Newsletter 30 May 2012

Issue 8

Wed 30 May

Farmyard on Wheels -

Kindy 1 & 2

Thu 31 May

Kindy Screening - Health

Nurse

Perth Hills Centre - Rm 9

Fri 1 June

Interschool Sport v

Applecross

(at Ardross Primary)

Mon 4 June

WA Day Holiday

Tue 5 June

Assembly - Room 2

Fri 8 June

Interschool Sport v Mount

Pleasant

(at Ardross Primary)

Mon 11 June

Year 7 Camp - Woodman

Point

PEAC Testing - Year 4

P&C Meeting - 7.30pm

Year 7 trip to Moore

River and Gingin

Enrolment 2013

1

Indigenous

Professional Learning

Superscience

Mathletics

Japanese Study Tour

Honour Certificate

Winners

Walk Safely to School

& Shades for Aids Day

2

Modcrosse Carnival

Canteen Roster

Group School Photos

Save Your Hollow

Branches

P&C News

Waterwise Tip

3

Uniform Shop

Community News

4

Inside this issue:

Ardross Primary News

A Message from the Principal

ENROLMENT 2013

I am re running the article from the last newsletter

with regards to enrolments for 2013.

There has been a significant change in the

assessment of Kindergarten and Pre Primary

applications received for enrolment 2013. The

Department of Education has announced that Pre

Primary will now be the first year of compulsory

education in Western Australia starting 2013, and

as such will now fall under the Local Intake Policy.

This means that ALL Pre Primary students who

reside in the Local Intake area are eligible to enrol

in their local school. Although not compulsory,

enrolment to the Kindergarten program will also be

Local Intake where possible. This means that ALL

Kindergarten students who reside in the Local

Intake area will be given priority to enrol in their

local school, however this does not guarantee

enrolment. Applications for Enrolment 2013 closes

on Friday, 3 August. After Friday, 3 August all

applications for enrolment will be assessed

according to the new policy. After the Local Intake

applications have been established, and where the

remaining number of applications exceeds the

number of places available at the school, the

Principal will give priority to applications in the

following order:

• Child whose usual place of residence is NOT

in the intake area who has a sibling enrolled

at the school for the year and who lives near-

est to the school.

• Child whose usual place of residence is NOT

in the intake area who does not have a sib-

ling enrolled at the school for the year and

who lives nearest to the school.

Applications for enrolment for Years 1-7 have not

changed and continue to be assessed according to

the Local Intake Policy. All applications for

enrolment require proof of your usual place of

residence. An example of this would be a utilities

account (electricity, water or telephone) showing

your name and usual place of residence. Please be

advised that it is the responsibility of the parent or

guardian to provide true and correct information to

the school at the time of applying for enrolment.

Where information is received and verified that true

and correct information has not been provided, the

Principal may cancel the Application for Enrolment.

General enrolment information, information on the

Local Intake area and the Appeals Process can be

found on our website www.ardrossps.wa.edu.au or

on the Department website at www.det.wa.edu.au.

Greetings to staff, students, parents and community

members and welcome to this edition of the school

newsletter. Last week my wife was in Sydney as part

of the National Gymnastics competition. Mrs Holmes

is the Head Judging Coordinator of Western Australia

and was in the State Team as a judge. I took a week’s

Long Service Leave to allow me to look after our four

boys. Mrs Holmes is due back today. While she has

been away, our eldest son reinjured his knee after

having a full knee reconstruction last May, spending

twelve months out of sport, our second son broke his

right thumb and my youngest son fractured his elbow.

Fortunately our third son escaped uninjured! I am

returning to work to recuperate!!!

YEAR 7 TRIP TO MOORE RIVER AND GINGIN

Last week Room 19 travelled to Moore River on

Wednesday and Thursday as part of their teaching

and learning program. They studied caves at Yanchep

and salinity and river conditions at Moore River. They

were met at the Gingin Gravitational Discovery

Centre on Friday by Room 20 students to continue

their program on astronomy and gravity. It was a

great success with all students being exemplary role

models for Ardross Primary School. Thank you to

Miss Heary and Mrs Bishop who spent the three days

with the students and Miss Pateman and

Mrs Edmonds who travelled with the kids to Gingin

on Friday. I am continually amazed by the learning

opportunities in which our students are involved.

