Arbor Grove Primary School eNewsletter

Thursday 13 October 2022

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Thursday 13 October 2022

Principal's Perspective
Merit Awards
In Focus
School News
P&C
Child and Parent Centre News
Community News
Coming Events

I would like to welcome everyone back for what will be a very busy Term 4 and hope that everyone had a good break.

For our year 6 students this marks the start of their last term with us. I know the year 6 teachers are busy organising a memorable graduation and end of year activities for these students.

Our year 5 and 6 students have swimming lessons at the beach to look forward to later in the term when the weather is starting to warm up. This should be a great experience for the students, particularly given the role that the sea plays in the Australian lifestyle.

It will be very important that all families keep a regular eye on our webpage and on the newsletter to ensure that they don’t miss any of the many activities planned for this term.

Science Room Opening

We were thrilled to have Jessica Shaw, MLA attend this week to officially open our wonderful refurbished science room. Mrs Quinn and the student councillors impressed Jessica, Jason Maloney (Board Chair) and Amy Holmes (P&C President) with some experiments creating circuits and solar vehicles.

Are you leaving us in 2023?

It is very important that families that are leaving us this year let the school know at the earliest opportunity. This information will be essential to ensure the accuracy of our planning and preparations for 2023.

Class Placement Requests

I would ask that any parents with specific requests for 2023 submit these to the Principal marked “Private and Confidential” by the close of business Friday October 28. Only written requests with an educational focus will be considered and whilst we endeavour to satisfy parent requests it is important to note that the school cannot guarantee this.

Hats

It is disappointing to see so many students without hats. Could parents please ensure that their child(ren) has a school hat with their name on them. This will ensure that, as the weather improves, all students can play outside in the sun not to mention participate in ALL the physical education lessons (many of which will focus on the sports carnival events).

2023 Kindy

Our Kindergarten classes for 2023 are now full. We will commence a wait list for any further enrolments just in case vacancies arise.

Glen Purdy

Merit Awards

Pre Primary	Year 1	Year 2	Year 3	Year 4	Year 5	Year 6
Aleah	Najwa	Ophelia	Ava	Rhyley	Emaan	Lilly
Kaylee	Maddi	Elijah	Bradley	Imogen	Jake	Bailee
Ruby	Frazor	Flynn	Aubree	Shiloh	Mia	Cielo
T-K	Delana	Asher	Elizabeth	Jethro	Kade	Noah
Navya	Harlow	Harfateh	Ben	Teya	Lyra	Mabior
Yaqoub	Celine	Emily	Nic	Ajak	Kamelia	Karthick
Max		Jackson	Celina	Noah	Taj
		Annette			Mackenzie

Aussie of the Month	Mathlete Award	Literacy Award
Binyamin	Jake	Rebecca
Noah	Hunter	Lily

In Focus

In writing, the students in Room 9 have been learning the structure of an Information Report. The students started their learning journey by investigating a model text called “The Blue-billed Duck”. We then innovated the model text and made our own changes through shared writing. We finished our learning journey by independently writing an information report about an Australian animal of our choice. Once we had written our information reports and edited them, we published them by typing them onto the computer and learning how to save them on our USB. Finally, we linked our Art lessons in and made our chosen Australian animals out of air-drying clay and used our textas to colour them in.

Room 7

In Maths, Room 7 has been looking at Fractions. The students explored how a fraction is an equal part of a whole. We began identifying whole, halves, quarters and eighths of objects through exploration activities and games. As part of our daily warm up we played a fractions quiz where students were asked questions such as 'True or False?' and 'What fraction is this?' and justified their answers. We then learnt the process for ‘How to work out a fraction in a collection of objects’ and completed a sweet activity involving smarties! It was a delicious and engaging unit of work enjoyed by all the students.

School News

Save The Date - Year 6 Transition Afternoon Tea

On Tuesday 15 November at 3:15pm, Ellenbrook Secondary staff and Stacy Corish (NMERO) will be hosting an afternoon tea at Arbor Grove PS.

This event is for parents and students to come along and meet with the teachers and also to finalise any enrolments or questions.

More information will be provided closer to the date.

P&C

Keep up to date with regular Connect notices and

Arbor Grove Primary School P&C Association Inc.

Arbor Grove Primary School - Secondhand Uniform Sales

Introducing the brand NEW P&C WEBSITE

You’ll find lots of information about the P&C and most importantly you’ll be able to order for the P&C special lunch order days and events.

Simply scan the QR code to be taken directly to the site or enter

https://arbor-grove-primary-school-parents-and-citizens-association-in.square.site/

Note: As the website is new, we would appreciate your feedback.

Complete the ‘contact us’ section and let us know how you found ordering? Is the website easy to use? What difficulties you had, any questions you have, anything at all.

Look out for order forms in school bags this week.

Thinking of 2023 book lists and labelling all the stationary?

Place an order through My Name Label and receive 5% off!

Visit: https://www.mynamelabel.com.au/

SAVE THE DATE

Friday 2 December 2022

Disco Is Coming

What will be this year's theme? This year our year 6’s will choose.

Book Club

Issue 6 orders have arrived and will be handed out this week.

Term 4 will see Issue 7 of Book Club; due to delivery time frames this will be the last catalogue for 2022.

Please remember if you would like your order to be a surprise, please check the GIFT selection at ordering and it will be kept aside for your collection.

Containers for Change

ARBOR GROVE PRIMARY SCHOOL PARENTS AND CITIZENS' ASSOCIATION INCORPORATED

SCHEME ID C10469670

Did you know?

Each day students recycle their used containers into the buckets around the school. These are then emptied and recycled into the Containers for Change Bin located just inside the undercover area.

Once a fortnight the P&C return the eligible collection to a refund point.

Did you know you can help too?

By dropping your eligible containers to the bin at school, or by taking them to a refund point and opting to donate your return to us.