SORRENTO PRIMARY website: www.sorrentops.wa.edu.au

Welcome as term 4 ramps up. P&C Lapathon We all know the P&C is an important function of the school in raising funds to build a better school. The support of Sorrento students and parents for the lapathon is greatly appreciated. This was a fun event to finish the day with a few clouds and a sprinkle of rain. P&C Art Display at School Students and teachers have been very busy in the background last term and this term producing a whole of class art piece for this fund raiser. The pieces of art are on display in library until Friday morning. P&C Art Auction Saturday Evening 28

th October

The P&C are combining wine tasting with the auction of the students’ works of art. Please consider supporting this fundraising event. Triathlon Miss Gardner has been coaching the students in preparation for the Triathlon and well supported by parent Mr Taylor and Ms Ebert. Miss Gardner has done a wonderful job in Mr Chandler’s absence. Students will make the journey out to Champion Lakes to complete on Friday, 3

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November. Lindsay Harby Principal

Student Councillors

Congratulations to the four new student councillors for term 4 (pictured L to R): Riley H, Phoebe W, Cody M and Remy R.

Sorrento Primary School

SORRENTO SEAGULL

25 October 2017 ISSUE 18

An Independent Public School

Principal’s Pen Whole School Information P&C News Community News

Canteen

Canteen open each Tues & Thurs Orders placed online at www.ouronlinecanteen.com.au

School Banking Wednesdays 8.15am – 8.40am - Canteen

Uniform Shop Wed 2.30pm – 3.00pm Fri 8.30am – 9.00am (The shop will close at 8.45am on Assembly days).

P&C Sorrento PS School Community Business Directory

Ctl+Click to follow link

http://sorrentops.wa.edu.au/pdfs/SPSBusinessDirectoryCURRENT.pdf

School Watch encourages the school

community to report any suspicious activity in and around school grounds, after hours and on weekends, as well as during the school holidays. Telephone 1800 177 777 (free call) or 13 14 44 (WA Police)

School Dental Therapy Centre - Marmion

Ph: 9447 1275

School Information

14 Elfreda Avenue Sorrento WA 6020

Phone (08) 9447 7488 Email: Sorrento.PS@education.wa.edu.au

School Start time – 8.40am Recess 10.40-11.00am Lunch 12.40-1.20pm School Finish Time – 2.50pm

Term Dates (For Students) 2017 Term 1 Wed 1 Feb – Fri 7 Apr Term 2 Wed 26 Apr – Fri 30 Jun Term 3 Mon 17 July – Fri 22 Sept Term 4 Mon 9 Oct – Thur 14 Dec

School Development Days 2017 (Students do not attend)

2.0 Days Mon 30 Jan & Tue 31 Jan 1.0 day Tue, 7 Mar 1.0 day Mon 24 April 1.0 day Fri 2 June 1.0 day Friday 15 Dec

What’s In This Issue

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Principal’s Pen ……..

Whole School Information

SORRENTO PRIMARY website: www.sorrentops.wa.edu.au

Term Dates 2018 (for students) Term 1 Wed 31 January – Fri 13 April Break

Sat 14 April – Sun 29 April

Term 2 Mon 30 April – Fri 29 June Break

Sat 30 June – Sun 15 July

Term 3 Mon 16 July – Fri 21 September Break

Sat 22 September – Sun 7 October

Term 4 Mon 8 October – Thu 13 December School Development Days 2018 Term 1 Monday 29 January

Tuesday 30 January Term 2 Friday 1 June Term 3 Monday 16 July Term 4 Monday 8 October

Friday 14 December

Assembly Awards Hosts: Year 2 Room 2 Date: 20 October 2017

Merit Awards

Year Room Names

PP 1 Louis J, Sophie B

PP 2 Amelia M, Grace D

1 13 MacKenzie F, Chase T

14 Oliver H, Josh v

2 1 Angela M, Lara H, Robin R

2 Teo K, Ruby B, Oscar B

4 Macey J

3 3 Paige T, Andrew H

4 Thomas E

6 Emily B, Isabella V, Lara B

4 7 Flynne T, Marley J

8 Portia F

5 11 Phoenix W, Alex C, Holly D, Mia P

12 Reuben R, Iman M, Tim T

6 10 April L

Aussie of the Month Awards

Year Room Names

PP 2 Riley B

1 14 Claudia M

3 3 Jackson T

5 11 Rebecca T

Awesome Award Lara B Year 4 Room 7 was presented with a certificate and passes to Adventure World at the assembly. Congratulations Lara.

