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FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic

excellence and are committed to value our society and environment.

15 June 2018 Edition 10

Strength Through Knowledge

Congratulations our wonderful Pre-Primary’s in Ms Chare’s room who made the best pirates at last week’s assembly performance. What an awesome day it was with so many pirates running around the school raising money for the children’s charity. I know all the children enjoy these days as well as the staff. Thank you to Mrs Groom, our School Chaplain, for organising a successful day. Many parents would have listened to the news reports this week regarding a nine year girl in England’s addiction to the Game Fortnite available on X-Box, Play Station and PC. It is timely to alert parents to ensure they have consistently strong restrictions with their children’s access to gaming. Apparently this game is one of the most addictive games currently available and I am very aware Queens Park PS has children in years 1 through to year 6 currently playing the game, even though it is rated for 12 year olds and above. Some of the reasons it may be so addictive is that it is online and you are playing with peers and don’t want to disappoint others in the team you belong to if you’re not playing. There is a survival instinct element- if your character is shot your real life survival instinct might kick in and your body tells you to fight back, and the promise of constant rewards encourages this. In our next newsletter we will have some more resent research in regard to this problem. Please follow the following link about ‘Keeping your Child Safe on the In-ternet’ https://www.parenting.com/article/keeping-your-child-safe-on-the-internet Teaching staff have completed all of your children’s reports and it’s now time for Mrs Hockaday and me to read them. The teachers spend a lot of time moderating work samples and looking at ongoing assessments so ensure the information you are receiving about your child’s achievements are as accurate as possible at the time of writing the reports. Once you receive your child’s report, if you have any concerns please make an appointment with the class room teacher or the person who has written the comment.

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic

excellence and are committed to value our society and environment.

Strength Through Knowledge

In the last week of school all of the school will be celebrating NAIDOC Week. This year’s theme is ‘Because of her, we can!’ As the theme would suggest, it is recognising the roles Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander women have played – and continue to play - in the community and at local, state and national levels. I am looking forward to the celebration at QPPS and hope to see our parents actively involved in NAIDOC from Wednesday June 27 to Friday June 29. As many parents are aware after working for 10 years members of staff have the opportunity to take long service leave. It is time to really focus on yourself and your family, away from the day to day planning, teaching and reporting required of you as a teacher. Next term, Ms Denise Hastings, our Room 2 teacher will be taking 6 months long service leave. Ms Nicole Nici will replace Ms Hastings in Room 2. She is an experienced teacher, who left teaching for a few years to raise her young family. We wish Ms Hastings well during her break. Lastly, as we head into Term 3 and many families are considering vacations, please note; if your child is away from school for three weeks or longer they will be removed from the school roll and you will be required to re-enroll your child on their return. Please note, if this is a Kindy placement there may not be a place for your child when you return as we continue to get Kindy enrolments requests nearly weekly. Also, if you do not live in the Queens Park area your child may not be able to get back into our school, particularly at the moment, when our classes are full. Happy Eid Celebrations to our Islamic community. Eid is an important festival that is celebrated to mark the end of Ramadan, which is the Islamic month of fasting.

School News

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic

excellence and are committed to value our society and environment.

Strength Through Knowledge

Assembly

Our assembly item next Friday is being hosted by Pre Primary class. Please come along as they are excited to present a song about Goldilocks that

they’ve been working on.

The Assembly is at 2pm but you are welcome to come and have a coffee or tea from 1.30pm.

Lemongrass Alec our gardener has lemongrass plants that he is removing from the school grounds. Please come and see us in the front office if you would like one. We will need to know by the 25th of June so we can give them out before the end of school.

Gibb St Interschool

School News

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic

excellence and are committed to value our society and environment.

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ROOM 1 Anmol Suri Hamna Tareen

ROOM 2 Guranshpreet Singh Dorothy Cooper

ROOM 3 Janna Rivera Jamila Bakesmati

ROOM 4 Haneen Omari Felix Ndayizeye

ROOM 5 Ella-Rose McBeath Slater Iamo

ROOM 13 Kinza Badoola

ROOM 14 Dianne May Manasvi Passi

PRE-

PRIMARY Jet Franklyn-Smith

Wati

Snehal Ragesh

School News

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic

excellence and are committed to value our society and environment.

Strength Through Knowledge

Our Aussie of the Month Winners for May are Benjamin Pabai and Richie Pereira. Benjamin won for being a kind and hardworking student, who al-ways excels in what he does. While Richie was nominated being a friendly and inclusive student who shares his positivity with the school community.

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic excellence

Strength Through Knowledge

Our school community will be celebrating NAIDOC Week

from Wednesday the 27th to Friday the 29th of June. We’d

love to have some parent volunteers to come in to help with

the activities we’re running. Please come and see Mrs

Corley or Mrs Lawrence if you can spare some time.

