17 November 2022

From the Principal

Dear Parents and Caregivers,

Many thanks to the P&C for running the Bookfair and Colour Explosion. It was wonderful to see so many parents and students enjoying these events.

The year 6 students are running market stalls this Tuesday as part of their learning in HASS. These stalls give the students the opportunity for real world learning in a practical application.

There are a few weeks until the end of the year, I would like to remind families of continuing to follow our school uniform policy, particularly in regard to wearing jewellery and non-uniform hats.

The DoE recently announced 2 initiatives which will start in 2023. The new supports are going to strengthen quality teaching in the classroom. The first is the Quality Teacher Strategy and the second is the Phonics Initiative. The Quality Teacher Strategy will lead schools to maximise the impact of high-quality teaching on student achievement and progress. The Phonics Initiative will see all year 1 students be assessed in phonics. The data will used to identify students developing foundation literacy skills and inform future teaching, learning and interventions for students.

Last term the students in year 5 & 6 completed the Wellness Engagement Census (WEC) the data is beginning to show an upward trend in some areas, this is a pleasing result. One of the contributing factors is the UR STRONG program and staff having an intentional focus on student health and wellbeing. The students in year 2-4 will shortly be doing Rumbles Quest, which also looks at wellness and engagement. It’s never too early or late to learn some lessons about our wellbeing and happiness.

Have a fabulous week.

Kind Regards,

Natalie Bracegirdle
Principal

Newsletter Articles

School Calendar

BYOD Ipad/MacBook Program

This term, we are undertaking many preparations for next year to ensure that the start of 2023 is a positive one for students, parents and staff.

One of the exciting things for the students going into Year 4 in 2023 is the BYOD iPad/MacBook Program. Parents are invited to purchase an iPad or MacBook for their child to enhance their learning experience both at school and at home. Our program has transformed the teaching and learning pedagogy, enabling teachers to implement highly refined, engaging and individual programs through the use of student devices and a broad range of high impact instructional strategies.

We would like to provide more information about the details and efficacy of the program to parents of our Year 3 students at our Parent BYOD Information Forums. We also invite any parents from other year levels who would like to attend. Thank you to the parents who came to the first Parent Information Forum, their feedback was that it was valuable for them to see how teachers use the devices in the class and to have all their questions answered regarding the details of the program. We have 2 Forums still to come this term, both to be held in the Library:

Friday 18th Nov @ 8am-8.45am
Monday 5th Dec @ 4.30pm-5.30pm

An information booklet containing all the relevant information is being sent home this week to all Year 3 students’ families and will also be available on the website. The forums will enable you to ask clarifying questions and see how students are using the devices.

2023 Kindergarten Enrolments

Please see the front office urgently if you still wish to enrol for Kindergarten next year as there are limited places left.

Travelling Overseas/Extended Christmas Holidays

If you have planned holidays and will be returning to Landsdale Primary School AFTER school has commenced (1/2/2023) you are required to advise the front office in writing. Please call into the office or email jennifer.shepherd@education.wa.edu.au.

Students Not Returning to LPS in 2023

If your child(ren) will NOT be attending Landsdale Primary School in 2023 can you please advise the front office in person, or email Jennifer.shepherd@education.wa.edu.au.

Sports News … with Mr Baggio and Mr Brown

Congratulations to Peter D for achieving a massive 300 laps in the Monday Running Club.

LA27 Incursion Recount – Worms, Compost & Growing Vegetables

On Friday, the 16th of September, my class (LA 27 Year 3 Landsdale Primary School - L.P.S) and LA 22 Year 3/4 had an incursion with a lady named Peg, Mrs Marrion and Mrs Bin Salleh. The incursion had two hours and the first hour was about the worm farms and the second hour was about vegetable beds and compost bins (not the ones that roll).

Firstly, Peg talked about the worms and showed us ridiculous posters of worms! Peg told us some facts about worms and told us what A.D.A.M meant. I learned in that hour that worms need a cool cover over them and that they can only eat things that were alive, but they can’t eat rubber or plastic. We also got to feel the worms that Peg put out. I thought the worms were ticklish and slimy. I saw a worm with something called a ‘saddle’ and I was lucky enough to see a baby worm and an egg!

After that, we learned about compost and we made a ’cake’ in the vegetable beds. The ‘ingredients’ we used were hot grass, clippings from the lawn mower, coffee grounds, paper torn strips and mulch for ‘icing’. When we put each of these layers, we added water before we added the next layer of the ‘cake’.

Later, we made compost with the standing bins. Some of the year 5’s from a different class dug a barrier around the standing compost bins so the rats would not get in. To get it started, we added sticks, some bark and water. Then we started turning the material inside the bins with these special turners so it would have some air. Peg taught us what A.D.A.M meant which stands for A = air, D = diverse, A = alive and M = moisture.

Lastly, I think that was the most fabulous learning experience I ever had, and it will be a day I will never ever in my life forget. I think my class and I are on our journey to making the world a better place to live by stopping global warming, avoiding putting plastic in our pristine oceans and stop killing our food chain or all our animals will be gone and it will mean we will also be gone. Then everything on Planet Earth will be killed.

