ISSUE 8 May 2017

SCHOOL HOURS

8:45am – 11:00am

11:00am – 11:20am - Recess

11:20am – 1:00pm

1:00pm – 1:30pm - Lunch

1:30pm – 2:50pm

Early Close - Thursday

2:30pm

Assemblies will

change to

Friday after-

noons @ 2:00pm

for Term 2 & 3.

PH: 9277 1642

Rivervale.ps@education.wa.edu.au

HONOUR STUDENTS

We had a great celebration of hard working students who have set goals and

who were rewarded for their achievement at last Friday’s assembly. We

acknowledge 4 students who have earned their Rivervale Primary School Honour

Student Badge: Dhana Basdeo (Rm2), Deacon McGuire (Rm2), Hayden Tran

(Rm5) and Leo Periz (Rm5) are the first recipients of this tremendous award.

This badge is the top level of our Star Chart, Faction ticket and rewarding positive

attitudes program. These children have earned 120 faction tickets and have

completed 6 star charts. Collectively we say to them “very well done”

Currently we have 3 staff at the school: Mr Burns, Mrs Wheatley and

Mr Kiernan, who are working hard with staff, students and community members

to make Rivervale Primary a Super Safe School. We are investigating how

students travel to school, how safe they are when they travel and how we can

make the local community a safe and better connected environment.

Mr Kiernan is focusing on bike/scooter travel and safety. Mrs Wheatley is looking

at pedestrian travel and safety and Mr Burns is meeting with other agencies to

increase staff knowledge, school resources and planning. A simple start that all

parents can make is this, “If your child rides or scooters to school –

MAKE THEM WEAR A HELMET”. Rivervale Primary School is endeavouring

to be a Super Safe School.

COMMUNITY ART PROJECT

We are very lucky to have local artist, Charlotte O’Shea working with a group of parents to come up with 4 exciting

art installations. These art pieces will reflect programs and values that are important to Rivervale Primary. They will

be placed at the front of the school near the old kindergarten building. It is not too late to get involved with this

group (Tuesday 1.30pm – 2.30pm)

PARKING

As a part of our Super Safe School approach we are looking at current practices. We have been provided with extra

street parking by the City of Belmont. We are very lucky with regard to parking spaces compared to every other

school in the metropolitan area.

Mr Major is currently redefining bike and scooter movement into and out of the school. We believe that it is

currently a little unsafe for bike riders/scooter riders and also for pedestrians. The area where staff park behind the

gardeners building, near TLC3 (Pre Primary), is a NO PARKING ZONE FOR PARENTS. This will soon be the only entry

and exit point for bike and scooter riders. When you see what we have planned for this area you will appreciate

this request.

ENROLMENT FOR 2018

Friday 21 July, is an important date in your child’s education

Families need to apply to enrol their children in a public school

for 2018 if they are:

starting Kindergarten for 2018 if they are 4 years old by 30

June 2018.

starting Pre-primary (first year of compulsory school) – 5 years old by 30 June 2018

changing schools.

All children from Pre-primary to Year 12 are guaranteed a place at their local public school.

To apply to enrol your child, visit your local school by Friday 21 July.

For more information or to find your local school visit education.wa.edu.au

Danielle Bertanees, Artist—Charlotte O’Shea & Nataliaya Holovina-Dyachenko

OLDSHIRTS NEEDED FOR ART

If you have an old shirt or two that is not being used, we would appreciate it for our Art department.

SHIRT/S CAN BE LEFT WITH YOUR CLASS TEACHER

VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS -

$30 per PP – Yr 6 Student,

$60 per Kindy Student

Financial Support provided by parents has always played an enabling role in the provision of resources that extend the school’s capacity to add value to student’s learning experience. For example, parent contributions allow schools to provide text books instead of students having to provide their own. Payments can be made directly to the school by cash or EFTPOS, into our bank account (details available on the schedule).

TLC3 Haniya Bushra, Ruhani Chander, Masumeh Ghulamnabi, Elham Ghullami

Room 9 Julia Chuwah, Siyana Salleh Stamper, Mikhail Tanoli

Room 7 Frank Ngendakumana, Joshua Seaman

Room 5 Elieza Magbitang, Krishnen Pyneandee, Jamie Shea - Nannup

Room 6 Kiara Cooper, Uni Heard, Alexi Hull, Margaret Nannup

Room 2 Malachi Cooper

I don't want to protect the Environment,

I want to create a world where the

Environment doesn't need protecting.

VALUES PROGRAM—PATHS

When students learn about “Setting Goals” in P.A.TH.S., it can be in the context of problem solving but they are made aware that goal setting is not only associated with problem solving but can be long and short term goals in the context of employment, their school work or their interests. Students identify that a long term goals take much longer to achieve and sometimes are made up of many short term goals. It’s very important to think about goals when we have a problem, because that helps us decide what to do. Whenever we have a problem, it’s important to decide how we want our problem to end and this can be in relation to a short term goal but also a long term goal. When setting the goal for a positive ending, the student will focus on a positive outcome or an outcome that will be the best ending possible that will make the situation better not worse, and the solution will not hurt anyone else.

Students are encouraged to consider the following:

1. If your goals involve hurting other people, other people may eventually set goals to hurt you.

2. If you do things that are positive for others, other people are more likely to do things that are also positive for you.

3. The world would be a safer, happier place in which to live if we all set positive goals when we had problems.

These three points are important discussion points at home as well as in the classroom and we encourage

parents/caregivers to use the model of problem solving, have discussions about goal setting and the role it plays

in problem solving and the effect the selection of an appropriate goal can have on the problem to be solved. The

use of real situations is far more meaningful for students to understand the role that problem solving takes and

the capturing of every day situations allows students to practise their skills.