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.

	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5	Year 6
Boys winner	Kai Simpson	Elijah Allmark	Thomas Van Horn	Harry Caporn
Boys runner up	Levi Gazzard Declan Burggraaff	Zac Vander Kraats	Daniel Poulinet	Ryan Wang
Girls winner	Paloma Parlongo	Alissa Snow	Emerson Mofflin	Kayla Allmark
Girls runner up	Milly Withers	Isla Shadbolt, Hayley Bozic	Anna Gabriele	Khloe Lepidi

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!”