12 December 2019 Edition #20

Kookaburra Chronicles

Music 2019

Recorder Ensemble : Wednesday lunch.

“I like recorder ensemble because you can just have fun and do what you like playing the music on the recorder. It is very peaceful and beautiful. I love it!” Lara Gabelich TA8

“ I like coming to recorder ensemble because it is really fun and the small piccolo recorder is fun and a challenge.” Mia Judd TA10.

“ I like going to recorder ensemble because I really like music and I like to practice to get better and better.” Amelia Johnson TA8

Chorale : Friday recess.

“ I enjoy Chorale as it is a place you can sing passionately without being judged. In addition, the kindness and confidence people give you is amazing.” Alex Elzohdy TA10

“I love Chorale. It is so much fun. I always look forward to Friday’s because of Chorale. It is the best. I love all the singing.” Mia Della Rosa TA12

“ I love coming to Chorale because I can sing, learn and hang out with my friends all in one”. Charlie Errington TA5

At South Padbury we have various Music Clubs that I rehearse with during my weekly break times. I would like to thank all of the young musicians who give up their recess or lunchtime to be an important member of these ensembles. Some of them wished to share their thoughts with you.

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Dear parents and caregivers,

In my opinion, 2019 has been our most successful year at South Padbury and as this is our last newsletter, I’ll make a few observations of the year gone and how this will link into 2020. A strong indicator as to how well a school is operating is enrolments and if we use our enrolments as a guide, then we’ve had a remarkable year. Every day we’re receiving requests to enrol, and this momentum has continued all year. With a relatively small catchment area, we are in the position to accept out of boundary enrolments and these enrolments constitute 57% of our school cohort. Without these out of boundary students we’d have only 177 students at school and this would see us with 8 less teachers, 3 less education assistants and 1.5 less office staff. Having said that, it is a balancing act. Last year I had more than enough applications to absolutely fill every class to the maximum amount of students allowable. We chose not to do this and in doing so forfeited $210,000 in funding via the student-centred funding model. In retrospect, I believe that this was the correct course of action as I’d rather have productive classes than maxed out classes for the extra funds. We’ll continue to make these enrolment decisions based on student outcomes rather than financial incomings.

Our 2020 planning day was highly successful. As a staff we develop our operational plans, which effectively drive our Business Plan and then the finance committee builds the 2020 budget around these plans. By planning in this order we ensure that curriculum is driving the budget and not the other way around. In the seven years that we’ve been planning in this way the finance committee has honoured every fiscal request from the curriculum teams and this will continue in 2020.

Our staffing this year has been exceptional and I’ve spent a lot of time in classrooms providing constructive feedback to teachers in regards to their professional performance via their performance management regime. Again, at South Padbury we do this differently to most schools whereby I meet with each classroom teacher at the start of the year and we talk about their students only. From this starting point, the performance management regime is based solely around how the teacher is addressing the specific learning needs of each and every student in their class. This approach ensures that we all retain our focus right throughout the year and our sole purpose to being here remains at the forefront of everything that we do.

When I restructured the school in 2015 we had around 40% less students than we have now. These extra students have placed enormous extra pressure on my workload and to address this, in 2020 Tasha Donnelly will be joining the leadership team in the office. She brings enormous extra expertise into the team particularly in terms of ICT and academic extension and enrichment. Tash did the job in Term 1 of this year and did an exceptional job and I know will again prove to be invaluable. Having said that, Verne Jones will again be spending Term 1 from weeks 3 to 10 as the Principal of Padbury Primary School. Tash will be joining Verne as the school’s behaviour management coordinator, whereby Verne does this by himself at the moment. Behaviour management is an area that I really want to extricate myself from as I believe that the principal’s role is to be the chief encourager, consoler and supporter of all of our students. When I’m also involved in behaviour management as a disciplinarian, I do believe that it diminishes the effectiveness and authenticity of my chief role.

2020 will see Lisa McGuigan (Year 1), Julia Bishop (Year 6) and Felicity Thomas (Kindergarten) all staying at home with their new babies. I wish these 3 beautiful girls all the very best in motherhood and thank and commend them for a job well done this year.

I do work closely with parents on a daily basis and this is the key to our success. I thank each and every member of our school community all the very best for the Christmas and new year period, and for those families who are leaving us, all the very best for the future.

David Knox

PRINCIPAL

Congratulations to the following students

who received merit awards at our assembly

on Friday 6 December

PP1: Jaxon Wilson

Bella-Rose McClurkin

PP2: Nash Noble

Daisy Vanderwoude

Kaley Ding

TA1: Nicholas Murphy

TA2: Credence Price

Ava Kalanaki

TA4: Freddy Murgatroyd

Ashton Vernon

Lilly-Rose McClurkin

TA5: Joshua Walsh

Sean Indich

TA6: Billy Tomkinson

Charlie Duckworth

Harry Byers

Sophie Laurance

TA7: Drew Ezzy

Lucy Bailey

TA8: Malakai Overstone

Arleea O’Regan

TA10: Hamish McDonald

Hayden Burgess

Kody Salinovich

TA11: Archie Creaser

TA12: McGee Solomon

Indonesian: Daisy Goodwin

Sophie Glendinning

Health: Charlie Errington

Samuel Hepcal

Sport: Kylan Granland

Angus Fricker

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Merit Certificates

Congratulations to the following students

who received merit awards at our assembly

on Friday 29 November

PP2: Jacob Krause

Finn Bignell

TA1: Ffion Judd

TA2: Sebastian Berry

Amaya Harding

TA3: Mia Hanson

Tuhri Egan

TA4: Ella Bignell

Bei Bei Zhang

TA5: Hamish McDonald

Alfie Byers

TA7: Jahziah Craig

Sophie Thomas

TA8: Neo Indich

Zac Tayler-Klymovich

Tayah Granland

Lara Gabelich

Mitchell Hudson

TA9: Jake Moss

TA11: Kane Gabelich

Owen Capelli

Ruby Prabawa

TA12: Lacey Satriani

Indonesian: Georgia Burns

Nicholas Murphy

Sport: Mya van den Beuken

Jade Smith

Alex Elzohdy

Isahra Russell

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P E Lessons in Term 4 have been delivered by parents and coaches from a variety of district sports.

Hockey - Many thanks to Mr and Mrs Ezzy and Mr Harris for their interesting and informative introduction to Hockey. These parents are from the Whitfords Hockey Club and are keen to see lots of juniors 'sign up' in 2020.

AFL - Chad Barns from the Joondalup Falcons delivered and impressed with his AFL knowledge for all PE lessons in Week 6.

Tennis - Tiny Tots Tennis Hillarys have been teaching the students tennis skills in the final weeks of term . Sadly this programme has been affected by the very hot weather.

This programme is a result of the Sporting Schools grant received by South Padbury from the Australian Government.

I take this opportunity to wish you all a happy and safe Christmas and holiday. Thank you for all your support and assistance with the PE/Sport programme in 2019.

2019 Final Day for Students

Thursday 19 December

2020 PP-YR6 Students Commence

Monday 3 February

VACSWIM - School Holidays

Sports Report from Mrs Wiener

Congratulations to Isahra Russell

who achieved 2 bronze medals at the

2019 State Schools Championships.

Padbury Dental Therapy will be closed from Tuesday 24 December and will reopen Tuesday 28 January. 2020.

If you have a dental emergency in this time please phone our Mt Henry head office clinic on 9313 0552 and they will direct you to the nearest emergency centre.

School Dental Holiday Closure

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Holiday Security for School Grounds

Parents and neighbours are our eyes and ears during the long summer break from school and we thank

you for staying alert to any suspicious, criminal or anti-social behaviour at South Padbury and reporting it.

Please ring police on 131 444 (in an emergency 000)

School Watch on 1800 177 777

Please record vehicle registration details or description of involved people and vehicles.

Keep yourself safe and away from danger.

