St Declan's Catholic Primary School Penshurst in Sydney, Australia | Primary School

St Declan's Catholic Primary School Penshurst

Locality: Sydney, Australia

Phone: +61 2 9580 4831

Address: 94 Penshurst St, Penshurst 2222 Sydney, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.stdpenshurst.catholic.edu.au

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25.01.2022 Represented by House Captains Anna and Michael, St Declan’s pays respect to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice at the Penshurst War Memorial today.

25.01.2022 Inspired by St Declan, we have created a school prayer that will be commissioned at Mass today. Several talented students have created artworks to capture the key aspects of our prayer: Community; Compassion; Hope; Joy; Making a difference; and Love, learning and growing in faith.

25.01.2022 St Declans families, lets show our children how important it is to honour our ANZACS this Saturday by taking part in this Family & Faith Initiative. Here is a video you can watch and show the kids to promote #stand4them. (you might even see someone you know in it) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMeu8AX2KGk

24.01.2022 Happy World Teachers’ Day to the amazing teachers at St Declan’s! The children’s messages of gratitude in your beautiful jars show how much you are appreciated. Thank you parents for our yummy cupcakes and the effort and time in decorating the teacher’s jars.

21.01.2022 Today at St Declans, the Year 5 students made beautiful cards of love, encouragement, hope, support and friendship to people who are homeless in Sydney. They attached them to the snacks that the staff brought in. Great team effort teachers and students

21.01.2022 An amazing response from the school in support of the Jesuit Refugee Service. These much needed materials will be delivered this weekend. If you have any materials youd like to add please drop them in to the meeting room under the Church 9-11am on Saturday. A very generous effort in a time of real need- thank you to all who contributed.

21.01.2022 From our hearts to yours. Happy Easter!

20.01.2022 With all excursions currently postponed due to COVID-19, Yr 5 have taken part in live virtual excursions at Hyde Park Barracks and the State Library of NSW Rush for Gold exhibition. In doing this they were able to view and listen to experts, ask questions and engage with other schools.

19.01.2022 Our Year 5 students created these beautiful artworks to celebrate National Reconciliation Week 2020. All students in each class contributed a painted gumleaf.

19.01.2022 Princess Sweetpea from The Princess and the Pea made a visit to Kindergarten for a fun end to our fairytale unit.

18.01.2022 Happy Book Lovers Day! St Declans Catholic Primary School Penshurst celebrated their love of reading with their favourite authors Andrew Daddo, James Fo...ley (author/illustrator) and Katrina McKelvey - childrens author, who Zoomed in as part of the Littlescribe Mini Writing Festival! See more

18.01.2022 A small dedicated group of Year 6 students joined with Miss Stevens to create a virtual submission for CaSPAs Lets Dance series. They also took part in a remote workshop with other schools and a guest choreographer.

18.01.2022 Science Week 2020 was celebrated with a K-6 paper plane competition.

15.01.2022 Our students have been enjoying connecting with some of their favourite authors this week via live video conferences as part of Little Scribes Mini Writing Festival. Andrew Daddo, James Foley and Katrina McKelvey have been inspiring our very own budding authors in many classes including 1Blue and 2Green.

15.01.2022 Hi Parents, you are invited to make your own Rosary Beads via Zoom. Everything will be supplied. Click on this link to register today. https://tinyurl.com/rosarybeadmaking Look forward to creating with you, Louise Perrau ( Family Educator) x

14.01.2022 Year 3, Year 4, Year 5 and Year 6 have enthusiastically entered back into school life over the last two days. Its wonderful to have them back!

13.01.2022 We celebrated the Feast Day of St Mary of the Cross MacKillop in style! Praying together, dressing up in clothes of the era, playing old fashioned games and enjoying a sausage sizzle treat.

13.01.2022 Wonderful to see our St Declans families enjoying their family Sleep Outs tonight! Family time, talking time, praying time while raising awareness and money for the homeless in Sydney! You are amazing St Declans families!

