DEAR PARENTS/CARERS: Room 11 Assembly

This performance was a great demonstration of the literacy and oral language learning that goes on in Mrs Kildahl’s room. We heard the story of Momotaro - Peach Boy, complemented with the beautiful artwork that the students had drawn and painted for the narrative. Oceanside Schools Lightning Carnival

One of the joys of being a Principal is getting to see the students in action when they represent our school out in the community. On Friday the weather was kind and the students had an absolutely fabulous day playing hockey, soccer, football and netball. I was really impressed with the way our students were enthusiastic, but respectful, on all the playing fields and they made the supervising staff very proud. A bonus was the five champions pennants that came back to the school from each sport played. Craigie Heights PS Public School Review

I have mentioned that the full report and letter from the Director General are available on our website but, here are two excerpts from the report in areas where we are considered to be working significantly above the expected performance for a school.

I am sure you can see why staff are to be congratulated on their efforts to bring about the best possible learning environment in partnership with our wonderful community. Jen Graffin Principal

CRAIGIE HEIGHTS P R I M A R Y

I N D E P E N D E N T P U B L I C S C H O O L

N e w s l e t t e r T e r m 2

Wednesday 26th June 2019

Monday 1st July Naidoc Opening

Ceremony—9.00am

Friday 5th July P&C Lapathon

Friday 5th July

Last Day of Term 2

Monday 22nd July First Day of Term 3

Thursday 1st August Assembly—Room 15

Friday 2nd August Holiday Reading Challenge Due In

Monday 5th August

6.30pm P&C Meeting

Wednesday 7th August 2.45pm School Board

Thursday 8th August

Yrs 5 & 6 State Hockey Tournament

Monday 12th August

Faction Cross Country

Monday 26th August Pupil Free Day

SCHOOL VISION:

To inspire every student to achieve their personal best through learning, living and playing in harmony.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOURS:

Be Responsible Be Safe Be an Achiever Be Respectful

Telephone Number: 08 6206 2200 SMS Absentee - 0417 995 416 Email: Craigieheights.ps@education.wa.edu.au

The School Office is open 7.45am-3.30pm, Monday to Friday during the school term

School banking is held every

Tuesday outside Learning

Block 1 between the times of

8.15am and 8.45am.

Craigie Heights Dental

Clinic -Tel: 9401 3731

SCHOOL NEWS

SCHOOL PAYMENTS

Payment of Contributions or Incursions / Excursions can be made via internet banking (details below), by

cheque, cash or Eftpos. Please finalise payments at the front office between 7.45am and 3.30pm.

We are also trialling the payment of Incursions / Excursions, including the digital signing of permission

forms through the QkR!. App. Instructions on how to download the App are available here: QkR! App

Payee: Craigie Heights Primary School

BSB: 066 040 Account: 1990 2511

Reference: Child’s Name/s and Year or Room #

Description: School Contributions / Incursion or Excursion Name

A receipt will only be issued for payments over $50 unless requested. If required, you can contact the

Manager Corporate Services at: Craigieheights.PS@education.wa.edu.au

HARMONY AWARD WINNERS—WEEK 8 TERM 2

Congratulations to the following students:

Year 1 Room 4 : Damien Year 6 Room 14 : Isabel

Thank you to the Maritime Museum for donating passes for our Award Winners.

The school office is a very busy place, especially around drop-off and pick-up

times. We thank everyone for their patience during these times. We

understand that on occasion, there are unforeseen circumstances, and a

parent may need to get a message to their child during the school day. We

will endeavour to do so, but there may be times when this may not be

possible. We strongly recommend that all parents give their child this

important message - If a parent does not arrive to pick them up from school,

make your way to the office and we will help.

MESSAGES FOR YOUR CHILD

SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS—SPECIAL PHOTOS

Following our recent school photography by Kapture, you can now view and order any special photos taken this year. When visiting https://www.kapture.com.au/event.asp you will need to enter our school code under the Sports & Event tab to access the gallery – Code: 7F73MZ

Please note they have uploaded a copy of the graduation group photo which parents are able to view and purchase. On occasion, parents like to purchase a copy (separate to the complimentary graduation packages received by the school) for other family members or purposes. Please alert the School Office if you wish for this to be removed from the gallery for any reason.

ADDITIONAL RECOMMENDED AUTHOR

Congratulations to Hudson from Room 5 who is a recommended Author. Hudson’s fantastic work can be viewed in the Library along with the other authors.

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT PBS CORNER DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT PBS CORNER

HONOUR CERTIFICATE WINNERS— WEEK 8 TERM 2

Congratulations to the following students who received Honour Certificates last week

for Being Respectful, Being Responsible, Being Safe or Being Achievers:

PP to Year 3: Summer, Freya, Zaden, Elias, Heath, Ella, Sophie, Angus,

Georgia, Emily, Max, Lachlan, Savannah, Ishaan

Year 3 to Year 6: Jacob, Sonny, Tarli, Tully, Cassie, Oscar, Aaron, Lachlan,

Deegan, Ryder

We love

showing off

our

achievements!

