Dear parents and carers, staff, students and community members,

The WA Day Public Holiday on Monday will be a well earned break as we are at the half way mark of this eleven week term. We have received some great news this week with the announcement that Little Grove Primary School has been given the opportunity to participate in the NAPLAN Online Trial. This means that the school receives 31 brand new laptops –free of charge, to keep and utilise across the school. At a value of over $31,000 this is a huge and welcome bonus to our school. Our Year 6 students will be having a visit from North Albany Senior High School staff members on Tuesday 2 June 2015. This is a great information session for students who will be heading to High School in 2016. Students will be given information on what to expect at High School and the courses and activities they have to look forward to a NASHS. This is a good opportunity for students to ask any questions they have about attending high school. Students will also be given enrolment information on this day and we ask for your assistance in returning all the relevant information in a timely manner. Students have been training for this term’s Cross Country events during their physical education classes. We congratulate all those students who are giving their best efforts in this event and encourage everyone to just give it a go. You will see your fitness increase each week if you persist with giving your best efforts. Speaking of giving their best effort , our Eagles Cup team are off to a fantastic start to this year’s Eagle Cup Round. Last week Little Grove played Spencer Park and finished the game on top with a score of 96 to 34 . We kicked 7 goals in a strong finish in the final term All team members are putting in their best efforts and their sportsmanship is a credit to them and our school. Special mention to Toby, Josh, Ben and Jack. Cooper for his tackles and Connor for goal of the year! Keep up the great work. A huge thank you to Toby’s mum for washing the jumpers and making us a great new set of goal flags !

Our P&C have once again been working hard for our school community. Thank you to all those who baked and assisted at the cake stall last Saturday. The Virtual Balloon race is in full swing, make sure you check out the details on page 3 to watch the action. Have a great fortnight.

Darryn Martin Jeff Scott

Principal Associate Principal

Coming Events

Monday 1 June 2015

Public Holiday WA Day

Tuesday

2 June 2015 NASHS Visit Yr 6

Orientation

Friday 5 June 2015

Room 6 Assembly

Friday 5 June 2015

Enrolment for Kindy 2016 Close

Thursday 11 June 2015

Sean Choolburra Cultural Incursion

Friday 12 June 2015 Colours Day

Nepal Fundraiser

Tuesday 16 June 2015 Faction Cross

Country

ISSUE NO: 8 27 May 2015

Congratulations to all

those student who have earned a Groovy Grover in

the past few weeks.

The majority of our students have embraced the school Expected Behaviours and are practicing Being Open to Learning, Showing Respect Being Responsible and Building Resilience. Those students who need to be constantly reminded of these behaviours have been attending Social Skills Lessons - which teach and re-enforce the meaning and importance of these values. Thank you to parents for their feedback and positive comments on the new system. Over the last few weeks the whole school has been focusing on Keeping Things in Perspective and Being Inclusive. This week the focus is When things are bad-keep trying. Week 6 will be Seek help when needed. In class, students have been learning about their emotions, being thankful and courage. The Groovy Grover Tally for the past 4 weeks looks like this: Week 2 Gold 85 Blue 83 Red 80 Week 3 Red 93 Blue 83 Gold 71 Week 4 Blue 161 Red 135 Gold 115 Week 5 Blue 85 Red 82 Gold 63

Keep up the great work !

Fri 29 May: Nicole T

Wed 3 June: Jasmyn K

Fri 5 June : Selena T

Wed 10 June: Lisa S

Parents and visitors to our school are reminded that it is not appropriate for adults to use the student toilet facilities. All adults are asked to use either the male or female staff toilets located near the staffroom, or the unisex adult disabled toilets located in the junior block. Thank you for your co-operation.

HONOUR CERTIFICATES

These students were awarded with an Honour Certificate at the assembly held on

15 May 2015

Centre 1 Claire Tayleea

Room 1 Charlie Jayda

Room 2 Lily Jarrah

Room 3 Declan Tom

Room 5 Connor Mitchell

Room 6 Romy Callum

Coco Toby

Room 7 India Bastian

Room 8 Jolane Katey

Adult Toilets

CANTEEN NEWS

Positive and Supportive Learning Environment

Kindergarten Enrolment 2016 OPEN

Little Grove Primary School is now accepting enrolments for our Kindergarten program in 2016.

