Dear Parents, Students and Community Members

Welcome to Term 4. The children have returned to school after the break refreshed and ready for a very busy final term. The children have really enjoyed catching up with their friends and sharing their holiday adventures. Thank you to Miss Sara Boswell and the Year 1 class for providing an impromptu lunch for the children on Friday 13 October with produce from the sustainable garden. Teaching and learning programs are well underway and many activities are planned for the children. This week alone activities from across the school include the contin-uation of the dance program, Pre Primary zoo excursion, a visit from players in the Wildcats and Lynx basketball teams, and the Food Sensations incursion for the Year 5 children. The dance program commenced last week for children in Kindergarten through to Year 6. The children are learning their disco dance steps with great enthusiasm. Thank you very much to Mr Justin Douglass for organising this program. We look forward to the end of year family picnic and dance concert on Wednesday 13 December. Thank you to our cleaning and gardening staff, Mr Ray Miles, Mr Helda Do Espirito Santo and Mr Balkrushna Tiwari for all their work in preparing the school for Term 4.

STAFF NEWS

We welcome Mr Rick Payne to Lake Monger Primary School until the end of Term 1 2018. Mr Payne is our Deputy Principal while Mr Carl Sexton is on long service leave. Welcome back to Ms Jo Calautti our school officer from her Term 3 break. This week we welcome five teacher education students from Edith Cowan University who will be completing prac placements in Kindergarten, Pre Primary Blue, Year 1, Year 2 and Year 4. All teacher education students will complete their prac by Friday 17 November.

LAKE MONGER PRIMARY SCHOOL 26 Dodd Street, Wembley. Phone 9387 4536

Diane.Tomlinson@education.wa.edu.au www.lakemongerps.wa.edu.au

NEWSLETTER No 16 2017 17 October 2017

BOOK FAIR

Thank you to our families for your support of the Book Fair. $506.25 was raised to purchase books for our library. Thank you to Mrs Sabrina Erciyas for all her work with bringing the fair to Lake Monger Primary School.

PARENT NIGHT THANKYOU

Thank you very much to parents and children who were able to attend the parent night. The turnout was fantastic. It was great to see so many people viewing other classes throughout the school as well as visiting the library, music room and Book Fair after they had visited their own children’s classroom. The children really enjoyed the opportunity to showcase their great work to their parents. A feedback form regarding the parent night has been sent as a separate attachment. Please return either by email or to the front office by Friday 20 October. Your feedback is valued.

SCHOOL BOARD

The next meeting of the school board is on Wednesday 8 November at 2:40 pm in the conference room. This is an open meeting for parents to attend.

SCHOOL BOARD PARENT REPRESENTATIVES 2018

At the end of 2017 Mrs Jo Greaves and Ms Alexia Caraes‘ terms of office on the school board will conclude and therefore we are requiring two parent school board representatives. The length of office is either for one year or two years. Nominations are now called for and close 4:00 pm on Tuesday 7 November. Please complete the nomination form attached to this email and either email or bring into the front office. If a number of nominations are received then an election will be held. If you would like to know more about the school board, please contact Mr Kael Driscoll, School board chair, Ms Diane Tomlinson or a school board member. Thank you very much to Mrs Greaves and Ms Caraes for their valuable contribution to the board and our school during their time in office.

ASSEMBLY

Thank you to our Pre Primary Red children, Mrs Ruth Jooste and Ms Robyn Leatham for the final assembly of Term 3. The items presented were a selection of fairy tales using the Talk4Writing approach and a song about ‘The Three Little Pigs.’ The children are to be complimented on their great work. Congratulations to the following children for receiving an award:

Reading Express certificates were awarded to; Dylan Merk, Year 3 and Jigme Namgyal, Year 3 Seara Mao Year 6 was announced the winner of the Term 3 Values bike raffle. In Term 4 two bikes will be offered as prizes for the Values raffle. The next item assembly will be held on Friday 20 October commencing at 8:40 am in the undercover area and hosted by Ms Emma Peet’sYear 5 class.

