18 May 2016

Newsletter Articles

Dates to Remember

Note : Incursions, Excursions, Assembly days will be updated each term This is an outline of the events that will be coming up in 2016. Please note dates are subject to change.

Principal’s Introduction

Last week the Years 3 and 5 students completed the NAPLAN testing for this year. Congratulations to all the students who participated, we are all very proud of the effort that they put into completing the tests. Like anything at school, all we ask is for students to put in their best effort and from all reports it was clear that they all did. The teachers did a great job of administering the tests. Results from the tests are not available until later in the year, usually around September. We will be able to give you an idea of how the students went when the results arrive.

We now begin gearing up for the 2016 School Musical, The Pinnafore Pirates. Auditions begin this week and the excitement is rising. There has already been a lot going on behind the scenes with Mrs Holmes organising costumes, props and people. If you are interested in helping out with the musical, please see Mrs Holmes.

Parent Communication

In an effort to improve our communication with parents and the wider community, we are trialling an app called Schoolzine. This is created by the company that creates our newsletter. The app will be used for non-urgent communication - this includes any minor changes to the school day and information that affects a particular class or group ie Choir. It can be downloaded for free from the ITunes store for Apple devices or Google Play stores for Android users. It would be appreciated if you downloaded the app so we can assess its suitability for our needs. During the trial, we will continue to use our existing SMS system as well, so parents won’t miss out on pertinent information.

We also often include some information on Twitter, so be sure to follow us; @Newboroughsc!

Nature Play Area

If you have the opportunity to have a look at the Nature Play area, there has been some fantastic work occurring on Friday afternoons. Phase 1 of the project has begun and you will notice a lot of timber ready to be used and also that mulch has begun to be spread and some native trees have been planted along the access road. Further in the newsletter there is a plan of the Nature Play area for you to look at. If you haven’t already, make sure you have a look at the Nature Play newsletter as it provides a lot of information pertaining to the development of the area. We are very excited about this area and are looking forward to seeing it develop as each phase of implementation is completed. Many hands make light work, so if you are able to make the busy bee on the 11th June, your assistance would be appreciated.

Be Proud of your School

Our school is a fantastic school, we have a great relationship with our community; however, there are times that we have issues relating to visitors on our premises. We are proud of our school and know that our school community are too; so we ask that if you see someone on our premises that is doing something inappropriate, please call Education Security on 9264 7771 and let them know. Please don’t confront the people but do report it so we can minimise the impact that unwanted visitors have on our school. There are signs located throughout the school with Education Securities’ number should you need it. This week we arrived at school on Monday to find sand through the Pre Primary drink fountain and thrown against the windows and doors.

Stranger Danger

There have been incidences recently that are a reminder of the importance of stranger danger. While we haven’t had an incident at school, I would like to take the opportunity to remind you of ways to help your child be safe. Should there be an incident of concern that we were required to report on, please be assured that we would ensure you are promptly informed.

Here are some suggestions to help your children stay safe:

• always travel in a group
• walk on the right hand side of the road to face oncoming traffic
• wherever possible, leave space between you and the roadway
• stay in areas that are well lit
• stay in view – avoid going into areas that are hidden (such as parkland bush or behind shopping centres)
• be alert – earphones and headphones can reduce your awareness considerably
• if you have a mobile phone, have it turned on and ready to dial an emergency number
• if a passing car stops nearby, never get too close
• run from a situation if you feel at risk
• give this advice to your brothers and sisters, especially if they are younger
• report suspicious behaviour to your parents, school and the police
• if you can get it safely, try to photograph or remember the number plate of the car
• report number plates of cars and the clothing or distinguishing features of individuals to police.

You can call 13 14 44 to report an incident to WA Police (only use 000 in an emergency) or 1800 333 000 to reach Crime Stoppers.

To get the latest community safety information from police, visit WA Police on Facebook www.facebook.com/WA.Police or online at www.police.wa.gov.au.

If you have any concerns, please feel free to contact me at school.

