TERM 3 PLANNER Accompanying this newsletter parents will find the Term 3 Planner which outlines the major events occurring throughout the term. Key dates in Term 3 include:

The HEC Public Speaking Competition (30th July) . WAGSMS Concert (6th August) School Cross Country (8th August) Interschool Cross Country (22nd August) Bookweek (25th—29th August) K/PP Fathers’ Day Morning Tea (3rd September) P&C Fathers’ Day Stall (3rd September) Book Fair (8th—12th September) P&C Lapathon (19th September) Last Day of Term 3 (26th September)

Plus assemblies, P&C Meetings and loads more! WA EDUCATION AWARDS Parents are reminded that the WA Education Awards are your opportunity to tell everyone what’s great about your school and the staff who work there. More information, including extra merit certificates, is available from the front office or can be downloaded from the website at www.education.wa.edu.au

BOUNCED PRIZES The Yr 6/7 assembly once again saw the latest tablet prizes drawn in the BouncED On-Line Learning Competition.

All students who had used BouncED in Term 2 were placed in a draw for one of two 10” Android based tablets with two lucky ladies’ names being drawn out. Congratulations to Hayley Rice (Yr 4) and Isabelle Wass (PP) on taking home the new tablets.

This term we will have two more tablets to give away but we are raising the bar! We are looking for students who have used BouncED at least twice per week for the term! This could be either at school or at home, so there is plenty of opportunity to make sure students are in the draw at the final assembly of Term 3. BEFORE AND AFTER SCHOOL CARE? A gentle reminder to all parents interested in school based before and after school care to complete a brief survey to help us determine the viability of running this program.

The survey will only take approximately 3 minutes of your time and can be accessed online from:

https://www.research.net/s/MundaringPrimarySchool Mr Paul Larkin (Principal)

FROM THE PRINCIPAL . . .

Hello parents and caregivers. I hope you all had a wonderful time with your children over the holiday break and the kids are ready and raring to go for Term 3. This is a very important term as it provides teachers with relatively uninterrupted time for their teaching and learning programs. The term isn’t all work though, with the EduDance program starting next week for PP to Yr 7.

Term 2 wound up with a bang with the year 6 & 7 students from Room 14 presenting a simply stunning assembly. Their dream inspired theme saw the older students dazzling the audience with a selection of creative costumes, marvellous music and stunning choreography. You can see from the pictures below that the students had a ball. Well done Miss Forbes and Mrs Rule and congratulations must go to the students for such a fantastic performance.

From the Principal . . Term 3 Planner WA Education Awards BouncED Prizes Before and After School Care?

Assembly - 4 July Tidy Class Award Sport News Reminder - Information Update BUZ Awards

Early Childhood Centre News Edu Dance Win a Load of Wood! Literacy Tip Uniform Shop

Library News Free Dress Day Fast ForWord History Competition Canteen

Check out our website at www.mundaringps.wa.edu.au

855 Stevens Street Mundaring 6073 Telephone: 9295 1072 Fax: 9295 3072 Email: Principal.Mundaring.PS@education.wa.edu.au

Term 3 Issue 11

25 July 2014

ASSEMBLY - 4 July 2014

Congratulations to our Honour Certificate recipients

PP Wesley Harrison Lilli Letica Ashley Haigh Isla Wallace Heidi Lucassen Bailey Speyer Yr 1 Cara Bissett Will Bowers Kaden Lee Jordan Miles Yr 2 Lana Garfield Jack Sullivan Renae Brown Tyler Park Karla Eaves Yr 3 Sirena Drew Bella Suardana Rhys Butler Jacob Lovell Chloe Mules Yr 4 Shaniqure Wells Tahneasha Bacon Guy Footer Sam Shackleton Annika Plant Dion Meads Matthius Bundamurra-Rex Yr 6 Caitlyn Merkouris Yr 7 Deangelo Manuel Robert McGowan George Rex

Our music assembly is to be held on 1 August and family members and friends are welcome to attend.

BUZ (Build Up Zone) Awards

Lucy Cole Amelia Phillips Jayden Christie Kurtis Dunstan

TIDY CLASS AWARD Room 10

SPORT NEWS Interschool Sport: MPS verses Gidgegannup On Friday 27 June Year 6 and 7 students from Mundaring Primary School played games of football, soccer and netball against teams from Gidgegannup Primary while some of our Year 5 students had a game of volleyball. Once again our teams tried to do their best in their games with our soccer and netball A teams having wins and the netball B team, Year 5 volleyball team and the football team losing their games.

We would like to thank the parents who were able to attend and support our teams . A special thank you goes to Mr Neil Cole for his assistance with umpiring at the soccer and Mrs Paula Hill for umpiring at the netball. This was our last winter sport fixture for 2014. Our next interschool activity will be the cross-country event to be held on Friday 22 August at the Mundaring Recreation Ground and Mundaring Golf Course. The four best boys and girls in Year 4 to 7 at our school cross-country will be representing our school at this event.

Jump Rope Now that the Jump Rope activity has been completed the sponsorship forms and money need to be returned to the school as soon as possible. Students who didn’t obtain sponsorship should also return their form. Where a large amount of money has been collected it would be appreciated if the money could be sent in as a cheque made out to the school. Payments can also be made online. We would like to finalise the money collection by the end of Week 4, August 15th.

After School Sport Mundaring Primary School has been successful in gaining funding for the Active After-school Communities Program for After School Sport sessions for the second semester of 2014.

We have received funding for two sessions per week to be run on a Tuesday and Wednesday afternoon for seven weeks. Each session will start at 3.15 and conclude at 4.15 pm.

Mr Taylor will be taking T ball on Tuesdays commencing 5 August with the last session on Tuesday 16 September.

