Newsletter 15 August 2012

Issue 12

Fri 17 August

Interschool Cross Country

Mon 20 August

Rock Me Gallileo

Incursion

Welcome to Fremantle -

Rooms 2, 3, 4 & 17

Tue 21 August

Melville Library - Rooms

5, 9, 10 & 13

Wed 22 August

Market Day - Year 7

Thu 23 August

Scitech - Rooms 11 & 16

Fri 24 August

Robocup - Room 19

Mon 27 August

Scitech - Rooms 2 & 17

AQWA - Rooms 5 & 13

Tue 28 August

Assembly - Room 13

Wed 29 August

Fathers’ Breakfast -

Room 11/12

Attendance

Enrolments 2013

School Structure

Awards

1

Year 6 Camp

Japanese Study Tour

Honour Certificates

P&C News

Canteen News

2

Canteen Roster

Uniform Shop

Community News

3

Inside this issue:

Ardross Primary Newsletter

A Message from the Principal

AWARDS, AWARDS, AWARDS!!!

WESTERN AUSTRALIAN EDUCATION

AWARDS

Ardross Primary has been nominated in the category

of “Western Australian Primary School of the Year”

in the prestigious WA Education Awards. The

nomination was accompanied by a written

application addressing five criteria. I would like to

acknowledge the efforts of Mrs Bishop in developing

our nomination. A copy of our nomination can be

found on our school website. We hope that we can

progress on to the next stage of the awards, which is

a site visit by a judging panel. Further information

about the awards can be found at

www.det.wa.edu.au/educationawards

ASG NATIONAL EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING

AWARDS

Congratulations to Mrs Loney who has been nomi-

nated by two school community members for the

National Teaching Awards NEiTA. I received confir-

mation of Mrs Loney’s nominations last week and

presented both of them at assembly yesterday. The

NEiTA awards recognize and honour representatives

of inspirational teaching within their local communi-

ties. Well done Mrs Loney!!

WA BRUCE CUP TENNIS TEAM

Congratulations to Erica Bollweg and Jovana Glusac

who have been chosen to represent WA at the

National Schools Tennis Championship from

13 - 20 October. State representation at the junior

level is an honour and represents a significant

stepping stone in the ultimate achievement of senior

and national selection. Well done Erica and Jovana,

and wishing you good tennis!

INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION

Congratulations to Jocelyn Kwok who recently

placed third in the International Piano Competition

held in Singapore on 4 August. A sensational effort

Jocelyn, well done.

WASTE WISE INFINITY AWARDS

Ardross has also been nominated for an award

recognizing our outstanding efforts in Waste

management. Mrs Bishop has been nominated for an

individual award. Winners will be announced at a

Gala Dinner at the Old Swan Brewery on Friday,

31 August. Good luck Mrs Bishop and Ardross

Primary School! Should you know of any

outstanding efforts of our students at either the

State or National level, or achieving various awards

please make sure that you advise the school so we

can recognize them, where appropriate, in the

newsletter.

Greetings to staff, students, parents and community

members and welcome to this edition of the school

newsletter. Please read the newsletter carefully as it

contains important information and is the main

communication strategy between the school and

home.

ATTENDANCE

This week all schools across Western Australia were

required to complete an attendance audit for

Semester 1. An analysis of attendance at Ardross

indicates that there has been a slight fall in student

“regular” attendance rates at Ardross. Currently 84%

of students (379) attend regularly, between 90 - 100%,

13% of students (59) are deemed “indicated’ at risk,

attending between 80 - 89%, 3% of students (12) are

“moderate” at risk, attending between 60 - 79% and

1% of students (3) are identified as “severe” at risk,

attending between 0 - 59%. Although on closer

analysis, many of the absences have been recorded as

holidays, after seeking approval from me,

kindergarten attendance continues to be a major area

of concern. 50% of students are classified as “regular”

attendance students with 38% of students falling

below the 90% attendance target. I ask all parents

from Kindergarten to Year 7 to ensure that their child

attends regularly. All students who have been

identified as falling below the 90% attendance rate

(74 students) will be receiving a letter from the school

advising of their attendance rate.