Fathering Project

Last year we began looking for Dads who were interested in participating in the Fathering Project Schools Program. We had a group of fathers who were interested in establishing a group to support fathers engage with their children. There are 3 levels of activities undertaken by the schools’ fathering groups, these include: Father and Father activities, Father and child activities and Father and Fathering Project activities. If you are interested in finding out more please come and see me or send me an email at Nick.Stenhouse@education.wa.edu.au

Cheers
Nick Stenhouse
Acting Principal

Term Dates

New Kindy Student Enrolments for 2017

Due by Friday 22 July 2016

Applications are currently being taken for enrolment of students into Kindy 2017 (those born between July 1, 2012 and June 30, 2013) and should be made before Friday 22 July 2016.

If you have a child or know a neighbour that has a child turning 4 after 1 July 2016 or, please come to the school office to enrol before 22 July this year. Enrolment forms for 2017 are available on our website:

To make an application to attend Newborough Primary, please bring with you originals of your child’s birth certificate, immunisation records and proof of residential address, (ie Shire & Water Rates Notice, Electricity & Gas Account or Rental Agreement) and complete an Expression of Interest Form.

Deputy News

Humphrey’s Dance Program

Humphreys Dance starts this week! The main emphasis in this program is to give children a 'love for dance' and to create a fun environment to learn rhythm and dance as well as social skills development and team work with ease. The program is achievable for every child and the familiarity within the program aids this progress, giving them great confidence and enjoyment. The music used and dances taught are age-related and have been carefully selected and put together over many years of experience in teaching techniques to form a strong foundation to build upon each year developing muscular memory and creating a dance culture.

Payment was due by Friday 6th May 2016. Please see Kate and Sharon in the Front Office urgently in regards to payment if you have not paid. The cost is $60 per child with a maximum of $60 per family.

There will be a social dance for K-2 and 3-7 on Wednesday 29th June. More information will be provided on this at a later date.

The timetable for the program is below. This program started on Tuesday 17th May.

KidsSafe Report on Playground Equipment and Sand Pits

We recently had a Kidsafe Playground audit conducted on all play equipment in the school as part of the National Quality Standards. The report received on our playgrounds was overall positive with only a few minor works needed to be done on the equipment to ensure the safety of our students. Two of the major recommendations have been:

• Replacing the slide in the junior primary playground near the oval; and
• Topping up the sand in the junior and senior playgrounds.

The slide has now been replaced and thanks to our amazing parents, the two playgrounds will have sand replaced in them on Friday 20th May. We thank the P and C for helping organise at quick notice parents to get up for an early morning 6.30am start to fill up the pits.

As such, can we please issue another reminder to keep all dogs and rubbish out of our playgrounds. Thank you.

Home Reading Pre-Primary– Year 2

As parents of our Pre-Primary to Year 2 students would be aware, Newborough Primary School has a Home Reading Log to record student’s nights of reading rewarding them with certificates for each 50 nights that they have read. The certificates are:

50 nights – Bronze Certificate
100 nights – Silver Certificate
150 nights – Gold Certificate
200 nights – Sapphire Certificate

Below are some of our fantastic readers so far this year.

(Left to Right) Bronze Certificate Readers: Reed Ndreca,
Titan Szczepanski and Isobel Toovey (Year 1)

If your child reads more than one book on any given night, please record these on the same line and not on a new night.

Book Week 2016 – Australia: Story Country

Okay! So Book Week 2016 isn’t until 20-26th August. (Week 5, Term 3) However, the topic of Australia: Story Country links beautifully with the Cross Curriculum Priorities of the Australian Curriculum and provides our students and teachers with an opportunity to explore the history of Australia; the histories and cultures of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders; Asia and Australia’s history with Asia and multicultural Australia.

One of the activities we are considering for Book Week is each class cooking damper on an open pit fire. However, we will need many parents who would be happy to volunteer to help build the fire and cook the damper during the day. If you are happy to help with this activity in August, could you please contact me in the office or via email as this one may take some organising!

