Principal: Ms Fiona Collopy Phone: 9881 1581 Deputy Principal: Mrs Joanna Hayes Fax: 9881 1707 Deputy Principal: Mr Johan Van Wyk Off-Site Kindergarten: 9881 2015 Email: Fiona.Collopy@education.wa.edu.au http://www.eastnarroginps.wa.edu.au

ENDEAVOUR ACHIEVEMENT SUSTAINABILITY THOUGHTFULNESS

Please do not forget that we have early close at ENPS every Monday.

School closes at 2.30pm Kindy closes at 2.30pm

Dear Parents, Caregivers and Community Welcome to Week 8. I am so proud of all our swimmers who represented East Narrogin in the Interschool Swimming Carnival held last Friday. For those who don’t know, this is an annual event when swimmers from our school compete against those from Narrogin Primary School and St Matthews School. We came second in the handicap and overall shield and also had several students win champion and runner up trophies throughout the day. Thank you to all staff and parents who assisted on this day. This Thursday we look forward to Room 6’s assembly, which will be the first class to host a parent assembly for the year. Please come along to support our Year 1 and 2 students, who have been working very hard to prepare. They will amaze you!!

50th Celebration Committee This Wednesday, 27 March, there will be a meeting to discuss progress towards our 50th birthday celebrations. It will be held in the staffroom at 6.30pm. Please come along and lend your support – or register your interest to be on one of the working parties - Event coordination, Promotion and publicity, Memorabilia, and Mural. Child Safety in the Community – Developing Protective Behaviours Please access the link to our website to download Fact Sheet #4 about developing Protective Behaviours to keep our children safe in the community - http://www.eastnarroginps.wa.edu.au/school-info/articles.

From the Principal

✰ ECC Easter Raffle Draw Thursday, 28 March ✰ Room 6 Assembly Thursday, 28 March (***Please note change of date) ✰ Good Friday Friday, 29 March ***Students DO NOT ATTEND ✰ Easter Monday & Tuesday Monday & Tuesday, 1 & 2 April ***Students DO NOT ATTEND ✰ Room 5 Assembly Friday, 5 April ✰ Room 10 Assembly Friday, 19 April ✰ Combined Schools ANZAC

Day Service Friday, 19 April ✰ Students Finish Friday, 19 April ✰ Students Back to School Monday, 6 May

Coming Events

Newsletter No: 04 Date: 26 March 2013

Established 1963

WANTED In preparation for our 50th birthday celebrations this year we are looking for photos or other memorabilia for our display during the event on Saturday, 9 November 2013. If you have such items we would love to borrow them. Please hand them in to Fiona Kirby at the front office. We promise to keep them safe! Also – we would love to have suggestions for items to go into a time capsule which we will bury as part of the celebrations.

P&C Sweet & Savoury Cake Stall

We are holding a sweet and savoury stall on Saturday, 13 April from 8am at

the piazza area on Fortune Street. We are asking for donations of freshly

baked muffins, cakes or biscuits to sell on the day. We would be

appreciative if these items could be delivered to the piazza area by 8am.

Positive Behaviour Support Over the term, we have been focusing on a behaviour that is taught at assembly each week. So far our students have been taught these behaviours at assembly: ☺ The 5Ls of Listening ☺ Keep to the left when walking on stairs, verandahs

and breezeway ☺ Be friendly and greet others ☺ Respond quickly to signals and instructions ☺ Be responsible for our own property

I encourage you to ask your children about these behaviours, and support them where you can. REMINDER: East Narrogin School Board are seeking members The school is seeking up to six community members to join the East Narrogin School Board and nominations are being called for new members. If you are interested in becoming a Board member please provide your nomination to Mr Leigh Ballard, School Board Chair ( l e i gh@ ba l l a r dsee d s. c om . au ) o r t o m e (Fiona.Collopy@education.wa.edu.au), stating your interest and what skills you can bring to the board. We are also very happy to answer any questions you may have about the role of the board. Nominations will close on Friday, 5 April 2013 at 4.00pm. The next meeting will take place on Tuesday, 16 April at 6.30pm in the school staffroom. This meeting will be open to all members of the school community. School Development Days in 2013 Just in case you were planning an extended holiday over the next school holiday break, we DO NOT have a school development day on the first Monday back from holidays (Monday, 6 May), and students return to school straight away. Instead, two school development days in Term 2 occur either side of the long weekend in May. A reminder that our school development days for the remainder of 2013 are:

