Great news — we achieved third place in a City of Gosnells Safe City Community Kids Award to recognise innovative programs in schools. Mrs Olwen Searle, Mayor of Gosnells, presented the certificate and a cheque for $700 to our school at last week’s assembly. Students are thinking of how we can put this money to good use for the happy welfare of everyone.

Our Aussie of the Month Awards at assemblies came to an end last week with the last awards being given to two deserving students, which makes a total of 20 students for the year. The monthly values were: doing your best, respect others, freedom, responsibility, understanding tolerance and inclusion, respect property and the environment, integrity, care and compassion, honesty and trustworthiness, fair go. Students discussed in class and at assemblies, how they should act and speak within these values to make Excelsior a better place for everyone.

A very busy last 4 weeks coming up! Swimming lessons began well with all students remembering to bring all their gear, and the weather has been kind to us too! Thank you parents for your organising your children with this.

The P&C Disco was a huge success with so many students attending and having great fun perfecting their dancing and game skills. Thank you to all the parents who organised this excellent event, worked on the drinks counter and/or helped supervise students. Our students were, of course, so well behaved away from the school environment.

Kindy/PP Information Night was well attended by parents who were provided with a snapshot of what life would be like next year for them and their children. Thank you parents for your attendance — It was an exciting night.

As we are currently in the process of updating our out-dated school website, you may have noticed last week a professional photographer taking pictures of some of our students to be used on the new webpage. We are really looking forward to this getting up and running.

Finally, we are launching an official Excelsior Primary School Facebook Page to keep parents better informed of the programs and activities at Excelsior. Please check the details elsewhere in this newsletter.

Kind regards Barry Liddelow Principal

24 November 2016 Term 4 No 4

EXCELSIOR PRIMARY SCHOOL

IMPORTANT DATES

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

28 November - 2 December Second week of swimming lessons

2 December Book list due to office

9 December Book Award Assembly

12 December Graduation Assembly

15 December Students last day

Independent Public School

63 Shreeve Road Canning Vale W.A. 6155 Tel: 9455 5811 Email: excelsior.ps.reception@education.wa.edu.au www.excelsiorps.wa.edu.au

ABSENTEE SMS: 0438 936 827

Please DO NOT leave any

valuables in your car due to recent break ins, in and

around the school area.

NEWSLETTER

Swimming Buses Shreeve Rd Parking We wish to remind you to please adhere to the no parking signs along Shreeve Road and also look out for the traffic cones put out for the busses. This is especially important during these 2 weeks of swimming lessons with buses coming in and out of these areas. Thank you for your cooperation.

Remember

Book lists m

ust be retur

ned

to office by

next Friday

2 December!

MERIT AWARDS

C3 Assembly

On Friday it was A3’s Assembly. We have been learning about the ocean and sea animals. We performed Hi-5’s ‘Underwater Discovery’ Song. There was a great deal of buzz and excitement for our first assembly performance. The children did a fantastic job as all their hard work paid off.

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A1 Cody Wyatt

A2 Kaden

A3 Holly India

A4 Gracie Peyton

B1 Lucas Matilda

B2 Dwayne Levi

B3 Kiara Phoebe

B4 Ella Amelia

B5 Riley Conan

B6 Natashja Brianna

C1 Madushana Harry

C3 Si Peng Caitlyn

C4 Dean Zach

C5 Xavier Luke

C6 Amber Ethan

E2 Ava Campbell

E3 Indiana Olivia

ITALIAN C3

SPORT C5

MUSIC Yara A3

GOLDEN BROOM

E2

ART E3

Aussie of the Month

The value for October is Honesty and Trustworthiness. Phoebe (B1): Phoebe is always honest. She tells the truth in every situation and strives to do the right thing. Phoebe works well in a team and looks after everyone in her class. Phoebe always shows integrity and is very loyal to her friends. Zurwa (C5): Zurwa is always reliable and trustworthy. She always tells the truth, treats everyone equally and with respect. Zurwa consistently follows ‘The Excelsior Way.’ Excelsior has many students who demonstrate outstanding citizenship qualities in the school environment. Other nominations for this award were: Ella (A1), Joshua (B1), Gerome (C3), and Shijie (C3).

Planning for the 2017 school year is now underway. In order for us to plan accurately for our staffing and class numbers we need to know if your family is not returning to Excelsior Primary in 2017. If your family is not returning to Excelsior Primary next year, would you kindly let the office staff know you are leaving and where your family will be attending school in 2017.

