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INSIDE THIS

ISSUE:

Easter Hat

Parade

1

Faction

Carnival

1

Thank you

and Farewell

1

Calendar of

Events

2

Year 6 Camp 2

Website Stars 2

School

Banking

2

Easter

Hat Parade

3

Anzac Service 4

Community

News

4

Faction

Athletics

Carnival

5

P&C News 5

Uniform Shop 5

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Greenmount Primary School

NEWSLETTER

50—68 Innamincka Road GREENMOUNT 6056 9294 1155 Email School : greenmount.ps@education.wa.edu.au Email Principal : lucy.webb@education.wa.edu.au Website : www.greenmountps.wa.edu.au

Please SMS if your child is absent: name, class and reason.

Dear Greenmount families Even though its been an 11 week term, its hard to believe that we are at the end of the first term for 2018! In true Greenmount style, we finished off with a flurry of activities, once again drawing the community together to share some fun and excitement. Congratulations to all the parents and family members who helped design and make some amazing ‘bonnets’ for the Easter Hat parade. Though colourful and creative the hats didn't hide the enormous smiles of our students as they paraded around the undercover area. The student councillors certainly had an enormous task trying to choose just two winners from each class! Well done everyone!

The Faction carnival went well last week and once again ‘good sportsmanship’ was the highlight of the day. We are very proud of the way in which students congratulated other competitors and put in their best effort for their respective teams. Well done Chipper faction for winning the overall competition and to the individual champions and runners up. Thankyou to all parents and carers who stepped in to help in some way during the day, and a very big thank you to Mr Hodgson for putting it all together!

Thankyou and Farewell

We very sadly say a farewell to Mrs

Deborah Taylor today. After seven years of

regular work at Greenmount Primary, Debbie is off to work

as School Officer at nearby Woodbridge Primary. Debbie

has won a permanent fulltime position at the school, begin-

ning next term. We thank her for her

professional, dedicated approach to her work here, and we will all miss

her warm smile and welcome at the front office. Best wishes for your

new role Debbie!

Enjoy your holiday - see you all on Tuesday 1 May

Lucy Webb PRINCIPAL

P A G E 2Please mark these dates on your Calendars

Friday 13th April Last Day of Term 1 Tuesday 1st May Students return for Term 2 Thursday 3 May ANZAC Ceremony Tuesday 8 May Interschool Athletics Jumps & Throws Thursday 10 May Interschool Athletics Carnival Friday 11 May Prefect Assembly Tues 15—Thurs 17 May NAPLAN Mon 21 May—Wed 23 May Year 6 Camp Tues 5 June—Fri 15 June Swimming

School Banking

The Bendigo Bank School

banking is on a Monday from

8.30am-9.00am in the Library. Teach your

children about saving.

Please take the time to look at these new items on our website:- Class Items Room 5 Term 1 Activities Room 14 Term 1 Activities Room 6 Under The Sea Room 4 5 Little Ducks Specialist Classes Term 1 Art News Recent News ANZAC Ceremony Easter Hat Parade

Year 6 Parents Camp

Reminder that monies for camp may be paid in instalments or in full as soon as possible. Please pay either through the class teacher or eftpos at the front office. Direct bank transfer may also be made, details below BSB 016 359 Account number 340879947 Thank you

G R E E N M O U N T P R I M A R Y S C H O O L

Please see website for Term 2 Planner

SPORTS FOR SCHOOLS

If you have any Coles Sports for Schools vouchers, please hand in to the front office before Friday.

The response has been fantastic and we will be putting in our order for equipment next term

On Friday, March 30th, our student councillors had the pleasure of hosting our school Easter Hat Parade. Students paraded their Easter hat crea-tions in the undercover area to their favourite community songs. Following the parade, our school P&C presented the winners of the Easter colouring competition and the Easter raffle. Thank you to all the parents and grandparents from our school community who attended this special event and thank you to our student councillors for doing such a great job of hosting!

