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UPCOMING EVENTS MON TUE WED THUR FRI
2 SEPT (Week 7) Wakakirri Finals 7.15pm
3 SEPT
4 SEPT Grad & Choir Photo 9.30am
5 SEPT 6 SEPT KA Group BEBRAS Challenge Closes
9 SEPT (Week 8) 10 SEPT Parent Learning Journey 3.30 – 5.30pm
11 SEPT
12 SEPT
13 SEPT KB Group Assembly Rm 1 & T8 Food Bank – Red Kindy Zoo Excursion
16 SEPT (Week 9) StartSmart Financial Literacy Incursion
17 SEPT Junior Faction Athletics (PP-Yr2)
18 SEPT
19 SEPT 20 SEPT KA Group Senior Faction Athletics (Yr3-6) Newsletter Kindy Zoo Excursion
From the Principal’s desk…
Public School Review In Week Two this term we had our Public School Review also known as our ESAT (Electronic Self-Assessment Tool) Review. Mrs Kath Ward (Director, Public School Accountability) and Mr Craig Mainard (Principal, Walliston Primary School) visited Singleton Primary School and meet with a number of staff, students, School Board and P & C Reps to ‘validate’ what we had said about our school. Overall, a very pleasing result as we were validated as ‘Effective’ and all recommendations were identified by us. Thank you to all of the staff and community members who took part in the review process. The report is available on our website or follow http://singletonps.wa.edu.au/independent-reviews/
SSEN:BE Parent Info Session On Tuesday Morning we hosted a School Special Education Needs: Behaviour & Engagement (SSEN:BE) Parent information session to support our community and assist in understanding how ‘The Team’ works. Staff from SSEN:BE are trained teachers who have additional training in responding to student behaviour. They were able to provide additional information to parents about how to manage children in challenging situations. The staff from SSEN:BE have
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been assisting staff at Singleton and upskilling us all in specific areas of behaviour management. If you would like any additional information, please do not hesitate to contact us.
Early Release Slips Please remember if you need to collect your child early from school for any reason you need to go to the front office and sign them out. This is to ensure the safety of your child, in an emergency situation we need to know exactly who is and is not at school for the day. Believe it or not… our community cares and will often call the school to let us know a student in school uniform was seen here or there during the day!
Foodbank Friday This Friday is Foodbank Friday for Blue Block. This initiative started 5 years ago, however, it seems to have diminished over the past year. Each student in different blocks are asked to donate one tin or jar of non-perishable food to be able to be given to a family in need. In 2018 Foodbank prepared food hampers for approximately 200 families. Let’s see if we can kick start the collection again for the end of this term. Next term we are going to be changing the collection day and do a one off day in the lead up to the festive season – ‘Foodbank Drive Monday’ on Monday, 2nd December. Clean your cupboards out on Sunday and donate (in date) goods you have not used. Donations go to The Bridge Builders Food Service & The Lions Club.
Book Week – “Reading Is My Secret Power!” Our annual Book Week parade was a huge success, with students and
staff dressed as a variety of characters from different books.
Well done to everyone who participated and to all of our winners!
Each day through Book Week we also had different staff reading some
of their favourite books to students in the library at lunch time.
Thank you to all those who were involved and to the lovely listeners!
Kindy Open Day This Saturday from 9:00am to 11:00am our Kindy Classrooms in Rainbow Block will be open for those students who are enrolled and starting Kindy with us in 2020. If you have a younger child or know of a friend living in our Singleton PS Zone that has not enrolled yet, please contact the school office and collect an enrolment package. With strong numbers already for next year we will running 4 classes, which is great news.
Week 7 Waste Free Lunch Competition
Room 10 Year 4 has challenged the school to a week-long waste free lunch competition. The class with the highest class average of students participating will win an ice-cream party. Room 10 is currently studying the continents and oceans and is focusing on the problems caused by single use plastics in our oceans. Waste free lunches provide an opportunity for the community to learn about reducing our use of plastics. Please join us on Monday, 2nd of September in Week 7! Did you know the average use of a single use plastic bag is only 12 minutes!
