31 October 2018

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 2018. Please note dates are subject to change.

Principal’s Introduction

School Board

The Newborough Primary School Board has been recognised as a highly functional unit within the West Australian Independent Public School system. With a solid membership of 5 parents, 3 staff and 2 community members, the Board has established a good relationship with Newborough Primary’s school leadership.

The Board provides guidance on the school’s strategic direction including objectives, priorities and general policy directions. In addition to this, the Board approves the extra charges required for the provision of materials, services and facilities, items to be supplied by students, as well as other charges which may be needed for the purpose of optional components of the school’s education program.

I’ve been fortunate enough to be a member of the Board for 6 years. Working full time has not allowed me to have a significant contribution within the P&C or within my child’s specific classes. The Board has allowed me to contribute to the school in other ways. During my time on the Board, we have introduced and approved the BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) for years 4 to 6, established a school patron, lobbied local government for staff parking facilities, established a facilities sub-committee to determine options for the ongoing security of our school as well as dealing with aging infrastructure, lobbied government for the ongoing support of our chaplaincy program and had significant input into two business plans.

This is a great opportunity to make an active contribution to your child’s school around any existing commitments you may have.

Our Board meets twice a term at 7pm on a Monday evening. We currently have three parent vacancies for 2019 for which nominations are currently open. I can highly recommend taking the opportunity to be part of the Board and encourage you all to take the chance to be closer to the school. Mr Worthy is accepting nominations now.

Don’t miss out.

It is one of the best decisions I made for my children’s schooling.

Matt Gaunt
Newborough Primary School Board Chair

Nominations Close Monday 5th November. Send expression of interest to John.Worthy@education.wa.edu.au

Perimeter Fence Community Consultation

As required by the WA Planning Commission the following letter has been distributed to all households on streets adjacent to (facing) the school. Parents and community members are also welcome to respond.

To the Householder

I am pleased to announce that Newborough Primary School has gained limited funding for the installation of a security fence around the perimeter of the school buildings.

This fence will improve staff, student and visitor safety. It will also discourage the antisocial behaviour that has resulted in high levels of vandalism of facilities and hostility towards staff out of hours.

The proposed plan is available for viewing in the school office until Friday 16th November 3:00pm for comment. The plan is also available as a pdf on the school’s homepage:

The WA Planning Commission require comments and complaints to be made in writing to the school Principal including your contact details to allow for follow up on any issues that may arise.

Yours Sincerely

John Worthy
Principal
Newborough Primary School
178 Newborough Street
Karrinyup WA 6018
John.Worthy@education.wa.edu.au

Proposed Staff Car Parking

The Department of Education have conducted a site audit of our current parking and traffic movement around the school following a letter of concern sent to them by the School Board’s Facilities Sub Committee. It was acknowledged that Newborough PS has Zero onsite staff parking bays and that street parking was now not considered onsite parking. Previously we had been advised that we had 58 bays on Wilding and Newborough Streets. As a result of this audit the Department commissioned a feasibility study for a staff parking upgrade that has resulted in two options to be considered in the next budgeting round. These options include:

Either of these options will reduce congestion for parking around the school and improve safety for students, staff and visitors. I have been advised that our parking situation is a high priority. We now wait to see how we go in the next budget period in 2019.

Newbie Knights Logo Winner

The Newbie Knights are pleased to announce that Riley Cooke from Year 6 was the winner of the Newbie Knights Logo competition. This was a very competitive process with 62 entries from Pre-Primary to Year 6. Riley will work with Mrs Kobe Koerber who is a graphic artist to modify the logo into a logo friendly format, much the same as our Positive Behavior Logo created by Tahni Blatchford just over a year ago. Riley also won a voucher and certificate signed by all the Newbie Knights.

QUOTE OF THE WEEK

Thanks,

John Worthy
Principal

Term Dates

DoE Security

Keep an eagle eye on our school!

School Watch encourages the school community to report any suspicious activity in and around school grounds, after hours and on weekends, as well as during school holidays.

Telephone 1800 177 777 (freecall) or 13 14 44 (WA Police).

Please do not approach any individuals, just contact security and they will investigate the situation or contact the Police. Working together will help protect our school.

School Directory

Planning on leaving Newborough PS?

If your child(ren) will not be attending Newborough PS next year could you please let us know as soon as possible, in writing either via email to Newborough.ps@education.wa.edu.au or to our school office. This will assist us with planning for 2019.

Art Exhibition

Save the Date

Please pencil in the dates Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21st November for Newborough Primary School’s self-portrait art exhibition.

The art exhibition will be launched by an assembly on Tuesday 20th November at 8.50am with Liza Harvey MLA officially opening the exhibition. Parents and families are welcome to view the exhibition on Tuesday and Wednesday throughout the day in the undercover area, with the exhibition being open until 7pm on Tuesday night and 5pm on the Wednesday afternoon.

Our students are very excited to share their work with you.

Art Exhibition Portrait Fundraiser

Newborough Primary School students (K-6) will be painting a self-portrait for an art exhibition we will be holding in Week 7, Term 4. (Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21st November.)