Break for Easter This Friday is Good Friday, and so therefore, there will be no school, as we break to celebrate Easter. The school will also be closed on Easter Monday and Easter Tuesday. School will resume on Wednesday, 3 April. I hope that everyone enjoys their Easter break. Fiona Collopy Principal

GRIP Leadership Conference On Tuesday, 12 March year 7 students from Narrogin, East Narrogin and Wickepin travelled to Perth for the annual GRIP Leadership. The main goal of the conference was for the student leaders to leave the conference with a clear vision, a solid understanding and dozens of ideas for their time as a leader. The students were actively engaged in learning about the skills in effective leadership. They were given the opportunity to network with Year 7 leaders from other schools and enjoyed asking questions to the GRIP Leadership Team about qualities of a successful leader. I will be inviting Year 7 leaders to volunteer to speak at a Rotary and Lions Club meeting about their experience on the GRIP Leadership Conference, and to thank them for their sponsorship towards this educational event. All students were very well behaved on the day and are now very enthusiastic to continue to learn more about effective leadership and practise these skills in their leadership roles. Thankyou to Mrs Hancock, Marty Vause and Mrs Corasanti for helping me supervise this excursion. I have included a sample of a Year 7 recount on this event in the newsletter.

Swimming Clinic Special thanks to Mr Paul Dyson for offering a swimming clinic to our interschool swimmers last Monday. It was great to see the High School students provide tips and strategies on the techniques of swimming. Special thanks to Morgan Barr, Pippa Bairstow, Georgia Dyson, Amy Coetzer and Sophie Potts for providing their expertise to our students.

Cycle to School Day Thanks to all students for eagerly participating in the cycle to school day last Tuesday. We had 38 bikes in the bike racks!! We also had many students walk and use scooters to get to school. It was encouraging to

From the Deputies From the Principal (Cont)

Term 2 Friday & Tuesday 31 May & 04 June Term 3 Monday 22 July Term 4 Monday

Friday 14 October 20 December

This week’s focus behaviour is….

Use the appropriate voice for different situations -

(inside and outside voice).

From the Deputies (Cont)

see parents get involved too. The Year 7 leaders also did a wonderful job handing out fruit to each participant. Cycling to school is a fun physical activity and a great way to exercise. Thanks to Constable Levy for conducting bike checks.

Year 5 CHAT Group The Year 5 students are enthusiastically organising lunchtime activities. Yesterday a few of the girls organised Hero Freeze, Chinese Whispers and Duck Duck Goose for the younger students. Tomorrow a group of Year 5 boys will be having a rap competition on the oval. It is great to see these students using their initiative and organising fun activities. Great leadership Year 5s!

Interschool Swimming Carnival On Friday, 14 March we had the Interschool Swimming Carnival. Our team had 34 students who participated on the day and I must say they have done our school proud. Thank you to every student on making the day very enjoyable, you can be very proud of yourselves! A big thank you must go to all staff, parent helpers and our supporters for giving up your time to attend the carnival. The results for the carnival were:

Points for Schools:

On the day Sarah Coetzer also broke two records – Well done Sarah!! BACKSTROKE 50M CHAMPION RACE: 41.07seconds-This has been a record since 1996 BREASTSTROKE 50M CHAMPION RACE: 44.88seconds

