Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

4 December 2017 Newsletter 11

Dear Parents We have had such a hugely successful Term 4 with so many wonderful highlights such as the Graduation Ceremony, Parent Helper morning tea, Evening on the Green, Christmas Concerts and a large range of incursions and excursions. As such I thank all staff for their support in making this school the very special place it is. We have fabulous staff, wonderful students and a very supportive community all of which are enablers for an exemplary school.

Evening on the Green What a fabulous evening this was, one where we were entertained by our very own students in dance troupes, choir, Year 6 ensemble, music enrichment class, and a Pre-primary performance. The evening also showcased the work of our Year 3-6 students in art with our undercover area turned in to a fabulous exhibition area. We were also entertained by our talented staff musicians; Mrs Cunningham, Miss Bosman and Mrs Farrell. I thank Mrs Slee, Mrs Gill, Mrs Farrell, Mrs Horne, Ms Kidd and Miss Bosman for their exceptional efforts in coordinating their students that were performing and also setting up for this event. Many of our staff provide before and after school Arts’ programmes for our students and this is truly a gift of their time. I also would like to thank our amazing P&C committee. They worked tirelessly on this evening with very little time to stop and enjoy the evening. Their magnificent efforts led to us raising over $2,000 on the evening. Sincere thanks also to the team of dads that greatly assisted with the pack away after the event. Year 6 Camp

I thank the Year 6 staff, Mrs Roper and Mr Christie for their work in coordinating a well-enjoyed camp. The students had an amazing few days at Point Walter and as always represented their school admirably. I also thank the staff involved for giving up their own family and personal time to be with the students.

Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Graduation Evening Once again we experienced a very memorable evening with our Year 6 students at graduation. The evening was attended by close to 400 audience members. The highlight of the evening was certainly the students’ performance of their farewell song and then watching our very caring staff get up on stage to dance with the students. Well done to all. I wish our Year 6 students a wonderful journey ahead as they enter the next phase of their schooling.

First Place in the Gosnells Safe Kids Award For the second year running we have been successful in winning first place in the Gosnells Safe City Community Kids award. This year the school showcased the work we have done in supporting students and families to be cyber-safe. This has included the development of our cyber safety programme by the Alanah and Madeleine foundation and completion of a range of webinars by the office of E-Safety. These programmes have greatly contributed to the safety of our students. Our primary aim has been to assist students to develop problem solving skills for the many problems that social media can pose. At our last assembly we were fortunate enough to have the City of Gosnells Deputy Mayor Teresa Lyons present our school with a plaque and a $1000 cheque. We also had the local newspaper out to write an article on this so look out for this in the coming weeks. Parkerville Programme Parents are advised that we will no longer be running the Parkerville Counselling programme at Campbell Primary School. This decision was made through the School Board. Parents are still very able to access counselling for their children if required. This can be done through your regular GP. School Board Successes for 2017 I wish to thank the school board members for their exceptional support over the last year. A special mention to Andrew Van Der Merwe, Board Chair Person and Kevin Fraser, Assistant Chair Person. The board has worked collectively as a team to further progress our school. Some key areas to note are as follows:

Endorsement of the School Chaplaincy programme

Endorsement of LOTE being Italian as of 2018 starting with the Year 3 group.

Completion of the first 4 modules of School Board Training

Monitored delivery of the DPA (Delivery and Performance Agreement)

Monitored student achievement across the school in academic and non-academic areas

Monitored One-Line Budget through Financial reports

Approved Leases within school - Helping Hands, Eternal Life Ministry and Hindi Classes

Supported the development and direction of the School’s Business Plan 2016-2019

Hosted Year 6 Student Councillors who presented a SWOT analysis on the school

Approved Early Close times for 2018, Term One

Approved Professional Learning days for 2018

Approved Voluntary Contributions and Charges and Stationery lists for 2018

Reviewed and endorsed the following school policies and guidelines : - Class Placement Guidelines

