BRENTWOOD PRIMARY SCHOOL

SCHOOL NEWSLETTER # 1

2 Dawson Road, Brentwood. 6153 Phone: 9364 2709 Email: brentwood.ps@education.wa.edu.au

10 February 2020

SCHOOL NEWS

Principal’s Message

Welcome back to the 2020 school year, we have had a tremendous start to the new school year with new enrol-ments and returning students adding to the wonderful learning environment. The children are settling in well and class routines are being established. It has been a pleasure meeting with parents and families and maintaining the open communication that contributes to the positive and friendly school environment that is evident across the school. I must acknowledge the wonderful preparation by staff to ensure the smooth start to the school year and the hard work of Mrs Nottle over the years. The teacher passion for our children is evident as I wander through classes each morning and the respectful manner in which we all engage contributes to our ongoing success. Our

class structures remain flexible until census on Friday 14 February and we are able to identify the best organisational structure for our school needs and the learning needs of the students. I want to reassure parents that the class organisation is completed keeping in mind the needs of the students, recommended class sizes, input from teachers, administration and parent requests. I want to thank families in advance for understanding and apologise, in advance for any concerns that may arise as a consequence.

I also want to thank the families who travelled to China during the break, who supported our school by keeping children home for 14 days as requested by the Health Department in response to the management of the Coronavirus. Your communication with the school and willingness to support the request has helped with the community feel confident about minimising any potential risk.

I am truly honoured to be the new school principal at Brentwood Primary. Brentwood is a remarkably multicultural school and that diversity builds strength across the school. I am looking forward to working with all staff, students and families as we embrace the cultural standards framework and seek to embed culturally responsive practices that will support reconciliation with our First Nations People. Our children are the future leaders of tomorrow and our greatest asset and by working together in respectful partnerships with our First Nations families we can influence a brighter Australia for all.

Upcoming Events

18th Feb P&C AGM 7pm

28th Feb Parent Assembly RM 3

2nd March Labour Day (No School )

10th March Smart banking Yr 1,3,5

11th March Smart banking Yr 1,3,5

13th March Parent Assembly RM 11

17th March P&C Meeting

25th March Swimming Carnival

27th March Parent Assembly RM 9

3rd April Interschool Cricket

9th April Last day

Congratulations to our 2020 Student Leaders

A formal presentation of badges will occur at our first class assembly to be held

Friday, February 28th.

HEAD BOY 2020 HEAD GIRL 2020

Leo Simran

STUDENT COUNCILLORS 2020

Erin, Oliver, Holly, Tory, Ihinosen and Eamon,

2020 BOYS Faction

Captain

GIRLS

Faction

Captain

BOYS

Vice

Captain

GIRLS

Vice

Captain BLUE Kai Piper Shay Helena

GREEN Legend Phoebe Lincoln Ava

RED Joshua Althea Michael Violet

Virtue of the Fortnight – UNITY

Being the start of the year and the beginnings of new classes it is appropriate for everyone to build

unity. Unity helps us work and live together peacefully. We feel connected with each other and all

living things. When we come together in unity, we cooperate. With unity we accomplish more together

than any one of us could alone.

You are practicing UNITY when you ….

Treat all people as members of one team.

Act like a peacemaker wherever you go.

Solve conflict through listening and finding solutions.

Care for the earth and all living things.

Work as a team to get things done efficiently.

“We practice UNITY with others. We appreciate differences in people. We are peacemakers. We care for the earth and all living things.”

Local Schools Community Fund - Successful Grant application

In September last year Mr Butler and Mr Trimble prepared a submission to the Commonwealth Department of Education’s ‘Local Schools Community Fund’. We were advised by Mr Ben Morton MP in December that we were successful with our application and would be funded $10,490 toward the “Brentwood Coding and Robotics Adventure”. The school will also add additional funding. The project is designed to allow Mr Butler to team teach with classroom teachers and implement coding and robotics curriculum to all students, K-6. Participating classrooms for Term One are Rooms 13, 8, 4 and

9. Other classrooms will get opportunities next term and for the rest of the year. Mr Butler will be using Lego WeDo and ‘BOOST’ robots to teach

coding and robot construction. Keep an eye out for future newsletter inserts with up-to-date news on how our program is progressing.

