INSIDE THIS EDITIONPositive Partnerships Meetings Pg 2We’ll Miss Mrs Spencer! Pg 2Children’s Ward Fundraiser Pg 2P & C AGM Pg 2Book Club Update Pg 3Containers for Change Pg 3Disco Reminder Pg 3Calendar Snapshot Pg 3 Cyber Friendly Primary Schools Pg 4Crown Performance Auditions Pg 42022 Enrolments Pg 4News from TA19KA Pg 5News from TA28 Pg 6Messages from the P & C Pg 7News from the Community Pg 8

T e r m O n e , W e e k E i g h t , T h u r s d a y 2 5 t h M a r c h

Dear parents and carers, Thank you to the many families that supported their children at last Friday’s Athletics Carnival during the unseasonably warm weather. The day was a success, with modifications to ensure the vast majority of children were back in classes before the day became too hot and uncomfortable. The organisation from Ms Falco, Mrs Hinchliffe and Mrs Harmer-Watkins was fantastic and the support of all our staff very much valued. The final Faction points were; 1st: Corella, with 880 points 2nd: Forrest, with 778 points 3rd: Carnaby, with 765 points 4th: Baudin, with 568 points Congratulations to all students for your outstanding performances at both the track and team game carnivals. The champion students for 2021 are; Year Three Champion Girl: Zara Habbits Runner Up Girls: Charlotte Shaw, Ella Wylde, Chloe Williams Champion Boy: Mason Banks Runner Up Boy: Harrison Gliddon Year Four Champion Girl: Rose Mulé Runner Up Girl: Eunice Adejumo Champion Boy: Craig Jones Runner Up Boy: Austin Taylor Year Five Champion Girl: Mikayla Webster Runner Up Girl: Zoe French Champion Boy: Zavier Bonser Runner Up Boy: Devon Bolt Year Six Champion Girl: Sarah Noah Runner Up Girl: Savannah Atkinson-Rivers Champion Boy: Sam Gliddon Runner Up Boy: Tristan Whitson, Kodi Barnes

5th March 2020

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The Interschool Carnival will be hosted on Thursday 1st April at the Beaumaris Primary School Oval. The Interschool Jumps and Throws will be held on Monday 29th March. This will be the first carnival with our new Beachside Sporting Association,

which includes Beaumaris Primary School, Joondalup Primary School and Connolly Primary School, and I’m sure it will be a terrific carnival. Children participating in the event will have separate letters to bring home to their parents.

Positive Partnerships Meetings This week, we have been hosting Positive Partnerships meetings with families who have a child with a diagnosis of autism. The meetings provide the opportunity for the parent, class teacher and one of our Autism Support Teachers to meet and consider the needs of each child and the best strategies to support them to learn and grow.

Joondalup Hospital Telethon Children’s Ward Fundraiser Our Free Dress Day for the Children’s Ward at Joondalup raised $821.50, which was a terrific effort. The students managing this project have two further fundraisers to host this year. We will provide the funds to the Children’s Ward close to the end of the school year when the last event is completed.

P & C AGM Thank you to several members of the school community for volunteering to take on the vacant positions for our P & C Executive. We have now met the officer bearer requirement for our Association. The 2021 office bearers are; President: Claire Ihlein Vice President: Sabrina Pimenta Treasurer: Mike Bush Secretary: Rebecca Jeremiah Fundraising: Nadine Havel Executive: Peta Drew, Krystalie Walther, Marianne Powell

Congratulations and welcome, I look forward to working with you.

We’ll miss you, Mrs Spencer!

Our school staff will gather on Monday afternoon to acknowledge Mrs Deidre Spencer’s contributions to our school, and to public education, as she leaves for retirement.

Mrs Spencer was a foundation member of Currambine Primary and has been an integral part of our school community. She has taught in the public education system for over 38 years. At Currambine Primary she has been a much-valued senior primary teacher working with Year Five, Six and Seven students. She has lead camps, been central to graduation ceremonies, organised and managed the development of Year Books for graduating classes. She has also involved herself in the many extracurricular activities that the senior children so enjoy and that create memories of primary school that last a lifetime. Her Monday seat-swap was well known to students and at each new table, children found small laminated cards with an inspiration quote just for them. We will celebrate her wonderful service (but not too much, as Mrs Spencer doesn’t like a fuss), however, such long, loyal and quality service to our school deserves recognition.

I am sure all members of our school community wish Mrs Spencer a happy and busy retirement.

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Book Club Update Please note that there have been a few issues with scheduling regarding the incoming book orders and unfortunately orders will not be delivered until start of next term.

Containers for Change Currambine Primary School has joined the Containers for Change Scheme, which will see a 10 cent refund for every eligible container you return. Funds raised will go to Mohasaing Primary School through the Angkor Project.

How can your family get involved?1) You can drop your containers off at a Refund Point. Currambine Primary School’s Scheme ID for Containers for Change is C102829332) Beginning in Term Two, there will be four bins around the school for students and staff to place their containers into. All canteen drink containers can be placed in these bins. The bins will be located outside the staffroom, in the pre-primary eating area, in the Year 5 and 6 eating area and outside the canteen.

