Holy Rosary

As we gather in our school community this week, we are reminded through this Sunday’s Gospel that true richness is found not in possessions, but in love, wisdom, and generosity.

Dear Jesus

Help us to seek the things that are above — kindness, compassion, and truth — and to let go of what distracts us from You.

Teach us to value each person in our school as a gift, and to build a community where everyone feels seen, heard, and supported.

May our hearts be open to Your presence in the everyday moments — in the classroom, the playground, and in quiet reflection.

Guide our students to grow not only in knowledge, but in spirit. Bless our teachers and families with patience and joy. And may we always remember that our greatest treasure is found in You.

Amen.

Dear Parents. Friends, Guardians and Staff,

We’ve had a whirlwind of excitement lately, and I’m thrilled to share some of the highlights from our vibrant school community.

Cross Country Champions

Our Cross Country team ran like the wind! Huge congratulations to our students who gave it their all. Whether you sprinted, jogged, and heroically powered through the pain, we’re proud of you for an overall 6th placing. A massive thank you to Mr Flexman, who somehow managed to coach, cheer, and keep track of everyone’s shoelaces. You’re a legend!

Piano Prodigies

Both Leo Mak and Xavier Tan recently performed solo piano pieces at the Catholic Performing Arts Festival, and let’s just say—Chopin would be impressed. Their talent and poise were remarkable, and we couldn’t be prouder. Bravo!

NAIDOC Week Celebration

Today We celebrated NAIDOC Week with heart, spirit, and a beautiful Mass. Thank you to Miss Matrenza and Miss Bennell for leading the way with grace and passion. The students were engaged, respectful, and may or may not have tried to out-sing the teachers during hymns.

Parent Induction Sessions

It’s been an absolute joy meeting our Pre-Kindy, Pre-primary and Kindy parents during induction sessions. These gatherings are all about building community - and figuring out how to get glitter out of carpet and how to support reading learning. Thank you for your enthusiasm and willingness to jump into school life. We love having you on board and volunteering to help in the classroom. There are more sessions planned too for others who are interested.

Student Leaders Meet Basil Zempilas

Our class representatives had the chance to meet The Honourable Basil Zempilas, who shared insights on leadership, community service, and how to survive a media interview without saying “um” too many times. It was a fantastic learning experience, and our students left inspired (and possibly considering careers in politics or journalism).

Thank you all for being part of our Holy Rosary community. Whether you’re cheering from the sidelines, helping in the classroom, or just making sure lunchboxes don’t contain last week’s banana - your support means everything.

Have a fantastic weekend.

Kind regards,

Michael O'Dwyer
Principal

The Traffic Warden who works at the Children’s Crossing on Rosewood Avenue, near Sadoc Street is unable to work from Tuesday the 5th returning on Monday the 11th of August. Unfortunately there are no relief staff available to cover the position.

We request students and the school community to be vigilant whilst crossing without a warden present.

Childrens Crossings Unit | Western Australia Police Force

What a fantastic day of racing at the UWA Sports Ground for the 2025 CPSSA Cross Country Carnival! Under lovely sunny skies, students from 16 schools gave their all, showcasing endurance, determination, and school spirit.

Holy Rosary placed a very respectable 6th overall, with all runners doing a tremendous job on a challenging course.

Congratulations to Our Lady of Grace, who finished first on the day with a total of 2136 points. Well done to every student who trained hard and competed with enthusiasm!

Final Placings:
1st – Our Lady of Grace (OLG): 2136
2nd – St Columba's: 2065
3rd – Mel Maria: 1975
4th – Ursula Frayne: 1872
5th – St Peter’s: 1840
6th – Holy Rosary: 1759
7th – St Brigid’s College: 1477
8th – Holy Cross: 1467
9th – Our Lady of Assumption (OLA): 1386
10th – Infant Jesus: 1351
11th – St Anthony’s: 1321
12th – St Kieran: 1246
13th – St Helena’s: 1206
14th – St Brigid’s Primary: 1189
15th – Mary MacKillop: 1130
16th – Good Shepherd: 1160

A huge thank you to all staff, parents, and volunteers who supported the team and cheered from the sidelines.