If you have any family or friends who have children born between 1.7.2011 to 30.06.2012 please pass this information onto them.

If you are wishing to enrol a child for 2016 please collect an Application to Enrol-Kindy 2016 form from the school office or from the school website.

Return your completed form along with a copy of your child's birth certificate, Medicare immunisation history statement and a utility account to prove your residential address to the school.

Applications close on 5 June 2015

For further information please contact the school office on 98444 888.

The start of Australia's First EVER Virtual Balloon Race kicked off to a great start with a fantastic event at the Albany Town Square last Saturday. It was great to see so many families come down to enjoy the sunshine, entertainment and masses of delicious goodies on offer. Thank you to all the amazing bakers of delights for the Little Grove P&C Cake stall at the event. We had goodies galore making a fabulous $410 for the day! We reached just over the 1000 Virtual Balloons target just minutes before the launch. This was an awesome effort, so thank you to ALL who have supported this fundraising project. The race is due to conclude THIS Saturday (30th) at 12pm. Just a reminder that you can view the live race results and track your balloon’s progress online at https://asna.rentaballoonrace.com/admin/ Simply log into your account to track your balloons. To keep up to date on The Virtual Balloon Race LIKE our Little Grove Primary School P & C Page. Exciting news! We currently have our own Little Grovian Thomas M holding the lead position with his balloon 'Crackle and pop’. With just 2 days to go anything can happen! Total funds raised are yet to be calculated. Race results and prize announcements will be announced the following week. Good luck everyone!

Virtual Balloon Race

Thursday 11 June 2015

In the lead up to Naidoc week the school is holding an incursion by well known indigenous artist Sean Choolburra.

The presentation combines historical and cultural perspectives presented through music, dance and humour.

Cost per student is $5.00. Payment and permission form should be returned to the class teacher by Monday 8 June.

Sean Choolburra Cultural Incursion

Breakfast and Lunch clubs are held at schools across the state. We are fortunate at Little Grove not to have a current need for these clubs in our community. Other Albany schools do how-ever have these clubs which are supported by the Albany Food Bank. This initiative is designed for Schools to assist Schools and teach children to appreciate their circumstances and show empathy to others. Boxes will be available in each classroom to collect your donations of canned goods for this appeal.

Donate Your Cans Here

If anyone needs to swap please contact Cindy on 0434 883 352

UNIFORM SHOP ROSTER

1/06/2015 Public Holiday 8/06/2015 Caroline B Ruwanmali H

15/06/2015 Caroline H Julianne D

22/06/2015 Kirsteen S Cara C

29/06/2015 Karen P Donna K

Monday 1 June 10am—4pm Western Australian Museum—Albany

On WA Day we’ll be creating a festival event in the Museum Grounds so come and explore, and play at the WA Museum with these fabulous FREE activities: Circus, skipping and puppetry performances Live Music Lots of Kids Activities Community Canvas Mask Making Community BBQ Bouncy Castle Face Painting Kite making Jamie the Clown Heaps of displays

Come out and play this WA Day !

Come Out & Play

Room 5 had Vernice Gillies from the Residency Museum come and visit them last week. She taught the students about Noongar names for animals such as kangaroo, emu, turtle etc. She brought in two very special guests with her. The children were very attentive listeners and just LOVED learning about and observing their long necked turtle visitors!!! Yarkiny = Western Swamp Turtle Yonga = Kangaroo Waitj = Emu

Room 5 Has Special Visitors

Parent and Carers are reminded that if your child arrives at school after the 8.50am siren you must sign them in at the office. This is not a punishment for the parent or the student, the process is in place for two main reasons:

If the teacher has already completed the class lesson attendance your child will be marked as absent. The Late Sign in Register is used by admin to amend the entry so your child is not shown as absent for the day.

The Late Sign in Register plays a part in our Emergency Procedures. If the child has been marked as absent, we check that they have not arrived late. If the register is not completed we assume that the child is not on the premises and will therefore not look for them in an emergency.

We hope that this clarifies the situation and we thank you for your co operation.

Late Sign In