Please note that Mrs Markostamos is still collecting bread tags and unfortunately we are no longer collecting batteries. More info about the Containers for Change Program can be found here: https://www.containersforchange.com.au/wa/how-it-works.

Disco Our P & C Committee are hosting the first Disco of the year tomorrow night, Friday 26th March, however additional volunteers are required, particularly for the senior disco. Without more helpers, the discos cannot go ahead; please see page seven for more information.

CALENDAR SNAPSHOT

Wed 24th - 25th Mar Positive Partnerships Meetings between parents and teachers.Fri 26th Mar School Disco. Kindy, Pre-Primary, Year One: 4pm - 5pm. Year Two, Three and Four: 5.30pm - 7pm. Year Five and Six: 7.30pm to 9pm. Assembly A, TA28.Mon 29th Mar Interschool Jumps and Throws. Thurs 1st Apr Interschool Athletics Carnival. Last day of Term One.Mon 19th Apr First day of Term Two.Mon 19th - 20th Apr Paint Storm Incursion (Pre-Primary to Year Six). Permission slips and money due by Friday 26th March. Thurs 22nd Apr Anzac Ceremony. Fri 23rd Apr Assembly B, TA37.Mon 26th Apr Anzac Day Public Holiday. Wed 28th Apr Story Time for 0-4 year olds. 8.45 am to 9.15 am, Currambine Primary School Library.Friday 30th Apr Assembly B, TA48. Faction Cross Country.Monday 3rd May Play and Learning Session (PALS) for 0-4 year olds. 8.45am - 10.30am. Undercover Area. P & C Meeting. 7pm. Wed 5th - 7th May Year Six Camp.

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Crown Performance Auditions Congratulations to all Year Five students who auditioned for the Crown performance on Tuesday. All students who auditioned are now in our Crown production. This is a privilege and requires a serious commitment from each student during rehearsals. Any disruptive behaviour will not be accepted.

Rehearsals commence in the first week of Term Two and will continue through to our performance on Thursday August 12th (Week Four, Term Three). Further information about costuming, transport, stage and dress rehearsals etc will be provided in Term Two. Should you have any questions please see Mr Van or Mrs Barrett (Tues / Weds).

2022 Enrolments Now Open In Western Australia, children can start their education in Kindergarten, however, compulsory schooling starts the following year in Pre-primary.

Who needs to enrol? You need to apply to enrol your children in school for 2022 if they are: • starting Kindergarten – Four years old by 30 June 2022 • starting Pre-primary*, the first year of compulsory school – Five years old by 30 June 2022. • changing schools.

*Note: If your child is currently attending Currambine Primary School this year, you do not need to enrol them again, they will automatically have a place allocated

Enrolments for 2022 are now open. If you know someone in the community that is looking for a school for their child, please provide them with the link to our prospectus: https://www.currambineps.wa.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Currambine-Primary-School-Prospectus-2020.pdf

Students do not need to reside within the school’s intake boundary, in fact, over fifty percent of our parents have come from beyond our school boundaries drawn by our reputation for academic challenge, high standards of student behaviour, a caring and supportive community and a staff always willing to ‘go the extra mile’ for the students in our care.

Applications are due by Friday 23rd July 2021.

Geoff Smith Principal

Our school has been asked to participate in the Cyber Friendly Primary Schools Project by the Telethon Kids Institute. Cyber Friendly Primary Schools is a three-year project which will develop and evaluate a website, which has been designed to support parents and school staff to improve children’s social and emotional learning skills in an online environment. The project will also be providing the school with resources to promote these skills in the school community. Last week, parents of students in years four, five and six will have received the first Connect notice about this and there will be more information sent during the next few months. Parents of students in years four, five and six will have access to the website and information aimed at supporting you to help your children to use digital technology safely and positively, and then complete surveys to help ensure the resources are relevant and useful. Thank you for your support of this valuable research.

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Understanding our Feelings in TA19KA

In Kindy we have been learning all about our feelings. We have been reading lots of books about feeling happy, surprised, sad and angry, and shared our own stories of times we felt these emotions. We met the Mood Monsters who helped us understand what feelings look like and feel like. We used the Mood Monsters’ colours to represent these feelings and painted a picture of a time we felt happy or surprised and sad or angry. We have been practising drawing facial expressions that show these feelings - we are getting so good at drawing now! We have also been learning how to regulate our emotions, we can do our mindful breathing or relax in the reading corner to help us feel better. Something that always makes us feel HAPPY is when ERIK our cocky notices our wonderful school behaviour! He loves to give us tokens to fill his nest with, and we love to give him cuddles!

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Harmony Day in TA28

Over the past few weeks, Year Two students in TA28 have been learning about Harmony Day in preparation for our assembly item.

