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- Principal Message
- Season Of Lent
- SSP Social Worker - Mary Lynch
- BE QUICK - 2025 Enrolment Have Now Commenced!
- FSSP Hot Cross Buns Fundraiser
- Year 2 Assembly & MERIT Award Winners
- REMINDER - 2024 SSP School Fees Are Due
- Senior Assembly 4M & Merit Certificates
- FSSP - Easter Egg Donations
- Prendiville Year 7 2026 Enrolments
- Winners Of FSSP Raffle - Your Child's Tuition For 2024
- SSP Sustainability News
- Parent TV - Social Anxiety - When Shyness Becomes A Problem
Sometimes incidents occur in the community that prompt many individuals to share their opinions. However, the person involved may not hear these thoughts, rendering them without impact. Social media has bridged this gap, facilitating the frequent trolling of individuals based on others' viewpoints. In a school environment, discussions about an incident often reach the individual involved or their family, usually without full context.
In the Gospel of John, 8:7, Jesus challenges those without sin to cast the first stone at an individual they were prepared to condemn. Nobody did, as they realized their imperfections when Jesus wrote them in the sand in front of them.
When we hear stories about others in our school community, it's crucial to empathise with their situation. Imagine how it would feel if others were discussing you without allowing you to explain. It's distressing for someone in our school community to be the subject of gossip. Therefore, it's important to treat everyone kindly, as we can't fully comprehend another person's experiences. No one is perfect. Criticising is easy, understanding is harder, and forgiving is the hardest, but this is what our Catholic faith asks of us. Please support us and our school in not engaging in this inappropriate behaviour.
We welcome Matilda Schoeman who will be filling the junior Science and classroom release teaching role from this week. We welcome Matilda to the school team and hope her time with us is rewarding.
I wish to acknowledge Gabrielle Cole who has decided to step away from the parent groups that she has been a part of for the past four years. Gabrielle has been a tireless worker in so many spaces and has always been one of the first volunteers to support our school-based events. It is important to know that with more people sharing the load, we can do so much more as a school community. Gabrielle has been a big part of the push to have more people involved in our school community and we are a better-functioning group because of this. Thank you, Gabrielle.
Warm regards
Peter Cutrona
We are into the third week of Lent and this week the Project Compassion story is about Oliva, a 22-year-old woman living in Tanzania, who didn’t have the opportunity to go to school as a child and was struggling to run her business as an adult due to her inability to read, write or count.
Below is the link to the story:
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Our Social Worker, Miss Mary, is making her way through our Year 4, 5 and 6 classrooms to discuss the very important topic of online safety. Topics include what is risky online, how to stay safe and what to do.
Miss Mary has given the students some buzz words to keep themselves safe online. Check in if your children remember those!
“MUTE, BLOCK, REPORT” – What we do if someone is unkind, or a stranger tries to access us!
“PROVE IT” – when someone messages online pretending to be someone we know, or someone that knows us.
“NOT COOL” – when someone we know is being unkind online to us or about someone else. This works in real life too.
The eSafety Commissioner has some amazing resources for parents to ensure that you can keep your kids super safe at home when they're online - https://www.esafety.gov.au/parents
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BE QUICK - 2025 ENROLMENTS HAVE NOW COMMENCED!
If your child's date of birth falls between 1 July 2020 and 30 June 2021, you can apply to enrol your child/ren for Kindergarten at SSP in 2025.
Please note applications for younger siblings also need to be lodged. Please check out our website for more information:
https://www.ssp.wa.edu.au/kindergarten-to-year-6-enrolments.
To apply for admission to St Simon Peter Catholic Primary School the following must be submitted:
- Completed Kindergarten to Year Six Application Form
- Birth Certificate
- Medicare Card
- Parish Priest Reference
- Baptism Certificate (if applicable)
- Visa documentation or Australian Citizenship Certificate or Australian Passport (only applicable if both parents were born overseas)
- $50.00 non-refundable fee
- Immunisation History Statement from Medicare - A child's current AIR Immunisation History Statement can be accessed at any time by the parent/guardian through: MyGov, by logging into their Medicare online account, Medicare Express Plus App, by logging into the Medicare account, visiting a Medicare or Centrelink office, or Calling the AIR General Enquiries Line on 1800 653 809 for the Statement to be posted.
- Orders Due by 15th March
- No Cash orders, click on the QR or this link Hot Cross Buns to order:
- Traditional Hot Cross Bun 6 Pack
- Apple & Cinnamon Hot Cross Bun 6 Pack
- Choc Chip Hot Cross Bun 6 Pack
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The 2024 annual school fee statements were emailed to all families on 20 February 2024.
Please contact ssp.fees@cewa.edu.au for any queries.
Payment option advice forms are to be returned by Tuesday 27/2/24.
Information for those families eligible for the sibling discount scheme between Prendiville Catholic College and St Simon Peter Catholic Primary School can be found on our website via the link: https://www.ssp.wa.edu.au/2024-pcc-and-ssp-sibling-discount-program.
Thank you.
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Prendiville Catholic College Year 7, 2026 enrolment applications close Friday 15th March 2024. For further enquiries, please contact the College registrar Kylee Hernon via email pcc.enrolments@cewa.edu.au.
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Thank You for your Support
St Simon Peter Catholic Primary School's Raffle for win your child's tuition for 2024 has now closed.
Raffle Winners
1ST PRIZE WINNER
Ticket Number: #52
From Carramar , WA
2ND PRIZE WINNER
Ticket Number: #28
From Ocean reef , WA
3RD PRIZE WINNER
Ticket Number: #84
From Heathridge, WA
The school is now only collecting ring pulls to be donated to and recycled by Wheelchairs for Kids. The ring pulls can be placed in the tubs underneath the lost property table near the Music room.
The school is still collecting clean soft toys for Wheelchairs for Kids. They can be sent directly to 5 Blue or the front office.
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Below are the instructions about how to sign up:
It is very important that you go to the www.parenttv.com/membership page to sign up with the code: stsimon