From the Principal . . Class Structure for 2015 2015 Class Placement Requests Bushfire Safety Information Before & After School Care 2015

School Athletics Carnival Use of Mobiles and Smart Phones

at School Assembly - 24 October Tidy Class Award

BUZ Awards Book Club Early Childhood Centre News Choir Celebrating Success

Literacy Tip Sport News P&C News Uniform Shop Canteen

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855 Stevens Street Mundaring 6073 Telephone: 9295 1072 Fax: 9295 3072 Email: Principal.Mundaring.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Term 4 Issue 17

31 October 2014

CLASS STRUCTURE FOR 2015 Parents are advised that based upon the current anticipated enrolments for next year, we have developed the following class structure. Once again, changes to the way schools will be funded next year will mean we will have some challenges ahead.

Assuming we have no large changes in anticipated enrolments, this should be the class structure with which we commence the 2015 school year:

Please be aware that this structure is in draft only and could change up to the start of 2015. 2015 CLASS PLACEMENT REQUESTS To provide parents with the opportunity to input to the best class placement for their child(ren) next year, I invite you to submit a placement request to me in writing (e-mail or letter) by Friday 28th November 2014.

Please note that class placement requests can only be for educational (eg: split or straight grade), social or emotional reasons only. Requests for specific teachers will not be considered.

While all efforts will be made to support parents requests, the school reserves the right to make the final decision based upon the best interests of the child and the school.

BUSHFIRE SAFETY INFORMATION As we approach the Bushfire season all parents need to be fully aware of the processes the school follows in a bushfire situation. To explain these processes, I have enclosed the school’s Bushfire Safety Information brochure with this newsletter for all families.

Parents are asked to read this information so that you are fully aware of our plans and processes in the event of a declaration of a Catastrophic Fire Danger Rating. Parents are also reminded that in the event of such an emergency, the school will contact you via SMS. It is therefore vital that you update your mobile contact details if changed recently. BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL CARE 2015 I am very pleased to announce that the school has reached an agreement with the Camp Australia company to provide a before and after school care program at Mundaring Primary School from the start of the 2015 school year. This is great news for the school and will provide a much needed service to our families.

Camp Australia will provide a full service to families who require daily before and after school care as well as occasional care for parents needing to access the service on a less regular basis.

In order to provide prospective parents with detailed information about this new service, a Parent Information Session will be held at 3:15pm on Wednesday 5th November in the school library. The session will be presented by representatives of the Camp Australia group and include details including times, costs and of course the program itself.

If you are not able to attend this meeting, I am more than happy to answer any questions you might have and we are able to provide links to the Camp Australia website and telephone number.

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Hello parents and caregivers. As can see from the photograph below, last week’s LOTE assembly was bagus sekali (magnificent!). The students from Room 14 lead the assembly and showed off their Bahasa Indonesia language skills. They also added a way cool rap to round out an very enjoyable assembly. Well done to the students and to Mr Ghouse for coordinating the assembly.

2x Kindy 1x Pre-Prim 1x Year 1 1x Year 1/2

1x Year 2 1x Year 2/3 1x Year 3 1x Year 3/4

1x Year 4/5 1x Year 5 1x Yr 6

ASSEMBLY - 24 October 2014

Congratulations to our Honour Certificate recipients

PP Kaleb Rohrlach Henry Thierfelder Angus Schultz Yr 1 Lacey Phillips Ben Phelan-Mould Amber Whitely Sebastian Bronwin Yr 2 Tyler Park Gracie Shepherd Joel Brittan Jacki Sullivan Hayley Fox-Papini Yr 3 Dillon Bertolini Caitlin Zlatnik Blake Offer Yr 4 Daven O’Brien Cade Williams Maddy Searle Yr 5 Connor Shaw Gracie Murphy Angela Holley Yr 6 Hamish Duncan Phoenix Thomson Dustan Skews Yr 7 Leyton Rice Sy Cassidy-Holley

Our next assembly on Friday 7 November will be coordinated by Room 17. Family members and friends are welcome to attend.

BUZ (Build Up Zone) Awards

Sophie Searle Aimee Plant Sam Mummery Ethan Barber

EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRE NEWS

Important date: Room 17 Assembly - 7 November Please be at school by 8:30 am.

Room 17 will be starting to send home a surprise bag. This takes the place of news

Reminder! ‘Sip’n’Crunch’ starts next Monday for all pre-primary students.

Early Childhood Centre Team

LITERACY TIP Another way of promoting story comprehension is to use comments to communicate what you are thinking: “I’m thinking that…………”, “I wonder……………….” “Why do you think………..?” “It’s a bit hard for me to understand why…………..”. Wait a little while for your child to organise their thoughts so they might respond if they wish. Understanding that everyone does not think the way they do is an important milestone for your child’s development of social skills. If it is the first time you have read the book together, try to keep the conversation brief so that you don’t interrupt the story for too long. You can have longer conversations the second or third time you read the book together and delve into the thoughts and feelings of the characters in the book. For more information go to www.talktoliteracy.com.au and click on blog.

TIDY CLASS AWARD Room 14

SCHOOL ATHLETICS CARNIVAL Last week the school ran it’s annual Athletics Carnival, under the fantastic leadership of Mr Taylor our PE teacher. The weather was perfect and the day went very smoothly, much like that pro-verbial well oiled machine. Read more about the carnival later in this newsletter. Well done and thank you to all competitors, staff and parents who assisted on the day. USE OF MOBILES AND SMART PHONES AT SCHOOL Parents are reminded that children are not allowed to use their mobile telephones, smart phones or personal digital cameras at school or while on any school excursion or camp. This decision has been taken to protect individual students' rights to privacy and better manage the risk of images/videos being used inappro-priately or without permission.

