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DATES TO REMEMBER

Get Loud Fundraising Day Thursday 20 September This term our fundraising

efforts are going to Telethon. A gold coin

donation for free dress day is appreciated.

Parents just a reminder that both school car parks are for staff only. Thank you for your

cooperation.

TERM 4—Students return to school on

MONDAY

8 OCTOBER

East Hamersley Primary School

Wednesday 19 September 2018 W : www.easthamersleyps.wa.edu.au E: easthamersley.ps@education.wa.edu.au

T: 9342 2002 F: 9342 8992

From the Principal:

As Principal of this wonderful school I

am delighted to be able to tell our

community that our 2018 NAPLAN

results are outstanding. Our Year 3

students did exceptionally well and our

Year 5 students performed better than

expected. The Year 3 students

performed above like schools in all areas

of the testing. The Year 5 students

performed above like schools in reading

and at like schools in all other areas.

Student reports were sent home

yesterday. Parents can access the

following link for more information

regarding the reports h t t p s : / /

k10outline.scsa.wa.edu.au/home/

assessment / t es t i ng / nap lan /

parents/results‐reporting

These results vindicate the hard work we

have been doing over the last few years

reflecting on improving our practices and

implementing our whole school

approaches such as Talk For Writing. It

also demonstrates how hard our

teachers and students have been

working in the class rooms across the

school. We will now continue to work on

improving our practice and school

programs to ensure our students

continue to achieve and progress. This

will start on Friday 21 September when

we have our school development day.

Teachers will be working together to

review current programs and develop

new ones for 2019.

Every two years schools are required to

carry out the National School Opinion

Survey. This involves families, teachers

and students. The aim of this survey is to

help us be the best school we can. This

year the survey will be sent electronically

via email. It is a very short survey and

should only take about 10-15 minutes.

SCHOOL VISION: To inspire a culture of excellence in all that we do

Please keep your eye out for the email in

the coming week. We would much

appreciate your feedback!

Last Thursday our

local member for

Balcatta David Michael

took time out of his

busy schedule to visit

our Pre-Primary class

room where he read

the students the story I’m Australian Too

by Mem Fox and Ronojoy Ghosh. David

donated the book to the school as his

contribution to Book Week. Thank you

David, the children really enjoyed your

visit!

Early next term I will begin to finalise the

class structure for 2019. I am pleased to

be able to say that our school is growing

and we will form another class next Year

giving us 7 classes from PP to Year 6 as

well as our two Kindergarten groups.

Projected numbers for 2019 is 205! It is

particularly important that if you know your

child won’t be attending our school next

year that you let us know now.

Finally, I would like to thank Mr. Moser for

all his hard work this term preparing our

students for the school athletics and

interschool athletics carnivals. He has

done an awesome job. As he would say,

he couldn't have done without the support

of the rest of the staff. So to all my staff I

thank you for another term of awesome

work. Best wishes to the students and their

families for a wonderful holiday.

Lyn Dawson

Principal

SEPTEMBER

20 Get Loud Free Dress

Day. Gold coin donation

21 School Development

Day—students do not

attend

OCTOBER

8 First Day Term 4

MONDAY

Year 2

Selamat siang semua dan selamat datang di surat kabar yang terakhir pada minggu 10, di term 3.

Greetings everyone and welcome to the last newsletter for Term 3.

This term, Room 1 has worked very closely with Ibu Clifton to present their assembly item. It was an

‘Indonesian’ assembly centred around all the things the class have been learning about this wonderful country

each week. Thanks to the wonderful Ibu Clifton, they were able to dress in Indonesian clothing and had a lot of

fun learning two songs sung fluently in Indonesian. It was ‘Bagus”

In Science, Year 2 have been investigating water, its sources and uses. Each week, one scientifically minded

student is selected to wear the much prized and sought after “Science Coat’. There have been many worthy

recipients to date with eager students vying for it each week!

In Geography, we have looked at our connections to other places in the world then each student presented a

short oral report on places they are connected to. We have an incredibly multi-cultural class with connections

to Russia, Hungary, Greece, China, England. Korea, Myanmar, Mauritius, Ireland and many other places.

It has been a busy term filled with lots interesting events and learning but, we are all now looking forward to

two weeks holiday!

Interschool Athletics Week

We had a fantastic day at the Interschool Athletics Carnival on

Friday 14th. Congratulations to East Hamersley Primary School

on receiving the award for ‘Most Improved’. Our school placed

4th overall. Special mention to Harper who received the Junior

Champion Girl award and Alexander who received the Junior

Champion Boy award. A big thank you to parents for your support

and Mr Moser for organising a great day out for participating

students.

Jackson 1st Madox 2nd Diesel 4th Kye 5th

Dakota 7th Shaniya 8th Keira 9th Hazel 11th

Krishna 11th Charlotte 13th Caitlyn 16th Joel 24th

Congratulations SEPTEMBER Birthdays

TIP OF THE WEEK

If you are separated from your partner, disciplining your children can become more

difficult.

Don’t avoid disciplining your children

Be a parent not a pal

Avoid doing the good cop, bad cop routine

– consider what is best for your kids

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