Students taking water samples.

Looking into the universe!!

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INDIGENOUS PROFESSIONAL LEARNING

Last Tuesday sixteen staff spent three hours with Noel

Nannup, a respected Aboriginal Elder learning about the

significance of the local area to Noongar people. The morning

commenced on the river foreshore near Cunningham Road,

where Mr Nannup explained how the connection between the

earth and Aboriginal people was established a long time ago.

The traditional story of the Wagyl and the significance of

Wireless Hill was also explained. We then travelled to Point

Walter to continue with the traditional stories with many of

Perth’s significant landmarks linking back to Aboriginal

culture. This includes the Point Walter area being used as a

teaching place for women and children having Santa Maria, a

school for girls being built there, to across the river at Mosman

Park where the boys would go to become men, where an all

boys school, Christ Church Grammar is located. I would like to

thank Mr Nannup for his explanation and insight into

traditional aboriginal culture. Mrs Bishop and the staff are

using the aboriginal culture to enhance our teaching and

learning program.

SUPER SCIENCE

On Wednesday and Thursday this week and next, five students

from Year 5 with a flair for science will be involved in the Super

Science program at Applecross Senior High School.

Congratulations to Billy Chen, Juliette Keeffe, Joshua

Nicholson, Nathan Puckett and Lachlan Smyth for

representing Ardross in this program together with students

from Applecross, Brentwood, Booragoon and Mount Pleasant. A

big thank you to Mr Draper and the staff at Applecross Senior

High School for offering this program.

MATHLETICS

A reminder that all students from Pre Primary to Year 7 have

access to the Mathletics program at home and school thanks to

the generosity of the P&C. Teachers are new to this program,

but have been working on logging all students on to the system.

All students have a log in and password supplied. Should you

not be able to access Mathletics please see your classroom

teacher. I am sure that as we all start to get familiar with

Mathletics it will become a valuable teaching and learning

program.

JAPANESE STUDY TOUR

Thank you to the families who hosted a Japanese student in

March. As a result the school received just over $5000! A

wonderful effort. We have another group of 15 Japanese

students coming from Wednesday, 8 August - Thursday,

16 August and I need YOUR HELP to find billets for them. I

can assure families that over the last five years of hosting

students, (the last three from Japan) families have not had one

negative experience. The cultural experience of having these

students in our school and at your homes, provides our students

with knowledge and understanding that cannot be learnt in our

Japanese program. I need parent support for the program to

continue in its current form. Please complete the cut off

expression of interest form at the bottom of this page if you can

help.

Good luck to all Year 6 and 7 students who play interschool

sport against Applecross Primary this Friday.

Andrew Holmes

Principal

WALK SAFELY TO SCHOOL DAY &

SHADES FOR AIDS DAY

Below are some photos taken on Friday, 18 May. We were able

to raise $280 from gold coin donations for Shades for Aids Day to

donate to projects in Cambodia aimed at preventing HIV

transmission from mother to child.

HONOUR CERTIFICATE

WINNERS

At last week’s assembly the winner’s were:

Room 19 Angelique Kabunga, Michael Perry.

Room 17 Matthew Blazevic, Caitlin Pillay.

Room 16 Cahil Fitzgerald, Piya Whittle.

Room 13 Kar Hui Heng, Cayden Rez.

Room 11/12 Ben Mitchell, Brock Ridgway, Jumeria Tian.

Room 10 Rachel Cheong, Miranda Lansdell, Caitie Perkins.

Room 9 Addison Foster, Nathaniel Tjandra.

Room 7 Yu Weng Choong, Elliot Cull, Jocelyn Kwok.