School Diary 2017 – Cover Photos

The organisation for the next year’s School Diary always begins in Term 3. This year we would like to ask parents to submit any photos of either students or the school that you have taken throughout the year to be submitted for consideration for the front and back cover. Students must be wearing their school uniform in any photos submitted and be wearing a school hat if the photos have been taken outside such as in the playground or on an excursion. We will check the photo permission of students if the photos are considered. We will ask for any photos next term. So, keep any great photos that you think would represent our school well for the diary.

Kind regards,

Karen Tucknott
Deputy Principal

National Walk Safely to School Day

Newborough Primary School will be taking part in National Walk Safely to School Day on Friday 27th May.

Walk Safely to School Day is an annual, national event when all Primary School aged children are encouraged to walk and commute safely to school.

The objectives of this day are to:

• Encourage parents/carers to walk to school with primary school age children
• Promote the health benefits of walking and create regular walking habits
• Help children develop vital road crossing skills
• Help ensure children up to the age of 10 years hold an adult's hand when crossing the road
• Reduce car dependency and traffic congestion
• Reduce the level of air pollution created by motor vehicles
• Promote the use of public transport

We look forward to seeing all participants on Friday 27th May in the Undercover Area where there will be fruit and stickers for all our young walkers!

P&C News

SAVE THE DATE - SATURDAY 30 JULY

NEWBOROUGH QUIZ NIGHT

Our major fundraiser for the year will be a quiz night held at the Community Centre next to the school on Saturday 30 July. Please think about PRIZE AND AUCTION DONATIONS BIG OR SMALL that you can contribute to the night, maybe through your work or someone you know. More details will follow and notes will be going out with the kids next week.

If anyone has any questions or wants to get involved with the P&C please call me on 0400 791 968.

WIN $5,000 FOR OUR SCHOOL WITH RAC LITTLE LEGENDS CLUB

RAC Little Legends Club is a FREE programme designed to help your child learn all about bicycle, pedestrian and passenger safety. Learning is fun and it’s also aligned to the Western Australian curriculum.

Join online at https://littlelegends.rac.com.au/registration and your child will receive:

• Membership card and welcome pack
• Monthly eNewsletter
• Exclusive Discounts on a range of family and community events

As a Little Legends Club Member, there are 4 family passes to Kids Wonderland and $5,000 for our school to be won before 30th September.

LIKE CHEMMART DOUBLEVIEW ON FACEBOOK AND EARN $1.00 FOR THE SCHOOL

There are a number of local businesses who support our P&C throughout the year with donations of prizes and cash. Once again the wonderful people at Chemmart Doubleview (down near the IGA on Scarborough Beach Rd) are supporting our school. Last year Chemmart Doubleview donated over $800 to the P&C. Chemmart Doubleview have been a great supporter of Newborough Primary so lets support them.

As always, if anyone has any questions or wants to get involved with the P&C please call me on 0400 791 968.

Cheers

Neale McQuire
P & C President

Nature Play Busy Bee

You would have seen our newsletter earlier this week (or have a peak below!), showing you the plans for our Nature Play Area and hopefully you're as excited as we are! As we firm up the activities for the Busy Bee day, we'll let you know more, but for now we're just aiming for a short, fun and productive afternoon of toil for all abilities. Thanks in advance.

NATURE PLAY BUSY BEE

JUNE 11TH from 1-4pm
KEEP THE DATE FREE FOR A SPOT OF WALL BUILDING, SHEET MULCHING, PLANTING OR DIGGING - WHAT EVER GRABS YOU!

(Remember, if you have access to large cardboard boxes destined for the bin or have any queries, please let Jolene know - jolene@terraperma.com.au.

We'll keep updating our wish list of recyclables so keep checking here for new information.)

Entertainment Book

The Entertainment™ Memberships are almost here!

Pre-order today and help us raise funds to support the Newborough Primary School P&C fundraising as 20% of the purchase price goes directly to us.

We’re really excited to be fundraising this year because the new 2016 | 2017 Entertainment™ Membership not only includes hundreds of local offers for dining, but now also features over 70 of the best restaurants, attractions and accommodation that Bali has to offer. Plus, order your new Membership before 4 May 2016 and you will receive up to $230 worth of additional offers that you can use right away!

