HILTON PRIMARY SCHOOL NEWSLETTER

Monday, 24th August, 2020

Dear Hilton Families

As usual, Term 3 is passing quickly as there is lots happening at our school. Despite the interruptions earlier this year, we are engaging with a variety of teaching and learning activities each week. We hope you enjoy some of these highlights, summarised under the headings of our current Business Plan.

TEACHING & LEARNING: Every student, Every classroom, Every day. Staff Changes: We would like to sincerely thank Mrs Tilly Catchpole (Room 3) and Mrs Calida Tacken (Pre-Primary 2) who have both commenced leave for the remainder of 2020. Replacement teachers will be announced in the near future. Science Week: Last week we celebrated Science Week with additional activities to focus on our Oceans. Deep Blue: innovations for the future of our oceans. Every class engaged with this theme by exploring practical activities and interacting with peers to discuss their ideas. Thank you to Ms Andrea Townes for coordinating the additional activities and to classroom teachers and parents who assisted students with rotational activities. Details of class activities were also shared on CONNECT pages.

Of course, there is Science in everyday learning and we are very fortunate to have our beautiful school grounds, a shared consciousness of Sustainability throughout our community and plans underway to develop our specialist Science room, ready for 2021. The 2021 Science Week theme is Food: Different by design. “It will honour the United Nations International Year of Fruits and Vegetables and the International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development.” I am sure Hilton Primary School will engage deeply with this topic.

Changes to the Term Planner: 2020 is teaching us to be especially flexible! Please check dates on the latest draft of the Term 3 Planner for parents to go out

this week. This week we will host another informal assembly on Wednesday, 26

th

August, at 8.55am. All are welcome to join us to acknowledge our Honour Certificate students and for general updates. Each class will celebrate Book Week/ Book Month activities during the next few weeks of term. We are really looking forward to our Book Week Dress Up day on Wednesday 2

nd September at

8.55am. Although national Book Week and the announcement of the winning books in the Children’s Book Council Awards has been delayed until term 4, we are already exploring the theme at Hilton PS: Curious Creatures, Wild Minds. Staff, students and enthusiastic parents are encouraged to “go wild with reading” and bring the book that matches your dress up costume, to our Book Week assembly. Explicit teaching at Hilton PS: You may see two teachers in some classes over the next few weeks! As part of our cycle of staff performance management, teachers are observing one another teach and providing feedback for our ongoing journey of literacy improvement. The observations will also inform our Literacy Intern project which is in partnership with Curtin University, the DOEWA and project schools, to focus on excellence in the explicit teaching of literacy.

SAFE AND SECURE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT Whole School behaviour focus: Since we have resumed assemblies, we have also increased our focus on particular positive behaviour messages. For the last fortnight, we have been encouraging all students to return quickly to classrooms after play breaks at recess and lunch. Many students have earned “Triple C Tokens” for the Courtesy, Consideration and Co-operation they have shown by returning quickly to their classes, ready for learning.

“A Great Place to Learn and Grow”

TERM DATES 2020 TERM 3 Tuesday, 21st July - Friday, 25th September TERM 4 Tuesday 13th October - Thursday, 17th December UPCOMING EVENTS: August 26th Informal Assembly 31st Red Cross Incursion -Rm 7 September 2nd Book Week Dress Up Parade 2nd School Board Meeting 7th P&C Meeting 9th Formal Assembly 9th Open Classrooms 5.30-7.00pm 18th Sports Day 23rd Formal Assembly - Rm 5 23rd Story Teller - K/PP/Yr1 25th Reward Day (if we get 2000 triple C’s) 25th Last day of Term 3 SCHOOL TIMES Children are not to arrive at school before 8.30am 8.55 Classes start 10.50 Recess 12.40 Lunch 3.05 Home time School lunch orders unavailable until further notice.

From The Principal

Before and After School Care and Vacation Care

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SAFE AND SECURE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT (Cont…) Another focus is happy greetings when we see each other in the morning. It is delightful to share conversations with happy students as they arrive at school. Thank you to our families who contribute to these friendly greetings. Stay and Play: Many families are continuing to enjoy “Stay & Play” in our early childhood space and in our primary nature play area. Thank you to parents and carers for your supervision at this time. Last week’s ‘Stay & Play’ was reported to be safe and happy! Please continue to refer any unsupervised children to the school office.

