POYNTER PRIMARY SCHOOL Issue 19

30 November 2016

POYNTER NEWS Coming Events Wednesday 30 November

P&C MEETING 7.00PM

Monday 5 December

SRE Christmas Presenta�on

Thursday 8 December

Music Soiree - Ensemble 6pm

Friday 9 December

Year 5&6 Social

Tuesday 13 December

Book Awards Years 1-5 9am-11am

Parent Thank You Morning Tea

(a'er book awards)

Year 6 Dinner/Dance evening

6pm-10pm

Wednesday 14 December

Gradua�on Assembly

Year 6 1-3pm

Thursday 15 December

LAST DAY TERM 4 FOR STUDENTS

Wednesday 1 February

TERM 1 2017 COMMENCES

Next Farmers’ Market Saturday 3 December

2016 School Bell Times 8:30am on Children arrive at school

8:50am–9:00am Home Room

9:00am–10:00am Period 1

10:00am–11:00am Period 2

11:00am–11:20am Recess

11:20am–12:20pm Period 3

12:20pm–1:20pm Period 4

1:20pm–1:35pm Lunch (eat)

1:35pm–2:00pm Lunch (play)

2:00pm–3:00 pm Period 5

Reminders

Uniform Shop Hours:

Monday morning: Closed Friday a'ernoon 2.45-3.15pm

School Banking:

Thursday morning in Ac�vity Room 8.20am-8.50am

Poynter Primary SMS:

0437 311 380 (or through App)

Education Security

9264 4632 (24 hours)

39 Poynter Drive DUNCRAIG

SILKWORMS IN ROOM 3

2016 RUGBY STATE TACKLE FINALS Congratulations to our rugby team on winning the runner-up trophy in the 2016 State Tackle

Final. This makes us the second best team in the state. The event was held last Friday 25

November at George Burnett Park in Manning. The trophy is in the office for you to admire.

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From the PrincipalFrom the PrincipalFrom the PrincipalFrom the Principal

Congratulations to the P&C for organising a very successful movie night last Friday. Unfortunately I was

unable to attend but I hear that it was very well attended and the students and parents engaged in plenty of

conversation and fun. It was a wonderful social event, thank you to Pam Birnie for coordinating the set up

and pack up on the evening.

Big congratulations to our Rugby League team who came runners-up in the State Competition! Thank you to Mr Beard for

organising the training and leading the boys on competition day and to our parents who were able to attend. We are all very

proud of the boys’ achievement; you can view their trophy in Administration.

Changes for 2017

2017 will be a year where we continue to implement programs and structures to

further enhance positive outcomes for all students. There will be a few staff

changes next year as we see the retirement of Mrs Seredynski and a few teaching

staff who will continue to drop their work time which makes way for new

appointments to be made. Another significant change will be the permanent

appointment of Mr Scott Palmer to Goomalling Primary School as Principal. I would

like to congratulate Mr Palmer for such an excellent achievement. We are now

definitely losing Mr Palmer but I know that you will join me in wishing him every

success in his permanent appointment.

The staff changes mean that we have seven new appointments for 2017. The

permanent appointments are: Mr Alex Righton, Mrs Alison Guhl, Mrs Sarah Kyle

and Ms Courtney Coleman-Brown. The fixed term appointments (12 months) are:

Mrs Jodie Reid, Mrs Natalie Hunter-Smith and Mrs Christiana Nicholson. I would

like to congratulate them all on their appointments to Poynter PS.

I have included the classes for 2017 in the table to the right. We have an enrolment

of 523 students for next year and a total of 20 classes; this is one more class than

in 2016. We only have one split class in 2017 as this is regulated by the number of

students in each cohort and the rules and regulations by which we are bound in

creating classes. I will go through these rules and regulations at the P&C meeting

on 30 November, so please come along. Staffing is a fairly complicated process

but I really believe that we have come up with the best scenario for 2017.

Our specialists programs will still continue with our very talented team of Mr Wilson, Mrs Herriman and Mrs Theodosiadis

(Madame). We welcome back Mr Schwarz as he is returning to Poynter Primary School for 2017.

