Newsletter Articles

Dates to Remember

Please refer to the side panel “School Calendar” section for the “live” calendar of events for information

Principal’s Introduction

Holiday Arrangements

On behalf of all the staff I wish everyone a very safe and enjoyable break. Hopefully the weather is good and everyone can enjoy some fun and recovery time for those who have been ill. Don’t forget the Perth Royal Show. I’ll be going.

This has been another busy term culminating with two fantastic events that really shows the uniqueness of Newborough PS.

Firstly the team work efforts of our Interschool Athletics team who battled hard all day. Whilst we didn’t win the points our team did very well and performed with distinction with spirit and sportsmanship. Ms William’s was so proud of everyone in the team who gave their whole efforts, performing brilliantly on the day. It was lovely to hear that our school values shone through with terrific sportsmanship and team spirit.

Thank you to all the staff and parents who assisted, parents and friends who cheered so loudly and long.

The second final Term highlight was the wonderful Year 5 and 6 Enterprise Fete with students planning, organising and managing and using interpersonal skills through a broad range of really interesting stalls spaced all around the quadrangle. There was a lot of excitement from Kindy upwards as students visited stalls, played games and activities and helped raise funds for our graduating students. This year the fete raised $2 711.60. All those coins kept the office ladies busy and ensured they didn’t need to go to the gym for weight lifting.

We all look forward to the Sustainability Afternoon Tea at the new Sustainability Shed on Thursday 26th September from 3:00-4:00pm. It should be lots of fun.

The school office re-opens on Monday 14th October. All staff will be participating in a range of School Development activities including Smiling Minds Wellbeing and Term 4.

Students Return on Tuesday 15th October.

Rugby Union Champs

Congratulations to Nathan Du Plooy from Mr Freeman’s Year 5 class who captained his Rugby Union West Scarborough Under 10 Team to a Grand Final victory against Rockingham Rivals. This was his first year playing and his coaches are very impressed with him. They selected him as captain for the last 7 matches and noticed his leadership abilities.

Nathan stated that his father encouraged him to play Rugby Union. He wasn’t so sure at first but has grown to love the game and has made many good friends. He would like to one day play Rugby professionally. This school has quite a connection with Rugby with current and former Dad’s playing for the Western Force and the Wallabies who are currently at the World Championships.

Well done Nathan. Keep working hard to achieve your dream.

John Worthy
Principal

Term Dates

School Directory

Visitors to the school

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.

Payment of Incursions and Excursions - NO CASH PAYMENTS ACCEPTED

Payment of Incursions and Excursions

Newborough Primary School is a cashless school – all payments must please be made via internet banking only.

If you need assistance with making payment and would like a payment plan, please contact Sharon Singleton, Manager Corporate Services to make alternative arrangements.

Non payment of future incursions or excursions

Non payment of the incursion or excursion by the DUE DATE will result in your child not attending the event – they will be placed in another classroom while the incursion or excursion is taking place.

2019 Kindy Students to re-enrol for Pre Primary 2020

All Kindy students are required to re enrol for Pre Primary, their first year of compulsory schooling. Parents/Guardians will also need to provide their child’s latest immunisation records and two copies of proof of residence with their Application to Enrol form.

Letters from Mr Worthy explaining these requirements have been sent home with each Kindy student and must be returned to the front office before Friday 18 October,2019.

If you wish to advise that your child won’t be returning to Newborough Primary School for PP, we ask that you notify the school in writing to the following email address :
newborough.ps@eduation.wa.edu.au.

Year 6 Transition Program

As part of our high school transition program for Year 6s we are holding a parent information session on Tuesday, 22nd October from 6:00pm (Week 2, Term 4) The session will run for approximately an hour and will be held in Room 16 (Ms Phillips room).

The session will cover:

• what we are doing to prepare students academically, organisationally, socially and emotionally for high school
• feedback from feeder high schools
• feedback from past students
• things parents can do to support transition to high school

To start this session, we will ask you to write a note of encouragement directly to your child that they can read when they are having a bad day so you may like to prepare this beforehand. We will provide cards to write this message on at the session.

This is a valuable session for parents to attend and is the first time this has been offered at Newborough. We value your insights and contributions to establish a strong and supportive transition program for our students. We will be asking for written feedback at the end of the session.

