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Principal’s Message

Voluntary School Contributions

Kindy: $40 per child

PP-Yr 6:

$60 per child

P&C CONTRIBUTION $40 per child

These fees can be paid via Direct Debit, cheque or

EFTPOS. Please contact the office

anytime. 9401 1255

School Contact MacDonald Ave Padbury 6025

Ph: 9401 1255 Fax: 9401 0988

Email:padbury.ps@ education.wa.edu.au

Web: www.padburyps. wa.edu.au

SMS Attendance to 0437 208 493 (text only) School Times 8.55am: Start of day 10.55-11.15am: Recess 12.45-1.20pm: Lunch 3.00pm: End of day Term Dates 2019

Term 2 2019 29th April—5th July

Term 3 2019 22nd July—27th Sept.

Term 4 2019 14th Oct—19th Dec

C a r i n g f o r t h e F u t u r e

Pa dbur y P r ima r y S choo l

NEWSLETTER ISSUE No. 9 2019

LIGHTNING CARNIVAL

On Thursday 27th June, our Year 4-6 (and some Yr 3’s) students will participate in the

district Lightning Carnival at Kingsway Reserve. This year we will field soccer, modcrosse

and netball teams.

It is a great opportunity for our students to compete against our rival schools and I am

always very proud of our students who show great determination and spirit every time they

play, despite often being pitted against much bigger opponents.

Not only do our students perform brilliantly on the field, but they represent themselves and

their school to a very high standard throughout the day.

I am sure everyone will join me in wishing them a great day.

SEMESTER ONE REPORTS

Semester 1 reports will be sent home with students on Tuesday 2nd July (Week 10).

I would like to remind parents that the expectations for report grades rise considerably as

students advance from year to year. Semester 1 learning area grades provide an indication

of where students are placed in terms of the year level outcomes they are expected to

achieve by the end of the year.

For semester 1, a “C” grade indicates that a student is on track to achieve the year level

outcomes by the end of the year. In some instances, a student’s grade may be lower than

they received at the end of last year. This does not necessarily mean they have gone

“backwards”. It is simply an indication of where they are placed in terms of the outcomes

they are working towards for the current year.

Teachers endeavour to report on what your child can currently do and what they are

working towards in order to improve further. Please ensure you read the comments

carefully as these will also provide valuable information about a student’s progress.

If your child’s report indicates that the class teacher would like an interview, please contact

the teacher to arrange a mutually appropriate time. These interviews enable teachers to

provide more in-depth information about where a child is placed and why. They will also be

able to explain in more detail what a student needs to achieve to move to the next grade.

PARENTS APPROACHING STAFF

Whilst we have a fantastic parent body, from time to time, issues arise which may cause

parents concern and necessitate a meeting with staff to clarify the

circumstances.

I would like to remind parents that, irrespective of the circumstances, staff should not be

approached in an angry or aggressive manner, particularly if children are in the vicinity.

Angry, aggressive approaches rarely, if ever, achieve any positive outcomes and I have in-

structed staff that they should not conduct any discussions or interviews under these

circumstances. I have also instructed them to report the matter to me so that I might con-

sider whether any further action is required.

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Kindergarten Enrolments for 2020

Enrolments are now open for Kindy 2020. If you have a child that was born between 1st July 2015 and 30 June

2016, please come into the front office for an application form. (Part A )

Whilst Kindy is non-compulsory the criteria for enrolment is as follows :

1. Resides within local intake area

2. 2. Sibling rule.

When applying we need a copy of your child’s birth certificate or passport, visa if applicable, current Medicare

immunisation details and proof of residential address.

To help prepare your child for Kindy, Padbury Primary will be holding a Kindy Open Day on Wednesday 26th

June 2019 from 2pm to 3pm. You and your child are welcome to come to Kindy for a play and meet the staff.