- Homework Policy

Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Congratulations To Mrs Tamara Fry for recently achieving Senior Teacher status. Senior Teacher recognises experienced teachers for demonstrating commitment to their role and participating in extensive professional learning throughout their career. Student Reports and Position Report – Grade Distribution Parents are advised that each student will be receiving a School Position Report with their report on Friday 8 December 2017. These reports provide written information that clearly shows individual student achievement in the learning areas studied compared to that of other children in the child’s peer group at the school. This information shows the number of students in each of the achievement levels A – E. We hope that all families will take some time to share the successes of their children and set goals for 2018. Chaplaincy 2018 We have experienced a very successful year with the chaplaincy programme. I thank Mrs Toluwade for her support of our school community. It is wonderful that we are able to continue this programme in to 2018. Staffing 2018 We welcome the following staff to Campbell Primary School for 2018: Marisa Perica Music Specialist, Emily Upson, Beth Moorman, Astrie Brown and Roslind Buckley Staff returning in 2018 from leave include: Emma Williams, Ruth Gomez, Tracey Ianni LOTE Specialist and Melissa Elkins The following staff will not be with us in 2018: Mrs Roberta Kidd, Mrs Wendi Horne, Ms Brenda Cheveralls, Mrs Rebecca Wilkey, Mrs Heidi Gardin, Ms Emma Steele, Mrs Sam Bell, Mrs Kim Tan, Miss Angie Bosman, Miss Genna Bray, Mrs Kirsty Grimaldi, Miss Pirra Teitjen, Miss Rachel Morgan, Mrs Lara Berley, Mrs Debra Lipari and Mrs Brooke Michael. We wish staff that will not be with us in 2018 all the very best for their future endeavours and thank them for their contributions to the Campbell PS students and families. Important Dates for 2018 Please be advised of the following dates: 24 January 2018 – School Administration reopens 29 January 2018 – Professional Development, students do not attend 30 January 2018 – Professional Development, students do not attend 31 January 2018 – Students return and Term 1 commences including Kindergarten Group A 1 February 2018 – Kindergarten Group B commence. A reminder that all dates and events for the 2018 school year are now available on the school’s website by viewing the calendar. Professional Development Days The following dates for Staff Professional Development in 2018, all of which have been approved by the School Board:

Monday 29 January 2018 and Tuesday 30 January 2018

Thursday 29 March 2018

Monday 13 August 2018

Friday 21 September 2018

Friday 14 December 2018

2018 Advice of Students’ Class and Teacher Parents are reminded that hard copies of class lists for 2018 will only be on display on Wednesday 31 January 2018 (first day of school for students), these will be posted in the undercover area.

Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Advice of your child’s class and teacher will ONLY be emailed out to parents on the afternoon of Tuesday 30 January 2018. Please ensure that your email address is current. Please note parents cannot be advised over the telephone. 2017 School Destinations or Not Returning to Campbell in 2018 Planning for Campbell’s 2018 school year is almost complete, I remind parents to please advise the school if their child/ren will not be returning to Campbell next year. Please email Sue Forman, Manager Corporate Services – Susan.Forman@education.wa.edu.au if and when you decide your child will not be returning. We appreciate any information that you can provide as soon as convenient.

Voluntary Contributions I would like to thank those parents who have paid their voluntary contributions 2017 and P&C Levy. Up to date we have received the following funds which have been used across the school to purchase valuable resources.

We ask those parents who have not yet done so to pay through the QKR! App or call into the School Administration and pay these contributions by either Eftpos, cash or by direct deposit into the school bank account. Parents are reminded that if they wish to pay by direct deposit to use their child’s name in the details. The bank account details are: BSB 066 040 Acct No: 1990 1017 – Commonwealth Bank, Campbell PS. Happy Holidays As this is the last newsletter for 2017, I would like to sincerely thank the parents and community members for your support of the school and your children’s education over the school year. It has been highly successful year with the students being well-supported to reach their academic and social potential. I thank all staff for their extraordinary commitment to their profession. I also thank and acknowledge the efforts of all parents and community members for your fantastic support of our children. For the families who are leaving Campbell this week for secondary school or for new schools, thank you for your support over the time you have been at Campbell PS, we wish both you and your child every success for the future. I wish everyone a very special holiday season spent with family and friends; I hope you all have a very relaxing and rejuvenating break. I look forward to 2018 being another productive and exciting year for staff, students and the school community.