ENROLMENTS 2013

Enrolments for 2013 closed on Friday 3 August. All

enrolment applications have now been assessed for

Kindergarten, Pre Primary and Years 1-7 according to

the local intake policy. All in boundary students were

offered a place, together with the out of boundary

students who already had siblings currently enrolled

at the school. Unfortunately not all enrolments were

able to be accepted. Letters of acceptance, and those

not being offered a place have been sent out this week.

Should you have any queries about the enrolment

process, please don’t hesitate to contact me.

Acceptances for enrolment must be returned by

Friday, 31 August, with the formal enrolment process

completed before Friday, 14 September.

SCHOOL STRUCTURE

Based on the anticipated enrolments for 2013, I am

now starting to develop a school structure. It is

important that I know as close as possible, the

number of students who will be or not be returning to

Ardross next year. I thank those parents who have

already advised me that their child will not be

returning next year by placing the appropriate form

from previous newsletters in the bucket at the front

office. If you have not advised me up to this point can

you please return the slip from the newsletter 4 July

as soon as possible. Parents do not need to advise

me if their child will be continuing at Ardross

next year.

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YEAR 6 CAMP

Congratulations to the Year 6 students, Mrs Bishop,

Mr Macmillan, Ms Riley, Mrs Putland, Mrs Doubell,

Mrs Logothetis and Mrs Causby who spent three days on camp

last week at Ern Halliday Camp School. All of the students par-

ticipated to their full capacity, and were involved in a vari-

ety of educational activities as well as team building and night

activities. I visited them on Monday and Tuesday evenings

and was very proud of their social skills and outstanding

behaviour. Well done Year 6’s.

JAPANESE STUDY TOUR

As community members are aware, the Japanese study tour

planned for August didn’t go ahead due to not enough students

enrolling from Japan. Jason Hutchison from Gold Intercultural

Tours has over 100 students coming to Perth for the October

program from 18 October - 6 November (students will need to

be home stayed from Sunday, 21 October until Tuesday, 6

November). We are looking at placing between 10 to 15 stu-

dents. All students will be 11 - 12 years of age and need to be

placed with students from Years 5 to 7. The hardest part of the

program is finding enough homestay placements. If you are

interested in having a Japanese student and have students in

Years 5-7, please consider filling in the expression of interest at

the end of this newsletter and returning it to the front office by

Friday, 17 August. This tour all students come from an eng-

lish immersion school, and have a good command of Eng-

lish.

Andrew Holmes

Principal

P&C NEWS I would like to thank all those parents who regularly volunteer

to support our kids and our fantastic school. There are a lot of

parents who regularly help in the canteen, our uniform shop, in

the library and do a lot of other seemingly little things. Their

work certainly adds up to make a massive difference!

We will soon discuss what to spend the funds on which we all

worked so hard to raise over the last year. So if you have any

improvement suggestions, whether they are big or small, please

drop me a short email to Cornelia.Major@gmail.com, so that we

can consider your ideas when we allocate this year’s funding.

As the P&C, we try to not overwhelm parents with constant

fundraising. However, there are a few initiatives we run over

the year which are fairly easy to support. One of these was the

second-hand book collection. This year’s collection was another

amazing effort. I’d like to thank the parents who donated books,

as their donations resulted in our library and our lower class-

rooms having another few hundred ‘new’ books for kids to en-

joy. We also run a continual fundraiser with a label-making

company, Stuck On You. If you are already thinking of next

year, please keep our school in mind and mention us in the ap-

propriate field when placing your order.

The next P&C meeting is on Monday, 10 September at 7.30pm

in the staff room. It would be really great if you could drop by

and support our school and our kids by giving just a few hours

of your time.

Cornelia Major

P&C Vice President

CANTEEN NEWS

Late Orders

Orders arriving at the Canteen after 9.30am are a nightmare for

keeping our food wastage and costs under control, plus the inter-

ruption to what is usually a busy day. Can I please ask parents

to help their children by ensuring they put their orders in before

the school bell.

Sports Carnival and The Canteen!

I am working on the usual pre-ordering flyer/menu for the Sports

Carnival on 21 September. Please watch out for the flyer which

will be sent home and collect the special white 2’n’5 order bags

when they are out.

Volunteers Needed

We have a lot of spaces on the canteen later in the term. Please

either email me churchillpauline13@gmail.com or come into the

canteen to join the team.

