.
After six years of herding sheep, Maewyn escaped, went to France and became a priest, adopting the name Patrick.
That green is associated with St. Patrick's Day because it's the colour of spring? That the shamrock is a traditional symbol because Saint Patrick used the three-
leafed shamrock to represent how the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit could exist as separate elements in the same entity?
COMING EVENTS
Monday 16 March Assembly
Tuesday 17 March St Patrick Day Whole School
Mass, Y3 Lead, 8.45am
Friday 20 March Faction Swimming Carnival PP
-Y6 Gratwick Aquatic Centre
23 - 27 March Parent/Teacher Interviews
All this week.
Thursday 26 March Assembly
Monday 30 March Assembly
Tuesday 31 March Incursion: STAMP
out Bullying
Thursday 2 April Interschool Swimming
Carnival
Thursday 09 April Last day of Term One
Canteen closed
Holy Week Processional Assembly Y1, 4,5,6
Facebook link: http://fb.me/stceciliascps
Term One, Week Six, Thursday 12 March 2020
St Cecilia’s Catholic Primary School
35 Sutherland Street (PO Box 700), Port Hedland, WA 6721 T (08) 9174 7000 E [email protected] W www.stcecilia.wa.edu.au
FROM THE PRINCIPAL’S DESK
Catholic Education of Western Australia. Some staff undertook Accreditation to Teach in a Catholic School and completed the module ‘Celebrating Faith in a Catholic School Community’. Other staff members undertook Accred-itation to Work in a Catholic School or their Renewal and completed the module “Sacraments”.
Actual Announcements Taken From Church Bulletins. Remember in prayer the many who are sick of our church and the community.
God Bless and enjoy the coming weekend.
Mr Robert Palladino Principal
St Cecilia’s - Port Hedland St John the Baptist - South Hedland Tuesday 8.00am Thursday 6.00pm Wednesday 8.00am Friday 8.00am Saturday Vigil 5.30pm Saturday Vigil 7.00pm Sunday Morning Mass 8:00am Sunday Morning Mass 9:30am
Seafarers Centre - Port Hedland Sunday 3.15pm
St Patrick’s Day Our next school Mass will be held on Tuesday 17 March. This Mass will honour St Patrick and will be led by our Year Three students. All families are welcome to join us in St Cecilia’s Church at 8:45am.
St Cecilia’s Values Each fortnight at our Monday Assembly we will be learning about values that make St Cecilia’s the great school that it is. At our first assembly we will discuss the value of love and at our next assembly the value focus will be kindness. These values will be discussed in classes and information shared in the newsletters. After each assem-bly, students are encouraged to nominate their peers for St Cecilia’s Values Awards and these will be shared at the next assembly. Our Monday morning assemblies are held in the Undercover Area at 8:30am on the odd numbered weeks of term.
Mrs Mandy Sheen Religious Education Coordinator
Harmony Day Harmony Day, just one day in the now renamed Harmony Week, is celebrated on March 21 each year, with the first Harmony Day being in 1999. The message of Harmony Day is: Everyone belongs. Harmony Day is a time for all Australians to remember and respect our diverse cultural backgrounds and to share what we have in common. Our cultural diversity – from the oldest continuous culture of our first Australians to the cultures of our newest arrivals from around the world – is one of our greatest strengths and is at the heart of who we are.
Here are some fascinating statistics about our diversity:
Nearly half (49 per cent) of Australians were born overseas or have at least one parent who was
we identify with about 300 ancestries
since 1945, more than 7.5 million people have migrated to Australia
85 per cent of Australians agree multiculturalism has been good for Australia
apart from English, the most common languages spoken in Australia are Mandarin, Italian, Arabic, Cantonese, Greek, Vietnamese, Tagalog/Filipino, Spanish, Punjabi and Hindi
more than 70 Indigenous languages are spoken in Australia. These facts are taken from ABS 2016 Census Data.
To recognise Harmony Week at St Cecilia’s, we will be sharing food from the many cultures in our school and wearing orange clothing on Monday 23 March.
