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INSIDE THIS

ISSUE:

Presentation

Night Tonight

1

Thank you

and Goodbye

1

Bushfire 2

Happy

Holidays

2

Calendar of

Events

2

Merit Awards 3

Choir 3

Web Stars 3

OfficeMax 3

School

Banking

3

Canteen 3

BooBook

Owls

3

P&C News 4/5

Community

News

5

Program for

Presentation

Night

6

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Greenmount Primary School

NEWSLETTER

50—68 Innamincka Road GREENMOUNT 6056 9294 1155 Email School : greenmount.ps@education.wa.edu.au Email Principal : lucy.webb@education.wa.edu.au Website : www.greenmountps.wa.edu.au

Please SMS if your child is absent,:

name, class and reason.

Dear Greenmount families

Beginning at 6pm tonight we will be holding our end of year Awards Night. This year, all classes will be presenting the dance routine

that they have been learning in the Edu Dance program. The

students are looking forward to displaying their talents and energetic dance moves! We look forward to acknowledging some talented and

hardworking students – the recipients of Greenmount Primary Endeavour and Achievement awards.

Following the Presentation Night, there will be a short intermission allowing our

senior students to change into their more formal gear, ready for their big moment – the Graduation Ceremony, beginning around 8.30pm. Families of year 6

students will be invited to move their chairs closer to the stage for a good view of

proceedings as we send off this year’s group. A light supper will then be shared in the Library.

For the smooth running of the night, we ask that: √ All students meet in classrooms at 5.30pm and are collected from classrooms at

the end of the night √ All students stay with their classes for the duration of the Presentation Night so

that items and award presentations are not interrupted √ No smoking on school grounds – please go outside school grounds

√ All siblings not involved in the night’s events are seated with their families

Please note: gates on the oval or at the service entry will not be opened this evening. Please use the gates at Polygon Place, staff car park and at the Kiss and

Drive entry.

Looking forward to celebrating the end of the school year with all our wonderful

Greenmount Primary School families!

Thank you and goodbye

Amidst the celebrations there are also farewells – a time to acknowledge those staff

members who will be moving on from Greenmount Primary.

· Sarah Duhig energised our Music Program during 2016, introducing the ukulele and

community song at assembly. The students throughout the school appreciated the

enthusiasm Sarah brought to the teaching of music. Sarah’s talent as a violinist

has seen her win a position as Strings Coordinator at St Mary’s Karrinyup. We wish

Sarah every success in her new position and school.

· Marsha Adlam has been working with us over the last six months in Room1 during Mrs

Perrin’s absence. Marsha has done an excellent job with the Pre Primary students

and been a valuable member of the team during this time. We hope to see Marsha

return in other roles in the future.

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Where’s My Mummy?

If you have lost this comforter, please collect

from the front office.

As we enter the summer break, I would like to provide you with information around the school’s preparedness for the event of a bushfire. The Department of Education is committed to maximising the safety of its students and staff. Greenmount Primary School is listed on the Bushfire Zone Register. Inclusion on this register means that the school may be required to invoke a pre-emptive closure on a day for which a Catastrophic Fire Danger Rating (FDR) has been declared for

the Shire of Mundaring. A Catastrophic FDR means that if a fire starts, it is likely to be uncontrollable, unpredictable and fast moving. What does this mean for our school? When given advance warning by the Department of Fire and Emergency Services (DFES) that a Catastrophic FDR has been forecast for a given day, the Deputy Director General, Schools may direct the pre-emptive closure of our school. If the school receives such a direction, you will be informed of the possible planned closure by a letter sent home with your child. Parents of students absent on the day this letter is sent home will be contacted by telephone, so please ensure the school has up to date contact details for you. In the intervening period between the declaration of the pre-emptive closure and the day of planned closure, DFES will keep the Department informed of any change to the FDR forecast for the declared day. The final decision to pre-emptively close the school will be confirmed with the principal no later than 4.30pm on the day before the planned closure. If the forecast changes after that deadline, the closure will stand, regardless of improvements to the weather conditions later in the afternoon of the day before the planned closure or overnight. The intention is to limit confusion or uncertainty for parents and to allow you ample time to make alternative child care arrangements. Parents will be advised of the confirmation of closure, or its reversal, by a note sent home with your child on the day before the planned closure. Again, parents of students absent on this day will be contacted by telephone. It is anticipated that the school will typically only be required to close for a single day at a time, but this will depend on the weather. The school website will contain a notice to advise you of the current status of the school closure and when it is expected to reopen. I ask that you monitor local media for current information about fire danger ratings and notification of schools reopening. Staying tuned to ABC Local Radio in your locality is advisable. You can also check with DFES on 13 DFES (13 33 37) or www.dfes.wa.gov.au. Alternatively you can call me on 9294 1155 or the North Metro Education Regional Office on 9285 3600. If any of the options listed above for finding out when to send your child back to school will prove problematic, please contact the school to arrange for us to phone you to advise you when the school will reopen . As part of preparing for the event of a bushfire, we also schedule evacuation drills intermittently during the school year to ensure that students are familiar with how staff and students will respond to the situation. If you have any further questions, please contact us.

