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Welcome to Caralee Cares.

Welcome to our second edition of Caralee Cares for 2012. We hope all Willagee residents can takethe time to read about the wonderful contribution the staff and students of Caralee CommunitySchool are making to the educational and social needs of our community. This edition will showcase theacademic, artistic, environmental and sporting achievements of our students and offer an insight

into some of the award winning programmes we can offer your children, in the heart of Willagee.

Please do not hesitate to contact me for a personal tour of our school.

Trevor Anderson, Principal

Principal’s Welcome

Inside this issue:

Good Sports 2

Out & About 2

MusicalManoeuvres

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SustainabilityUpdate

3

AustralianCurriculum 4

Student Spotlight 4

LeadStory Headline

Caralee Cares

Arrivederci Year 7

It’s that time of year again when we bid a fond

farewell the Caralee Class of 2012. This year, weare extremely proud to announce that a numberYear 6 & 7 students have achieved success by beingaccepted into specialist programs at a range ofselective schools across country and metropolitan

areas. Just some of our high fliers are...

Talented Year 6 students, Alana Baskerville andThomas DeBruyn are to be congratulated on beingaccepted to Year 7 at Seton College while TajRyan is headed for CBC Fremantle, where we aresure they will make a big impression in the years to

come.

From our highly successful Year 7 GraduationClass, students have been accepted into a numberof competitive specialist programs offered at

Government high schools.

Melville Senior High School will be delighted towelcome our fantastic netballers Bella Wendt,Kimberley Leavy and Mary Tolentino to their team,with Bella performing a double act joining LillianMundy in the specialist Music program. TreyLucacich and Lachlan Deaville will soar to newheights in Aviation and Academic Extensionwhile Callum Atkins and Swapneel Thakur will surely

‘draw’ attention in their Graphic Arts studies.

Jordan Greer is off to feed the world at BindoonAgricultural College, Akira Backshell is diving intoMarine Biology at South Fremantle Highschool and promising footballer Jerry Morrison will

be kicking goals at Clontarf Aboriginal College.

Principal, Mr Trevor Anderson remarked, ‘This is

one of our most successful graduating classes .Their behaviour and achievements during their time

at Caralee have been outstanding and they are acredit to their teachers and parents. We wish them

all the very best for the future.’

Good-bye and Good luck to all our graduates.

Class of 2012

Your School - Your Community

Enrolments for 2013 are now open — call 9314 1677 to give your child a Caralee life.

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Some of our graduates headed for specialist programs in 2012.


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Caralee Community School participated in Art Blast2012, which provides government schools with anopportunity to showcase their outstanding art work during anArt Exhibition held at Fremantle town hall as part of

Education Week in October.The Opening Night was anabsolute success with colourfuldisplays and interactive standsenjoyed by many Caraleeparents and students. Four visualarts displays from CaraleeCommunity School presented

artworks covering AboriginalArt , Landscapes, SpringFlowers and Cancer Council's

'Crunch & Sip' school Health program were shared andexhibited. Organising teacher Ms Yan Wong said, “There was

an outstanding level of Artwork on display and Caraleestudents are to be congratulated on their artistic

contribution.”

ART at Caralee is an absolute BLAST!!

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2012 has proven a very successful year for Caraleeon every sporting field. It began with our Super

8’s Cricket teams winning the In2Cricket Metro South WestDistrict Boys and Girls Cups., then Netball victories for theYr 6/7 Fever Cup division and Yr 4/5 in ‘C’ Division CDSSA

Lightning Carnival and our FNA team narrowly missed a spot

in the season final.

Winter sport soon followed and ourEagles Cup Football team were runnerup to Bullcreek Primary School, but wererewarded when some Eagles playersarrived at school for a quick match-up!Our Hockey and Soccer teams alsodemonstrated the depth of sportingprowess at Caralee with a number of winsthroughout the season while our Cross

Country runners took full advantage of aglorious October day to challenge the

competition and be placed 2nd overall.

The Caralee Community School and Fremantle LanguageDevelopment Centre children had been preparing for their

annual joint School Athletics Carnival in September andtheir dedication showed on the day with not only a close battle

for overall winner, narrowly won by Blue Faction, but tiedwinners in almost every division of the IndividualChampionship. Everyone demonstrated excellentsportsmanship, even the teachers who were beaten by thestudents in the event’s highlight relay, and a great day was had

by all.

