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SCHOOL BOARD REPRESENTATIVESSCHOOL BOARD REPRESENTATIVES

We would like to welcome Nyomi Prior, Jillian Setchell and Jenna Hitchcock as parent representatives and welcome back Chris Spencer as staff representative to the Aveley Primary School Board. Thank you to Jenna for taking on the role of School Board Chair as from the commencement of the 2018 school year.

On behalf of the school community, I would like to recognize and thank our retiring inaugural School Board Chair, Michelle Del Nero, for her contribution to our school as a member of our School Council from 2012 and then School Board from 2015. We wish Michelle well as sho moves into new pastures.

BEHAVIOUR EXPECTATIONSBEHAVIOUR EXPECTATIONS

This fortnight’s behaviour expectation is ….

Return property to its rightful place.

APS P & CAPS P & C

On behalf of our school community, I would like to acknowledge the ongoing dedication and commitment of our P & C Association to support the students in our school. At our final meeting for 2017, the P & C provided funds (just under $20 000) for the school to purchase a range of additional resources, including early childhood playground equipment, reading books, a water fountain, updated laptop to manage our audio visuals in the Undercover Area and the marking of a range of educational symbols on the verandas of our early childhood classrooms. This is additional to the $18 500 donated earlier in the year. A huge effort. Thank you!

BUSH TUCKER GARDENBUSH TUCKER GARDEN

Last Sunday, members of our school community met to plant out our Indigenous Bush Food Garden, near the school’s vegie garden. Thank you to those who helped out and to Mrs Solig for coordinating the PALS Grant to fund this initiative. More information on the PALS Grant is available here https://www.daa.wa.gov.au/community-development/pals.

Principal: Michelle Murray

Deputy Principals:

Adam Marchant, Lyn Fussell and Kylie Davis

Manager Corporate Services: Olivia Wood

8 Bolero Road AVELEY WA 6069

Phone 6296 5466 Fax 6296 5439

Aveley.ps@education.wa.edu.au

EARLY CLOSE EVERY WEDNESDAY AT 2.30PM

In this Edition

From the Principal

School Board

Behaviour Expectations

Aveley P&C

Bush Tucker Garden

Reporting to Parents

Supporting our Environment

Temporary road closure

Indonesian Cooking

Christmas Carols Choir

School photos

Lions Christmas cakes

Physical Ed. update

P & C News

Camp Australia

Community Notices

Upcoming Events

Monday, 27 and Tuesday, 28 November 9.15-10.45am Kindergarten

classroom sessions

Thursday, 7 December

Volunteers Morning Tea

Tuesday, 12 December

6pm Year 6 Graduation

Wednesday, 13 December

Awards Assembly PP- Yr2

Thursday, 14 December

Awards Assembly Y3 - 6

An Independent Primary School

Issue 19 24 November 2017

REPORTING TO PARENTSREPORTING TO PARENTS

The Department’s Curriculum, Assessment and Reporting K-10 Policy and Guidelines states that schools will ‘report regular and relevant information to par-ents / caregivers on student progress and achievement’. As part of this process, we will be emailing student’s 2017 final reports on Wednesday 13 December.

Please ensure the school has your current email address.

Students in Kindergarten to Year 6 will be reported on using the Department of Education’s endorsed templates. This is a change for this semester’s report for Kindergarten students. Please contact your classroom teacher for further clarification if required.

You can ask the school to provide you with written information that clearly shows your child’s achievements in the subjects studied in comparison with that of other students in the student’s peer group at school. This information will show the number of students in each of the five achievement levels. You should contact the school to access this additional information. SUPPORTING OUR ENVIRONMENTSUPPORTING OUR ENVIRONMENT

Our CO2&U Team would like to let our school community know that the $522.65 raised at the free dress fundraiser at the end of Term 3 has been donated to the Friends of the Western Swamp Tortoise. This group raises the awareness of the critically endangered status of Australia’s rarest reptile through education, fieldwork and revegetation. PROPOSED TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSUREPROPOSED TEMPORARY ROAD CLOSURE

In February 2018, Main Roads (on behalf of the City of Swan) will be undertaking essential works on the bridge on West Swan Road crossing over Ellen Brook, approximately 800 metres north of Gnangara Road and approximately 1.2 kilometres southwest of Millhouse Road. The bridge will be closed for about 12 weeks and a detour will be put in place.

