Braeside Primary School Honour, Pride and Achievement

Issue 11, Tuesday 30th July 2019

Phone: 9821 3500 http://braesideps.wa.edu.au/

Email: Braeside.ps@education.wa.edu.au

Banking details: Account Name: Braeside Primary School

Bank: Bankwest BSB: 306 014 Acct: 4521518

Principal’s News

Important Dates

Term 3 August

Assembly Yr 2/3 Mon 5th

School Council 3.30pm Mon 5th

3+ yrs. Kindy 9.30-11.00am Tues 6th

Bendigo Cup Yr 5&6 selected

students Fri 9th

3+ yrs. Kindy 9.30-11.00am Tues 13th

Science Week Activities Fri 16th

Assembly Yr 1/2 at 12.30pm

Book Week Parade at 1.45pm Mon 19th

3+ yrs. Kindy 9.30-11.00am Tues 20th

SDD - No students at school Mon 26th

3+ yrs. Kindy 9.30-11.00am Tues 27th

School Photo Day Wed 28th

Margaret Cotton Festival

(selected students) Fri 30th

September

Assembly Yr 1 Mon 2nd

3+ yrs. Kindy 9.30-11.00am Tues 3rd

Birds of Prey incursion Yr K-6 Thurs 5th

School Camp - Week 8 Mon 9th to Fri

13th

Faction Carnival—Jumps, throw Tues 17th

Faction Carnival Fri 20th

Learning Journey at 12.30pm Mon 23rd

Term 4 October

SDD - No students at school Mon 14th

Interschool Jumps & Throws 6th Nov

Interschool Running 8th Nov

Kindy Induction 26th Nov

Swimming Lessons Yr PP-2 2nd Dec to

13th Dec

Kindy Graduation 5th Dec

End of Year Concert 11th Dec

Year 6 Graduation 16th Dec

Last day of school for year 18th Dec

Vision:

Braeside Primary School is a dynamic learning community that values diversity and fosters a sense of belonging.

We meet the needs of each individual through collaborative, reflective, and evolving school-wide practices that

provide explicit, engaging experiences. Our students achieve their academic, emotional and social potential and are

contributing members of the community.

Newsletters can be emailed, please let the office know your email address.

Welcome back to Term 3, another busy term but one we look

forward to. Our School Review in Week 3 will give us a chance

to celebrate our successes over the years. We also will begin to

organise the 40th Birthday celebration to be held in 2020 and

continue to plan the new playground. Once the Review is

completed, we will add the report to our website and include

snapshots in the newsletter.

Staff Farewell

Last week we farewelled two of our permanent staff members,

Mrs Amber Ward and Mrs Kim Boyd. Mrs Ward has been with

the school as Associate Principal for the last 10 years, working

extensively on supporting our students with special education

needs and developing the Maths Block across the school. She

has accepted a fixed term position at Wagin, working four days

per week. We wish Amber the best in her new endeavour.

Miss Suttie will be working as our Maths Leader in the school

and Mrs Tester will pick up the special needs role. We are

awaiting clarification of other staff on leave before deciding

whether to replace Mrs Ward. Mrs Kim Boyd, who has ably led

the cleaning team at Braeside for the last 5 years has also

resigned. Kim has decided to pursue her studies as an

Education Assistant and is currently doing her practicum in the

area in our Pre-Primary class. We will miss both these staff

members, their work ethic and what they added to the team at

Braeside Primary School. We are in the process of advertising

for a new head cleaner.

Appointments for 2020

We are pleased to announce that we have been successful in

appointing Miss Claire Batchelor to our staff permanently for

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2020 and beyond. Claire brings a wealth of experience and knowledge in both the early years and PBS, which

she has shared with all during 2019. We look forward to many years in the future with Claire on staff.

Enrolments and Leaving Families in 2020

August is the time of the year we begin preparing for 2020, planning classes, organising funding and staffing.

If you are aware of any families that need to enrol Kindergarten or Primary school students for next year, could

you encourage them to submit their enrolment pack. We are happy to support families with guided tours or

some time in the 3-year-old program. Any families that are leaving us for 2020, if you could possibly advise

the office, this will enable us to remove your family from calculations.