Excelsior’s Numero Champions!

Are You Leaving Excelsior?

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Term Dates 2017

Term 1 Wednesday 1 February – Friday 7 April Break – Saturday 8 April to Sunday 23 April Term 2 Monday 24 April – Friday 30 June School Development Day: Week 7, Tuesday 6 June (no students) Break – Saturday 1 July to Sunday 16 July Term 3 Monday 17 July - Friday 22 September School Development Day: Week 5, Monday 14 August (no students) Break – Saturday 23 September to Sunday 8 October Term 4 Monday 9 October - Thursday 14 December School Development Day: Week 3, Monday 23 October (no students)

MY SCHOOL RULES PROMOTION Thank you to all the families who have shopped at Forest Lakes Shopping Centre recently and supported the My School Rules promotion. We have received gift vouchers for Term 4, Excelsior PS came second in the competition. These vouchers will be used for prizes for fundraising activities, awards for excellent performances at school or sport. Please continue to support this promotion by dropping your shopping dockets into the boxes located outside Coles at the Forest Lakes Shopping Centre.

It’s a miracle! For the fifth time in a row Excelsior has stolen the lead in Numero and has won yet again another $1000 for our school to thrive in education and the ability to grow our future Numero stars! The ‘Excelsior Numerators’ took down 80 schools thanks to Mrs Young, our Numero coach, who devoted a lot of her time to us Numero Champions. Excelsior’s other four teams were outstanding in the heats. The Excelsior Numerators are the ones who have kept our winning streak up and these intelligent students are Mikayla, Callum, Lauren and Daichi. Our second team ‘E = Excelsior²’, Ashley, Camryn, Pratush and Dean, also made it to the finals and came fourth out of 80! An amazing effort!

Thank you to everyone who supported us, including Mrs Brown and Mrs Hooker.

CONGRATULATIONS!

In Term Two a number of classes entered the Koori Kids 2016 NAIDOC Week School Initiative Competitions which saw over 60 000 entries from schools who participated in a variety of competitions. These competitions involved colouring-in, short story writing, or Creative/Essay Writing.

Congratulations to Daaniya (A4) who was successful in winning in the colouring-in category. She has received the ‘NAIDOC Medal of Excellence’ Award. Only 20 of these awards were issued in WA.

Lunch Orders During Swimming Lessons The canteen will still be making lunch orders for all students during these two weeks of swimming lessons. Please order either online or over the counter as normal. Thank you! We are very thankful for our faithful volunteers who find the time to help us in the canteen. Frances, Kate, Tracey, Yani and Sugi, you are all amazing and we are so grateful for the way in which you cheerfully come in and happily do whatever job is required. The canteen could not operate without you and you are very much appreciated.

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ONLINE UNIFORM ORDERING Online uniform ordering goes live 1st January 2017 http://matrixuniforms.com.au/164-excelsior-primary-school 2017 Term 1 School Holiday Uniform Order Pickup All school reception pickup orders placed before 9.00am Monday 23rd January 2017 will be delivered to the school and ready for collection on Friday 27th January 2017.

UNIFORM SHOP SALE Be quick, existing style shirts, skirts, skorts, shorts and dance pants on sale, all at reduced prices. Stock running low. Uniform Shop opening times Wednesday & Thursday 8:15am - 8:45am.

The Lunch Box Canteen News

Open Thursday and Friday

2017 Book Lists Our 2017 book lists have been finalised and have been given out to the students. They are due back to the office by Friday 2 December. After putting the Personal Lists out to tender and reviewing the submissions, your School Board has approved Ziggies Educational Supplies as our chosen provider this year.

Excelsior Playgroup

A Playgroup for children aged 0-4 and their families.

Where: Excelsior Primary School (E1)

When: Every Thursday during school

terms

9.30 - 11am.

Costs: $2.00

Please bring a hat & a piece of fruit to be

shared.

At Playgroup

• You can have fun playing with your child

• Your child can become familiar with the school environment

ready for future years.

Excelsior Primary School Facebook Page

We have great pleasure in announcing that Excelsior Primary School has its own Facebook page! We seek your support to make this a positive experience for all our community. For anyone wishing to view our Facebook page, the best way to receive the updates is to visit Excelsior Primary School Facebook Page and press the thumbs up ‘Like’ button. This way when we post updates, you’ll receive them in your page – easy. This action will also allow you to comment and ‘like’ our posts. Please also read our Facebook Code of Conduct that has been emailed to all parents.