DEAR PARENTS/CARERS: Leaders Assembly We have an outstanding group of student leaders in our school and it was never more evident than in the way they prepared and presented the assembly last Thursday. It was witty, interactive and really informative. Have I told you before how much I love our assemblies? COVID 19 -Business as Usual - Be Prepared and Don’t be Scared With all that is going on in the world at the moment I would like to reassure parents and carers that it is business as usual at school and we are taking good care of students in terms of continued learning and playing routines. We continue to take precautions as outlined by the Health Department and are making sure that we take “the emotional temperature” of staff and students each day to make sure that every-one is OK and any concerns are addressed calmly and in a developmentally appropriate way. The update that I sent out on Monday is comprehensive but the key points outline the need for; Sensible hygiene measures Social distancing as far as we are able Sick children to be kept home. If they present as sick at school we will need to

have them collected Planning for if and when school closure is announced. Having the capacity for some online learning to take place. More on this when it

becomes necessary. I have to say I have been so impressed with the calm approach that our staff, students and parents are displaying. There have been some amazing acts of kindness and consideration. Mrs Page was so grateful for the donations of toilet paper when her little family was in danger of having none! Students and staff at risk are making the decision to self isolate and I support this. Some parents have also chosen to isolate their children and I understand their concerns. Every family needs to make their best decision based on solid, substantiated information. Together we will get to the other side of this event. Jen Graffin - Principal

CRAIGIE HEIGHTS P R I M A R Y

I N D E P E N D E N T P U B L I C S C H O O L

N e w s l e t t e r T e r m 1

Wednesday 18th March 2020

Thursday 19th March

Crazy Sock Day Gold Coin Donation

Wednesday 25th March School Board—2.45pm

Wednesday 8th April

Anzac Service Over the PA system

Thursday 9th April Last Day of Term 1

Monday 27th April

Anzac Public Holiday

Tuesday 28th April First Day of Term 2

Tuesday 12th-Friday

22nd April NAPLAN

Friday 29th May

Staff Development Day No Pupils to attend

Monday 1st June

WA Day Public Holiday

SCHOOL VISION:

To inspire every student to achieve their personal best through learning, living and playing in harmony.

EXPECTED BEHAVIOURS:

Be Responsible Be Safe Be an Achiever Be Respectful

Telephone Number: 08 6206 2200 SMS Absentee - 0417 995 416 Email: Craigieheights.ps@education.wa.edu.au

The School Office is open 7.45am-3.30pm, Monday to Friday during the school term

School banking is held every

Tuesday outside Learning

Block 1 between the times of

8.15am and 8.45am.

Craigie Heights Dental

Clinic -Tel: 9401 3731

SCHOOL NEWS

SCHOOL PAYMENTS

CONNECT

We are now using Connect as our main communication method

with parents.

You should have received an email with your Pnumber and a

link to get into Connect. If you are having any difficulty with this

process please contact Carissa Carroll.

Carissa.Carroll@education.wa.edu.au Tel: 6206 2200

HARMONY AWARD WINNERS—WEEK 6 TERM 1

Congratulations to the following students:

Beau from Room 8, Year 3 Taylor from Room 13, Year 5

The preferred method for payment of Contributions or Charges (incursion/excursion) is via the QkR! App or website.

INCURSION OR EXCURSION The QkR! App enables you to complete and sign a combined permission and health form, and make a secure payment using a smart phone or table and a credit/debit card. The App is available 24/7 and removes the need to return forms or cash to the school. OTHER AMOUNTS AND LATE PAYMENTS A new ‘Product’ has been added to the Qkr! App that allows you to make payment of overdue amounts. You choose the amount to pay, and add a comment to identify the payment. No signature is required. Instructions on how to download the App are available here: QkR! App Alternatively payment can be made by cash, cheque or EFTPOS at the front office between 7:45am and 3:15pm, or Internet Banking (returning forms to front office): Payee: Craigie Heights Primary School BSB: 066 040 Account: 1990 2511 Reference: Child’s Name/s and Year or Room # Description: School Contributions / Incursion or Excursion Name A receipt will only be issued for payments over $50 unless requested. If required, you can contact the Manager Corporate Services at: Craigieheights.PS@education.wa.edu.au

