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WHAT IS POSITIVE BEHAVIOUR SUPPORT?
TERM THREE PLANNER
Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday
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13 14 15 Assembly Assembly at 2.00 p.m. for Mr Strickland’s
retirement
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Book Week and
Science Week
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Book Week and
Science Week
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Book Week and
Science Week
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Book Week and
Science Week
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Book Week and
Science Week
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National Literacy and
Numeracy Week
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National Literacy and
Numeracy Week
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National Literacy and
Numeracy Week
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National Literacy and
Numeracy Week
29 Assembly
Book Week Character
Dress Up
National Literacy and
Numeracy Week
7 September 1 3 National Flag Day 4 5 Book Fair
8 8 Book Fair 9 Book Fair
10 Book Fair
Board Meeting
11 12
School Sports Day
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(Back-up date for
Sports Day)
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Learning Journey
3-6pm.
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RAY OWEN SPORTS CENTRE - GLADYS ROAD
LESMURDIE WA
P.O Box 57 , Kalamunda WA 6926
STADIUM PH : 9291 7600 FAX : 9291 5336 ADMIN
MOB : 0400 568 352
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To girls in years 3,4 & 5 you are invited to a�end Aussie Hoops at
Ray Owen Sports Centre on Mondays from 4 to 5.15pm on courts 4
and 5. Players have training and then a game with skilled coaches.
Uniforms, balls and umpires are provided. Come and try before you
commit! It’s a great way to get fit and have fun as well!
Ring Lizzy on 9293 8100 or Chris jon 0439 936 536
Last Thursday and Friday our Positive Behaviour Support team attended their first round of training. We are very enthusiastic about implementing this at Challis
PBS is a framework for enhancing, adopting and implementing behavioural change within a whole school community through improved social behaviour.
PBS is as much to do with changing teacher behaviour and attitude about discipline as it is to improving student behaviour.
This process usually takes 3 to 5 years to achieve.
PBS is PBS is not
• A collaborative, community
approach to improving behaviour
• Evidence based
• Co-exists with current BM policy
• Individualised
• Explicitly taught
• Constantly evolving
• Being soft on behaviour
• A separate system
• A commercial program
• Limited to a particular group
• Is not a curriculum,
intervention or practice Our Challis PBS Team
MR STRICKLANDS FAREWELL ASSEMBLY
Parents are invited to join special guests at our assembly at 2pm this Friday (15th August). Children will receive their certificates as per usual and we will acknowledge Mr Strickland's service to the school. Parents are invited to join Mr Strickland in the staffroom afternoon for a cup of tea and to say farewell.
Independent Public Schools: 40 Braemore Street, Armadale, Western Australia 6112 Tel: 93995851/93993255 www.challisecec.wa.edu.au
AMALGAMATION
Challis Schools’ Board
C/- Executive Officer 40 Braemore Street Armadale WA 6112
An open letter to all whom it may concern
The Challis Schools’ Board (IPS) made up of staff, parents and community members has unanimously agreed to ask the Department of Education to amalgamate Challis
ECEC and Challis PS into one school.
The Board is of the view that whilst progress has been made in improving the learning outcomes and life chances of the students in both the ECEC and the primary school
as separate schools there are greater gains to be made if the schools were operating as one school with a common and consistent approach. This has been borne out with
the trial ‘one-school’ approach that was put in place for this year. It has enabled the establishment of a coordinated kindergarten to year 7 leadership team that focusses on
the learning needs of each student and the quality of teaching being afforded to every child.
In arriving at this decision the Board carefully considered a number of factors including:
; the full range of student achievement and school performance data set against the vision, mission and strategic intent set for the two schools;
; information acquired about alignment of parent, staff and student opinions of the two schools as measured by the Diagnostic Index of School Alignment administered under
the control of the University of Southern Queensland; and
; the commendations and recommendations provided by the 2012 Independent Public School Review as conducted by the Department of Education Services.
Each of these suggested that more could be done for our students if we had a coordinated approach from entry in the early years to year seven.
Further to this the Board took into account the need for a birth to year twelve education and health program for local students; one which the ECEC has excelled in estab-
lishing for the early years over the last few years. Challis is recognised at both the state and national level for its accomplishments in this regard and by becoming one
school it will consolidate its standing as a centre of excellence and all that goes with it for the benefit of all local children. The opportunity to capitalise on existing agree-
ments with other government agencies (Department of Health in particular), tertiary institutions (Curtin and Edith Cowan Universities) and not-for-profit organisations such as
the Minderoo Foundation which currently contributes significantly to the ECEC, will be greatly enhanced.
The value in the amalgamation can already been seen in the sensible decision to form one P & C Association from inception to serve the needs of both schools; that both
schools share a common school uniform, and that when both schools were granted Independent Public School status the Department of Education established a common
Board for both schools in place of the two existing School Councils. This has been extended this year to a common newsletter and a ‘one-stop shop front’ in the main office
where parents can seamlessly deal with matters associated with their children no matter which school they are enrolled in. A formal amalgamation is the next and most
logical step in ensuring every child receives a seamless and well-coordinated high quality education.
The Board is also of the view that this should happen while the opportunity exists to cause the least amount of disruption to the overall leadership of the two schools, due to
the recent retirement of Mr Strickland from the Primary School. To this end the Board will be seeking to have the amalgamation in place by the start of the coming school
year under the direction of one principal.
This is an historic and important point in time for Challis and just in time for our 40th anniversary celebrations in 2015. It is a moment that will see the school reach its true
ability to provide for the children of the area and I invite you to make comment on this decision so that the Board can be assured of the direction it is taking.