Cross Country

Braeside hosted the Interschool Cross Country last week. It was a very cold day, with our students performing

at their very best. Congratulations to all.

Lexile Lunch

We are very excited to be taking 20 students to the Dome at the end of this week for our Termly Lexile Lunch

Reward, this has increased from 6 students last term. This will be held on Friday at lunch time, with

permission forms going home this week. We are hoping to be taking even more next term. 6 of these

students have qualified for the End of Year Lexile Reward at the Kulin water slides. Having our older students

exposed to wide range of books and reading at home is important as it has a large effect on school

achievement.

Teresa Wigg

Principal

Winners of the Voluntary

Contributions draw.

Kindy: Sadie Stables

PP: Jayelle Punch

Yr 1: James Groves

Yr 2: Tia Scott

Yr 3: Angelina Te Hau

Yr 4: James Standage

Yr 5: Nevayeh Tasarip

Yr 6: Asher Aye

Students win a School Voucher

to the Value of $20

Week 4, Friday 16th August 2019

9.00am - 11.00am

Presentation with Phoebe the Phascogale.

Parents are invited to participate with their children in

the rotation activities throughout the morning.

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100 DAYS OF SCHOOL

On Wednesday 24th July, Rooms 1, 13 and 4 enjoyed the ‘100 Days of School’ celebrations in the classroom.

Rooms 1 and 13 dressed up to be 100 years old and participated in lots of activities.

Room 4 created necklaces with 100 Fruit loops on a necklace and built creations with 100 toothpicks and

marshmallows.

INTERSCHOOL CROSS COUNTRY

On Friday 26th July students braved the cold weather to compete in the Interschool Cross Country Event at

the Katanning Country Club with participating schools; Katanning Primary School and St Patrick’s School.

Congratulations to students at Katanning Primary School for coming First, Braeside Primary School came

2nd and St Patrick’s School came 3rd.

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ATTENDANCE LETTERS

Thank you to our Braeside School Community for supporting our involvement in

the Woolworths Earn & Learn promotion.

We have earned a total of 42,094 Earn and Learn Points for 2019.

This is a fabulous achievement for our school and we appreciate the time and

effort from our School Community.

Recently we submitted our order for items earned through this program and we

are very pleased to let you know what items are on order for our school.

We have Flexi stools in Blue and Lime, a Whiteboard group table, a three leaf table and stationery items

that will arrive at the school in weeks to come.

Attendance letters for unauthorised absences have been recently sent home.

If you have received a letter, please let us know as soon as possible by completing the forms with a reason

for the unauthorised absences for your child and return to the office.

We appreciate your continued assistance with keeping our records up to date for your family.

If your child is unwell, looking pale, has tummy aches (gastro) or coughing and vomiting, please keep them home to assist in their recovery. There are some colds and flu’s going around at the moment which are making children feel really unwell. We will call you to pick your child up if they are unwell.

EARN & LEARN

SCHOOL UNIFORMS

Uniform Review Public Meeting

TUESDAY 13TH AUGUST 3.30 PM

SCHOOL LIBRARY

On behalf of the School Council, you are invited to bring your thoughts & inspirations to a public forum to start the 2019 review process of our school uniform.

The focus of this review is to consider the:

Update of the material & design of the polo to improve wearer comfort &

appearance.

Investigate jacket options to provide better warmth & appearance.

Your participation is encouraged & welcome.

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COMMUNITY NEWS

Vacswim Enrolments are now open.

Online enrolments can be now be accessed, please register your child/ren online for the next sessions of Vacswim in October 2019 and January 2020.

Your child/ren can join in the fun of learning to swim and gain vital swimming and water safety skills with qualified swimming instructors.

REGISTRATION DAY and COME AND TRY DAY SATURDAY 31st AUGUST

Thomas Hogg Oval, Bannister Street, Narrogin 9am to 12pm Under 6’s to Under 17’s Our motto is Family, Fun & Fitness!! Sprints, Long & Middle Distance, Hurdles. Long, Triple & High Jump

Discus, Javelin & shot Put—plus FUN FUN FUN !! For further information please call Claire 044833860

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