Our other continued appointment is that of Ms Gibbings to the Gifted and Talented (G&T) coordinator role for three days a

week. This year she has made some incredible gains in the development of our school policy and procedures in G&T. We will

be able to continue to use her expertise, knowledge, skills and understanding across the school from Kindy to Year 6. You will

be able to learn all about her role at the Whole School Parent Information Evening in Term 1.

You will also notice that we are shifting the rooms around to cater for the students’ cohorts. This means that our senior

students will be swapping with our middle years’ students. The class placement process has not been completed yet but I

hope that we will be able to finalise these by the end of the year. I will let you know if and when that occurs.

THE ARTS Congratulations to all the students who performed at the Instrumental Soiree last evening . Thank you also to the parents

and families who supported them at the concert.

The Ensemble Soiree takes place on: Thursday 8 December commencing at 6pm. Dress: Performance uniform for

students in Years 5 and 6 and school uniform for students in Year 4. Venue: Undercover area and grassed

quadrangle. Students will be required at school for 5.15pm for their instruments to be tuned and ready for performance.

Ensembles included are: String Ensemble, Year 5 Training Band, Year 6 Concert Band, Senior Orchestra

String Quartet, Year 5/6 Choir. Please bring a picnic blanket, picnic tea and/or chairs to enjoy a lovely evening of

entertainment from our talented students. This is a great opportunity to celebrate the achievements of our music students and

to see the massive improvements they have made over the year. We look forward to sharing our performances with you.

CHOIR: Apart from the Soirees, the choir has been invited to perform a concert at the Trinity Aged Care facility in Duncraig.

Unfortunately, we are limited to a total of 30 students to perform due to the limitations of the performing space. 30 choir

students will be selected to participate in the excursion which builds connections with our wider community and gives our

students the opportunity to engage with a different generation.

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Contributions and Charges for 2017

As per legislative requirements I am attaching to this Newsletter our Contribution and Charges Schedule for 2017. These

were endorsed at the last Board meeting on Monday 14 November, which also included the Personal Use Items List. Please

note that you are not obliged to use Campion as the supplier. Please read through this document as it gives you a very good

idea of possible maximum charges and contributions that need to be made . We appreciate your support.

Class Parties

I have had a request to let parents know when the class parties will be held. At our communication meeting this morning the

staff opted for Tuesday 13 December. The staff or class coordinators will let you know of the finer details.

As a final note, I wanted to let you know that I was away all last week for personal reasons and was sick for the first two days

of this week. I have endeavoured to reply to parents emails during my time away but if I haven’t yet, I will do so soon. Thank

you for your understanding.

Keyla JeffersKeyla JeffersKeyla JeffersKeyla Jeffers

Principal

Mandy Herriman

Music Specialist

Year 2 have been looking

onto the future with a

Magic Mirror. It shows

them what they will look

like in 100 years time.

They had to design a

beautiful wall paper to

go behind the mirror.

Their patterns must

repeat and be very

colourful. These mirrors

are fantastic!

Terry Wilson

Art Specialist

CODING HAS COME TO POYNTER

Dot and Dash are part of a digital technology package supplied to all

schools in WA by the Department of Education. The items in

this package will be used to teach the students coding and are

meant to capture their imagination and develop their creativity

in the digital world.

CITY OF JOONDALUP INTER-PRIMARY SCHOOL TENNIS If you would like to show your support for our school’s tennis teams, please see the details below:

When: Friday 2 December 2016, 4:00-6:30pm

Where: Sorrento Tennis Club

JUMP ROPE FOR HEART JUMP OFF DAY Last Wednesday 23 November, we held a ‘Jump Off’ day at our school to

celebrate and culminate the Heart Foundation Jump Rope for Heart program.

The event was hugely successful and students thoroughly enjoyed the occasion.

The school raised $2852 in total, which will go towards saving countless lives.

As a school, we had the 5th highest amount of students fundraising online in WA.

Thank you once again to all students who took part in fundraising for this very

special cause. Your effort is greatly appreciated.

2016 DECEMBER AUSSIE OF THE MONTH — Banjo (Room 13)

Poynter Primary School’s Aussie of the month is a highly prestigious and honourable award

bestowed on its finest students. It is with pride I give this award to a very deserving young man.