Hot on the heels of this, Caralee was the organising school forthe 2012 B Division Cockburn District SportsInterschool Athletics Carnival. This was a greatachievement for the staff and P&C who put on a very smoothshow and Caralee’s Nahsoni Nkunzimana and Karri Leavy

won Intermediate Champion andRunner Up Champion medals

respectively.A special thank you to all theparents, teachers and students thatgive their time, expertise and energy,especially on weekends, to make

Caralee Sport such a success.

Caralee creates a Carnival of Sports Success

Good Sports

Promoting Caralee through words and pictures.

Red Cross RendezvousFollowing the highly successful community engagement

program ‘Storytime at Willagee Library’, on Tuesdays at10.00am, Caralee students went to the aid of the Red CrossShop in their quest to win the Spring Window Displaycompetition. School librarian, Mrs Bobbie Townsend, tookthe lead with EA and resident artist , Mr. Sam Atkins, bydesigning and creating the colourful display with the help ofCaralee students and shop Manager, Vivienne Hyde,complimented student Jayden Headland on being a fantastic

ambassador for the school during the installation.

Did we persuade you?

Persuasive writing is a focus area for English

at Caralee and selected student work wason display at Kardinya ShoppingCentre during August. Students from allyear levels were asked to write a piece ofpersuasive writing, and what better subjectthan ‘ Why Caralee is a Great School! The students were most enthusiastic and

produced some outstanding work.

Out & About

Courage · Confidence · Self Discipline

Kaysi’s (Yr2) Sales Pitch!

Parents and children enjoy the displays.

Caralee mixed media ‘Crunch and Sip”’ and watercoloured Landscapes Displays.

Our Girls Cricket team in action.

If your Willagee business would like to collaborate with Caralee Community School in a

joint project, please contact us on 9314 1677 or at [email protected]

Our boys give the Eaglesthe run around!


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Caralee Choir impresses from Burswood to Bethlehem!

Musical Manoeuvres

Turning Sunlight

into Savings.

Caralee aims toprovide a tangibleoppor tun i t y f o rchildren to learn about

how we can live moresustainably in our environment and we really ‘walk the walk’!

The school has a 68 solar panels installed which havegenerated over 29,452KWH since their installation. Thisproject lessens our reliance on outside power, reducing both

operational costs and our carbon footprint.

Caralee is also a Wastewise and Waterwise school withstudent-run recycling, composting and worm programs – including a small chicken run alongside our successful vegetablepatch that provides bunches of healthy produce weekly. Withthe help of a parent graphic designer, the children are designing

a logo which will be used to market theproduce from the garden. This project is

generously supported by the WA HealthySchools Project as well as ongoing income

from vegetable sales.

How to grow a healthy lunch.

Sustainable living lessons start early atCaralee. Early learning students from B4planted seedlings in their class vegetable gardenlate in second term and then made vegetablesoup with their bountiful Spring harvest in

third term. The children ate the soup as partof their lunch, and while many of the childrenstated that they don’t really like eating ‘vegetables’, their

teacher Mrs Julie Cummings noted that most of the children

did eat the soup, with a few coming back for seconds!

Sustainability is a cross curricularpriority for the Australian Curriculumbeing implemented from 2013 and Caraleeis well placed to meet the demands of thisnational educational directive. All theseongoing projects will help to ensure ourchildren learn how we can reduce andreuse our waste, conserve water, live a

healthy and more sustainable life andwork together to create a better

environment for all into the future.

At Caralee, we Think Global and Act Local .

B5’s veggie soup!

Sustainability @ Caralee

One of Caralee’s Solar panel banks soaks up the heat.

The Caralee Choir performed at the annual WA

Government Schools Music Society concert series atBurswood Theatre on 31 July, and there wasn’t a dry eye inthe house during their performance of ‘Hallelujah’. West

Leeming Deputy Principal, Mr Peter Millar, wrote to tell usthat the Caralee Choir was a particular favourite and one of

the highlights of the night.

The choir also performed for theMelville Friendship Club inOctober with members delighting inthe performance, and sharingmorning tea with the students afterthe concert. The choir was againcongratulated on their performance ina thank you note from Ms B Harris,

Club President.

It’s not called ‘The Silly Season’ for no reason, andCaralee’s Music Teacher, Skye Marshall and her team have

been in full swing for months preparing for the annualChristmas performance season. The choir began theircarolling season by serenading Christmas shoppers atKardinya Shopping Centre in late November, then made aguest appearance at the Melville Lion’s Club Carols

Concert at John Creaney Park on December 2nd.

