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p 08 9920 5032 f 08 9920 5118 PO Box 28, Nabawa WA 6532
[email protected]
www.chapmanvalleyprimaryschool.com
Newsletter #4 May 15th, 2019
Dates to Remember
Term 2
Newsletters
Wednesday, May 15th
Wednesday, June 5th
Wednesday, June 26th
NAPLAN
May 14th, 15th, 16th, 17th
Thursday 23rd May
Science & Engineering Senior room
Museum Junior room
June 5th
School Board meeting, 5.30pm
June 14th 12pm
Open Day
Wednesday June 12th
P & C Meeting, 6pm School Library
June 14th Open Day 12pm
June 19th
QPT Possum Magic
Junior Room
June 21st
Winter Carnival Northampton
June 25th
Young Writers Yr 6
June 27th NAIDOC day
Northampton
July 5th
Happy Chappy
Cross Country Lapathon & Assembly
School Vision:
At Chapman Valley Primary School children are nurtured, educated
and challenged in
a supportive and safe learning environment. We use the best
teaching and learning
practices to develop balanced, capable and creative adults who
value achievement,
motivation, life-long learning and pride in their school and
community.
Dear Parents and Community,
Ni hao
NAPLAN
Our year 3 and 5 students begain NAPLAN on line yesterday with
writing and we followed up with reading today. The year 3 students
still do the writing as paper and pen test but year 5’s writing was
online. The reading test today is very clever as it looks at how
the students answer certain questions and tailor the next question
accordingly. We need to keep in perspective that NAPLAN is one test
on one day and that our teachers have school based assessments and
class based assessments that keep track of how our students are
going in terms of their progress with WA Curriculum
OPEN DAY
A new initiative in 2019 to go along side reporting to parents
semester report is our school OPEN DAY. This is an open invitation
to all parents and prospective parents and carers with in our
community. It will be on Friday 14th June. The open day will will
commence at 12pm with visits to the classroom to see learning in
action. The there will be a shared lunch and then the teachers will
commence 1 on 1 meetings with parents and possibly the student if
requested to discuss progress and future goals. We will send a
timetable home with your allocated timeslot for your parent/teacher
meeting. We hope to see all our parents at this opportunity and
make the most of having one on one time with the class teacher. In
saying that remember you are welcome to come and chat to any of us,
any of the time.
P&C Support
I wish to convey our appreciation and thanks to the P&C and
wider community for the Mother’s
Day Morning Tea last Friday. What an incredible event. Thanks
also to the teachers and the
students who provided wares on their market stall and provided
the entertainment. A job well
done.
The P&C support many of our learning opportunities
throughout the year that the school cannot
fund. This year is a camp year for the 3-6 students. We are
currently working with Yuna PS to go
on a collaborative camp with them, in week 7 of term 3 to Coral
Bay. We are still costing this out
but at the moment it is all in our favour and it does look like
it is the camp for 2019.
EXCURSION NEXT THURSDAY
AS you can see on the events coming up and you will get a note
home the seniors are going in the
STEM Challenge next week at Geraldton Grammar School. They will
participate in a range of
activities in teams and we are combining with Binnu and Yuna to
make up the numbers. The
juniors are going to visit the museum to integrate their class
HASS learning about Australia.
Jo Luxton –Principal
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Our School Creed
This is our school
Let peace dwell here
Let the rooms be full of contentment
Let Love abide here
Love of one another
Love of mankind, and
Love of Life itself
Let us remember
That as many hands build a house
So many hearts make a school
The teachers have started using the Growing With Gratitude
Program in different ways in their classes. You
can use some of these ideas at home. The program uses the 5
Habits of Happiness as its basis.
Health and Wellbeing Focus 2019
ATTENDANCE
One of our targets in our Business Plan in our priori-
ty of “A Positive Learning Environment’ is to main-
tain or improve the school attendance rate so that
90% or more of our students attend school for at
least 90% of the time. For weeks 1-2 of term 2 our
whole school attendance is 87%.
If your child is sick it is important
they stay home to recover and that
you notify us of the absence. Keep up
the great work.
The students get an extra Kindness to
Ourselves raindrop if they attend
school for 5 days.
Parents please notify the office of any
absences.
Families can access this
program from home….