This young man comes in to class every day with a super smile and terrific attitude. He is a kind,

caring and gentle young man who is highly respected by his peers. Often, at the conclusion of

the day when the class have all left, this particular student will go out of his way to come up and

thank me for a wonderful day. He is a genuine, sincere young man who is a proud Australian. On

the sporting field he is a natural leader, often giving advice and confidence to his fellow team

members. He is a true gentleman of the class. It gives me great pleasure to announce Room 13’s

Aussie of the Month to Banjo.

2016 DECEMBER AUSSIE OF THE MONTH — Aiki (Room 9)

The Aussie of the Month award recognises many of the values we share as Australians; a sense

of fair play, generosity of spirit, persistence, resilience, commitment to community participation

and personal endeavour. This awardee naturally displays all attributes of the Poynter Way and

has had an exceptional final year of primary school. They have incredible enthusiasm for all

aspects of their school life, continually displaying kindness, enthusiasm, cooperation and a

positive ‘have-a-go’ attitude to tasks in all learning areas. This person fully embraces a mindset

of community and team togetherness and offers encouragement and advice freely, without

the expectation of reward. This young leader has increased in resilience and responsibility

throughout the year, acting with greater confidence and during social activities. This person has exceptionally good

friendship-making skills and always appears to see the good in everyone. They are humble and receive advice

willingly, keen to embrace a positive change. Having a mature approach to all instructions and expectations, they are

somebody all students can trust and look up to. It gives me great pleasure to announce Room 9’s Aussie of the

Month is Aiki.

Tamsin Cook

Visited the Year 6’s

Tamsin came to speak to the Year 6 students and talk about her experience winning a

Silver Medal at the Olympics in the 4x200m freestyle relay team. She has also received the

Winter Strickland Medal awarded to the most outstanding performance by a WA Olympian.

POYNTER WAY CERTIFICATES - ASSEMBLY 30 NOVEMBER PP – Lyla Barry, Alice Peel, Greta Hart, Maxim Doyle

Y1 – Sunny Townsend, Harrison Chatfield

Y2 – Chloe Copley, Riley O’Neill, Riley Dirstein, Robin Jensen, Nathan Lang

Y3 – Angelique Emery, Jett Black, Owen Karakyriakos

Y4 – Christian Holan, Michael Peel, Zoe Hodson, Lucas Hill

Y5 – Joshua Lee

Y6 – Sophie Megson, Jade Godier, Aidan Mills

Art Award – Harriet Chin Year 4

French Award – Andrew Sutherland, Kyle Formilan, Sam Ndreca, Matthew van Selm,

CHRISTMAS HAMPERS

People have started to bring in their donations of festive food items or make a gold coin donation. There is a box in the

office to put these in. Please send all donations to the office by Friday 2 December.

Identity Direct & Bright Star Kids Fundraiser Poynter Primary P&C are now teaming up with Identity Direct and Bright Star Kids

to help raise money for our school. If you’re looking for labels for all your kids

school belongings for next year, we hope you will take the time to look at the

Identity Direct catalogue or website or the Bright Star Kids website. For both

companies you will need to enter our school as the benefactor at checkout.

Identity Direct need our code 38690

Bright Star Kids need you to find our group Poynter Primary P&C

There is also a lot more than just labels on these sites, so you may want to check

them out now for some different Christmas present ideas too.

Every order placed will earn Poynter a 15-20% commission, supporting our

school year round. This is not a one off fundraising event, but a continuous

commission based earner for the school, so it doesn’t matter when you place your

order, as long as at checkout you enter our code or select our group, we will

continue to receive all year, every year!

Thank you all so much.

Poynter P&C

P&C NEWS How fabulous was our Movie Night! I don't think we could have asked for a better evening. Thank you to everyone who came along and supported us and thanks to the kids who were all extremely well behaved.

There were a couple of items left behind which are now in the front office.

The last P&C Meeting for 2016 is tonight - 7pm in the staff room. It will be quite a brief meeting followed by a drink and some nibbles. We would love you to come and join us.

Have a great fortnight and stay safe.

Pam Birnie - poynterpandcpresident@yahoo.com.au

FARMERS’ MARKET NEXT MARKET SATURDAY 3 DECEMBER Thank you to Kirsty Daley and her team of parents who ran the P&C stall at the last market with their colourful theme.

