Churchlands Primary School

Edition Highlights
Lapathon over
$10,000!
Silver Thread Brass
Band
Book Week fun
School Contact
Cromarty Road
Floreat 6014
Ph: 9383 9022
Fax: 9387 4740
Email:Churchlands.ps@
education.wa.edu.au
Web:
www.churchlandsps.
wa.edu.au
SMS Attendance
0408 905 268
School Times
8.45am: Start of day
10.25 -10.45am: Recess
12.15-12.55pm: Lunch
3.00pm: End of day
2015
Term 3 2015
Tue July 21 – Fri 25
Sept
Term 4 2015
Tues Oct 13 –Thurs Dec
17
Principal’s Message
The continual busy-ness of the Churchlands Primary School year continues! Last
week saw booklovers on the oval enjoying a Book Week picnic while dressed as
their favourite book character, some classes meeting their ‘buddy class’ for story
reading, museum trips and Herdsman’s Wildlife Centre visits by various classes. We
also have many pre-service teaching students in various classes learning teaching
skills from our accomplished teachers.
This week’s major focus is the annual house athletics events. Yesterday our
children completed and competed in the distance runs and the long jump events.
Those championship points will add to Thursday’s main event: the house team and
individual running events. A highlight of that day will be the parent races and leader
ball teams! Weather tomorrow is looking to be excellent! Please ensure your
children are protected for a day in the full sun.
NAPLAN results are currently being scrutinised by class teachers – results are
generally impressive, but with the area of spelling being an area requiring fuller
development. Parent of years 3 & 5 will have already received their child’s NAPLAN
report in an envelope with an explanatory leaflet attached. Next week’s School
Board meeting will more fully explore those NAPLAN results.
In weeks 9 & 10 our PP-year 2 children will be involved in morning swimming
lessons at Beatty Park. In-term swimming lessons are a normal part of the W.A.
primary curriculum – we expect everyone to attend. Please understand you can only
catch a cold from a cold virus – not from being cold or wet!! Teachers will have their
instructions for our Pre-primary first timers on their doors.
2016
Next week years 1-6 will be having basic First Aid training provided by St John’s
Ambulance. The ‘new’ demountable (in place for a 2016 year 3 or 4 class) will be
used for those sessions. Ask your child for a life saving demo!
Term 1 2016
Mon 1 Feb – Fri 8
April
Regards
Mark Jones
Term 2016
Tue 26 April – Fri 1
July
Term 3 2016
Mon 18 July – Fri 23
Sept
Term 4 2016
Mon 10 Oct – Thur 15
Dec
2015 Voluntary
School
Contributions
K-Yr 6:
$60 per child
AFTER THE SCHOOL DAY….
After the school day it is pleasant for parents and classmates to occasionally catch
up in a ‘family’ way for a short time before going home. However, a couple of
problems have arisen. After school YOUR children are YOUR responsibility, but
normal school rules still apply – i.e. no climbing trees, no throwing sand, no
running through gardens, no children accessing classrooms. Parents are expected
to be in-sight of their children to ensure proper supervision.
The only toilets to be accessed after 3pm by K – 6 are the ones for middle block
(rooms 7, 8 & 9)- also used by OSHClub, or the adult accessed/adult supervised
disabled toilet adjacent the admin block.
ECE teachers will not be letting children or parents into their classrooms for
access to toilets/bandaids/tissues/water.
Our teachers come early to school or stay late after school hours to prepare for your
children; not to continue looking after them!
Merit Certificate Recipients
Congratulations to the following students who were awarded Merit Certificates at
our recent assembly.
ECE U2
Room 2
Sophie Daglish, Kylie Zhang
Ava Borello, Andre Moechtar, Lachie Normore
Room 4
Room 5
Room 6
Nina Allen, Bobby Spicer, Naisha Hirani
Luke Heaton, (Was away last week)
Katelyn Huynh, Saskia Campion
Room 8
Room12
Archie Metaxas, Megan Coull
Ash Haemori, Ely Tsaban
Room 14
Music
Mitchell Holme, Zaira Wasson
Jeremy Yip, Chris Chang
Art
PE
Japanese
Joe Chapman, Nina Allen, Shelby Bennett, Krisha Maradia
Lulu Brickland, Ollie Syminton, Ken Asaka, Imogen Radalj
Joshua Swan, Freddie Pay, Remy Payne
Bounce Backers
Congratulations to the following students who were awarded Bounce Back rewards
WEEK 5
WEEK 6
ECE U1
ECE U2
Lucy Zhou
Pippa Farr
Fynnlay Jost
Valentina Santostefano
ECE U3
Room 1
Lachlan McDougall
Marcus Lo
Emily Wright
Harry Crossland
Room 2
Room 3
Room 4
Andrew Chong
Cody Lawson
Nishita Hirani
Annabelle Semaan
Amy Liu
Georgia Langdon
Room 5
Room 6
Jayden Lim
Daniel Meggs
Cate Henton
Amelie Browning
Room 7
Room 8
Ryan Ng
Cassandra Knights
Anna Panagoulias
Ori Tsaban
Room 9
Room 10
Sienna Weerakody
Hanah Samnakay
Isabella Cordova Mendez
Anna Meggs
Room 11
Room12
Elliot King
Luke Armstrong
Isabella Chernoff
Olivia Gibson
Room 13
Room 14
Abdeali Jivanjee
Olivia Taylor
Room 15
Samantha Gorman
Jude Quinlan
Unknown – will announce in
newsletter 16…
Savannah Doran
School News
2015 P&C
Voluntary Support
Fund
$50 per child or
LAPATHON!!
