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A: Westall Terrace, Leeming, WA 6149 W: www.westleeming.wa.edu.au P: 93101247

NEWSLETTER

16 May 2016

DIARY DATES May 17, Tue Yr 3 excursion May 18, Wed S3 & S4 CC Magna Carta May 20, Fri Assembly S2 Lapathon May 25, Wed School Photos CC Biggest Morning Tea May 26, Thu School Photos May 27, Fri Non-uniform Day Jun 3, Fri School Development Day (Students Do Not attend school) Jun 6, Mon WA Day (Public Holiday) Jun 10, Fri P&C ‘Sporty’ Disco

Jun 13, Mon P&C Meeting @ 7.30pm Jun 14, Tue Choir to ‘Sing Fest’

INTERESTING DATES May 15-21 National Families Week

Dear Parents, Guardians, Community Members, Staff and Students,

It has been a busy start to the term for the students with Year 6s attending camp and several excursions planned for Junior Primary. The Year 3s and 5s sat their NAPLAN tests last week and all children should be proud of their efforts. I have started to settle into my new role and thoroughly enjoy getting to know more and more children each day.

There are a few new changes in regards to newsletter and whole school information. The school will send out a newsletter every fort-night (even weeks of the school term) and the P&C will send out infor-

mation on odd weeks. If you do not receive any notifications from the school at least once a week, then I urge you to check your email details on the School Information System.

There will be a printed version available in each classroom for you to read if you forget information. A printed copy of the school newsletter will be displayed on the pin up board outside the library. The library will have the current and past newsletters . The school and P&C are working closely to strengthen our distribution processes. Many thanks for sugges-tions from parents in regards to this issue over the past few weeks. You will occasionally get information in paper form; at West Leeming the youngest sibling is the person who will receive these notices.

Kylie Moss

Principal

Staff News

We would like to welcome a new member to our permanent staff. This is Mrs Kylee Ginn in J1. In her own words:

“ Hi, my name is Kylee Ginn. I have recently moved to Perth from the Kimberly region. My husband and I have two children, a 5 year old son and a 7 year old daughter. I have been teaching for 18 years. In my spare time I look forward to camping and water skiing. I am really enjoying being back in the `big smoke` with family and friends and we look forward to becoming part of the West Leeming community.”

As mentioned before, the School Newsletter will be produced once a fortnight. Please email any notices that you would like to be included to wlpsnews@gmail.com

We also welcome any news regarding the achievement of any of our students (in sports, music, drama, etc). Any notices received after the deadline will be in the next newsletter.

Week# Newsletter Date Deadline, 12 noon

Week 6 Monday, 30th May Friday, 27th May

Week 8 Monday, 13th June Friday, 10th June

Week 10 Monday, 27th June Friday, 24th June

For Your Information In 2014, the School Council decided to phase out the existing logo and motto. Our new logo features three figures reaching for the stars. This symbolises the partner-ship between parents, teach-ers and the child working to-gether to help the student reach his or her potential. The school motto, ‘Aspire’, captures the essence of the logo.

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SCHOOL PHOTOGRAPHS by KAPTURE – 25 & 26 May 2016 Years 1 -6 (and younger siblings for group photo if desired)

Today, personalised envelopes from KAPTURE have been is-sued to the children. Please read carefully the information to parents. You will make the process easy for us on Photo Day if all these guidelines are followed. Please adhere to the following dress code for Photo Day. A clean, smart WLPS uniform. No faction tee shirts. Year

6s should wear their Leavers’ polo. No colourful headbands with flowers or motifs; the sim-

pler the better. Ribbons for girls are fine if in the school colours of white

and blue. Avoid brightly coloured socks. White is preferred. Definitely no leggings. Children will be photographed without jumpers or jackets.

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School Tennis Courts As of next week, the gate to the school tennis courts will be left unlocked, making it available as a free community facility. Families are encouraged to make use of the courts. Please use them in a respectful manner. Please note that the court WILL NOT be available during net-ball training or tennis coaching times. What a brilliant suggestion, Mr Placanica!

THANK YOU to the Ash family for their

involvement in the organising and

planting of the lovely new tree that we

now have at school.

It is situated in the lawn area between

the junior and senior blocks and will

provide shade for many years to come.

A big THANK YOU to the P&C for organising and coordinating our first-ever Mother’s Day stall. The parents worked enthusi-astically and tirelessly to set up a very successful fundraising event. The students really enjoyed buying gorgeous gifts for their mums.