The P and C have purchased the canvases for the school to use and will be selling these to parents as a fundraiser for the school.

Each portrait will cost $12.50 to the P and C.

Please also find below in regards to our Art Exhibition Portrait Fundraiser flyer and Fundraising form

Absentees

Just a friendly reminder that if your child will be absent, please contact the School directly either by:

Please include only the student’s name and room number, reason for absence and the date in any messages – the use of apostrophes, a colon or emoji results in the school receiving a blank message, and we are unable to accurately update your child’s record.

For Example: “John Doe Room 13 absent 1/2/2017 sick with flu”.

Thank You
Administration Staff

NO Dogs on School Grounds

This is a reminder that dogs are excluded from the Early Childhood, (Fenced area of the Kindergarten and Pre-primary), verandahs, sandpits, and quadrangle areas at all times. This includes school drop-off and pick-up times.

2019 Voluntary Contributions

The Voluntary Contributions fees have been established and approved by the School Board, in line with Department of Education requirements. The contribution fee for 2019 will remain at $60 per child.

While contributions are voluntary, the quality of our teaching/learning programs will be enhanced by your contribution, which is used to supplement expenditure in the following areas.

• Reading Resources
• Mathematics Resources
• Art/Craft
• Technology

Total Contribution $60
Payment is requested at the commencement of the school year

Administration News

Statements of Accounts

Many thanks to those who have already paid their accounts in full —it is much appreciated. A Statement of Accounts have been sent home with items which may still be outstanding. Please note that although the account may state that current items are ‘outstanding’, unfortunately this is an automatically-generated document produced through Department of Education financial software and we are unable to change it. We’re hoping that this will be amended in future software updates.

Please note: Swimming lessons for PP-Year 6 are scheduled to start in week 9 with a cost of $38 per student. Term 4 can be quite a busy term incursion/excursion-wise – if you’d like to plan ahead and start making partial payments, please speak to our Manager Corporate Services, Sharon Singleton.

Payments are to be made via direct deposit (BSB 016 350 Account No: 340871304 – child’s name and incursion/excursion as reference)

Medication

If your child requires any medication, short-term or long-term (tablets, creams, liquid medication, etc), please discuss with Administration as a form needs to be completed.

Direct Deposit Payments only

All payments made to our school for excursions or incursions are requested to be made via direct deposit through internet banking.

Cash payments can no longer be accepted and will be returned to parents (unless prior arrangements have been made with our Manager Corporate Services).

This process ensures that there is a clear paper trail for all payments, parents will have lodgement receipts from their banks and payments can be processed in a timely manner.

If you do not have access to internet banking, please see our Manager Corporate Services, Sharon Singleton, to make alternative arrangements.

Visitors to our school and Volunteering

If you are visiting the school to deliver your child’s lunch, hat etc or volunteering in a classroom, please ensure that you sign in at the front desk. This is a risk management procedure to ensure that all people on school grounds are accounted for in case of emergency and for the safety of our children.

All volunteers are also required to complete a confidential declaration. These forms need to be completed each year and are available from your child’s teacher and our administration office.

This will allow you to volunteer your time as a parent helper in the classroom, on excursions, in the canteen etc.

2019 Booklists

2019 School Requirement lists (Booklists) went home recently.

Newborough PS in conjunction with the P&C is organising a school fundraiser by supplying and packing the booklists for 2019. This also provides the school community with Back to School requirements at competitive prices and makes your shopping easier. Support the P&C’s fundraising efforts by returning your booklist and FULL PAYMENT VIA DIRECT DEPOSIT paid into the P&C’s account, details below) to the front office by Friday 23 November 2018.

Electronic versions are available on our website in addition to hard copies from the office, if you have misplaced your copy.

PAYMENT INFORMATION

Payments are to be made by direct deposit by FRIDAY 23 NOVEMBER 2018

DIRECT DEPOSIT :

Please ensure it goes to
Newborough PS P&C (not the school account)
BSB 036 027 A/C 579280.

Include your reference details eg. ‘Surname and Grade e.g. Roberts Yr 4

As our school’s preferred supplier, this service acts as a fundraiser for our school. You are, of course, welcome to purchase from other suppliers, however we’d greatly appreciate your support to enable us to purchase additional resources for our school. Please bear in mind that there are some items (eg student diaries, library bags) which are only available for purchase through the school.

Tree Planting - Room 12 & 13

Mr Worthy helped Year 4 students from Rooms 12 and 13 with a tree planting project in our nature playground. The students were very excited about being involved in this project and would like to thank Sunni Mentink’s father Ron Mentink, for donating all the beautiful plants.

Music News

Musicals 2018 Year 1-6

Our Classroom Mini Musicals are being held in week 6 in the Undercover Area. Our students cordially invite our Newborough Community to attend these performances. Please check the date and time and be seated before the starting time indicated. If you are bringing young ones, please keep them quiet and seated with you. The students are organising all aspects of the performance, but if you have any questions, come and see me in the music room before or after school, Tuesday to Friday.

Wanted

Any second hand animal onesies in good condition to be donated to the wardrobe of the music room for upcoming Mini Musicals, see Mrs Snelson!