Education Security With the school holidays around the corner I would ask parents to report any suspicious behaviour or damage to the school to School Watch on 1800 177 777.

Lynne Bates

PRINCIPAL

100% of Payments Actual to Date Percentage

Year 1 to 6 Voluntary Contributions

$33 400

$21 443

65%

Up by 2.5%

Pre Primary Voluntary Contributions

$4 500

$3 090

69%

Unchanged

Kindergarten Voluntary Contributions

$6 660

$4 830

73%

Up by 4%

Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Campbell Primary School works under the KidsMatter Primary Mental Health and Wellbeing framework. KidsMatter provides the methods, tools and support to help our school work with parents and carers, health services and the wider community to nurture happy, balanced kids. As part of this initiative Campbell Primary School has a KidsMatter Action

team consisting of parents, our school psychologist, teachers and executive team members, who meet on a regular basis. The Highway Heroes programme is an evidence-based, whole school initiative that aims to teach our students the importance of resilience and problem solving as tools to aid their social and emotional learning. We also have a ‘KidsMatter Information Hub’ accessible at school assemblies and events that is regularly stocked with resources for parents. For your interest, we have attached a copy of this month’s focus, Good Values Guide Good Behaviour. More information sheets can be downloaded by following this link: http://www.kidsmatter.edu.au/primary.

Share the Dignity

A huge thank you to Sam Roper and her team of helpers for making an amazing 22 bags full of essential women’s items (and 4 teenager bags) to donate to the Share the Dignity Appeal. Campbell staff and parents donated useful items to fill the bags, such as shampoo, sanitary products, toothpaste, soap, unworn jewellery and more to brighten the Christmas season for Perth ladies in need. We are very appreciative for the large amount of donations and time Sam gave to complete our Share the Dignity appeal. See https://www.sharethedignity.com.au/itsinthebag.html for more information. Rebecca O’Neill Health & Wellbeing Curriculum Leader

MCUI Celebration Day

On Thursday 9 November 2017, Campbell Primary School participated in the annual Music Count Us In Celebration Day! The day is celebrated nationally, where right across the country – all registered schools sing the same song, on the same day, at the same time. Five public school students were selected to work with Program Ambassador John Foreman and the 2017 Program Mentor, Taylor Henderson. All classes worked hard to learn the song and actions lead by Miss Bosman and Ms Kidd. The Campbell Choir did an outstanding job leading the singing on the day and it was wonderful to see so many smiling faces singing the song ‘Shine Together’ with pride. The song sends a strong message of acceptance, determination and unity. Congratulations to all students on a fantastic performance!

Angie Bosman & Bobbie Kidd Music Specialist Teacher

Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Science Science in Term 4 is centred on Earth and Space and changes to Earth’s surface.

Year 1 – The Year 1 students have looked at changes in landscape due to constructive change and natural change. For natural change, they have drawn the early development of tomato and cucumber plants from the year 2 vegetable gardens. They will observe these plants in a couple of weeks’

time to document the changes that have occurred. Many students are drawing excellent diagrams to explain their work. This is from Isabel in ELA 04. Year 3 – The Year 3 students are learning about the Earth and its relationship to the sun and moon in the Solar system. They have shown how night and day occurs, using their play-doh Earths and balloon suns. They are now using the same props to understand how the Earth acquires its seasons. In this photograph Johan of LA 25 is explaining to Jayden how the tilt of the Earth on its axis, as it orbits the sun, causes seasons.

Year 4 – The Year 4 students are studying ‘weathering’ and ‘erosion’ at present and have performed some fun experiments that relate to these geological changes. Lana, Ajay and Kaylani of LA 20 look at chemical weathering of a ‘rock’ and Breanna and Melvina of LA 20 demonstrate ‘erosion’ caused by wind!

