103 Alfred Road, Mount Claremont WA 6010 Ph: 9208 3900 mountclaremont.ps@education.wa.edu.au

IMPORTANT DATES!

Monday 2 December

Year 6 Cricket Cup all day

Tuesday 3 December

Kindy Red Orientation to Pre-Primary 9.30-10.30am

Staff Meeting 3.15pm

Friday 6 December

Recess Fundraiser for the Sal-vation Army

School Board Meeting 6.00pm

Thursday 5 December

Kindy Blue Orientation to Pre-Primary 9.30-10.30pm

Outdoor Classroom Day

Monday 9 December

Kindy Christmas Concert 5.00pm

Wednesday 11 December

Junior Swimming Fun Day

Friday 13 December

Graduation Assembly 9.00am

School Watch

Phone 1800 177 777

FROM THE PRINCIPAL

Dear Parents,

It is hard to believe that there is only 4 weeks to Christmas, 2 weeks until the Year 6 Graduation followed by the Kindy Concert and the End of Year Assembly. School breaks for the holidays on Thursday,19 December.

The recent Art Exhibition showcased our Visual Arts program. Mrs Shedley, Visual Arts teacher and parent volunteers spent many hours framing art work and setting up displays. It was lovely to see parents, children and staff taking time to enjoy the exhibition.

The Disco was a tremendous success with 217 children attending. Every Wednesday, over many weeks the student Disco Committee and parent, Nadine Caunt worked collaboratively to organize the event. The food was amazing and a good time was had by everyone.

Thank you to Nadine, Lily, Wajd, Amelia, Leila, Indiana, Oscar B, Addison, Alice and the P&C Committee.

Reporting to Parents - Semester 2

Teachers use a range of strategies to gather data on student achievement. They make a judgement aligned to the achievement standard for each learning area. If a student is at the expected achievement standard, it is a “C” grade or satisfactory achievement. Full details of grade descriptors are included in the explanatory notes in the student report. There should not be any surprises. Writing reports takes teachers many hours per student and I commend the teachers on their diligence and professionalism.

Semester 2 student reports for Kindergarten to Year 6 will be emailed to parents on Monday,16 December. When the reports are electronically sent, email recipients will receive an email containing a link that you will need to click on to open the report. You will need to download the report immediately, save the document and/or print the document. Discuss the report with your child. Email report links remain valid for 4 weeks only. If you do not receive a “report email” please contact the Front Office. Hard copies of student reports are not provided. Please note that secondary schools may require a copy of the report on enrolment.

Last weekend James and Willem, students in Year 6, noticed a fire had started in mulch around a tree on Jacaranda Ave. They alerted a neighbour passing by in a car and they put the fire out. Well done boys!

Tracey Oakes

Principal

Mount Claremont Primary School

“We Care”

Thursday, 28 November 2019

Term 4, Week 7

103 Alfred Road, Mount Claremont WA 6010 Ph: 9208 3900 mountclaremont.ps@education.wa.edu.au

YEAR 6, GRADUATION—Friday, 13 December at 9.00am

The Year 6, Graduation Ceremony commences at 9:00am on Friday, 13 December in the Undercover Area. All students are reminded to wear the official school uniform (NO sport or faction shirts). This is a memorable moment for our Year 6 students and special guests will be making a presentation to stu-dents. All parents are welcome to attend the graduation. After the Graduation Ceremony, morning tea will be held in the library for graduating students, parents, families and staff. Thank you to our year 5 parents for catering for the morning tea and assisting with the set up.

Libby Johnson

Deputy Principal

SALVATION ARMY CHRISTMAS APPEAL

Do an act of community service and donate food to the annual Salivation Army Christmas Appeal. Each classroom is collecting donations of food. The food will be used by the Salvos to make hampers for families in need and to help make Christmas special. Money raised from Book Fair will be given to the Salvos too. By having cash, the Salvo’s can include fresh produce and meat in the hampers.

BOOK FAIR, ICY POLES and FOOD

The Caring Captains, Tania and Leila and Year 6’s are having a book fair on Friday, 6 December at re-cess. You can buy second hand books (old readers and library books), icy poles and food. Bring some money, have a ripper recess and raise money for the Salvation Army.

JUNIOR SWIMMING FUN DAY

Notes have been sent home to students in pre-primary to year 2. The event is on Wednesday, 11 De-cember at the Claremont Aquatic Centre Davies Road starting at 1:15pm. Parent helpers are needed please contact Mr Staples at Bradley.Staples@education.wa.edu.au

FINAL ASSEMBLY—Wednesday 18 December 9.00-10.00am

Everyone is invited to come along to the Final Assembly. It is a time to get together and celebrate our

achievements. Teachers will be presenting Book Awards to students demonstrating outstanding

achievement, improvement or citizenship for 2019. Classes from Kindy Blue to Year 6 will be performing

an item .

REQUIREMENT LISTS (BOOKLISTS)

Requirement Lists for 2020 are now available on our website.

http://www.mountclaremontps.wa.edu.au/booklists/

VOLUNTARY CONTRIBUTIONS & CHARGES 2020

A Schedule of Voluntary Contributions and Charges 2020 can be found on the school website under the

Enrolment Information tab. Please note these can be paid via your Ziggies online ordering system and

are due in 2020.

http://www.mountclaremontps.wa.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/Schedule-of-Voluntary-Contributions-

2020.pdf

NOT RETURNING TO SCHOOL in 2020?

If your child or children will not be returning to Mount Claremont Primary School in 2020 can you please

advise the Front Office as soon as possible.