WORK OF THE FORTNIGHT

FROM THE SCHOOL NURSE

NUT ALLERGY

We have students in the school with allergies to peanuts and/ or nuts. The allergy can cause the children to have an anaphylactic reaction. To minimise the risk we ask that parents/ carers do not include peanut paste, nuts etc in their child’s morning tea and lunch. This would be very much appreciated, however we understand this is not always possible.

Thank you to parents involved for checking the expiry date on their children’s medication that is used at school. (eg: epipens, Claratyne, asthma puffers etc)

IN TERM SWIMMING

Swimming information in regard to the in term swimming program for Pre Primary to Year 6 children in our school will be coming home on Tuesday 17 October with your child.

SCHOOL ARRIVAL TIME

Thank you to parents for ensuring children are at school when the siren sounds at 8:40 am. Classrooms are open at 8:30 am to allow the children time to prepare for the school day. Parents are asked to make an interview time with their child’s teacher, rather than a rushed conversa-tion about their child’s progress etc. at drop off and pick up times.

RECORDER GROUP

The recorder group were involved in two big events in Week 10 of Term 4. On Tuesday 19 September our school hosted the recorder festival with two other schools in attendance; and on Thursday 21 September the recorder group visited with Bold Park School to perform in a lunch time concert. Thank you to Mrs Judith Haldane for all her work with these events.

In 2018 Lake Monger Primary School will celebrate 10 years as a water wise school.

How much physical activity should my child be doing?

School age children need at least 60 minutes of moderate to vigorous physical activity each day. But more is better, so encourage your child to be active for up to several hours each day. Children need a combination of moderate and vigorous activity. ‘Moderate activity’ is any activity which is similar in intensity to a brisk walk e.g. bike riding or active playing. ‘Vigorous activity’ is any activity which makes your child “huff and puff” e.g. organised sports, ballet, running or swimming laps. Any activity that requires your child to expend energy should be encouraged. Go to http://raisingchildren.net.au for more information. For more information go to https://livelighter.com.au/ Contact your local Community Health Nurse or Community Health Centre, Deb Aggett on 0417 851 497 for more information.

PRE-PRIMARY Molly Parker Saviona Pradhan

YEAR 1 Daniel Bezzene Eli Burns

YEAR 2 Ashton Burns Madden Kenzle

YEAR 3 Sonam Yangchen Jigme Namgyal

YEAR 4 Ravindu Pothpitage Nicicia Alivojvodic

YEAR 5 Pema Namgyel Charlie Knights

EAL/D Yug Patel Sonam Nima

Year Name For

PP Lavya Patel Tenzin Dorjee

Letter & Painting Letter & Painting

1 Patrycja Grygierczyk Haunted House

2 Madden Kenzle Ashton Burns

Excellent Spelling Handwriting

3 Rigden Dorji Derroll Nguru

Narrative writing Scratch Art

4 Tiba Al-Bayati Namgyal Dolma

Bug-eyed view of world Text on Air Pollution

5 Sienna Pritchard Singye Wangchuk

Filming & producing Ad Filming & producing Ad

6 Jigme Dorjee Bansi Patel

Report on viking land Report on New Zealand

EALD Jigme Rinzin Y2 Recount with Great para-graphs

WATERWISE

You can save up to 90 litres of water every day by replacing a single flush toilet with a dual – flush system.

COMING EVENTS

Wednesday 18 October 8:10 am Breakfast Club Canteen

Thursday 19 October 8:30 am School banking Canteen

Dance program 1:00 pm Year 6 Growth and Development program

Friday 20 October 8:40 am Year 5 item Assembly Monday 23 October 7:00 pm P&C meeting Tuesday 24 October 8:15 am Uniform shop Dance program Wednesday 25 October 8:10 am Breakfast Club Canteen

First Aid Focus incursion 2:40 pm Staff meeting Thursday 26 October 8:30 am School banking

Canteen Dance program First Aid Focus incursion

1:00 pm Year 6 Growth and Development program

Friday 27 October World Teacher Day Tuesday 31 October 8:15 am Uniform shop

Dance program NEWSLETTER

SUN SMART

Lake Monger Primary School is a Sun Smart accredited school and with the warmer weather imminent it is great to see the children conscious of sun safety and wearing either a bucket hat, wide brimmed hat or legionnaires hat when outside. Hats are available from the uniform shop.