As you would be aware, advancements in these sorts of technol-ogies allow images/videos to be taken and uploaded to social media sites instantly, often without consideration for the rights of the people in the images. As a school, we have not been immune to this inappropriate use of such devices.

While at school or on excursions, students have access to a number of school digital cameras as well as Surface tablets with still-image and video camera capabilities. Students will be al-lowed to use these devices to record school events and then to download images and/or video to their personal thumb drives under supervision. These images and videos will then be made available for all of the students to share in class activities. Mr Paul Larkin (Principal)

Reminder for parents and caregivers of CHOIR MEMBERS.

Darlington Arts Festival is TOMORROW, Saturday, 1 November. The choir will be performing on the main stage at 10.00am and concluding at approximately 10.30am.

The festival is held on the Darlington Oval, Pine Terrace, Darlington.

All choir members are to meet at the Main Stage at 9.45am. Please give yourself enough time to park and then find the stage, ready for our performance at 10.00am

Choir members are to come dressed in their choir uniform, along with black shoes and socks. Girls need to have their hair tied back and off their face and boys, neat and tidy. If your child does not own black shoes, black socks will suffice for the performance.

Karina Reif-Eaves (Music teacher)

CELEBRATING SUCCESS Congratulations to Phoebe Bronwin for winning the championship trophy in Division B at the Chidlow Motocross. Well done Phoebe!

SPORT NEWS

2014 Faction Carnival On Wednesday 15th of October we were able to conduct our long jump, teeball throw, middle distance and individual flag race events. Despite the warmish weather all the children gave their best efforts and a lot of new personal bests were set in the long jump and teeball throw events, where measurements are recorded. The staff and students would like to thank the following parents and friends for assisting with the running of the jumps and throwing events: Tina Merkouris, Glyn McKeon, Kelly Bertolini, Kara Cornelius, Branwen Williams, Vanessa Charlton, Kathy Morris, Angela Huisman, Maria Duncan and Amanda Miles. The carnival concluded on Friday 17th October with the running of the sprint, team games and shuttle relay events. The weather was perfect and the children displayed their skills in the individual sprints and the team activities. The following two tables outline the winners of the individual medallions and how each faction placed in the quest for the four different shields.

The staff and students would like to thank the following parents and friends for assisting with the running of the Friday’s Program: Amanda Miles, Kathy Morris, Vanessa Charlton, Neridah Zlatnik, Jane Wade, Darcy Metcalfe, Chantelle Woodward and Toni and Craig Burbidge. Special thanks goes to Ms Jones for all her work throughout Term 3 and the beginning of Term 4 with the marking of the oval with lanes and dots to conduct and practice the carnival events. Interschool Athletics Carnival On Tuesday October 28th selected students travelled to Mount Helena to participate in the East Zone Hills Schools Athletics Carnival long jump, teeball throw, team flag event and middle distance events. The carnival concluded today with the running of the sprint, individual flag , team game and relay events. A detailed report of the carnival will appear in the next newsletter. After School Sport The Term 4 After School Sport activities commenced this week with tennis taking place on Tuesday and cricket on Wednesday. We only have 10 places available for cricket. Registration forms are available from the office. There are six more tennis sessions left and three more cricket sessions before we change to golf. Murray Taylor (Sports Coordinator)

Year level Champion Runner-up Year 1 Boys Cody Lovell Billy Schultz

Year 1 Girls Stella Blackman Georgia Pether

Year 2 Boys Jesse Pountain Jessic Anderson Brennan Hollett

Year 2 Girls Jasmine Williams Lily Greaves

Year 3 Boys Blake Offer Dillon Bertolini

Year 3 Girls Oceana D’Abbs Kayla Whitely

Year 4 Boys Owen Peet William Burbidge

Year 4 Girls Maddison McKeon Sophie Duncan

Year 5 Boys Jake Cornelius Lachlan Haigh

Year 5 Girls Chloe Mules Makalah Altmann

Year 6 Boys Riley Trew Dustan Skews

Year 6 Girls Caitlyn Merkouris Ruby Morris

Year 7 Boys Tyrone Offer Dean Manuel William Fox

Year 7 Girls Lucy Cole Emily Hill

Shield First Second Third Outright Blue - 825 Green - 751 Red - 653 Handicap Red - 948 Green - 862 Blue - 825

Team Games Blue - 262 Green - 234 Red - 194

Cross-Country Green - 114 Blue - 110 Red - 91

CANTEEN

Monday 3 November Friday 7 November

Prue Antoinette/Peta G

Monday 10 November Friday 14 November

Prue Neridah/Kathy Morris

ALLERGY AWARE No whole eggs or nut products at MPS please.

SCHOOL BANKING Thursday, 8.30am – 8.50am outside the library.

THE UNIFORM SHOP will be open 3.00 - 3.30 pm on Wednesday 12 November. Kelly Bertolini

LAP-A-THON

You must have your Lap-a-thon forms and money in by

Thursday 6 November

to be eligible for the prizes to be presented at the assembly on

Friday 7 November.

We need your support as this is our major fundraiser for 2014! SAUSAGE SIZZLE

Please support our Sausage Sizzle at Bunnings in Midland this Sunday 2 November from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm. We still need volunteers. Please call Emma on 0418 721876 if you can assist. P&C Auxiliary

Rooms 11 and 14 visited Parliament House last week. They saw the Upper and Lower House in action and had

morning tea with Mr Frank Alban MLA.

Room 2 had a wonderful time learning about the ‘olden’ days with Mrs Kata and her mum.