Room 6 Kynan Ganza, Toby Lansdell, Sofia Rudy Adrie.

Room 5 Louis Christophersen, Harry Collins,

Georgia Williams.

Room 4 Billy Chen, Mia Dal Molin.

Room 3 Isaac Ho, Isabella Loftus, Clio Meyricke.

Room 2 Jeremy Cheng, Caira Lua.

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JAPANESE EXCHANGE VISIT : 8—16 AUGUST 2012—EXPRESSION OF INTEREST

Name: _______________________________ Student/s Attending Ardross & Year Level: ____________________________________

Preference: Male / Female

Please return this slip to the bucket located in the front office by Friday, 1 June 2012.

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MODCROSSE CARNIVAL SUCCESS

On 28 May 2012, Room 19 participated in the South of the

River Modcrosse Carnival, held at Goodchild Reserve in

Hamilton Hill. The competition was both intense and fierce.

Ardross played 6 games against 3 different schools - Armadale,

Rossmoyne and Southwell. All the games were played with

great sportsmanship, intelligence and skill. Exceptional team

strategies were executed during play and all payed off with two

Ardross teams placing 1st and 2nd by goal difference. At the

end of the day all teams played amazingly well.

Matthew Hardie & Rion Robertson

Room 19

CANTEEN NEWS

Sticky Beak Lunch Wallets are back in stock!

Reduced to only $8.50. Available in Blue, Pink or

Green.

Coming Soon….Every Sticky Beak Wallet (old & new) will be

able to use the upcoming Canteen Value Reward Card. Get 6

stamps validated to receive your FREE Paddle Pop! More

details available SOON!

Other Canteen News:

• Thanks to the families who have adopted our

pre-ordering procedure for sushi on Fridays. If anyone

wants to join my list of regular term 2 sushi orders

please give me a call or pop in to discuss the process.

• A Reminder! Thursday lunch Nachos is pick up at the

canteen window and on Friday it is our Soup pick up

day.

• Please continue to read the newsletter or canteen notices

for canteen updates.

• Occasionally we make errors in your child’s order. If so

please encourage your children to always come and

speak with me as soon as they notice. I take pride in

being responsive and supportive to your children when

they ask for help, so let them know it is always ok to

come see me if they have an error in the order.

See you at the canteen!

Pauline Churchill

GROUP SCHOOL PHOTOS

If you would like to order a photo for the Choir Group, Faction

Leaders, Environmental Councillors or Student Councillors,

these are available to view and order in the office. There is an

upfront cost of $14.00 per photo if you wish to purchase one.

The photos will be available to order until Wednesday,

13 June 2012.

SAVE YOUR HOLLOW BRANCHES

Are you pruning? If the limbs you are cutting down are hollow

please save them so that they can be used for our bird boxes.

Following a student request, Mr Colin Taylor and the

volunteers from Bicton Men’s Shed provided us with emergency

housing for our Pink and Grey Cockatoo pair. Now they have

prepared the parts for the students to make up four more bird

boxes but they need the hollow limbs to create realistic entry

holes. If you have a hollow branch please let us know where to

pick it up or bring it in to Mrs Bishop. Thank you.

Catherine Bishop

Deputy Principal

P&C NEWS

We have been hosting Bunnings Sausage Sizzles for a few years

now. They are a great fundraiser. We’ve been lucky to have a

sponsor in the past who supplied us with sausages, buns,

onions and drinks. If you know of someone who might be able

to sponsor our P&C with these items next year please let me

know.

The P&C would also like to thank Heidi Lansdell, who recently

provided detailed traffic and engineering advice to help the

school understand how best to arrange excursions. It’s always

great when parents can provide their unique skills to us.

There are also a few organisations which provide our school

with a percentage of money spent. If you shop with Stuck on

You, Aussie Farmers or www.bubbler.com.au please nominate

our school so that we receive some extra revenue.

The next P&C meeting will be held on Monday, 11 June at

7.30pm. If you have a few hours to contribute towards one of

the P&C projects, it would be great if you could come along to

support our kids and school.

