ELC

Monday 19 September – Non uniform day

Tuesday 20 September  – Kindy – Farmer Mick Incursion

Thursday 22 September – PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Friday 23 September – Music Assembly

3-6

Monday 19 September – Non uniform day

Tuesday and Wednesday 20 & 21 September – Interschool Athletics (selected students)

Wednesday 21 September – 6.45 BYOD iPad information night Year 5 2023 parents only

Thursday 22 September – PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Thursday 23 September – 3F Assembly

The week ahead is a shorter week as we have a public holiday due to Queen Elizabeth II passing.

 There is still a lot of things happening as we finish this term. Please ensure that you look through the items above and read your class blog to keep up to date on all upcoming events and activities.

Today we had our non-uniform day. On these days we raise money for charities that the community supports. This is an important part of our Service Learning – Serve One Another. The students will hear about/from the charities we are supporting at Worship and in class. This provides our students with the opportunity of hearing about others in need and the impact of funds raised can make. This term we are raising money for Harvest Ministries and Ping Pong-a-thon (International Justice Mission) .

 As we finish off this term, both Andrew and I would like to thank all the staff for their care and service at our school. The staff have had a very busy term and provided the students with additional learning activities and community events. These events take a lot of planning and support from the admin, education staff and property services team. Thank you to all those people.

 We wish you all a very safe and happy school break. We look forward to seeing you all on your return to Term 4.

 Kind regards,

 Hannah Lockwood-Jones & Andrew Johnston.

LOST PROPERTY 3-6

Lost property is overflowing, all named items have been returned to students. Please see photo for all remaining unnamed lost property. Please check if your child is missing an item of uniform before the end of term. A reminder to please ensure all items that come to school are named. Thank you.

The School Disco is not far away!! Friday 14th October at Cousins Hall.
Lots of food trucks available on the night so bring your picnic rug and stay for dinner before or after your child’s session.
Please see the office for a paper copy of the permission slip if you are unable to print at home.
For all inquiries please contact the disco organisers – sssduncraigdisco@gmail.com

St Stephens Disco 22 Permission Slip

As I’m sure you have all heard, school will now be closed on Thursday 22^nd September 2022 as a national day of mourning has been declared following the passing of Queen Elizabeth II.

In relation to events across the ELC and 3-6, this will cause minimal disruption, other than students missing out on the usual classes of that day. School will resume as normal on Friday 23^rd September, which is the last day of term, and we will be holding assemblies in both the ELC and the 3-6, before we break for the school holiday.

As we look across this week, we have some exciting things happening. Firstly, we have our Y5 camp, which will commence on Wednesday at Woodman Point. It promises to be a great experience for the children.

Our Year 1 children will also have their camp day on Friday 16^th September, where they will spend the day at Caversham Wildlife Park followed by activities into the evening back at school.

On Thursday 15^th September, Our Year 2 Students will also be taking part in the next phase of their transition into Year 3 with an orientation afternoon. The students will come into the 3-6 space and take part in some lessons from our specialist teachers.

ELC

15 September, Year 2 Orientation of 3-6 Campus

16 September, Year 1 Camp Day and visit to Caversham Wildlife Park

3-6

14 – 16 September, Year 5 Camp to Woodman Point

14 September, Year 6 Jam Poetry Night – 6PM

Andrew Johnston & Hannah Lockwood-Jones

REMINDER

NON-UNIFORM DAY – MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

Funds raised from non-uniform day this term at ELC will support Fruitful Harvest who care for children in disadvantaged schools in Zimbabwe.

The School Disco is not far away!! Friday 14th October at Cousins Hall.
Lots of food trucks available on the night so bring your picnic rug and stay for dinner before or after your child’s session.
Please see the office for a paper copy of the permission slip if you are unable to print at home.
For all inquiries please contact the disco organisers – sssduncraigdisco@gmail.com

St Stephens Disco 22 Permission Slip

REMINDER

NON-UNIFORM DAY – MONDAY 19 SEPTEMBER

Non-uniform funds from 3-6 for term 3 go to the ping-pong-a-thon. Year 6 students have been taking part in this in teams of four during lunchtimes. The ping-pong-a-thon raises money for the International Justice Mission that helps to free children that are in slavery around the world.

Over the last 2 weeks, it has been wonderful to see the school community springing into life with a series of fantastic events.

Firstly, we had our amazing ‘Book Week’ where the students took part in some great reading experiences with the week culminating in our dress up parades. The enthusiasm for this both in the ELC and 3-6 was incredible.

We also enjoyed our Father’s Day picnic and afternoon tea. It was wonderful to see so many parents, grandparents and special guests turn out and spend time with the children.

Finally, we held our 3-6 athletics carnival last week on Tuesday and Friday. Thank you to all of the parents who turned out to support. You helped make it an amazing event and congratulations to Carana, who were the winning house across the 2 days.

As we look forward to the final 3 weeks before the end of term, there seems to be no sign of slowing down. Please see below for a list of important events in the next week.

Tuesday 6th September 2022 – ELC piano recital

Thursday 8th September 2022 – PP Tinkering incursion, Y2 Grandparents Day

Friday 9th September 2022 – Y3 Scitech visit, ELC assembly by Mrs Gastevich’s class in Kindy.

Andrew Johnston & Hannah Lockwood-Jones

Primary Athletics Carnival

After two outstanding days of competition, Carana has won the 2022 Athletics shield. Carana finished with 2885 points and Timae in second with 2688 and Alethea third with 2642.

There were many awesome individual efforts and moments, but the following students showed consistency over two days to take out the champion medals.

Inter school Athletics will be held over two days on Tuesday 20 September and Wednesday 21 September. Selected students will be notified via email by the end of the week. There were a number of students that were unavailable for competition for valid reasons. These students are welcome to challenge for inter school positions. For students wishing to challenge, I will need notification at daniel.parker@ststephens.wa.edu.au. A time for the challenge will be organized once I am notified, however it will need to occur this week.

Final individual results from our carnival can be found at the link below. There were a number of records broken last week and an update will be released when I have completed the changes.

2022 Tuesday Jumps Throws 800m results – final.xlsx

Finally, I would like to sing the praises of all the parents, high school students and staff members that helped make our two carnival days possible. It never ceases to impress me how willing everyone is to step in and help. That serving nature in this school makes it the great community that we all love.

Daniel Parker

Physical Education Specialist

Parents and family members interested in supporting sustainability at St Stephens School, Duncraig are invited to an afternoon tea to discuss their ideas.

The afternoon tea is aimed at anybody with ideas, suggestions, experience and/or interest in sustainability and ways that potentially a parent group could support this at the school.

STEMSmart After School Coding Clubs at St Stephen’s School Duncraig

Start or continue your child’s awesome coding journey in Term 4 with STEMSmart’s After School Imagineers Club at St Stephen’s School Duncraig.

From 3:15 pm each Thursday, students from Years 3 through 7 can join and build up a wide variety of coding skills in 1-hour sessions!

In Term 4, students will explore the ever changing world of Artificial Intelligence in this cutting-edge new course. Students will learn how data drives the technology around us every day, from autocorrect, to smart homes, to self-driving cars. By creating their own data sets, students will design their own programs that leverage artificial intelligence to make the impossible possible.

To book, please follow the link below:

https://bit.ly/StStephensImagineers

We can’t wait to see you in Term 4!”