$100 per family
Canteen Roster
Week 7 Term 3
Thur 3 Sept
Hayman Wong
Joyce
Chantal Armstrong
Fri 4 Sept
Claire Allen
Kate Willis
Karen Liddell
Week 8 Term 3
Mon 7 Sept
Helen Skead
Lauren Shepherd
Khim
Thur 10 Sept
Rochelle Swan
Kate Swan
Kate Floyd
Fri 11 Sept
Rachell Humbert
Hayley Edwards
Kath Taylor
Week 9 Term 3
Mon 14 Sept
Andrea Browning
Warren Gandy
Uniform Shop
ouronlinecanteen.
com.au or
call 0487 152 980
Education
Security
If you notice
suspicious
behaviour on our
school site call:
1800 177 777
9264 4632
What an afternoon! The children K-6 lasted both the
distance and time taken for this event really well!
All green sponsorship cards have been entered with the
number of individual laps covered. It was very pleasing to
see so many parents and grandparents running and
jogging laps of the oval.
Sponsorship money is steadily coming in. As of yesterday $10,300 has come in
Fabulous- we are heading towards a record amount!!
Remember that for every $5 raised, children will receive a raffle ticket for the end of term
Lapathon Raffle. There’s a huge number of prizes to be won!
STAFF CARPARK AND KIDS
It is important that children accompanied or not, are NOT taken through the staff car
park. Please use the paths either side of the staff carpark for accessing classes.
LOWER OVERFLOW CARPARK
Please assist the safe traffic flow by only moving CLOCKWISE through the lower
/overflow car park.
LOST PROPERTY
We have a number of lost property items accumulating in the office that needs to be
collected. There is a pair of black framed reading glasses, clear frame with purple handle
reading glasses, brown and pink reading glasses (left in the library), purple earphones,
red and blue thong key ring, green dragon toy, pink beaded necklace, keys, key rings, a
gold dragon, a gold chain with a floral love heart locket – this has a photo inside. Things
are being handed in all the time so if you do happen to lose something please check at
the office. If not collected by the end of term they will be disposed of.
BOOKWEEK PICNIC
A lovely time was had by all at last
week’s Book Week picnic. Lots of
parents and grandparents joined us
to read books to our younger
children. Many of the year 6 children
took the leadership opportunity to
meet and read to year 1 and 2
children wanting their story ‘dose’!
Thank you to our Librarian, Mrs
Fazzalari, and the P & C mothers for
organising a fun event.
EALD / ESL NEWS
(English as an Additional Language / Dialect)
(English as a Second Language)
“One of the greatest gifts adults can give —to their offspring and to their society— is to read to
children.” Carl Sagan
EALD/ESL Parent Workshop: Week 10 Tuesday 22nd September 2.15pm-3pm
Sasha Key will be running a workshop for parents about ideas at home to help your child improve their English
skills. We will focus on building vocabulary, improving reading comprehension and using English for daily
communication. The workshop will be in the library. Please email Sasha to confirm your attendance and
indicate if you require an interpreter.  sasha.key@education.wa.edu.au
PROTECTIVE BEHAVIOURS WORKSHOP
Tuesday 8 September, 7-9.30pm.
This is a comprehensive training workshop designed to teach parents the content of the Protective Behaviours
Child Safety Program to increase their children’s personal safety.
Protective behaviours is part of the school curriculum and is taught to all year groups from Kindy to Year 6.
To register for this workshop please complete the booking form (copies are available from the office) and return
to the P&C box with payment of $15.
Please note this is an adult training session and is not suitable for children to attend.
For more information please contact Rebecca Payne, P&C Communications Officer,
churchlands.pc.communications@gmail.com
Coming Events
DATE
EVENT
THURSDAY 3
SEPT
FRI 4 SEPT
House Athletics Carnival on the school oval
MON 7 SEPT
6.30 School Board meets
TUESDAY 8
SEPT
THURS 10
SEPT
Protective Behaviours workshop @7 pm
Year 3 to Herdsman Lake excursion
VOICE Choir @ Burswood
Assembly Room 6! MLA Sean L’Estrange presentation
The Music Review
Hooray for Silver Threads
After the Silver Threads had the year six boys doing the Can Can, I was pretty much sold on the Silver Threads
Brass Band. Although all showing silver hair, they played with gusto and entertained the middle and upper
primary children non-stop for an hour.
The Silver Threads Brass Band
Staff enjoy the Hokey Pokey
Year 3’s demonstrate their percussion skills
‘Birthday boy’ Gary calmly conducts the band
Musical Wall of Fame
Around about now you may have noticed the Wall of Fame in the music
room. Feel free to dig up any old clippings of musical experiences and
celebrations you or friends have had to add to our wall. Find clippings of
local musical happenings in the local papers and add them to the collection
too!