POSITIVE PARTNERSHIPS Cross Country: Thank you to Ms Katrina Smith, Ms Alana Nicolle, Ms Tamara Travia, parents, carers and family members who supported our students to prepare for, and complete, the Inter-School Cross-Country event last week. As well as the excitement of our Year 3s running at the inters for the first time, we had many comments about the outstanding, positive behaviour shown by our Years 3-6 team. Thank you to our families, staff and students who strive for high standards of sporting spirit and positive team behaviours every day. Please see below for details of our fantastic results. This was a great team effort by Hilton students. A reminder that our faction sports day will be on Friday 18

th September.

Hilton PS P & C: Thank you to Cath Fitzhardinge, Tammy Vladich and helpers who coordinated the showing of the 2040 movie last Friday evening. As well as the positive messages of practical environmental change, this was a very enjoyable community event, shared by students and families. Thank you to our P&C! P & C Fundraising: Thanks to Mrs Eva Morris who is coordinating the Hilton P & C fund-raising tea towels and tote bags. The students’ art work is looking fantastic! Students and parents are also busy with Year 6 Graduation fundraising activities. Look out for details of refreshments after the Open Classrooms evening on Wednesday 9

th September 2020 and look out

for the Year 6 Cook Book, coming soon!

DISTINCTIVE SCHOOL Hilton PS Board. Last week we thanked our retiring Hilton PS Board members and congratulated our new Board members at a Board social event. Huge thanks to Luke Vladich, Jo McKay, Meredith Beaton, Andrea Townes, Felicity Monck, Erin Baker & Fi Blaauw for their commitment to the Board during their recent terms of office and the many contributions they have made. Our Board makes an important difference to our school culture and functioning. I have appreciated working with these dedicated Board members for a positive future at Hilton PS. Particular thanks to Luke Vladich (previous Board Chair) and Jo McKay (most recent Board Chair) for your professional leadership of our Board. A very warm welcome to Lucile Bourget, Danny Bentley, Amanda Hodgson, Michael Charlton (parents) & Abby Strange (new staff representative) for their commitment to our 2020-2023 Hilton PS Board. Our first 'new' Board meeting is on Tues 1.9.20. Thank you to Meredith Beaton & Andrea Townes as returning Board members and Felicity Monck who will assist our transition to the new Board at Hilton PS: “A great place to learn and grow.”

Planning for 2021: Please advise the school office as soon as possible if your child/ren will not be returning to Hilton PS in 2021 or if you are uncertain of your plans for 2021. Many of our proposed classes for 2021 are full, with a waiting list for Kindergarten places in 2021. Your updates will assist our planning for budgets, staffing and class structures.

Thank you for your ongoing support. Wishing you a happy week of going wild with reading! Regards

Carmel Bochenek Ph: 6458 7900 (office) or 0437 292 130 Carmel.Bochenek@education.wa.edu.au

From The Principal

Lily Grace, born to Bec Atkinson and partner, Stu. Lily is now a month old and everyone is doing well!

Room 5 (Year 3) News

Coffee pod

art

Every year, over 60 billion single use coffee pods are made, used and disposed of worldwide. The majority of these are made in factories using aluminium, foil and plastic as well as the organic matter (coffee) inside.

Most of the discarded coffee pods end up in landfill or in the ocean, as they are too small to be recycled at the majority of recycling plants. These pods will take anything from 100-500 years to break down. With over 39,000 coffee pods being used every second around the world, and approximately 3,000,000 pods used daily in Australia alone, the amount of waste produced is an extreme environmental concern.

Other than using a very small number of discarded coffee pods for jewellery and art projects, some of the coffee pod manufacturing companies are now addressing the problem through the production of completely compostable coffee capsules, made from bamboo and paper, as well as the introduction of recycling satchels and drop off locations to ensure the coffee pods are

recycled at specialty recycling plants.

The amount of waste produced through the use of coffee pods is a major environmental issue at a global level and hopefully through our art project we can increase awareness and help in the fight against waste.

