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News and Views from Swan View

Swan View Primary School

From The Principal’s Desk

Term 2 2013 30th May 2013

From the Principal 1

Library News 2

Honour Certificates 2

Maths News 3

Walk to School Day 3

Canteen News 4

Student Information 3

Transition to High School

4

Coming Soon 3rd June

Western Australia Day public holiday on

Monday

5th June Whole School Reward

6th June

Day of Trees

12th June Assembly C4

Dear Parents/Carers

Walk to School Congratulations to those folk who sup-ported the Walk to School day last Fri-day. Mrs Jacinta Burns organised the event and was supported by Di Gibbons and Terri Beagley. From the photo-graph below you can see that they’ve arrived minus lipstick and fancy hair do’s and dressed in trackys and runners in-stead! Thank you to Renee Gibb for coping so admirably with the unex-pected increase in numbers at the breakfast table.

Extra Curricular Activities Many of our children are engaged in a variety of activities outside the hours of school. All of these activities contribute to the overall process of education. We should celebrate, as a community, the achievements of our students. On page 3 we have a write up about Cooper Har-rison and his success in baseball. Con-gratulations, Cooper. If you have any interesting snippets you’d like to share please drop them into the office to Leonie Harrison.

Visitors on School Property All parents and carers visiting the school for any reason must sign in at the office and give a reason as to why you are here and who you will be meeting with. This does not apply to school events such as assemblies, Parents Night, Mothers’ Day and so on.

Sharing Custody After parents separate, they need to find a new way of parenting that works for them and their children. Some divorced and/or separated couples continue to share parent-ing, or share care, where each par-ent spends a considerable amount of time caring for their children.

The most positive shared care ex-periences involve parents who have a cooperative relationship and are child-focused and flexible. These parents make an effort to maintain good communication with each other and avoid exposing their children to parental conflict. Below are tips for parents on how to create a positive shared custody experience with their child.

• Tell your child/young person what’s going on.

• Show them that you still love and care for them.

• Listen to your child

• Support your child

• Be consistent and predictable in your care giving.

• Be responsive.

• Separate parenting issues from relationship issues.

• Work together with the other parent.

• Avoid conflict and resolve is-sues with your ex-partner.

• Create a space for chil-dren/young people.

• Encourage your child to talk to someone they trust.

• Seek counselling if required.

Cheers, Marg

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C Block recipients

C1 AinsleyMaree Whyatt James Dudfield

C4 Charlize Jenkins Damon Gibbons

C6 Kayla Luckman Adam Ryder

LA1 Shaun Donnelly Robert James

LA2 Hemroo Eleperuma Hayden Linton

Sport Caleb Butler Kaitlyn Humphries

Music Robert Ryder

Congratulations to all of the following students who received honour certificates.

A Block recipients

A1 Georgia Gibb Crystal Faulkner-England

A5 Kevin Clarkson

A6 Seth Leacock David Downing

A7 Ethan Toki Toran Joslin

B Block recipients B2 Shae-Anne Rix Shanel Alles

B3 Heath Reynolds Daniel Jenner

B4 Tyrell Pryor Sharadhi Rao

B5 Leylani Humphries Liam Armstrong-Byrne

B6 Willow Broomhall Jaymes Ford

We celebrated National Simultaneous Story time on May 22. At exactly 9am (WST) 130 students joined in the reading of the story THE WRONG BOOK by Nick Bland. Over a hundred thousand children from all around Australia joined in the reading of THE WRONG BOOK at exactly the same time. After a countdown to 9am, we started, and to think we were all doing this SIMULTANEOUSLY gave us a real sense of community. In keeping with our school motto of THINKING OF OTHERS, the students in B6 made great book marks, with tassels, to give to the children in B4 to celebrate this event. Well done, B6.

B4, B5 and B6 excursion to the Swan View Tunnel

On May the 22nd B4, B5 and B6 went for a visit to the Swan View Tunnel. Here are some comments from the children. “The best thing about the Swan View Tunnel was when the man scared us and Logan, Jessica and Latoya were scared. It was so cool”. Cruze Skidmore I went to the Swan View Tunnel and we found lots of things. Everybody made ghost noises. I liked it so much” Logan Campbell “We went to Swan View Tunnel. It was fun. I love the part when Mrs Lovi found the treasure and put 20cents and one bandaid”. Riddhi Kanojia

Library News

HONOUR HONOUR HONOUR HONOUR

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Helping your child with maths

As your child progresses: • Get them to help with counting by asking whether you have enough of what you need, your child

should decide to use counting to find the answer.

