MATTHEW GIBNEY CATHOLIC PRIMARY SCHOOL

30 Munday Road, High Wycombe WA 6057 Phone: 6216 8400 Email: admin@gibney.wa.edu.au Website: www.gibney.wa.edu.au

NEWSLETTER No. 11 2nd May 2019

Dear Parents, Friends and Students

I would like to welcome you back to the beginning of Term

2. I hope that all our families enjoyed the time away from

school routine, had a Happy and Holy Easter and that the

students have come back refreshed and ready for the joys

and challenges that will inevitably be part of this term. I

would particularly like to welcome our new families to the

school. I trust that you will find our community welcoming

and our teaching and learning programme will assist your

children to achieve their potential.

Thank you to our families who show support for our school

by ensuring that the students have returned in full winter

uniform. I understand that some families are still waiting

on backorders for skirts and trousers and we hope that

these arrive very soon. The students looked very smart

yesterday. A reminder to families to adhere to our uniform

policy, which can be found on our school website and was

included in our newsletter towards the end of last term.

Our Year 5 class will lead our school in recognising

ANZAC Day at a special liturgy on Friday morning. It will

start at 9:05am and it will be held in the grassed area

adjacent to the undercover area. All parents and members

of our community are invited to join with us as we

remember the many women and men who served in our

armed forces, some who made the ultimate sacrifice in

order for our country to enjoy the freedom that it currently

experiences.

Next week the Statue of our Lady will be visiting our school

for the week. May is traditionally recognised as the Month

of Mary and the students will have the opportunity to visit

the statue and pray a decade of the Rosary, the prayer that

is attributed to Mary. We thank the Legion of Mary from

the Maida Vale Parish for giving us the opportunity to

experience this aspect of our faith.

Our school has been given the opportunity to be a polling

place for the upcoming Federal Election that will be held on

Saturday 18th May. This is a great privilege for our school.

Our P&F is busy organising food opportunities for voters

and we see this is a great fund raising occasion. It is also

a chance for local people to get to know the location of our

school. Many new families tell me at their interviews that

they didn’t even know that our school was here until

someone mentioned it to them. Please spread the word.

On Friday 10th May the school will be celebrating a Mass

for Mothers. The Mass will be held at St Francis of Assisi

Church. It will begin at 9:30am and all members of our

community are invited to attend, especially mothers,

grandmothers and other significant women. Following the

Mass, the P&F will hold a morning tea that will be held in

the Parish Hall and we hope that many will stay on to

attend.

The Year 6 students were a pleasure to take away on

camp last term. Their behaviour was excellent and we

were often compliemented by members of the public as

well as camp activity providers on the outstanding

behaviour of our Year 6 students. They were a credit to

their family and to our school. A very big thank you to Miss

Zurzolo who organised the camp and to Mrs Tormey and

Miss Blaszczyk who helped supervise. Although the

students were very tired when they arrived back at school,

I am sure there were many stories to tell.

Have a great week!

Mark Powell PRINCIPAL

Charlotte Ailish Ben

GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS GOOD NEWS

Year Four students have been experimenting with warm and cool colours!

Nicole April

For everyone born of God overcomes the world. This is the victory that has overcome

the world, even our faith. (1 John 5:4)

Jayden

DATES FOR YOUR DIARY

Fri 3rd May ANZAC Day Liturgy @ 9am

Mon 6th May Statue of Mary

Fri 10th May Mass for Mothers 9.30am followed

by P&F morning tea @ St Francis of

Assisi Parish

Fri 10th May Faction Cross Country 11.10am

Tue 14th May - Fri 17th May Naplan testing Yrs 3 & 5

Wed 15th May P&F Meeting @ 7.30pm

Wed 22nd May Year 6 Mass

Fri 24th May Year 2 Assembly

Mon 27th May PUPIL FREE DAY

Wed 29th May First Eucharist Workshop 4pm or

5.45pm

Fri 31st May Year 5 Assembly

Mon 3rd Jun PUBLIC HOLIDAY (WA DAY)

Wed 5th Jun WCE Rock My School Assembly

Thurs 6th Jun Interschool Cross Country Yrs 3-6

Sun 9th Jun Pentecost Sunday

Wed 12th Jun Year 1 Liturgy

Wed 12th Jun WCE Coaching Clinic Yr 5 & 6

Fri 14th Jun Year 3 Assembly

Sun 16th Jun Trinity Sunday

Wed 19th Jun First Eucharist Retreat

Wed 19th Jun School Open Event 4.30 - 5.30pm

Wed 19th Jun P&F Meeting @ 7.30pm

Fri 21st Jun Lightning Carnival Yr 5 & 6

Sun 23rd Jun First Eucharist Mass @ 9.30am @

St Francis of Assisi Parish

Fri 28th Jun Pre-Primary Assembly

Mon 1st Jul NAIDOC Week

Wed 3rd Jul Year 4 Mass

Fri 5th Jul END OF TERM 2 FOR STUDENTS

Mon 22nd Jul STUDENTS RETURN TERM 3 2019

Parents & Friends Association

Agenda item request for meeting - Wednesday 15th May

@ 7.30pm.