Uniform Return Reminder
Could all Cross Country Squad members please return their Holy Rosary Cross Country shirts next week. Please wash your shirt and return it in a plastic bag clearly labelled with your name, year group, and class.

Mr Flexman will leave a return box outside his office starting next Tuesday. Please ensure all tops are returned by the end of next week, so we can begin preparations for the upcoming Athletics season.

Thank you for your cooperation!

Our clever readers are popping with ideas as they practise their predicting skills during reading time! 📖🧠

Below is a selection of upcoming free events taking place nearby. More events can be found on the National Science Week Website.

Girls Programming Network Perth

• Saturday 9 Aug
• 10:00am - 4:00pm (AWST)
• EZONE UWA Student Hub
  University of Western Australia, Crawley WA 6009, Australia

Join the Girls Programming Network (GPN) for a free, full-day workshop that teach high school girls and gender minorities to code using Python. Our events offer a safe learning environment where tech stars are on hand to offer you support over the day. We learn together, meet people who have similar interests, and learn to code.

In this workshop we’ll be delving into Cryptography - encrypting and decrypting messages using ciphers.

No coding experience is required! Students don’t need to have any programming experience to come along. We’ve got something for students of all ability levels. We’ll cover the basics if you’re new to Python and show you some extra cool stuff if you’re already a programming pro!

This event is a BYOD (bring your own device) event, so bring your laptop with you. We have some laptops available for students that can't bring one.

Lunch (FREE PIZZA!) and snacks will be provided.

Perth GPN workshops are run by volunteer tutors from Perth’s IT community - people working in industry, teachers, plus students and staff from Perth universities.

Visit our Humanitix page to sign up.

Wonders of the Cosmos with Professor Danail Obreschkow

• Monday 11 Aug
• 6:00pm - 7:30pm (AWST)
• Subiaco Library
  237 Rokeby Road, Subiaco WA 6008, Australia

As night falls, the stars begin to tell a story more enthralling than our imagination can conceive. Join astrophysicist Professor Danail Obreschkow—Director of the UWA International Space Centre and researcher at the International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research—on a cosmic journey through space and time.

This educational talk will take us from our home planet to the edge of the universe, illuminating our place in the cosmos and exploring recent discoveries, from interstellar comets and mysterious radio flashes to distant galaxies and beyond. The adventure concludes with a captivating plunge into a black hole!

This talk is for adults, however children above the age of 12 are welcome if accompanied by an adult. This event celebrates National Science Week. Light refreshments will be provided.

2025 Marie Curie Lectures: Quantum century – Unlocking the universe’s secrets and shaping our future with Dr Danielle Holmes

• Tuesday 12 Aug
• 6:00pm - 8:00pm (AWST)
• University of Western Australia Physics Building Foyer
  Fairway, Crawley WA 6009, Australia

100 years ago, quantum physics was born to explain curious behaviour of tiny things. Since then, it has become our most powerful tool that humans possess, not just for increasing our understanding of the world, but for shaping its future. It has unlocked secrets of our universe, such as why stars shine and how migratory birds navigate. Scientists are now harnessing quantum physics to develop revolutionary computers that will solve problems that are currently out of reach, such as designing new medicines to fight disease and developing new materials to combat climate change.

This public lecture is part of the Australian Institute of Physics’ 2025 Marie Curie Lecture Series presented by Dr Danielle Holmes, a passionate science outreach communicator. Dr Danielle Holmes makes ‘qubits’ using individual atoms in silicon chips than can revolutionise humanity’s problem-solving abilities. As a Postdoctoral Researcher and Lecturer at UNSW, she shares her love for quantum physics well beyond the laboratory- having even performed at the Sydney Comedy Festival!

Tickets are FREE but registration is essential.

Forrest Research Foundation National Science Week Showcase

• Saturday 16 Aug
• 12:00pm - 5:00pm (AWST)
• Forrest Hall
  21 Hackett Drive, Crawley WA 6009, Australia

The Forrest Research Foundation invites you to its National Science Week Showcase at Forrest Hall. Join in memorable experiences for the whole family at the frontiers of science.