Special Thanks to Peg for helping us on the journey to a better Planet Earth and teaching us all these wonderful and fabulous things.

Heer S
Year 3, LA 27

YouthCARE Together

Parent – Hello High School Seminar

This parent event is an evening of practical information, strategies, tips, and tools for parents, helping tweens transition to High School with more resilience, optimism, and confidence.

• Scotch College’s Memorial Hall, Swanbourne
  Wednesday 7th December 2022, 7pm-9pm

If you need more information please call 0427 100 371 or go to info@claireeaton.com.au

Library News

Thank You for Supporting the Book Fair

Book Fair 2022 was a huge success! Thank you to all our students, parents and staff who supported the Book Fair. It’s such an exciting event on our school calendar. The kids absolutely love it! We would like to thank our amazing Book Fair Co-ordinator, Ms Mel Fuller, who did a brilliant job planning, organising and running the Book Fair. Mel has filled this role at Landsdale PS for many years now and we are so grateful for her contribution. This is her last year at LPS and we thank her for her dedication to all things Book Fair over so many years. Thank you also to Mrs Sonya March and all the other parent and grandparent volunteers who made this event so successful. During the week, $10,563.94 worth of books, posters and novelty items were sold. This means that the Library has received $3,302 worth of commission books! Many of these titles have already been accessioned and are now being borrowed by students, staff and parents. The remainder of the funds will be used to purchase new books until the end of this year and into 2023. Thank you, everyone!

Closing Date for Library Loans

The final date for return of all library books is Friday 2nd December (Week 8). As we have swimming in the final weeks of the year, it is important that students return their library books prior to their swimming sessions. Parent loans are also due back by Friday 2nd December.

Welcome to Bilingual Families Perth

Bilingual Families Perth is a not-for-profit network of linguistically diverse people in Western Australia.

Our network connects over 500 families and individuals from more than 40 language backgrounds. In the past 10 years we have provided support for families who speak Afrikaans, Bengali, Bosnian, Bulgarian, Cantonese, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Farsi, Finnish, French, German, Gujarati, Greek, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Macedonian, Malay, Malayalam, Mandarin, Mongolian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, Samoan, Serbian, Spanish, Swahili, Swiss-German, Swedish, Tagalog, Tamil, Turkish, Vietnamese besides various dialects of the relevant languages.

Most families have pre-school or school-aged children and we are experiencing similar issues while raising our children in more than one language. We also work together with professionals who share information on bilingualism and multilingualism. We can probably put you in touch with people who speak your language.

P&C News – Colour Explosion

Colour Explosion was awesome!! We hope all the kids had a fantastic time. It’s our largest fundraiser for the year and we are excited to see the final number in a few days after its finalised. We congratulate LA10 & LA16 on being the top 2 classes who received icypole awards for being the first junior & senior classes to sign up the most profiles and Joey B as the highest fundraised class. Cheeseburger lunch day will be organised with Mrs Caratti for you all.

Thanks to all the volunteers who helped us on the day, we cannot put this on without you. To all our teachers and staff who helped as well, especially Mr Baggio & Mr Brown, it’s a team effort that comes together, thanks so much for all your help on the day to make the run the best it is for the kids.

Canteen Information

CANTEEN INFORMATION

Canteen Manager: Sue Uyen
Phone: 0410 894 457
Opening hours: 8:30am to 1:45pm

Term 4 is the time when the canteen is winding down for the year. Storage will be tight in being hopeful that our renovation will be complete over the school holiday break. You may notice the menu becoming a little smaller than usual and items not available, this will be why.

Fairy Bread day is coming on 23rd November, Year 6 Graduation Morning tea and with swimming lessons over the last weeks of term, it’s going to be busy!

If you have any outstanding accounts can you please finalise with the canteen.

Thanks
Sue, Nat & the canteen team

Uniform Shop News

For all uniform requirements, please contact Tudor Uniforms on Tel. 9408 2666 or visit the link below. Their address is: Unit 1/75 Excellence Dr, Wangara.

LEAP Parenting Ideas

Please find attached a Triple P Positive Parenting Program flyer for Term 4. They offer an online seminar series. To book please visit the link below

Teen Triple P – Ashdale Secondary College - Raising Competent Teenagers Seminar

Korean Martial Art Classes and Free Trial

Academic Task Force

January ATAR Head Start Program (For students going into Years 6 & 7)

For students starting high school next year, Academic Task Force offers short high school transition courses in NAPLAN Preparation, English, Maths, Learning Skills, Essay Writing and GATE and Scholarship Exam Preparation.

Running at 2 convenient locations: Rossmoyne SHS and Churchlands SHS, during the January Holidays (13th Jan – 24th Jan 2023)

Enrol online from the link below or Call: 9314 9500 or Email: learn@academicgroup.com.au

Wildlife Show 2022

Join us this Sunday for the 2022 Wildlife Show.

Tickets and further information available from the link below.

Athena Calisthenics

Our Club provides recreational Calisthenics, a sport with a mix of gymnastics, dance, simplified ballet, acting, singing and apparatus work. We are a not-for-profit organisation who support health and happiness, families and friendship in our community.

Triathlon for Beginners