24 May 2018

From the Principal

Dear Parents and Families,

For the second year in a row, the wonderful P&C has given funds to the school to run a special maths project for Year 2 students that is focused on improving basic maths facts recall. This sets the students up for success in future years.

We have planted some marri trees on the eastern side of the school to begin the creation of a micro-climate around the adventure playground that will eventually offer shade. Co-incidentally Carnaby cockies love feeding on marri tree nuts.

Our brilliant Year 6 teachers have involved their classes in a Scitech STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) enrichment project. We are looking forward to involving parents and families in this exciting project. Furthermore, we have a range of in-school activities on this term. How exciting!

Regards,

Dr Tony Beswick
Principal

Newsletter Articles

School Calendar

Kindergarten Enrolments for 2019

Kindy enrolments for Landsdale residents are now open for children born 1/7/2014 to 30/6/2015. The application period closes on Friday 27th July, 2017.

Please click on the link for an application form. Alternatively application forms are available from our website or from the front office. Please note that the child’s birth certificate, immunisation schedule and “proof of address” (eg. electricity bill, rates notice) need to be submitted at this time.

For our existing Kindy students going into Pre-primary 2019 no action needs to be taken – you will be contacted later in the year regarding a position.

If you have any questions regarding enrolment at Landsdale Primary, please contact the ladies in the front office.

ANZAC Poppies

The ANZAC poppies used in the ANZAC art installation are now for sale to the school community, with all monies being raised being donated to the RSL ANZAC Appeal. If you would like to purchase a ceramic poppy please bring $5 either to the office during school hours or after school to the Art room (Monday-Wednesday) where you can choose and take home your poppy.

Thank you in anticipation.

Abi Callow
Visual Art teacher

On the Ball …. With Mr P

Interschool Friendlies

This term, your child may be selected to represent Landsdale Primary School in the year 5 & 6 winter sport ‘friendly’ against Ashdale Primary School to be held on Friday, 25th May, 2018 and/or against West Greenwood Primary School on Friday, 8th June.

Details of the friendlies are as follows.

As Ashdale’s numbers are similar to ours, all year 5 and 6 students should be involved. Students will be rotated through the games.

As West Greenwood’s student numbers are smaller, only a selection of teams and students will be taken. I have planned for 70 students to go on the bus.

Our Interschool Lightning Carnival is on Tuesday, 19th June at Kingsway Sporting Complex. Teams will be selected from friendlies from these sports.

Legends of Landsdale – Cross Country Event

On Friday, 22nd June, our annual cross-country event will be held at the school for Year levels 1-6. More details to follow soon!

Incursions

Each year students are invited to attend a range of educational incursions that are booked, either for the whole school, or for year level or class groups.

To date this year, students at Landsdale PS have had the opportunity to attend one in-school performance by KA-BOOM Percussion.

In Week 5, on Tuesday May 29th – Thursday May 31st, all students in Years 1 – 6 will have the opportunity to attend a presentation by James Foley, who is an acclaimed children’s author.

The payment for all incursions is drawn from the In-School Activity charge of $30.00 that each student is required to pay at the beginning of the school year, levied to cover the cost of all incursions and performances that occur throughout the year.

If you have not yet paid the In-School Activity Charge for 2018, this may be paid directly to the office by cash, Eftpos or by direct debit (Account Name: Landsdale Primary School, BSB: 066-132, Account No. 10249789, Reference: Student Name). Alternatively a payment of $4.00 may be made to cover the cost of the next presentation. If you are unsure about your current payment status, please call the ladies in the front office, and they will be able to assist you.

With thanks,

Leonie Mattock
Deputy Principal

Library News

NATIONAL SIMULTANEOUS STORY TIME

As part of Library and Information Week, Landsdale Library joined other libraries, schools and children’s centres across Australia to deliver National Simultaneous Storytime – a vibrant, fun event that aims to promote the value of reading and literacy using an Australian children’s book.

This year’s selected picture book was “Hickory Dickory Dash” byTony Wilson.

Classes across the school read the book and participated in related activities. Multiple copies of the book are now available for borrowing from the Library.