Mathletics and Reading Eggs Logins

Think Mentals’ Mathematics Text

These texts will be arriving at school soon. Teachers are busily gathering student information so as to ensure each child is allocated a level that best suits their achievement in Mathematics. If you haven’t paid for your child’s book(s) yet, you can do so over the counter at the front office, direct deposit or credit card. A paper statement reminder will be

sent home in coming days.

All Years 1 to 6 students have now received their Mathletics and Reading Eggs sign-in details. These fantastic resources are sponsored by the school and P&C and pro-vide excellent opportunities for students to pursue addition-al work at home. Please speak with your child’s teacher for

login details.

Payments for the 2020

Payments for the 2020 Voluntary Contributions can now be made at the office via cash, EFTPOS, Credit Card and direct deposit into our Bank Account: Brentwood Primary School BSB: 016267 Account Nbr: 340955153- Please remember to use your child’s

name as the reference eg: JSMITHRM10.

Library News

Welcome back the library! I'm looking forward to another year

of sharing my passion for books with our Brentwood students.

Just a few quick reminders to make sure our year runs smoothly. Each class has a timetabled library sessions every week, although Kindy students will not start until term 2. All students are expected to bring their own library bag on library day to keep their books safe. From experience I recommend a bag that is water resistant and squishy

banana proof!

Parents and friends are welcome to pop past any time and browse the shelves. I am in

the library on Wednesday's, Thursday's and a half day Friday.

Happy reading

Lucy Pezzali - Library Officer

COMMUNITY NOTICE

Brentwood Year 2 to 6 Tennis Tennis coaching through Tennis Excellence

Dear Brentwood families We would like to offer an enhanced coaching experience for players in Term 1. Kids normally have a better experience when they play with their friends, so why not get a group of 4 friends together, at a time that suits you, and we will supply a coach for a private group experi-ence?

info@tennisexcellence.com.au or call us on 1300 424 544.

We look forward to welcoming your kids back on court in 2020!

The program will run at Blue Gum Park TC, next door to the school. Parents can drop off children, and the coaches will escort them to school after the class is finished.

Course duration: 8 weeks Commencing: Thursday 13th February 2020 Time: 8am – 8.45am Age group: Years 2 - 6 Cost: $100 To enrol please visit the Tennis Excellence website: https://www.tennisexcellence.com.au/course-enrolments/blue-gum/school-programs Alternatively, if you have any questions please call us on 1300 424 544 or email info@tennisexcellence.com.au

We look forward to welcoming your children this Term!

Student Services 2020

Student Services team will operate on Tuesdays. Our School Psychologist, Mrs Annette Goldschlager is allocated to Brentwood Primary school on this day. The Student Services team works closely with staff, students, fami-lies and outside agencies to assist all students to access the cur-riculum.

Collaborative Speech Pathology Partnership 2020

Once again Brentwood Primary School is pleased to offer this service to families of K-Yr1. Letters have been sent home with Kindergarten stu-dents and some Pre-Primary and Year 1 students for ongoing or individu-

al intervention. Screening and intervention will commence Week 2.

PEAC Catch Up Testing

Any new Year 5 students only who have arrived from overseas/

interstate are eligible to sit the PEAC test.

Testing venues

Tuesday 11 February Curtin PEAC Centre at Curtin Primary School, 20 Goss Ave, Manning 9:30 – 10:45am.

Wednesday 12 February Atwell Primary School, Lydon Boulevard, Atwell 9:30 – 10:45am.

Students will not need to bring anything. Pencils provided, a short break

will be taken between tests.

MUSIC

Senior Choir Year 5 & 6 – Thursday mornings. 8.30 start. Commencing

Week 3.

IMSS Catch Up Testing for new Year 3 and Year 5 students to be com-pleted by the conclusion of Week 1. 1 position remaining in Yr 3 beginner

violin and Yr 5 beginner guitar.