A Sports Commission coach (assisted by Mr Taylor) will be taking hockey sessions on Wednesdays starting 6 August and finishing on Wednesday 17 September.

We have funding for 28 students per session. All sessions are free and a healthy afternoon tea is provided in the undercover area prior to the commencement of the session. Registration forms will be available from the office from Monday for the T ball and hockey activities. Boys and girls from Years 1 to 7 are able to participate, however places will be allocated on the basis of the first 25 students for each sport with their completed forms handed to the office. Students may register for both the T ball and hockey sessions.

Cross-Country The school will be holding its cross-country event on Friday 8 August, weather permitting. The Year 1, 2, 3 and 4 children will run their event on the Friday during their sport time between 1.00 pm to 2.00 pm. The Year 5, 6 and 7 children will run their event in their sport time between 2.00 pm to 3.00 p.m. Race distances: Year 1 - 450 m (one and half laps of oval), Year 2 and 3 - 600m (two laps of oval), Year 4 and 5 - 1000m (two laps of the cross country track), Year 6 and 7 - 1500m (three laps of the cross country track) All children participating earn points for the Cross-country Shield and the first four place getters earn points towards the championship medallion for the Athletics Carnival.

Murray Taylor (Sports Coordinator)

Sport Scores Players of Note

Football Mundaring - 27 Gidgegannup - 43

Tyrone Offer, William Fox, Calan Hill, Riley Trew , Danny O’Reilly

Netball A Mundaring - 18 Gidgegannup - 14

Veronica Burbidge, Lily Valverde Caceres Ruby Morris

Netball B Mundaring - 10 Gidgegannup - 14

Anna Dolling, Laura Maiklem, Jessica Cook, Caitlyn Merkouris

Soccer Mundaring - 4 Gidgegannup - 0

Harry Kelly, Jaxson Turner, Jessica Mikucki

Volleyball Mundaring - 0 Gidgegannup - 2

Paige Redmond, Jordana Manuel, Narayan Szczecinski

REMINDER - Information Update It is important to have up to date contact details for our students in case of illness or an emergency. Any change to your main mobile number will affect our ability to contact you using our SMS notification system re bushfires, school closures, etc. Thank you.

EARLY CHILDHOOD CENTRE NEWS

Pre-primary students will be bringing their own healthy morning tea beginning Week 2 (next week).

Please sign the parent roster. We’d love the help!

Please fill in your comments and return your kindergarten child’s Work Sample Book soon. Thank you.

Early Childhood Centre Team

THE UNIFORM SHOP will be open 3.00 - 3.30 pm on Wednesday 6 August. Kelly Bertolini

ALLERGY AWARE No whole eggs or nut products at MPS please.

LITERACY TIP When helping your child to spell don’t forget how useful it is to do more than just write on paper. “Skywriting”, writing with the fingertip on a textured surface, clapping syllables, doing head shoulders, knees and toes with syllables, or using finger sticks with the left hand which correspond to the sounds in words while writing with the right, all use another pathway to the brain (the kinaesthetic pathway) which helps consolidate literacy learning. Finger sticks are particularly useful for counting the sounds in words, especially with children who tend to clump blends or cluster sounds like pl, st, mp and write only one sound. Some children will say a word like stump has only three sounds (st_u_mp) when in actuality it has five (s_ t_ u_ m_ p). In the pre-school years, putting a fence around each word with your fingers, counting words in sentences and finding the short and long words by counting the letters helps build word awareness when reading. It helps children to understand the building blocks of reading – sound and letters, words and sentences. For more information go to www.talktoliteracy.com.au and click on blog.

CANTEEN

Monday 28 July Friday 1 August

Heidi Laker Lee/Antoinette

Monday 4 August Friday 8 August

Jenny Ripley Bec/Jacqui

SCHOOL BANKING Thursday, 8.30am – 8.50am outside the library.

EDU-DANCE starts next week for all students from Pre-Primary to Year 7. The cost is $25 per student and permission slips have already been sent home. ‘

Parents are reminded that in the case of financial hardship, the school is able to offer alternative payment arrangements with all requests for this service handled in a strictly confidential manner.

Please see Mrs Rhodes or Mr Larkin if you wish to avail yourself of this service.

WIN A LOAD OF WOOD! Come and support our Year 6/7

Graduation fundraising on Saturday

26 July from 8 am - 5 pm outside

Coles in Mundaring.

Tickets: $2 each for $400 worth of

wood, delivered to your house.

See you there!

LIBRARY NEWS Book Club is due back by Friday 1 August 2014.

ONESIE AND PYJAMA FREE DRESS DAY

Thursday 7 August Gold coin donation

to support Yr 6/7 Graduation fundraising.

This term we are trialling a computer assisted learning program called Fast ForWord. This program works on developing and strengthening the neural pathways

associated with working memory, attention, sound recognition and many other skills related to learning across all Learning Areas but specifically with reading.

We have a trial group of twelve students who are giving up their own time to attend the sessions before school and have already started the process of familiarising themselves with each of the tasks they will soon have to do independently.

HISTORY COMPETITION This term we are introducing the new History component of the Australian Curriculum and to kick this off, we are conducting a History Competition for students. We have sourced a number of photographs from the Mundaring area dating back to over 100 years.

The competition requires students to order these mystery photos from oldest to newest, using their powers of investigation and observation. Photos are posted on the Library and Admin Block windows, and students will also be able to view these in class. Parents may like to have a crack at this too.

Winners from each block will be announced at next week’s assembly where prizes for the best History Detectives will be given out.

Richard Tonkin Level 3 Classroom Teacher

SUPER SUPER HEROES!