ENTER THE “READING AUSTRALIA” COMPETITION

Landsdale Library is competing to win Booktopia vouchers worth $100 from Reading Australia, a not-for-profit initiative which promotes the best Australian writing. There are over 300 titles to choose from. This competition is run in partnership with ALIA (Australian Library and Information Association). It is designed to encourage students to explore the wealth of Australian picture books and novels available at Reading Australia. The competition is open to both primary and secondary students. Take a look at the website to see the full list. All students are encouraged to take the 10-word story challenge before June 18th.

I Want To Enter:

1. Students pick their favourite Reading Australia book from readingaustralia.com.au
2. Describe your chosen books in a catchcy ten words or less.
   eg: ‘Family takes off in van, has an epic Australian adventure.’ (“Are We There Yet?” by Alison Lester)
   ‘Girl steals books, is loved by the boy who runs.’ (“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak)
3. Send in your entry to readingaustralia@copyright.com.au by 5pm EST on Monday 2nd July.

Don’t forget to include your full name, year level and our school name.

Canteen Reminders

CANTEEN INFORMATION

Supervisor: Jo Gaugg/Lisa Innes
Phone: 0410 894 457
Opening hours: 8:30am to 1:45pm

P&C President’s News

We had a super productive meeting on the 15th May, thanks to all those who came!

We created 2 new committees, one for the Canteen and the other for the 20th Anniversary Fete for next year. We also approved more items on the wish list!

$1,300 towards Junior Maths Mastery workbooks & $3,000 for Mr P to run this year’s Faction Carnival! This includes helping with all of the ribbons and awards for the day and the use of equipment. It's a brilliant effort and we're proud to support it once again.

An additional unanimous vote to approve extra funds together with those made from the Colour Run will fund an amazing $20,000 committed to the school to help in funding the extension of the nature play area! It's a “watch this space” as we are as excited as the kids to see this project get underway.

20TH ANNIVERSARY SCHOOL FETE

We need help! The organisation of fetes are the fruition of a lot of dedicated hard work and we need a brilliant bunch of people to help steer this enormous task on its way. If you would like to be involved please email Sally lpspandcsecretary@gmail.com or text Nat 0403 326 828. We need help of all kinds, co-ordinating is just one aspect but we will also need hands on the ground to help with games, stalls and the like! It’s a great community event to be involved in.

CANTEEN COMMITTEE

Your Canteen needs you! We are looking for 2 friends to help us support the canteen in its daily duties. If the odd job of washing, photocopying & help in planning special menus, etc. sounds like you, please contact Sally on lpspandcsecretary@gmail.com

EASTER RAFFLE

2018 Easter Raffle was a fantastic success!

A HUGE thank you to all the families who donated towards the Easter Raffle, we were truly amazed at how many we had! 108 raffle items were won during the week from Kindy to yr 6, which makes for some very happy kids over Easter!

Another THANK YOU to our parents who volunteered to help us sell raffle tickets on the day. Without you we wouldn’t have had such a huge success, thank you to you all! This year Kim from Pre Primary offered to team up with some mums and wrap the gifts for us. This level of help is immeasurable; it’s a big undertaking and was very much appreciated by the organisers of the Easter Raffle. Please pass on our thank you’s Kim to all your mums who helped you out. To all the families and kids who purchased raffle tickets you helped your school P&C raise an amazing $1,500 of which will be turned into resources for our school.

INTERSCHOOL SPORT SHIRTS

P&C this term have approved more funds, $1,500 to go towards purchasing more of the fabulous sports shirts we funded last year for Mr P, the ones we had before certainly needed an upgrade I think you’ll also agree the students do feel and look the part at all of their school sports events. If you find any of them come home in error, please return them to school the next day.

FACEBOOK

As always you can keep updated via our dedicated fb page

If you too would like to get involved please get in touch! We welcome everyone to join our P&C community no matter how big or small every contribution helps makes the team a successful one.

Our next meeting is Tues 12th June.

Cheers,
Nat H

Parent Workshop – Wednesday 16th May

Paul, Laura and Katherina from Currambine Psychology presented to a group of parents last Wednesday on the topics of Mindfulness for Children, Bullying and Difference and Dealing with the Stresses of being a Parent. It was a really informative evening and highlighted some different ways that we as parents can cope with raising our children as well as ways to help our children. Below are a couple of take home messages for me.