• Play games where your child has to tell you how many there are without counting, for example quickly hold up some fingers on both hands and ask How many on each hand? Or How many fingers alto-gether?

Later: • look through catalogues together and ask your child to help you work out if you

have enough money to buy a small number of items

• Play board games where children handle large amounts of play money

• Point out times when multiplication might be helpful, for example if each family member will eat three sausages for dinner, how many do you need to buy?

• Try computer aided programs Mrs Armstrong

Student Sporting Achievements

Moto-Safe Incursion

On Tuesday the Yr three and four students attended a Moto-Safe presentation in the undercover area. The talk related to

safety when riding motor bikes and four wheel quad bikes. The children listened to the talk and watched a DVD. Brahim

Woods got to dress up in all the safety gear. Have a look at the photos. We were all given a show bag about Moto-Safe.

On Wednesday the 22nd of May, the All Girls Dockers Cup took place. The girls played 6 games but only won 1. Although we didn’t win we found some great football players and had lots of fun.

Dockers Cup

During the April school holidays one of our students, Cooper Harrison, was chosen to compete in two overseas baseball competitions. First up was the Dubai Interna- tional baseball competition, played in Dubai. His team played against Singapore, Dubai, Qatar, Bahrain, and Saudi Arabia. They finished 5th in this competition. Next the team headed to Hong Kong for the Hong Kong Tournament. They played against the Hong Kong All Stars teams and another WA team-The Stingrays. They finished 2nd. This weekend Cooper is off again, this time to Queensland for the Australian National Little League Baseball Championships. There are 5 WA teams being represented and there are 20 teams in the competitions. The winner of the the National Championships will represent Australia in the World Little League Championships in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, USA in August.

Well done, and Good Luck Cooper!

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If anyone would like to volunteer in the canteen, particularly on a Friday Please contact Teresa on

9294 3347.

SHAPES MEAL DEALS-available next

week but please have orders in by FRI-

DAY 31st May. Choose from circle,

square, triangle and rectangle meals

which include fruit and a drink.

Canteen News

Year 7 Fundraising News

Open day Saturday 15th June 2013 from 1.00pm-4.00pm at 20-22 Elgee Rd, Bellevue

FREE gymnastics trial for girls and boys aged 4 and over. Sausage sizzle, bouncy castle, face

painting, Olympic representatives for t-shirt signing and lots more. Please direct all enquiries

to the office, Ph 9274 8805

Jollettes Gymnastics Swan Districts Gymnastics NRG Cheersports

Many thanks to our helpers, Dave, Gaye, Roseanne, Nicole, Karen and Teresa for their assis-tance in our first sausage sizzle fundraiser this term. Again it was a big success and to date a total of $1 316.30 has been raised from only four sausage sizzles. We are proposing to have another seven before the children go on their camp to Rottnest and if we keep getting the sup-port from the school community we should be able to raise close to $3 000 which would be a remarkable achievement and would result in each child who attends camp receiving a discount of close to $60. Our next sausage sizzle will be held on Monday June 10th and order forms will go out on Friday. Thanks once again for your support.

Ross Tompkins Deputy Principal

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Lakmali Amanda Gaye Kym

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Natalie Tracey Renae

Transitioning to High School

Moving on to High School is an exciting and challenging time for parents and students. It is timely to remind the community of the opportunities that exist in secondary education in our area.

Our local intake school is Swan View SHS, which offers an Education Department endorsed Specialist Drama Program called the Fame Academy. Several other unique programs are offered to provide oppor-tunities for students with varying interests. They include; the Motor V8 Program which leads onto engi-neering in the upper years, Media Arts Design, Basketball, Follow the Dream (Indigenous Engagement), Jewellery Making, Sound Way Literacy Improvement and the ACE Program (Achieving Curriculum Ex-cellence). Swan View SHS has achieved outstanding results in improved school attendance and in the general behaviour of the students. Congratulations to all staff members.

Other secondary venues offer specialist programs. Governor Stirling SHS has Football, Netball, Engi-neering and ArtsMedia. Darling Range Sports Academy offers a range of sporting specialist areas. Our students are outside these two local intake areas and need to apply, with references, to attend spe-cialist programs at either of these schools.