11 August 2021

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

Staff Changes

We welcome Mrs Gemma McLean to our teaching team. Mrs McLean has taken over the full time teaching role with the year 4/5 Room 13 class. Mr Blanch, who was teacher in this class, is on a gradual return to work program under the care of a Rehabilitation Officer and his Doctor. He will initially take on a variety of teacher support roles around the school. Mrs McLean is a mature age graduate who has been teaching in several roles, including Digital Technologies, at Roseworth Primary School.

The school also welcomes back Ms Kris Williams, our much valued PE teacher as she increases her teaching time following a serious knee injury. Mrs Dayman continues to provide teaching support as Mrs Williams increases her teaching load. Also returning is Mr Steve Parry, Cleaner, who has been on leave. Mr Parry is retiring at the end of the term after many years getting up so early in the morning and working at our school.

Tree Planting

You may have noticed that we have over 150 new trees, shrubs and ground covers around the school. Every student at school was involved learning how to plant and care for the new especially selected native plants.

We had a crazy two days commencing on Friday, 29th July and concluding on Monday, 2nd August with each class allocated a planting area. Classes arrived for their timeslot organised in teams of three for years PP-6 and whole class planting with the Kindy classes. Prepared with gloves and hats and lots of enthusiasm. Holes had been pre-dug and plants allocated to suit the area their class were establishing. On arrival Mr Worthy and the Sustainability Leaders, Rosie, Sally and Neve demonstrated proper technique for planting that gives plants the best chance to grow, survive and thrive. All students did a remarkable job and had lots of fun getting down and dirty. There is a plaque indicating class planting areas so everyone can see and share in the growth of the new plants. Each class has a couple of student monitors watering the plants twice a week and taking care of them. They have a chart in their classroom and watering can ready to go.

Back in the classroom teachers conducted specially designed lessons (see the photo of Mrs Beatty’s Pre-primary message tree) so students can learn about plants, their importance and appreciation. To link in with our focus on Wellbeing classes also had a special meditation session similar to Smiling Minds to do around our beautiful big trees.

A big thank you to our sponsors and helpers. Scarboro Toyota, partnering with Planet Ark for National Tree Day who provided gloves, hats, stakes and covers. They also came and filmed and took photographs that we are looking forward to seeing. Bunnings Innaloo donated a lot of trees, fertilizer, stakes and covers. The City of Stirling and the Living Green Project donated over 60 trees, plants and ground covers. Many of the larger trees such as the Banksias came from the City’s tree stocks. We especially wanted these trees as they were prolific in this area before the school was built and are of course our school’s logo.

This year has been a really big year supporting the school’s Tree Replacement Policy that says we need to replace each significant tree loss with at least five trees plants or shrubs. We’ve certainly done that and hopefully added to the ambience and function of the school. A great learning opportunity that can be run now each year for future generations to learn, appreciate and benefit from.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Gardens and Coles

Recently the Sustainability Leaders Neve, Sally and Rosie; and I attended the opening of the new Coles store at Karrinyup Shopping Centre. Coles are major supporters of the highly successful Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Gardens Foundation that aims to connect children with the skills, knowledge and importance of growing your own food and cooking and eating it.

At the opening our school was presented with a cheque from Coles to the value of $5,000. With this funding we are looking at fixing up the deteriorating timber surrounds and replenishing the soil in the school’s fantastic vegie patch. We are also looking at purchasing several portable pizza ovens. Everyone loves a pizza, especially if you can add your own produce and customise to suit your taste.

If anyone knows a good garden landscaper or would like to be involved in any of this project, gardening and or cooking, please let Mr Worthy know. John.Worthy@education.wa.edu.au

Djilba: Season of Conception (August - September)

Djilba season is a time to look for the yellow and cream flowers starting on mass.

Djilba is a transitional time of the year, with some very cold and clear days combining with warmer, rainy and windy days mixing with the occasional sunny day or two.

This is the start of the massive flowering explosion that happens in the South West. This starts with the yellow flowering plants such as the Acacias. Also colours that are around at this time of year are creams, combined with some vivid and striking blues.

