18th September 2014 No. 15

Telephone: (08) 9439 2299 Fax: (08) 9419 4790

P R I M A R Y S C H O O L and L E D A E S C

Dear Parents At our P & C Meeting on Monday, the P & C President Cherry Adams announced that nearly $2000 was raised during our sport carnival. This is great news and a credit to all the hard work of our P & C. Special thanks to all our helpers for their support: Mrs Pene, Mrs Batchelor, Mrs Kent, Mrs Buitiful, Mrs Bagadiong, Mr Bone, Mr Leahy, Ms Strickland, Mrs Gordon, Mrs Bickley, Ms Deeny, Mrs Rogers and Mrs Pairama.

Class placements for 2015 will be commence in the early weeks of Term 4. If you have any educational concerns/requirements about your child for next year that we should know about, please place it in writing into the office addressed to the Principal marked “Private and Confidential” or email Leda.PS@education.wa.edu.au Mr Davies - Principal

If your child(ren) will not be at this school in 2015 please complete the form below and return this to the office at your earliest convenience. We are doing our best to organise a smooth start to 2015 and we rely on your help in this important area. All schools are funded according to our enrolments so it is very important that we plan with accurate enrolment numbers. � - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Leaving Leda - My child(ren) will NOT be attending Leda in 2015. Names: __________________________________________________________________

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New School: _____________________________________________

Signature: ___________________________________ Phone No: __________________

Hi everyone

Well I can’t believe we are almost at the end of

another term. If you have not yet been contacted by your child’s teacher for an IEP meeting,

please contact them and meet before the end of term. This is your opportunity to have input into

your child’s learning program.

Mrs Barrodeen, Mrs Lucken and myself have already commenced IPS training and we are very

enthusiastic about the process. If you are a parent of a child who will be enrolled in the Education

Support Centre in 2015, and would like to have input into the Strategic direction of our Centre, we

would love to hear from you. Please call me on 94392508.

Mrs Howorth—ESC Principal

Monday 13th October is a PUPIL FREE DAY. Students return to school on TUESDAY 14th OCTOBER

Well done to Ms

Rann and the

students of Room

24 for their item

Shooting Star by Al

City along with

snippets of

information about

the solar system.

Congratulations to the Honour Certificate winners: Rexy, Michael and Zacary ESC, Samara and

Zaylarni Rm 1, Jonah and Kenneth Rm 2, Kerryneth and Sophie Rm 4, Izaiah and Rahni Rm 5, Lily

and Donell Rm 7, Kalara and Chelsea Rm 8, William and Miracle Rm 9, William and Beau Rm 10,

Esther and Natalia Rm 11, Logan and Peter Rm 12, Abudo and Jahna Rm 13, Ella B and Ella D Rm

14, Reuben, Cy and Alyssa Rm 15, Monelle and Peyton Rm 16, Alliyah and Joseph Rm 23, Ky and

Georgina Rm 24. Specialist award winners: LOTE - Rm 24, Music - Rm 5; Deputy Good

Workers Award - Jayden Rm 7 and Ben Rm 11.

We look forward to Room 9’s item at the next assembly on Friday 26th September.

Battle of the Year !

Who will be the Victors ?

Our annual Staff v Students

soccer match is scheduled for

Friday 17th October. Come and cheer -

match commences at approx. 1.30pm

Room 4,

12, 13, 14

Excursion

to Kings

Park

A huge Thank You to Louis Doyle of Redback Clothing & Sportswear and Johanna of Johanna’s Florist Medina for

donating prizes for the raffle. Many thanks to Ms Cloutman for hosting the stall that was held at Kwinana

Market Place last Thursday and Friday to promote Leda Schools. Congratulations to the winners of the raffle:

Peggy and M Johnson.

