23 October 2019

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

Term 4 Welcome Back

Welcome back everyone. It’s great to be back at school for another exciting term. We start the Term with two weeks of Interm Swimming at the new Scarborough Beach Pool. It is really pleasing to be able to use our local pool, one that many children and families use. Thank you to parents for your support with forms, payments and having your child(ren) well organised. Also to Miss Tucknott and staff for your organisation and support. There is so much work that goes on behind the scenes for such an activity. The children have been very well prepared and are quite excited as I write this and they head off on their first day.

Shortly teachers will be conducting a varitey of tests to see how much students have progressed this year. A major highlight for this Term will be the Years 3-6 Musical called “Seussical’ that will culminate with performances at the Chrchlands SHS Concert Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday the 3rd and 4th of December. I suggest everyone get in quickly when ticketing goes on sale. We also have all of our usual end of year events such as Kindy Expo, Year 6 Graduation, Years PP-5 Awards presentation, Volunteer Morning Tea and much more.

Japanese Typhoon Hagibis

We wish all our families who were stranded in Japan or who have connections with Japan a safe return to Australia and hope that the Typhoon Hagibis has not caused too much damage or stress for you. Our thoughts and best wishes are withyou and the Japanese nation.

World Teachers’ Day Friday 25th October

This Friday we celebrate World Teachers’ Day. I hope you will spend a moment of thought and make an opportunity to simply thank your child’s teacher. The most rewarding and gratifying thing for a teacher is to hear they have helped a child.

Many will have heard me say that this is collectively the best group of Teachers I have worked with in my career as a Principal for 27 years and a Class Teacher for a further 11. Our Teachers, indeed this staff, are focussed on every child’s learning and wellbeing. Teaching really is hard work. There is a lot of organisation and preparation done outside regular instruction hours during evenings, weekends, before and after school and in holiday periods. We love and think constantly about what we can do for all our students and the profession as whole.

Student Placements for 2020

If your child (ren) will not be attending Newborough PS next year could you please let us know in the office. This will assist us with planning for 2020.

As is always the case during Term 4, Newborough PS’s class organisation for the following year takes place. A number of considerations are taken into account based on improving student performance. These include: staffing numbers, resourcing, recommended class sizes, a balance of academic abilities within each class, the need to evenly distribute students with special needs (academically, socially and behaviourally), an equitable distribution of gender, the ability to work independently if placed in a multi-age class. In 2018 and 2019 we were able to make straight classes throughout the school.

This is quite unusual and was the result of some luck with student numbers and agreements with teachers. Whilst we will try to have straight classes it simply may not be possible in some areas each year.

If you wish to communicate to me your child’s special needs or considerations, please present your correspondence to the Principal via the office marked “Private and Confidential” by Friday 22nd November (Week 6). You may wish to email your correspondence to John.Worthy@education.wa.edu.au Please note, this information will be considered when placing your child, however, all parent preferences may not be facilitated. Requesting a particular teacher will not be considered. Only sound educational reasons will be considered. This information will be added to the data we already have.

The placement of children and the make-up of classes is made in consultation with teachers. It is not a parent decision. Every child is equally important. The final decision for placements rests with the Principal. If you have any queries or would like to discuss this, please contact me to make an appointment.

It is unlikely that the structure of classes, their location and teacher will be presented at the end of this year. With our numbers constantly fluctuating it would be unfair to announce classes this year and then restructure when students return. Classes will be posted on classroom doors when you pick up your booklist items at the start of 2020.

WA Massed Choir

Newborough’s Senior Choir students performed brilliantly on the final evening of the series of nine nights for the WA Massed Choir Festival held on Friday evening of the last day of Term on 27th September. Not only did our Choir perform so well we featured strongly with Skye van der Meer as one of the outstanding comperes throughout the night. Skye spoke beautifully and confidently. Jude Shen opened the concert with a soloist performance. Jude sang delightfully setting the performance tone for the evening. Having two students selected from all the participating schools is a real honour and testament to our talented group. It was a wonderful concert with the massed choir, comprising nine schools, singing a medley of songs and engaging in some spectacular actions that delighted the audience. The lovely part of this event was that all the schools worked so well together lead by conductors Mary-Anne Goyder and Mirelle Hopwood. Thank you to Mrs Snelson and all the parents and families who helped prepare the children and support them. What a great way to end the term!

School Board Nominations

Are you interested in contributing to the governance of Newborough Primary School as a parent/legal guardian representative on the School Board? For next year we have two vacancies.

Current members of the Board who have completed their term are welcome to re-apply. Should there be more nominations than the vacant positions all parents/guardians will be offered the opportunity to vote. Candidates will then be asked to provide a 250-word brief to include on the voting slip. Members of the Board may hold office for a term not exceeding three years. New members of the Board will be offered training and will have a mentor allocated to assist with induction onto the Board. You can find detailed information about the School Board on our school website under the ‘Our School’ tag.

If you are interested email or supply in writing your expression of interest (Not your 250 word brief at this stage) to John.Worthy@education.wa.edu.au by 3:00pm, Monday 1st November 2019.

The Board meets twice per Term as determined by members. Extra meetings may be agreed upon by members of the Board. Members are expected to attend all meetings and abide by the Board ‘Code of Conduct’ and Board Meeting protocols.

Board members take part in:

• Establishing and reviewing the school’s objectives, priorities and general policy directions
• Planning of financial arrangements to fund those objectives, priorities and directions
• Evaluate the performance in achieving them; and
• Formulate codes of conducts for students.
• Sign off on the Delivery and Performance Agreement with the Director General.
• Determine dress code for students when attending or representing the school.
• Promote the school in the community.