103 Alfred Road, Mount Claremont WA 6010 Ph: 9208 3900 mountclaremont.ps@education.wa.edu.au

Disco 2019

A big thank you to Nadine Caunt for organising another fantastic Disco .The children dressed up in

their finest bling and what they wanted to be when they are older and danced the night away.

103 Alfred Road, Mount Claremont WA 6010 Ph: 9208 3900 mountclaremont.ps@education.wa.edu.au

Visual Arts

I have recently received some terrific news from the competition coordinators of the Royal Show Schools Art Competitions. Two of our junior students won places in the 'Poultry Art' competition for their delightful artworks. Ellie H. won second place in the Year 1/2 category for her painting titled 'Lucy the Lovely Hen'. Hazel G. won second place in the Year 3/4 category for her 'Feathery Turkey' paint-ing. Both girls are to be commended for their wonderful achievements in this competition, considering it attracts a large number of entries from many schools across the metropolitan area. Well done, Ellie and Hazel! I would like to thank all students who entered the Royal Show Schools Art Competitions for their creativity and effort.

The annual art exhibition, held last Thursday afternoon, was well received by students, parents, grand-parents and staff. It was a great opportunity to show the school community what students have been creating during visual arts lessons this year. It was also pleasing to see many parents taking photos of their children standing beside their artwork with smiling, proud faces.

I would like to sincerely thank two lovely parents, Gemma (Lina's Mum) and Megumi (Hayden's Mum), for helping me to set up the exhibition in the library and junior block wet area. I would also like to thank everyone for their appreciative comments about the work on display in the exhibition and for their sup-port of the visual arts program.

Simone Shedley

Visual Arts

103 Alfred Road, Mount Claremont WA 6010 Ph: 9208 3900 mountclaremont.ps@education.wa.edu.au

Room 11 Year 2 Assembly

On Friday, 15 November, our class performed the assembly of “The Two Headed Numbat” for the

school in the Undercover Area. Everyone acted out a part and we had lots of fun sharing it with the au-

dience.

Year 2 Students

Screen Time and Pre-Schoolers

https://www.generationnext.com.au/2019/11/too-much-screen-time-hinders-brain-development-in-preschoolers/

Parenting Link

https://www.parentingideas.com.au/parent-resources/

The links above are for a couple of my favourite websites, please take a look.

Jane Marsh

School Chaplain

103 Alfred Road, Mount Claremont WA 6010 Ph: 9208 3900 mountclaremont.ps@education.wa.edu.au

Room 15 Pre-Primary Harry, Sam, Danil, Matin

Room 14 Pre-Primary Linda, William B

Room 9 Year 1 Harper, Charlie Mc, Jessica

Room 10 Year1/2 Elijah, Attiicus, Scarlett, Raya

Room 11 Year 2 Angela, Aaron, Walter, Lara

Room 2 Year 2/3

Penny, Ben, Marcus B

Room 3 Year 3/4

Isaac, Marley, Peyton

Room 6 Year 4/5 Raphael, Anna , Isabelle, Orion, Zara, Hayden

Room 5 Year 5/6 Dean, Addison, Oriana, James

Physical Education Willem, Maya W, Jackson, Olivia M

Visual Arts Gary, Zara, Alice F

Music Hazel, Alice C, Raphael

P&C Parents Awards Sian Bartrop, Cathleen Hancock, Fiona Murray, Helen Harrison, Kim

Hughes, Rebecca Barton, Rachel Grieves, Christina Graham, Maggie

Thornton-Giles, Robyn Buckley, Brendan Zani, Julia Dobson, Georges

Rawstorne.

Merit Certificates Term 4 Week 5

Room15 Pre-Primary Matin, Jack, Ariella, Danil, Christopher

Room 9 Year 1 Shea, Zac, Nabil, Rory, Oskar, Georgina, Harper, Patrick

Room 10 Year1/2 Douglas, Miya, Elijah, Patrick, Evan, Freddie, Raya, Indi

Room 11 Year 2 Phoebe

Room 2 Year 2/3 Penny, Marcus, Ellie, Max

Room 6 Year4/5 Lina, Zara, Lily, Hana, Leah

Room 5 Year 5/6 Oscar C, Indiana, Liam, Eli, Audrey

Golden Star Awards Term 4 Week 6

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Community Event News

Information from Facebook for this worthwhile cause:

“Swanbourne Barracks are a big part of our local community. Mental health and suicide is a massive

problem for service people after they leave the forces and if you talk to any of them they are all touched

in some way by friends with these issues.

On Sunday, 8th

December we are at The Village Pantry and Deli Chicchi in Mount Claremont and will be holding a fund raising day for their charity The Wandering Warriors. All staff are working for free and we will provide pizza and meals for sale that day, every cent will go to these guys who lend their life’s to our country. There will be veterans and serving soldiers helping serve food and they will hold a silent auction of SAS memorabilia. Please come along from 4.00pm that day, have a feed, have a glass of wine with BYO and let’s show our appreciation.

Let’s raise some money for them!”

MCPS Lending Library

The Mount Claremont Primary School Lending Library is open.

Costumes can be borrowed during normal uniform shop opening hours.

Tuesday 8.30-8.50am

Thursday 8.30-8.50am

Please ensure that all costumes are signed out, returned promptly and laundered.

A big thank you to Christina for organising it.

103 Alfred Road, Mount Claremont WA 6010 Ph: 9208 3900 mountclaremont.ps@education.wa.edu.au

Before and After School Activities