Please continue to check the canteen notice board for other can-

teen updates.

Sticky Beak Lunch Wallets are back in stock! Reduced to

only $8.50. Available in Blue, Pink or Green. Free paddle pop

after six orders still applies!

See you at the canteen!

Pauline Churchill

Canteen Manager

ARDROSS JUNIOR CRICKET CLUB

Registration Day: Sunday, 19 August

Time: 2:00pm - 4:00pm

Venue: Shirley Strickland Oval

Contact: Justin Sambell - 0403 574 938

info@cricketchamps.org.au

www.ardrossjcc.com.au

HONOUR CERTIFICATE WINNERS

At the last assembly the winner’s were:

Room 20 Isis Abellanosa, Nathan Johnston.

Room 19 Jack Goldrick, Rion Robertson.

Room 17 Erika Bollweg, Saskia Fong.

Room 16 Emily Drake, Olivia Daley.

Room 13 Amity Williams, William Wu.

Room 11/12 Jack Oliver, Amelia Tooker.

Room 10 Miranda Lansdell.

Room 9 Lucas Ho, Joseph Kelly.

Room 8 Jake Bishop, Euan Kyle, Rebekah Ho.

Room 7 Joel Cheng, Briana Nicholson, Zac Zuideveld.

Room 6 Emmeline Lazuardi, Matthew Price,

Korina Wibowo.

Room 5 Emily Chan, Louis Christophersen,

Byron McFarland.

Room 4 Aster Dale, Riley Downey.

Room 3 Cameron Nguyen, Evelyn Ong,

Ella Schaefer-Zaicz.

Japanese Felia Margono, Ning Wong.

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CANTEEN ROSTER

TOYS NEEDED

Kindy and Pre-Primary students spend a portion of their school

time on play-based learning. This means that there is a fair bit

of wear and tear, and toys need to be regularly replaced.

Therefore, if your children have outgrown any toys which are

still in good condition, you could consider donating them to the

school. In particular, we are looking for:

• any Lego and Duplo / puzzles for 3 to 6 year olds;

• dress up clothes (especially pirates, princes and

princesses, construction workers, doctors, police officers);

• sand toys (including shovels, buckets, sieves etc);

• K’nex, Mobilo or similar construction toys.

You can donate any of these items for the school’s early

childhood program. Please drop them off throughout the year in

Miss Brown’s classroom (Room 16). Helen Brown will distribute

the donations among all Early Childhood teachers.

Cornelia Major

Vice President, P&C

TALL TALES FOR SHORT PEOPLE

A delightful interactive show including stories from Oscar

Wilde, the dream time and actor Tiffany Barton’s overripe

imagination.

Children are invited to join in the fun and test their own

storytelling, dance and drama skills. A hilarious experience for

the whole family.

Suitable for parents and children aged four and over. All

sessions are free, but booking is required as places may be

limited:

• 20 August: 4.30- 5.30 pm Willagee Library - 9364 0170

• 21 August: 5.45 - 6.45 pm Bull Creek Library - 9364 0450

• 22 August: 5.45 - 6.45 pm Civic Square Library - 9364 0138

• 23 August: 5.45 - 6.45 pm AH Bracks Library - 9364 0115

• 24 August: 4.30-5.30 pm Canning Bridge Library - 9364 0121.

FOSTER NOW... ASK ME HOW...

WANSLEA FAMILY SERVICES

Do you have room in your heart and home

f o r a c h i l d i n n e e d ?

If you would like to find out how you can make

a difference for a night, a week, months or years,

please come along to WANSLEA's information

session on Saturday, 11 August from 12.00 - 2.00pm

at 311-313 Abernethy Road, Cloverdale WA 6105

Light refreshments provided. To RSVP and for

more information please call 9245 2441 or

e m a i l s u p p o r t @ w a n s l e a . a s n . a u

Check us out online: www.fosternow.com.au.

WATERWISE TIP - BRUSHING YOUR TEETH

There is no need to leave the water running while you

brush. It uses up to 20 litres of water a minute. Simply

wet your toothbrush before you begin and use a glass of

water to rinse your mouth. Running water while brushing your

teeth for two minutes each day uses approximately 14,000

litres a year. Using a cup (250ml) of water while brushing

your teeth uses approximately 180 litres a year. This means

you will save 14,000 litres a year.