Please forward your comments to me as Chair of the Challis Schools Board care of the Executive Officer 40 Braemore Street Armadale WA 6112. This should be done no
later than Friday 22 August as we wish to make formal application for amalgamation as soon as possible.
Yours sincerely
Keith Newton
M Ed Man BA (Soc Sc) FACEL (WA)
Chair of the Challis Independent Public Schools Board
11 August 2014
OUR SPONSOR
I don’t know about you, but I am certainly loving these warmer winter days.
As most of you are aware, I have been given a wonderful opportunity to facilitate the BUZ program here at school.
BUZ stands for Build Up Zone and the program covers the Australian Curriculum Outcomes for Personal & Social
Competence. It helps them have a better understanding and grow in Self Awareness, Self-Management, Social
Awareness and Social Management. I’m excited to share that in 2013 over 8,000 students participated in a BUZ
program in their school in WA.
I am currently facilitating in four year 1 classes and two year 3 classes. The feedback I have received from staff,
students and parents has been positive. If you have any questions or would like to know more about the program,
please don’t hesitate to ask. I am more than happy to sit down and go through the program with you.
On another note for any who are not aware, I co-facilitate our Challis Coffee & Chat with the lovely Liane Taylor. It is
held on a Monday morning 9-10am in the Chaplains/OSH Club room which is situated next to the uniform shed. If
you are free, please pop in and join us for a cuppa, morning tea and good healthy uplifting conversation.
Have you noticed how the world in which we live is changing at such a fast pace? The news very rarely carries
‘good’ news anymore. There are wars and rumours of wars. Disease we thought had been conquered has returned,
new strains are found and outcomes full of gloom. Where there was once tolerance; respect; care and
understanding is slowly turning into frustration, impatience, hate, manipulation & control. It greatly saddens me.
Is there anything we can do? Yes, I believe there is and it has to start with us. I am always sharing with the students
- we can’t control what other people do or say, but we can control what we do or say. If we as individuals walk in
integrity, show respect, tolerance, care for each other, have compassion, listen and understand, say sorry and
forgive, it will have a ripple effect. Have you ever dropped a pebble in the river and watched what happens. The more
it ripples out the wider it goes, and that’s the same with what we do or say. It’s like pay it forward. Edward Everett
Hale wrote…I am one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot
do interfere with what I can do.
As parents we need to be our children’s champion and greatest teacher. Let our voice and influence be greater than
that of the negative, destructive culture this world is becoming we see in the media. Spend quality time with your
children. Our children are the future for this world, invest in them wisely. Grow and build healthy memories…I read a
little while ago…don’t keep putting off the things you can do today as there are only so many tomorrows. Hug your
children; be lavish in showing them the love you have for them, teach them how to treat others and they in turn will
treat others the same.
Thought for the week…A gentle word, like summer rain, may soothe some heat and banish pain. What joy or
sadness often springs from just the simple little things! Willa Hoey
Cheers
Chaplain Diane
CHAPLAINS CHAT
Chaplains Role
Just a reminder concerning my role within the school. I am available 4 days a week. I offer pastoral support/listening ear to the
school community: students, parents and staff. If you have any concerns for your child whether it is school or personal/home/
grief and loss related, please do not hesitate in contacting me and I can pick up your child for some 1:1 time.
I am situated in the Parenting Centre. You are more than welcome to pop into the centre and chat over a cuppa or alternatively
you can leave a message with the class teacher or at the front office that you wish for your child to see me, and they will
ensure it gets to me. Alternatively you can contact me direct via email. [email protected]
CASTING CALL
PHYSICAL EDUCATION
Dear parents and carers,
It’s term 3 and as always, it is packed full of school sporting events!
We have already had our school cross-country – thanks to Mr McDowell for coordinating this event while I was away – and congratulations to all who took part. I had lots of excited students come and tell me what place they came on my first day backJ Well done everyone – the top three place-getters from each race will be heading off to the interschool cross country at Roleystone C.C. next Friday 15th August.
We also have our biggest school sporting event of the year – the sports carnival – on Friday 12th September (with the Jumps & 400m on the Tuesday 9th Sept). Please put this into your calendar and come along to cheer on your child/ren and their faction. We have started our practice during afternoon sport and are busy selecting competitors for all of our individual and team events. Good luck to all factions- and remember the recipe for success is practice, practice, practice!
Recently we were also lucky enough to have a surprise visit from a West Coast Eagles player – Josh Hills – who presented us with a trophy for winning the Eagles Cup carnival last term. He was very entertaining, answering many of our students’ inquisitive questions and then staying for photos and signatures afterwards.
Mr Mangano
Media Club is sending out a casting call for all would be stars- it is open to all
students and siblings. We require 5 gifted actors to play a role in our upcoming
advert.
Roles range from the main character to extras.Auditions will be held in S12 at
recess on the 12th and 19th of August and after school on the 21st of August.
Successful Stars will need to be available to film on the 28th of August
BOOK WEEK DRESS UP
On Friday 29th August, the children are invited to dress up in their favourite Book character to help celebrate Book Week. There will be a small parade at the assembly for the children to show off their costumes. I’m looking forward to seeing all the different characters! Mrs Briggs
Dear Parents/Guardians,
Choir will restart on Thursday 28th August at 8.a.m. in J16 (Kindergarten Area).
Year 1—5 students are welcome to participate. We will be working on a variety
of songs from Australian to modern.
I am looking forward to meeting new and previous choir members and sharing
the love of music and also being part of a fabulous team.
Cheers, Mrs O’Neill
Music Specialist
CHALLIS CHOIR YEARS 1—5
