22 Lawrence Way SAMSON 6163 Ph: 9314 1921 Fax: 9331 3624 NEWSLETTER No 8 22nd May, 2015 Principal: Rhonda Spencer Email: [email protected] _____________________________________________________________ Principal’s Message Wet Weather A reminder that the students stay on the verandahs and eat in the wet areas when it is raining. We do not allow children to play in the rain. If the weather is dry they go out to play. It is warm woolly jumper weather. NAPLAN Testing – Year 3 & 5 Our year 3 & 5 students have completed their NAPLAN testing. Well done to all of our students for their hard work. The testing was spread over four days. Results of the test will be available to parents mid-way through September. The papers are sent away for marking. WINTER – School Uniform Cold weather is officially upon us! Just a reminder to wear your warm Samson PS jackets and tracksuits pants. Honour Certificate Recipients 20th May, 2015 Rm 1 Rm 2 Rm 3 Rm 4 Rm 5 Rm 6 Rm 7 Rm 10 Rm 11 Rm 12 Ava Ammon Kelani Jude Layla Ben Charlie Rachel Caitlyn Reagan Elisabeth Adele Bianca Kooper Angus Caleb Jacob Flynn Ava Jessica Tana Zoe Sajo Mackenzie Ella Could parents please check that students have their name written on their belongings. We have many jumpers being left on the oval that do not have names on them. LOST PROPERTY At the moment we have a large amount of lost property. Some items of clothing have names on them but most don’t. At the end of term all remaining uniform items will be given to the uniform shop to sell. All other items will be donated to a charity shop. SMS – Absence Messages For the parents who would like to send an SMS in the morning for your child’s absence, the phone number is 0418 948 875. Congratulations to all of our students who received honour certificates. Rhonda Spencer Principal Suzanne Coleman – Visual Arts Teacher INTERSCHOOL SPORT Last week we had our first winter Interschool Sport. Samson played South Coogee in football, netball, soccer and hockey. Gold Certificate Recipients Dylan Rm 3 Rm 6 Rm 6 Rm 6 What a One netball team had a very close game and won. The other unfortunately lost. Silver Certificate Recipients Blake Joseph Arid Our hockey team had their first win. great way to start the season. Remy Sandra Rm 6 Rm 6 Mathletics photos will appear in the next newsletter. Gwenyth Ewens Art Competition We are very proud that 50 of our students in years 5 and 6 have entered art works in the Gwenyth Ewens Art Competition. This competition is held annually at the Fremantle Town Hall as part of the Frementle Heritage Festival. It centres round the theme of Historical Fremantle Buildings. The opening ceremony was held on Sunday 10th May, with all participating students invited to attend. We are very proud to see that Connor Bennett from room 7 was presented with a prize at the official opening. Congratulations to Connor and all the participating students, your work looked fabulous on display in the library. The exhibition continues until Wednesday 27th May. Football had a great game but went down to South Coogee by 6 points. Soccer also lost in a close game. The following dates are the further on 22nd May, Coolbellup PS and 5th June at Newton. Applications for Kindergarten in 2016 Parents of children eligible to attend Kindergarten in 2016 are invited to complete an Application for Enrolment from now until closing date, Friday 31st July, 2015. To be eligible, children must be born between 1st July 2011 and 30th June 2012. Applications for Pre Primary in 2016 Parents of children eligible to attend Pre Primary in 2016 are invited to complete an Application for Enrolment from now until closing date, Friday 31st July, 2015. To be eligible, children must be born between 1st July 2010 and 30th June 2011. You may know of someone in the community who does not receive this newsletter but has a child who would be eligible for Kindergarten next year. It would be appreciated if you could pass this information on to them. CAR PARK The start of the wet weather means more cars dropping off students and picking up in the afternoon. Please be vigilant in watching students getting out of or into cars. Parents also need to park safely and legally. Do not park in the school staff car park or on the grassed areas. The car park is not a place to turn around. Cars are not to drive through the staff car park. _____________________________________________________________ Our School Our Future CANTEEN CHANGES Our canteen has been revamped. There is a country feel to the new canteen. The students will be voting on a new name. If you have any ideas please let us know your suggestions for a name. Here is the spread of food available at recess from the canteen throughout winter. At the beginning of the year the P & C set up a Canteen committee to review the canteen in our school. A group of interested parents from the P & C and canteen helpers have been meeting regularly to discuss the purpose of the canteen. Jess Tercier, Cathy McGreal, Cheryl Van Sant, Maree Harrison, Michelle Jenkins, Karen Storer, Fleur Hargreaves and Kylie Patience have worked hard to finalise the winter menu. A copy will be sent home for each family. Recipes WILL BE available on both the school and P & C websites soon for parents who have children with allergies. There are many homemade items on the menu. Where possible the canteen will use the excess produce from the garden. For example, pumpkins from our garden are being made into pumpkin soup. Mrs Dwyer will also be making some of the recipes in the cooking lessons with the classes, so that students can taste the canteen delights. New items on the recess menu include: Sweet potato chips, pumpkin scones, beetroot hommus with vegetable sticks, spinach fritatas, pumpkin soup, zucchini slice, fruit and yoghurt, quiches and more….. Everything is 50c or $1. Our year 6 students have developed a survey and a group of them presented their findings to the canteen committee on Tuesday. They will also be conducting a vote on a new name for the canteen before the end of term. Well done to Mrs Van Sant for her hard work in the canteen. _____________________________________________________________ Our School Our Future _____________________________________________________________ Our School Our Future . This year Spinal Health Week 2015 runs from May 25 to 31, with the theme ‘Get Your Happy