Approve:

• Charges and contributions
• Extra cost optional components of educational programs
• Items to be supplied by a student for personal use in an educational program; and
• Agreements or arrangements for advertising or sponsorship in relation to the school
• Provide advice to the Principal on the implementation of religious education and religious activities
• Take part in the selection of the Principal and may be involved in the selection of teaching staff.
• The School Board does not take part in the day to day management of the school or its staff including:
• Operational management of the school
• Educational instruction of students
• Exercising authority over teaching staff or employees at the school, or
• Intervene in the management or operation of a school fund.

For further information please contact John Worthy in person at school, or email John.Worthy@education.wa.edu.au or phone 94461025 (School number during office hours) or 0409558820 (Mobile)

Secondary Gifted and Talented Applications Year Five for 2021

The Department of Education are promoting Gifted and Talented selective entrance programs for current (2019) year five students who will be entering secondary school in 2021.

Congratulations Finn

Congratulations to Year Six student Finn Bald who recently represented Western Australia in the National Junior Wrestling championships in Brisbane. Finn won gold in his weight/age category. We are all very proud of Finn who was keenly supported by his Mum, Dad, sister and Coach, Alan Landy, pictured with Finn in the WA colours.

To get to this standard Finn showed tremendous dedication and commitment to his training and weight management to stay in the 73-kilogram category. He will now represent Australia in the same category in March next year in Singapore.

Finn started wrestling three years ago. He said was thrilled to achieve the goals he set for himself and would like to go as far as he can in his chosen sport. We will watch his progress keenly and wish him every success. Well done Finn. Aussie and Newborough Champ!!

CHALLENGE YOURSELF

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 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.

SUESSICAL

Please see links below to purchase tickets.

Please note: Ticket sales are open from 25 October 2019, 9am

Night 1 Link (Tuesday 3rd December) -

Night 2 Link (Wednesday 4th December) -

Deputy News

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

We are now in Week 2 of our In-term swimming lessons at our new venue of Scarborough Beach Pool. We have been very impressed with both the beautiful new pool and how organised our students have been each day. A very sincere thankyou to all parents and guardians for your assistance and support with this programme. We can confirm that swimming lessons for 2020 are at the exact same time – Weeks 1 and 2, Term 4, 2020.

Please see photos of the beautiful new pool.

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

Reporting to Parents

Reporting to Parents – Electronic Report Delivery Semester 2, 2019

As per last semester, Newborough Primary School will again be delivering your child’s Semester 2 school report via email on Monday 16th December 2019 (Week 10, Term 4)

The benefits of an electronic report provide advantages for schools and the parent community including:

• timely delivery of reports to parents and guardians;
• administrative savings in the printing and collation of reports;
• an ability to easily provide copies of reports to each parent or guardian where dictated by family circumstances; and
• parents being able to retain a digital record of student achievement.

However, as the link to the reports only lasts for four weeks, it is vitally important that parents SAVE their child’s report ASAP.

To ensure you again receive your child’s report, it is imperative that your email address is correct with the school. If there have been any changes to your email/email addresses, please contact the school immediately.

We have also asked that for the purpose of different family circumstances, anyone requesting a copy of the report be sent to a second family member inform the school in writing via newborough.ps@education.wa.edu.au immediately please. If you have already done this, this information will automatically be saved for this semester.

Please do not hesitate to contact Deputy Principal Karen Tucknott with any queries about the delivery of the reports electronically.

Pre-Primary - Year Five Presentation Morning

Save the date: Tuesday 17th December 8.50am in the Undercover Area

This year, the Pre-Primary to Year 5 Presentation Assembly will be held on Tuesday 17th December at 8.50am in the school’s undercover area. This is a change to our normal evening presentation ceremony. This Presentation Assembly will recognise students who have achieved their classes’ Academic, Citizenship and Endeavour Awards, as well as classroom Fitness Awards. The new 2020 Year 6 Head Boy and Head Girl, Deputy Head Boy and Deputy Head Girl are also announced.

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!✌

Chaplain News

Dear Parents,

Please find below a link to a webinar that may be useful:

Ali Dee
Chaplain

P&C News

Uniform Shop

Welcome to Term 4 everyone! As the weather starts to warm, now is the time to check to see if your child's jacket still fit. If it doesn't, why not donate it to the uniform shop. We take all preloved Newborough uniforms that are in good condition.

New Uniform Shop Managers

Now for some fantastic news ... we have two new managers for 2020. Miriam Lopes and Fiona McCallum are going to share the role.

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

New Term 4 Menu

Attached is the new menu for Term 4. We are going to trial some new snacks this term (eg. Vegie Fritters, Fruit and Museli Yoghurt Cups, Apple Pies, and more). Children will be able to purchase these over the counter and if popular they will be added to Quickcliq for ordering.

There has been a slight price increase to the cost of the 'Extra Burger' for our Monday special. We endeavour to keep prices as low as possible, however from time to time we need to adjust them.

Newbie Knights Garden

We are enjoying using the fresh produce from the garden. The snow peas have been added to Chicken Fried Rice and Vegie Sticks, our new Vegie Fritters will contain the broccoli, and carrot.

Volunteers

We are always in need of any assistance parents/grandparents can provide. 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

Welcome back! We have two new rewards this term for our regular savers – a very cool water skimming ball and to follow-on from the Ooshie craze – some polar themed pencil toppers.

Don’t forget banking is on every Wednesday morning before school in the library.

If you’d like any information on joining the program, pop in and see me next Wednesday.

And remember, it doesn’t matter how much you save, it’s the habit of regularly saving that’s important.

Sonia Johansen
School Banking Co-Ordinator

Entertainment Book

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

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 www.safetyhousewa.org.au