Newsletter 19 June 2018

Issue 9

Wednesday 20 June

Cross Country Carnival

Board Meeting - 7.15pm

Friday 22 June

Interschool vs Palmyra PS

Monday 25 June

Kaala Kaaditijin Incursion

Tuesday 26 June

Room 17 - Blue Flame

Parents Interviews -

3.30pm to 6.30pm

Wednesday 27 June

Reports sent home

Thursday 28 June

Uniform Shop Open

Friday 29 June

Choir Concert 2.30pm Last day of Term 2

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Monday 16 July

First day of Term 3

Principal’s Message Enrolments 2019

1

Honour Certificate Winners

Yirra Yaakin Incursion

Music News

P&C News

2

More Photos - Room 6 4

Music - Salaka With African Beat

5

Chaplain’s Corner Uniform Shop Hours

6

Celebrating Learning - Room 6

3

Interschool Sport Timetable

OshClub News

Keyed Up Music

7

Inside this issue:

www.ardrossps.wa.edu.au

Principal’s Message

MOTIVATE - EDUCATE - CELEBRATE

Welcome to our last newsletter for Term 2.

REPORTS

Next week you will receive your child’s first semester school report. The report encompasses your

child’s academic and social learning. We pride ourselves in providing students with a holistic

educational program supporting all domains of learning. Please take the time to sit with your child

and talk about their report and the effort they placed into it.

ACTIVITIES THIS TERM

Learning within the classroom is often consolidated with incursions and excursions whereby our

students visit facilities which provide real life experiences. These have included visiting Anketell and Deep Water Point to plant seedlings as well as planting with their buddy class within the school area.

Staff and students also enjoyed drumming, dancing and singing with the African Drumming incursion.

All students have been involved in sporting activities throughout the term. These have included the

Interschool Sports afternoons comprising of netball, soccer and AFL. Tomorrow students will be able

to participate in our Cross Country Carnival enjoying the fresh morning air and increasing their fitness.

Yogazoo has provided the skill set for students to use stretches and breathing techniques to assist

with their wellbeing.

PARENT / TEACHER MEETINGS

I encourage you to book a time to meet with your child’s teacher next Tuesday. Parent /

Teacher interviews will be held on Tuesday, 26 June from 3:30pm to 6:30pm. Please click on

the PTO icon on the front page of our school website to access the booking site. Bookings

close on Thursday, 21 June at 6.00pm.

PARKING IN KISS & DRIVE & THE STAFF CARPARK

As a community it is important that we are courteous to others. Please ensure that you do not park in

the Kiss & Drive area from 8.00am to 9.00am and also 3.00pm to 4.00pm. Your co-operation, patience and adherence to the Kiss & Drive system will provide your children with a safer

environment, with less waiting and less parking hassles.

The staff carpark and driveway entering it are for staff use only. This carpark is not accessible for drop

off and pick up of students unless using disability parking or the P&C bay. Sue Mikkelsen-Taylor

Principal

SCHOOL ENROLMENTS 2019

Friday 20 July is an important date in your child’s education. You need to apply to enrol your children

in a public school for 2019 if they are:

• starting Kindergarten – 4 years old by 30 June 2019

• starting Pre-primary (first year of compulsory school) – 5 years old by 30 June 2019

• starting Year 7 (first year of secondary school)

• changing schools.

All children from Pre-primary to Year 12 are guaranteed a place at their local public school. Come

and see us to enrol your children today. Apply by Friday 20 July 2018. Visit www.ardrossps.wa.edu.au

or for more information visit education.wa.edu.au.

YIRRA YAAKIN INCURSION - YEARS 1 TO 6

To offer students an insight into Aboriginal culture and dance the Yirra Yaakin Theatre Company will be performing Kaarla

Kaatijin on Monday, 25 June in the undercover area. Permission slips were sent home last week so please sign and return

them to your child’s classroom teacher as soon as possible.

MUSIC NEWS

The Junior Choir will perform a special end-of-term concert at 2.30pm on Friday, 29 June. In addition to their own

repertoire, the Junior Choir will also be accompanied by the Senior Choir for two songs; including a song to recognise

NAIDOC week which falls during the school holidays. We would love parents and family members to join us. Claire Mason

Music Teacher

P&C NEWS

BUNNINGS SAUSAGE SIZZLE

The P&C are very excited to say that we have secured a date on 1 July 2018 at Bunnings Melville. Please come down

and show your support for your school and buy a sausage in a bun.

ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS HAVE EXPIRED. BUY YOUR NEW ONE TODAY

We also have 40 more Entertainment Books to sell. This is a fantastic fundraiser for our school and we receive $14 from

each book sold. If you haven’t already, please purchase your Entertainment Book today and support Ardross Primary

School. http://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/833r95 Please visit the link to place your order today! You

can also order through me Marie Ainsworth on 0421 000 506 or email mariefjainsworth@gmail.com or Paul Crawshaw

who is also fundraising and can be emailed on carwash@y7mail.com.