CRAIGIE HEIGHTS NUMERO NINJAS—TERM 1

The Numero Ninjas this week are:

Room 1 Axel Room 8 Angus & Indi

Room 2 James Room 10 Jasmine

Room 3 Taylor Room 11 Ethan E

Room 4 Nika Room 12 Ethan R

Room 5 Tyson Room 13 Jamie

Room 6 Sophie & Luke A Room 14 Elijah

Room 7 Luke C Room 15 Paige

NUMERO

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HONOUR CERTIFICATE WINNERS— WEEK 6 TERM 1

Congratulations to the following students who received Honour Certificates last week

for Being Respectful, Being Responsible, Being Safe or Being Achievers:

PP to Year 3: Peter, Alyssa, Archer, Charly, Isaak, Breanna, Liam, Mackayla,

Bryli, Olivia, Flynn, Jasmine, Lewis, Damien, Georgia

Year 3 to Year 6: Madeleine, Raiden, Ashton, Ethan, Andy, Ruby, Holly, Mia,

Alexandra, Elijah, Paige, Sarah

Look at these Craigie

Achievers!

Check out these achievers

showing off their work in

the office. Keep up the

good work!!

Harmony Trackers!!

Super proud of these kids. They have

received 50 Harmony Awards, therefore

they have achieved their Bronze Certificate

of Commendation. These will be handed

out by Mrs Graffin, Mrs Robinson or Mrs

Carroll during Week 10. Well done

everyone :)

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Our PBS and PATHs focus for Week 7 and 8 is Be Safe and Be Kind.

Here are some ways Craigie Heights students can Be Safe and Be Kind:

Practice good hygiene and wash your hands

Report unsafe behaviour to an adult

Walk on paths

Give compliments to build others’ confidence

Look out for each other

Help others in need

Our Year 5/6 Students are PATHS Leaders!

Room 6 and Room 15 working together during a PATHS lesson. Thanks to Miss Hodge & Mrs Gannaway

for sharing this experience with us!

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After School Play

Many of our families get together at school, after the school day has ended, to chat and play. I see this

as the way our community connects and grows in positive, helpful ways and I support it.

I ask that you take your duty of care seriously and supervise your children well around the school. Please

respect the grounds and equipment. Respect, responsibility, achieving and safety are still expected.

Also be mindful that cleaners, gardeners, education assistants and teachers will be getting on with their

other duties.

Thank you for your consideration. Jen Graffin Principal

National Young Leaders Conference

On Monday 9th March, our Student Councillors attended the National Young

Leaders Conference at the Perth Convention Centre. This is an annual

conference that consists of keynote speakers, multimedia presentations and

interactive learning that develops strong leadership values in young

Australians. This year the presenters included John Coutis, Eamon Sullivan,

Dana Hooker and Lachie Smart. The students really enjoyed the day and

have come back to school inspired to be great leaders.

AFTER SCHOOL PLAY

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NAPLAN

The National Assessment Program in Literacy and Numeracy (NAPLAN) will be conducted from Tuesday

12th May to Friday 22nd May 2020. Students in Years 3 and 5 will participate in the annual NAPLAN tests in

reading, writing, language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation) and numeracy. The

assessments provide parents and schools with an understanding of how individual students are performing

at the time of the test. NAPLAN is just one aspect of the assessment and reporting process.

It is important to reassure your child that NAPLAN is just one

assessment, and to simply try their best. Teachers will ensure that they

are familiar with the types of questions they may get, and how to

navigate their way through the online testing.

The NAPLAN Online Public Demonstration Site is available for staff, students and parents/carers to view

and interact with the test items. The site also contains FAQs.

https://www.nap.edu.au/online-assessment/public-demonstartyion-site

All students are expected to participate. Those with a disability may qualify for adjustments. A NAPLAN

report will be issued to each student later in the year.

If you would like to know more, you can speak to your teacher, to the school Leadership Team or visit

nap.edu.au

NAPLAN Practice Tests

We are required to run Practice NAPLAN Tests through the platform from 23rd March, Week 8. A national coordinated practice test will be held at 9am on Monday 23rd March. At this time, the maximum number of students that we expect to have in any test session will sit the test at this time. These practice tests provide an opportunity for students and test administrators to become more familiar with using the test platform and to test the school as well as the WA and national testing systems.