TINGARA NETBALL CLUB

We are a local netball club based at Brentwood Primary and we are looking for players born in the years from 2010 to 2013. If your child is interested in joining our Net Set Go program please go to http://www.tingaranetball.com.au/ for more information and then follow the link below to register

https://netball.resultsvault.com/common/pages/reg/welcome.aspx?type=6&id=85478&entityid=47319

If you have any further queries please contact Gill Ryan ryan-gel@bigpond.net.au or call 0417 524 212 after hours.

P & C NEWS

School Banking

Welcome back to School Banking for 2020. Banking is available to all

students in the School Library each Monday morning from 8.30-9am.

School banking is a practical and fun introduction to saving. It also bene-

fits our school, via commissions paid to the P&C.

If you would like your child to participate, we will be holding a School Banking Information Session at our school:

Time: 8.30-9.15am Date: Wednesday 19th of February Location: Outside the Kindy/Pre primary block

Please join us and find out more about the School Banking pro-gram and how your child can get involved.

If you are interested in opening a Commonwealth Bank Youth-saver account for your child you can visit

www.commbank.com.au/schoolbanking and click on the link to open a Youthsaver account. A School Banking representative will be available at the Information Session to explain how you can do this. In order to verify yourself and your child, you will need your driver’s licence and your child’s birth certificate, but if you don’t have these with you on

the day, you can complete verification online at home.

New School Banking Rewards

Exciting new Term 1 rewards will soon be available – Terry Denton Activ-ity Book and a Mini Soccer Ball. Each student receives a token when they deposit at school banking, and 10 tokens can be redeemed for a

prize.

Paula O'Brien (0414 778 432) and Helen Simi School Banking Coordinators

Message P&C President AGM & General Meeting

Is to be held in the Staff Room on

Tuesday 18th Feb at 7pm.

New members always welcome.

No experience necessary, just come along and get involved in any way you can. Positions open this year- President, Vice President, Secretary, Treasur-

er Join us to vote and share your fundraising ideas or projects you would like to see funded. Volunteers always required to help with both big and small

jobs to assist in fundraising and other activities around the school that benefit all students. We do sausage sizzles, Cake stalls, picnics, entertainment

books, raffles, social functions for parents The P&C & volunteers run the Canteen, The Uniform Shop and School Banking all of which benefit the

whole school community. We cannot run these services without your help. P&C funds are used to purchase school wish list items such as Books, learn-

ing tools, musical instruments, sports equipment & uniforms and funding of Mathletics & Reading Eggs programs. Past projects funded by P&C include:

Major Renovation of school library, Guided reading box sets, Nature playgrounds, 3D printers, Outdoor Tables and seating.

If on Facebook, please ask to join the Brentwood Primary School P&C

https://www.facebook.com/groups/bwoodpcfun/ group to keep updated.

Brentwood Bites Canteen News Open Wednesdays and Fridays, undercover area.

Welcome back to school for a new year. Brentwood Bites Canteen looks forward

to serving you more yummy meals.

We have lots of openings on our volunteer roster for every Friday this term, with

shifts available from 9-11am or 11am-1pm. We’d really appreciate any help from

mums, dads, grandies and other family members, and we know your children

would love to see you. Please contact us if you’re free on Fridays and would like to

help out.

Our summer menu is on offer for term one and will be sent home this week via your family representative (oldest child) and extra copies can be collected from us on Canteen days. Our summer menu includes sushi and rice paper rolls on Fri-days, however please remember to pre-order these items on Wednesdays for Friday delivery.

Please continue to use QuickCliq to order lunch by 8am on day of lunch delivery or

use the drop box at the counter from 8.30am if you would like to pay with cash

(please provide exact amount due as change may not be available).

Best wishes, Amanda (0419 851 028) and Aisha brentwoodbites@outlook.com

Uniform Shop - Open Wednesday , undercover area

If you require uniform items your three options are:

Purchase in person from the Uniform Shop, Mondays 8.30am - 9am - cash only

Order online through the uniform section of our online can-teen at https://quickcliq.com.au sign up for canteen order-ing and uniforms and we will deliver to your child's class

Fill in an order form with the school office and we will deliv-er to your child's class

Please remember that all returns and exchanges must be in a new, unworn condition with tags attached. Please be patient dur-ing the busy start of term as the uniform shop is run by volunteers