FROM THE PRINCIPALFROM THE PRINCIPAL

Welcome to the third edition of our Aveley Informer .

SCHOOL AND YOUSCHOOL AND YOU

The role you play in your children’s education is vital in helping them become happy and confident learners at school. To assist families, the Department of Education has a parent website, Schools and you. This includes a range of links including information on bullying, approved specialist programs and education resources for families with young

children etc.

These resources are available at http://det.wa.edu.au/schoolsandyou/detcms/portal/ .

STUDENT LEADERSSTUDENT LEADERS

The Aveley Primary School Student Leadership Team has made a fine start to the 2017 school year. They have taken on their additional responsibilities in a mature manner and

are supportive of our school as a whole.

Accompanied by Mr Harvie and parent helpers, our students will be attending a Student Leadership Conference at the Convention Centre on Friday, 10 March. I’m sure they will

enjoy this opportunity.

We thank our student leaders for their efforts and look forward to working with them further

as the year progresses.

2017 School Councillors

School Captains: Kaitlyn Radaich and Charlotte Herbert

Councillors: Caden Elmer, Ava Spencer, Natalia Vega Mena and Harper Willis

2017 House Captains

Pegasus Coen Hay Chelsea Moso

Aquila Layla Hill Nikola Crnkovich

Orion Alius Tutai Alan Gao

Phoenix Cooper Avins Amelia Hall

CROSSWALK APPLICATIONCROSSWALK APPLICATION

We are currently working through the application process for a Type A Children’s Crossing (supervised) to be located on Egerton Drive, near the Bolero Road entry. We are looking for assistance from a parent/s to carry out a traffic count. This information is required as

part of the application process. The traffic count, in the form of a tally to count both traffic

and pedestrians, would require up to approximately one hour once before school and after

school. Please contact the front office if you are able to assist .

Principal: Michelle Murray

Deputy Principals: Adam Marchant and Lyn Fussell

Manager Corporate Services: Olivia Wood

8 Bolero Road AVELEY WA 6069

Phone 6296 5466 Fax 6296 5439

Aveley.ps@education.wa.edu.au

EARLY CLOSE EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 2.30PM

In this edition

From the Principal

P & C News

The Student Voice

Community News

Upcoming Events

FRIDAY, 3 MARCH School closed for

students

Monday, 13 March School Board Meeting

3.15PM

Monday, 13 March 6PM

P&C Meeting

An Independent Primary School

Volume 1 Issue 3 3 March 2017

NEW ELLENBROOK SECONDARY COLLEGENEW ELLENBROOK SECONDARY COLLEGE

Stephen Pestana has been appointed as the inaugural Principal of the new secondary college rapidly being constructed in Maffina Parade in Ellenbrook. Stephen would like to invite you to visit the college’s Facebook page. Over coming weeks and months, this page will record the development of the new college for the local community. Follow the journey through completion of Stage One of the building program, to when the doors open next February for the inaugural Year 7 Class of 2018. There will be information about the college, key dates, special events, information

nights and milestones achieved.

There will be a consultation process that will guide the implementation of the college. This will include the schools Vision, its name and key policies of the college. Details of

this process, contacts and updates can be found at the Facebook page.

TRANSPORTABLE CLASSROOMS UPDATETRANSPORTABLE CLASSROOMS UPDATE

The four transportable buildings installed on site over the Christmas break are now fully operational with required resourcing, furniture and internet access. The additional two classrooms are due to be installed in early March. We look forward to being able to utilise

these buildings as soon as possible.

Additional works will be progressed as soon as the next two buildings are in place. To ensure protection from the weather, an undercover walk way will be installed from the Music Room along the front of the buildings. An additional sandpit area will be installed alongside the current Early Childhood Playground area and a shade structure will be

installed over this play area.

CHILDREN ARRIVING EARLY TO SCHOOL CHILDREN ARRIVING EARLY TO SCHOOL

Please note that, unless for an authorised and supervised school based activity, children are not permitted on the school grounds before 8am. Children who do arrive between 8am - 8.30am are required to sit on the benches outside the staffroom until their classroom door opens at 8.30am. Alternative arrangements can be made for before school care by contacting our out of school care team, based here at Aveley PS, at Camp

Australia.