• Talk about the behaviour before acting (reacting) to try and understand the underlying factors.
• Our first action is often deprive – don’t deprive children of their purpose and passion.
• Social disconnection – may cause more harm.
• Telling our children, it’s ok to be different and your difference may be a strength.
• Five finger activity – tell me five good things about yourself.

All the presentations are available on line for parents who were unable to attend. Paul also has a number of mindfulness meditations that are available to download for free.

We would like to run more workshops and seminars for parents and value your feedback. Please send any suggestions through to me at dkbull01@bigpond.com . Currently we are looking to try and organise sessions around protective behaviours, cybersafety and parent wellbeing.

Keera Bull
School Board Chair

P&C News – Entertainment Book

Support Landsdale Primary School and you’ll be rewarded!

We are raising funds for our school and you can help. Order the NEW 2018/2019 Entertainment Book or Entertainment Digital Membership and you will receive hundreds of valuable offers for everything you love to do, and you will also be supporting our fundraising. PLUS, order now to receive over $180 of bonus Early Bird Offers (hurry, these sell out quickly).

SUPPORT US NOW.

"The Entertainment Book is great value for such a low price. There are a lot of savings I get back instantly. It more than outweighs the original price. There is something for everyone casual, fine dining, adventure and family. I couldn't live without it.” – Susan L

Uniform Shop News

Uniform Shop hours for Term 2 are as follows:

If you are in urgent need of any uniform items outside of these hours, please contact the school office and they will pass your details on to me to organise.

All items are available online via Uniforms West Website. These orders are sent to me weekly and are ready for pick up from the school office by Friday afternoons.

Regards,
Sandra

School Banking at Landsdale Primary School!

School banking is on every Thursday in the wet area between LA11 & 12 from 8am to 9am.

Rowena Casilli
School Banking Co-ordinator

LEAP Parenting Ideas

STEM Workshops

The Ashdale STEM Institute is running two exciting STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering & Mathematics) workshops each term for Ashdale Cluster Year 4 & 5 students and their family members at Ashdale Secondary College.

Understanding STEM education is vitally important for students to become innovative, global thinkers, capable of finding creative solutions to real world problems. We believe that by working in partnership with our families, we will better enable students to consider future career pathways in STEM.

The first two workshops will be run on Tuesday 29 May 2018. Please choose ONE workshop to attend. Each student is required to bring an adult family member and together they will engage in a range of STEM activities.

To register your attendance at one of the workshops, please access the following Eventbrite registration links available from Friday 18 May at 9.00am. Please see the attached brochure for information about the other STEM Champion workshops being held this year:

As places are limited, please ensure you are able to attend the session, prior to registering. Registrations close for the first two workshops on Monday 28 May 2018 at 4.00pm.

We look forward to welcoming you into the College to participate in this wonderful opportunity with your children. If you require further information, please contact me on deborah.yates@education.wa.edu.au or Leisa Aitken on 9302 7100 in the front office.

Deborah Yates
Primary STEM Coordinator
Ashdale Secondary College

Ashdale Secondary Enrolments

Free Event at The Pines Retirement Village – Saturday 9th June

The Pines is a Retirement Village in Ellenbrook and they are hosting an event with free antique valuations, market and car stalls, Devonshire teas, food trucks and music. Similar to the Antique Road Show and Vintage Village Show, Saturday 9th June from 10am to 1pm at The Pines, 21 Ponte Vecchio Blvd, Ellenbrook.

Children’s Book Week School Program – Find Your Treasure in Wanneroo

The Wanneroo Library Service in conjunction with the Gallery and Museum are offering an engaging suite of learning experiences for all ages. Students will be encouraged to create, innovate and respond to stories and historical snippets and events in their own words, inspired by the quality Australian literature on show and the fascinating historical artefacts from the rich history of Wanneroo.

Please see the program attached for the bookable sessions delivered by local authors that will inspire students and support their learning journeys as readers and writers.

Bookings can be made by calling 9405 5948 or 9405 5947.

We look forward to celebrating Book Week with you in 2018.

Explore Short Courses at WAAPA/ECU in the July School Holidays

These July school holidays WAAPA/ECU is offering drama classes for children in years 1 to 12. Please see the attached flyer.