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT PBS CORNER DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT PBS CORNER Continued …..

We are Craigie

achievers!

Our building has had an upgrade. Thanks to

Room 10 students for your hard work—you

are achievers!

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT PBS CORNER DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT PBS CORNER Continued …..

Room 10 kids

were respectful

and responsible

on their Kings

Park excursion

We are kids who

learn, live and play in

harmony!

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT PBS CORNER DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT

GARDENS

Stuart, our gardener, along with Mrs Moore and the students from Room 10, have been planting some water saving, native plants around the school. This is a great way to care for our environment and we thank them all for being responsible.

POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT On Thursday 13th June we held a Parent Information Session regarding PBS at our school. We had a good turnout and thank those who were able to come along. Miss Hodge, Leader of the PBS Tier 1 Team, took the group through what PBS is and what it looks like in our school. Positive Behaviour Support (PBS) is a framework for safe and orderly learning environments in schools, while improving the social-emotional outcomes for students. This is complemented by our PATHS (Promoting Alternative Thinking Strategies, social and emotional curriculum. It is a proactive approach that relies on research based practices, including developing clear behavioural expectations, acknowledging positive behaviour, consistently correcting inappropriate behaviour, and using behavioural data to systematically solve problems. Our Behaviour Matrix defines our expected behaviours at Craigie Heights Primary School and our Referral Process identifies the steps followed when behaviour is inappropriate.

DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT PBS CORNER DEPUTY PRINCIPAL’S REPORT Continued...

If a child at school is having difficulty with reading, we implement strategies to help them learn the skills of reading. This is the same with behaviour. If a student is having difficulty with choosing the right behaviours, we support them to make better choices. We often use a restorative approach when there has been conflict. Restorative practice is a strategy that seeks to repair relationships that have been damaged, and at school it is also about students re-engaging in the classroom. Questions may include: What happened? What are you thinking? How are you feeling? Who has been affected? What needs to happen to make things right? The questions used can be used in many situations, not just at school. You may want to try them at home one time. Amanda Robinson – Deputy Principal

CHAPLAIN’S CHAMPION

BIKE / SCOOTER SECURITY

It is fantastic that so many of our families choose to walk or ride their bike/scooter to school. Although the bike racks are locked during the day, there are periods of time when they are open.

We strongly advise families to add to the security by using a lock to secure their bikes and scooters to the railings.

CONGRATULATIONS KAYLA

Congratulations to Kayla from Year 6 who has also been selected to be part of the Calisthenics Association of Western Australia’s State Team. Apologies to Kayla for not recognising her achievement along-side Mia in the last newsletter, unfortunately Kayla’s notification went astray. Kayla will also be part of the Junior Team (ages 11-13) competing in the National Championships which are this year being held at Kingsway Christian College in July.

Congratulations on your achievement and good luck and best wishes for the competition. We look forward to finding out how the team does.

COLD AND FLU SEASON

There have been a couple of cases of Influenza reported to the school. This serves as a timely reminder to please keep your child at home if they are unwell. If you have any concerns about Influenza, symptoms or treatment, please use the link below to the Department of Health's fact sheet:

https://www.healthywa.wa.gov.au/~/media/Files/HealthyWA/New/Immunisation/Flu%20vaccine/flu-influenza-fact-sheet.pdf

Evan is a conscientious worker in class and all specialist subjects. He is determined to do well and applies feedback to improve his work. He strives not only to improve himself academically but socially as well. Evan is constantly reflecting and setting himself goals; a wonderful quality to have! He is a kind and thoughtful friend and is genuinely caring towards all others. He regularly compliments others and encourages his peers when disheartened. Evan is considerate of other’s feelings and is able to put himself in other people's shoes to see things from their perspective. Evan has a calm, yet playful nature and is easy to get along with. He enjoys a good joke and has a great sense of humour. Just as your name says it, you are a true champ!

SCIENCE UPDATE

This Term we've been learning about Earth & Space. The Year 2's have been learning about water and investigating how to make it clean by filtering using different materials. The Year 5's & 6's have been learning about the size of the Solar system. We scaled down our entire solar system by 34.7 billion to make it fit onto our oval. We learnt that the distances are huge, and the planets quite small in comparison! The Year 3's have been learning about the Earth, Sun and Moon and investigating how we get day and night. Denise Brown - Science Teacher

NESPRESSO RECYCLING

Did you know that Nespresso pods cannot be put in your regular recycling bin?

