14th March 2013 - Swan View Primary School

Swan View Primary School
Swan View Surveyor
Term 1 - 2013
Telephone: 9294 1522
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Assembly A1
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From the Principal
1
Library News
2
Honour Certificates
2
Maths News
3
Eagles Visit
3
4
Canteen News
4
School Banking
News
4
Office Hours:
8:15am – 3:30pm
14th March 2013
From The Principal’s Desk
Dear Parents/Caregivers,
This is week six of our first term
which means that we’re just about
half way there. Thank you to parent
support for getting the children into
school uniform. At the assembly on
Monday I noticed only four students
wearing incorrect clothing.
Black
leggings are not part of the school
uniform, nor are black shorts.
Students arriving late to school
Please make sure that your children
are at school by 8.45am every day.
Late comers are very disruptive to
classes and the children arriving late
miss out on those very important
parts of the learning day.
Below is a summary of late arrivals
from K-7 over the past 6 weeks:
No of students in group
P & C News
Fax: 9255 2086
K
P
1
2
3
4
5
6
7
58 students,
50 students
55 students
51 students
53 students
51 students
62 students
40 students
55 students
Number of late arrivals
10 late arrivals
41 late arrivals
14 late arrivals
21 late arrivals
60 late arrivals
15 late arrivals
56 late arrivals
17 late arrivals
25 late arrivals
Parent Survey
It is a requirement of schools to
conduct a survey of parents attitudes to the school, whether or
not parents have concerns, or
would like to see something
change, or would like the opportunity to give feed back on the
many positive aspects of school
life. We have put a parent satisfaction survey on the department
internet site where you can access the survey and have your
say.
http://apps.det.wa.edu.au/dest/58
492
On our school records we have
only 76 families with email addresses. If you have an email address and would like the survey
emailed to you please notify the
front office. The survey site will
end on the 5th April.
CAPs Program
Mr Jamie Polich is our teacher in
A5 this year and the students are
engaged in some very stimulating
learning experiences.
One of
This is a serious amount of these is the Guided Reading Sesdisruption to the learning sion.
programs and I call upon parents to ensure that every
child is ready for lessons at
the beginning of the school
day. Of course there are instances
where students have medical appointments and then a late note is
issued.
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Library News
March 2nd was DR. SEUSS DAY. This world wide event celebrates the author Dr. Seuss, who had
sold 200,000,000 books throughout the world by the time of his death in 1991.
To celebrate this special day, the children in year 3/4 in B6 made a wonderful display in the
Library. The display consists of oil pastel book characters, research about Theodor Seuss Geisel
(Dr. Seuss was a pen name), and 3D Cat in the Hat peg holders. There is also a competition to enter with book prizes being awarded at a future school assembly. Please come in and have a look at
this great display.
The students in B6 also made 3D Cat in the Hat peg holders for a friend in year 2 B5 and then
hosted a special afternoon in the library where they could do any of the 6 activities on the theme of
Dr. Seuss.
Congratulations to B6 for their fine efforts and thank you to B5 for joining in the celebrations.
Helen McGinniss & Claire Brockway
Congratulations to all of the following
students
who
received
honour
certificates.
HONOUR
CERTIFICATES
A Block recipients
A1
A5
A6
A7
Ken Dulin
Vaughn Button
Dakota Rivers
Lillian Jenner
Mikayla Richards
Ana Lawson
Michael Caputo
Callum Davidson
B Block recipients
B2
Kohdi Sankey
Declan Martin
B3
Hannah Miles
Trent Cox-Simpson
B4
McKenzie Hemopo Ryan Armstrong-Byrne
B5
Della-Rose Brown
Nicholas Armstrong-Byrne
B6
Oneoli Eleperuma Yvette Walley
C Block recipients
C1
Maddy Linaker
C4
Saskia Blake
C6
Hayden Burns
Jaxon Brady-Cook
Ezra Grant
Maya Broomhall
LA1
LA2
Ella Luckman
Caitlin Cooper
Liam Milner-Jutten
Anthony Ciavalini
Music
Sport Jordan Vincent
Tia Hancock
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Helping your child with maths
Building number sense and power K-3 students.
Dice activities can be an ideal, easy way for you to build your child’s mathematical
understanding at home in a game situation.
Three games are included in the newsletter:
For Kindy/PP Match the die pattern
For Yr 1 Die plus one chart
Yr 2-3 Two dice plus 10 chart
Dice activities provide opportunities to:
•
Reinforce number patterns
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Construct efficient counting strategies
•
Manipulate numbers mentally
Parents wanting to know how to help their kids
with maths.
If you’d like to know more, see Mrs Armstrong
THANK YOU
A BIG thank you to
Catherine and Michael Swanton for helping prepare the numeracy boxes for our
Mathematics program.
Eagles Visit Swan View
On Tuesday 12th March, Tom Roach came to our school with Rick the Rock to talk to us about
respect, healthy lifestyle and anti-bullying.
The talk also emphasizes values education and the “Five R’s”;
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Respect yourself.
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Respect others
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Respect the environment
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Reaching out into the community
•
Reaching your potential
Everyone enjoyed seeing Rick the Rock, he made everyone laugh and put a smile on our faces.
We all thanked Mr. Webb for organising everything and letting the Swan View children to see him.
A few Eagles players will be coming to school on the 19th March and Interschool team boys for footy
and girls who signed up for faction footy will be playing with the Eagle players.
Alicia Clinch A1
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YEAR 7 FUNDRAISING NEWS
Many thanks to those students who supported our first sausage sizzle fund raiser for this year. A
total of $275.00 was raised which is a great start. Thanks go to the parent helpers who assisted
with the wrapping and distribution of sausages and a special thanks to Dave Doyle who comes
along each time and cooks the sausages and onions for us. Your help is greatly appreciated.
Also congratulations to Jasmin Donnelly of B6 who was the lucky winner of the $10 canteen
voucher.
The second sausage sizzle for the term will be held on Monday March 25th not
April 1st as previously advertised which was Easter Monday.
Ross Tompkins
Deputy Principal
P & C NEWS
Dear Parents/Carers
We are running two Easter raffles. One is an allergy free raffle for those who cannot eat chocolate and the
chocolate Easter egg raffle has three prizes. Tickets are 50c each or 3 for $1.00. The raffle will be drawn
at the assembly on March 27th. Just in time for Easter!
We are asking for Mother's Day stall donations again please, there is a collection box in the front office and
we thank you for supporting the P and C.
The stall will be held on Friday the 10th of May, for students from pre primary though to year 7. This is the
first Friday back after the Term one holidays.
The next P and C meeting will be held on Tuesday the 9th April in the library. All parents/ carers are welcome to attend.
We have a family in our community who is in need of assistance with clothing, food, and other household
items. Any donations for this family would be greatly appreciated. If you can assist please leave your name
and number with the school office and we will contact you. We had a great response from kitchen warehouse in Midland, Harvey Norman, CNC hair, Rebel Sports and some local Swan View businesses. We
thank them and every one who has helped out so far.
We feel blessed to be part of such an outstanding community who has rallied together to support someone
local in a time of need. Thanks Yolanda Von Kloeg for her extra help in organizing donations.
School Banking
School banking is held every Thursday morning between 8.00 and 8.45am. We have moved the
location of banking to C Block as of this Thursday. New accounts are always welcome, please
feel free to contact Catherine Swanton for any queries.
Canteen News
COOKBOOK: “Let’s Cook” the Swan View Primary School cookbook is still available. Pick up
your copy from the canteen for $5.00.
A recipe we use in the canteen that is also available in the cook book is Pizza slice:
1 Wrap, 2 tbls. Nacho sauce, 1 1/2 slice of ham, 1/4 cup of grated cheese.
Preheat moderate oven. Place wrap on baking tray. Spread nacho sauce on wrap. Rip up ham,
lie on wrap, sprinkle with cheese.
Crunch and Sip– Canteen special Kick start 2013 with Crunch-n-Sip.
A 600ml Bottle of water & apple $1.60