Issue 15, Week 10, Term 3

Tuesday September 19, 2017

Dear Parents, Community Members, Staff and Students

Coming home with your child today is a copy of

Hyden Primary School’s 2017-2019 Business Plan

which outlines the school’s long-term strategic

planning. This Business Plan describes the 5 key

focus areas and strategies (developed/chosen by

the School Board/staff) that are intended to have

maximum impact on overall school performance.

1. Personal excellence

2. High quality and reflect teaching

3. Community partnerships and wellbeing

4. Strong Governance and leadership

5. Student readiness for their future.

Please take the time to read this document and if

you have any questions regarding the Business

Plan please contact Sandie Couper, School Board

Chair or myself.

Thank you.

Dates to remember

Wednesday, Sept 20 Super Sixes in Kulin

Friday, Sept 22 Good Kids Day – kids to

wear messy clothes for the

day.

Lunch – Sausage Sizzle

(no charge)

Monday, Oct 9 Staff and students

commence Term 4

Athletics Carnival Results

The Athletics Carnival was a great success. Well

done to all who competed; your commitment to

athletics training, during PE classes and morning

fitness was well and truly evident. Also evident

was good sportsmanship, which I noticed from all

of our students who congratulated all competitors

following events regardless of whether they won a

ribbon or not. A tremendous thank you to

parents/family members who volunteered at the carnival, without your help the athletics carnival

would not have gone ahead. Thank you to the

teachers who not only attended the carnival on

Friday but also put time and effort into preparing

students to participate. Finally, thank you to Sue

Richter for all of the hard work you put in to the

running of the day. It was a wonderful day filled

with many achievements.

Medallion Winners

Sub-Junior:

Champion Girl – Margaret Collard

Runner Up – Nyalaham Bedang

Champion Boy – David Valenta

Runner Up – Riley Box

Junior:

Champion Girl – Michelle Collard

Runner Up – Aluo Badeng

Champion Boy – James Kittyea

Darcy Nield

Runner Up – Keiren Blurton

Intermediate:

Champion Girl – Paige Biglin

Runner Up – Evie Couper

Champion Boy – Alastair Nield

Runner Up – Harry Burns

Senior:

Champion Girl – Indigo Collard

Runner Up – Nadia Mortimer

Champion Boy – Adam Varone

Runner Up – Robert Billingham

400m Girl - Nadia Mortimer

400m Boy - Blake Gangell

200m Girl - Nadia Mortimer

200m Boy - Adam Varone

Hyden Primary School

D E P A R T M E N T O F E D U C A T I O N

Kondinin Shire Shield

Overall Winning Faction

3rd

Place: Kondinin 309 points

2nd

Place: Forrest 378 points

1st Place: O’Connor 514 points

Team Games Shield

P & C Shield

3rd

Place: Kondinin 91 points

2nd

Place: Forrest 109 points

1st Place: O’Connor 136 points

Grand Relay Shield

P & C Shield

3rd

Place: Forrest

2nd

Place: Kondinin

1st Place: O’Connor

Hats - No Hat, No Play

Spring is here which means our ‘no hat, no play’

policy is back. Please ensure your child brings

their bottle green bucket/wide-brimmed hat to

school so they can particpate in outdoor activities.

Canberra Camp – please vote

Please vote for our school to receive a Bankwest

Easy Grant to help towards sending your children

to the Canberra Camp in 2018. It will be up for

public vote on Monday 4th September for voting

in September's gallery.

Click here to view our application and don’t

forget to spread the word amongst our community

and to your friends and family by Friday 29th

September to help gather votes for Hyden Primary

School. Thank you in anticipation.

WA Education Awards

The People’s Pick is an opportunity for parents,

students and the community to get involved in the

WA Education Awards and recognise dedicated

and talented staff in your school.

It's your chance to tell the world why your

favourite teacher or school staff member shines.

Getting involved is easy – just follow these steps:

1. Pick who you want to recognise.

2. Create a video, photo or testimonial showing

what makes them incredible. You can use

this template to help.

3. Share your message on Facebook and tell your

family and friends to vote for it.

The message that receives the highest number

of votes will become The People’s Pick and

their school will be given a $1000 Modern

Teaching Aids voucher.

Entries close at 5.00pm on Friday 13 October

2017. All staff recognised in The People’s Pick

will be acknowledged on our website on Friday 27

October on World Teachers’ Day, along with the

school receiving the $1000 voucher.

For more information please read the terms and

conditions.

We can open your eyes; take you wonder by

wonder – Tags MATHS Yr 3 / 4 This term the Year 3 and 4 have completed an

investigation called “Trash or Treasure”. The

students were required to operate a successful stall

in the classroom. The main objective in running

the stall was the students giving their customers

the correct change.