Administration Neil Wood Principal Kim Atkins Deputy Principal Teri Tan Manager Corporate Services Michelle Innes School Officer

School Council 2018

Jaye-Anne Muir

Chair Person

P&C Committee 2018

Nicola Graham President Jay-Anne Muir Vice President Jo Clarke Treasurer

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ANZAC DAY POPPIES

As a result of the sale of the clay poppies students made last term, Padbury Primary School was

able to donate $200 to the Army Museum of WA. We have received a letter from the Treasurer of

the Army Museum acknowledging our donation and thanking all the students and Mrs Reid for

your valuable contribution.

LIBRARY NEWS

We have received some lovely new books in the Library for students to

borrow.

ROOM 17 CATAPULTS

The Year 6’s have designed and made Catapults using pop sticks, hot glue guns, masking tape,

elastic bands and paint, as the base materials, as part of Design and Technology for this term. All

teams came up with a design that worked, although we did discover some designs were more

robust than others.

On completion, we had a shoot off where the teams fired their catapults as far as possible in a

best of three arrangement. The winning team was Seb Bumbalough and Dylan Blooodworth

whose catapult fired a dice 10.47 metres. They were also the team whose catapult maintained

the best average over the three shots.

Administration Neil Wood Principal Kim Atkins Deputy Principal Teri Tan Manager Corporate Services Michelle Innes School Officer

School Council 2018

Jaye-Anne Muir

Chair Person

P&C Committee 2018

Nicola Graham President Jay-Anne Muir Vice President Jo Clarke Treasurer

I received your letter and donation of $200.00 today and would sincerely like to thank you,

Donna Reid, students and the Padbury Primary School. The museum Foundation Board relies

very much on

donations made during the year as we do not receive any funding from Government. The mu-

seum is manned by volunteers who assist in guiding touring parties and members of the public

which is our only other source of regular revenue. All this helps us to preserve and present the

contributions made by members of Army defence [particularly from the Western Australia per-

spective] in past conflicts in which Australia has been engaged.

Once again, please pass on our thanks to all concerned.

Regards

Peter Dennis—Treasurer

Our little book worms

can pop into the Library

and ask Mrs Cawley all

about our new books.

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An Exciting RoboLab Incursion Making Mars Rovers

by Year One and Two

First, we set up in our classroom and

used our interactive whiteboard to watch

a video of a Mars Rover blasting into

space and landing on Mars. We watched

how it blasted from Earth as a rocket. It

took 7 months to get to Mars. When it

got there it landed by slowing down with

a parachute, air bags and reverse

rockets.

The children were very excited about making their models. They felt proud of their results and that they could

program it to move. The only problem was they we re a bit sad when it was time to say goodbye and they had to

break up their model and pack it away. We really hope we get to do an incursion like RoboLab again!

Year 3/4 RoboLab Incursion

Education Security If you notice suspicious behaviour on our school site call: 1800 177 777 9264 4632

Pupil Free Days Term 3 22nd July Term4 14th Oct 20th Dec

On Monday 17th of June the year ones and twos had an

Incursion with RoboLab to practice learning about Science,

Technology, Engineering, Art and Maths. Two lovely ladies came

to teach us how to build our Robots using iPads and lego.

Then we got into groups of three and we

started making our own Mars Rovers. It

was helpful using the iPad for instructions

but sometimes it was tricky finding the

pieces that we needed. After that, we

started to p rogram (code) our I instructions

for our rovers. We told it to move forward,

backward, go fast or slow and to stop.

Some children even made their rover sing,

make noises and even change colour!

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Education Security If you notice suspicious behaviour on our school site call: 1800 177 777 9264 4632

Pupil Free Days Term 3 22nd July Term4 14th Oct 20th Dec

Term 2 Planner 2019

MON TUES WED THUR FRI

Week 1

29/04

30/04 01/05

02/05 03/05

Week 2

06/05 Dental Screen Year 3 (1:45pm)

