From the Principal Faction Carnival Our Faction Carnival held last week was a fantastic event in which we managed to have a fine day and, as usual, the children participated with great effort and enthusiasm. Whilst the Carnival was held at Dawson Park PS this year, which posed a number of logistical challenges for us all, it was still a tremendous celebration of athletics and lots of fun. I was most impressed with the teamwork and cooperation which the children demonstrated throughout the entire day and the leadership shown by our Faction Captains and Vice Captains was superb. This, together with wonderful parent and family support, all made for a perfect day. Thank you to the team of parent volunteers who helped out on the day. Thank you also to our amazing staff for all their hard work, not only throughout the day, but also leading up to the event. Special thanks to Mr Sherlock, Mr Adamson and Mrs Oliver for coordinating and organising the whole carnival and ensuring its overall success. Congratulations to ORANGE……the winning faction for 2021. We are now hoping to conduct the Kindy/Pre Primary Carnival on Wednesday, 27 October. Our Interschool Carnival will be held at Edney Primary School tomorrow Friday, 17 September. Good luck to all our athletes who are competing. Arts Festival This week, we also celebrated Visual Arts with an outstanding Arts Festival conducted by the Darling Range Learning Community at Darling Range Sports College. Each of the network primary schools and the high school contributed children’s art for a

wonderful exhibition. The work displayed provided an opportunity for the children to showcase the many different forms of art that they create each and every day during their Visual Arts lessons. This included using a range of artist styles, mediums and skills. The Visual Arts curriculum supports children's ability to recognise and develop cultural appreciation of visual arts from the past and contemporary years through exploring and responding to artists and their artworks. Congratulations to all the children for their beautiful art work and thank you to the wonderful effort of our visual arts teachers, Mrs Brayford and Mrs Agar, for all their work in preparation for this festival.

Science Equipment Grant and Playground Equipment Grant The school has been very fortunate to have received a Science Equipment Grant of $40 000 from the government as part of its commitment to boost science resources in public schools. This will be a tremendous contribution to the purchasing of science equipment and materials to our school. Science is a focus area for the school and having a range of resources will certainly improve the teaching and learning of science across the school. Additionally, the school has also received a further $50 000 as part of the commitments made by the government in the 2021 election. This grant is for the installation of additional playground equipment and is certainly greatly appreciated. The school will therefore be adding 2 Volley Ball Courts for the middle and senior school students and two sets of monkey bars for the K/PP students.

16 September 2021 The Official Newsletter of Wattle Grove Primary School Term 3, Issue 14

T: 9237 6600

Julie Roberts

Principal

September

16 Science Maths Competition

17 Interschool Carnival

21 STEM Learning Journey

24 Assembly Rooms 23 & 34

24 LAST DAY OF TERM 3

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C H A P L A IN

PARENT HANDBOOK INFORMATION

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The school distributes and collects booklists from children in November/December each year for student requirements for the following year. Our bookseller collates the order and delivers it either to home address or they are collected directly from the book seller. Books/stationery items MUST be paid for by parents prior to delivery. Whilst parents are not obliged to use this system, it does provide our school with a commission to spend on facilities for the children. This is also an excellent time to pay the school contribution payment.

BOOKLISTS

MONEY AND QKR APP

Money can be paid on the QKR App for incursions/excursions, class activities or school programs as well for paying Voluntary Contributions. Qkr payments for Voluntary Contributions for more than one child in the family have the option to pay the ‘family’ discount against one child, e.g. James Edwards with two siblings $135.00 OR the discounted cost per child e.g. $45.00 each for three children. Alternatively, money paid to the school for incursions/excursions, class activities or school programs must be sent in a sealed envelope, clearly marked with the child’s name, class, amount and purpose, along with the permission slip, signed and dated and given to the class teacher.

Mathematics and Science is all around us, and Wattle Grove Primary School is committed to supporting our children to develop the skills and knowledge needed to apply their skills in their everyday lives. Our STEM Learning Journey next week, will showcase. all the learning that has been taking place in these areas throughout the term.

In Week 7, Wattle Grove P.S. held their Faction Carnival. On Wednesday students participated in long distance running, long jump and turbo javelin throwing. These events and the Division A Race on Friday, were used to de-cide the individual championships. Friday was the main carnival day, with students running in age division races and team games. Being offsite provided some extra challenges, however, the students are to be commended on their behaviour, sportsmanship and leadership. At the end of the day, there could only be one winner, and that was Orange. Many thanks to all the teachers, students and the amazing parent support. Jamie Adamson, Carrie Oliver & Paul Sherlock Physical Education Specialists

Science and Numeracy Week

This week, Wattle Grove Primary School has been celebrating all things Science and Numeracy. Classes have had the opportunity to compete in daily problem solving challenges where children are given the opportunity to apply their knowledge to solve some very tricky problems. Family Maths Challenges have also been sent home with all children. We encourage all families to complete the challenges together and discuss the mathematics that is involved. Don’t forget to return your entry to the front office by, Friday 17 September for the opportunity to win some great prizes.

Mini Science experiments have also been happening in each classroom throughout the week. Children have also had the opportunity to complete Science Challenges to be in the running to win fun prizes.

