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103 Alfred Road, Mount Claremont WA 6010 Ph: 9384 0278 Fax: 9385 3692 mountclaremontps.education.wa.edu.au

IMPORTANT DATES

Thurs 19 November Yr 7 2016 Shenton College Induction Sun 22 November School Busy Bee 9am Wed 25 November Dance Concert 6pm Thurs 26 November Mt Claremont’s got talent

SAVE THE DATE 2:00-3:00pm 15 December End of year whole school assembly, book prizes, festive sing-a-long. (We can’t do it in the morning because of swimming lessons)

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Dear parents and carers,

At 11 am on 11 November 1918 the guns of the Western Front fell silent after more than four years continuous warfare. Today the staff and students paid their respects to the fallen soldiers with gathering at the Australian flag and a minute silence for Remembrance Day. Lest we forget.

Congratulations Mrs Buchanan, the school choir, soloists and comperes for an outstanding performance at the Westcoast Songfest. Mount Claremont was one of 27 primary schools to make a massive combined choir of over 1000 students all singing together. The finale Geronimo had everyone up and singing. There was a lovely level of self confidence in our students who had starring roles as comperes and soloists. Over the four days of the festi-val 4600 students were involved.

Every music teacher from every school collaborated over three workshops, many emails and school rehearsals to ensure a high quality musical pro-gram. The audience was full high praise and a quote from grandparents, “We’ve got 6 grandkids, been to many performances and this was the best yet!”. Personally I had plenty of “goose bump moments” too.

The recent pre-primary assembly reinforced an environmental message to rethink, reduce, reuse and recycle. They spoke, danced and sang to an en-vironmental tune as environmental super heroes. Well done Mrs Hender-son, support staff and pre-primaries you are all stars!

Today, we welcomed the 2016 kindergarten children and families to the school. Some children and parents are new to the school and they look for-ward to being part of the school community.

Before school play is working well. A reminder, before school play and su-pervision and starts at 8:30am and not earlier. Skipping is very popular and I am going back to my childhood skipping rhymes and the kids love it. Par-ents, you are welcome to join in and play.

It would be appreciated if payments for excursions, dance, swimming etc could be finalised by the end of November.

I would be delighted to see as families as possible attend the busy bee on

Sunday 22 November to spruce up the school gardens.

Tracey Oakes

Principal

Mount Claremont Primary School

“We Care”

11 November 2015

Term 4, Week 5

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IXL MATHS

Congratulations to all students who have been extremely busy working on IXL. It is great to see so many high performances this week. Keep up the

great work. The reporting format to teachers has changed slightly and from now on the top 3 students from each class will be announced. The

data teachers are now receiving about each student’s performance is more in depth and provides a thorough analysis.

Libby Johnson

Deputy Principal

Questions Answered Skills Practiced Time spent

Pre-Primary 860 46 5 hr 35 min

Year 1 842 29 11 hr 33 min

Year2/3 2618 89 9 hr 4 min

Year 3/4 4067 125 18 hr 25 min

Year 4/5 2452 82 13hr 4 min

Year 5/6 2149 81 17hr 30 min

Pre-Primary

Aiden Lambrecht

Scarlett Ebert

Evert Van Der Steeg

172 Questions answered



Year 1 Andy Brown

Benjamin Robertson

Oaklee Van Der Steeg




Year 2/3 Stella Ebert

Marcus McKie



Year 3 / 4 Grace Coenen

Nathan Smith

Josephine Lewis




Year 4/5 Aaron Ilyas

Jessica Lester

Joshua Nichevich




Year 5/6 Scott Henderson

James Heptinstall

Sophie Murray




Class Performances



MCPS Musical Notes ♫

Music Count Us In 2015 ‘GOLD’

On Thursday 29th October at 9:30am our school community sang the Music Count Us In song for 2015, ‘Gold.’ We sang the same song, on the same day, at the same time as over 500,000 school students all over Australia. Music: Count Us In (MCUI) is Australia’s biggest school initiative, celebrating music and to promote music educa-tion.

Westcoast Songfest 2015

Last Thursday, 5th November our school choir members travelled to the HBF Arena, Joondalup to sing, as One Big Voice with 25 other Primary Schools Choirs, in the Westcoast Songfest. The massed choir rehearsal was in the morning and the concert was in the afternoon. It was a long day but the children had a wonderful time and represented Mount Claremont PS very well by following instructions and behaving respectfully. They remem-bered all the actions and joined in the singing with gusto!