Traditionally, the main food sources included many of the land based grazing animals as in the season before. These included the Yongar (kangaroo), the Waitj (emu) and the Koomal (possum).

As the days start to warm up, we start to see and hear the first of the new borns with their proud parent out and about providing them food, guiding them through foraging tasks and protecting their family units from much bigger animals, including people.

The woodland birds will still be nest bound, hence the swooping protective behaviour of the Koolbardi (Magpie) starts to ramp up and if watched closely, so to do the Djidi Djidi (Willy Wag Tails) and the Chuck-a-luck (Wattle Birds) to name a couple of others.

As the season progresses and the temperatures continue to rise, we'll start to see the flower stalks of the Balgas (Grass Trees) emerging in preparation for the coming Kambarang season.

John Worthy
Principal

TERM DATES

2021

School Directory

Matilda - Save The Date

Music News

WA Massed Choir Festival Tickets on Sale – Monday, 16 August

Deputy News

Book Week - Week 6: Old Worlds, New Worlds, Other Worlds 21-27th August

To celebrate Book Week last year in 2020, we booked a fun Book Week incursion to perform in Term 3 to our Pre-primary to Year 6 students. However, due to COVID last year, this was cancelled.

We are fortunate to be able to give students the opportunity to watch this live Book Week performance this year called ‘Better, Brighter, Bigger’ by the company Perform Education.

A note went home last week with the cost of the incursion. This is $6.75 each and is due by Wednesday 25th August please. Unfortunately, without payment, students cannot attend the performance.

BIGGER, BETTER, BRIGHTER!

One day a girl named Marley woke up to discover that ‘Something’ was missing…

And so begins a quest that will lead Marley through destinations that are strange and challenging but often oddly familiar. However, first she must determine what it is that has disappeared from her life that is causing such a sense of emptiness.

Fortunately, her story has a narrator to help her. The thing is Marley sometimes has her own ideas as to how the story needs to be told. There are books around to provide clues and directions which is a great help –if you can figure out what they mean. Marley is determined to sort it out no matter where she travels or what she encounters.

One thing is certain - once the ‘Something’ is recovered, everything will become Bigger, Better, Brighter!

Join Marley and characters from a selection of The CBCA 2021 Shortlisted Books, as she seeks to discover what it is that is missing and how best to recover it.

Celebrating the CBCA Book Week 2021 theme: OLD WORLDS, NEW WORLDS, OTHER WORLDS, this interactive and educational musical adventure is a fun filled and energetic celebration of CBCA Book Week 2021, and brings together all the elements of great storytelling - a hero, a mystery, a quest, and an exploration!

Cross Country and Interschool Cross Country 2021

Thank you to all parents and guardians for your support with the constant changes to the dates of the Faction Cross Country and Interschool Cross Country.

At this stage, the new Interschool Cross Country date for Year 3-6 students is Friday 13th August (Week 4).

At this stage, we have not yet nominated a date for the faction Cross Country event although intent to hold it in Week 3 of this term, weather permitting!

Change to Maths Program for 2022

Newborough Primary School will be introducing a new Maths Program into the school from Pre-Primary to Year 6 in 2022. This is because the current program being used to support our explicit direct instruction of the Western Australian Mathematics Curriculum in Years 4-6, Envision, is no longer being produced. Over the past two years, our school has research the program we believe best supports our pedagogy in Mathematics and we will now be implementing the OXFORD Maths program next year. Staff have begun accessing professional learning on the program and the Student Workbooks will be on this year’s booklist that will be sent home in Term 4.

We will run a Parent Workshop on the OXFORD Maths program also in Term 4 with the date to be decided as it was pointed out to us that the date we had booked, Tuesday 2nd November, is Melbourne Cup Day. (Hmm. . Melbourne Cup luncheon OR Oxford Maths parent session! I know which one I would go to and it doesn’t involve Oxford Maths!) We will inform parents of the new session time as soon as possible.