If you have any questions relating to our P&C, feel free to email

me at Cornelia.Major@gmail.com.

Cornelia Major

P&C Vice President

WATERWISE TIP - SPECIALISTS

As climate change continues to affect the amount of

rainfall we receive, we can no longer rely on rainfall

to charge our dams and ground water storage. This

is why the Water Corporation is developing water

sources, like desalination, that will not rely on

rainfall in the future. As a community, we too are doing our

best to teach our children to conserve our most precious

resource. You can do your bit by using a Water Corporation

endorsed Waterwise Specialist wherever possible. Our

Waterwise Specialists have been trained in the latest water

saving techniques and can help you save water and money.

Call 13 10 39 or visit www.watercorporation.com.au to find a

Waterwise Specialist.

Thu 31 May

Sally Foster …..…..……….…..........9-1.00pm

Lisa Watson……...………….……....9-1.00pm

Sonia Pollard …..………………...…9-1.00pm

Fri 1 June

Amanda Saunders…….……..…......9-1.00pm

Lanie Khinsoe…...…...…………......9-1.00pm

Mary Ford ...…………….…..….….9-11.15am

Carol Lindsay ………………….11.15-1.15pm

Mon 3 June

PUBLIC HOLIDAY

Thu 7 June

Rebecca Puckett…………...…..........9-1.00pm

Rowena Barron…..………….……....9-1.00pm

Gail Turner…………..….........…....9-11.15am

Fri 8 June

Debbie Woodman.……………….......9-1.00pm

Kim Yan Low……....…………..........9-1.00pm

Martin Garvey….………...….......9.00-1.00pm

Mon 11 June

Leanne O’Sullivan.………….……....9-1.00pm

Lanie Khinsoe……..…..…..…..….....9-1.00pm

Jacinta Whitson……..………..…....9-11.15am

ANNUAL BOOK COLLECTION

We’re conducting our annual book collection for our

school this week. We ask if you could send in any

second-hand books you no longer need or want so that

we can continue offering a wide variety of interesting

literature to our students.

We are looking for books suitable for 3 to 12 year olds. You can

donate any book you feel is appropriate for our library. It

doesn’t have to be new, as long as it’s in good condition. Books

we need include:

• Books for our library;

• Picture books (for Kindy and Pre Primary);

• First readers and easy readers; and

• Wooden puzzles for the younger kids (with all pieces,

packed in a plastic bag).

Please drop off your donations to the front office over the next

week - there’s a collection box. Thank you.

THE POWER OF OUTDOOR PLAY

Why free play will make your child happier

and smarter!

Presented by: Griffin Longley - CEO, Nature Play WA

Date: Wednesday, 20 June 2012 at 7.30pm

Venue: The Grand Ballroom 2 -

Burswood Entertainment Complex

Cost: $18 per ticket

Griffin Longley will deliver a presentation on the growing body

of research showing the critical importance of nature play in

children’s physical, emotional and cognitive development and

ways to make it part of our busy family lives.

MEET THE ARTIST - MARC MCBRIDE

Meet Marc McBride, illustrator of the Deltora Quest series and

more recently The Golden Door by best selling author Emily

Rodda. Come, watch and be inspired as Marc spray paints

before your eyes a stunning Deltora Quest dragon. Marc will

also talk about where he gets his ideas from to create his scary

dragons and monsters and how he makes his artwork look

realistic.

Date: Monday, 25 June 2012

Time: 6.00pm to 7.00pm

Venue: AH Bracks Library, corner Stock Road and

Canning Highway, Melville

Cost: Free

Bookings: Essential. Phone 9364 0115 or visit your local

City of Melville library.

