Dear Greenmount families,

How quickly the term is going !

Mrs Kings beautiful class wowed us with a fabulous assembly on Friday with

the story of “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”. It’s hard to believe it’s only a

month away!

All of the students are busy preparing for the dance performances on

Presentation Night and Graduation Night Please make sure that you have the

dates on your calendars—Wednesday 10th for the PP-5 Presentation Night

and Thursday 11th for the Year 6/7 Graduation. Both evenings start at

6.30pm.

Early Years Conference We are looking forward to meeting our new Kindergarten Parents this

Thursday morning at our annual Early Years Conference.

Good luck to Mr Hodgson and the Cricket team for this Fridays Big Bash

Cricket competition at Brown Park.

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

Rm 5 Assembly 1

Presentation &

Graduation

Nights

1

Early Years

Conference

1

Big Bash Cricket

Competition

1

Calendar of

Events

2

Merit Awards 2

Wanted Items 2

Uniform Shop 2

Making trees 3

P&C News 3

Community News 3

Free Water Fun

Day

4

Greenmount Primary School

NEWSLETTER 2 6 N O V E M B E R 2 0 1 4 N O . 1 9

50-68 Innamincka Road GREENMOUNT 6056 9294 1155

Email School greenmount.ps@education.wa.edu.au

Email Principal lucy.webb@education.wa.edu.au

Website www.greenmountps.wa.edu.au

Natalie Astle

ACTING PRINCIPAL

Fantastic effort everyone!

HELP

UNIFORM SHOP

URGENTLY NEED A

HELPER ON WEDNESDAY MORNINGS

8.30—9.15am

If you do not have to rush

to work please

consider helping the

ladies.

Please mark these dates on your Calendars 5th Nov P & C Meeting 8th Nov Rm 5 Assembly 12th Nov Interschool Jumps & Throws 15th Nov Interschool Athletics Carnival 22nd Nov Rm 9 Assembly 3rd Dec P & C Meeting 6th Dec Staff Assembly

Athletics Carnival

It turned out to be a wonderful day weather wise and with all

students encouraged to participate within the spirit of competition.

A great team effort from all students and staff resulted in a great

day.

.Our Champion Boys and Girls are:

The final results:

In Third Place with 629 points was Prichard.

In Second Place with 800 points was Chipper.

In First Place with 904 points was Passmore.

Well Done Passmore! Thanks to everyone.

Mr Hodgson

Our Champions and Runners Up

Year 3 Girls

Year 3 Boys

Eloise Phillips

Cumoran Desmond

Monique Purling

Luka Tolj

Year 4 Girls

Year 4 Boys

Emily O’Shea

Ethan Daly

Taya Andrews

Bernadette Pollock

Ben Brown

Rory Charles

Fynn Letts

Year 5 Girls

Year 5 Boys

Charley Beazley

Thomas Simpson

Caitlin Smith

Tom Matthews

Year 6 Girls

Year 6 Boys

Nicole Purling

Thomas Inwood

Brooke Parnaby

Taraia Carpenter

Year 7 Girls

Year 7 Boys

Kristy Jalipot

Monty Kporto

Annika Paul

Robbie Johnston

P A G E 2

G R E E N M O U N T P R I M A R Y S C H O O L

MERIT AWARDS

Friday 21st November

Rm 1 Mckenzie Lineham Willow Harrison

4 Tony Hounsham Hayley Lisle

5 Shanika Gamer Joel Petridis

3 Ella Donovan Shiloh Thorburn

Breanna Grieves Melissa Edwards

Jacob Sims

6 Phoebe Duncan Emily Carter

7 Aniwa Carpenter Brodie Madsen

8 Jacob Hillis Daria Kennedy

10 Glory Iloh Leah Howard

9 Andrei Tota Kyra Andrews

11 Gary Russell Brock Parry

12 Ben Brown Rory Charles

17 James Marshall Kyle White

16 James Jackson Jarrod Milne

14 Connor Hawkins Bianca Bates

15 Taraia Carpenter Carly Brady

Fantastic effort everyone!

Please mark these dates on your Calendars

Friday 28 November T20 Big Bash Cricket Competition Tuesday 2 December P & C Meeting Wednesday 3 December Kindy Orientation Friday 5 December Rm 3 Assembly Wednesday 10 December Presentation Night (Years PP—5) Thursday 11 December Graduation Night (Years 6 & 7) Monday 15 December Reports Go Home Thursday 18 December Last Day of Term 4 Monday 2 February Start of Term 1, 2015

Uniform Shop The Uniform Shop will be closed for the last week of term and will reopen on 29th January 2015. No orders please.

WANTED

AGAPANTHUS

Can anyone

spare a few

Agapanthus for

our School

Garden. If you

can help please

see Mrs Carr in

Room 6. WANTED

As part of our ongoing “Caring for others” Program, Mrs Carr’s Room 6 students will be collecting the following items for needy families in Africa. We have access to a free sea container that will be leaving just after Xmas. Please leave them at Room 6.

1. Baseball caps 2. Men’s ties 3. Balls of Wool 4. New, or used pencils, pens, crayons 5. New, or used, bras

Thank you. Mrs Carr and her students

Fantastic effort everyone!

P A G E 3

G R E E N M O U N T P R I M A R Y S C H O O L

Please keep the hamper donations and the Raffle tickets coming in.

The more donations— the more hampers we can make.

Greenmount St Anthony’s Vacation Care

Opening January 5th 2015 Monday—Friday 7am—6pm

Now taking Enrolments.

If interested please contact Karen or Ann on Ph: 9294 5539 or 0427 555 791 Email: lynch.ann@cathednet.wa.edu.au Web: www.stanthonysgreen.wa.edu.au

M A K I N G T R E E S

On Friday 14 November, the year 4/5 children from rooms 11 and 12 worked

through the morning to create 500 new little ‘trees’. A farmer from Kojonup,

Mr Bruce Ivers, a passionate ‘tree man’ has propagated over one million trees

in the last few years. The trees are cuttings from healthy plants, dipped in honey

as the rooting compound and then planted into tubes of soil.

The plants chosen this time come from the eastern goldfields area for eventual

transplanting to farms around Hyden. Mr Len Edwards, the school

gardener, joined in to create hew hibiscus and other natives from the school

grounds. Some of the eastern goldfields plants will also be planted around the

school, further increasing the plant diversity at the school. Many of the new

plants are also bird attracting.

The children enjoyed the morning and demonstrated keen interest in the process.

Mr Ivers was most impressed by the energy and enthusiasm of the classes. He

will be returning the school’s ‘selection’ in time for a winter planting next year.

Free Water Fun Day Dear Parents/Caregivers All students are invited to a free water fun day at Greenmount PS to celebrate our schools 50th Anniversary. Students are allowed to wear free dress on the day. The water fun day will be run by ‘Active Games and Entertainment’ . The activities will involve jumping castles and water slides . Kindy B students are welcome to attend. When: Tuesday 16th December Where: On the school oval (4 sessions across the day times TBA) Bring: Bathers, towels, hats and sunscreen. All students MUST return the permission slip below in order to participate on the day *please note they do have public liability Insurance

I give permission for my child____________________ to participate in the water fun day run by Active Games and Entertainment on Tuesday 16th Dec. at Greenmount PS. Signed ________________________