07/05 08/05 Staff Meeting

09/05 10/05 P&C Mother’s Day

Market

Week 3

13/05 14/05 NAPLAN Yr3/5 Writing

15/05 NAPLAN Yr3/5 Reading

16/05 NAPLAN Yr3/5 Conventions of Lan-

guage

17/05 NAPLAN Yr3/5 Numeracy

Week 4

20/05 NAPLAN Yr3/5 Adopt a Coastline

Incursion Yr 5 Rm 14

21/05 22/05 Staff Meeting

23/05 24/05

Week 5

27/05 Adopt a Coastline

Incursion Yr 5 Rm 14

28/05 29/05 Adopt a Coastline

Excursion Yr 5 Rm 14

30/05 Student Leaders Assembly

31/05 SCHOOL DEVELOP-

MENT DAY

Week 6

03/06 WA DAY

04/06 Adopt a Coastline

Incursion Yr 5 Rm 14

05/06 Staff Meeting Adopt a Coastline

Excursion Yr 5 Rm 14

06/06

07/06

Week 7

10/06

11/06

12/06 3:15pm School

Council Meeting

13/06 14/06

Week 8

17/06 Robolabs Incursion Yr K-6

18/06 19/06 Staff Meeting

20/06 2nd Hand Uniform 8.40am – 9.10am Old Undercover Area

21/06

Week 9

24/06 25/06 26/06 Kindy Open Day 2-3pm

27/06 Lightning Carnival Yr 4-6

28/06 Doctor Stovepipe

(Musica Viva show) K-6 @ 2pm

Week 10

01/07

02/07 Reports home

03/07 Staff Meeting Cross Country Yr 1 – 6

04/07 Room 8 Year 1/2 Assembly

05/07

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Education Security If you notice suspicious behaviour on our school site call: 1800 177 777 9264 4632

LOST AND

FOUND BOX

Room 14 are looking after the lost and found

box and will return named items to

students. Parents are welcome to see Ms

Adams before school to check for items.

All unclaimed items will be donated to a charity.

Year 5 RoboLab Incursion

TALES OF TIMES PAST

On Friday 14th June, we had Volunteers from the “Tales of Times Past” program visit our

school and entertained our students with tales from the olden days. The stories they shared

were of their own experiences over the last century and linked with our current HASS

curriculum in relation to Technology, Transport, Environment, History, Schooling, Local History

and Family Life. They also had a range of memorabilia on display

such as old phones, games, clothing, typewriters and record

players. The students thoroughly enjoyed the presentation and were

amazed at how much things

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Education Security If you notice suspicious behaviour on our school site call: 1800 177 777 9264 4632

LOST AND

FOUND BOX

Room 14 are looking after the lost and found

box and will return named items to

students. Parents are welcome to see Ms

Adams before school to check for items.

All unclaimed items will be donated to a charity.

Room 14 - Adopt a Coastline Term 2, 2019

Room 14 students were very fortunate to be selected to participate in the City of Joondalup’s

Adopt a Coastline/ Bushland program. The students engaged in a variety of activities during

this program – incursions and excursions. Throughout the program, students learnt about the

delicate environment, teamwork, volunteering in their community and environmental

responsibility through active citizenship. The programs and activities address outcomes in the

learning areas of Science, History, Geography and Civics and Citizenship.

Incursions: during the Nearer to Nature – Totem Yarning incursion students learnt about

Aboriginal significance of country, animals and artefacts. Coast care imparted some important

messages to remember about of our coastal and marine environments:

Look after the plants on the beach – stick to the pathways and don’t damage the dunes.

Respect the wildlife that lives on or near the beach – especially birds and reptiles.

Be considerate of marine plants and animals.

Pick up all the litter at the beach as it is life threatening to birds and marine life – 3 pieces

to save the beach!!

The excursions had the students working alongside City of Joondalup environmental officers in

rehabilitating the dune systems at the old Mullaloo Caravan Park site on Merrifield Place,

Mullaloo. The aim was to ensure that the dunes were rehabilitated with careful planting and the

removal of weeds. All the site activities took place in the dunes at Mullaloo.

Room 14 is currently creating a display about keeping our oceans clean that will be exhibited in

the Joondalup Library and available for the general public to view during the term 2 holidays. At

our Assembly, Thursday 19th September there will be a Thankyou Presentation to the Room 14

students from the City of Joondalup and our display will be exhibited at this Assembly.

Thank you to Mrs Khan, Mrs Murray and Ms Usher for volunteering on our excursions J

Thank you to the City of Joondalup, environmental officers and incursion presenters.