Year 3 Students

Room 9 (Year 5) News

Room 9, Year Five wanted to raise awareness about the harm that plastic does to dolphins in the Swan River. We did all the research about them and found out the main causes of their habitat loss and decrease in numbers. We started creating the layout of a dolphin out of bottle tops on two sheets of cardboard, but we later realised that we would have to make it bigger. We added seaweed and filled the dolphins’ body in using plastic bottle top lids. Dolphins in the Swan River area are not thriving and losing their habitat because of human beings behaviour. We have no idea of the impact that we have on these sea creatures if we don’t learn about it. We are not being responsible for the amount of plastic we use and dispose of without thinking. Sometimes we forget to pick up our dog’s business and that is the second greatest cause of algae blooms. Algae blooms affect marine mammals like dolphins by making it harder for them to find food. So, if we really want to change what is happening to our amazing environment, we can educate others about the problem and make sure to use less plastic every day.

It was great fun making this piece of art to make people aware about our Swan River dolphins. Every day students from room 9

would bring in plastic bottles lids to stick on the art work. We all got a turn in designing, placing and sticking the lids on. It was hard because we didn’t always have the right colours to decorate with. In the end, the finishing design was outstanding and it looked fabulous. It was fun making the art as well as writing the background information behind the design. The whole class learnt a lot and got a lot out of it. We found out how to upcycle bottle tops and a lot about what else is affecting our Swan River dolphins.

Upcycle Art Science Week Competition

Title of Art:

"Recycle Right for the Dolphins of Our Swan River"

By Room 9 students

Sport News

Interschool Cross Country Carnival 2020 A huge congratulation to our cross country superstars who competed against our local schools at the Interschool Cross Country Carnival last Thursday.

They have been training hard for this event and on the day each student showed determination and represented Hilton Primary School well. They should be proud of achieving their personal best.

Congratulations to our placegetters in Year 4, Lena (2nd

) and Levi (3rd

).

A special morning tea was held the next day, hosted by our thoughtful sports captains to thank all the runners for their training and performance.

Well done to all!

Miss Smith

Rooms 7 & 9 - Science Day On Friday, 21st August we had our Science Day. Room 7 and Room 9 combined to do the experiments. The first experiment I did was in our class. We were making algae water spheres. Ms Travia showed us a video all about them. The small water spheres look like little blobs or bubbles. They are an alternative to plastic water bottles, and were used at a marathon a few years ago. The experiment was really fun but when we tasted them they were horrible. The second session was in Ms Townes class. We had little pallets of sand from different points of the beach. High tide, middle and right near the water. We then looked closely at them to see if there were any bits of rubbish mixed in and crossed them off a chart. The science experiments were really fun and I had an awesome time. By Scarlett, Room 7

P & C News

Hello Hilton Families,

Firstly, thank you for your support on Friday’s movie night, approximately 70 of us enjoyed a night of Dahl, popcorn and hot choccies while watching the amazing 2040 film. As an added bonus we managed to raise approximately $800! A big thanks to Tammy Vladich for coordinating the event and making the delicious Dahl! Thanks also to Emily Furzer, Eva Morris, Martine Pronk, Amanda Hodgson and Lucas Sandor for all your help on the night!

We have a few more fundraising initiatives in the works, you may have seen some emails and flyers about our Jute Bag design competition. The designs on the jute bag will be all about Hilton and what we love about our suburb. This way we foster a sense of pride and love for our location and hopefully raise more funds for our school.

For this we will need as many kids as possible to participate and submit their artwork and 3 words describing 'what they love about Hilton'. Please see the flyer for details and submit your artwork at the front office and send your child’s “3 words” to your class rep.

We have also commenced planning the tea towel fundraiser. Given that our student numbers have increased, this year we will have two separate tea towels (Kindy – Year 1 and Year 2 – Year 6) – please see flyer for details. Please note that orders are open now until THIS Friday 27

th August, so please get in quick to avoid disappointment. A big thanks

to Eva Morris (Kindy mum) for Coordinating both the Jute Bag and tea towel fundraisers – a huge effort!

Cheers

Cath Fitzhardinge P&C President

HONOUR CERTIFICATES

Tia, Clara, Jordan, William, Ethan, Jimmy G

Phoebe, Jasmine, Jonny, Amani,

Moby, Elena

Jasper, Charlotte, Zaiden

Hilton Primary School Contact Details: Rennie Crescent , HILTON WA 6163

Phone (08) 6458 7900 Email: hilton.ps@education.wa.edu.au

Website: www.hiltonps.wa.edu.au School Security: 9264 4771 or 9264 4632