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We made the Wakakirri Finals! Congratulations Team Singleton for the exceptional performance at the Perth Concert Hall on Tuesday, 6th August. We even made it into The Sound Telegraph!! After competing against 6 other schools on the evening and up against a total 20 schools over 3 nights, we made it through to the finals! There are 8 schools in the finals on Monday night.
Good luck to all of the students and staff who are heading back to the Perth Concert Hall on Monday, 2nd September to take part of this wonderful event. Stay focused, try your best and always remember to SMILE! Watch this space for our finals results.
Aboriginal Style Art
During Term 3 many classes at Singleton have looked at the historical and cultural importance of Aboriginal peoples to Australia. One of the ways we have embraced this is through our art work. Paul Papalia’s office, Oasis Drive Secret Harbour, has a display of a selection of students’ artwork from the following classes: Mrs Hansen PP Mrs Hannah Year 1/2 Mrs Sadler Year 2 Mrs Braithwaite Year 3 Mr McNear Year 4 Mrs Jones Year 5/6 Miss Coppola Year 5/6 Congratulations to all classes involved! It has been reported that many locals have stopped to have a look and are all thoroughly impressed. Go down and check it out!!
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Tales from the Past Singleton Primary School was extremely privileged on Thursday, 29th August to have a group of wonderful ladies visit the school. These seniors shared their experiences as children; growing up in a very different world from what our students live in. All the children were enthralled with the different technology, toys, household chores, school life and overall lifestyle of 'the past.' Thank you for the time and effort and for sharing your knowledge with this invaluable incursion.
Happy Father’s Day Rainbow Block and Room 18 hosted a special Father’s Day afternoon where they treated dads, grandfathers and even some mums to decorated donuts, barber treatments, reading books and playing footy.
Thank you to the P&C for hosting the Father’s Day stalls again this week. Many gifts were purchased for the special men in their lives.
I hope all the Dads, Grandfathers and Carers have a wonderful day with your family and friends.
Regards
Jayde Hewson Principal
Chaplin’s Corner
Coffee is on us!
Come and recharge yourself with a free cup of coffee or at the Koortmiya pop-up café. We even have cookies and a play
area for younger siblings!
The café is open on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons from 2:15pm to 3:00 pm and Wednesday, 9.30-10:30am, after
Story Time as well as Thursday, 9.30-10:30am, after Mini Minors. The café is situated in Yellow block (between the
Kitchen & the Indonesian room). If you are not sure where to find it, just ask the friendly staff at the office for directions.
Bring a friend along or come and meet other mums, dads, grandparents, carers and make new friends!
Hope to see you in the café!
Take care
Christell
SINGLETON PRIMARY SCHOOL
P&C News
We have some fantastic events coming up this term.
Get your thinking caps on for our Quiz Night on Saturday, 14th September. Tickets are only $15 and can be purchased via bank deposit.
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Email: [email protected] with receipt of payment.
We will be sizzling up the sausages at the Parent Learning Journey on Tuesday, 10th September.
Get ready for some ‘Flip Out’ fun, more information coming soon. Next big fundraiser is our ‘Loose Change Challenge’ starts on the 2nd September and will run until the end of term. The class with the heaviest pile of loose change will win an awesome prize. More details to come.
Term 4 will be even bigger with our Christmas Fete and many other fun activities. Check out Singleton Primary P&C on Facebook for more P&C information and up-dates on events or come along to a meeting and help support our school community.
School Banking Calling for Volunteers – School Banking needs your help! Our students really enjoy participating in the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program and to keep this program running we need your help.
The program requires volunteer School Banking Co-ordinators to facilitate the banking and distribution of School Banking rewards. This only takes a small amount of your time one day a week, for approximately 1 ½ hours. Commonwealth Bank will provide support on how to run the program. Your help with the program will greatly benefit students as they develop vital saving skills and also help our school with fundraising. Currently, School Banking day is Thursday, from approximately 8am until 8.45am, in the Library. Our volunteer Co-ordinators, Cathie and Mandy, will be unable to continue at the end of this year when their children move on to High School so new volunteers are needed. If you are interested in volunteering for this great program, come into reception to collect a form to fill in or visit School Banking on Thursday morning to speak to Cathie and Mandy for more information. Please consider offering your support to keep this program running at Singleton Primary School.