Kelly Peake Deputy Principal

Deputy Principal Corner

Age Group Girls Boys

Champion Runner-Up Champion Runner-Up

Junior Michaela Hoffman/Amy Smith

Pepper Miller Ryan Teo Bryan Yarran

Year 3 Ella O’Keefe Westina Yarran Nema Mohammadi Tom Light/Ryan Geo Pratab/Tom Light

Year 4 Ataya Bell Peyton Matapo Ethan Alcock/ Jye Matthews

Ronan Kelly

Year 5 Monet Cannon Peyton Foster Ben Rumende Dani Farid

Year 6 Scarlet van Beek Paige Myles Will Moffitt Ron Pastor

This past week, Room 11, 17 and 25 had an assembly about PEMDAS. For our wow writing, our classes had written an ANZAC recount letter as if we were all in World War 1. For our assembly we wore 90’s grunge outfits. We practiced for our assembly only about one week but we had a lot of fun. Some students got a chance to speak but some unfortunately didn’t. We sang a rap about PEMDAS and it helped us learn more about the order of operations. P stands for parenthesis or brackets E stands for exponents or indices M stands for multiplication D stands for division A stands for addition S stands for subtraction If you want to listen to this rap, click this hyperlink. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzeDWFhYv3Ehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzeDWFhYv3E Since we are all year sixes, this will be our last assembly that we can host so who ever watched our assembly, we hope you enjoyed it

A S S E M B L Y

JUNIOR ASSEMBLY

Room 13, 21 and 27 On 10th of September, Room 13, 21 and 27 hosted the final senior assembly for Term Three. The three classes presented information about the importance of science and how to follow the scientific method when conducting an investigation. All of the students did such a great job and should be extremely proud of themselves. They all remembered their lines, performed their actions and sang loudly and clearly. We are sure they will never forget how to conduct an investigation after learning their extremely catchy song! Thank you to all of the parents and family members for all of the time and effort put into helping us with our assembly preparation. The students looked fantastic in their scientist costumes. We hope you all enjoyed watching our assembly as much as we enjoyed performing for you all. Thank you Miss Lamb, Ms O’Hart and Miss Gibbons

Year 2/3 Rm 13 Neha, Jacob, Leela, Maahir Year 3 Rm 20 Mirac, Mankirat Year 3 Rm 21 Isla, Riley, Shafana, Tallon Year 3 Rm 27 Yuancheng, Rhyda, William, Raymond Year 3 Rm 33 Mackenzie, Westina, Charan Year 4 Rm 16 Jai, Aelah, Heath, Amber Year 4 Room 12 Ashvanth, Ibraheem Year 4 Room 19 Kaden, Bentley, Amber Year 5 Room 18 Terri, Chloe, Alexander, Manassa Year 5 Room 26 Samuel, Jessmary, Matthews, Isabella Year 5 Rm 29 Maxim, Amelia, Mehrry, Legacy Year 5 Rm 8 Pearl, Dhruv, Lola Year 4/5/6 Rm 22 Georgia Year 6 Room 25 Amelie, Chanelle Year 6 Room 11 Shianne, Zakiya Year 6 Room 17 Lachlan, Aaliyah, Shania, Stephanie Year 6 Room 31 Christian, Jessica, Charlie, Samyak Sports Award Matilda, Ruby, Kris, Jaxon Senior Sports Faction Captains Italian Award Room 31 Values Award Anaya, Ananya, Stella Art Award Room 12

Charlie Charlie is looking forward to being part of a team as a Stu-dent Representative. He will strive for excellence to achieve his wish of making a real differ-ence at Wattle Grove Primary School.

Congratulations, Charlie

Alisina Alisina is thankful for the years he has spent at Wattle Grove Primary School and he can’t wait for the opportunity to be a Student Representative. He has a positive attitude and always puts in 120% effort.

Congratulations, Alisina

Luqman Luqman is looking forward to applying his leadership skills through his role as a Student Representative. He believes in a quote by Mr Petch, “If a job is worth doing, it is worth doing well.”

Congratulations. Luqman

Congratulations

to all our Student

Representatives for Term 3

Sienna-Rose Sienna-Rose is looking for-ward to the challenge of being a Student Representative. She enjoys working as a team and can’t wait to work with others to keep the school clean and safe for all.

Congratulation, Sienna-Rose

Leah Leah has always looked up to Student Representatives and is grateful for the opportunity to finally become one. She can handle any task with responsi-bility and believes that it is an honour to represent the school as a Student Representative.

Congratulations, Leah

Han Yu Han Yu has been a previous Class Councillor and believes that she has the personal attrib-utes to be an incredible Student Representative. She also has many ideas which will benefit our school.

Congratulations, Han Yu

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES

CERTIFICATE

WINNER

CERTIFICATE

WINNERS

Wattle Day is a day of celebration in Australia on the first day of September each year, which is the official start of the Australian spring. This is the time

when many Acacia species (commonly called wattles in Australia),

are in flower.

NOTICES

QKR PAYMENTS

Did you know that payments can be made using the QKR App? The App can be easily downloaded for Android and Apple devices.

If you require assistance with using QKR please come into our administration office

Please update your child’s

current year and classroom on

the QKR App to keep our records

up to date.

Thank you

SNAKES Please be aware that snakes are out and about now that the weather is warming

up. Please go through the safety procedures with your children so they know what to do if they see a snake. This has been talked about in class so the students

know what to do if they see a snake at school.