Monday 23rd Tuesday 24th Wednesday 25th Thursday 26th Friday 27th

9am

Year 5

Room 14/15

Writing

11am

Year 5

Room 12/13

Writing

9am

Year 5

Room 12/13

Omnibus

11am

Year 5

Room 4/15

Omnibus

11am

Year 3

Room 7/8

Omnibus

9am

Year 3

Room 11

Omnibus

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SPORTS NEWS

Tennis – Academy Plate

Last week nine amazing students (Amelia, Ella, Isla, Lyla, Jayden, Joshua, Bodie, Lochlan and Oscar)

participated in the Academy Plate. They played singles and doubles matches against schools from across

the metropolitan area. We are so proud of both the girls and boys teams as they both made the finals. The

girls won five out of their six round robin matches, finishing second in their pool and qualifying for the semi

-final. They played fantastic but eventually were defeated by Noranda who went on to be the overall

winners, finishing third overall. The boys played seven matches in total and finished third in their pool.

They hung in in some very tight matches in the quarter and semi-final, going down to Wesley College in

the grand final, coming second overall. We are extremely proud of both the girls and boys teams and we

thank Tanya for her assistance in coaching the teams at lunchtimes and on the day. Well done to all

involved, their performances, sportsmanship and efforts were commendable.

Running Club

The participation in Running Club has been fantastic this term. On Wednesday’s we have been working

on our technical skills and there has been a significant improvement observed in all runners – well done.

Recently on Friday’s we launched counting our laps and improving our endurance. So far, our students

have run just under 1,000 laps. Unfortunately until further notice we have had to cancel Running Club.

PE Lessons

This week we started basketball as a sport for our more senior classes. Basketball is a fantastic team

game that incorporates all the FMS such as running, dodging, dribbling (bouncing the ball), shooting,

passing and much more. It has been incredible to see the students so engaged in lessons and most

pleasing to observe such cooperative team work on display where students encourage and include every-

one in the small sided games that our lessons conclude with. Our younger students continue to develop

their FMS, cooperation and balance through a variety of fun and exciting physical activities. Its great to

see their confidence grow throughout the term.

The school office is a very busy place, especially around drop-off and pick-up

times. We thank everyone for their patience during these times. We

understand that on occasion, there are unforeseen circumstances, and a

parent may need to get a message to their child during the school day. We

will endeavour to do so, but there may be times when this may not be

possible. We strongly recommend that all parents give their child this

important message - If a parent does not arrive to pick them up from school,

make your way to the office and we will help.

MESSAGES FOR YOUR CHILD

SPORTS NEWS

Beach Swimming

What a fantastic two weeks the year 5 and 6 students have had a beach swimming. Developing skills, knowledge and understanding about how to swim safely at our beaches is essential. The students participated with great enthusiasm and zest. Students learnt skills like how to stand in a ‘surfing’ position to be balanced against crashing waves, signals that lifesavers use during emergency situations on the beach and swimming strokes. Well done to all students involved and to the teachers that provided supervision.

Craigie Heights Students – Community Sport

We would like to congratulate the T-ball players (featured in the photos) who recently played in the TBA-WA State Championships who participated over the March long weekend at Langley Park where more than 80 representative teams of both boys and girls, represented about 30 clubs from metropolitan and country regions. So great to see our CHPS students actively involved and contributing to our community and excelling.

We would like to acknowledge Sonny on his recent outstanding performance in martial arts, he is to be commended on his training, attitude and discipline. This is what Sonny had to say.

“On Sunday 8th March I did a competition in Jujitsu. I did three fights and won all of them by points. I received a gold medal.”

By Sonny Mackenzie

CRAZY SOCK DAY FUNDRAISER FOR JONATH0N—THURS 19TH MARCH

Save the date—Thursday 19th March is Crazy

Sock Day.

At Craigie Heights Primary School we hold one

donation day each term to support Jonathan.