At the next market we will have lots of stocking filler gifts. Get into the Christmas

spirit at the P&C stall and purchase one of our lovely Christmas tree badges and

find the little felt fairies living in the Christmas trees. There will also be Minion

and Pony bag charms and the very popular handmade Lego mats. You can also

pick up something delicious to eat from the huge selection of baked goods, sausage sizzle, bacon and egg

burgers and fruit slushies.

Chantelle Collins

Farmers’ Market Coordinator

Hello from the Market and hello December!

It's that wonderful time of year again when stone fruit is in season. Stop by Valley View Orchard and see what they have

picked off the trees and ask about what's coming soon.

Solar Fruit, Boy & Bee Honey and Adventure Snacks will be joining us

on Saturday.

Kulin Kluckers Free Range eggs have had a great start and are back

again with us. These chickens have no boundaries and are as free

range as they get.

We are also trying a new food stall called Curring Out Loud. They will be

serving Malay curries with lattice roti. Something new for us to try.

The following Market is on Saturday 17 December and it will be our Christmas Market with lots

of extra stalls, bouncy castles, face painting Santa and more.

That’s all for now and see you at the Market.

Cheryl Hamel-Smith

Market Manager

NETBALL 2017 Hi, my name is Fiona Colvin and my daughter Anneliese is new to Poynter Year 4 this year. I have nominated

to co-ordinate netball for 2017 for girls in Year 2-6. I previously co-ordinated a netball club for Karrinyup

Primary School and look forward to working with teams in the new year. I will have further information for

everyone in February 2017, but if you have any questions prior, please contact me on 0408 211221 or

fionacolvin@gmail.com.

LETTERS TO SANTA FROM ROOM 5

Dear Santa

I wish to apply for the job as an elf. I am a

good rapper because I rap every day. I also

can climb on houses because I am very

careful on the roof. And I watch people in

fact every boy and girl in the world and I’m

not cold when it is snowy at Christmas and

fast because I run every day and I have

gotten into interschool 2 years in a row. I

am very organised and I am the first person

to ask my teacher if she needs help to clean

up the class room.

Yours sincerely

Joshua Beach

Dear Santa

I would like to apply for the job as an elf. I can wrap presents in a flash and

I am very small. I am very fast. I am very smart and strong and I can lift 20

bricks. I waste no time for delivering presents. I like making toys. I am a

very good guard and I am the number 1 cooker in Western Australia. I can

sprint as fast as a horse. I am very good at geography. I can pilot a plane. I

love jumping out of planes! I am good with cold temperatures because I

live a life below 0. I am very organized because I was very prepared for a

spelling test. I am very athletic because I can throw a discus, run a mara-

thon and cycle around town.

I would really like to work for you.

Yours sincerely

JETT BLACK

Dear Santa

I wish to apply for a job as an elf. I am very fit and I do

a hundred push ups and chin ups a night so I can run

super-fast and deliver mail. I wrap presents in 30 se-

conds and do perfect bows and every side is a different

colour to make it stand out. I am really good at building

because I do wood work every day and it looks like you

would buy it from a shop. I can load your sleigh in no

time because I pack my bag ten seconds straight. I am

a really good at cooking so I can make meals for the

elves so they will go at a good pace. I can make 20

presents in one day so we can get work done quicker. I

am really smart when I was six I did Year Twelve work

so I can calculate the measurement of the toy so we

can make the presents better.

Yours Sincerely

Owen Karakyriakos

Dear Santa

I wish to apply for the job as an elf. I am an awesome mechanic, because I once built a motor bike out of a rusty old run-

down car. I wrap a present like a boss, I always wrap a present very neat and whenever I wrap a present I always put a

bow on the top. I am also very fit so I would be able to run when I deliver a present. I could also run and deliver some news

to the other elves, because I once ran 100 meters in 8.13 seconds. I am also very small so I could be able to fit through

tiny gaps when the door or window has a small gap because I once fit through a hole in a cave. I am also not afraid of the

dark. I once went in a cave at 3 am to find a lost toy for a kid named jack. I can also read very quickly so I could help you to

see what some kids want because once I read a 250 page book in a 2 hours and went on to do a test and got 100 %.

I am very organized, once my teacher needed us to bring in a project due by Monday. I was the only person to bring it in on

time. I can also cook really well back at home I make a Pavlova to perfection as well as some giant meringues for a very

famous restaurant the white made black. I can also am very good in cold temperatures because I once climbed to the top

of Mount Everest. I am also very good at my math so I could be able to cut the toys in their shape to perfection.