Nude Food Winners

Term 2

Week 2 Winner: Max D (Room 9) Week 2 Winner: Asha L (Room 13) Class winner for the fortnight was Room 4 (Year 2/3) with 97%.

UNSW Maths Competition

In third term, selected year four students took part in the UNSW Maths Competition. The questions in this competition are designed to challenge mathematical thinking.

Special mention goes to the following students who scored particularly well:

Distinction Ryan T Credit Analiese H, Sean T, Jack M, Andrew N,

Caelen O, Emily v, William S, Jackson B, Asha P, Ena K

Merit Lucy W

Congratulations to all students who took part.

Beverley Fitton Coordinator

Calendar

Term 4

October Fri 27 Dental Health Screening

Sat 28 P&C Wine Tasting Party

November Wed 1 9-9.45am Kindy 2018 Parent

Meeting

Fri 3 8.40-9.30am Assembly Y2 R1 Triathlon Y4/5/6

Mon 13 7-8.30pm P&C Meeting Conference Rm

Fri 17 8.40-9.30am Assembly Y3 R3 9.30-10.00am T20 Blast Cricket Carnival Year 5 Team)

Wed 22 9-9.30am Kindy Blue Bears 2018 Orientation

Wed 29 9-9.30am Kindy Red Bears 2018 Orientation School Board Mtg

Thur 30 6.00-8.00pm Christmas Sing-along

December

Mon 4 In-Term Swimming Yrs 1,2,3

Tue 5 In-Term Swimming Yrs 1,2,3

Wed 6 In-Term Swimming Yrs 1,2,3

Thur 7 In-Term Swimming Yrs 1,2,3

Fri 8 8.40-9.40am Awards Assembly (Undercover Area) In-Term Swimming Yrs 1,2,3

Mon 11 In-Term Swimming Yrs 1,2,3

Tue 12 In-Term Swimming Yrs 1,2,3 Electronic Reports Published

Wed 13 In-Term Swimming Yrs 1,2,3

Thur 14 8.40-9.30am Year 6 Graduation Assembly (Undercover Area) In-Term Swimming Yrs 1,2,3 Last Day for Students

SORRENTO PRIMARY website: www.sorrentops.wa.edu.au

Bushfire Plan

Please be aware that the school has been placed on the Bushfire Zone Register as we have been identified as being in a Bushfire Prone Area. This has required the school to develop and submit a Stand-alone Bushfire Plan which can be found on the school website under the tab “Our School” – Policy and Documents

Spring

With the summer months approaching parents are reminded that as a sun smart school; students are required to wear a sun safe hat all year round and parents are advised to apply and supply (for reapplication during the day) SPF 30+ sun cream to their children during the summer months.

Reminder - Booklists

Booklists for 2018 are now available. Orders need to be placed online by no later than 3rd

November to receive free delivery. Orders placed after this date will incur a late fee. Orders can be made through www.campion.com.au or via the Sorrento website (from the ConnectED dropdown). You will need to use the code H45X to access the Sorrento booklists from the Campion site. Paper copies have been sent home.

Bookfair

The Book Fair was a HUGE

success!!! We raised $1,777 in commission from the

sales! This will go towards new books for

our library.

Thank you to all the volunteers for giving

up their valuable time, and to the SPS

families for supporting the book fair!

Natalie Stewart-Richardson

Library Officer

School Dance

Performance

On Friday 27th October 2017 there will be a special whole school assembly from 8:40-9:30. The whole school will be showcasing their dance routines that they have been learning over the past three weeks. We welcome parents, relatives & friends to attend and celebrate the student’s achievements.

Reminder Student Formal Reports

Sorrento Primary School uses the Department of Education’s online environment called Connect which provides teachers, students and parents with secure access to a collaborative online learning environment via the Internet.

Connect provides a secure internet service that will allow access to a range of services: Sorrento Primary Parent Community

Student formal reports – this semester, student reports will be accessible for download via your Connect login. You are also able to access previous reports for your children.