Sports News

Woodloes Winter Carnival On Wednesday 20

th June we will be taking part in an interschool carnival along with a

number of other schools from our area. It will be a multi-sport Carnival with students

playing a number of games across the day. We will be taking selected students from

year 4, 5 & 6. More information will follow.

Important Dates to Remember

Wednesday 20th June—Woodloes Winter Carnival

Tues 26th June—School Photos

Weds 27th—Friday 29th June—NAIDOC Celebrations

Friday 29th June—End of Term

Tues 17th July—School Starts

NAIDOC Week

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic excellence

and are committed to value our society and environment.

Strength Through Knowledge

On Wednesday 13

th of June, the

Queens Park Primary School Choir performed at the 2018 Children Sing Festival. The Festival was held at the Octagon Theatre at UWA and the other schools that attended were; Wembley PS, Nedlands PS, Dalkeith PS and Mt Claremont PS. Each school performed two songs by themselves on stage. The festival was not a competition, though each school is adjudicated and receives feedback. This is the second year Queens Park Primary School has performed in the festival and I am so proud of how beautifully they sang.

We sang a traditional song from the Torres Strait Island called ‘Sesere Eeye’ and a ‘Four Chord Song Medley’ which was a mash up of lots of different pop songs. Along with our piano accompanist Dan Slee, our very own year 5 student Mitchell Allen also accompanied the choir with his expert ukulele playing. The adjudicator was very impressed with QPPS Choir and said some lovely things about the choir. Some of her comments included the lovely way the choir sang together, the singing tone of the choir wasn’t forced; they were all very focused on the conductor (Mrs Doherty). They handled all the rhythm and tempo changes very well and what a wonderful choice of songs for the choir. We even had parents from other schools tell us how beautiful they sang. The overall adjudication is categorised as 1. Excellent, 2. Very Good, 3. Good, 4. Developing. Queens Park Primary School Choir received a Very Good overall! I could not be more proud of them. Thank you to all the parents, family and friends that attended the concert, it was wonderful to see so much support for the choir. There was a professional photographer at the concert who took photos of the choir. The details of how to purchase these photos will be in the next newsletter. I managed to snap a couple of photos after the concert when we were all excited after performing so well.

Well done QPPS Choir, your

representation of Queens Park Primary

School was absolutely outstanding.

Mrs Doherty Choir conductor/Music teacher

Choir News

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic excellence

and are committed to value our society and environment.

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On Monday 28th May till Friday 8

th June Room 1

shared our classroom with some very special guests, baby chicks! They arrived to great anticipation in an incubator (special heated container) ready to hatch. Early on

Wednesday morning our class noticed a fertilised egg had begun to ‘pip’ (cracking of the shell) and we watched in awe as ‘Pepsi’ broke free from it’s shell into the big wide world. It gave the students of Room 1 an opportunity to observe a natural event they would not normally experience. Over the next two weeks students observed and discussed the hatching of the eggs and compared the growth and changes in their science journals. Students had daily jobs to complete like feeding, filling up their water, weighing and observe them to ensure they are healthy and clean. This meant cleaning up after them as well! Students also learnt about the stages in the lifecycle of a chicken and subject specific vocabulary for an authentic purpose. This was a very popular feature of our classroom evident by the constant stream of students and parents from other classes wanting to see (and hold) the chicks. Sadly, on Friday 8

th

June we had to say our farewell and hope to participate in the program next year.

The students of Room 1

Living Eggs Program Room 1

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic excellence

and are committed to value our society and environment.

Strength Through Knowledge

Dear Queens Park Primary School Community Pirate Day Friday Pirate Day Friday was a great success! Thank you for making the effort to dress up in pirate gear and for the gold coin donations that came in. We raised a total of $161.20 which will go towards research into childhood cancer. Well done! Free Holiday Programs for Children aged 8 – 12 Do you know a student affected by or supporting a family member or friend with a mental health condition? Helping Minds is a not-for-profit mental health organisation that offers free school holiday programs for young people. Their programs are designed to be fun and interactive whilst enriching and upskilling participants so that they are better equip to deal with the challenges of everyday life. They have four very exciting workshops planned for July: Inspire Hope - Midland 8 -12 years Arts Club - Fremantle 8 - 11 years Friendship Festival - Armadale 8 - 12 years Winter Wellbeing - North Beach & Craigie 8 - 12 years Places are limited and bookings are essential. For more information or to register head to their website https://helpingminds.org.au/school-holidays/ or call them on 9427 7100. Have a wonderful weekend! Mrs Groom

Chaplain’s Page

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic

excellence and are committed to value our society and environment.

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Thank you for helping make Pirate Day at Queens Park Primary so memorable!

We had some terrific pirates as you can tell from the pictures.

Pirates Day

Our School Vision To empower our students to be creative, positive and independent people, who strive for academic

excellence and are committed to value our society and environment.

Strength Through Knowledge

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