Telephone: (08) 9291 2000 • Email: walliston.ps@education.wa.edu.au • www.wallistonprimaryschool.wa.edu.au

SLEEPING WITH THE MONKEYS

Lions, Tigers and Bears, Oh My! Mr Bushby said this morning, as he woke up with his Room 12 students on their overnight stay at the Perth Zoo. On all accounts I believe the students had a wonderful time at the Zoo and Mr Bushby enjoyed his first ever camp. I would like to congratulate the students on their behaviour at the zoo and their hard work throughout the year, this really was a special treat. A big thank you to the Room 12 parents for their fundraising efforts throughout the year and their support for Mr Bushby. Well done My Bushby for coordinating a unique event for the students of Walliston Primary School. FIELDS OF FLAG POLES

“Accolades must also go to Walliston Primary School…” this was written in The West Australian on Tuesday 19th November, in the ED! section of the newspaper. Blake and Claudia Fields were awarded in a number of categories for their entrants into the Chevron Focus Environment Competition. In consultation with the Fields family, the school will utilise their ‘cash’ prize to purchase additional flag posts to be installed as part of our 50th Golden Jubilee celebrations. Congratulations to Blake and Claudia and we look forward to seeing our State flag and Aboriginal flag fly near our National flag. INNOVATION SHOWCASE

“A must for educators interested in inspiring student learning and leading change in schools”, is the catch phrase for the Department of Education Innovative Showcase on the 27th and 28th November at the Perth Exhibition and Convention Centre. Walliston PS, in partnership with Marmion PS, will be showcasing our teaching and learning journey in STEM education. A few of our staff will be out next week as they have been invited to interact with other educators and showcase our school. I would like to acknowledge and thank the staff for their efforts in supporting this initiative, especially during a busy term.

TRANSITIONS

With the end of the year nearly coming to a close, many of our students are about to experience what the next school year will bring. Our year 6 students took part in a transition to high school at Lesmurdie SHS yesterday and all reports from the students was that high school will be a breeze, as Mrs Levy and Mrs Field has taught them everything they need to know. Our 40 new Kindy students for 2020 will take part in an orientation day with Mrs de Saran on Friday 29th November and on Tuesday 26th November our 2019 Kindy students will experience a morning with Mrs Westphal and our PP students will be allowed out of the ECE grounds and enjoy a morning with Ms Wake. DATA COLLECTION Over the last couple of weeks’ students in Years 1-6 have been engaged in ACER testing. This testing is done twice a year and gives teachers data on student achievement not only for their report writing but also to inform and review their teaching programs and practices. It was fantastic to see students being resilient, taking the tests in their stride and trying their hardest. Assessments such as ACER testing, Brightpath for writing and PLD for spelling helps the school to track to see what progress our students are making. A goal for the future, is to share this data with parents. As the software begins to improve, it will become easier to interpret the data and make it accessible to parents. 35 DAYS TO CHRISTMAS

Time fly’s when you have fun! We have a very busy end to the term, and I would like to remind parents to check the term planner and keep up to date with a number of events happening at our school. The social dance next week on Wednesday 27th November and the Hills Christmas Assembly on Friday 13th December at 9am are two dates to highlight. Sleep is imperative at this time of the year (for students and parents), as our school days are packed with fun and engagement.

Craig Mainard, Principal

From the Principal’s Desk

Issue 15 - Wednesday 20th November 2019

YEAR 6

MASTERCHEF CUPCAKE DAY

MONDAY 25TH

NOVEMBER

AT RECESS TIME AND LUNCHTIME THE SCHOOL LEADERS WILL BE

SELLING CUPCAKES ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO THE

SCHOOL P & C

$2 for a yummy cupcake ‘Now that’s a great deal

SHARING A HILLS CHRISTMAS APPEAL

It is still early but the School will soon be putting up its Christmas tree and the Sharing a Hills Christmas Appeal is about to begin. The appeal just gets bigger and bigger each year. Ap-proximately 350 food parcels and 150 smaller bags to nursing homes were delivered last year impacting on approximately 1200 people in the Kalamunda Shire. The collection by Walliston PS is a significant help in providing for the hampers. I have included a list of the sort of items that are needed for the food parcels. You could add an item or two to the weekly shopping basket or fill a basket specifically for this cause. If you have any of the following items please feel free to bring it to the front office or next week to the library to be put under the Christmas tree. The Year 6 leaders will be there to welcome you, hopefully with a smile and a kind word between 8.30am and 9am at the new library, every school day until the 12th December…………. The collection will then be handed over to a Sharing a Hills Christmas volunteer at the assembly on the 13th. Thank you

LIST OF CHRISTMAS REQUIREMENTS FOR FOOD PARCELS

These foods can be provided at any time:

Christmas puddings BonBons Christmas cake Cool Drinks Tinned vegetables Cider (Non alc) Lollies Nuts Fruit mince pies Cream (long life) Custard Stuffing Tinned meat/ham Cordial Shortbreads Ribbon Tinned Biscuits Wrapping paper Tinned fish Coffee/Tea Gifts are required for:

Adults (eg Talcum powder, biscuits, chocolate, soaps etc ) Teenagers (eg Toiletries, makeup, books, games, CD’s etc) Children (eg Toys for various ages, books, games etc) (Note: Toys need to be new) Thank you

Adrian Wilson

A Unique Opportunity Presents

itself to be part of the 50th School Year Celebrations and join a Tag-a-Long Tour that follows and visits some of the sites that the original Walliston Wanderers Safaris visited and some NEW sites too.