Thank you to everyone for your contribution to a successful and productive year at Greenmount

Primary School. Best wishes for a wonderful Christmas and holiday break!

Lucy Webb

PRINCIPAL

Please mark these dates on your Calendars Wednesday 7th December Yr 6 Graduation/Presentation Night

Thursday 15th December LAST DAY OF TERM 4

FIRST DAY FOR STUDENTS, TERM 1 2017 WEDNESDAY 1ST FEBRUARY

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Friday 2nd December Rm 1 Arron Spurr Rm 3 Indiana Baldwin Luka Trauseld Rm 5 Alexander Martin Aiden Francis Rm 6 Jocelyn Mancini Makayla Laudehr Oliver Nolte Rm 7 Charlotte Saunders Kyla Winter Rm 8 Mackenzie Gaitskell Emily Hayward Rm 9 Luca Matthee Anaysha Clohessy Rm 10 Ella Donovan Tahlia-Jayne Bruton Rm 11 Olivia Landers Isabelle Agostino Mitchell White Kembry Desmond Rm 12 Teina Wilson Annalise Appleby Rm 14 Camis Walker Vanessa Ninyette Samuel Zimdahl Rm 15 Haylee Williams Kye Hitchcock Anastacia Merkouris Rm 17 Joseph Roan Jack Montgomery

MERIT AWARDS

Fantastic effort

everyone!

School Banking

The Bendigo Bank School banking is on every second Monday (even weeks) from

8.30am - 9.00am in the Uniform

Shop. Teach your children about

saving.

Christmas Choir Performance The Choir will be performing at Centrepoint Midland on Friday 9th December from around 9.15—10.00am. All parents and caregivers are welcome to come along and attend.

Canteen As we approach the end 2016, I will be allowing stock to run down from the canteen. Online I will re-move products as they become no longer available, in the weeks to come. Regular updates will be made on the whiteboards outside the class-rooms. No Sweet & Sour Chicken available, Gluten Free Wraps or GF Mac Cheese.

Thank you Toni

Please take the time to look at

these new items on our website:- Class Items

Room 5 Mr Adam Lee

Room 14 Owls Room 6 The Sea

Recent News 2016 Presentation/Graduation Night

OFFICEMAX ORDERS

Please note: when placing your

stationery order with Officemax

Rather than tick the box for the

appropriate voluntary contributions, it is necessary to click on the rubbish bin to

remove the voluntary contributions not required.

Special Visitors Western Australian BooBook Owls

Over the last few days, we have been very lucky to have these owls roost in one of the trees on our school grounds. If you would like to find our more about these Book Owls please cut and paste the link below into your browser. http://perthzoo.wa.gov.au/animals-plants/australia/nocturnal-house/boobook-owl/ Photos kindly taken by Mrs Jenni Cross

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Christmas Raffle - We had a fantastic response for donations for the raffle this year, a whopping 16 hamper prizes assembled. We will be selling extra tickets just prior to the draw during Presentation Night so please come along to the raffle table or spot the ticket sellers amongst the crowd for your chance to be in it. All tickets are only $1 each.

Issue 8 Book Orders should have arrived at the time of writing and will be distributed to students very soon.

Entertainment Books We had a Family Pass Voucher for Rollerways Morley to be drawn from everyone who purchased an Entertainment Book from the P&C this year. At our last P&C Meeting we drew the winner, congratulations to Jo King who is the lucky recipient.

The last day for the shop is 14 December 2016, so parents are welcome to place orders up until then. They might only however be processed for 27 January 2017 pick up.

***The uniform shop also needs 2 parent volunteers to help us out on the 27th of January in the shop from 8.30am until 12pm. Email uniform-shop@gpspnc.org or drop into the Uniform shop before end of term*** A new A-line Sport skirt ($15.00) and Microfibre Shorts ($17.00) is available for pre-order and pick up on 27 January 2017. They are both available from sizes 4, 6, 8, 10, 12 and 14. They have been added to the order forms, and will be available to print off on our Facebook page. Could we please ask everyone's patience on the morning that school opens on the 1st of February 2017. As you all know, it will be a Wednesday, and as such the shop will be open, but since we all have kiddies that we would like to settle into their first day of their new clas-ses, we might only be able to open between 8.45am and 9am. So don't worry, if you see the door is closed. Someone will be there soon. But we are all parents, and kiddies come first. So if this is an issue for you, please come on the 27th of January, or order via FlexiSchools.