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G R E E N M O U N T P R I M A R Y S C H O O L

P A G E 4

G R E E N M O U N T P R I M A R Y S C H O O L

Greenmount PS will again be hosting the Combined Hills Schools ANZAC Service on Thursday, 3rd May at 1.30pm at the Blackboy Hill Commemorative Site on Innamincka Road. All classes PP-6, will be placing a wreath on the memorial. Two students from each class will be chosen by the teacher to represent the class. Any community members who can help us with the donation of flowers and foliage for the wreaths would be much appreciated! Please drop off all flowers to staff in the undercover area first thing Thursday morning. Any creative people who would like to help assemble the arrangements would be most welcome. We will need: Assorted flowers (Long stems) Large foliage for bulking up arrangements Volunteers please bring secateurs/ scissors Extra Information: If it rains the Anzac service will be held in the undercover area with a

1.30pm start. Students are allowed to bring water bottles to the service with water only. Please don’t forget your hats. The Greenmount students are to wear

Greenmount hats. If you belong to the scouts and would like to wear the uniform, please do

so. Thank you for your support, Mrs Astle (Associate Principal)

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G R E E N M O U N T P R I M A R Y S C H O O L

A warm day dawned on Friday, thankfully, no wind this year. The students settled in their Faction bays preparing for the day ahead. The Distance running events were first off the rank. The 200, 400 and 800 metres were closely contested, all contestants earning valuable points towards their faction total and towards Individual Championship Points for medallions. The Junior (year 1+2) part of our Faction Carni-val began with Team Games and Sprint events. The Carnival continued with great cheering and enthusiasm. The Year 1 and 2 participants fin-ished their portion of the Faction Athletics Carnival with the announcements of the Year 1 and 2 Champion and Runner-up Champion. The Year 3 to 6 portion of the carnival proceeded through the Team Games, Sprints and eventually the Baton Relays. Scores were close with Prichard finishing in 3rd Place, Passmore in 2nd Place, and Chipper were crowned Champions. Congratulations to the following Champions and Runner-up Champions:

Year 1 Champion Girl – Harriet King Year 1 Runner-Up Champion Girl– Niamh McEwen Year 1 Champion Boy – Hunoa Punaivaha Year 1 Runner-Up Champion Boy- Jaxon Howard

Year 2 Champion Girl – Izabella Burdette Year 2 Runner-Up Champion Girl- Greer Lamont Year 2 Champion Boy – James Saunders Year 2 Runner-Up Champion Boy- Thomas Dunn Year 3 Champion Girl – Lacey Ogg Year 3 Runner-Up Champion Girl- Donna Walley Year 3 Champion Boy – Anthony Punaivaha Year 3 Runner-Up Champion Boy- Riley Spring Year 4 Champion Girl – Penelope Punaivaha Year 4 Runner-Up Champion Girl- Saraya Digney Year 4 Champion Boy – Lachy Saunders Year 4 Runner-Up Champion Boy- Sean York Year 5 Champion Girl – Rejoyce Iloh Year 5 Runner-Up Champion Girl- Shiloh Thorburn Year 5 Champion Boy – Peter Walley Year 5 Runner-Up Champion Boy- Adrian McKinlay Year 6 Champion Girl – Naomi Punaivaha

Year 6 Runner-Up Champion Girl- Aniwa Carpenter and Kaycee Spurr Year 6 Champion Boy – Jaydin Armstrong Year 6 Runner-Up Champion Boy- Hunter Pearce

Well done to everyone involved and especially the parents who helped out with the tents. Thanks Mr Hodgson

P A G E 6

Uniform Shop

The Uniform shop is open on a Wednesday morning from 8.30—9.15am

and a Thursday afternoon from 2.30 to 3.15pm

(next to Room 5).

G R E E N M O U N T P R I M A R Y S C H O O L

Sports Day Cake Stall

Thank you to everybody involved in setting up, packing up, selling, baking and donating the delicious goodies. And to all the families supporting us by buying something yummy!

Entertainment Book Fundraiser

Support Greenmount Primary School P & C and you’ll be rewarded!

We are raising funds for our fundraising and you can help. Order the NEW 2018 | 2019 Entertain-ment Book or Entertainment Digital Membership and you will receive hundreds of valuable offers for

everything you love to do, and you will also be supporting our fundraising. PLUS, order now to receive over $180 of bonus Early Bird Offers (hurry, these sell out quickly).

https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/8607k4

Clear out your cupboards and search through the shed, book a stall and not only

de-clutter but raise some money in the process. For more information visit the

Greenmount P&C Facebook Page or www.trybooking.com/VEWY