2019 Voluntary Contributions

Thank you to the families who have paid their voluntary contributions for 2019. These fees were approved by the School Board, in line with Department of Education requirements, and 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

The P&C contribution has now increased to $30 per child for 2019.

If you have not yet paid the contribution, please consider doing so as soon as possible as the funds directly benefit your child this year.

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

Collecting Students during school hours

Parents/guardians are reminded that if they are collecting students during school time they are required collect a sign out pass and provide this to their child’s teacher from the front office. We do this for safety, security and accountability for student wellbeing.

Deputy News

IN-TERM SWIMMING LESSONS – WEEKS ONE AND TWO, TERM FOUR

The In-term Swimming lessons are in Weeks One and Two of Term Four. While this may sound like it is still weeks away (and it is), we need to have the In-term swimming completely organised by the end of this term (Wednesday 25th September).

The Excursion Advice Form has been sent home for all students from Pre-Primary to Year 6 but is also on the Newborough Primary School website in case it is squashed at the bottom of your child’s school bag, along with soggy sandwiches .

The final date for payment for swimming lessons is YESTERDAY, Wednesday 25th September – Week 10 of this term.

The cost per child is $41. The payment for swimming must be paid in total by this date Wednesday 25th September for students to be able to attend. (No pay, no go!)

The In-term swimming program is ONLY eight days long. To be of benefit, students must participate in all eight days. It is essential that payment is made this term.

The school will not be accepting pro-rata payment for parents of students who only participate in a few days of the swimming lessons due to holidays or illness.

As the In-Term swimming lessons provide essential swimming skills and life skills for our students, we expect all students to participate in the program.

However, if your child/ren are not going to be participating in the In-term swimming program, it is also essential that your email newborough.ps@education.wa.edu.au to state that your child is not participating in the program and the reasons why. Can you please inform the school ASAP if this is the case.

Please do not hesitate to contact me if you have any queries about swimming lessons next term.

Books for Bubs

Are you having a baby in 2019 or 2020?

Newborough Primary School would love to welcome you and your new baby to our school. We would be delighted to invite you and your baby to an Assembly and present you both with a “Books for Bubs” bag with some gifts for you both.

Please fill in the slip below and return it to the office so we can let you know when our next assembly and presentation will be.

Do you know of someone in our area who is having a baby in 2019 but they don’t have children at our school yet ? Please pass this information onto them so we can welcome them into our School Community.

If you want any information about the Newborough Primary School “Books for Bubs”

Program please contact me via email Karen.tucknott2@education.wa.edu.au or call into the school office.

Karen Tucknott
Deputy Principal

Newbros

Hey Dads, Grandads and solo-flying Mums! Save the date for our Newbro’s BIG School Camp Out on the school oval.

Bookings open now: Head to the link below.

WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! We have a BIG list of jobs that need doing. Please if you can, place your name next to a job be it BIG or small and we can make a MAMMOTH job an easy one. Head to the link below.

Holy Rosary School, Doubleview. Their camp out March, 2019, 300 participants.

• Generously provided by dad Nathan Byrne from the dad’s group at Holy Rosary School, Doubleview.

*Weather dependent. If rain is forecast a week out we may have to cancel or reschedule.

**Fully refundable

E-mail newbrodads@gmail.com and say g’day! The Newbros!✌

Enterprise Fete

What a day! The Year 5/6 cohort would like to thank the school community for the support they have showed towards our fundraising efforts.

The $2711.60 raised will go directly towards supplementing the cost of graduation and next year's camp.

KINDY CAFÉ

We would like to extend our sincere thanks to all families for your support of our highly successful Kindy Café, held at the Newborough sports carnival. We really appreciate all of the contributions made by our Kindy families and the support of the school community in once again making the Kindy Cafe such a great success.

This year we raised $727, which is an outstanding achievement.

Special thanks to the Madden family for the generous loan of their shade shelter and to our tireless ‘band of helpers’ who worked hard to make it such a success. Great ‘Teamwork” everyone!

Many, many thanks to Jess and Ben Boyce from Perth Property Signs and parents of Harvey and Lachie Boyce, for their very generous donation of a beautiful new Kindy café sign. Our Kindy Café will look fantastic for years to come!

The funds raised at the Kindy Café will be used to purchase additional equipment for our wonderful nature playground.

