22 Lawrence Way SAMSON 6163 Ph: 9487 9000

NEWSLETTER No 6

3rd May, 2019

Principal: Rhonda Spencer

Email: samson.ps@education.wa.edu.au

______________________________________________________

______________________________________________________ Our School Our Future

Principal’s Message

Dear Parents,

Start of term 2 Welcome back to term 2. The weather is starting to turn cold. Please remind your child to wear a jumper or jacket to school. Please put your child’s name on jumpers and jackets as we lose many at this time of year and it is easy to return a jacket that has a name clearly printed on the inside.

Sarah Fawcett – Manager Corporate Services We welcome Mrs Sarah Fawcett who joins us as our MCS (Manager Corporate Services) in the front office replacing Mrs Marilyn Baker. Sarah joins us as a permanent staff member. She has experience working in the role and is keen to establish processes in the office to make it easier for parents. We will be modernising the process for paying for school events.

Staff Car Park The staff car park is not a drop off or pick up point for parents. Staff at the school, when arriving and departing, do not expect to have to negotiate students being dropped off and picked up in the staff car park. Please, consider the safety of your children. Day Care buses drop off and pick up in the car park so that young children are safe.

Samson PS new school phone number

9487 9000

NAPLAN Testing – Year 3 & 5 Week 3 The NAPLAN testing begins for year 3 and 5 students on Tuesday 14 May until Friday 24 May. Two catch-up days will for students who are absent is held on Friday 17 and 24 May.

Date NAPLAN Testing Schedule Week 1 (14th May – 18th May)

Mon 13th

No Testing

Writing Yr 3 & 5

Tue 14th

9.30am Year 3 Writing on paper

9.30 am Year 5 Grp 1

11.00am Year 5 Grp 2

12.00pm Year 5 Grp 3

Reading

Yr 3 Wed 15th

9.30am Year 3 Grp 1

9.30 am Year 3 Grp 2

11.00am Year 3 Grp 3

Reading

Yr 5 Thurs 16th

9.30am Year 5 Grp 1

9.30 am Year 5 Grp 2

11.00am Year 5 Grp 3

Catch

Up

Fri 17th

9.30am Year 3 Writing on Paper

9.30 am Yr 3 Reading

11.00am Yr 5 Reading

____________________________________________________________ Our School, Our Future

Date NAPLAN Testing Schedule Week 2 (20th May – 24th May)

Conventions of Language

Year 3

Mon 20th

9.30am Year 3 Grp 1

11.00 am Year 3 Grp 2

12.00pm Year 3 Grp 3

Conventions of Language

Year 5

Tues 21st

9.30am Year 5 Grp 1

11.00 am Year 5 Grp 2

12.00pm Year 5 Grp 3

Number

Yr 3

Tue 22nd

9.30am Year 3 Grp 1

11.00 am Year 3 Grp 2

12.00pm Year 3 Grp 3

Number Year 5

Tue 23rd

9.30am Year 5 Grp 1

11.00 am Year 5 Grp 2

12.00pm Year 5 Grp 3

Catch up

9.30am Yr 3 & Yr 5 Conventions of

Language

11 am Yr 3 & Yr 5 Number

12.00pm Yr 3 & Yr 5 Other

NAPLAN online allows for a longer time for testing. Students have been practising the tests on the computers. For ease of testing the students have been placed in 3 groups. All tests except the writing test for year 3 students is completed on line. This writing test is on paper. Please let your children know that there is nothing to worry about. The tests are just the same as the work they do in class. They do their best with the questions and do all of the ones that they know and go back to the ones they are not sure of and try again.

NAPLAN Reports will be sent home to parents. Please keep these in a safe place as you may need them for your child’s high school enrolment.

Mothers’ Day Celebrations Our Kindergarten and Pre Primary classes are having Mother’s Day celebrations. PPA & PPB on Thursday, 9th May at 1.50pm for the mums and children. Kindy Emu group on Wednesday 8th May and the Kangaroo group on Thursday. Both groups start at 2pm to 2.40pm. We wish all of our mums a Happy Mothers’ Day.