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JAPANESE STUDY TOUR: 21 OCTOBER TO

6 NOVEMBER 2012 - EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Name: _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Student/s Attending Ardross & Year Level:

_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _

Preference: Male / Female

Please return this slip to the bucket located in the

front office by Friday, 17 August 2012.

Thu 16 Aug

Karen Florenca................................9-1.00pm

Rowena Barron…..…………............9-1.00pm

Carolyn Cheng…........…................9-11.15am

Gabby Nicholson ………..……..11.15-1.15pm

Fri 17 Aug

Debbie Woodman…………………....9-1.00pm

Sarah Dal Molin …………..….….....9-1.00pm

Mon 20 Aug

Angela Tooker …………….……..….9-1.00pm

Jacqui Young ……………….……….9-1.00pm

Yah Lee ……………………….……9-11.15am

Thu 23 Aug

Lisa Watson ……………….…...…....9-1.00pm

Sonia Pollard………………..…..…..9-1.00pm

Rebecca Puckett ……………...….….9-1.00pm

Fri 24 Aug

Chane van der Merwe ……..……....9-.100pm

Filomena Dalais ……………............9-1.00pm

Kate Collins ……………….…….....9-11.15am

Jin Kar Ong………………….….11.15-1.15pm

Mon 27 Aug

Lanie Khinsoe…………………...….9-1.00pm

Sue Blazevic …………………….…..9-1.00pm

Jacinta Whitson …………………..9-11.15am

UNIFORM SHOP

23 August 2012 9.00 - 9.30am

6 September 2012 9.00 - 9.30am

Bateman Junior Cricket Club Registration Day

Sunday 19th August 2012

Time: 2.00 – 4.00pm

Karoonda Reserve Booragoon

Ages: 5 – 16 years

Or contact

Registrar: Simon Ayres

Mobile 0403 153570 or sayres@amnet.net.au

Website: batemanjcc.wa.cricket.com.au

Host an International Exchange Student • Gain a new family member

• Make a life long link to a family in another country

• Learn about another language and culture

• Share the beauty and culture of Australia

• Contribute to international goodwill

By offering to act as a host family in a volunteer capacity, you will

provide an international student with the opportunity to study and

experience life here in Australia. With new students arriving in January 2013 from over 20 countries,

why not give the students in your local area the opportunity to learn

about other cultures and make international friends! If your family can offer a friendly, supportive and caring home

environment, contact us today. Note: opportunities exist for families

to host on a long term basis (5 or 10 months) basis as well on a

temporary and short term basis (2 or 3 months). To hear more about this wonderful opportunity or our student

exchange programs out of Australia call 1300 135 331 or visit our

website: www.studentexchange.org.au/host-a-student

Ardross Primary School would like to thank all of the sponsors listed here for their support of the school.

We encourage all parents to use their services where feasible.

Femia and associates is a proactive and

dynamic firm Dedicated to providing its

customers with satisfaction in all taxation

and accounting matters.

Phone: (08) 9316 4500

Website: www.femia-accountants.com.au

Mosman Park Shopping Centre

Monument Street, Mosman Park

Phone: 9384 5062

Fax: 9384 6837

Email: Epronto2go@iinet.net.au

www.prontogourmet.com.au

( on-line ordering available soon)

The following sponsors’ support is provided through direct recognition of parents purchasing goods and services from

them. Please identify yourself as an Ardross Parent at Athlete’s Foot or Coffee Club when making a purchase upon

which a percentage of the sale will be donated to the school. For ANZ Booragoon a percentage of a home loan or home

sale respectively will be paid to Ardross Primary, please contact the principal for details.

The following sponsors provide support to the school based on the use of their services. Specifically,

Athlete’s Foot supplies sporting equipment for each $100 of sales. ANZ Booragoon gives 0.3% of a new loan.

Coffee Club gives 10% of each sale. Aussie Farmers Direct donate 2% of your total spend back to the school.

Garden City—Booragoon Garden City—Booragoon

Finger Food Specialist Delivery or

Serviced Catering available

Ph 0400960026 bitesize@live.com

Paul Evensen

Associate Director Realmark Applecross

mobile: 0439 923 844