103 Alfred Road, Mount Claremont WA 6010 Ph: 9384 0278 Fax: 9385 3692 mountclaremontps.education.wa.edu.au

IMPORTANT DATES

Tuesday 20 October

Staff Meeting 3:15pm

Wednesday 21 October

School Council Meeting

6pm

Tuesday 27 October

Fun Day 9-11am K/PP

Wednesday 28 October

P&C Meeting 7pm

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Dear Parents and Carers,

Welcome back to school. I have enjoyed listening to the children’s holiday stories; relaxing at home, going to the movies (Oddball is a favourite), fami-ly holidays, going to the Royal Show, playing with school friends and vaca-tion care activities.

We welcome four new students and their families to the school; Nicolas in kindy, Jackson year 1, Willem year 2 and Scott year 6.

During the holidays I had my first experience doing “Show Parking”. It was amazing! Special thanks to the P&C, staff, parents and student volunteers for your commitment to raise significant funds for the school. On behalf of the Mount Claremont school community I extend a sincere thank you to; Anita Bertschinger P&C show parking coordinator extraordinaire and Fiona Murray P&C President for their super organisational skills to endure a suc-cessful event and school office staff Mrs Lambrecht and Mrs Haase for as-sisting with numerous enquires from the public. A huge “round of applause” to everyone!

Miss Sophie Kaden, Visual Arts specialist teacher displayed and entered student art work at the Royal Show in the Pigeon and Poultry Schools Art-work Competition. The school received 6 places for their artwork. “The art-work received from Mount Claremont was outstanding and your art teacher Miss Kaden should be congratulated on such interesting art work”, Jodie Event Coordinator, Royal Agricultural Society of WA. The art will be dis-played in the hall. Congratulations Miss Kaden, student winners and partici-pants on your artistic success.

During term 4 the school is trialling an early morning play strategy for stu-dents in years 1-6. Students are required to be at school by 8:30am. Should students arrive earlier than 8:30 and not be under the supervision of a par-ent they are to go to the undercover area to be supervised by me or Mrs Johnson. Between 8:30 and 8:40 the children can play in the undercover area and netball court. At 8:40 they will be sent to class to get ready for the school day starting at 8:45. Teachers will be discussing this with students today and before school play starts tomorrow. An update will be provided in the next newsletter.

Tracey Oakes

Principal

Mount Claremont Primary School

“We Care”

14 October 2015

Term 4, Week 1

Education Security If you notice suspicious behaviour on our school site call:

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Merit Certificate Recipients

Congratulations to the following students who were awarded Merit Certificates at

our assembly on the 25th September.

Pre-primary Siena Millar, Lotty Graham, Zach Adams, Eliza Meyer, Gabriel Chavez

Yr 1 Andy Brown, Luke Tierney, Flynn Weston, Dastin Kempa

2/3 Tania Holdack, Aiden Burke, Bonnie Myer, George Keenan

3/4 Karthi Thirthar-Vetruchevvel, Maxim Uvarov

4/5 Wayne McNicol, Olivia Lynch-Tassell, Jack Harrison, Aaron Ilyas,Kya

Arthurson

5/6 Lauren Smith, Luuk Lesterhuis, Devon Rawstorne, Audrey Young

Phys Ed River Lockwood, Aiden Lambrecht, Aiden McKie, Natalie Poole

Art Fionn Pitman, Zoe Dickson, Luke Tierney, Christian Long.

GOLDEN STAR AWARDS– Celebrating positive behaviour

Lily McRoberts, Sebastian Siu, Tania Holdack, Alice Freeson, Josephine

Lewis,

Jasmine Boog, Lachlan Smith, Alex lewis, Wayne McNicol, Olivia Deal, Zara

Walker, Gisele

Millar, Natasha Long, Olivia Tynch-Tassell, Jessica Lester, Akhil Sijo.

The Arts—DANCE

Our annual Dance Program starts today. The Pamela Humphreys Dance Program is a curriculum

based program of age appropriate dances. It is based on the natural progression of the body’s

movement, posture and mechanics. The program progresses from fun and simple choreography for

younger students through to ballroom, Latin, salsa and hip hop for older students.

The students will attend a lesson each Wednesday for the next seven weeks and the program will

conclude with a Social evening on Wednesday 25th November ( from 6pm – 7:30pm) in the under-

cover area where the students will show off their newly gained skills.

Class times are as follows

Class Lesson Time

Pre Primary 8:45

Years 1 & 2 9:30

Years 5 & 6 10:20

Years 3 & 4 11:40

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SPORT NEWS

Interschool Athletics Carnival

Towards the end of last term Mount Claremont students from year 3-6 competed in the Interschool Athletics Car-nival at Swanbourne Primary School. Once again there were many outstanding performances and the sports-manship displayed was exemplary as per usual.

Mount Claremont finished 6th in the overall and Meritorious shields. Given the small size of our school we al-ways punch well above our weight division and there were many huge efforts put in during training and on the carnival day. I would like to congratulate all of our students as well as our parents who assisted with training during Term 3, in particular Nicky Lester who organised all training sessions brilliantly.

Overall Shield: Cottesloe 273 Mosman Park 265 Freshwater Bay 201 Hollywood 137 Jolimont 114

Mt Claremont 67

Meritorious Shield: Mosman Park 333 Freshwater Bay 332 Cottesloe 273 Jolimont 266 Hollywood 249

Mt Claremont 245

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Staff vs Student Match

In the last week of Term 3 we held staff vs students volleyball match during lunch. It was our chance for our

Year 6 students to gain bragging rights over the MCPs staff cohort. However, despite their valiant efforts our

Year 6 students narrowly lost a thrilling encounter 24-23. There will be a rematch during Term 4, the sport is yet

to be determined, better luck next time boys and girls!

Mr Staples

Physical Education

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Perth Royal Show Art Work

CONGRATULATIONS

Our future Van Gogh or Monet.

Kya Arthurson

Year 5

Natalie Poole

Year 3

Joan George

Year 4

Siena Millar Year 1 Flynn Weston Year 1

Jaz Shervington

Year 4

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Year 4/5 Assembly

It Was Fabulous

Community Notices Vac Swim December/January School Holidays

Enrolments are now open. With swimming pools and beaches part of the Western Australian lifestyle it is im-

portant for every child to learn to swim and develop essential water safety skills. VacSwim’s December/January

school holiday swimming lessons are held at approximately 150 locations across the State and conducted by

qualified instructors.

For information and to enrol, visit education.wa.edu.au/swimming or phone 9402 6412

Addressing Bullying Behaviour in Children and Young People

A FREE forum to mark Children’s Week 2015

Tuesday, 27 October, 7pm to 8:30pm

Churchlands High School Concert Hall, Lucca St Churchlands.

Presented by Winthrop Professor Donna Cross form the Telethon Kids Institute and University of WA, the semi-nar will outline practical strategies that have been developed from 12 years of research.

Bookings are essential. www.trybooking.com/IYYK or phone 6213 2203

More information: www.ccyp.wa.gov.au