TERM 4: Interm Swimming: Scarborough Beach Pool: Weeks 1 and 2

The Interm Swimming lessons for Newborough Primary School are in Weeks One and Two of Term Four (Wednesday 13th October to Friday 22nd October 2021). We will sending out the Excursion Advice Forms for this half way through the term with an end date for payment in the last week of this term. The cost of Interm swimming last year was $39 per child. We predict it will be similar this year. Please look out for more news on Interm swimming later in the term.

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.

Sports News

I am so pleased that I am now able to return to work, albeit in a slow and measured process. I have been very grateful for all the continued support and well wishes I have received from the staff, parents and children as I gradually increase my teaching capacity. Mrs Dayman has done an outstanding job in my absence as the Physical Education teacher, and will continue to support me as I steadily return to full teaching duties.

Faction Cross-Country

This carnival was held last Wednesday with a perfect day after many cancellations due to the poor weather conditions. Thank you to everyone for your patience and understanding for accepting the delays. I would also like to thank all of the staff who have assisted me during my absence with ensuring this program was successful for the children, in particular Mrs Dayman, Miss Kos and Ms Tucklnott.

Congratulations to all the children who challenged themselves to finish their year level event. Their efforts were rewarded with not only the self-satisfaction of a job well done, but by demonstrating very good resilience and perseverance to complete the course and by doing so, earned faction points for their team and the opportunity to represent their school at the interschool cross-country event for Year 3 – 6 students this Friday. Well done.

Interschool Cross-Country

This event will be held this Friday, 13 August at Butlers Reserve in Scarborough. The first event will commence at 1pm with the Year 3 girls followed by the Year 3 boys and continuing with the Year 4, Year 5 and concluding with the Year 6 boys. The running events should finish around 2pm. There will be a short presentation for the champion school at the conclusion of the Year 6 boys event.

Congratulations to the following Year 3 – 6 students have qualified to represent their school at the interschool cross-country event. We wish you all the very best for your event.

Year 3: Alice C, Ruby Mc, Grace F, Olivia T, Imogen M, Adam F, Aleksander S, Lenny S, Isaac M and Vivaan B
Year 4: Ashlyn G, Teleah B, Indigo S, Myka S, Alexis M, Ray S, Noah L, Jordy H, Ryder S and Soltan G
Year 5: Summer W, Michelle O, Rose H , Yubin K, Taya F, Levi B, Cambell W, James S, Hayato F and Eamon B
Year 6: Soleil M, Leila R, Sarchi P, Zamia W, Nina R, Finn J, Alex Y, Owen Mc, Ritchie D and Jed J

Faction Athletics Carnival – Pre-Primary - Year 6

DATES:

• Wednesday 1st September: 8.50-10.40am Years 3 – 6 (qualifying students) jumps, throws and long-distance running events: 8.50-10.40am
• Friday 3rd September: Faction Sports Carnival – 8.50am – 2.30 pm (Pre-primary – Year 6) tabloid games, individual division running races, championship division running races and 200m events.

After the success of the introduction of the tabloid game carnival last year, this year’s carnival will also be a tabloid game carnival. This year the Pre-primary students will join our carnival and participate in 50m sprints as well as tabloid game activities. The carnival will also see the return of the individual championship events which were removed last year due to the cancellation of the interschool carnival as a result of the Covid-19 school restrictions.

The championship events will be conducted over two days of the carnival week. They will be for selected students in each year group from Years 3 – 6. This year the students who can qualify for the individual championship events will not be restricted to the top three students in each faction from each year group from years 3 – 6. The students will be selected by the top 10 individual results across all factions in each year group for the sprint races, long jump, and tee ball throw events and the top 12 students for the 400m and 200m races. Due to restrictions of the number of lanes we can have on the oval, the 400m and 200m races will be held as an ‘A’’ division and ‘B’ division event with the fastest students in division A. More individual points will be awarded to division ‘A’ students than division ‘B’ students in these two events only. The points awarded for these events will be used to determine the individual championship recipients and will not be for faction points. They are for individual achievement only.

The children are training very hard for their events and we are all looking forward to yet another great athletics carnival. More details about this carnival will follow in the next few weeks via email.

Ms Kris Williams & Mrs Coleen Dayman

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.