(Jokers Tunnel, Clay-pan Lake, Warriedar, Thundelar-ra, Walga Rock, Milly Soak, Cue, Chinaman Rock,

Fields Find, Wooleen, Melangata, Woolgerong, Lake Mason, Camel Station )

Walliston Wanderers had a catch phrase of:

“A camping holiday safari for adults and children of the Walliston Community”

The Proposed trip dates are for the first week of

Spring Holidays Sept 27th – Oct 4th 2020

If you would like to be a part of the trip and help discuss the trip route

Please register at front desk or get in touch with Grant van der Helder 0408 474 015

50th SCHOOL YEAR ANNIVERSARY WALLISTON WANDERERS

REENACTMENT TAG-A-LONG TOUR

On Thursday the 7th of November, Walliston Primary School celebrated Outdoor Classroom Day along with hundreds of schools across Australia. Modern, busy lifestyles and pressures are resulting in children spending less time outside. Nature Play WA started celebrating Outdoor Classroom Day in 2017 to highlight the benefits for children to learn and play outside. The pre- primary class along with some senior primary students, were invited by Nature Play WA to attend the inaugural Outdoor Classroom Day at Perry Lakes in 2017. Last year was the first year that we celebrated it as a school. This year, classes at Walliston headed outdoors for some of their learning, proving that whatever can be learned inside can also be learned outside. It also has many benefits for children’s engagement and emotional well-being. Activities included class spelling outside, STEM activities, graphing the most popular coloured cars, measuring heart rates before, during and after exercise, persuasive writing outside about whether it was better to learn inside or outside, phonics outdoors, Investigation Time in our bush area surrounding the senior oval and mud play! The outdoors is an often neglected “classroom” with many opportunities and benefits. It was wonderful for students across the school to experience a different way of learning on the day. Mrs Westphal

What’s up in the Kitchen Garden? Our sunflowers are growing and are nearly as tall as us! We made Vietnamese rolls with

our fresh garden produce, our frog pond has tadpoles, we are planting and we are

designing using IT and our imaginations…All in our Kitchen Garden. Hands-on

authentic learning, Super effort kids! Kitchen Garden Team.

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden

Wednesday November 27th Rms 12 & 11 (Yr 4 & Yr 5 9.15 am Rms 3 & 15 (PP & Yr 1) 10.55 am Rms 6, 1 & 3 (Yr 3 & Yr 2) 1.10 pm Notes will go home this week with more details

Room Name

12 Laura Kilpatrick

Hayden Parker

Samuel Deroost

Samuel Hooper

Room Name

6 Isaac Phillips

Nathan Hamill

8 Bob Keilty

11 Kobe Olsen

12 Isla-Rose Gray

Phoebe Adams

Claire Hardman

Hayden Parker

Will King

Samuel Deroost

Samuel Hooper

Room Name

8 Shella Anggraeny

Ayana Olsen

Niki Owen

Freya Pivac

11 Corey Campbell

12 Samuel Deroost

Hayden Parker

Dates to Remember

November

20th Dance School Council Meeting Newsletter 22nd Assembly - SIMS 25th Cup Cake Day 26th K/PP/Yr1 - Transition Day 27th Dance Social 28th Kindy Orientation Day (Parents only - 9am - LRC) P & C Meeting 7pm 29th Kindy Orientation Day (Parents & children)

December

3rd Rms 1 & 3 Excursion to Kalamunda Library/Stirk Park 4th Pre-Primary Santa Visit Newsletter 6th Assembly - WAMO rewards 11th Kindy Christmas Concert Volunteers Morning Tea 12th PP Christmas Class Party 13th Book Awards Sharing Hills Christmas 16th Colour Run 17th WAMO rewards-Water Slides 18th Graduation Night 7pm 19th Yr 6 Excursion / Bell Ringing Last Day of Term

School Banking: on every Thursday morning before school up in the Library.

Uniform Shop: Open every Thursday 8.45 - 9.15am

Walliston Primary 50th Anniversary Update 50th Anniversary Merchandise Sales We’re still taking orders for our Special edition Tote Bags!

Great size, great quality, great cause!

Brickpaver order forms are well under way. If you have

misplaced your order form and need another copy,

please contact WallistonPrimary50@gmail.com

Make sure you stay up to date by liking, following, commenting and

sharing our

Facebook Page

https://www.facebook.com/Wall is ton-PS-50th-Anniversary-

Celebrations-104134987598007/

Walliston Primary P&C News Next meeting 28th November

As we’re heading towards the end of the year our last meeting for 2019 will be held at The Vault restaurant.

We’d love to see some fresh (and familiar!) faces to help celebrate our efforts this year. Please see the flyer for more details.

Cyber Saftey Talk It was great to see so many people attend this worthwhile presentation. Remember it’s things like this that your P&C would like to help bring more of to our school

community. If you have any ideas for future events like this please contact one of the exec team

or send us a message through the Facebook page

Thank you to everyone who has completed their fundraising for this event. Remember - the best bit is still to come! Please join us on

Monday 16th December at 2pm on the oval for some

COLOURFUL fun!

Our P & C and school staff still require assistance on the day (setting up and running the

colour run) to make this event possible for all of our students. If you can lend a hand, please let us know by leaving your

details at the front office

Italian Award

MERIT AWARDS

Chelsea Parker Rm 1

Amy Stump Rm 1

Marley Nelson Rm 3

Hunter Ibbertson Rm 3

Matthew Mainard Rm 6

Matthew Deroost Rm 6

Justin Davies Rm 8

Lieke Breadsell Rm 8

Felix Bentley Rm 11

Aidan Gallager Rm 11

Dylan Bateman Rm 12

Hollie Coppin Rm 12

Olivia Thomas Rm 15

Jaxon Newman Rm 15