From the Principal

Dear Parents and Caregivers, BOOK WEEK AND OPEN NIGHT: The Clifton Hills annual Book Week Parade was held last Wednesday, with a fantastic array of costumes and characters! Thank you to our wonderful parents and caregivers for assisting and encouraging your children with their costumes, ensuring their child feels a part of this celebration of all things books and reading. A big thank you to all of our wonderful staff who have made a big effort to get into character for the day. It’s lovely to see so many of our school community get into the spirit of the event! On Thursday, we invited our school community into our school and it was so nice to see so many people brave the weather and enjoy the hard work of our children. It was also great to see the lovely comments that were passed on to staff during the night. Please know that the kind things you say to teachers and other members of staff are appreciated and remembered. It is little things like this that make our school community the type that so many others desire to be a part of. BOOK FAIR: I would also like to thank parents for their support of the, “Book Fair” that was held here at the school, over the last week. Encouraging your children to read, and them being able to read, is one of the greatest gifts we can give our children. Congratulations to Taylor who was the winner of a free book after her ticket was drawn out of the raffle ticket box! FRIDAY’S ASSEMBLY: Last week, we were treated to a lovely assembly that was hosted by Mr Hutcheson’s Pre-primary class. We enjoyed a fabulous song entitled, “Mr Clicketty Cane – Wash Your Face with Orange Juice”, which is one of my most favourite children’s songs of all time. The children spoke beautifully and their behaviour was excellent. I thank them for a wonderful start to my Friday morning! FATHER’S DAY STALL: A big Thank you to our P&C Fund Raising Committee who have just completed the Father’s Day fund raising activities, which were again, well supported by the school community. We hope that all our Father’s enjoy the gifts that were purchased by their children. IN TERM VACATIONS: Please remember that if you take your children on holidays during the term, for more than four days, that you are required to complete the, “Students Taking in Term Holidays” form which can be found in our Front Office. ATHLETICS CARNIVAL: Yesterday we attempted to hold our annual Athletics Carnival. Even though the forecast was for afternoon showers, we felt confident that we would be able to at least complete the “athletics” part of the day before the showers came in. As you all know, one big rain cloud decided to rain on our parade and the carnival was cancelled, just before all events were completed. Fortunately, we completed enough events to calculate the winning Faction and the champion boy/girl for each year level. Congratulations to Ellis, who are the winning faction. Individual winners are listed within this newsletter. These results were announced to the students at a brief special assembly this morning. We will formally present the shields and medals to the winners at the next scheduled assembly, which will be on Friday, 20 September. We hope that this will give all parents and family members who wish to see the presentations, enough time to make arrangements to do so. Above all, we would like to sincerely thank all of you for your quick thinking and understanding when the weather suddenly came in. Your support and assistance was wonderful.

Clifton Hills Primary School 1 Butler Pass, Kelmscott W.A 6111 T: (08) 9234 7800 W: Cliftonhillsps.wa.edu.au E: cliftonhills.ps@education.wa.edu.au

30 August 2019 Newsletter No. 12

Assembly: Friday 20 Sept. Room 3

Clothing Pool: Tuesdays 8.10am—9.15am

School Banking: Fridays 8.10am—8.30am

School Times: 8. 30am—2.40pm Monday to Friday

IMPORTANT NOTICES

Swimming Pp—Year 6 starts Monday 2 September

Interschool Jumps and Distance Tuesday 17 September

Interschool Running and Team events Thursday 19 September

Last Day for students— Friday 27 September

Term Dates 2019

Term 1 Mon 4 Feb - Fri 12 April

Term 2 Tues 30 April - Fri 5 July

Term 3 Mon 22 July - Fri 27 Sept

Term 4 Wed 16 Oct -Thurs 19 Dec

UPCOMING EVENTS

Week 7 Friday

6 Sept.

SWIMMING LESSONS YEARS PRE-PRIMARY TO 6 School Banking Conference Room 8.10-8.20 am

Week 8 Thursday Friday

12 Sept. 13 Sept.

SWIMMING LESSONS YEARS PRE-PRIMARY TO 6 R U OK? Day Newsletter—School Banking Conference Room 8.10-8.20 am

Week 9 Tuesday Thursday Friday

17 Sept. 19 Sept. 20 Sept.

Interschool Athletics Jumps and Distance events Interschool Athletics Running and Team events Assembly Room 3 -School Banking Conference Room 8.10-8.20 am

Week 10 Friday

27 Sept.

Last Day for students—Assembly Japanese—Newsletter—School Banking Conference Room 8.10-8.20 am

Week 1 Monday Tuesday Wednesday Friday

14 Oct. 15 Oct. 16 Oct. 18 Oct.

TERM 4 SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT DAY—STUDENTS DO NOT ATTEND SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT DAY—STUDENTS DO NOT ATTEND Students return for Term 4 Assembly Councillors -School Banking Conference Room 8.10-8.20 am

Week 2 Tuesday Thursday Friday

22 Oct. 24 Oct. 25 Oct.

Year 5 KEP Year 6 KEP Interschool Numero Challenge—Newsletter—School Banking Conference Room 8.10-8.20 am

ENROLMENTS

Planning for 2020 - We are currently in the process of planning for 2020. If you are not returning to our

school next year, please notify the office in writing, or via email: cliftonhills.ps@education.wa.edu.au as

soon as possible. This will help us enormously in our planning for next year and only applies to students in

Kindergarten to Year 5.

