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INSIDE THIS

ISSUE:

Early

Childhood

Area

1

National

Reconciliation

Week

1

Calendar of

Events

2

Merit Awards 2

Web Stars 2

Kindy

Enrolments

2018

2

Scitech 3

School

Banking

3

Fairbridge

Camp

3

Kalamunda

Basketball

Cup

4

Uniform Shop 5

P&C News 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

Early Childhood Area

Work is currently underway on extending our Nature Play Areas in the Early Childhood Area. These are being enhanced to include an

extension to the outdoor kitchen, a bridge to connect the sand pit area with the grass area and also some decking for the students to play on. All these areas should be completed by the end of the week!

Lucy Webb

PRINCIPAL

National Reconciliation Week at Greenmount Primary School

Assembly: Friday, June 2nd

at 8.45am

National Reconciliation Week (NRW) runs annually from 27 May – 3 June.

These dates mark two milestones in Australia’s reconciliation journey: The

1967 referendum and the historic Mabo decision, respectively.

2017 marks two significant anniversaries in Australia’s reconciliation journey –

50 years since the 1967 referendum, and 25 years since the historic Mabo

decision. At Greenmount Primary we will commemorate these significant

milestones, and reflect on our nation’s reconciliation journey.

On Friday, June 2nd, our school will be holding a Reconciliation Week

Assembly. Our Aboriginal students will

perform a dance and talk to our students about

Reconciliation.

We would like to invite parents and the school

community to attend.

The assembly will take place at 8.45 am in the

undercover area.

P A G E 2 Please mark these dates on your Calendars Wednesday 24 May Dentist Yr 3 and Yr 6 Friday 26th May Interschool Sport Middle Swan v Greenmount at Greenmount Friday 2nd June Reconciliation Week Assembly Monday 5th June WA Day Public Holiday Friday 9th June Yr 4-6 Choir Excursion to Upper Swan PS Interschool Sport Greenmount v St Anthony’s at Greenmount

Fantastic effort

everyone!

Friday 5th May

Rm 1 Darcy Moylan Jennifer Rotaru Rm 3 Caris Jones Evalini Walter Rm 5 Tia Taylor Madison McGilvray Rm 6 Indianna Baldwin Amelia Rabuse Jacob Tilley Rm 7 Aidan Blacker Kiara Olson Rm 8 Holly McPherson Kyla Winter Rm 9 Dean Lawson Makayla Laudehr Rm 10 Anaysha Clohessy Lahni Collins Rm 11 Olivia Landers Rejoice Iloh Rm 12 Teina Wilson Luka Matthee Sport Oliver Nebel Xavier Francis

MERIT AWARDS

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

Please take the time to look at these new items on our website:- News from Room 3 Music is Sweet Fairbridge Camp Photos

Term 2 Art News

K I N D E R G A R T E N & P R E P R I M A R Y A P P L I C A T I O N S F O R

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Do you have a child who was born between 1 July 2013 and 30 June 2014? If so,

they are eligible to start Kindergarten next year. We are taking Applications

until the end of July. Please bring some proof of Residency, Birth Certificate

and Immunisation Record when you come to apply.

If you have a child attending Kindergarten this year, parents are required to put

in an Application for Pre Primary 2018 together with proof of residency and

updated immunisation forms.

Valley Voices Choir Performance For those Year 4—6 students who are in the Choir, this excursion is on Friday 26th May from 9.40am—@ 12pm at Upper Swan Primary School. Students should wear full Greenmount uniform, come with tidy hair and recess in a plastic or brown paper bag.

Soundwave Books

For Yr 1—6 parents who did not purchase a

Soundwave book, these can be purchased

through the school at the front office using

Eftpos or cash at a cost of $18.00. Please do

not label with your child’s name in case these

need to be exchanged. Thank you

P A G E 3

School Banking with Bendigo Bank

is now in the Library

from 8.30 until 8.45

every Monday

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

Scitech is coming to Greenmount!

The team from Scitech—Science After School will be coming to Greenmount Primary

to run some awesome hands on Science sessions again this year!

Students from Years 3 & 4 are eligible for the Make ‘n’ Take workshop ($44) and

students from Years 5 & 6 are eligible for the Animatronics workshop ($55).

If you are interested in these fabulous workshops, forms and payment must be

handed in to the front office together.

The fee covers 4 sessions (Wk 6—Wk 10) and covers all materials.

There are only 20 places for each program. First in, first served and places are

filling fast.

Make ‘n’ Take consists of Air Surfers, Fizzy Things, Jitterbugs and Slimy Science.

Animatronics uses the Hummingbird robotics kits and encourages students to explore

codings and robotics from scratch, constructing an Animatronic robot using recycled

materials and programing it to react to a stimulus.

Mrs McGlew

Year 6 Camp to Fairbridge Farm The Year 6 overnight camp to Fairbridge was a

wonderful experience—and thankfully the

weather was great!

The students participated in a range of team

building activities over the two days which

included: Orienteering, a high ropes course, rock

wall climbing, a massive flying fox, a big swing,

archery, Mini Golf and a 5km night walk.

It was a great opportuni-

ty for the students to get

to know each oth-

er better, building

lasting friendships

and taking risks in

a fun way .