ENROLMENT 2018

To assist the school with planning for 2018, it would be appreciated if any children who are currently in Years PP – 5 and are leaving the school at the conclusion of the 2017 school year could please complete the form below and return to Ms Tomlinson by Friday 10 November. Thank you to parents that have already attended to this matter.

SUNSMART

There is no such thing as wind burn. The last time you thought that you were wind burnt you were actually sunburnt. Remember to Slip! Slop! Slap! Seek! Slide! between 10 am and 3 pm, even on a cool day.

VOLUNTEER THANK YOU

Thank you very much to Mrs Pamela Van der Meulen, Mrs Judy Dickinson and Mrs Sue Mack for all their work with bringing the Safety House show for children in Years 1 - 4 to our school on Monday 18 September; as well as cooking the Safety House pikelets for all children in our school. Thank you to the Wembley/West Leederville Ratepayers Association for funding the show.

P&C

The next meeting of the P&C is Monday 23 October commencing at 7:00 pm in the conference room. (PLEASE NOTE THE CHANGE OF TIME)

CANTEEN

TERM 4 LUNCH ORDER SPECIALS while stocks last

BEEF STIRFRY AND NOODLES CHICKEN SATAY AND RICE

MEATLOVERS PIZZAS $2.50 EACH

GIFTED AND TALENTED SECONDARY SELECTIVE EN-

TRANCE PROGRAMS for YEAR 5 in 2017 and ENTERING YEAR 7 in 2019

Applications for Gifted and Talented Secondary Selective Entrance Programs are now open. For children with exceptional academic ability and creative talent, these academic, arts and languages programs are designed to challenge them to achieve at the highest level. If your child is going into Year 6 in 2018, applications are now open for entry into Year 7 in 2019. Limited places may also be available for children going into Years 9, 10 and 11 in 2019. Applications close Sunday, 11 February 2018. For more information and to apply visit education.wa.edu.au/giftedandtalented.

(Please return to Ms Tomlinson by Friday 10 November 2017)

ENROLMENTS 2018

Name of Student/s leaving at the conclusion of the 2017 school year. (Currently in Years Pre Primary – 5.)

Year in 2017

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Floreat SLSC Registrations are now open!

Join the coast’s best family club and help us keep the beach safe this summer.

Nippers Programme commences on 29 October at 8.30am. Ages 6+

www.floreatslsc.com or call 9385 9370

GIRLS CRICKET TEAMS

Wembley Districts Junior Cricket Club is looking for cricket teams of grade 2/3 girls and teams of grade 4/5 girls. Get a team of friends together. No experience necessary No equipment required Registrations closing soon. Coached by U18 Female players - fantastic program. LOTS OF FUN WITH FRIENDS

Enrol your children now in VacSwim swimming lessons during the summer school holidays. With swimming pools and beaches a part of the Western Australian lifestyle, ensuring your children learn how to swim and are safe in the water is a must for all families. Your children can join in the fun of learning to swim in lessons run at pools and open water venues across the State. VacSwim is for all children – from beginners through to advanced survival, rescue and resuscitation. Your children can learn to swim for just: $7.00 per child for a five day short program $13.00 per child for all other programs. It's even cheaper if you have three or more children: $18.00 a family for a five day short program $35.00 a family for all other programs. To find out more about VacSwim and to enrol online please visit education.wa.edu.au/swimming.

Dental Health Services

The Dental Mobile Clinic is currently located at Aranmore Primary School.