Notifications about school events – fortnightly newsletter notifications are published via Connect, as well as incidental news and notes that relate to whole school or whole-of-year-level activities.

Classroom Community Class-specific notifications – many of our classes use Connect for whole-class messages and class events relevant to learning for your children.

Please note that Connect is the school’s preferred choice for whole-school communication, and is the method with which end-of-year student reports will be deployed this year. Notifications are sent via email to your email address, and there is a Connect app available if you prefer to receive push notifications via your smart phone instead. More information about the Connect app can be found at our school website: http://sorrentops.wa.edu.au/get-connected/ If you have not yet registered with Connect, please send the school an email at Sorrento.PS@education.wa.edu.au and we can issue a registration email to get you started.

SORRENTO PRIMARY website: www.sorrentops.wa.edu.au

Upcoming Event

Christmas Sing-along Keep this date free! Thursday 30th November, Sorrento PS Christmas Sing-along on the school oval. It’s a great family night so bring your own picnic around 6.00pm and the sing-along kicks off at 6:30pm. Join us in singing along to some old and new Christmas songs.

Waste Wise News

Litter Litter is an ongoing problem faced not just by every school, but by every community in Western Australia. It can cause harm to people and wildlife, and creates problems in our schools, public spaces and waterways. Highly littered areas attract more litter, illegal dumping and petty crime. Taking positive action against littering goes well beyond the visual impact, and helps provide a cleaner safer community.

Plastic makes up the highest volume of litter in WA. Plastic shopping bags, for example, can take up to 1,000 years to break down, and can also cause an estimated 100,000 sea turtles deaths. The plastic that is littered around your school yard may end up in the storm water drain, harming many other marine animals as well. Once you take into account that there are many other types of litter, it becomes evident that addressing

litter and littering is a necessary and extremely important task.

Entertainment Book

A HUGE THANKYOU to all the families that supported the Entertainment Book Fundraiser this year! For every membership sold our P&C receives $14. This year to date we have sold 70 memberships, which equates to $980 towards projects that make our school better for our kids, such as the covered playground on the oval we are striving for! The current membership runs until end of May 2018, so if you still don't have yours it's not too late! Go to https://apac01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=www.entbook.com.au%2F86127f&data=02%7C01%7CRosalie.James2%40education.wa.edu.au%7C5c8a8eeffc434a0ac39808d51aac12bd%7Ce08016f9d1fd4cbb83b0b76eb4361627%7C0%7C0%7C636444248703361988&sdata=%2BBdtkYc07ltTb4n93berXBAnJCfdPSAa8pGgKXxzIHY%3D&reserved=0 to order securely online. With best wishes, Kelly MacNeil, On behalf of your P&C

P&C News

Community Notices

School Health

HOW MUCH SLEEP DO WE NEED? Sleep researchers believe there is no one magic number for ‘sleep need’ and there are a lot of individual differences in what children and adolescents need to sleep to be at their best. But below is a guide of the best evidence we have so far.............

Babies under 1: 14-18 hours throughout the day and night

Toddlers: 12-14 hours per 24 hour period

Primary school: 10-12 hours per day

High school: 8-10 hours per day

Adults: 7-9 hours per day WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE DON'T GET ENOUGH SLEEP? Many things can be effected when we do not sleep enough such as:

Behaviour - aggressive. antisocial, withdrawn, hyperactive, unable to control or regulate behaviour

Emotion - Moody, depressed, anxious, stressed, uneasy, unconfident, irritable

Planning - poorly organised, poor time managers, repeating grades, forgets lessons

Concentration - inattentive, lack of concentration, falling behind in school

Creativity - not working at full potential

Problem solving - poor behaviour control and difficulty in social situations

Complicated thinking - struggles with maths, sciences, languages, abstract concepts

Motor coordination - less sporty, more accidents, clumsier

Weight - being obese and overweight is more likely with less sleep

Health - poorer immune system - sicker more often

Learning - it is though that sleep, particularly dream sleep or REM sleep, is necessary for storing certain types of memory, particularly more difficult memories such as mathematical concepts and language.

Sourced from: http://www.sleepeducation.net.au/sleep%20facts.php

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