Please submit your Agenda item request either through

the Skoolbag app - eForms - P&F Meeting Agenda

Items or through the Matthew Gibney website

http://web.gibney.wa.edu.au/pandf.html

You must attend the meeting if you wish to submit

an agenda item.

3YOP Enrolments 2020 Applications for our 3 Year Old Program 2020

are currently being accepted. Confirmation of

our 3YOP 2020 going ahead will be

announced early in Term 3, so please make

sure your applications are handed into the

office before this time.

Limited places will be available!

Applications are available from

the office or you can download

one from our website www.gibney.wa.edu.au

Please join us for our ANZAC Liturgy Service on

Friday the 3rd May. It will be held on the grassed area

adjacent to the undercover area.

It will begin at 9:05am.

All welcome.

LOST A gold chain with a cross pendant on it was lost

last term. Please keep a look out for it.

If found please bring it to the Admin Office.

Assistant Principal’s

Religious Education News

Project Compassion 2019

If you have any Project Compassion boxes at home,

please return them to school, so we can forward your

donation to Caritas. Many thanks to all those children

and families, who have so generously donated to this

very worthwhile cause.

“Mass for Mothers” Friday 10th May

All our wonderful mums and grandmothers are invited to

attend our Parish School on Friday 10th May at 9.30am at

St Francis of Assisi Church, Maida Vale, and then enjoy

morning tea together.

May, the Month of Mary

May is the month dedicated to Our

Lady. The Blessed Virgin Mary is

the Mother of the Church and

therefore the example, as well as

the guide and inspiration, of all who

seek to follow Jesus’ teachings.

Throughout the school we will be

saying the Rosary throughout the

month.

We look forward to the special

arrival of the Statue of Mary from the Parish on Monday

6th May. The procession will start outside the School

Office, move along the pathway to the Sacred Space in

the Library. As Mary is installed with honour, we will pray

the Rosary. All family and friends are welcome to join

with us.

Karen Keddie

Assistant Principal RE

YEAR 1 NEWS

Welcome back to Term 2 everyone and an especially

warm welcome to Brody. The class are very excited to

have a new friend! This Friday we will participate in the

Anzac Day ceremony at school and have been talking

about Anzac Day in preparation for this solemn event.

Next Friday, we will celebrate Mothers' Day Mass at the

Church. Parents are welcome to join us on either or both

of these occasions. Thank you to the parents who have

been changing over the Reading Books all year - your

help is invaluable and greatly appreciated.

Freda Farmand

PRE-PRIMARY NEWS Welcome back to Term 2! I hope all our families had a

wonderful Easter and relaxing holidays! We welcome Mrs

Ellen Howell to Pre Primary! Ellen is a student teacher

carrying out her fourth year teaching practical. The

children have adjusted to having 3 teachers in the

classroom and we look forward to an exciting term! This

term, we will be exploring a dinosaur theme as well as

some book studies. This week, we have also been

preparing for ‘Mother’s Day’. During our prayer circle, we

will be sharing ideas on the importance of mums,

grandmas, nanas, nonnos and other women in our lives. I

have received the speech reports following the speech

assessments which were done in Term 1. These reports

will be sent home tomorrow. Please let me know if you

would like to discuss this report further once you have

read it. Have a great week!

Debbie Hawley & Jen Moore

YEAR 5 NEWS

This week we have been preparing for our Anzac Service

on Friday morning. We have created some beautiful

Anzac Poppy artworks, to use as part of our ceremony. It

was great to see, how all the Year 5 students helped one

another to complete this project, as they were a bit fiddly.

We look forward to seeing our families on Friday morning,

as we remember the Anzacs. There were lots of smiles

and positive vibes, when we spent time, identifying in

ourselves and others, our talents and good qualities, as

part of our new Religion unit. It’s amazing what other

people see in us.

Karen Keddie & Jess Bettridge

KINDY ENROLMENTS 2020 (eligible date of birth 1 July 2015

to 30 June 2016). Our Kindy enrolment interviews will take place in

Term Two. If you have a family member or friend who would like their child to come to Matthew Gibney Catholic Primary School,

applications are available from the office or you can download one from our website.

www.gibney.wa.edu.au

P & F Meetings Term 2 2019

Wednesday 15th May @ 7.30pm

Wednesday 19th June @ 7.30pm

SENT HOME MONDAY

★ Term 2 Planner (eldest)

SENT HOME TODAY

★ Mass for Mothers’ invite flyer (eldest)

★ Book club order form

The Year Ones have been enjoying lots of new

literacy games already this term.

Issue 3 Bookclub orders are to be placed by

Friday 17th May

through Bookclub LOOP App.

Using your credit card you can now order and pay for

your books directly online using Loop.

Go to scholastic.com.au/loop where you can register to

order online.

No need to fill in any order forms or return

anything to the school. If you have any queries

on placing orders please contact Donna on

0417 921 274.

Thank you

Donna Masters

LOST SCHOOL JUMPER

April, (Year 4), has lost her school jumper.

Could you please check in your child's school

bag to make sure it hasn’t been placed in their school

bag by mistake.