Dear Families,

What a fabulous evening we had last night watching our

students star in ‘Clowning Around’. Congratulations to all

our HWPS Circus Performers – they were amazing! Our

students showcased different individual and team skills

during the performance - from diablo to devil sticks and

towers to totem poles. The audience was enthralled by the

skills, talents, team work and ‘have a go’ attitude displayed

by the performers. We would like to thank everyone

involved in the lead up and presentation of the performance

Clowning Around!

Fabulous Fashion

Paris, New York, Milan, London, and now Hawthorn West –

the new fashion capital of the world!

At our assembly on Monday, we had front row seats to a one

off event - the 5/6 fashion show. The show celebrated the

creative fashion designs by our 5/6 emerging designers.

These colourful and unique designs were developed during

the term in the HWPS Fashion House (Art Room) under the

guidance of our ‘in house’ designer Melanie Jacobsen. These

fabulous outfits are now on display in the entrance foyer to

the school.

NAPLAN

We are delighted to share our school’s results for the 2016

NAPLAN testing. As you can see from the data below, all

our results are significantly higher than the state mean in all

curriculum areas assessed.

At Hawthorn West we always strive for excellence and we

are very proud of the teaching and learning programs that our

teachers provide to cater for all of our students.

Cyber Safety – “Respectful & Responsible”

Cyber bullying involves the use of information and

communication technologies (ICT) to support deliberate,

repeated, and hostile behaviour by an individual or group that

is intended to harm others (Bill Belsey, cyberbullying.org).

This form of bullying is usually committed using tablets,

mobile phones or the Internet and includes such activities as:

Posting hurtful messages on social networking sites.

Sending repeated unwanted messages either by SMS,

instant messaging (IM) or email.

Excluding someone from an online group.

Creating fake social networking profiles or websites that are

mean and hurtful.

Our students need to know that they can tell someone if they

are being cyber-bullied - ignoring the problem won’t make it

go away, and there are steps that they can take to address the

cyber-bullying. What is most important is that they tell

someone.

Year 3 State Mean Hawthorn West Mean

Reading 435 493

Writing 433 462

Spelling 425 469

Grammar &

Punctuation 444 485

Numeracy 414 484

Year 5 State Mean Hawthorn West Mean

Reading 508 551

Writing 488 518

Spelling 496 514

Grammar &

Punctuation 506 537

Numeracy 502 531

From the Principal Team

Curious, Confident, Connected

Achieving Excellence

Newsletter Term 3 - Week 7, August 26th 2016

At HWPS we care. We are safe, responsible, honest, respectful and ready to learn.

At HWPS we are committed to educating our students about

being safe, smart and responsible online. We encourage you

to closely monitor the computer / mobile device access your

child has at home. Discuss internet issues and share internet

experiences. Keep the computer in a public area in the home

and set ground rules for the use of the computer and other

mobile devices. Reinforce safety messages and cyber rules.

Remind your children about their privacy and the privacy of

others and ensure both you and your children understand

laws relating to copyright, privacy, hacking and obscenity.

Be careful of what is published online. Often our students

are unaware of the legal, moral and ethical issues related to

online activity.

There are rules in place and they are to protect children. The

legal age to use some accounts is 13 and by signing up to

these accounts when you are not 13 is breaking the law.

Some of our students openly admit to having these accounts

and our staff are very concerned at the unusually high

number of students who have accounts on apps such as:

Facebook, Instagram, Snapchat, Kik.

As we know children are quick to take up the latest

developments in technology and are often the first to know

when something new comes along. They are growing up in

an ever-changing technological environment and can have a

lot of fun doing so. The Internet and associated technologies

offer many benefits to young people. They can communicate

with friends and family from all over the world, access all

types of information for school projects, and express

themselves creatively, all with the click of a button.

It is vital to talk to your children about behaving

appropriately online and with their mobile devices. They

need to be aware that there are real world consequences for

their virtual world actions.

It is important that students know that we want them to be

able to communicate online – but we want them to be doing

it in safe, respectful and responsible ways. Education, open

communication and support from home and school is the

key.

Congratulations to:

All our students and teachers who have had a fabulous

Book Week – sharing stories, exploring new books and

dressing up as a Book Character for our parade.

Darcy McKenna - who has been selected to represent

Victoria in the Melbourne Rebels U12 State Team

(Rugby). Darcy is off to Adelaide to compete during the

upcoming holidays. We wish him all the best.

All HWPS students who represented our school at the

District Athletics competition held at the Bill Sewart

Athletics track today.

Warm Regards,

Glenys and Justine

The HWPS Father’s Day Breakfast will be held again this year on Thursday 8th September.

Invite Dad, Grandad, Step-Dad, or a special person be-fore school to celebrate Father’s Day.