• Get hands-on! We've teamed up with Supersonic Science, who will guide you into exciting and explosive experiments all day long.
• Embark into virtual realities where you can journey inside molecules or watch the Universe being born.
• Tour the scientific frontier at our Science Stations featuring meteorites, carbon-fibre bones, a black hole hunt, shark skeletons, gravity waves, and more!
• Watch, listen, and ask as top young scientists share their research in a full-day schedule of short-feature presentations.
• Step in front of the big screen at our photo booth featuring images spanning microscopic to galactic scales.

We look forward to welcoming you to Forrest Hall for an exciting day of science for all ages!

Our young strategists are deep in thought as the Junior Chess competition kicks off! A huge thank you to the incredible Mrs Butson, whose dedication and tireless work make this much-loved event possible every year. We are so grateful! 💙

When

Every Friday in Term 3

Time

Starts at 7:40am and concludes at 8:15am

Location

In the library

Year Groups

For students in Year 3 to Year 6 only

*A friendly reminder that students attending Friday morning for Numero should not arrive too early, as supervision begins at the scheduled start time.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Round 1 of the Junior Chess Tournament is almost complete and I have been impressed with the high level of skill and sportsmanship shown, especially amongst the Year 1 players who are new to chess this year.

In library we read Book Week Notable book, How to Make a Bedtime and had a great time talking about our own bedtime routines, although we were quite concerned that the bear and his little friend did not brush their teeth!

Book Week is Week 5 with our Parade on Friday 22nd August. I hope you can join us for what will be a fabulous morning.

Mrs Butson

“When the final page turns, when the telling is past, when our story is over, it’s bedtime at last.” How to Make a Bedtime by Meg McKinlay and Karen Blair.

📚 Kindy kids kicked off library time with a special guest — Little Miss Chatterbox! What a fun way to start the reading journey! 💬💕

Please keep an eye out for 'Scholastic Book Club Issue 5 catalogue' in your child's bag. Orders close Friday 8th August.

This week I witnessed a few groups of students using the Talk it Out benches here at school. It is great to see them actively working on building healthy friendships and resolving issues on the same day. Thank you for supporting them to make these very important choices. This week’s URStrong parent information is below.

Bullying: What Schools are Getting Wrong: We are working hard at our school to create a culture of kindness among the students. To do this, we have embraced URSTRONG’s proactive approach to bullying. Here’s an interview with the Founder of URSTRONG sharing why we use the term “Mean-on-Purpose” instead. It is important to note, however, that we believe over 90% of conflicts that happen at school are, what URSTRONG calls, Friendship Fires®.

We have a wonderful and busy term with NAIDOC Day, St Dominic’s Day, Book Week, Athletics Carnival, and the Talent Show happening. Having a routine and knowing about any changes in the school week is so helpful for the students to plan and enjoy the special events. The library noticeboard will always have the details of the week ahead, as well as what is happening in the library with the Chess Tournament, Numero and Book Week Celebrations.

Mrs Butson

Together we can keep our community as healthy as possible.

All parent volunteers must complete this form before assisting at school. Please click the link below to fill out the declaration - it only takes 10 seconds. Thank you!

Friday 8th August

St Dominic's Day Whole School Mass PP-Yr6 9am

St Dominic's Day Mini Fete 11:30am - 1:05pm

Term 3, 2025 - Wednesday 23rd July - Friday 26 September

We warmly invite all families to join us for our upcoming school and parish Masses as we come together in prayer and celebration:

• Friday 8th August at 9am – St Dominic’s Day Mass
• Friday 15th August at 9am – Feast of the Assumption Mass
• Saturday 23rd August at 6pm – Sacrament of Eucharist Mass

These are special opportunities to gather as a faith community, and we’d love to see you there.

Please see the attached information on how to order lunch for your child on a Monday, Wednesday and Friday.

If you’d like to be kept up to date on current and upcoming events and important information from the P&F please add us on Facebook.

If you need to order a Smartrider Card for your child to travel on public transport, you can now order this online by clicking on the red button below. Please be careful when ordering as there are two Holy Rosary Schools. Our school is listed as per the below screenshot.

Our Lady of the Rosary Parish

Parish Office - 9446 2055

Father Peter Hoang OP - 0412 445 199

Email: doubleview@perthcatholic.org.au

Please click on the below to view our latest newsletter, thank you.

• Five days a week during term time
• Vacation Care during school holidays
• Available for children attending Kindy through to Year Six.