This musical extravaganza culminated in the annual schoolconcert on Wednesday 5th December. This year, the musical‘Tinsel and Tea-Towels’ provided audiences with a

charming interpretation of the traditional Christmas story and

s o m e

o u t s t a n d i n gperformances includingthe Choirs renditionsof the catchy, originaltunes, the line; “Who

stole my sheep?” and

Taj Ryan’s uncanny

impersonat ion ofCaralee Principal, Mr

Anderson!

Members of Caralee’s Clarinet and Drum Beat groups alsoperformed on the night to acclaim. Entrance was by gold coin

donation with all proceeds the Melville Citizens Relief Fund.

A very big thank you to all our supporters throughoutthe year, especially Mr Ian Bulmer, Mrs Anne Wetmore, MrBlair Riseborough and Ms Kate Doepel for their help with

uniforms, travel, supervision and rehearsing.

Not forgetting the unstoppable,unflappable, inimitable Mrs SkyeMarshall, whose enthusiasm andhard work ensures the Choir ofregular performance opportunitiesand the high standard audiences havecome to expect from the Caralee

Choir.C o n g r a t u l a t i o n s o n a

magnificent and musical 2012.

Sam and Cody make a friend.

The Choir & Mrs Marshall entertain Kardinya shoppers.

Caralee’s ‘Wise Men’ and ‘Shepherds

Mixing up the compost..


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24 Winnacott St WILLAGEE 6156

Phone: (08) 9314 1677Fax: (08) 9337 1609

[email protected]

CaraleeCommunity

School

‘Caralee Storytime’ is on at Willagee Library every Tuesday from 10.00am

Year 1 student Cheyenne Alexander is never in trouble for fighting in theplayground, but when she dons her Taekwondo uniform, she transformsinto a lean, mean fighting machine! Cheyenne is fast collecting GoldMedals and Trophies; she worked her way up to win the WA State finalfor her weight division, qualifying her to represent WA in the NationalTitles in Queensland, later in the year. Her whole family went to supporther and she did not let them down; fighting her best fight to beat the

competition to be crowned National Champion in the 6-7 yr olddivision. Well done Cheyenne, you have made your family, State and Caralee

Community School very proud.

Don’t mess with this Pint size Prize fighter!

Student Spotlight

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This year, Caralee Community School hasintroduced iPads to their ICT mix to enhance

engagement and learning outcomes as well asprepare for the Australian Curriculum ICTCapabilities directive. P&C funds haveprovided each class and the music teacher withan individual iPad to support planning forstudents and provide one on one learningopportunities for each class. By 2013, Caraleewill have three ‘banks’ of iPads to service Junior,

Middle and Senior classes. We will alsocomplete our notebook replacement programwith 40 new HP notebooks available to all

students.

Meet our Digital Natives!

These new technologies have been most fullyembraced by our younger students, who arepractically born with a ‘mouse’ in their hand!

Junior Primary iPad Co-ordinator , Mrs JulieCummings, has selected ‘apps’ across various

learning areas to support and extend what thechildren are learning within their classes. “The

teachers have embraced this technology

and are integrating the iPads into their classprograms.” she enthuses. Years 1 and 2 students

also use the class bank of laptops to developword processing and research skills. “The

children are becoming confident in their abilityto create and save documents and to research atopic, which are skills central to the AustralianCurriculum’s ICT Syllabus. They also usethe iPads and laptops in Targeted AssistanceMaths & English lessons to further developand consolidate their literacy and numeracy

skills,” adds Mrs Cummings .

Deputy Principal, Jason Shapcott , has overseenthe introduction and augmentation of thesetechnologies to Caralee, “We are ever mindful

of the contemporary and future workplace andso have been keen to have a mix of Apple and

Microsoft applications available to allstudents,” he explained.

With a new look website featuring Class Blogpages also due to be launched by the end of2012, technology is certainly powering the

future educational directions at Caralee.

Keeping abreast of the latest Technologies

Australian Curriculum

YourInvitation:

Why not

come and see

what Caralee

CommunitySchool has to

offer you and

your family.We’d love to

show you

around.

Call today for an

appointment.

9314 1677

C1 Yr 3 students engaging with with ICT in a SOSE lesson.

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B5 Preprimary students focused on their iPad lessons.

The orientation mornings held during November for parents of Kindy

Kids enrolled at Caralee for 2013 were very well attended.Thank you to all the parents who came along, we look forward to

having your family join our school community!

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