Greenmount Primary School NEWSLETTER · challenges in physics, chemistry, and astronomy. There was a huge tion, problem solving tasks and rounds of quiz questions in the plane-

Dear Greenmount families,

Congratulations to all of our Interschool competitors. Greenmount

Primary school, as usual did us proud with excellent behaviour and

sportsmanship. Greenmount took out the Meritorious Award this year, the perpetual

trophy is on display in the front office. Well done to Charlie Beazley who took out the

Year 6 Champion Girl medallion. A huge thanks to Mr Hodgson for organising the

Interschool team.

Class Requests If there are any parents with requests for classes for their children next year please put these requests in writng to Mrs Astle. Please note requests should not be for teachers rather based on specific needs related to your child.

Edu Dance Students are continuing to enjoy the fabulous dance program run by Edu

dance. Students are busy practicing for the end of year Presentation and

Graduation nights. Please ensure the dates for these events are on your

calendars: Presentation night (Years PP-5), Wednesday 10th December from

6.30 and Graduation night (Year 6 & 7) Thursday 11th December from 6.30.

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Congratualtion 1

Class Requests 1

Edu Dance 1

Calendar Dates 1

Merit Awards 2

Scitech 2

EduDance 2

50th Photos 2

Pink Ribbon Day 3

Leavers 2015 3

Interschool

Athletics

3

National School

Opinion Survey

3

Rocket Science 3

P&C News 4

Community News 4

Term 4

Councillors

5

Term 4 Prefects 6

Greenmount Primary School

NEWSLETTER 1 2 N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 4 N O . 1 8

50-68 Innamincka Road GREENMOUNT 6056 9294 1155

Email School [email protected]

Email Principal [email protected]

Website www.greenmountps.wa.edu.au

Please mark these dates on your Calendars

Friday 21 November Rm 5 Assembly Wednesday 26 November Early Years Conference Friday 28 November T20 Big Bash Cricket Competition Tuesday 2 December P & C Meeting Friday 5 December Rm 3 Assembly Wednesday 10 December Presentation Night (Years PP—5) Thursday 11 December Graduation Night (Years 6 & 7) Monday 15 December Reports Go Home Thursday 18 December Last Day of Term 4

Natalie Astle

ACTING PRINCIPAL

Fantastic effort everyone!

HELP

UNIFORM SHOP

URGENTLY NEED A

HELPER ON WEDNESDAY MORNINGS

8.30—9.15am

If you do not have to rush

to work please

consider helping the

ladies.

Please mark these dates on your Calendars 5th Nov P & C Meeting 8th Nov Rm 5 Assembly 12th Nov Interschool Jumps & Throws 15th Nov Interschool Athletics Carnival 22nd Nov Rm 9 Assembly 3rd Dec P & C Meeting 6th Dec Staff Assembly

Athletics Carnival

It turned out to be a wonderful day weather wise and with all

students encouraged to participate within the spirit of competition.

A great team effort from all students and staff resulted in a great

day.

.Our Champion Boys and Girls are:

The final results:

In Third Place with 629 points was Prichard.

In Second Place with 800 points was Chipper.

In First Place with 904 points was Passmore.

Well Done Passmore! Thanks to everyone.

Mr Hodgson

Our Champions and Runners Up

Year 3 Girls

Year 3 Boys

Eloise Phillips

Cumoran Desmond

Monique Purling

Luka Tolj

Year 4 Girls

Year 4 Boys

Emily O’Shea

Ethan Daly

Taya Andrews

Bernadette Pollock

Ben Brown

Rory Charles

Fynn Letts

Year 5 Girls

Year 5 Boys

Charley Beazley

Thomas Simpson

Caitlin Smith

Tom Matthews

Year 6 Girls

Year 6 Boys

Nicole Purling

Thomas Inwood

Brooke Parnaby

Taraia Carpenter

Year 7 Girls

Year 7 Boys

Kristy Jalipot

Monty Kporto

Annika Paul

Robbie Johnston

P A G E 2

G R E E N M O U N T P R I M A R Y S C H O O L

MERIT AWARDS

Friday 7th November

Rm 4 Isabel McGilvray Isabelle Quinn

5 Mackenzie Gaitskell Sariah Desmond

3 Amity Armstrong Courtney Higgins

6 Violet Rollings Makhai Lanue

7 Lauren Greaves Annalise Appleby

8 Jacob Williams Andrew Baldwin

10 Jessica Bates Finn Gardoll

9 Luke Parnaby Anastacia Merkouris

11 Griffin Meier Talyiah McGowan

12 Madison Butler Nathan Becker

16 Jake Becker Emersyn Clohessy

14 Shane Pritchard Hayley Holmes

15 Chelsea Crew Jonah Watters


REMINDER Dance Lessons

Edu-dance has commenced

dance lessons for PP-7 students. Cost is $27 for Yrs

4-7 and $25 for YPP-3). If you

still need to pay, payments may be made to the class or

Eftpos at the Office. You may pay $3 weekly or one child at a

time.