Thank you to everyone who voted for us during November’s Bankwest Easy Grants round. We won $1000! We are currently organising the purchase of new portable shade shelters for use at school events for the students.

Colour Fun 2017 Did you want to join in and do the recent Colour Run in the city but the cost put you off? Coming in Term 1, 2017 we will be hosting our own Colour Fun event for your family and friends. Information and tickets will be available early in Term 1 so please Watch this Space! Sauce Bottles needed!

Can you please save your sauce bottles and bring them to the office, there will be a collection box waiting for them. Tomato, BBQ, Mustard, we aren’t fussy on the flavours or the brands, just after 500ml or 900ml squeeze bottles please. Please keep saving through the holidays too, massive thank you to everyone who have brought some in so far.

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2016 Wrap Up from the President What an amazing year the P&C has had. Thank you so much to our members, our parent volunteers and from every-one that supports our endeavours.

With all of your help, we have been able to achieve the following this year: • We have raised around $11 500 for the year from our various Fundraising

Activities. • We have raised another $1500 in Grants from Bankwest & Mundaring Shire, which

will go towards more Shade structures for sports days, and the running of the Safety House program.

• We have raised a combined total of $2132.50 in rewards dollars for the school with Scholastics Bookclub.

• We have raised $233.55 in rewards dollars with the Parent Direct & Chalk Toy catalogues

• The P&C has contributed $8285 towards shade sails over the small playground opposite the Uniform Shop.

• The P&C has implemented an online ordering system for the purchasing of uniforms & event tickets.

• The Uniform Shop has finally been able to get their own EFTPOS device to make it easier for parents and the P&C.

• The P&C has contributed $1000 towards Maths Resources for all children. • We are contributing $1500 towards Presentation Night. The P&C has been very fortunate to have some wonderful members this year, some with have brand new newbies, who have taken on roles and/or ran some new events that have never been done before. Very successfully I might add. So please do come along to our AGM on the 21st of February 2017. Come and find out what it is all about, you might just be able to come along to meetings for information, or whether you want to take on a role big or small, you will be very well supported by lovely people. All roles get vacated at the AGM, including all 4 Office Bearers Positions (President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer). So make 2017 the year you come and give the P&C a well deserved go. And last, but not least, the P&C has to say goodbye to a valuable member, whose last child is off the high school. Michelle Sutton, we will all miss your smiling face and helping hand. May you be happy wherever you go. Kind regards, Karlien Matthee - 2016 Greenmount Primary School P&C President

Don’t forget, Like our Facebook page for updates, “Greenmount Primary School WA P&C”

2016 Presentation Graduation Program

6:00 Welcome:

Guitar students to perform whilst people are being seated

Welcome to Country and “Kaya Presentation”

Choir - “School Song”

Choir - “Walking in the Air” and “Seasons of Love”

Principal’s Address

Chair of School Board Address

6:30 Year 1 Item from Rooms 5&6 “The Vengabus Is Coming”

Room 5&6 Awards presented by Mrs Evans, Mrs Williams and Mrs Pollard

6:40 Year 4 Item for Room 12 “Wipeout”

Room 12 Awards presented by Mrs McGlew, Mrs Imperial and the Specialist Teachers

6:50 Year 2 Item from Room 7 “Ghost Busting Turtles”

Room 7 Awards presented by Mrs Digney

7:00 Year 2/3 Item from Rooms 8&9 “Don’t Stop Moving”

Room 8&9 Awards presented by Mrs Stevens, Mrs Opie, Mrs Carr and the Specialist Teachers

7:10 Year 3/4 Item from Room 10 “Emoji”

Room 10 Awards presented by Miss Marrotta and the Specialist Teachers

7:20 Year 4 Item from Room 11 “Welcome To Planet Earth”

Room 11 Awards presented by Mrs Fox and the Specialist Teachers

7:30 Pre Primary Item from Room 1 & 3 “It’s Always a Good Time”

Room 1&3 Awards presented by Mrs Adlam, Mrs King and Mrs Bishop

7:40 Year 5/6 Item from Room 14 “Intergalactic Mashup”

Room 14 Awards presented by Mrs Sims and the Specialist Teachers

7:50 Year 5/6 Item from Room 15 “An Invitation to Chill and Dance”

Room 15 Awards presented by Mr Giles and the Specialist Teachers

8:00 Year 5/6 Item from Room 17 “Good Feeling”

Room 17 Awards presented by Miss Clemente and the Specialist Teachers

8:10 Blackboy Hill Medallions

Presented by Mrs Astle and Mrs King

8:20 INTERMISSION

Auslan students item “Lean on Me”

8: 35 Year 6 Graduation Ceremony

Procession

Principal’s address

Year 6 awards including Blackboy Hill medals

Graduation Certificate Presentation

9.05 CLOSURE : Supper for invited guests in the School Library