If you are looking for somewhere to recycle your Nespresso aluminium pods, please drop them into Room 3. They will be picked up by Nespresso and recycled responsibly.

Claire Henderson—Classroom Teacher

PLAYGROUP: NUMERO CLUB:

Numero Club Tuesday mornings

8:00am—8:25am

Room 5

RUNNING CLUB:

EXTRA TRAINING ….. In the run up to our school cross country events and the Faction Carnival in Term 3, Running Club will now take place twice a week.

Tuesday mornings—7.45am

Thursday mornings—7.45am

Our next battery collection dates is week commencing 1st July. Our collection bin is located in the wet area of LB2. Please bring all your used batteries in for collection. Below are pictures of those batteries which can be collected:

SCHOOL BATTERY COLLECTION:

P&C NEWS:

THANK YOU!!

We’d like to say a big thank you to Narelle and all the families and staff that volunteered their time to help out at the Bunnings Sausage Sizzle recently. It was a long, but fun day and we sold 480 sausages and raised a profit of $850 for our school. We couldn’t have done it without you!

Lapathon is on next Friday The students are all getting really excited for the Lapathon next Friday 5th July! Fundraising forms went home last week. Did you know that if you set your child’s fundraising page online there’s a chance to win some extra prizes?! It’s also a great way to share the event with family and friends to help raise some funds for our school. You can access spare forms from the office with your child’s unique code if you missed last week’s distribution. Set up your child’s page here: www.myprofilepage.com.au

Entertainment Books are still available Entertainment Books are still available for purchase and are packed full of great offers! Follow the link below to purchase your book or digital membership. https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/8768y6 If you have any questions or would like to have a sneak peek at a book before deciding to purchase, please approach Shelley or Jodie at school and they will endeavour to help.

The Munch Room Canteen – Wednesdays & Fridays

Don’t miss out on your chance to try these term 2 specials;

Hot chicken roll $4 - homemade, warm long roll filled with real chicken breast shredded through a herb & mayo sauce.

Lasagne $4.50 - homemade, tomato meat sauce filled with extra hidden nutrients, cheese sauce all layered between pasta sheets.

Mac & cheese $4 - homemade, cheese sauce with extra hidden nutrients stirred through macaroni pasta.

Orders Our Canteen is open on Wednesdays and Fridays, and located in the undercover area. Come and place your order at the window before school or online at www.quickcliq.com.au. Volunteers Our Canteen Manager Amber is always looking for willing volunteers to help in the Munch Room. If you have some spare time (even one day a term!) we would love to hear from you - your kids will love it and we will have some good laughs while making some yummy food for our school. Be sure to follow The Munch Room Canteen on Facebook to stay up to date with the latest news and specials! https://www.facebook.com/TheMunchRoomCanteen/

P&C NEWS:

School Banking - Tuesday

Remember, Tuesday is School Banking day at Craigie Heights Primary School. Meet us outside Learning Block 1 from 8.15am with your weekly deposit and your Dollarmite passbook. Once students have made ten deposits they earn a School Banking reward item in recognition of their regular savings habits.

School Banking is also a great fundraiser for our school, raising 5% on every deposit made through the school (to a maximum of $10 per individual deposit). How to Join? To join our School Banking program, please open a bank account for your child with Commonwealth Bank (either online, or in a branch). Our School Banking Co-ordinator will then assign your child with a student number and you are ready to go!

Don’t forget to follow us on Instagram Check out our new Instagram account here: https://www.instagram.com/craigieheightsps/ as another means of keeping up to date with all the things going on at Craigie Heights Primary School.

Help needed We’re applying for a grant to get our vegetable garden beds up and running and would love to hear from any parents who have knowledge or skills in the set up and maintenance of a sustainable garden. Please email the P&C at : craigieheightspandc@yahoo.com.au if you are willing to provide some information to help us apply for the grant (due early August).

Parent parking is available in the car park in front of the Early Childhood Area. This area is not a ‘Kiss and Drop’ area. Provision has been made for two disabled parking bays in this car park. Please do not park in these bays as we have families requiring these spaces. Never use the staff car park. "Kiss and Drop" - If you wish to use the ‘Kiss and Drop’ area, there is a zone specifically for this purpose on Spinaway Street. Please do not park or leave your vehicle in this area. Additional parent parking is kindly offered at the Craigie Baptist Church car park beside the school, which is a short walk to the school. We are so lucky to have this additional parking so please respect everything on their site. The school oval will also be opened for parking for assemblies and school events. Parking on the verges around the school is extremely dangerous and puts our students at risk. Unfortunately a number of parents continue to park on our neighbours verges or drive-ways and this has been reported to the Joondalup Council for their action.

PARKING AROUND THE SCHOOL

COMMUNITY NEWS:

COMMUNITY NEWS: