Yidarra Catholic Primary School

Newsletter: Term 2, Week 6 Monday, 4 June 2018

Principal’s News Western Australia Day

In the general busyness of life, we sometimes forget just how fortunate we are to be

living in a place as wonderful as Western Australia. Our holiday on Monday has been

set aside to celebrate all Western Australians, recognising our Aboriginal history, early

European settlers and the many from all over the world who have made, and continue

to make, Western Australia their home. It’s a day for each of us to reflect and celebrate all the great things

about our people, our lifestyle, our culture and our potential. I hope all families find time to relax and enjoy

this day together.

LifeLink Day This year LifeLink Day will be held on Wednesday, 6 June. Archbishop Costelloe has invited

representatives from every primary school to join him at Newman College Auditorium for the

launch of LifeLink 2018. All schools have been asked to bring cards they have created and

then to present them as a powerful and visual demonstration of our young people joining

together to help people in need. The cards made by our Yidarra students will be distributed to St Thomas

More Parish to be handed out to the parishioners on the Parish launch of LifeLink Day.

Our school raised $504.80 on the free dress day by bringing in a gold coin donation. The children from Pre-

Primary to Year Six were allowed to wear clothing in the colours of red, white or blue – which represent the

colours of LifeLink.

Money raised on this day will go towards the charitable works of the many LifeLink Organisations of the

Catholic Church which supports over 34 000 Western Australians annually.

Parent Presentation: Cyber-Safety Last Monday evening the school hosted a Parent Connect Evening event. Yidarra was fortunate to secure an

engaging and informative speaker from the Australian Government’s Office of the e-Safety Commissioner,

who spoke about digital safety. One thing that I would like to share with parents from the presentation, is that

the e-Safety Office can assist parents in regard to cyber bullying and has the power to pull down cyber bullying

statements from sites. I would recommend that all parents go to the e-Safety website at www.esafety.gov.au

and look at the wide range of helpful information that is on this website and take the Interactive Screen Smart

Parent Tour.

Thought for the Week Our faith should be our steering wheel, not our spare tyre.

Kind regards,

Carmel Costin Principal

School News

2018 NATIONAL CONSISITENT COLLECTION DATA FACT SHEET FOR PARENTS & CARERS

Please click on the link below for your information: https://docs.education.gov.au/system/files/doc/other/2018_-_nccd_-_fact_sheet_for_parents_and_carers_english.pdf

TOUR DAY If you know of any prospective families, please forward the information regarding our up and coming Tour:

LOST & FOUND – OFFICE & BLUE TUB

Found:

x Black school shoes x 1 Adidas black sports shoe x Gold hoop earrings x Green & Black boys sandals x 1 back girls slip on shoe x Karate white belt x School jumpers (names unreadable) x Drink bottles

Items can be collected from the office or the blue tub outside the office.

P & F News

P & F News

SCHOLASTIC BOOK CLUB Issue 3 orders have been delivered to the classroom. A big thank you to everyone in using LOOP to order

and pay, it certainly makes the ordering process much smoother for all involved.

Issue 4 catalogues have been sent home and orders for Issue 4 are due Friday, 8 June. LOOP is preferred

for ordering. Happy Reading