Harmony Day is about celebrating Australia’s cultural diversity and making sure everyone feels respected and valued in our community. Since 1945 more than 7.5 million people have migrated to Australia and nearly half of all Australians were born overseas or have a parent who was born overseas.

In our class of 22 students, we have families from 11 different countries all around the world! Can you identify all of the flags our students are holding to see which countries their families are from?

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Messages from the P & C

Faction Carnival - Thank you! The P & C would like to thank everyone that helped out at the Faction Athletics Carnival on Friday. Many people helped with set up, packaway, hair spraying, the cake stall, bacon and egg stall and also a big thanks to everyone who purchased from the stalls! The funds raised will go towards resources for the library, including decodable readers and advanced readers. Thank you also to Anytime Fitness Currambine who donated 200 bottles of water.

Disco The first disco of the year is tomorrow night (Friday 26th March). We know that there are many children looking forward to the discos, however we desperately require more volunteers (particularly for the Senior Disco) to ensure they can go ahead. Junior Disco (Kindy, Pre-Primary and Year One): 4pm - 5pm Middle Disco (Years Two, Three and Four): 5.30pm - 7pm Senior Disco (Years Five and Six): 7.30pm - 9pm There are plenty of ways that you can help on the night, from setting up to packing up, crowd controller to canteen helper, assist at the Junior, Middle or Senior discos, whatever you can do would be very much appreciated. Please contact the P & C via the Currambine PS P&C Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/CurrambinePC/ Or alternatively, message Nadine Havel (0432 543 197) or Kerry French (0418 926 054) if you can help.

There’s still time to get your tickets: https://www.trybooking.com/BPWOB Entry: $5 Meal deal with entry: $10 The theme is: “What’s your favourite colour?”. Glow sticks and lollies will be available to purchase, dressing up is optional.

Stay up to date with P & C news Follow the Currambine PS P&C page on Facebook and come along to the next P & C meeting on AGM at 7pm, Monday 3rd May. We hope to see you there!

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GET TO KNOW US

KEY DATES

Application ClosingDates and/or Trials

Round 1 Cricket Trialstake place at the WACAWednesday 31 March

Specialist FashionDesign - Friday 21 May

Academic EnrichmentProgram - Friday 30 April

Elite NetballWednesday 2 JuneTrials Thursday 3 June

Elite MusicFriday 11 June

Elite DanceFriday 11 June

ENROLMENT INFORMATION NIGHT

WEDNESDAY 31 MARCH 2021 - 6:00pm

Parents of prospective Year 3 to 6 students are warmly invited to ourinformation evening where you will learn more about the enrolment process,our high quality education, life in secondary schooling and our specialist andschool based programs on offer. There will also be an opportunity to meetwith the Leadership Team and Program Coordinators.

OPEN DAY PARENT TOURS

WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL 2021 - 9.00am

View our college in action and learn about our comprehensive Year 7 to 12programs. Tour will last approximately one hour.

COURSE TASTERS FOR YEAR 5 AND 6 STUDENTS

WEDNESDAY 28 APRIL 2021 - 9AM TO 12:30PM

Year 5 and 6 students are invited to come and try one of the following:

STEM Enrichment, Specialist Cricket, Fashion Design, Elite Netball, Music and Dance Academy course tasters.

THE CLOCK IS TICKING . . .

BOOKINGS ESSENTIAL FOR ALL EVENTS

Call 9408 8000 or register via www.belridgecollege.wa.edu.au NEWS & EVENTS

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A FREE program that teaches practical and effective ways to enhance family relationships and manage common child behaviour issues.Who is this program for?Parents, carers and/or grandparents of a child aged between 3 and 8 years.

What is involved?● Seminar Series – 90-minute talks on:

◦ children’s behaviour– the tough part of parenting

◦ raising confident children◦ raising emotionally resilient children.

● Discussion Group – small, 2-hour groups:◦ misbehaving◦ fighting and aggression◦ bedtime routine◦ hassle-free shopping with children.

● Group Triple P – 8-week parenting course.

Triple P - Positive Parenting Program®

This document can be made available in alternative formats on request for a person with a disability.

How do I book?Ask your child health nurse or visit healthywa.wa.gov.au/parentgroups.

Program details:

Please note: Unless there is a crèche advertised, only babies under the age of 6 months can attend this group. However, we welcome babies who need breastfeeding during the session. DO NOT bring hot food and drinks for safety reasons.

June 2020 CAH-001009_TripleP

To help us all stay healthy, please remember:● Practise physical distancing.● Do not attend if you are feeling unwell or need to self-isolate.If you need to cancel your booking, contact the Child Health Booking Systemon 1300 749 869 (metro only).

1. Seminar Series - Craigie Leisure Centre Thursday's 9.30am - 11.30am 13th, 20th and 27th May 2021 2. Seminar Series - Doubleview House Thursday's 9.30am - 11.30am 3rd, 10th and 17th June 2021 3. Discussion Group - Craigie Leisure Centre (Dealing with Disobedience) Wednesday 9.30am - 11.30am 9th June 2021