This term, for the donation of a gold coin,

everyone in our school community is invited to

wear a Crazy Socks to school,

P&C NEWS:

On Monday night we had our second P&C meeting for the year and proudly allocated $7,800 of P&C fundraising money to the school for the following: New netball posts which have been installed for the kids to practice shooting goals.

Installation of the 2018 & 2019 Year 6 Leavers' Gift of four Art Murals by Peter Ryan. The mural looks amazing so be sure to check it out.

2020 bus subsidy, which includes seatbelts for all students.

2020 subscription to the Mathletics program.

2020 Literacy readers. This is only possible thanks to the hard work and dedication of our P&C Members and Volunteers fund-raising hard and the support received from our School Community!

WHAT’S ON THIS TERM? **Please note the Fathering Project Event this Friday will be postponed.**

Easter Raffle – calling for Easter donations We would gratefully accept any Easter donations so we can create some wonderful hampers for the raffle prizes. Please drop off any packaged eggs/donations to the front office box from Wednesday morning. The P&C will draw the Easter raffle tickets in the last week of school (date to be advised). Raffle tickets will be coming home soon.

ENTERTAINMENT BOOKS Entertainment Books are now available for sale via the Digital App. Current users can renew now for an extra 3 months plus a $10 JB HI FI eGIFT Card. Remember to search for Craigie Heights Primary School so our school P&C can receive 20% back.

GARDEN CLUB This week at Garden Club we planted lots of yummy and nutritious produce and we can’t wait to watch it grow. A big thanks to Soils ain’t Soils in Pontiac Way, Joondalup for providing us with soil conditioner, Dawson’s Nursery for donating seedlings and our dedicated school community who show up each week to make Garden Club a success. Take a look at what we got up to in the rain this week:

P&C NEWS:

SCHOOL BANKING—TEMPORARILY PAUSED

Notice from CommBank School Banking

The health, safety and wellbeing of our communities and our people is our

first priority. Due to the rapidly developing situation with coronavirus,

School Banking has been temporarily paused from 20 March 2020 until the

start of Term 2. Please don’t bring your deposit book with your weekly

banking into school and we will notify you when banking will recommence.

THE MUNCH ROOM CANTEEN – Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays Don’t forget the canteen is open an extra day this term, on a THURSDAY. If you love having access to the canteen on a Thursday then please support this initiative, as it will drop back to two days a week if it’s not sustainable. Amber and her volunteers do a wonderful job making delicious, wholesome and affordable meals. **Recess special for this week only: homemade apple pies will be available for $1.50. In the canteen only, not available online** Did you know? We are now offering vegan cheese and butter for a small surcharge. When ordering online please

choose the drop down box in the “+” tab to select VEGAN cheese and butter. Do not write it in the instructions box.

The canteen has strict food contamination regulation; all vegan and gluten free items are prepared

on separate boards with clean utensils. You can rest assured that we are following the correct food hygiene procedures and practising all health food regulations.

Term 1 specials; Hot dog with sauce $4.00 (only available on Wednesdays) Homemade ham & egg pies $3.50 (only available on Wednesdays) Orders You can place orders online at www.quickcliq.com.au or directly to our Canteen Manager Amber in the canteen (located in the undercover area) before 9am. Volunteers Amber is always looking for willing volunteers to help in The Munch Room. If you have some time spare (even one day a term!) we would love to hear from you -your kids will love it and we will have some good laughs while making some yummy food for our school. Be sure to follow The Munch Room Canteen on Facebook to stay up to date on term specials and an-nouncements.

BIKE / SCOOTER SECURITY AND SAFETY

It is fantastic that so many of our families choose to walk or ride their bike/scooter to school. Although the bike racks are locked during the day, there are periods of time when they are open. We strongly advise families to add to the security by using a lock to secure their bikes and scooters to the railings. Students need to walk their bicycles and scooters onto and off the school grounds. This is for the safety of both the pedestrians and the bicycle / scooter users. It is also apparent that some students aren’t wearing a helmet. One of our expected behaviours at Craigie Heights is to wear a helmet when on a bike or a scooter. It’s also recommended you lock up your bike or scooter!

PARKING AROUND THE SCHOOL

PARKING Continued….

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