Rhonda Spencer Principal This term our Virtue is Self-Discipline. Self-discipline is a virtue that develops over time and is different things at different ages.

Student absences from school It is that time of the term when students start to get colds etc and take more time of school due to absences.

SMS – Absence Messages For the parents who would like to SMS to provide a

reason for your child’s absence, the phone number is

0418 948 875.

Please use this number rather than email for daily absences or short absences including illness or appointments. Staff collect the information from the SMS. Otherwise the staff have to cut and paste the information from one system to the other.

____________________________________________________________ Our School, Our Future

RSL CITY OF COCKBURN ANZAC

YOUTH PARADE AND SERVICE

On Thursday 11th April, our Year 6 students attended the annual RSL CITY OF COCKBURN ANZAC YOUTH PARADE AND SERVICE, to commemorate the 104th anniversary of the Gallipoli landing in 1915 and those that gave their lives in defence of our country. Samson Primary School was one of 27 schools in the city of Cockburn to attend. Mr Evans, Mrs Clark and Ms Sloan would like to acknowledge our students for their exemplary, respectful behaviour throughout the service. Special mention must go to our wreath layers, Sebastian Whitaker and Sophie Patching and also to Max Davis from Room 10 who had the honour of reading the ANZAC Resolution for the entire congregation. Well done Max!

We are very proud of all of you. Mrs Clark

PROTECTIVE BEHAVIOURS

PARENT WORKSHOPS This is for parents of students in the junior classes, years 1, 2 and 3. Practical activities to show parents how students learn mathematics. WHAT: Protective Behaviour Workshop WHEN: Tuesday, 7th May, 2019 WHERE: Library TIME: 6pm – 8.30pm WHO: Everyone welcome

Genevieve Dicks is running this session

for parents. She is a parent in our school who has vast experience working in this

area. Come along and gain some valuable information to help your child/ren.

____________________________________________________________ Our School, Our Future

TERM 2 DATES

DATES TO REMEMBER

Term 2

Mon 6 May Fri 10 May

Newsletter World Maths Incursion

Tue 14 - 24 May

NAPLAN testing Yrs 3 & 5

Fri 17 May Newsletter

Wed 22 May Assembly Rm Rms 1 & 2 Year 1 classes Uniform Shop open 8:15am

Fri 29 May

School Council 7pm Year 1 Excursion

Fri 31 May

Newsletter

Mon 3 June

WA Day Public Holiday

Wed 5 June Assembly Rms WA Day Uniform shop open 8:15am

Mon 10 June P & C Meeting 7pm

Wed 19 June Thur 20 June

Assembly Rm 7 Uniform shop open 8:15am School Council 7pm Lightning Carnival Yrs 5 & 6

Wed 26 June Music Aviva Incursion PP – Yr 6

Fri 28 June Dental Visit - PP, Yrs 3 & 6

Mon 1 July Lapathon 1.40-2.40pm

Tues 2 July Purple Haze Cake Stall

Fri 1 July NAIDOC Day Last day of term

Any new dates will be added in red

HAPPY MOTHERS DAY

We wish all Mothers everywhere a very special day on Sunday. Thank you for all of the work that you

do.

____________________________________________________________ Our School, Our Future

Woolworth Earn & Learn

When: 1 May to 25 June 2019

Woolworths Earn & Learn program. Collect your

stickers at Woolworths and for every $10 you spend

(excluding the purchase of tobacco, liquor and gift

cards), you will receive a sticker. Your children can

then place them on the special sticker sheet. Once

completed, bring it to school or you drop them into

your local Woolworths collection box. We will be able

to purchase resources for our school with the stickers.

Please find attached the Little Lunchbox Menu for term 2.

P & C Meeting Monday 10 June 7pm in

the school staffroom

____________________________________________________________ Our School, Our Future