Back’. Every day more and more Australians experience disabling low back pain, neck pain and headaches, limiting their ability to work and engage in an active healthy life. One explanation for this is the impact an increasingly sedentary lifestyle has on postural fitness. Think about all the hours you spend each day sitting at work or school, on a computer or other mobile device, watching television or playing computer games. Poor posture increases pressure on your spine which can cause low back pain, neck pain, headaches and fatigue. Low back pain is a growing problem and now ranks second in Australasia and seventh in the world according to the World Health Organisation’s latest Global Burden of Disease study. Neck pain is also problematic ranking ninth in Australasia and 21st in the world. Head Lice Within a school environment head lice is a constant issue. Please check your child’s or children’s hair regularly. FURTHER INFORMATION CAN BE FOUND ON THE SCHOOL WEBSITE. OT VISIT – ALEX GUIMELLI See on the school website the parent pack sent to us from Alex after his visit. It will help parents with tips for activities if you are concerned about your child’s gross or fine motor skill development. IMMUNISATION If enrolling a kindy student parents will need to provide the child’s immunisation history. Check the details on the Health Department Website as you can now obtain these records from the website. Don’t forget you can find Joel Candy our Chaplain in the office in the middle block if you would like to talk with him. Also if you would like your child to talk with Joel, you can organise this with him directly. BRAVE – Anxiety Program for children Thank you to all of the parents who attended the session with Joel. For any parents interested the BRAVE program is self-paced and the tutorial is something that you can check out at home. School Council Nomination Please fill out the slip below and return to the front office of the school by Tuesday, 2nd May, 2015. We have vacant positions on the School Council. There will be an election if we receive more nominations than positions. The next meeting is Wednesday, 10th May, 7pm in the school staffroom. We meet twice a term. For further information please Rhonda Spencer, if interested. contact I wish to nominate as a parent representative for the Samson Primary School Council for 2015 - 2018. I understand that the term is for 3 years. Name: _________________________________ Signed: ________________________________ _____________________________________________________________ Our School Our Future Public Holidays (Term 2) WA Day Monday 1st June New events appear in red DATES TO REMEMBER Term 2 Fri 22 May Interschool Sport Yr 5 & 6 Wed 27 May Assembly Room 6 Wed 27 May FOODCENTS Parents PD Thur 28 May Evacuations procedure Fri History Quiz PUBLIC HOLIDAY WA Day Parent Workshop FOODCENTS Newsletter Interschool Sport Yr 5 & 6 Music AVIVA Show PP- Yr 6 Assembly Room 11 Parent Workshop FOODCENTS 2 School Council 7pm PEAC Testing Newsletter WALKATHON 8.40 am Assembly Room 12 Winter Lightning Carnival Yr 4, 5 & 6 Student Reports sent home Newsletter LAST DAY OF TERM 2 Mon Wed 29 May 1 June 3 June Thur 4 June Fri 5 June Mon 8 June Wed 10 June Thur Thur Mon Wed Thur 11 June 18 June 22 June 24 June 25 June Wed 1 July Thur 2 July Fri 3 July Other important Dates: Term 3 Mon 7 Sept Tue 8 Sept Thu 10 Sept Wed 23 Sept Term 4 Tues 20 Oct Wed 21Oct Fri 23Oct 9-20 Nov School Cross Country Faction Carnival – Field Events Faction Carnival – Track Events Parent Open Night School Photos Interschool Athletics Carnival Field Events Interschool Athletics Carnival Track Events PP – Yr 4 Swimming Lessons Voluntary contributions can be paid in the front office …… Payments for school contributions are $60 for each student. These funds provide valuable resources to our students. All of the funds are spent on resources for our students to use in the classroom from Kindy to Year 6. CAN YOU HELP? If you can help with any items listed below, please leave them at the office or give them to Mrs Dwyer. Ice-cream containers, with or without lids. Milo/Nesquik tin lids any size. 600ml Plastic drink bottles. Milk bottle tops. Thank you. Mrs Dwyer ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS FOR SALE Choose from the traditional Entertainment™ Book Membership that comes with the Gold Card and vouchers, or the new Entertainment™ Digital Membership that puts the value of the Entertainment™ Book into your iPhone or Android smartphone! Whichever Membership you choose, $13 of your $65 purchase will go towards our fundraising and you receive over $20,000 worth of valuable offers valid through to June 2016! Both the Book and the digital membership will be launched mid-May. Featuring popular new and existing family businesses such as: SAMSON PRIMARY SCHOOL TO PRE-ORDER ONLINE GO TO: www.entbook.com.au/86059w _____________________________________________________________ Our School Our Future A group of our year 6 students are working with Mr Joel Candy, to collect non-perishable food for the Food Bank because we have fruit delivered to aid our Crunch N Sip program. RE-ORDER Y We have a box of various fruits ( apples, pears, etc) delivered to the school each week for children to eat as they wish if they do not have fruit for Crunch & Sip. Afterschool care program on Samson school site. Caring, fun environment Contact us for more information Enquiries: 0431 778 432 www.wanslea.asn.au Get Active Sports run introductory sports programs for 3 - 8 year olds on weekend mornings. $90 for 6 weekly sessions and a ball, bat or racquet for you to keep! Visit www.getactivesports.com.au or call 1300 772 106 for more information. “The Gruffalo’s Child” On Stage…… The team behind ”The Gruffalo” return with more songs, laughs and scary fun for children aged 4+ and their adults. June 30 to July 5 State Theatre Centre of WA BOOK NOW ! Ticketek.com or 1300 795 012 We are running a Food Appeal from June 2 to June 19 in association with Food Bank. The donation of cans or long-life milk will be gratefully appreciated by families in need. A table will be outside the library for your contributions. Thank you to Mr Joel Candy and Year 6 students for organising this event. _____________________________________________________________ Our School Our Future
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