Honour Certificate Recipients

Declan Beverley H10

Foday Musa H10

Alyssa Mactaggart H11

Esther Etoka H11

Jermayah Hall H12

Luke Lassey H12

Ryan Ahlfeld H12

Emma Roberts H13

Rogan Howard H13

Jesse Maseng T9

Rory Burke T9

Carlos Moras T10

Sasha Wimsett T10

Lelani Tongi-Finau T11

Liam Grieve T11

Ashlea Piggott T12

Jwan Lako T12

Charlotte Herbert G6

Nitya Koradia G6

Caden Elmer G7

Chermaine Tan G7

Natalia Vega Mena G7

Lila Weenink G8

Oscar Bingham G8

Jade Chrulew G9

Riley Kriskovich G9

Teg Singh G9

INDONESIAN COOKING CINDONESIAN COOKING CLASS & VISITOR FROM LASS & VISITOR FROM BALIBALI

This week the Year 5 classes had lessons in Indonesian cooking. During these lessons, students not only learnt the Indonesian language but also had a taste of Indonesian cuisine. The cooking lessons help support the continuing educational Indonesian program in the school. It will also assist and encourage students to appreciate the Indonesian culture and provide them with instant insight into the diversity of Indonesia and the Indonesian cuisine. The students learnt to make ‘Lumpia’ or spring rolls. They thoroughly enjoyed themselves rolling and folding the spring rolls. However they had more fun dipping the lumpia in sweet chilli sauce and eating them! Some of the staff had the privilege of sampling the delicious spring rolls made by the students too. The students were also fortunate to have Made Mesy Dwimantari come all the way from our sister school in Bali for a week on an Adopt-A-School Association scholarship. Made Mesy is an English teacher and she had the chance to spend her time with the Kindy, Pre-Primary, Year 1 and 2 classes to learn and experience how to teach English in the classrooms. Then on the last day, she spent her time exposing the students to many cultural activities such as cultural dance, how to wear sarong, making ‘kipas’ or fan and so forth. The students also benefited from the exposure of a native Indonesian speaker. I would like to thank the teachers involved, Mrs Kim Collins, Mrs Emma Hoskins, Mrs Liz Palfreyman and Mrs Aimee Davies for having Made Mesy in their classrooms. A special thank you to the McLaren family for hosting Mesy and getting her to experience the Australian culture and improve on her English as well. Hopefully Mesy had a wonderful time and an experience of a lifetime. Prepared by, Ibu Yang (Language Specialist – Indonesian)

CHRISTMAS CAROLS CHOIRCHRISTMAS CAROLS CHOIR

We are progressing well with our rehearsals for the huge Ellenbrook Christmas Festival on Saturday, 9 December. Every Thursday morning at 8am, right up until the event, rehearsals will be on at 8am in the Music Room. It is expected our choir will be on stage around 2pm. This means that children involved in other groups that may be participating in the pageant will be able to sing with us, as well as march around later, after 4pm in the pageant. If parents of choir children have any questions, please email me at christopher.spencer@education.wa.edu.au . Thank you. Chris Spencer Music Specialist

2017 SCHOOL PHOTOS 2017 SCHOOL PHOTOS

We have been advised by Kapture Photography that all sports and/or special team photos taken this year will be removed from their website at the close of Term 4. This is your last chance to view and purchase these photographs. Please visit www.kapture.com.au and access the gallery using our school code; CAT75F. This code can also be used to purchase class or individual photographs should you have not ordered earlier in the year. Any queries should be directed to Kapture Photography on (08) 9240 1714. LIONS CHRISTMAS CAKELIONS CHRISTMAS CAKESS

Christmas is fast approaching and to help with your preparations, Lions Traditional Christmas cakes and puddings are available for purchase from our Administration office. Also available this year are new mini traditional fruit cakes, individually wrapped in a serving for one. Please see attached flyer for pricing.

Are your details up to date? Please inform the school if you have a change of residential address, email address or phone/mobile number.

PHYSICAL EDUCATION UPHYSICAL EDUCATION UPDATEPDATE

On Friday 10 November the Year 6 students travelled to Coolamon oval to participate in the annual EISA Network “Have a go carnival”. The carnival is solely for Year 6 students and is primarily about children having the opportunity to experience and take part in several different sporting activities. Additionally, it is used as a stepping stone for students to begin their transition into high school by interacting with other Year 6 students in the area. The warm spring day was a success and the student’s behaviour, participation and efforts were fantastic. Many of our year 6 students met new friends from other network schools who they will transition with onto high school. Congratulations to all involved and a big thankyou to our wonderful helpers.

Term 4 has been yet another very busy term in Physical Education. Students have been exposed to new sports such as lacrosse and gymnastics over a four-week period. A big thank you to Lacrosse WA and Spirit gym sports for all your wonderful assistance this Term.

Finally a very large thank you for all your support of the physical education program in 2017.

Mr Harvie

Physical Education Specialist

Hello Parents, Carers and the Aveley Primary School Community, Thank you to everyone who attend the P and C meeting held last Monday, 20 November. It was lovely to see some new faces. At this meeting we managed to fulfill most of the teachers wish list with our fundraising efforts from the year. This meeting was also the last general meeting of the year. Our next meeting is on Monday, 5 February which is our AGM. All positions will be declared vacant so please come along if you are thinking about joining our wonderful members and can offer your time and expertise, no matter how small. Thank to all our volunteers who have staffed the canteen this year. The canteen has been incredible well supported by students and staff at the school. As an end of term treat we will be offering jelly cups with a chocolate frog for $1.00 to accompany the children's lunches. Once again, we wish to thank all members of the school community for their support this year and look forward to another successful year in 2018. Your Aveley P&C committee Aveleypandc@hotmail.com

AVELEY PRIMARY SCHOOL PARENTS AND CITIZENS ASSOCIATION

COMMUNITY NOTICES

CAMP AUSTRALIA

COMMUNITY NOTICES

WAAPA Summer School 2017/2018

This summer The Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts (WAAPA) is again offering an exciting school holiday program for students in years 4 to 12. The Summer School includes classes in dance, drama, acting, screen performance, music theatre and of course, how to perform Shakespeare. For information about the fantastic courses on offer please visit WAAPA Summer School o r contac t Gabr ie l le Metca l f

at g.metcalf@ecu.edu.au or 9370 6775.