For Harmony Day, students will be encouraged to wear orange clothing. Students can go head to toe with their orange or it could be as simple as a pair of orange socks or an orange ribbon; please no coloured hair spray, sin-glet shirts or thongs. Why orange? Orange is the colour chosen to represent Harmony Day. Traditionally, orange signifies social communication and meaningful conversations. It also relates to the freedom of ideas and encour-agement of mutual respect. Alternatively, students may choose to come dressed in traditional dress of their cul-ture.
Finally, our food sharing. Sharing a meal is an important tradition in most cultures and we have a variety of differ-ent cultures within our school, each with their own traditional or favourite dishes. Families are invited to contribute a plate of food to share. It will not need to be a large amount of food as students will be invited to have a sample only, not a full meal. Students will still need to bring their own lunch to eat as normal.
PARISH MASS TIMES & NEWS
GENERAL CAMPUS NEWS
RELIGIOUS EDUCATION
Parents are invited to share this day with us also. More information will be sent home with a form for you to com-plete should you wish to contribute to our food sharing day.
Term Calendars Term Calendars showing events for Term One and Two are now available on the school website. Please refer to these to find out about important dates and events happening in our school.
What’s for lunch? How many times have you stared into the fridge seeking inspiration for your child’s lunchbox only to discover that your fridge is of no help. Well now you can stop asking your fridge because we are hoping you will get your an-swer here. If you, or your child, have a great lunchbox recipe or idea, please send them to Mrs Sheen so they can be included in our new and exciting newsletter section, ‘What’s in my lunchbox?’ Each week, we will publish a selection of ideas and recipes that could be included in your child’s lunchbox. I’ve done eating duty and I’ve seen some great lunches so don’t be shy to share! Please email your recipes and other ideas to [email protected] with ‘Lunchbox’ as the subject heading. I’m looking forward to getting some new ideas for my lunchbox!
Mrs Mandy Sheen Assistant Principal
Happy Birthday to the following students who have had their birthday.
March 6 MCLAUGHLIN, Tammy PP 6 STOKES, Shelby Y5 12 TESAR, Milla Y3 16 MAJOR, Addison-Rose PP 16 PUGSLEY, John Y6
Thursday 12 March 2020
PP: Monica Fox Mary Solo Y1: Ava Purtell Richie Simpson Y2: Chelsea Enoch Rory Fernandes Y3: Paula Solo Beau Weir Mia Zelencic Y4: Gabriella Hulse Jett Tan Luka Zelencic Y5: Nokutenda Chamboko Henry Lockyer Y6: Sebastian Hille Cassius McKenna Caylum Todd
DONATIONS PLEASE We would appreciate any donations of the following items:
Recorders
Small Shoe boxes These can be brought into the front office. Thank you Mrs Rozario School Secretary
BIRTHDAYS
MERIT AWARDS
ENROLMENTS
St Cecilia’s is a single stream co-educational Catholic primary school catering for children from Kindergarten to Year Six. The school caters for educating the whole child and we use a positive behavior management plan to enhance stu-dent potential and achievement. The school enjoys a close relationship with the Parish and strong support from the parent community.
We currently have vacancies in all year levels and are taking enrolments for Kindergarten 2021
for children born between 1 July 2016 to 30 June 2017.
Application forms can be downloaded from our website www.stcecilia.wa.edu.au or email [email protected] or Ph: 08 9174 7000
Year Two News!
Thank you to our wonderful mums and dads who were able to come along to our Parent Information Evening this term. We had a great chat about what’s important in Year Two and it was lovely to catch up with many parents. I hope everyone is having some quality time each day to read together, as this is at the top of our learning list of magical, wonderful, brilliant things!
We have just completed swimming lessons at Gratwick Pool. These went for two weeks and the cool water was welcome relief for our class over some very hot days. Thank you to Mrs Lee, Mrs Wellbeloved, Mrs Sheen and Miss Greatorex for travelling with the class!
One highlight at the pool was when we found a sea eagle’s nest high in the trees beside the pool.
Kai showed Ms G some poolside mindful leg-stretching during morning tea.