Six of our talented students featured in this year’s festival. In the Pre-Concert Entertainment, in the Young Talent section, Minjae Kim played violin, Dominic Bertschinger & Fionn Pitman both sang while Dominic also played keyboard. Paris Millar and Josephine Lewis sang as part of 2 small groups and featured in the songs, We Can Build a Bridge and We Will Remember Them, and Sophie Murray introduced the song Happy as one of the stu-dent comperes. Congratulations to these students who all delivered outstanding performances. They all rose to the occasion and gave heart felt performances. I was so proud all our students as were their parents who came to watch. DVDs of the concert are available to purchase through Muse Media, for only $10. They would make wonderful Christmas presents for family and friends. You may collect an order form from the office. Please tick the date of concert box with the date, Thurs 5th November.

The Westcoast Songfest was first established in 2000 and is run by the Westcoast Songfest committee which is made up of volunteers (music teachers) and lead by Musical Director Donna Marwick O’Brien. Its purpose is to provide a positive performance opportunity for all primary school choirs in a non-competitive, fun environment.



Choir Rehearsals

Reminder: it is very important that all choir members attend all rehearsals for the rest of this term where possi-ble; Thursdays during school hours (30mins straight after lunch) and Friday mornings before school from 8am until 8:40am, in the music room. We will be preparing items for the Graduation Ceremony on Friday 11th December and the End of Year Assembly and Book Awards on Tuesday 15th December.

Mount Claremont’s Got Talent, Thursday, 26th November (Week 7)

Reminder: please encourage your children to practice and audition for this year’s Mount Claremont’s Got Tal-ent. All students need to prepare an item in their own time which they will perform individually or as a group in front of their peers during classroom music. We create a safe environment of ‘no put downs’ and students are given positive feedback and encouragement from their peers after each performance. Two to three items will be chosen from each class (K–5/6) to perform in the Grand Final on Thursday 26th November (week 7) commenc-ing from approx. 1:15pm in the undercover area. All parents, family and friends are invited to attend this event.

If you have any enquiries please feel free to contact me. My email address is: [email protected]. I work at MCPS on Thursdays and Fridays.

Anita Buchanan

Music Specialist


mailto:[email protected]


Sports News

T20 Blast Cricket

Yesterday a number of our senior students travelled to City Beach Oval to compete in the T20 Blast Cricket com-petition. We had 2 boys and 2 girls teams represent Mount Claremont PS against other western suburbs schools, and it was fantastic to see so many happy, smiling and dancing bodies competing throughout the day. One of our boys teams performed brilliantly winning all 4 of their matches by such a large margin that they were crowned champions of their division, it was a huge team effort! The girls also had great success, with one team winning 3 of their 4 matches and finishing 3rd overall in their division. Our other boys and girls team also competed well both winning 1 match each and were involved in some close losses. I would like to congratulate all students for their magnificent representation of our school, and in particular Devon, Darcy, Sophie M and Kya for captaining their teams so brilliantly over the day, Well done to all!

Thank you

Brad Staples

P.E Teacher



Many thanks to parent, Nadine Caunt, her

band of helpers and student councillors for

organising a wonderful disco.

Dressed to a T



Reminder

There have been cases of head lice in various classes within the school. Please check your child’s hair for lice/nits and begin treatment if necessary.

Community Notices Rosalie Primary School Fete Saturday 14th November 10am-3pm



Parents, kids and friends

We are having a Busy Bee in the school grounds

on Sunday 22 November

9:00-12:00

Come for one hour or more!

Bring your own tools , gloves and your school spirit to

help weed, mulch, trim, and rake.

Nibble on a Sausage Sizzle!

Let’s get our garden ready for summer.

Your support of our school is appreciated.

Please RSVP to your P&C class representative or you

may miss out on a sausage!



Merit Certificate Recipients

Congratulations to the following students who were awarded Merit Certificates at

our assembly on the 6th November

Pre-primary Lina Kim, Natalie Holldack, Lara Matthews, Alaana Sijo, Gigi Wingham,

Zoe Dickson

Yr 1 Kai Robbins, Jackson Newsome, Flynn Weston

2/3 Jack Jones, Shaloni Moses, Oscar Brazier, Eli Harrison

3/4 Nathan Smith, Jaxson Hathaway, Grace Coenen

4/5 Joseph Davies, Akhil Sijo, Aaron Ilyas

5/6 Anton Uvarov, Adam Incerti, Sophie Murray, Emilia Boog, Minjae Kim

Art Bonnie Meyer, Kya Arthurson, Laveshcya Indawathan

Music Sky Zadeh, Orion Hasluck, Jack Harrison, Jasmine Boog

Mulberry Tree

Kids Club

Flynn Lockwood


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