Greenmount 50th Anniversary

Photos

Below is the website for the photos taken on the

Open Evening by Midland Photography. Photos are

under Special Events and the password is

greenmount50

All orders should be placed online through Midland

Photography

www.midlandphotos.com.au/schools

Science @ Greenmount On the 20th October a team of 4 students travelled to Scitech with me for the day to take part in the 2014 Scitech Challenge Day. It was a fantastic day with a full range of tasks spread across the day for 31 teams from all over Perth. The teams worked independently without any teacher support to work through

challenges in physics, chemistry, and astronomy. There was a huge range of skills applied from working through a full scientific investiga-tion, problem solving tasks and rounds of quiz questions in the plane-tarium. ‘The Green Team’ included Maya Kohe Love, Angus Roach, Nicole Purling and Tom Matthews . They worked together with amazing team

work and cooperative skills, listening to one another and making joint decisions for each task through the day. As a result they achieved a truly awesome 5th place out of the 31 teams competing! I could not be more proud of the way they conducted themselves and the way they fully engaged in every single opport- unity put before them to challenge themselves in the area of science. Well done ‘Green Team’ you were amazing! Mrs McGlew

Bendigo Bank

A representative

from Bendigo

Bank will be in the

Uniform Shop for

student banking

every Monday

morning from

8.30 — 9.00 am.


HELP

UNIFORM SHOP

URGENTLY NEED A

HELPER ON WEDNESDAY MORNINGS

8.30—9.15am

If you do not have to rush

to work please

consider helping the

ladies.

Please mark these dates on your Calendars 5th Nov P & C Meeting 8th Nov Rm 5 Assembly 12th Nov Interschool Jumps & Throws 15th Nov Interschool Athletics Carnival 22nd Nov Rm 9 Assembly 3rd Dec P & C Meeting 6th Dec Staff Assembly

Athletics Carnival

It turned out to be a wonderful day weather wise and with all

students encouraged to participate within the spirit of competition.

A great team effort from all students and staff resulted in a great

day.

.Our Champion Boys and Girls are:

The final results:

In Third Place with 629 points was Prichard.

In Second Place with 800 points was Chipper.

In First Place with 904 points was Passmore.

Well Done Passmore! Thanks to everyone.

Mr Hodgson

Our Champions and Runners Up

Year 3 Girls

Year 3 Boys

Eloise Phillips

Cumoran Desmond

Monique Purling

Luka Tolj

Year 4 Girls

Year 4 Boys

Emily O’Shea

Ethan Daly

Taya Andrews

Bernadette Pollock

Ben Brown

Rory Charles

Fynn Letts

Year 5 Girls

Year 5 Boys

Charley Beazley

Thomas Simpson

Caitlin Smith

Tom Matthews

Year 6 Girls

Year 6 Boys

Nicole Purling

Thomas Inwood

Brooke Parnaby

Taraia Carpenter

Year 7 Girls

Year 7 Boys

Kristy Jalipot

Monty Kporto

Annika Paul

Robbie Johnston

P A G E 3


My

Pink

Ribbon Day

On the 7th November I went to the Heliwest Hanger at Jandakot Airport. One of

my Mum’s friends Kristy has Breast Cancer. We had a Pink Ribbon morning tea

and everyone brought pink cakes. Kristy shaved her long, curly and beautiful hair

first because otherwise it would fall out from chemotherapy (radiation). Kirsty and

her Mum cried a bit but I felt sorry. Then four others shaved their hair too. Jacob

had long hair like a girl until he shaved it off. I was one of them and I was shaved

with a 2. When Kristy finished shaving her hair everyone clapped and had a laugh

and everyone was positive about it. I raised over $100 from the donation box at

school, overall the event raised $2500. Thank you to everyone who supported

me. Liam McChesney

2015 Enrolments/Leavers Please could any families that are leaving the school next year, and have not informed the office, let the admin staff know as soon as possible.

A windy and showery day loomed ahead for our competitors at the Hills Interschool Sports Association Athletics Carnival. The Carnival was held at the Mundaring Recreation Grounds. All Greenmount students were courteous and well behaved. We competed to the best of our abilities. An outstanding individual effort by Charlie Beazley saw her become the Senior Champion Girl of the Athletics Carnival. In the final wrap up, St Anthony’s won the Team Games Trophy, Middle Swan won the Overall Champion School shield and Greenmount won the Meritorious Award Trophy (only the third time since 1998). Well done to all the students who competed. Let’s hope we can do as well as next year. Mr Hodgson

NATIONAL SCHOOL OPINION SURVEYS

The National School Opinion surveys have been set up by the Federal Government and all staff,

parents and students are asked to participate.