Thank you to all the Teachers who

organised the camp and a very big

thank you to Mr Tolj who came as our parent helper.

For more camp photos

please see the front page of the website.

Soundwave Books

For Yr 1—6 parents who did not purchase a

Soundwave book, these can be purchased

through the school at the front office using

Eftpos or cash at a cost of $18.00. Please do

not label with your child’s name in case these

need to be exchanged. Thank you

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

Kalamunda Cup Basketball Competition

Tuesday 23rd May

Ray Owen Sports Centre

This year at the Kalamunda Cup Basketball Competition Greenmount Primary

School sent three basketball teams: Boys All Stars (nicknamed the

Greenmount Giants), Girls All Stars and a Boys Future Stars (nicknamed the

Greenmount Gremlins). All our players (and our parents) were excited to

enter the Kalamunda Cup Basketball Competition for the third time.

Our competitors included Falls Road, Walliston, Bannister Creek, Carmel

Adventist and Landsdale Christian. All players settled their nerves by playing

their first game well and burning off a lot of energy.

Our Boys Future Stars (Greenmount Gremlins) consisted of only Year 3 and 4

students. They played well, learning and improving each game. This was our

goal. It was a great experience of a competitive sport environment.

The All Star Girls were so excited to put all

the weeks of training into a competitive game

situation. Under the control of their coach,

Nicolette Punaivaha, the Girls only lost one of

their round-robin games and easily won their

playoff final to make the Grand Final. The

Girls were very competitive, and only trailed

by 4 points at half time and only went down

by 10 points at the final buzzer. Finishing

runner-up in their first competition was a

wonderful end to their competition.

The Boys All Stars (Greenmount

Giants) were quietly confident

of a good showing at the

Kalamunda Cup competition

having won two years ago. Under

the eyes of their coach, Brooke

Desmond, the boys were cool,

calm and collected. Controlling in

defence and slick in offence saw

the Giants win every game including the Grand Final. All that hard work

payed off and now the boys are headed to the District Finals before

hopefully progressing to the Perth Championships in December.

It was a great team effort and as always Greenmount Primary displayed

great sportsmanship.

Mr Hodgson

More photos of the

Kalamunda Cup are

available to view on our

website.

Soundwave Books

For Yr 1—6 parents who did not purchase a

Soundwave book, these can be purchased

through the school at the front office using

Eftpos or cash at a cost of $18.00. Please do

not label with your child’s name in case these

need to be exchanged. Thank you

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).

P A G E 5

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

Bunnings Sausage Sizzle Thank you to everyone who came along and helped on Saturday 13th May, we had beautiful weather and a fantastic successful day. Sione Punaivaha, Pauline Searle, Clinton Kleynhans, Neil Jones, Rebekah Baldwin, Leanne Kleynhans, Rebecca Houghton, Sheree Agostino, Luke Brajkovich, Nick Duncan, Natasha Mellar, Toni Saunders, Sister Ormsby, Sister Tuifua, Chantell Randell, Sarah Randell, Karlien Matthee, Karen Donnelly, Kylie Byrne, Paul Donovan, Tracy Nebel, Julia Tolj, Katie Chinnery, Brook Desmond, Mesha Desmond, Kate Donovan, Tara Caple, Karen Wills, Malinda Kanonagata’a.

All volunteers names will be entered into a draw to WIN a parking spot in the Staff Car Park for a month!

Grants Coordinator The P&C are looking for a Grants Coordinator to seek out and apply for various grants on behalf of the P&C. Computer skills are necessary as the majority of grant applications involve online forms. If you think you are able to help us out please contact Karlien Matthee president@gpspnc.org.au.

Re-Gift for a Reason We are hosting a Quiz Night in Term 3 and are seeking donations of new unopened items that we can use to put together prize hampers and raffle hampers. This is a great opportunity to regift something that doesn’t suit your style or you just plain don’t like it!! We will happily take it off your hands and put it to good use. We are even able to accept donations of wine or alcohol that you don’t like either. If you have any items can you please drop them to the office. Thank you

Loose Change Drive Our Loose Change Drive will begin on Monday 29th May and run until Friday 2nd June, each class will have a collection bag and this year we are accepting 5c, 10c, 20c, 50c, $1 & $2 coins. We will tally the classes each day and update the leader board which will be located

on the P&C notice board outside the office. The class who collects the highest total will receive a prize. Uniform Shop Don't forget you can order school uniforms and pay for them online, and have them delivered to your child's class! See one of our friendly uniform shop staff for a flyer, or go to www.flexischools.com.au.

Entertainment Books If you do not wish to purchase the Entertainment Book please return to the office by Wednesday 24th May. Thank you.

Book Club Book Club received an unnamed order for Issue 3 with two items marked—one item costing $9, the other $8. There was only $9 included with the order form and this item has been ordered. If you think this may be your order, please contact The Committee via email on: bookclub@gpspnc.org.au and let us know the items you chose. Thank you. The Book Club Committee

The next P&C Meeting will be held on Tuesday 20th June at 6.30pm in the

Staff Room. Please use the service entrance and park on the basketball

courts. Everyone welcome.