World Mental Health Day

FROM THE SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST:

World Mental Health Day is commemorated on 10th of October each year, with Western Australia holding Mental Health Week from 6 to 12 October.

This year’s global theme is to raise awareness around suicide prevention, and the role each of us can play to prevent suicide.

The Western Australian Association for Mental Health (WAAMH) has provided a range of useful resources to help us work towards improving or maintaining wellbeing, as well as to support others in our families and communities.

The following link is to their website which has information for Mental Health Week WAAMH Mental Health Week 2019

Click on Resources for free digital resources including a 12-page Wellness Booklet.

STEAM WEEK

STEAM WEEK OPEN SCIENCE LAB

Firstly, I would like to thank all the parents that were able to make it along to their child’s science lesson, during Newborough’s STEAM Week Open Lab sessions. I got lots of lovely feedback from parents saying that they learned a lot! I loved watching the interactions between students and parents during the activities. I am sure it helped the children to learn a lot too.

The Pre-Primary to Year 2 students learned about the Moon and its features, the first Moon landing, and why astronauts need to wear protective clothing in Space. The Year 3 & 4 students explored how micro-gravity affects astronauts who live and work in deep Space. Their team assignment was to choose a challenge and create a design solution for it. Years 5 & 6 learned about the European Space Agency’s future plans for a ‘Moon Village’. In teams, students identified the needs of human beings and the challenges to meet these in Space. They applied this knowledge to engineer their own designs for a potential ‘Moon Village’.

Here are some images of the Pre-Primary students and their parents making play-dough Moons, and using small stones to mimic the craters on the Moons’ surfaces.

Sam Metcalf
Science Teacher

P&C News

Uniform Shop

Volunteers

Without our volunteers the uniform shop cannot run so please help if you can. Enquiries to newboroughuniforms@gmail.com

Uniform Opening Hours

Uniform shop is open Tuesdays 8 - 845 am. Alternatively you can pay via bank deposit into the P&C account and email me your order. I’ll deliver the order to your child’s classroom.

For out of hours, please email through your order and it will be delivered to class after payment is received to the P& C account. newboroughuniforms@gmail.com.

Rhonda Yates
Uniform Shop Co-ordinator
newboroughuniforms@gmail.com

Canteen News

Newbie Knights Garden

We welcomed our first harvest of vegies from the Newbie Knights garden during the past fortnight. We have already included some of the produce in our pasta sauce and added them to Vegie Stick orders. Look out for Vegie Fritters on sale over the counter, and available to be ordered next term.

New Term 4 Menu

As the weather heats up, we're looking for new and fresh ideas (for Recess and Lunch) to add to the Term 4 menu. If you would like the opportunity to contribute, please email me your idea or recipe to newborough.canteen.manager1@gmail.com.

Volunteers

We are always in need of any assistance parents/grandparents can provide. We'd particularly like to thank one Pre-Primary Grandmother who caught two buses and a train and worked a double shift.

Even if you have an hour to spare we'd very much appreciate your time. It's a fun environment, no experience necessary and you'll be well supported so there's no need to feel anxious.

Regards
Amanda Meyer
Canteen Manager

School Banking

One of the great things about school banking is that it’s designed to reward regular savers. It doesn’t matter how much the kids deposit – what’s important is making saving a regular part of their weekly routine. If your child hasn’t banked in a while, pop in next Wednesday to check how many tokens they’ve already earnt (tokens don’t expire each year). This term we have 8 rewards to choose from with new goodies added every term.

And if the kids need any more motivation to save – it’s worth reminding them they earn a bonus 1.8% interest on their account (on top of their standard 0.5% interest) if they make at least one deposit and no withdrawals each calendar month.

See you before school next Wednesday in the library.

Sonia Johansen
School Banking Co-Ordinator

Entertainment Book

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Don't queue at the gate. Get your tickets today!

NEWBOROUGH PRIMARY SCHOOL NETBALL CLUB WINTER SEASON WRAP-UP 2019

Newborough netball has had a great year with 85 students from PP-Year 6 involved in netball over winter season, and another 8 new players about to start for spring season!

