Nichole, Mia and Naomi

PEG’S CREEK PRIMARY SCHOOL GALBRAITH ROAD, PEG’S CREEK 9144 4141 PEGSCREEK.PS@EDUCATION.WA.EDU.AU

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT – Shiona Hobart

EDITION 11 – 2 November 2017

Monday 6 November Thursday 9 November Year 6 Transition at KSHS Year 6 Transition, St Lukes

Tuesday 7 November Thursday 16 November

Interschool Basketball Comp Assembly- TA10

Welcome to week four term four already!

STAFFING UPDATE

We welcome Mrs Nichole Smith to our staff for term

4. Nichole is taking Digital Technology classes while

Ms Sonny Konig is on long service leave. Nichole

also supports our staff one day per week in a SAER

role.

We also welcome Miss Mia Grantham for term 4,

Mia is taking Hayley Newton- Cearn’s class while

she is on leave for the term.

We also welcome Miss Naomi Cremen, who is

completing her final long term Prac in TA16 under

the guidance of Mrs Gethin. We wish Naomi all the

best in her chosen career.

PRESENTATION NIGHT Once again we are getting ready for our celebrations at the end of the year. This year the theme of our night is ‘One Hit Wonders’.

This is always a great night and I am looking forward to seeing our community join with us as we bring 2017 to an end.

Attendance For a child to have good attendance they need to

attend school 90% of the time. This means missing

less than one day per fortnight.

Remember that if your child is absent from school a

reason needs to be provided using either the SMS

system on 0417 930 832, contacting the Front Office

or talking with your child’s teacher.

The end of term is often a time where the

connections with peers are made stronger due to the

preparation for Presentation Night and other

celebrations. There is also the completion of

teaching and learning programs to add to your child’s

report. We encourage every family to keeps habits of

coming to school every day, even in Term 4.

Lisa Campbell

PLANNING FOR 2018

I am currently working on the school structure for

2018. This process will continue for the remainder of

the year. Please inform our School Office if your

child/ren will NOT be remaining with us for 2018.

Due to distribution of student numbers, there will be

some multi-age classes; this could include a PP/1

class. If you have additional information which would

assist the school when making up class lists you are

welcome to submit a request in writing to the

Principal by Friday November 24th. Please mark any

requests ‘Private and Confidential.’ Please note that

there is no guarantee that requests will be met and

requests to have a particular teacher will not be

accepted. All classes are subject to change at any

time, due to fluctuations in enrolments. However, the

school endeavours to do its best to plan carefully

with the information available.

Shiona Hobart

VENUE: Peg’s Creek Primary School

DATE: Wednesday, 6 December

TIME: 6.30pm

EDITION 11 – 2 November 2017

EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

YEAR 6 HIGH SCHOOL TRANSITION

Our Year 6 students have already attended their first

three days of transition. This initiative is supported

by the strong Karratha School’s Network. Students

have the opportunity to attend subject specific

classes, get to know staff and learn how to navigate

around the environment. The canteen has been its

usual hit! Once again all reports back to me are

highly positive about the Pegs Creek representation.

I thank Mrs Kristy Fitzpatrick and Miss Amanda

Oakley for their support and organisation to ensure

the students access everything they need to make

transition a positive experience.

MAYOR VISIT The Year 3 & 4 students were excited to have a visit

from the City of Karratha Mayor, Mr Peter Long, on

Tuesday. The students have been studying the role

and purpose of local government in HaSS classes

(Humanities and Social Sciences), and Mr Long

gave us some great insights into what the City of

Karratha does, as well as the best, worst and most

interesting aspects of working in local government.

We are very greatful for the experience and look

forward to our visit from the police in Week 6.

YEAR 5/6 DAMPIER EXCURSION

On Friday 27 October the Year 5 and 6’s went on a

fishing excursion to Dampier. It was kicked off with a

talk from the fisheries who discussed the importance

of fish size and bag limits. We then found our

competitive streak in a sandcastle building

competition. The winners building a fantastic model

of a mermaid. Second place was a model of Mrs

Fitz’s boat and the infamous Unicorn Whale. After

lunch came the reason we were there. To catch fish!