Your pre ordered book will be delivered to your nominated child’s class as soon as Friday 4th May. (A great gift idea for Mother’s Day)

The Newborough P&C thank you for your kind support.

Bookclub –Term 2

Thank you for your Scholastic Book Club orders for this term. All orders have now been placed. Once they have been received at the school, all books will be delivered to the classrooms for distribution by the teachers.

If you have any queries regarding the Book Club orders, please contact me:

0452 524 150 or msharp68@gmail.com

Happy Reading!

Michele Sharp
Bookclub Co-ordinator

School Banking

We are open for banking every Thursday morning in the school library, 8:15 - 8:40am

This year the theme is the Outback with new rewards for every 10 deposits made.

Term 2 Rewards are now available to order. Term 1 Reward Items are still available.

Competition

Don’t forget our competition which is being run this year with the Grand Prize of a VIP tour of Australia Zoo to meet Robert and Bindi Irwin. It is great to see that may of our Super Savers are well on the way to reaching 15 deposits by the end of Term 3 which will automatically enter them into the competition.

If your child or children are interested in being part of school banking, you need to go to your local Commonwealth bank with your ID and child’s birth certificate to open an account.

They will then be provided with all they need to begin banking at school.

Happy banking!
Bec Gregory

Uniform Shop

Hi All,

Now it's getting colder drop by to get your winter uniform all jumpers and Track pants in stock.

Just remember if you can't get in for our opening hours, just down load the order form and email to me for delivery to class. newboroughuniforms@gmail.com

NEW Volunteers

We are always in search of some NEW HELP, pop bye and Say Hello , very easy Job to Help out Our School!

The uniform shop hours

Tuesday afternoon – 2.15am to 3pm
Wednesday Morning – 8.15am to 9am.

Thankyou
Melissa McNally
Uniform Shop Co-ordinator

Canteen News

Our Canteen Menu has been updated , the changes to the menu this term are:

Roast Chicken Dinner and Pumpkin Soup Cup have been added to our lunch items.
Potato Bake, Gluten Free Chicken Pattie and Nuddie Drink Apple Flavour are no longer available.

The Specials Online are now listed on the menu.

Andy Howell has sent out the next Canteen Volunteer Roster Schedule. We are hoping for a great response again.

Your positive reply last term helped immensely in making the canteen run smoothly.

As all ways thank you to our awesome volunteers.

Kind Regards
Patty Vallini
Canteen Manager

Community News

Ready Steady Go Kids

Term 2 is here!

Enrolments are open for Term 1 with Ready Steady Go Kids, Australia's largest and most reputable multi-sport and exercise program for preschoolers (aged 2.5-6 years). With seven locations in Perth's northern suburbs, our high quality, physio-designed program teaches children the fundamentals of 10 different sports in a fun, non-competitive, team-based environment. Ready Steady Go Kids seeks to develop a lifelong passion for physical activity and sport, decrease childhood obesity, increase confidence and prepare children for participation in school and the broader community. We'd love to offer a free trial for your 2.5-6 year old child. Please visit www.readysteadygokids.com.au or call 1300 766 892 for more information.

Reach the Sky Adventure

Let your child Reach The Sky Adventure!

A trial of a new outdoor -based adventure for kids is coming soon! We provide fun, challenging and supportive environment for your child to discover oneself that they have never experienced before.

Our program is designed to foster:

• Self-confidence
• Team work
• Creativity
• Live Balance
• Problem solving skills

We are looking for participants!

Small group size for the trial – 8 kids only!

When: 28 May – 25 June (one session per week every Saturday)
Time: 2 pm – 3 pm
Location: Newborough primary grounds
Trial special price: $60 (all 5 sessions)
Participants: Year 3 to 6 boys and girls

For more information please contact us on 0423089589 or email: reachsky.adventure@yahoo.com

Carine Senior Highschool Open Day

Wednesday 25 May 9.00am to 11.30am Presentation by Principal and other key school personnel, view working classrooms during school tour and enjoy a morning tea with school leadership and student representatives in the library. All family members welcome to attend.

Please RSVP attendance to Marcia Shaw on 9243 9100 or marcia.shaw@education.wa.edu.au by Friday 20 May