The Big Music Night (BMN) Special Guests
Around the corner and over the hill (Thursday 12 November! ) is the Big
Music Night. Mr Howesmith has sent out the call for musicians and groups
who want to audition for a special guest spot in this year’s concert. Please see Mr Howesmith ASAP with your
ideas.
The BMN will be held at Hale School Auditorium again this year and tickets will go on sale next term.
Back To Kindy
Children in years one and two are heading back to kindy to plan
and perform music on the ECE ‘Soundscape’. This excellent
outdoors music playground has been in use for over a year now
and offers various tuned instruments and percussion drums.
Year 1 & 2 children have to plan using a simulated version of the
instruments back in the music room, taking into account the
different notes on hand at the soundscape before having the
chance to perform as a group on the equipment. Stay tuned!!!
Join in and sing the latest whole school song
‘Music Count Us In’ has released this year’s song. It is titled GOLD and is a hit with kids across Australia. Over
half a million children will celebrate music education in Australia by singing this song together on October the
29th. Teachers and parents can access plenty of free resources to help them teach in all manner of schools; big
and small, musical or not.
Listen to the song and sing it at home here
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LZtG9wUdyVk
Look at the Music Count Us In Website for more information
https://musicaustralia.org.au/program/countusin/
GIG Guide
WAGSMS Concert for Schools – VOICE Senior Choir perform Thursday week 8
Next Term
Wembley Downs District Fair – VOICE and HOTNOTES - Sat 31 October week 3
50th Anniversary Open Day – VOICE, HOTNOTES and Music Team Band – Nov 5
Big Music Night - Thursday November 12 -Term 4 week 5 - Tickets on sale next term
Michael Howesmith - Music Specialist
michael.howesmith@education.wa.edu.au
2 September 2015
Phys Ed Corner
Athletics Carnival News
The weather was great for yesterday’s events! Those kids that participated in the jumps, throws and long
distance did themselves proud with their attitude and determination.
Thursday is going to be a fine day so make sure all kids bring suitable clothing as it will be warm in the
afternoon. Also, drink bottles need to be full as hydration will be a priority throughout the day.
Visual Arts
News from the Churchlands Art Studio
Last Thursday many of the year two students enjoyed an artistic lunchbreak in the art studio working with the
Art Team on a Special Day card. Thank you to the students who came along and joined in the fun.
Well done Isuri, Georgia, Olivia, Angela and Kia! Hope those ‘special people’ love those year two cards.
COMMUNITY NEWS
RIDING FOR THE DISABLED PONY RIDES
Riding for the Disabled Association - Carine Group will be holding a fundraising Pony Ride day at 77 Monyash Road,
th
Carine during the school holidays on Wednesday 30 September between 9.30am and 12.30pm.
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SCHOOLS CHALLENGE - PERTH
Teams will consist of 5 to 6 players. If you have a team that you would like to keep together simply send an email
confirming all player details. If you do not know other players, just send your player details and we can add them to a
team.
Shamrock Rovers Perth TFA Juniors are pleased to inform you we will be running the Shamrock Rovers Perth Juniors
TFA Schools Challenge 2015.
The event is a reward for all the hard work players have put into their after school training program and also the
opportunity for players to play against other teams. The Schools Challenge is free of charge for all players to attend.
We are hoping to put a team together for each year group from all the Schools we have delivered coaching sessions in
this year in Perth schools and colleges. The games will take place between 8.30am-11.30am on Saturday 19th
September.
NON COMPETITIVE
No scores will be kept and there will be no ‘knock out’. Teams will play in a round robin format. Shamrock Rovers TFA
coaches will choose the winning team by our core principles, which are:
Team Work, Fair Play, Positive Attitude
Team Requirements, we are looking for teams in:
Prep, Year 1, Year 2, Combined Year 3 & Year 4
TEAM ENTRY OR INDIVIDUAL SIGN UP
To join simply complete details below and hand to a coach or register online at www.totalfootballacademy.com.au and
select Schools Challenge Perth from the Tournaments menu.
If registering as a team, please email your team list to: totalfootballacademyperth@gmail.com
 Player name
 Date of birth and year group
 School or College player attends
 Mobile contact number
 E-mail address
To help us prepare and organise the fixtures for the day we would like all registration details in by Friday 18th September.
If you have any questions regarding the free tournament please contact Alec Robinson, 0410 899 819.
SAVE TIME - REGISTER ONLINE!
Online registration payment options include credit card, bank tranfser or in person (offline payment) If you do not have
internet access and would like to register, please phone through your details to Alec on 0410 899 819. There are no
refunds for incorrect choice or change of mind, however an event credit if your child is unable to attend an event.
Players can order kit (shirt and shorts) shin guards and socks online or in the Club house: Grimrey Oval, Grimrey Road,
Lockridge, www.totalfootballacademy.com.au, Click: TOURNAMENTS, then: Schools challenge
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