Follow the link below to bring Gratitude into your
home
URL:
https://go.growingwithgratitude.com.au/familymembership-area
(must login from this URL)
LOGIN DETAILS:
Email: [email protected]
(the email login is made up, the purpose of the email is purely
for login)
Password: family (all lower case)
https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.growingwithgratitude.com.au%2Ffamilymembership-area&data=02%7C01%7CKristy.Blanke%40education.wa.edu.au%7C27f2230e37a54f6f089608d69d2e835f%7Ce08016f9d1fd4cbb83b0b76eb4361627%7C0%7C0%7C636869https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgo.growingwithgratitude.com.au%2Ffamilymembership-area&data=02%7C01%7CKristy.Blanke%40education.wa.edu.au%7C27f2230e37a54f6f089608d69d2e835f%7Ce08016f9d1fd4cbb83b0b76eb4361627%7C0%7C0%7C636869mailto:[email protected]
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SCHOOL NEWS
Friday Hot Lunches
Term 2, 3 and 4.
We sell pies, pasties and sausage rolls for lunch
on Fridays. Please write your child’s name on an
envelope with their order
ready for our councillors to
collect from classrooms.
Pies = $3.50
Pasties = $3.50
Sausage Rolls = $3.00
Please phone the school office to volunteer when
you would like to make soup for the students.
Week 1 Dezi Webb May 1
Week 2 Stafford Horobin May 8
Week 3 Renaye Stokes May 15
Week 4 Jodie O’Neill May 22
Week 5 Jay Rayner May 29
Week 6 June 5
Week 7 June 12
Week 8 June 19
Week 9 June 26
Week 10 July 3
SOUP ROSTER FOR TERM 2
REPORT ALL SUSPICIOUS ACTIVITY AROUND THE SCHOOL
If you happen to see anything that looks suspicious around our
school, please
contact the Northampton Police Station on 99347600 or
Jo Luxton on 0429 977 603.
Please ensure you take note of vehicle number plates and
other details should we need to assist police with their
enquiries.
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School Board News
Your current parent members representatives are:
Fi Lord – until June 2019 (completing John Van Opijnen’s
term)
Tenille Webb – until June 2020
Breyley Lauritsen – until June 2021
Natalie Greig – until March 2022
Renaye Stokes – until March 2022
Thankyou to those who nominated for positions on the board. This
was the first time that I am aware of us needing a ballot! Jay, Nat
and myself received equal votes and Jay chose to withdraw her
nomination with the knowledge that she has many more years to
contribute to the board. This consideration and forethought is what
makes strong communities so thankyou Jay – as we have discussed,
board meetings are always open and I look forward to seeing your
nomination come in next time! Personally, I tossed and turned over
putting forward my own nomination given our travel plans. I left
the decision in the hands of the board.
After our coming board meeting, Fi Lord’s position will be up
for election. Within our Terms of Reference, terms are viewed a bit
like contracts – they need to be filled instead of just starting
over when someone resigns or leaves. So while Fi has only been
sitting on our board for less than 12 months, her position needs to
come up for election. There are plenty of areas within our Terms of
Reference that are open to interpretation yet this is not one of
them .
There is a misconception that board meetings are closed and
while that may be the case in other schools, certainly over the
last 3 years the doors have always been open. Only board members
are entitled to vote on motions, but you are most welcome to
attend. An agenda is circulated to board members one week before
any meeting and we contain our meetings to 2 hours so general
business is not always discussed. Certainly if there is something
that you would like to raise at a board meeting or motions to be
put forward, I need at least 7 days notice (also part of our terms
of reference). Confirmed minutes are available for viewing at the
front office.
Our next meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, June 5th,
5.30-7.30pm in the Staff Room.
Warm regards, Renaye Stokes, 9920 5555
School Chaplain We have a new School Chaplain, Mrs Jenny Box.
Jenny comes to us with loads
of experiences. She is with us every second Wednesday. She is
going to be
working with small groups, helping in art, helping deliver the
Protective
Behaviours Program and will be another ear for students to have
if they wish
to discuss anything at all to do with their wellbeing. Please
feel free to come
and meet Jenny when she is in the school always on the odd
numbered
weeks.
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P&C News
I wish to thank all the parents and family members of Chapman
Valley Primary School for taking the time to help out at the
Mother’s Day Morning Tea. It was a wonderful day and the place
looked amazing. I wish to also thank the children for their
great performances and the beautiful manners they all displayed
on the day. Also a special thank you to Mrs Blanke, Mrs
Goforth and Mrs Luxton.