Parents who receive the newsletter by email are asked to fill in the on-line survey, those who

receive a hard copy will receive a copy of the survey.

The students in rooms 16 and 17 will be given a hard copy to fill in.

Link for parent survey is: http://www.schoolsurvey.edu.au/s/MyJZbd9c

is coming to Greenmount!

For the last 4 weeks of Term 4 the team from Scitech - Science After School will be coming to Greenmount Primary to run a series of 4 awesome hands on Science ses-sions! This series is only for students from Years 6 and 7 and will be run on Mondays during Weeks 7 to 10 from 3.05 -4.20pm (Nov 24, Dec 1, 8 & 15). Forms are available at the office and a fee of $50 includes all sessions and the rocket kit and fuel cell. First in first served...Mrs McGlew

BANDANA DAYBANDANA DAYBANDANA DAY Friday 14 November

Bandanas $4Bandanas $4Bandanas $4

Pens $3Pens $3Pens $3

On sale all week at On sale all week at On sale all week at

lunchtime in the lunchtime in the lunchtime in the

Undercover area Undercover area Undercover area

http://www.schoolsurvey.edu.au/s/MyJZbd9c


P A G E 4


Christmas Raffle

It’s Christmas raffle time again!

We’ve had a number of projects this year, but this final fundraiser for the year will help us

purchase a bank of iPads with learning resources for classrooms to share.

Please could you consider donating a non-perishable festive item to add to the Christmas

hampers for the raffle prizes; suitable items include:

Festive food – such as ham, puddings, fruit mince pies, nuts, dried fruit, shortbread etc

Savoury crackers, olives, relish etc

Coffee, tea, hot chocolate

Confectionary and chocolates

Wine, liqueurs

Christmas crackers, decorations, trim, serviettes etc

There will be a box left in each class for raffle prize donations to be collected. Donations

are required by Wednesday 3rd December please.

Raffle tickets will go home with students next week, which we would love to see sold to

family and friends. If you DO NOT wish to receive some raffle tickets, please advise the

office staff before next Wednesday. More will be available at the office if you require

them. The raffle will be drawn at the Presentation Night on Wednesday 10th December.

Thank you for all your support this year with our fundraising events.

P&C Fundraising Team

Planning for 2015 and beyond!!

We would be happy to hear any suggestions for fundraising ideas you have to look at the

calendar of events for 2015. If you have any thoughts or feedback, you can leave a note at

the office for the attention of the fundraising committee.

NAME: Taylen Hounsham

AGE: 11 ROOM: 15

TEACHER: Mr Thomas

WHAT I HAVE TO

OFFER AS A STUDENT COUNCILLOR

I can offer help when it is needed.

WHAT I ENJOY ABOUT SCHOOL

I enjoy spelling, art, sport and lunch.

HOBBIES/INTERESTS

I like playing my computer and playing with my dog.

FAMILY AND PETS

I have 2 brothers and 1 sister. I also have a dog.

STUDENT COUNCILLOR PROFILE TERM 4 — 2014

NAME: Caitlin Smith

AGE: 11 ROOM: 14

TEACHER: Mrs Sims

WHAT I HAVE TO


I like solving problems and making people happy.


I like seeing all my friends each day.

HOBBIES/INTERESTS

I enjoy Gymnastics, swimming, netball and cheerleading.

FAMILY AND PETS

Mum, Dad, 5 dogs, 3 cats and my fish Bubbles.

NAME: Kyle White

AGE: 11 ROOM: 17

TEACHER: Ms Clemente

WHAT I HAVE TO


I would like to help everyone to feel good and safe.


All the fun ideas and things that make the school a better place.

HOBBIES/INTERESTS

I like Art, Japanese and Sport such as cricket.

FAMILY AND PETS

I live with my Mum, Dad and little brother, Mitchell. I have 2 cats, a bird and a fish.


P A G E 5

Memorabillia for sale

There are a few items left that we had

for sale at the 50th

Celebrations.

If you are interested in purchasing

anything please come to the office.

Coffee mugs $10

Tea Towels $12

Key rings $7

Yearbook CD $5

(the Yearbook is full of student

photos and work—great school

memories)

Term 4 Prefects

Angus Roach Jaime Brook Lucas Meier

Nicole Purling Thomas Simpson Chelsea Crew

P A G E 6


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