Year 5 – The Year 5’s have studied planets within the Solar system and are documenting various facts and figures about them, such as composition, size, length of time to rotate on axis, time to orbit the sun etc. Their next challenge is to use the grassed area outside the Science room to map a planetary size and distance comparison model, to show the diameter and relative distance from the sun of each planet in the solar

system!

Year 6 – The Year 6 students are researching geological events and have started looking at the Earth’s crust and how it is ‘broken’ into different sized pieces called tectonic plates. They have discovered that the boundary point, at which tectonic plates meet, causes major problems. The plates can push against each other, or ride under or over each other and this disturbance can lead to volcanic eruptions, earthquakes and/or tsunamis. The diagram shows the ‘ring of fire’ which is basically the boundary or meeting point of the Pacific plate and other major tectonic plates. The ring of fire is home to 75% of all active volcanoes and is also the area where 90% of all earthquakes occur.

Pamela Lumsden - Science Specialist

Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Partnerships with Parents

Classroom parent information session to be held in 2018 Term 1 Week 2

Year 6 Camp: Woodman Point In Week 7 the Year 6 students went to camp at Woodman Point. It was so much fun and we made lots of new friendships. We had raft building, beach sports, sandcastle competitions, rock climbing, bike riding, search and rescue games, flying fox and so much food! On the first night we went into our groups for a game called ‘Escape from Quarantine’. As a team we had to locate five items to help us escape. But if we were caught in the spotlight by the teachers we had to return to the dining hall for five minutes. On the second night we had a movie night in our pyjamas. We watched ‘Night in the Museum’ and had popcorn and hot chocolate. We left the camp with awesome memories and know that next year’s Year 6 students are in for fun and adventure.

P&C News

What a finish to the year! We had a wonderful time with our gorgeous Kindy students celebrating the year with their disco last Wednesday evening. Such confidence on the dance floor from our youngest students! They will certainly be ready for our junior discos next year as they head into Pre-primary! Extra special thanks to the wonderful Kindy teaching team for all of their help and enthusiasm on the night. Thanks to everyone who supported our fundraising efforts at the Evening on the Green. Our sausage sizzle, drinks and ice cream stand was very successful and our raffle was a hit! Congratulations to all of our winners. Also thank you to the businesses that sponsored prizes - Mr Terry Healy MLA who donated the bike, Adventure World, Inflatable World (thank you Miss Goodsell in PP for arranging these!), Bounce Cannington, Triassic Playcentre Canning Vale and also Games World in Carousel who

supplied us with a generous assortment of board games. Finally, thank you to all of the volunteers who have assisted in events this year, and to the hard working team of parents that make up our P&C. We are so extremely lucky to have your constant ideas and enthusiasm - because of you we have managed to raise over $33,200 for our school for 2017. Amazing work team!! Leonie Gurr President of P&C

Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Campbell Primary School Campbell Rd, Canning Vale Western Australia 6155 T: (08) 9456 8300 F: (08) 9456 8350 E: Campbell.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Community News

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Interested in finding work? Can you see yourself as a

Gardener, Handyperson or Cleaner?

Starting in July 2018, North Metropolitan TAFE (RTO code: 52786) are running a 1 semester course on the skills required to be a successful gardener/handyperson or cleaner. The course is a preparation for entry into gardening, handy work or cleaning work. In addition, we will support you in applying for work as a gardener or cleaner. If you would be interested in this course then please email: Paul Clarke paul.clarke@nmtafe.wa.edu.au

WAAPA Summer School 2017/2018

This summer The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) is again offering an exciting school holiday program for students in years 4 to 12. The Summer School includes classes in dance, drama, acting, screen performance, music theatre and of course, how to perform Shakespeare. For information about the fantastic courses on offer please visit WAAPA Summer School or contact Gabrielle Metcalf at g.metcalf@ecu.edu.au or 9370 6775.