Thanks to all of our wonderful parents for all your efforts supporting netball and our amazing volunteer coaches, assistant coaches & team managers – Angie Wodcke, Nat Keenan, Katrina Gaunt, Tanya Johnson, Gabby Richardson, Corina Mentink, Nat Alach, Gemma van der Meer, Nicki Ryan, Tracy Wild, Julie Tierney, Sonia Johansen, Jamie Maxwell, Miriam Lopes, Blanche Blakeney & Kate Brandis.

We are also thankful to our fantastic group of dedicated umpires, all ex-Newborough Primary school girls – Tayla Hancock, Ruby McQuire, Neve Gaunt, Sammy Stephens, Ruby Dunn, Kerrie Tierney & Charli Wenden.

Lastly a huge thanks to the P&C for supporting our club & especially with the new netball dresses (& a few matching tank tops for the boys!) this year.

All of our players worked really hard, showed excellent team spirit & skills, and great development in their netball.

Final winter results

Juniors

Year 6 Team 1 (Saturday Division 3) 2nd
Year 6 Team 2 (Saturday Division 9) 3rd
Year 5 (Friday Division 3) 1st – premiers well done! Undefeated this season.

NetSetGO (Year 4/5, Year 4, Year 3 & Year 2)

No ladders are kept in NetSetGO, all four of our teams had a strong season. Year 3 (Friday) and Year 4 (Saturday) both got graded up during the season, and both finished the season undefeated – awesome job everyone!

Inaugural Pre Primary and Year 1 NetSetGO skills program

It was wonderful to see 20 of our PP & Year 1 students participating in their introduction to netball program during Term 2. Thanks to Blanche & Kate for bravely taking on this group & doing such a great job! The players had a brilliant time learning fundamental netball skills & playing games. We look forward to seeing the Year 1s out there on court next year when they start their Year 2 team!

Netball Leadership Program

Well done to our special group of Year 6 volunteers who participated in the netball leadership program, giving up their time to assist at training each week with the younger teams as helpers & mentors – Holly Boshart, Suzana Brankovic, Claudia Dovaston-McGavock, Josie Draper, Grace Johnson, Chloe Keenan, Elsie Middleton, Zara Morgan, Violet Winton & Zarah Wodcke.

Perth Netball Association – Talent Identified Players Program (PIPP) & State Championships Selection Trials

Congratulations to all of our players who participated in trials for the netball talent development program & gave it your best effort. I hope you all try again next year! Successful players are participating in specialised training over coming months, as well as having been selected to represent PNA in one of their teams for State Championships next June.

13 & Under (born 2007)

Well done to Suzana Brankovic & Claudia Dovaston-McGavock for trialling in this division up against Year 7 players, especially to Claudia who made it to the last round of trials.

12 & Under (born 2008 & 2009)

Well done to the following girls who were selected for the PIPP program – Holly Boshart, Sophie Dallin, Jasmine Gaunt, Chloe Keenan, Suri Mir-Mohammadi & Zarah Wodcke. Special mention to Zamia Whitney & Sienna Alach (both Year 4) who made it through to the final round of trials up against the Year 6 and 5 girls – amazing job!

Good luck to everyone playing the more relaxed, training-free Spring season netball in Term 4 & we look forward to seeing everyone back for Winter season 2020. Keep an eye out for netball registration forms which come out early Term 1.

Karen Winton
Club Coordinator

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.

Community News

BRICKTOBER 2019

When? Last weekend of School Holidays: October 12th – 13th

What? An exhibition of models built from Lego Bricks with 66 Exhibitors.

Where? Curtin Stadium at Curtin University, Bentley Campus.

Deanmore Dental – School Holidays Clinic Closure

Week 1

North Beach Dental Therapy Clinic
Tuesday – 1 October 2019 – Thursday 3 October

Marmion Dental Therapy Clinic
Friday – 4 October 2019

Week 2

Yuluma Dental Therapy Clinic
Monday – 7 October 2019 – Wednesday 9 October 2019 and Friday 11 October

Marmion Dental Therapy Clinic
Thursday 10 October 2019

N.B Should an emergency arise after clinic hours or during a public holiday please contact the emergency service on 1800 098 818, your local practitioner, or the Oral Health Centre of Western Australia on 08 6457 4400

Relationships Australia

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 neighbourhoodFEELING UNSURE? KNOCK ON A SAFETY HOUSE DOOR!

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 on the link below.

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