August 2016

Art Gallery Excursion

All invited students Wed 3rd

PEAC testing

Year 4 Wed 3rd

Assembly hosted by

Year 1/2

PP to Year 6

Mon 8th

P&C meeting 7pm Wed 10th

IBP & IEP Parent

Meetings

Selected Parents

Mon 15th

Margaret Cotton

Performing Arts

Festival Broomehill

Miss Smallacombe Year

1 Students

Fri 19th

Bookweek - Starts Mon

22nd

Parent Info Session

11.20-1pm Lunch

provided. All welcome

Mon

22nd

Music Viva Incursion

Kindy to Year 6 Wed 24th

Bookweek Dress Up

Day

Kindy to Year 6

Thurs

25th

School Development

Day

Students do not attend

Fri 26th

Braeside Primary School Volume 2 , Issue 11

Tuesday 2nd

August 2016

I N S I D E T H I S I S S U E :

School Newsletter

I M P O R T A N T D A T E S : O R T A N T D A T E S

Honour, Pride and Achievement

Year 5/6 Treeplanting 1-2

Principal’s Message 2-3

Bendigo Cup 3-4

Cycle Safe 4

Room 3 Assembly 5

Community Notices 5-6

Year 5/6 Go Tree Planting

Last term on Tuesday the 28th of June, Room 12 went tree planting as a part of

a Landcare program to save the red-tailed phascogale.

The students travelled by bus to the Garnett property just outside of town and,

after being paired with a partner, worked together to plant several species of

native saplings. It is hoped, that by planting the trees, the endangered red-

tailed phascogale will return to the area in greater numbers to mate and forage

for food. A big thanks to the Garnett’s for hosting us, Andrea and Greg from

Landcare and Mrs Loxley for helping us!

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Principal’s News

Staff Changes

It is with sadness that I announce the resignation of Mrs Kowald from the Library at

Braeside. During Cindy’s time at the school she has been responsible for some major

changes including Lexile leveling the whole library, shifting the shelves to make them

more accessible and cataloguing the vast array of teacher resources.

We wish her all the best with her future endeavours. Mrs Crouch will be filling in for 4

weeks until the position is advertised.

Mrs Poett spent last week at the High School in the Principal role and is also up there

again this week in the Deputy Principal role.

Positive Behaviour Support

As a result of our recent parent survey review and School Development Day session,

staff have decided to engage in a process called Positive Behaviour Support. This is

a school wide process that involves a fundamental change in thinking towards student

behaviour. The program has been extensively researched and trialed in 70 schools

throughout Western Australia and many other schools throughout the world. Staff

received an information session Monday of last week and unanimously elected to be

involved in the process. As time goes on and we undertake the learning related to this

process, there will be further information provided. A brief synopsis is:

Positive behaviour support is a multi-strategy whole school approach to achieve

positive outcomes for all students.

Positive reinforcement of appropriate behaviours is considered the most successful

response to behaviours displayed. Students will develop responsible behaviours

through the teaching of new skills while responding effectively to make challenging

behaviours redundant.

PBS is a systems perspective and provides a continuum of behaviour support. There

is a strong focus on proactive strategies, including teaching and supporting the

appropriate and expected positive behaviours to all students in the school.

Positive Behaviour Support is a team based process for systemic problem solving and

planning. The ultimate goal of Positive Behaviour Support is to increase the school’s

capacity to effectively and efficiently address the behavioural support needs of all

students and staff (Lewis, T.J. & Sugai, G. 1999 p. 4). Further information can be

accessed from

http://det.wa.edu.au/studentsupport/behaviourandwellbeing/detcms/navigation/positive

-classrooms/positive-behaviour-support/

Protective Behaviours

Teachers also accessed personal learning in the area of protective behaviours last

week. The protective behaviours program links closely to the common language focus

that is promoted in the Positive Behaviour Support program. The two programs link

closely to support children in all areas of their lives. Students also had the opportunity

to attend a session as the presenter modeled strategies for teachers to adopt when

delivering the curriculum in the classroom. The school has purchased the resources

to support the implementation of this program during Term Three. The knowledge will

also be used by the Positive Behaviour Support Team when designing expectations

and the revised Code of Conduct.