We appreciate the support of families to assist us with Duty of Care responsibilities

around this.

Honour Certificate Recipients

Dustin Yapp T1

Gian Empleo T1

Sameepta Sally T1

Zavier Pieri T1

Brooke Ward T2

Aliya Dhaliwal T2

Emmett McGlinn T2

Joshua Watts T2

Molly Digney T3

Lincoln Vale T3

Ethynn Davies T4

Jyuss Foot T4

Lacey Mattiucci T4

Reyna Pountney B4

Zachary Cox B4

Aleeya Fitzgerald B5

Cooper Jordan B5

Kaycee Castle B5

Kaelyn Wheeler W14

Lucy Sadler W14

Tom Mitchell W14

Henry Weston W15

Khloe Mone W15

Miles Roberts W15

Lazarah McConnell W16

Nathan Clark W16

Lexie Boffa T5

Shulamit Tesfamariam T5

Tamati Tia T5

Fatima Mohamed T6

Lana Vignjevic T6

Logan Kerr T6

Hugh Turner T7

Imogen Latimer T7

Ashlyn Hearn T8

Chelsea Veenvliet T8

Emmerson Frendo T8

PARKINGPARKING

Thank you to the families who have responded to our parking issues as highlighted in our last Aveley Informer. There are still a few parents who are parking on the kerb on Bolero Road directly outside the Administration Block. Can you please make the necessary changes in your picking up/parking habits? All this is for the safety of our children, uppermost on our list of things to do is to provide a safe school. Please be reminded that the Turkich Street car park, near the Undercover Area is only for School and Dental Therapy staff. An additional car park has been installed further east along Turkich Pde to

accommodate parking for parents.

SCHOOL PHOTOSSCHOOL PHOTOS

Our school photo day is coming! School photos this year will be held in week 10 on Monday, 3 and Tuesday, 4 April. Further details and our school code for placing orders online will be forwarded

approximately two weeks prior to photo day.

BUSHLAND ART INCURSIBUSHLAND ART INCURSIONS ONS

‘Bringing drawings to life’

On Tuesday, 7 and Wednesday, 8 March Ecologist Mandy Bamford (the flora and fauna expert!) will be visiting APS with natural bushland items and even some live animals. She will be inspiring students and demonstrating how to draw bushland scenes, animals and plants and bring these drawings to life. Mandy will also be talking about local threatened species, particularly the black cockatoo and Western Swamp Tortoise. Classes from PP to Year 5 will be participating in this free incursion. Students will also be creating an artwork over the next few weeks that will be displayed at The Gallery in

Ellenbrook from March 20 until April 25.

Ms Tanya Solig - Art Specialist

We are half way through Term 1 and fast approaching our first fundraiser for the year, Hot Cross Buns. Order forms for this delicious fundraiser will be sent home with students this week, if you don’t receive yours be sure to check with the classroom teacher because you don’t want to miss out. Also available this year again we will be selling Entertainment books with information to come in the coming weeks. As you have seen over the past few weeks the school canteen is running extremely successfully with delicious food for everyone. Coming up over the next few weeks are Nachos, Sub Rolls and Sausage Rolls. Don’t forget orders are due in by Wednesday mornings. Thank you to the volunteers that have given up their precious time to help the canteen ladies. If you can offer any of your available time on a Thursday to help Laura and Emma please contact them via the Aveley Primary School P and C Canteen Facebook page. With our upcoming events at the school we would appreciate any time you can spare whether it is an hour or a day. Please remember your child will love you helping out at school too. School Banking has had a great start to the year with 11 new accounts opened, and the hope for many more. To assist you with opening new accounts for school banking the Commonwealth Bank Ellenbrook will be having an account opening day on Monday, 13 March from 9.30am – 4pm. Parents you will need to bring your identification (Driver’s Licence, passport) and your child’s birth certificate and branch staff will open the account on the day and it will be ready for the next school banking day. If you cannot make it on the day you can contact the branch on 9297 8933 or bch6534@cba.com.au to arrange an appointment. Our next General P and C Meeting will be Monday, 13 March at 6.00pm in the staff room.

AVELEY PRIMARY SCHOOL PARENTS AND CITIZENS ASSOCIATION

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