There were some maintenance issues and devices

that had to be altered, but we prevailed! 1 crab, 2

stingrays and 2 shovel nose sharks later and we

were ready to call it a day. Well done to all the year

5/6s who worked hard to design and build their

fishing device. They saw that persistence and

dedications pays off. Thank you to our amazing

parent helpers Tamara and Jarrad, the day wouldn’t

have been as fun without you there!

Some quotes for the year 5s:

Dillon TA10 “I didn’t think we would catch anything.”

Jaiden TA11 “It was actually really fun!”

Senya TA10 “I didn’t expect to be able to catch

anything and my group caught a stingray and a

shovel nose!”

Noah TA10 “I got to hold a shovel nose shark that

Cahn, Arriyan and I caught.”

PEG’S CREEK PRIMARY ART EXHIBITION

Students at Peg’s Creek Primary School would like

to invite parents and families to come and view the

spectacular art work we have created over the last

three terms.

The Art room doors will be open from 7.50 am each

morning until 3pm after school.

When: Week 6 Monday –Wednesday

Where: Art Room, Cossack Block

EDITION 11 – 2 November 2017

SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

LEADERSHIP

NATIONAL SCHOOLS OPINIONS SURVEYS At Peg’s Creek Primary School we are continually

reviewing our performance and processes. Providing

a sound educational program takes teamwork and

that team is made up of staff, students, parents and

the community. Thank you to those parents, staff and

students from Year 4-6 who recently completed our

National Opinion Surveys. Results have been

reported to the School Board and will be reported in

our Annual School Report.

CYCLONE SAFETY

The Bureau of Meteorology and Emergency Services

held an information meeting for all Principals’ at the

Pilbara Education Regional Office last month. Their

message was very clear and strong in that

communities need to be prepared for the upcoming

Cyclone Season. The Bureau needs all communities

to take notice of Severe Weather Warnings as much

as Cyclone warnings. Communities need to read and

understand and act on all alerts. Please take note of

our Cyclone processes distributed with this

newsletter.

BIKE SAFETY

If your child is riding to school, please ensure they

have a helmet and a lock for their bike. We have

noticed quite a few that haven’t been locked and

would hate for anything to happen to them.

SCHOOL BOUNDARY GATES

For safety reasons we will be locking the Baywiew

Road entry school gates at 9.00am each morning.

Any parents wishing to enter the school can gain

access at the Galbraith Road entrance. The gates will

be unlocked again at 2.00pm each afternoon.

2018 STUDENT LEADERSHIP

I have spoken to students in Years 3, 4 and 5 last

week to encourage them to nominate and begin

preparing their speeches if they would like to be part

of the student leadership in our school. Our student

leaders are an important voice and they have an

essential role to play in ensuring our school remains

student focussed. I invite parents to be part of this

process. Our elections will be held on Tuesday 21

November in the Library.

PARTNERSHIPS

EDITION 11 – 2 November 2017

BOARD OPEN MEETING

We will be holding an Open Community Board

Meeting on November 28. All members of our

community are invited to attend this public meeting.

The meeting will be held in the Staffroom starting at

7.00pm. Our Chairman Mr John Lally will be

resigning from his position at the end of the year, this

meeting will be an opportunity for our school to thank

him for his service to our school community.

We are seeking nominations from our school

community to fill any Parent or Community positions

which could become vacant at our next meeting.

Please contact me so that I can support you to

discuss requirements of the positions and complete

a nomination form for you

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FeNaCLING FLOAT PRIZE

We were very proud to receive a cheque from

Horizon Power for $1500.00 earlier this week for our

first place in the FeNACLING Float Parade 2017.

Our P&C were very much part of this community

success.

P&C

I would like to take this opportunity to formally thank

our amazing P&C and in particular Mrs Natalie

Richards for her successful application in the Robin

Bromley Visionary Grant. Our P&C were awarded

$1000.00. I believe this money will be spent on a

counter top fridge. Congratulations!