Continued page 3

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Bendigo Cup

Art Gallery Excursion

Children from Year 1-6 head to the Art Gallery this week to participate in a Science based art activity. The

school is covering the cost of this activity and it is open to students who have not received a blue or yellow

slip all year. Students attending will have the additional experience of seeing their NAIDOC artworks on

display in the Library. Any parents interested in viewing the work can visit the Library any time during the

next two weeks.

Bendigo Cup Netball Carnival

Students from Year 5 and 6 enjoyed the day out on Friday participating in the Bendigo Cup Netball Carnival.

They joined students from throughout the Great Southern including Mount Barker, Kojonup, Wagin and

Narrogin. Please see pages 3 and 4 for more information.

Enrolments for 2017

This Friday is Census day, which is the day that at school level we enter student numbers and information in

preparation for our budget for 2017. We have been busy collecting numbers and enrolments for Kindergarten

next year and at the present time look like running 2 classes again. Could any parents who are possibly

leaving Katanning ring the school and let us know. Also, if you know of new arrivals to town who may be

interested in joining the Braeside community, we would like to hear from you. The more accurate our

numbers are, the smoother the transition is into 2017.

PEAC testing

Students from Year 4 will be involved in for Primary Extension and Challenge program (PEAC) testing on

Wednesday this week. The testing identifies which students are performing above a state determined level.

These students are offered access to specialist classes and online sessions in Year 5 and Year 6. Currently

we have one identified PEAC student at Braeside.

Sporting Schools Program

The Sporting Schools Program begins this week and is open to students from Kindergarten to Year 6.

Students choose to attend on either a Tuesday or Thursday session and are picked up from school by the

Katanning Leisure Centre coaches. After the session, parents are required to pick students up from the

Leisure Centre. If your child is interested and has not yet enrolled, please call the office and Mrs Woods can

possibly arrange a place for them in the Thursday group.

Teresa Wigg

Principal

Principal’s News continued…

On Friday the 29th of July, selected students from

year 5 and 6 participated in the Bendigo Cup Netball

Competition at the Katanning Leisure Centre. The

students had a great time, some having never played

netball before! Braeside entered 3 mixed teams and

the boys who played absolutely loved it!

The year 6 mixed team had a fantastic day winning

their division, not losing a game all day!

Braeside Primary School Newsletter Page 4

Cycle Safe Incursion

On Friday 22nd

July we had a Cycle Safe Incursion for Kindy to Grade 3 students. The program went through all the

safety aspects of riding our bikes. This included how to check our bikes before riding them, the importance of wearing

a helmet, be seen to be safe, be aware and how to keep left when riding.

Rooms 3 and 4

with Trevor Quick

from Cycle Safe.

Well done to all students involved-they represented

Braeside impressively with impeccable behaviour

and sportsmanship! Thank you also to Miss

Thornbury, Mrs Nicholson and Chelisa Eades for

umpiring the entire day for us!

Bendigo Cup continued….

Katanning Dramatic Society Inc Seeking, cast and crew for their upcoming

production of Jack and the Baked Beanstalk

Readings 7pm Thurs 28th July & Tues 2nd August

Auditions 7pm Thurs 4th & Tues 9th August

Please see noticeboard outside school

office for more information

The Art department is looking for any onion and

orange plastic mesh bags, Pringle containers and

egg cartons for craft activities.

If you have any, please drop them off at Admin.

Katanning Junior Basketball Association

AGM Tuesday 2nd August 2016. 7pm at the

Katanning Leisure Centre. Parent support

is vital for the 2016/17 season to operate

successfully.

On the 25th July, Room 3 hosted the assembly. They all dressed in farmers clothing because their item was

about an old women who loved to read, however when she moved to the country she had to do a lot of farm

work. The students learnt to retell the story by using the “Talk for Writing” strategy. This strategy supports and

engages the student to remember all of the events of a story in the correct sequence through drama.

Reminder

Sporting Schools Program

Starts this week. Please

return all forms to ensure

your child can attend

Room 3 Assembly

Community Notices

Page 5 Braeside Primary School Newsletter

Born 2 Move – Children aged 2 – 4 years.

Exercise based class made fun with moves to music!

9.30am – 10.15am Friday mornings $3.30 per child

participating.FREE for Gold family members.

Mums or carers are encouraged to stay and participate

with the children. Great way to find your 30 of exercise too.

You are invited to celebrate the Wyalkatchem School

Centenary

Saturday, September 10th, 2016

To register you interest please contact the School 96921500

or email: wyalkatchem.dhs@education.wa.edu.au

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Community Notices continued…