ChampionsChampionsChampionsChampions Year 3 Boys Year 3 Girls Gold Erwin (B) Jahtea (Gr) Silver Damon (B) Emily (B) Bronze Lawrence (R) Louanna (B)

Year 4 Boys Year 4 Girls

Gold Michael D(Go) Esther (Gr) Silver Michael M (R) Jade (Go) Bronze Tylah (B) Taya (Go)

Year 5 Boys Year 5 Girls

Gold Jordan (Go) Precious (B) Silver MItchell (B) Maddison (R) Bronze Kyle (Go) Makayla (Go)

Year 6 Boys Year 6 Girls

Gold Jayden (Gr) Teagan (R) Silver Lorenzo (Go) Maddison (Gr) Bronze Jermaine (B) Savannah (R)

Congratulations to BLUE !!Congratulations to BLUE !!Congratulations to BLUE !!Congratulations to BLUE !!

FINAL POINTS

BLUE 530 GOLD 506 GREEN 424 RED 366

SPIRIT SHIELD ( Towards total )

GREEN 130 RED 120 GOLD 90 BLUE 70

Talent Quest

There has been great excitement with a huge number of acts entering the competition. The audition process will see 9 acts chosen to move through to the semi-final in each of the age divisions. From these items the best 3 acts in each age division will be selected to perform in the final on the last Friday of term. Good luck to everyone.

Win your own ukulele

- Raffle tickets will be

available for 50c a

ticket at the talent

quest auditions to win

your very own ukulele.

Second prize is a

quality wooden

recorder and 3rd prize

is a harmonica.

Free Dress Day Last day of term, Friday 26th

September for a gold coin donation. Money raised will go to

the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research. This will

support Mrs Jeffrey who is riding over 200km to raise money for cancer research as part of The

Sunsuper Ride to Conquer Cancer.

Vacation swimming classes 2014 - 2015 A VacSwim flyer has been issued with this newsletter. Enrol now : Phone 93454007 or

Register online at education.wa.edu.au/swimming

STUDENT- CENTRED FUNDING AND ONE LINE BUDGETS

A number of parents have asked why a new Student-Centred Funding model has come about for 2015. The new student-centred funding model will be implemented for the 2015 school year along with all schools operating with one line budgets.

Early years of schooling

There is a large body of research to show that investing early in a child’s life improves school readiness, literacy and numeracy competencies, school attendance, and participation and engagement with schooling. It also decreases behavioural difficulties and intervention referrals.

A recent Australian study concluded that access to high quality early childhood programs is fundamental to achieving positive developmental and learning outcomes, and provides an effective means of reducing social disadvantage.

From 2015, the early years of education will represent 50% of the total primary school program. Western Australia already has a proud tradition of universal access to Kindergarten for all age-eligible children. It is free of compulsory charges in public schools and all children are taught by degree-qualified early childhood teachers. In 2013, in recognition of the importance of early childhood education, Pre-primary became the first compulsory year of schooling.

Across Australia, however, school systems provide more resources for secondary schooling than for primary schooling. The University of Melbourne found this gap in funding greatest in Western Australia: “Student-staff ratios in public secondary schools in Western Australia represent a resource advantage of 38% over public primary schools as compared to only 14% in South Australia.”

Further, the Productivity Commission’s Report on Government Services 2014 shows that WA public secondary schools have fewer students per teacher than any other state, while WA public primary schools have more students per teacher than any other state.

The new funding model has been set to reduce the difference in funding relativities between primary and secondary schools, and provide more resources in the early years. These changes will take place progressively over five years, allowing all schools to adjust slowly and carefully to operating within their new funding parameters.

Kwinana Little Athletics - Thomas Oval

Birth certificate required for registration Training Thursdays - 4pm - 5.30pm commences 18th Sept Competition - Saturdays commencing 18th October

Enquiries - Jodie 0412 304 544

Leda Cooking Club - Recipe of the Day - Cupcakes

Before and after School Care Vacation Care 2 Budden Way Medina 9439 2382

Heidi Rm 16

STAWA Science Talent Search

Well done to Kaylah and Ambrose who were announced as finalists in the 2014 Science Talent Search. They

were presented with their certificates in a ceremony at Scitech last night. Their scientific investigation was

researching if it was possible to clone a cabbage from sections of the stem and how this would be helpful in

agriculture. They were able to successfully get cabbage stem sections to regrow roots and leaves to 'clone' their original cabbage. Great work Kaylah and Ambrose and

all the other students who submitted entries into the Science Talent Search this year.