Excursion 1— Weeding

Excursion 2—Rehabilitating the Dunes

Entering the Dunes Digging up Weeds A Visitor Look at all those weeds

Heading into the Dunes Learning how to plant Busy planting

The empty pot snake 200 Natives planted The rehabilitation area

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P & C News!

The Padbury PS P and C are holding a Billy G’s Gourmet Cookie Dough drive as a major fundraiser this term and we ask

for your support. All the funds raised will go to our school.

Billy G’s is an Australian family owned and operated business. There are ten (10) delicious flavors including their NEW

Strawberry Cheesecake and NESTLE® SMARTIES® cookie dough. There’s even a cheese flavored Doggie Dough for

your special fury family members! The delicious cookie dough is only available through fundraising and is not sold in

stores, so stock up!

Please finalise all cookie dough and prizes orders either online or by returning your Order Form to the box in the

front office on or before 19th July 2019. The current scheduled date for delivery of your order is 12th August.

How Does My Child Fundraise?

Students have now received a Billy G’s Cookie Dough Order Form with instructions on how to collect orders from

family, friends and neighbors and order prizes. Students can obtain orders in cash using the order form together with

online

fundraising. Those who sell one tub or more will receive an incentive prize for their efforts, but why not aim higher?

You have the option to choose up to three (3) prizes dependent on the amount of tubs you sell. Family and friends are

your greatest supporters, so ask them first for your support.

Billy G’s Online Fundraising Page

Create an Online Fundraising Page at www.cookiedough.com.au which is unique to you. There are also some great

features including choosing your own avatar, selecting your prize goal and ordering or purchasing tubs online. You can

also register for online fundraising. It’s the easiest way to help reach your fundraising goals.

Win a Dream Holiday worth $7,000!

Create an Online Fundraising Page at www.cookiedough.com.au, sell or purchase one tub or more of Billy G’s

Gourmet Cookie Dough and you will automatically go into the draw to win a $5,000 Helloworld Travel Mount

Ommaney Gift Voucher and $2,000 spending money.

Apple Prize Pack Leaderboard Challenge

The highest fundraiser from our (school/group) will go into a draw to win a HUGE Apple Prize Pack including an

iPhoneX, iPad 32GB, Apple TV and an Apple Watch. Create an online fundraising page at www.cookiedough.com.au

and view your ranking on our leaderboard.

How to Order Prizes?

To reward your child for their efforts, they will receive incentive prizes based on the total amount of tubs sold, both in

cash and online. You have two options to place your prize order:

1. Login or create an Online Fundraising Page at www.cookiedough.com.au. Once the fundraiser has finished, click

the ‘ORDER MY PRIZE’ button and then confirm your total amount raised and order your prize/s. You will have 7 days

to order your prizes once the fundraiser ends, OR

2. Complete the back page of the form and return to the P & C box in the front office.

Thank you in advance for your participation, and happy fundraising! You’ll be scooping, baking and serving soon!

Jaye Muir, P & C Vice President

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Duncraig Senior High School Academic Extension Program

Mr Gillett has brochures and application forms for any parents who is interested in having their child tested

(Year 6) for the Duncraig Senior High School Academic Extension Program. Feel free to have a chat with

Mr Gillett, alternatively, the information can be sent home with your child.

SUNSMART TIP

Our Sunsmart Tip for this week is:

“ a tan doesn’t last a lifetime, but skin damage does! Remember to Slip! Slop! Slap! Seek! Slide!

The Woolworths Earn and Learn Promotion

finishes on the 25th June 2019.

Thank you to all the Padbury Primary School

Families who have supported this initiative

and handed in stickers to the front office or at

our collection boxes in Whitfords and Beldon.

We would love to qualify for more fantastic

rewards for our school, so please continue to

collect your stickers right up until the 25th

June. Don’t forget to ask your Grandparents,

Aunts, Uncles, Cousins and friends to pop

their stickers in our collection boxes too.

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KUMON PADBURY EDUCATION CENTRE

Padbury Primary School Instructor: Anna Villarroya

Tel: 0421 769 328 Email: kumonpadbury@gmail.com