2021 Student Diaries Available

We have a limited number of student diaries available from our school office for $10. If you would like a school diary, please make payment via direct deposit (see details below). Please email proof of payment to newborough.ps@education.wa.edu.au. Once payment has cleared we will deliver to your child’s teacher.

Newborough Primary School
BSB: 016 350
Account: 3408 71304

Absentees

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

SMS: 0409 088 585 (preferred method)
Email: Newborough.ps.absentee@education.wa.edu.au
Phone: 9446 1025

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 1/2/2021 sick with flu”.

Thank You
Administration Staff

Honour Certificate –Friday, 29 July 2021

Term 3 - Week 2 – Friday 29 July

P&C News

Exciting News: We have a new P&C Vice President, Congratulations Laurie McCallum! Thank you for taking on this role (he's already hard at work helping get the new canteen equipment installed).

It looks like we will be planning another school camp out on the oval, yay! A bunch of the Newbro Dads are working on this (thanks again Laurie!) and we hope to be able to confirm some details soon. The Newborough grapevine indicates that planning meetings have started and are taking place at St Brigids Bar, so if you're keen to get involved check with Laurie when the next "meeting" is being held. To stay up to date with anything Newbros related you can join the facebook group via the link below (or search for Newbro Dads on facebook).

A school Disco has also been booked for Wednesday 8th September so mark this one in the diary. We are trying a new company this year who promises it will be a blast with a big DJ booth, loads of speakers, lights, and lots of fluro. More details to follow regarding disco times for each year level and what you can do to assist. Entry to this event is free and every student is invited so please come along.

The next P&C meeting will be held on Monday 6th September at 7pm in the school library. Why not come along and check out what it's all about, meet new parents and see what's happening at our school. It's a very relaxed and welcoming environment so don't be shy, even better why not bring a friend!

If you have any questions or great ideas about anything related to school life then please do get in touch with the P&C on newboroughpcsec@gmail.com. You can also stay up to date with events and reminders about what's happening at school (we all need last minute reminders in our lives) by liking the P&C facebook page. Search for @NewboroughPC and you will find us on Facebook.

Thank you
Newborough P&C

Canteen News

Please note:

Hot Dogs, Juice & Choc Milk boxes will be the only lunch option available;

1. Recess orders will be available as normal on that day;
2. As lunch orders will be delivered to classrooms, please order for each child under their own name & room number; and
3. The Canteen will be closed on Friday 3rd September (Faction Carnival Day).

Winter Warmers

We now have Pea & Ham and/or Pumpkin soup available everyday in Term 3 for $4. Keep a look out on Quickcliq for our Hot Milo & Warm Banana Bread Recess Special, available on those really cold days.

Canteen Open

Monday, Wednesdays and Fridays

Volunteers

Thank you to all the volunteers who have been supporting the Canteen. Your help has been invaluable and you are welcome back anytime (even if it's not the turn of your child's room). To those who haven't yet had a turn, we look forward to welcoming you to the Canteen.

Regards
Amanda
Canteen Manager

Uniform Shop News

If you have some spare time on Tuesday mornings we would welcome your help in the uniform shop Your valuable time is greatly appreciated

UNIFORM SHOP Hours

Tuesdays 8:15-8:45am.

ORDERS

Uniform ordering can be made via QuickCliq (if you know the size). The cut off time is Mondays at 6pm to receive by Wednesday of the same week. Any orders after Monday at 6pm will be processed the following week.

Birthday Cakes/Gifts for Students

A reminder that we are not allowing the sharing of birthday cakes, presents etc. for birthdays or other celebrations due to the COVID restrictions. It remains too risky.

PICKING UP YOUR CHILD DURING THE DAY

If your child needs to be collected from school during school hours (eg. attending an appointment or leaving early), can you please email the school at newborough.ps.absentee@education.wa.edu.au and your child’s class teacher ahead of time (the day before or in the morning would be great). Please include a reason for early pick up and the approximate time you will be here. This will help with coordinating your child to be waiting at the office when you arrive and lessen your wait time.

Community News

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Target Sports

Bricks 4 Kids

Triple P Positive Parenting –Term 3 2021

Vac Swim

Parenting Connections