FROM THE DEPUTIES-Councillor Report

Week 5—The Builders are getting close to finishing the top block, but for now it is very loud. The Year 6’s and 5’s from Ms Baile’s class and Mr Fletcher’s class are looking forward to the excursion to AQWA on Friday. On Wednesday, we had the Book Parade where everyone dressed up so yesterday we had the Open Night where all the parents can see what their children have been doing all year. They could buy books from the Library and have dinner at the Canteen. By Noah and Spencer.

Clifton Hills Primary School 1 Butler Pass, Kelmscott W.A 6111 T: (08) 9234 7800 W: Cliftonhillsps.wa.edu.au E: cliftonhills.ps@education.wa.edu.au

From the Principal continued TOURNAMENT OF MINDS (ToM’s): Tomorrow morning, 21 of our students will travel to ECU’s Joondalup Campus to compete in the Regional Divisional Championships for ToM’s. This is the culmination of a lot of hard work by the students and Mrs Ritchie over the term. We wish them the best of luck and know that they will make us all very proud.

Ms Patricia Della Franca Principal

SPORT– Athletics Carnival 2019 results

Winning Faction: Ellis Winning Tabloid Faction: TBA Year 1 Girls R/U Lola Martin Year 1 Girls Champion Bodhi Ellis Year 1 Boys R/U Cayden Martin Year 1 Boys Champion Alfie Dale Year 2 Girls R/U Cameron Ellis Year 2 Girls Champion Imogen Lucich Year 2 Boys R/U Campbell Dale Year 2 Boys Champion Dara Dale Year 3 Girls R/U Betsy Martin Year 3 Girls Champion Yasmine Dale Year 3 Boys R/U Ayden Ellis Year 3 Boys Champion Jack Dale Year 4 Girls R/U Leah Ellis Year 4 Girls Champion Molly Ellis Year 4 Boys R/U Ben Dale Year 4 Boys Champion Taj Ellis Year 5 Girls R/U Cailey Lucich Year 5 Girls Champion Leila Dale Year 5 Boys R/U Axel Ellis Year 5 Boys Champion Segun Dale Kingston Dale Year 6 Girls R/U Jacinta Martin Year 6 Girls Champion Mia Dale Year 6 Boys R/U Linkin Martin Year 6 Boys Champion Nate Ellis

P&C NEWS

The next general P&C meeting will be held on Tuesday, 17 September in the staff room. Canteen The orders for the reusable lunch bags need to be returned to the Canteen by Monday, 2 September. Extra order forms are available if needed. Clothing Pool Summer Uniforms for 2020 are due back to school by Monday, 2 September. Invoices are due for payment on Monday, 9 September. If you need extra time to pay please contact the clothing pool via email chpsclothingpool@gmail.com. Faction Carnival A big thank you to all the parents that donated baked goods, they were a hit! Thank you to Gosnells Lions Club for supplying the barbeque trailer. This trailer can also be hired at a low cost to other community groups. Please contact the Clothing Pool if you would like any information. Thank you to everyone for supporting our sausage sizzle, unfortunately the weather made it a short day.

Fathers' Day Raffle

Congratulations to the prize winners. A big thanks also to the following businesses and families for donating the fabulous prizes. We appreciate your generosity and support; McKenzies Mobile Mechanics Tyrepower Kelmscott Brookton Burger Co. Jac's Cuts and Colour Covs Perth Racing Defrenne Family Gill Spark We wish all the Dad's and special men in your lives a fabulous Fathers' Day this Sunday.

Clifton Hills Primary School 1 Butler Pass, Kelmscott W.A 6111 T: (08) 9234 7800 W: Cliftonhillsps.wa.edu.au E: cliftonhills.ps@education.wa.edu.au

Faction Scores

ELLIS 491

DALE 430

MARTIN 353

LUCICH 310

Name Room

Ellie 1B

Jesse K 15

Lyla 12

Lucinda 6

Lily 14

Bonnie 7

Kane 18

Jack 10

Toby 9

Deakin 4

Mia 2

Abigail 2

Faction Team Player Awards DALE: McKenna ELLIS: Tahlia LUCICH: Mackenzie MARTIN: Peter

Thank you to all the wonderful families who braved the weather to support their wonderful children and family members! Well done to everyone who participated and did their best, I always enjoy our Faction Carnival days! Thank you to the P&C for always providing food and drinks and supporting our school in many ways. Lastly, thank you to the staff for all their hard work on the day and in the lead up. Here’s to a better weather outcome next year! Miss Johnston.