Choir

Our first gig this term is the Count us In 2018 performance of "One Song".

This is a nationwide performance with over 3000 Australian schools singing "together" next week Thursday, 1st November at 8:30am.

Weather permitting, we will rock out in the Nature Playground. Please meet in the music room for a final rehearsal at 8am.

Wear your faction colours and bring as many people as you would like to support the choir!

Mrs Snelson

Yours in Music
Andria Snelson, Music Specialist

P&C News

Book Club News

Have you heard the news? We're having a book fair in the library 7th to 9th November. Last week you should have received a flyer showing a sample of the books that will be available to purchase at the fair. Every dollar that is spent goes toward new books for the school so thank you for supporting our school.

Please consider volunteering at the fair. Even 30 minutes would be of great help to me.

Also, after two years of running the book club, it's time to pass the role onto another parent. I will be around next year to help every step of the way so you won't be alone. Please feel free to contact me if you'd like to know what exactly you have to do as book club coordinator. It's not scary nor hard.

Rhonda Yates
Book Club Coordinator
simplyrhonda@yahoo.com

Uniform Shop News

Just a reminder that we are still taking second-hand uniforms.

Would you like to get involved in the school community but don't have a lot of time? Can you spare 45 minutes a month? Then the uniform shop might be the place for you.

The uniform shop has gone through renovations last term. Why not pop and see for yourself the changes? We even have a proper change room now.

Rhonda Yates
Uniform Shop Coordinator
newboroughuniforms@gmail.com

Canteen News

Volunteers

Thank you to all the volunteers who have helped make my transition into canteen manager run so smoothly over the last couple of terms. I hope that those of you that use the canteen have been happy with the progress so far, your children have been a pleasure to meet and feed.

Going forward it would be lovely to meet some more parents and family members who wish to come and help. This term there have been a few changes to the menu and I’m very excited to introduce a picnic box for the students as we begin the last term of the year. As the weather warms up (hopefully soon!) the students and staff can order half a sandwich of your choice accompanied with cheese and crackers, a rice ball and seasonal chopped veggies.

I am always happy for feedback and suggestions so please feel free to pop in and see me.

Canteen Days

Our Canteen will be open Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Online Ordering

Our online canteen ordering system QuickCliq:

QuickCliq is offering up to 15% of this service charge back to the P&C

If you have any questions or feedback about this change, you can contact the P&C Secretary at newboroughpcsec@gmail.com

Canteen Menu

Check out our new Spring Menu.

You can view the latest Canteen Menu from the link below. A hard copy is available out the front of the school office.

Volunteering

We are always looking for help in our school canteen. If you could spare an hour once a week that would be appreciated. Please click on the link below to register.

Regards
Penny Fraser
Canteen Manager

Entertainment Book

Newborough Primary School is raising funds. Here’s howe you can help…

Help us raise funds for our fundraising by buying an Entertainment Membership, and you can enjoy value the whole family will love these school holidays. You'll receive hundreds of valuable offers to keep the kids 'entertained' and help our fundraising at the same time.

PLUS order now and received FREE delivery to any address in Australia.

Using just a few of these offers will cover the cost of your Membership!

Jerelyn Tierney
0403167135
jeryt@hotmail.com

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!

Community News

Target Sports

Basketball School Program

Safety House

Newborough Primary School has been a proud supporter of the Safety House Program in our community for many years. We currently have 9 safety houses in our neighbourhood. The Safety House Program is always looking for new volunteers from the local community to become a ‘Safety House’, if this interests you, please email halijah.hyder@gmail.com for more details. FEELING UNSURE? KNOCK ON A SAFETY HOUSE DOOR!

Halijah Hyder - Safety House Coordinator

Are you interested in safety for kids in your local community? It’s easy to help and you could make a difference.

Safety House is a community based “Good Neighbour” program of volunteer householders organised by a local Safety House Coordinator. It’s easy to be a Safety House, it will cost you very little for a 3 year Working with Children Card and you could be doing something important to help protect vulnerable young children. The program is supported by the school and the local Parents Association. You can make a difference for kids in your local community.

WHO CAN BE A SAFETY HOUSE?

A Safety Householder must be a caring adult who is usually in or around their home during school travel times and be ready and willing to assist any child who might seek help at their door. This is to make sure that a child in need will find someone at home if they knock on the Safety House door for help. Your house must have easy street access to the front door, no screening walls or trees and a Safety House sign easily visible from the street. If you have a dog it should be secured behind a fence at the rear of the building or be kept under control in the house.

This is to make sure that a young child will be able to find the Safety House door easily and will not be frightened away.

Before you can be a Safety House, any eligible adult who is likely to help a child at the door must have a valid Working with Children Card. Also everyone living in the house aged fourteen and over must consent to having a continuously monitored police check which is fully paid for by Safety House. Your local Safety House Committee will help you fill out a simple Safety House WA application form. We need to make sure that anyone who might answer the door at a Safety House has been carefully checked out.

For further information please fill in the coupon below and leave it at your local School Office or you can contact the Safety House Head Office direct by email at safety@safetyhousewa.org.au and our website is:

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