The Mother’s Day Morning Tea has been going for over 30 years
and even though it is not a huge event for us in terms of
monetary gain, it does however, go a long way in showcasing our
lovely school and it’s just a nice way to bring women of all
ages together.
The next major event will take place on the 7th September which
of course is the Chapman Valley Show Day with our burger
tent – this is a massive day and ALL parents and family and
friends are asked to assist in some way. We will be doing a
roster that every parent is asked to adhere to however, any
extra help is also welcome so watch this space as the run up to
this event will start in the next few months.
The P&C has also been generously donated some wonderful
gifts lately and have decided to raffle these off with 1000
tickets being printed shortly. The prizes will include 4
different pieces of jewellery from Gemma Baker, a John Deer Big
Farm
Truck with children books, a bar fridge stocked with a carton of
beer etc. The raffle will commence around the 7th of June
with the prizes drawn at the Chapman Valley Show and everyone
will be asked to help try and sell as many as possible.
Our P&C is always open to new members however, if you wish
to come along and just listen in we are more than happy for
you to do this as well. Our next meeting will be held in the
school library on Wednesday 12th June at 6pm.
Chrissy Philippa—President, 0498 999 766
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COMMUNITY NEWS
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COMMUNITY NEWS
Volunteers Needed!! The Chapman Valley Sub Centre is requiring
volunteers! If you are interested in becoming an ambulance officer
then please give us a call.
If you are interested in becoming a volunteer driver or officer
or would like some more information then please contact either
Gerard on 0428 648 494 or myself, Chrissy Philippa on 0498 999
766.
Rigters Shop4Schools Wow… Thankyou community for helping us to
get extra funds into our school. Recently we received a cheque for
$286.80 in the mail from 2018 Shop for Your School programme. We
obviously had many parents and community members donating points to
our school. THANKYOU! SO please help us to gain another cheque in
the mail by shopping at the local Rigters supermarkets in 2019.
People who shop at either the Queens IGA, Rigter’s IGA on Durlacher
St, or the Wonthella IGA can donate points accumulated to our
school.
If you would like to contribute our number is 6050.
Please pass this number on to family and friends who would like
to contribute their points.
If there are any children who are interested in completing their
Catholic Sacraments this year, please contact Susanne
Warr ph 0428 317 299
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TERM 2 CALENDAR 2019
Week Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday
Sunday
1
April 29 Staff Development Day
April 30
May 1 Soup Dezi Playgroup
May 2 Library Day
May 3 May 4 May 5
2
May 6 May 7 May 8 Soup - Stafford Playgroup
May 9 Library Day
May 10 Mother’s Day Morning Tea
May 11 May 12
3
May 13
May 14 Naplan Tennis
May 15 Newsletter Naplan Soup - Renaye Playgroup
May 16 Naplan Library Day
May 17
May 18 May 19
4
May 20 May 21 Tennis
May 22 National Simultaneous Story Time day Soup - Jodie
Playgroup
May 23 Science & Engineering Challenge Senior rm Museum
Junior rm Library Day
May 24 May 25 May 26
5
May 27 May 28 Tennis
May 29 Soup - Jay Playgroup
May 30
Library Day
May 31 June 1 June 2
6
June 3 WA Day holiday
June 4 Tennis
June 5 Newsletter Soup Playgroup School Board Meeting 5.30pm
June 6 Library Day
June 7
June 8 June 9
7
June 10 June 11 Tennis
June 12 Soup Playgroup
June 13 Library Day P & C Meeting 6pm
June 14 Open Day 12pm
June 15 June 16
8
June 17 June 18 Tennis
June 19 Soup Playgroup Junior room to QPT “Possum Magic”
June 20 Library Day
June 21 Winter Carnival Northampton Room 3
June 22 June 23
9
June 24 June 25
June 26 Newsletter Soup Playgroup Young Writers
June 27 Library Day NAIDOC DAY EXCURSION N/TON
June 28
June 29 June 30
10
July 1 July 2 July 3 Soup Playgroup
July 4 Library Day
July 5 Happy Chappy Cross Country Lapathon Assembly End of
Term
July 6 July 7
Hol July 8 July 9 July 10 July 11 July 12 July 13 July 14
Hol July 15 July 16 July 17 July 18 July 19 July 20 July 21