Semester 1

Term 1: Monday 3 February – Thursday 9 April

Term 2: Tuesday 28 April – Friday 3 July

Semester 2

Term 3: Monday 20 July – Friday 25 September

Term 4: Monday 12 October – Thursday 17 December

SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT DAYS 2020

Term 1- Thursday 30 January and Friday 31 January

Term 2- Tuesday 28 April (First day of Term 2 after ANZAC Day)

Term 2- Friday 29 May (Prior to June long weekend)

Term 4- Friday 13 November

Term 4- Friday 18 December

PUBLIC HOLIDAYS DURING SCHOOL TERM 2020

Monday 2 March – Labour Day

Monday 1 June – WA Day

SCHOOL TERMS 2020 - Please note these dates may be subject to change

Matilda Bay in Crawley. Early bird registrations are now open at www.swimthruperth.org An all-inclusive open water swimming event for swimmers of all ages

and abilities to experience open water swimming over a variety of

distances. Swimmers aged 8 years and up can jump in for their first

experience of open water swimming in the 250m Try-It race, while

more advanced swimmers can give the 800m, 1.6km or 3.5km

distance swims a go. Every participant is rewarded a

commemorative medal for their efforts, and families can enjoy a

sausage sizzle plus activities straight after the races.

All proceeds proudly support children and families at Telethon

Swim Thru Perth celebrates its 101st swim Sunday, 19 January 2020

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Zig Zags Holiday Program at South Padbury - Please see website for details

NOTES HOME AND OR SENT VIA FLEXIBUZZ

* Cartoon Camp

* Yr3 2020 BYO Device Info sheet

* Zig Zags Holiday Program

Contact Information: 56 Warburton Avenue PADBURY WA 6025 Phone: 08 9307 5833 Email: southpadbury.ps@education.wa.edu.au www.southpadburyprimaryschool.wa.edu.au Police Communications: 131 444 Education Security: 9264 4771 or 9264 4632

Dates to put in your diary….

Friday 13 December Yr6 Graduation

Wednesday 18 December Year 1-5 Awards

Thursday 19 December Reports home via Students

Thursday 19 December Last day for students

DATES FOR 2020

Friday 31 January 2020 Uniform shop Open 2:30-3:30pm

Friday 31 January 2020 Class Lists posted 3pm

Monday 3 February 2020 Students PP-YR6 commence

Wednesday 5 February YR5/6 Swimming Lessons Commence

P&C Report

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THANK YOU The P&C have had quite a successful year, with our various fundraising and community events from Fostering Hope Donation Drive, Mother’s and Father’s Day Stalls, Election Day Sausage Sizzle, Scitech Evening, School Discos, Open Night Dinner, Scholastic Book Fair, Sports Carnival Sausage Sizzle and Cake Stall, Quiz Night, The Entertainment Book, Pizza Meal Deal Days and our Colour Run, as well as providing services, such as the Uniform Shop, Canteen, Scholastic Book Club and School Banking. We have achieved a lot together. We funded all of the school incursions, helped fund Edu-Dance, making it more accessible to all families and helped out with sending our Year 6’s to camp. We also helped out with teacher’s wish list Items. I would like to thank each and every one of our P&C members, class reps and all of our volunteers, who have helped out throughout the year. Thank you for all of your time, effort and support. You are the people who make a difference and build the sense of community we have at SPPS. The P&C would like to wish everyone a Happy Holiday Season and we hope everyone enjoys the summer break. We look forward to what we can achieve together in 2020. NEXT P&C GENERAL MEETING Our next P&C Meeting will be our Annual General Meeting, held next year, in February. Details to be advised closer to the day. New members always welcome. P&C ENQUIRES Please direct all P&C enquiries to southpadburypc@gmail.com and we will endeavour to get back to you as soon as possible with a response. Leona Liddelow P&C President.

School Payments

The final day for any cash payments to the school will be Tuesday 17 December up

until 10:00am.

QKR payments will be closed off for the duration of the school holidays.