Joanna Hayes & Johan Van Wyk, Deputy Principals

SCHOOL STRAIGHT UP RESULT HANDICAP RESULT

East Narrogin Primary 662 points 803 points

Narrogin Primary 601 points 601 points

St Matthews School 777 points 1124 points

AGE GROUP CHAMPION RUNNER-UP

9 YEAR AND UNDER BOY

Michael Bradford Kobe Hayes

9 YEAR AND UNDER GIRL

Josie Skerritt Jasmine Oats

10 YEAR BOY Ben Woodruff Jessie Davis

10 YEAR GIRL Sarsha Hayes / April Webster

Mackayla Pratt

11YEAR BOY Jack Bradford Jacob Mulchay

11 YEAR GIRL Phoebe Skerritt Holly Dowling

12 YEAR AND OVER BOY

Clancy Adamson Brennan Pratt

12 YEAR AND OVER GIRL

Sarah Coetzer Kate Dyson

Wake-up and Read

By Sarah Coetzer On Tuesday, 12 March 2013, the kids from Kindy to Year Six went to a ‘Wake-Up and Read’ incursion. We sat in the undercover area. Frank Ozo, the presenter of the show, taught us about the importance of school, reading and books. Frank did magic tricks that were amazing and unbelievable. He had a book that floated in the air, which he had supposedly done a spell on the book. Frank put a hula-hoop around the book and there were no strings or anything holding it up! Afterwards Frank sang a song that represented him and his life. When Frank was younger, he didn’t enjoy school due to him not knowing how to speak English, only Italian. Soon though, his parents persuaded him to go back to school. Frank started to enjoy school after that because he started to make friends. Thirdly Frank did a puppet show; I think it told you a little bit of his life and how he was raised. There were two people, a jester (Mr Punch) and a clown (Geoff). Mr Punch didn’t like reading because he thought it was boring and he had other things to do rather than read, but Geoff really loved reading and he was determined to get Mr Punch to like reading. They argued for a bit and then Geoff had to go. Mr Punch thought he might go ride his bike but that had a flat tyre, then he thought he’d go for a skateboard ride, but that had lost its wheels! He got over that and thought about going for a swim but it was winter! Mr Punch had nothing else to do so he decided to actually read a book! Overall, I really enjoyed Wake-up and Read. Frank is extremely talented.

Year 7 Leadership Conference

By Josh Tolley On 12 March, all the Year 7’s from Narrogin, East Narrogin and four Year 7’s from Wickepin Primary School all met at our school at 5.45 am!!!! We were all off to the Perth Convention Centre to attend the GRIP Leadership Conference. It was so early for everyone, but we were all excited. We all waited for other kids to arrive so we could start getting on the bus. We all got on the bus, and we all grouped up with our friends, because heaps of people were nervous to make new friends. Our teachers on our bus were great, and they dealt with our problems pretty fairly, which made the bus ride heaps more enjoyable for everybody. We arrived at the Perth Convention Centre, it was so big and awesome! When we got inside we all grouped up in 2 lines and started walking to the big room we were meant to be at, and when we walked into that room, OMG there were tons of kids, roughly 1000 of them, imagine that! We all sat down and there was a book and a pen for us to use, and I think that’s great that they supplied us with that stuff. Then we straight away started learning about leadership. We did this great activity called “Heads, Shoulders, Knees and Toes,” which Head stands for, ‘think of others’, Shoulders stands for, ‘carry the load for others,’ Knees stands for, ‘moving forward’ and Toes stands for, ‘balancing responsibilities.’ We also did an activity called “Australia’s Got Talent,” where we went and answered some funny questions like, ‘can you touch your nose with your tongue,’ and the first person done to answer those questions got to go up to the stage and tell the man who those people were. Not long after the activities we had our recess with our school and sat down and ate our food. After our snack break we went back in and wrote about leadership and learnt that leaders aren’t born, they’re made. So then we watched short clips of movies like Madagascar 3, Toy Story, Cars etc and we had to say who the leader was. Not long after that we had our lunch break, we sat down and did the same thing we did at recess break. Now it was session 3 and we learnt how to work in a team with other students. We left at approx 2pm so we could be home in time. On the way home we stopped at McDonalds for a snack and arrived back in Narrogin at 6pm.

Our five cent coin collection has had a wonderful response so far, but keep sending them in to your classroom to be collected each Thursday. We will keep a record of how many each class can collect. With Friday and Monday being Easter Holidays we will offer Friday’s Menu this Thursday, 28 March. LOL cans will be deleted from the menu as they sell out this term. Thank you to our helpers this fortnight: Ben Jones, Joyce Eastwood, Rachelle Drage, Jo Corker, Jodie Ahrens, Violet Holmes-Thorne and Sarah Skeisey. We are looking for helpers for weeks ten and eleven. Welcome to Jo Corker who will now be at the canteen on Tuesdays’ and Wednesdays’ as Dot is expecting a new addition to her family. Good Luck! Uniforms Order your winter Jackets now! We are unable to store jackets so if you need one you must order it now. Thank you. Ros, Dot & Jo Canteen Managers

From the Canteen GRIP Leadership

Easter Raffle 2013

Tickets are $2.00 Tickets and money are to be returned to ECC Room 1 no later than Wednesday, 27 March.

Raffle will be drawn at Room 6's Assembly on

Thursday, 28 March 2013. Nicole Fowler, ECC/1

East Narrogin Passport

Families who were part of the 2012 passport program will automatically be part of the program for 2013 and can continue using the same passport as last year. We would like to keep the passports at school for easier management so we would appreciate you sending your passport back to Mr Van Wyk.

