St Bernadette's Primary School

Yesterday, our Year 5/6 students proudly represented our school at the Interschool Soccer Carnival. It is always so encouraging to see them display such enthusiasm, teamwork, sportsmanship, and determination throughout the day. The carnival provided a great opportunity for all students to develop their skills, build confidence, and enjoy healthy competition in a positive environment. Thank you to the staff and parents who helped make the day such a success. We are very proud of the way all our students represented our school both on and off the field.

Well done and thank you to those of you who accompanied your children on the Walk to School day today! While we acknowledge and totally understand it isn’t always possible to do this on a regular basis, trying to build in some days each term where your child can ride or scoot to school is such a great thing to do. Great for fitness, great for wellbeing, great for relationship building, great for developing greater road safety awareness and great for easing congestion and caring for the environment!

Thank you to everyone who attended today’s P&F meeting. Your ongoing support, ideas, and willingness to give your time to our school community are greatly appreciated. Meetings such as these are a wonderful opportunity to work together, share ideas, and continue building a strong partnership between home and school for the benefit of our children. We value your involvement and look forward to another positive and productive term ahead

Next week we will celebrate Wellness Week across our school. Each term, this special week on the term calendar provides an opportunity for all of us to pause, slow down, and reflect on our wellbeing journey. Here at St Bernie’s we use Wellbeing Data regularly with our staff and students to reflect on our processes and practices with the goal to continuously improve culture, sense of connectedness and hope, as this is closely related to growth and academic improvement for our students.

This week encourages us to think about how we are feeling, what is working well in our lives, and what small changes we might need to make to support our physical, emotional, and mental wellbeing.

The Self-Care Check is a quick and simple self-assessment tool designed by Beyond Blue to help give you greater clarity and confidence in how to strengthen your personal wellbeing.

The Self-Care Check allows you to compare your daily actions and habits to the things we know can protect our mental health. It’s free, anonymous, and takes only a few minutes. Here is a link to the check: https://www.beyondblue.org.au/mental-health/wellbeing/self-care-check

Just a ‘heads-up’ that the next week is an extremely busy one for me as I have a lot of system commitments outside of school. Early in the week, I have been asked to sit on a QCESR (School Review) panel up in Perth and on Friday myself, Caitlin and Tracy are in Perth for a Leadership Cluster Network Meeting.

The weather forecast for Port Kennedy is looking good for the weekend and the remainder of next week. A reminder that the Community Mass and Sausage Sizzle is being held this Saturday night! I’ll look forward to seeing you there!

Wishing you all a fantastic weekend!

Geordie

Dear St Bernadettes,

We just wanted to say a huge thank you for all the beautiful messages for our nurses, the generous gifts and the very special touches. You really went all out, we cannot thank you enough.

We were gifting the nurses a pin to celebrate 50th birthday of the hospital, and your goodies went along beautifully with those.

Thank you again!

Rockingham General Hospital

The following students will be receiving Merit Awards at next week's Assembly, which starts at 8.50am in the undercover area. Family and friends are welcome to join us. Our coffee van will be here too!

Our Interschool Basketball Carnival is being held on Thursday 28 May and we are looking for two coaches, one for the girls team and one for the boy's team. Please help if you can!

We also require assistance to coach teams for the Lightning Carnival on the 18 June for Netball (4 coaches), Volleyball (possibly 4 coaches) and AFL (3 coaches).

We are in the process of making name signs to be displayed on car dashboards in the hope this will streamline the kiss & drop process and speed the pick up line up. If you use the kiss & Drop please complete the form below:

In order to keep all our students safe, please ensure that if your child arrives after 8.35am and/or leaves before the end of the school day, that they are signed in and out at the office. If they are signed out for an appointment they should always be signed back in at the office if they are returning to school. Thank you for your assistance.

Please note we can only administer medication/antibiotics if the prescribed dosage is 4 times a day. If the dosage is 3 times a day, we ask that you please administer this before school, after school and in the evening. Thank you for your understanding.

Wellbeing Week

Kindy Muddy Gully Incursion - Tuesday 19 May

Year 2B Assembly - Friday 22 May

Coffee Van here before school - Friday 22 May

Yr 1 - 6 Bring your Kite to school - Friday 22 May

Year 2 - 6 Piano, Guitar & Drum lessons 2026

Keyed Up Music is the largest music school providing music lessons for kids in Perth. With over 550 guitar students per week, the professional guitar teachers at Keyed Up know how to not only teach guitar competently to your child but also engage, inspire and create learning opportunities for them. Coupled with some basic practice discipline and good ol’ fashioned grit, there are simply no limits to your child’s musical potential! They too could be a Rock n’ Roll star of the 21st Century.

Guitar and Drum lessons are held at Bernie's after school on a Tuesday & Thursday. Please hop onto the Keyed Up Music website for more information - https://www.keyedupmusic.com.au/

Our school canteen is only open on

Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.

Orders can be placed online via the Spriggy App before 8.30am

or in person at the canteen.

Please note that as this is a live calendar, dates and times may change occasionally.

2026 TERM DATES:

Term 2: Mon 20 April – Fri 3 July: Pupil Free Day 29 May 2026

Term 3: Tues 21 July – Fri 25 Sept: Pupil Free Days 3 & 4 September 2026

Term 4: Tues 13 Oct – Fri 11 December

In the Catholic tradition, our parish and school are closely connected.

The parish, led by Father Giovanni, provides spiritual leadership and is responsible for ensuring we nurture students’ faith alongside academic learning. The school supports the parish by helping children grow in Catholic values, preparing them for sacraments, and encouraging family participation in parish life.

It’s essentially a partnership — the parish is the faith community, and the school is one of its key ministries. For more information about our Parish, please click here:

https://portkennedy.perthcatholic.org.au/

Email: admin@stbernadettes.wa.edu.au
Website: https://stbernadettes.wa.edu.au
Location: 252 Grand Ocean Boulevard, Port Kennedy WA, Australia
Phone: (08) 9593 4066
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stbernadettescps/