THE FATHERING PROJECT

What: Ardross Primary School Fathering Project Family Day Out

Where: Simulation Centre, Bibra Lake

When: 23 June 2018

Time: 11.00am to 12.30pm Cost: $15 per person

The whole family is welcome to join. RSVP by 20 June 2018 to ardrossdads@outlook.com or 0450 882 911 (Paul). The

Fathering Project committee at Ardross Primary School warmly invites everyone to a fun-filled day at The Simulation

Centre in Bibra Lake on Saturday, 23 June 2018. Activities to enjoy on the day include:

• wall Climbing

• slot cars

• racing car simulators

• multisport simulators (baseball, cricket, bowling, zombie, golf, dodgeball, carnival games, NFL and much more)

Come along, have some fun and meet other Ardross Primary School friends as well. We hope to see you there.

Good luck to all the kids running in the Cross Country tomorrow. Have fun and run like the wind. Have a great week Marie Ainsworth

P&C President

HONOUR CERTIFICATE WINNERS

At the assembly held today the winners were:

Room 20 Jesse-Lee S, James W. Room 7 Trent B, Joe H, Sara S.

Room 19 Isaac B, Zoe C, Bradley E. Room 6 Eason F, Eva H, Amelia I.

Room 17 Ella N, Charitha V, Ovita W. Room 5 Liam B, Julia J, Seraphina O, Gloriya T.

Room 16 Toby C, Nicholas Y. Room 4 Anyoun M, Isabella N, Lincoln O, Kelly P.

Room 15 Kaitlyn B, Bentley N. Room 3 Andrej C, Joseph D, Leah L.

Room 13 Ronghan B, Quilan C, Tamara M, Noah S. Room 2 Cameron B, Sara C, Daniel P, Aryana S.

Room 10 Rishika A, Imogen U. Room 1 Chamieka B, Thabiso M, George S, Naomi Y.

Room 9 Max B, Lana C, Taj P. Music Saige D, Grace H, Lara K , Amelia P, Luca S.

Room 8 Caitlyn H, Tate J, Chloe K, Anica P. Japanese Sanjana S, Amelia C, Athan T.

CELEBRATING ROOM 6

In Room 6 we have been learning about the history of WA Day. We made timelines and a slideshow for our Assembly.

We have been practising the song ‘We are Australian’ in English and Noongar language. We are proud of all our

work.

On Tuesday, 5 June was our WA Day Holiday class Assembly. We were really excited all day and when we were in

front of the whole school, we felt very nervous about reading into the microphone and singing in front of everyone.

Mrs Mikkelsen came into our classroom before the Assembly to have a preview of the slideshow and commentary,

dances and songs. Mrs Mikkelsen said she loved our practice performance and was sad to have been at a

Principal network meeting during the Assembly.

We have been busy with lots of other activities as well. We are practising our Cross Country course. We are all trying to

jog an extra lap each week and only some of us enjoy this.

On Monday afternoons we do YogaZoo. In YogaZoo we have learned lots of different animal poses. At the end of

these sessions we do our relaxation to music and it helps us to relax, some of us even feel sleepy.

We went to the Life Education Van to learn about cyber bullying. We learned that we should not share our passwords

and important information about ourselves. Passwords need to be strong so people can’t guess them easily. Letters,

symbols and numbers make the password strong, but if it spells out personal information like your name and age then

the password is weak.

The Year Twos had their swimming lessons for two weeks. They were all in different levels. They practised swimming

strokes. They learned how to keep safe, when someone is drowning don’t reach out with your hand but reach out with

something long or throw them a board.

The Year Twos went with Rooms 7 and 8 to the Perth Zoo. It was lots of fun. Their favourite parts were going in the

nocturnal house, seeing the cute penguins, watching the mighty elephants painting, the hoppy tree kangaroos, they

were so cute and the cheeky monkeys with red bottoms.

The Year Threes went to the Simultaneous Story Time to listen to the story called Hickory Dickory Dash. The funniest part

was when the cat stood on the used diaper while he was chasing the mouse.

We like using the laptops every Tuesday. We like to do our power-points, Mathletics, Mathseeds and Reading Eggs.

Sometimes we play live Mathletics between each other and its lots of fun competing. We have written our own

narratives based on Saun Tan’s story called The Lost Thing and typed them using Word. Told by the Girls and Boys in Year 2/3 Room 6.

MUSIC - SALAKA WITH AFRICAN BEAT

On Friday 8 June, Salaka from African Beat visited Ardross Primary School. All children from PP to Y6 were invited to spend

the afternoon singing, dancing, playing drums and learning about African culture. The group Salaka were excellent

entertainers and the children (and staff) thoroughly enjoyed their performance.