Our family is interested in joining the Passport program at East Narrogin Primary.

Family Name:__________________________

Names or children at ENPS from Oldest to Youngest and their Room Number please

1:___________________________ Room: __________________

2:___________________________ Room: __________________

3:___________________________ Room: __________________

4:___________________________ Room: __________________

5:___________________________ Room: __________________

Parent / Carer signature: ______________________________

FREE Youth Workshop with Canterbury Tales Performers

Ages 8+ Narrogin Senior Citizen’s Centre

Saturday, 6 April, 2.00pm - 3.30pm Snacks provided

Limited places available Phone Narrogin Library to reserve place

Maggie Dent—Quietly Improving Lives

Free Seminars Wednesday, 10 April - Williams Primary School Library 7:00pm—9:00pm, ‘Calming our Children & Our World’

Thursday, 11 April - Wickepin Community Centre 6:00pm—8:00pm ‘From Sandpit to Adulthood’

Friday, 12 April - John Higgins Centre, Narrogin

3:30pm—9:00pm Strengthening our Rural Women Forum

Maggie Dent Presentation from 5:00—7:00pm ‘Secret Women’s Business’

To RSVP please contact Jo Drayton on 9881 0790 or Jo.Drayton@health.wa.gov.au or Davina Gossage on

0467 584477 or dgossage@onelifewa.com.au

Proudly bought to you by: Rural Community Support Service & Narrogin District Of the

WA One Life Suicide Prevention Strategy

Narrogin Poultry Society Auction

Saturday, 13 April Bids penned by 9:30am

All sorts May Street Narrogin Enquires: Lindsay 9881 1948

Community Notices

Parents can make a difference!

Have you ever wondered what is involved in being a member of the P&C?

Attend a free P&C workshop and find out how you can make a difference to your child’s education.

East Narrogin Primary School - Staffroom Homer Street Narrogin

Monday, 8 April 6.00pm-9.00pm

For more information and to RSVP please contact WACSSO Training and Development Officer on

92645026 or email training@WACSSO.wa.edu.au or Sara Ballard 0428836262.

Dryandra Country - Art, Food & Wine Trail

Cuballing-Dryandra Woodland-Narrogin Pingelly-Wagin-Wandering-Wickepin-Williams

COME STAY AND PLAY FOR MOTHER’S DAY WEEKEND

11-12 May 2013

For more information contact Bobbie Bates on 0429 812 555 or Helen Elliott 9881 2064

Narrogin Art Group - 4 Elliott Street

Know your sewing machine. Free hand machine Embroidery and Basic Dress

Making. Classes planned for Saturdays.

If interested please phone Laurie on 9887 5221 or Dianne 9881 4009

Radio West’s FREE Easter egg hunt for children aged 1-13

At the Lions park, corner of Federal and Forrest Streets in Narrogin

Bare Naked presents The Canterbury Tales

Saturday, 6 April Narrogin Senior Citizens Centre

Doors open 6.30pm Licenced bar - BYO Supper

Show starts at 7.15pm Tickets at Retravision $28 adult

$25 ARtS Narrogin members/senior concession $15 child

D Grade Players NEEDED - Wickepin Football Club

Players to be aged 10-13 years old boys or girls. Transport can be arranged for training sessions and

also to football matches. Please phone if interested in playing football so we can organise a coach and

transport. Contact Ken Martin 98886013, Ricky Dougall

0417363528 or Brenton Kirby 98816159

JUNIOR HOCKEY SUPA CLINIC

WHEN: 20th AND 21st APRIL 2013 WHERE: NARROGIN HOCKEY TURF TIMES: SAT 1.00PM TILL 6.00PM SUN 9.OO AM TILL 1.00PM AGES: 10 YEARS TO 15 YEARS

COST $60.00 PER PARTICIPANT

COACHES GEORGIA NANSCAWEN ( HOCKEYROOS)

KELLIE WHITE (HOCKEYROOS) DEVELOP NEW HOCKEY SKILLS AND IMPROVE YOUR

BODY MOVEMENTS. THIS YEAR I HAVE INCLUDED JUST FOR GOALKEEPERS

SPECIALIZED GOALKEEPING WITH RACHEL LYNCH(HOCKEYROOS)

FILL IN NOMINATION FORM AND SEND TO RODNEY JOHNSON

77 HERALD STREET NARROGIN OR

E MAIL rodrocket7@bigpond.com Phone 0409 625 428

(Enrolment forms available from front office)