13.01.2022 St Declan’s was transformed into a mini farm for a day so Kindergarten could meet some farm animals up close!

12.01.2022 Lots of amazing colours and jerseys today as St Declans raised awareness and support for St Vincent de Paul. Were looking forward to the sleep out is experience tonight.

12.01.2022 Parents, please start your week with me tomorrow (Monday) at 10am via Zoom. Say hello and take 10 minutes to relax and reflect. https://scscatholic.zoom.us/j/94717941269

11.01.2022 Year 6 having a fabulous time at their long anticipated Camp!

10.01.2022 Our future engineers in Yr 4 had a great time designing and building Marble Runs as parts of their STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) program. Some great creations made.

10.01.2022 Some sensational sound work by second grade students!

10.01.2022 To the amazing teachers and staff at St Declan’s, thank you and happy World Teachers’ Day!

09.01.2022 As our Year 2 students prepare to make their First Reconciliation, a group of parents and their children gathered together via Zoom for a wonderful night of prayer and the making of good deed beads, hosted by our innovative Family Educator, Mrs Perrau.

09.01.2022 Balloons and streamers at the school gates heralded the important milestone of the first 100 days of school for our Kinder students. They celebrated the day with a range of fun activities.

09.01.2022 Year 6 collaborative Science Investigation: research, design and build a 1 metre tall structure which would withstand a simulated earthquake (table shake) for seven seconds. Many structures survived intact or with minimal damage, however some structures were not so lucky!

09.01.2022 To celebrate the launch of our newly created St Declans School Prayer, each child received a beautiful bookmark to mark the occasion.

09.01.2022 Today we welcomed back students in Kinder, Year 1 and Year 2. It is so great to have you back and to see so many smiling faces!

09.01.2022 More details will follow as plans are further finalised.

08.01.2022 Jesuit Refugee Service has a food bank for refugees and, like all food banks, they are low on stock. St Declans Parish is having a food drive to help stock them up. They are in need of: Rice, cooking oil, long life milk, kidney beans, lentils, chick peas, oats, cereal, toothpaste, shampoo, razors, shaving foam, deodorant, soap nappies (large). If you would like to support this organisation, you can drop items to St Declans Meeting Room (under church) on Saturday between 9 and 11am or drop materials into the school office so we can pass them on.

07.01.2022 Staff at St Declans enjoyed a Soup Day and raised $180 for the homeless. Check out St Declans Donation progress on our page https://my.fundraise.vinniesnsw.org.au//st-declan-s-schoo/ #familywintersleepout@home

06.01.2022 ANZAC day was a bit different for everyone this year, but a good chance to acknowledge this special day as a family. How did the families of St Declans commemorate ANZAC day this year? (Feel free to post pics)

05.01.2022 Congratulations to our Yr 6 classes who yesterday showcased their Robotics STEM projects to the whole school. Some definite future NASA candidates here!

03.01.2022 Hi St Declans community, watch this video promoting our Family Winter Sleepout on June 26. Donate to the St Declans fundraising page by clicking on this link https://my.fundraise.vinniesnsw.org.au//st-declan-s-schoo/... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxZKU6pDZOY&feature=youtu.be

02.01.2022 The fun continues on the Year 6 Camp! Wonder if they’ll be as bright eyed in the morning!

02.01.2022 Happy St Declans Day

02.01.2022 Cant wait to see all of our beautiful St Declans mums, grandmas and carers and their children at Our Mothers Day Mass on Friday. Join Fr Chris for the live stream Mass at 9.15am https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMUpiYTtBvI-1M3Uj-3b9Vg/

02.01.2022 Our imaginations were in overdrive this week after our school was visited by a mysterious creature who left us a habitat, footprints and lots of questions! At the end of the week this curious creature left us a special surprise. Check out our before and after photos! Zoom in to read the note!