TAKE HOME A BIG BROTHER OR SISTER

BY HOSTING A SHORT TERM

EXCHANGE STUDENT

Give your children the wonderful opportunity to have an

international big brother or sister by hosting one of our

exceptional international students arriving in Australia in July

2012 for a short term of only 3 months. Our students from

France, Germany, Italy, Austria, Denmark, Norway, Finland

and Sweden will live as a local, attend a secondary school,

arrive with their own spending money and comprehensive

insurance cover - all arranged by Southern Cross Cultural

Exchange. Visit us at www.scce.com.au, email

scceaust@sccce.com.au or call us toll free on 1800 500 501,

request our little booklets of international student profiles, and

capture the spirit of family and friendship!

ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS

We have 12 books left to sell. Please be quick if you

would like to order one. At only $65 these books are

excellent value and the new book can be used

immediately. All orders can be placed in the bucket in the front

office. Any enquiries please call Tracy Thillainath on

0438 364 236.

TUPPERWARE FUNDRAISER

Thank you to Marie Ainsworth who conducted a Tupperware

fundraiser for the school and donated her commission in

products to the value of $362.00 to the P&C for use at the next

Spring Dance as prizes. Well done and thank you for your

support, Marie.

UNIFORM SHOP NEWS - IMPORTANT

Due to work commitments it has become necessary to

change the day that the Uniform Shop opens. It will

now be open on alternate Thursdays.

Sarah Dal Molin

BEDWETTING INSTITUTE OF AUSTRALIA

A new DVD based program, Bedwetting Cured, has been

developed by Dr Mark Condon, and Physiotherapist, Margaret

O’Donovan. It outlines a successful program for parents to

implement at home with their children. For more information

and a free Bedwetting Fact Sheet please visit the website:

www.bedwettinginsitute.com.au or phone 1300 135 796.

CITY OF COCKBURN

HEALTHY FAMILIES COMMUNITY WORKSHOP

Who: Carers / parents who want to help prevent chronic

diseases such as type 2 diabetes, heart disease, stroke

and some cancers.

Date: Wednesday, 6 June 2012.

Time: 10-3pm incl 1 hour for lunch (supplied). This will be

slightly flexible to cater for crèche regulations.

Where: Salvation Army Hamilton Hill Corps -

30 Erpingham Rd (Cnr Southwell Cres), Hamilton Hill.

Creche available for limited numbers. RSVP to Gilly 9411 3503

or Carlie 9411 3445.

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WINTHROP EDUCATION CENTRE

Instructor: Margaret Madrigal

tel: (08) 9313 2587

email: margaret@kumoneducation.com

www.kumoneducation.com

UNIFORM SHOP

31 May 2012 9.00 - 9.30am

14 June 2012 9.00 - 9.30am

Ardross Primary School would like to thank all of the sponsors listed here for their support of the school.

We encourage all parents to use their services where feasible.

Femia and associates is a proactive and

dynamic firm Dedicated to providing its

customers with satisfaction in all taxation

and accounting matters.

Phone: (08) 9316 4500

Website: www.femia-accountants.com.au

Mosman Park Shopping Centre

Monument Street, Mosman Park

Phone: 9384 5062

Fax: 9384 6837

Email: Epronto2go@iinet.net.au

www.prontogourmet.com.au

( on-line ordering available soon)

The following sponsors’ support is provided through direct recognition of parents purchasing goods and services from

them. Please identify yourself as an Ardross Parent at Athlete’s Foot or Coffee Club when making a purchase upon

which a percentage of the sale will be donated to the school. For ANZ Booragoon a percentage of a home loan or home

sale respectively will be paid to Ardross Primary, please contact the principal for details.

The following sponsors provide support to the school based on the use of their services. Specifically,

Athlete’s Foot supplies sporting equipment for each $100 of sales. ANZ Booragoon gives 0.3% of a new loan.

Coffee Club gives 10% of each sale. Aussie Farmers Direct donate 2% of your total spend back to the school.

Garden City—Booragoon Garden City—Booragoon

Finger Food Specialist Delivery or

Serviced Catering available

Ph 0400960026 bitesize@live.com

Paul Evensen

Associate Director Realmark Applecross

mobile: 0439 923 844