Thanks to the generosity of families and friends who donated the gifts, a whopping $3012.55 was raised!

Library Update Are you aware that there is a Parent Zone in the library? This has books of particular interest to parents, that are available to borrow. Titles include “Reading Magic”, “ How to Motivate Your Child”, “Nurturing Kids” , “You Can Do It for Parents” and many others.

Here, you are also welcome to come in to read a hardcopy of the school newsletter; or share a quiet time to read to your child or to help choose a book.

The library is only opened on Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednes-days, from 8.30am to 3.30pm. Outside of their library session, students may change their books before and after school.

Merit Certificates

Congratulations to the following students:

J2 - Lynner M2 - Portia S1 - Ryan

J3 - Jamie M3 - Isis & Matthew S2 - Hannah

J4 - Lincoln M5 - Joseph S3 - Kezia

M6 - Rory S4 - Jack

S5 - Hayden

S6 - Tamaryn

Mr Millar - Sophie

West Leeming Star - Marika

Aussie of the Month - Luca

Inspirational quote: “Be willing to open new doors to new experiences and to step boldly forth to

explore strange new horizons”

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Focus on Social Media

This year, one of the focus areas for schools is on Social Media - “Work with school communities to promote the safe use of so-cial media by students”.

We‘ve all heard of the risks of using social media, such as Face-book and Instagram, but we need to make sure young students are all aware of these issues. It is also important that, as adults, we are aware of what our children are doing online, as it is so easy for them to be caught up in the inappropriate use of social media.

Schools feel the affect of this, as the negative aspects spill over and impact on the relationships between students. Cyber-bullying and harassment are most often the problem and many parents are unaware their children are involved in doing it or being a victim of it. It may take several forms:

publicising private instant messages, text messages or e-mails

posting threatening messages

posting photos that will cause embarrassment spreading rumours

It’s rare for harassment to spill over into actual real-world con-flicts, but it can still cause a lot of emotional distress for chil-dren. The anonymity of some social networking sites makes it easy for unscrupulous people to target young children and en-gage them in harmful conversations. It’s easy for predators to pose as teens and lure children into harmful real-world contact as well. Most social networking sites have privacy controls in place, but children seldom use them. Active monitoring of pro-files and behaviours catches some predators, but not all of them. Another risk is identity theft, which can occur when chil-dren share too much information about their name, date of birth and location.

Schools have controls in place too, but it’s up to parents to make sure their children are safe when using social media. Many of the same rules that apply to online chat, apply to these sites:

Children should use an alias.

They shouldn‘t give out personal information to people they don’t know. A last name and a town are enough for a preda-tor to locate your child.

Don’t assume that people are who they claim to be. Children should immediately end any communication that

makes them uncomfortable and report it to a parent.

For younger children, parents should investigate any sites they’d like to use. Find out what privacy protections are in place and insist that your child uses them. For children under sixteen, that often means a private profile that can only be seen by approved friends.

Wild west café

A big thank you to our volunteers last week – Janette Roberts and Renee Au. We are very grateful for your help.

This week we have the following volunteers: Tues 17/5 NO VOLUNTEER – HELP REQD!! Wed 18/5 Judie Doyle Thurs 19/5 Nilakshi Abeysinghe Fri 6/5 Janette Roberts

We still have many gaps on our volunteer roster that desperately need filling. Any amount of time you can spare in the canteen helps, even an hour or 2. There is no need to stay the whole day if you are unable to. Jan and Rita are grateful for any help you can provide to keep the canteen operating successfully. Enjoy complimentary tea, coffee and lunch whilst you lend a hand. To find out more, please come down to the canteen and see Jan or Rita, give them a call on 9310 3407 or email wlpscanteen@hotmail.com

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Some of the prizes include: Vouchers from various hair salons Store vouchers, including Bunnings, Spudshed, Dawsons Vouchers from The Brickhouse and Lollipops...and so much more

Raffle tickets will go on sale from the library on Monday 23rd May 2016. Tickets are just $1.00 each. The draw will be held at the Morning Tea on Wednesday 25th May at 11.30am. Please ensure you have purchased your ticket before then. All proceeds will go to the Cancer Council

The staff at West Leeming Primary School have organised a Raffle for Australia’s Biggest Morning Tea.

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Congratulations to Trent Mitton!

Well done to our ex-student, Trent, from the class of 2002.

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Proud heritage: Olympic hockey great Grant Mitton and his son, Trent, who hopes to continue the rich family tradition at Rio. Picture: Michael Wilson

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DISCO

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