CHAPLAIN’S CORNER - TECHNOLOGY

Part 3 – Good boundaries and limits (AKA Preventing the iPad meltdown)

So, your child likes playing on the iPad, or computer, or other electronic devices. And when it's time to put it away, things

get a little heated. This isn't uncommon, but it is becoming increasingly complex for parents and carers to help their children learn good boundaries with technology. So, let's launch into part 3 of our two part series on children and

technology and look at a few ways we can intervene to help kids 'step away from the device'.

Keep in mind: the Australian Government Department of Health recommends children between 2 and 5 have a maximum

of 1 hour of 'screen time' per day, including school use and television. Children and young people between 5 and 17

should have not more than 2 hours. Children under 2, they recommend, should have no screen time.

But when the Royal Children's Hospital in Melbourne conducted research last year, majority of children exceeded these

suggested limits; children aged 6 – 13 were using technology at home 31.5 hours per week, which is over 4 hours per day.

And … 62% of families said that technology use was causing conflict in the home. See https://www.rchpoll.org.au for more

data.

So, how do we create boundaries that children are likely to stay within?:

• Enforce time limits. Help them know that one hour is actually one hour and it does come to an end. Give them a ten

minute warning, then a five minute warning, then a two minute warning, so they can prepare to switch it off. And

perhaps any time over the limit, is time they are borrowing from their next session. Just like a credit card, really: it's not

elastic, it's bound by fixed numbers.

• Look at 'getting off the iPad' as a skill to be learned. You are collaboratively working alongside the child and helping

them learn the sequence: preparing to stop, feeling disappointed that a fun activity is about to come to an end (think:

how do you feel at the end of a long weekend?), saving the game or closing the app, turning the device off and

putting it away. Help them map this process and try to be as consistent as possible with prompting the various steps.

• Help them identify why they become upset when switching off. Some children aren't as emotionally flexible as others,

so helping them see that their response may be a mixture of disappointment and frustration and can help them identify

new emotional skills they need to learn. Naming a few skills they can learn and use can be empowering: slow

breathing, brain switching, looking-forward-to-next-time and body relaxation are all ways of labelling useful skills they

can use when becoming upset.

• Have other activities the child enjoys that aren't using technology. So at switch-off time, there is an incentive to head

outside and dig a giant hole or play with siblings.

• Ensure that the time on a device is at an appropriate time. Most children won't want to come off a game to go and

complete homework, so using the game time as a reward after homework or jobs may help them transition better. And

the closer to bedtime, the more likely the meltdown, as when we're tired, our adaptability and flexibility are on a low.

• If the meltdowns are becoming excessive or dangerous to the child or others, then it might be wise to learn the

necessary skills at another time They might not have the skills to negotiate the process of turning off yet, so do as much

as you can to prompt them but be prepared to pick your battles. Explore the situation with the child at a later time,

once the emotion has subsided, and explain how they crossed a limit and how they have effectively used up some of

their technology time for their next session. Remember, they used it up, so this is less punishment and more a natural

consequence.

• Password the iPad. Sounds simple, but access is a vital part of the cycle, and if it's not easily accessible, you're already

teaching a boundary.

And my final thought:

• Look after yourself. It sounds paradoxical, but when you're helping children grow and change habits, and sometimes

you're enduring their distress with them, you're at risk of wearing yourself out and emptying your reserves of energy and empathy. So, keep tabs on your own leisure and rest and make sure you're in a good place to help them.

Nathan Hoyle

YouthCARE School Chaplain

UNIFORM SHOP 2018

28 June 2018 8.30am - 9.15am

19 July 2018 8.30am - 9.15am

Ardross Primary School would like to thank our sponsors for their support of the school. We encourage

all parents to use their services where feasible.

Paul Evensen

Associate Director Realmark Applecross

SPORT - UPCOMING INTERSCHOOL SPORT TIMETABLE

OSHCLUB NEWS

Enrolling your child in OSHClub is easy and free. All you need to do is complete an enrolment form online at

www.oshclub.com.au where you will have the option of booking as either a permanent or casual user. Once your child is

enrolled you then have the comfort and reassurance of knowing that your child/children will be cared for in a safe, fun

and friendly environment. Val Maiorana

Program Coordinator

Next term Keyed Up Music will be teaching keyboard lessons on Tuesday after school. Lessons start from $17.50 for a group

lesson of 4 people, $18.10 for a group lesson of 3 people, $22.55 for a shared lesson and $33.00 for an individual lesson. If

you are interested please ring Therese on 1300 366 243 or enrol at www.keyedupmusic.com.au/enrolment-form.

Thankyou to Woolworths Garden City for their ongoing support

Sport Week 8 Location - 22 June

(vs Palmyra)

AFL Shirley Strickland

Soccer A Ardross

Soccer B Palmyra

Netball A Ardross

Netball B Ardross

Netball C Palmyra

Netball D N/A