Thursday 8th September

7:30am – 8:50am

Pancakes from the Little Dutch Pancake Man (with choice of 3 toppings) + orange juice $8

Egg and Bacon Roll + orange juice $5

The Little Coffee Van will be there again serving a range of hot beverages too! (cash on the morning)

Book via TryBooking http://www.trybooking.com/MLYK

Bookings close Monday 5th Sept at 3pm

(for catering purposes - no late orders accepted)

Any queries contact Lisa Johns 0415 149 158

We’re looking forward to seeing you there!

Calendar Dates

August

Mon 29th - Fri 2nd Grade 5/6 camp, Camp Howqua, Howqua

September

Tues 6th Grade 5/6 Hooptime, 8:30am—3:30pm, MSAC

Wed 7th Walk / Ride to School day

Foundation 2017 Transition Program (session 1), 9:30am - 10:30am “Story Time & Activity” & Parents

Meet & Greet

Grade 4/5/6 Maths Olympiad

Thurs 8th Father’s Day Breakfast, 7:30am - 8:50am

State School Spectacular rehearsal, 9:00am - 5:00pm, Hisense Arena

Fri 9th State School Spectacular rehearsal, 9:00am - 5:00pm, Hisense Arena

Sat 10th State School Spectacular performance, 1:00pm & 6:30pm, Hisense Arena

Sun 11th Grade 1/2 Working Bee , 9:30am - 12:30pm

Tues 13th Student Led Conferences

Wed 14th Foundation 2017 Transition Program (session 2), 9:30am - 10:30am “Alphabet Fun”

Thurs 15th Student Led Conferences

School Council meeting, 7:00pm, LRC

Fri 16th Kaboom incursion & football lunch

Final day of term 3, 2:30pm dismissal

October

Mon 3rd First day Term 4

At HWPS we care. We are safe, responsible, honest, respectful and ready to learn.

Teeball

Well done to the Grade

5/6 Girls and Mixed

Teeball teams who

competed at Division

level last Friday

against other schools

who were also

representing their

districts. Our Mixed

team came 4th and our

Girls Team came 2nd

on the day. It was an

extremely wet and windy day to be

playing but they did exceptionally well

under the circumstances.

Grill’d Community Matters

Just a reminder that

HWPS are currently

featured as a

community jar at the

Grill’d burger store on

Bridge Rd so please

support us by placing

a community coin in

our jar if you happen

to be visiting Grill’d

for the remainder of

August.

Icy Pole Roster: September 1st

Elizabeth Trott

Liz Reid

At HWPS we care. We are safe, responsible, honest, respectful and ready to learn.

Dear Parents, If you have boxes (big and small) and plastic bottles at home please bring them to OSHClub as we can use them for craft activities. Also, please remember to book in children with notice, otherwise check with Rosie if your child can attend

BSC/ASC on the day. Thank you

Next Week’s

Activities

Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday

Before Care Activities

Group painting jenga Group

colouring cards Group signals

After Care Activities

Group signals & basketball

Group painting & basketball

Balloon soccer & charades

Octopus & dancing

Gymnastics & team toss game

Ride/Walk/Scooter 2 School –

Wednesday 7th September

We will be having a Ride/walk/scooter to

school day on Wednesday morning in week 9.

This is a great opportunity for our school

community to get healthier and reduce our

carbon emissions. On arrival at school that

day, see a Green Team member at the BBQ,

collect your sticker and put your name into

the raffle for a chance to win a prize.

In celebration of National Science Week the students explored the value and behaviour of water during their Science lessons last week. Students in Foundation, Grades 1 and 2 discussed the advantages of water and experimented with absorption to make water ‘walk’ uphill. You can check out the experiment we watched on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k8YtroKjVxo. This week we’ll measure how much water can be

absorbed by paper towel and use eye droppers to develop our fine motor skills. Grades 3 to 6 students explored the process of water

desalination and examined the amount of fresh water on

Earth. FUN FACT: Only 3% of the Earth’s water is fresh,

why is more than 2% of this fresh water unable to be

used by us? This week we will draw scale drawings to

show the size of the Sun, Moon and Earth, we loved the

video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEheh1BH34Q

Thank you to Glenferrie Meats for their generous donations to our sausage sizzles. Please support this

worthwhile business.

HWPS does not endorse the product or services of any advertisements paid or unpaid printed in our school newsletters.

At HWPS we care. We are safe, responsible, honest, respectful and ready to learn.

Are there any boys interested in forming a new basketball

team?

We are looking for boys born in 2009 to form another ATOMS

team.

If you are interested please email Karen Eames on

karlandkaren@iinet.com.au

At HWPS we care. We are safe, responsible, honest, respectful and ready to learn.