I can also climb very well I once climbed up on a rock face to get to a friend’s house that was on the very top.

I can also carry things really well I once carried 15 boxes in one go so I could help you deliver presents to all the kids.

I am also very confident when I do thing because once I believed in myself to beat the world record of furthest throw for a

teenager.

Yours sincerely

From Darcy Stoitis

Dear Santa,

I wish to apply for the job as an elf. I wrap the presents every

year. I have 10 people in my family and each person 5 gifts. I put

pretty bows on the presents.

I set up the Christmas tree every year and hang the bobbles. I

am organised because I do things earlier than I am supposed to.

I am a great chef and my kids come in the kitchen to see what I

am cooking before I answer they smell it and say it smells deli-

cious can I have a test so I let them and they say 10 out of 10. I

won master chef. I won the Olympics for the fastest runner in

the world. When I was a little kid they always called me smart

nerd in maths because I always got A+ in school.

I’m not afraid of the dark because I go out for a walk every day

at 8 o’clock at night. I work outside every day for 6 hours 1 hour

continuously I do push ups 1 hour of boxing 1 hour sit ups 1

hour gym 1 hour weightlifting each day

Yours sincerely Yeshe Shakya

Inclusion of the items below does not represent endorsement by PPS

Our next program will run during the January school holidays 9th—27th (excluding the 26th)For more details and enrolment options please visit our website www.ecu.edu.au/sport/khp

or call us on 6304 5000

CRICKET CAMP Join us on January 9 till the 12, 9.00am to 1.00pm each

day. For 4 days of cricket fun. Western Warriors players

will visit the camp. Earlybird offer before Jan 1st (save

10%) Call David Virgo M: 0439 091 418 or

email info@cycd.com.au www.cycd.com.au/services/

summer-holidays-cricket-camp/

Keyed Up Music

will be running keyboard and

guitar lessons again in 2017 after

school. We run group lessons

starting from $15.45 plus GST

per lesson. To enrol, to go

www.keyedupmusic.com.au/

enrolment-form or ring Therese

on 1300 366 243

HILLARYS YACHT CLUB SCHOOL HOLIDAY SAILING PROGRAM

Tackers 7 to 12 years old or Start Sailing 12 to 17 years old

DECEMBER 2016

Monday 19 to Friday 23 December 2016(5 day course)

JANUARY 2017

Monday 9 to Friday 13 January 2017 (5 day course)

Monday 16 to Friday 20 January 2017 (5 day course)

8:30am – 12:30pm Age: 12 – 17 Cost $150 (5 day

course)

Monday 23 Tuesday 24 Wednesday 25 Monday 30 January (4

day course) 8:30am – 1:30pm Age: 12 – 17 Cost $150 (4

day course) Contact Mel P 9246 2833 E

development@hillarysyachtclub.com.au

A 65 Northside Drive Hillarys W hillarysyachtclub.com.au

School Holiday Mountain Bike coaching

sessions with Trail Addicts WA

Open to young riders aged 11-16 these sessions will be

run on local trails, with local coaches. Learn new skills,

have fun on your mountain bike and meet new people.

Sessions will be run 8am - 12noon to avoid the heat of the

day. $30 per day or $120 for the week. Minimum 20

riders. Please get in touch with Level 2 MTB Coach Chris

to reserve your spaces and find out more:

chris@pedalperformancecoaching.com or 0423 637159 or

take a look at facebook.com/TrailAddictsWA/

Coaching will be safe, fun and run by acredited coaches

on risk assessed trails.

Interested in part or full time work?

Could you work in a school?

Can you see yourself as a

School Gardener/Handyman

or Cleaner? Starting in 2017 we are looking to run a 1

semester course on the skills required to

be a successful school gardener/

handyman.

In addition, we will support you in applying

for work in a school as a gardener/

handyman or cleaner.

We have feedback that there is high de-

mand for people to fill these roles and the

chances of gaining employment are strong.

Course details:

· Full time - 3 days per week - 20

week course duration

· Based in Leederville and on site at

schools If you would be interested in this

course then please email: Chris Hodson

chris.hodson@nmtafe.wa.edu.au