Investigations require students to use

mathematical concepts in order to complete a

series of tasks connected to the concepts taught in

class.

Thinkboards were also used in TAGS Maths to

show the connections between the different ways

of representing a problem.

This term the Year 5

and 6 have completed

an investigation called

“Fantasy Flight”. The

students had to

produce a travel

itinerary and a record

of expenses to show

how much the dream

trip would actually

cost.

The Problem Solving

Strategies that were

covered this term

were’ Guessing and

Checking ‘ and

‘Working

Backwards’.

Exposing students to

different problem

solving strategies is

impotant because

the students can

then deccide how

they will solve

problems by

thinking about the

different strategies

that could be used.

In TAGS Maths, the

students have been

documenting on

Seesaw what they have been learning in class.

Seesaw is an app

that gives

students a digital

portfolio to

document their

learning and also

learn how to use

technology.

School Uniform Order

Please find attached a School Uniform Order

Form due back to school by Wednesday, 20

September.

FYI: Faction shirts now can be ordered with the

school logo. These looked fabulous at the sports

carnival.

It’s not ok to be away – Attendance Data

Week 6 Week 7 Room

Number/Year

Percentage Room

Number/Year

Percentage

Room 2

(Year 5/6/7) 91.4%

Room 2

(Year 5/6/7) 97.1%

Room 1

(Year 3/4) 90%

Room 1

(Year 3/4) 100%

Room 4

(Year 1/2) 84.2%

Room 4

(Year 1/2) 93.5%

Room 5

(K/PP) 91.67%

Room 5

(K/PP) 87%

Parenting Ideas – Michael Grose

Please see below this week’s addition to the

fortnightly newsletter, Parenting Ideas

“INSIGHTS” by Michael Grose “Friends”. We hope you enjoy the read and find it useful.

Year 5 / 6 Back Health

On Friday, September 15, Lee Conlan from

Narrogin came to speak to the Year 5/6 class

about back health. We learnt all about the rules for

lifting, how picking things up from our back and

not our legs strains our back, and how our spine

works through a cookie and marshmallow

experiment. Did you know you can push double

the weight that you could pull? The session was

very informative and we all learnt so much vital

information to make sure we have good posture

and look after our backs.

STAR Students for Term 3,

Week 8 8 Week 9

The following students were awarded STAR

Student Awards for Term 3, Week 8 & Week 9.

These students were awarded for their excellent

behaviour in the classroom, lovely manners and

great work standard. These students will all

receive 10 house points and a certificate.

Charlotte Soper

Ruby Graham

Leah Mulcahy

Hayley Lullfitz

Blake Gangell

Week 8

Kahlan Spurr

Mathew Greay

Khloe Falconer

Paige Biglin x 2

Joahua Nicholl

Week 9

Faction Token’s for ‘Green Behaviours ‘

Congratulations to the following students have

attained 10 faction tokens. These faction tokens

were given out for students who displayed ‘Green

Behaviours’ which are listed below:

Showing courtesy.

Showing respect.

Learning without hindrance.

Creating a safe and friendly environment

for all students.

Treating people equally and fairly.

Listening to and respecting other’s

opinions.

Using manners at all times.

Noah James, Nadia Mortimer,

Ella-Rose Nield, Emma Smith, Gemma

Williamson, Blake Gangell, Robert

Billingham, Elizabeth Greay, Charlotte

Soper, Damon Hyde, Leah Mulcahy,

Darcy Nield, Thomas Spurr, Joshua

Jensen, Bryce Fisher, Pippa Gittos,

Mitchell Hyde, Jacinta Manning,

Angus Gangell, Joshua Nicholl, Zack

Soper, Adam Varone, Tayah Holmes

Lisa Manning, Paige Biglin and Evie

Couper.

Values Vouchers

Due to the Athletics Carnival the Values program was not held in the classrooms during Week 8.

Four children each week will be awarded with a Values Voucher. This will be awarded to children who

consistently display values that have been taught in class. Below are the recipients for the Values Vouchers

in Week 9.

Week 9: COURAGE

K/PP: Jack MacDonald shows courage when he tackled new sounds in words.

1/2: James Kittyea shows courage when he tackled new challenging sight words.

3/4: Evie Couper showed courage when she raced in the 400m race at the Athletics Carnival when she

saw that not many were racing for her faction.

5/6: Kelsey Greig showed courage when she tackled her times tables.

Karlgarin Markets

Sunday September 24, 2017

@ 33 Melba Street – 10am onwards

Sausage Sizzle, Yabbies, Morning Tea

Pottery Kid’s Competition

Baked Clay Workshop

Kiln Fired Glass Display

and lots more

Ph: 0408 271 215