PEG’S CREEK PRIMARY SCHOOL GALBRAITH ROAD, PEG’S CREEK 9144 4141 PEGSCREEK.PS@EDUCATION.WA.EDU.AU

PRINCIPAL’S REPORT – Shiona Hobart

EDITION 1 – 23 February 2017

Monday 27 February Swimming Lessons Thursday 2 March

No Swimming Lessons Monday 6 March

Labour Day Public Holiday Thursday 9 March

Assembly TA16 Indigenous Morning Tea

Welcome I thank all parents and staff for ensuring our school restructure occurred with the least amount of impact on student learning as possible. We have offered a contract to a new teacher, Mr Andrew Thomson,who will be joining the Peg’s Creek teaching team in Week 5 this term. I thank Ms Konig and Mrs McDonald for providing TA9 students with an effective teaching and learning program until Andrew’s arrival. Please take note of your term planners as this term is already full of events and activities for our students. This week our Interm Swimming Lessons began. Thanks to Ms Campbell for her organisation of timetables, rosters and lesson times to support this important program.

Our P&C AGM was held on 15 Feb. Thank you to those parents who volunteered their time to fill committee positions and continue to support our school in such an important way. The P&C wil now have a section in our newsletter for their news and upcoming events.

I would like to thank Bakers Delight for their ongoing support of our Breakfast Club. They donate bread on a weekly basis to support this important initiative in our school. Our Breakfast Club is open to all students daily from 8.00-8.30am.

You may have noticed some of our gardens are

looking different, we had no gardener during the

Christmas holidays- thankyou to Mrs Bennion and

Mr Hobart for watering every 2 days and for the

wonderful planting that took place

New Lunchtime Clubs We have two new clubs running at lunchtimes this term. Mrs Alison Feng is leading a Chinese Club on Mondays and Mrs Kathryn Hughes is leading a Gymnastics Club on Fridays. Thank you to these wonderful Mum’s for helping to provide additional activities for our students to access.

New Website (same address)

http://pegscreekps.wa.edu.au/

Parents will be able to access all info via our website.

We also have a new communication tool for parents,

tiqbiz. Parents are asked to register and download

the tiqbiz app and alerts will be sent via this app.

School Board

The School Board met for the first time this year on

21 Feb and welcomed new members. I would like to

take this opportunity to recognise and thank Ms Bec

McCallum, Mrs Lauren Werchon and Mrs Denise

Dann for their contribution to our School Board.

Their involvement has certainly ensured all members

had insight into the dedication and commitment of

our teaching staff. I encourage parents to access the

Board minutes at any time through the school office.

The Peg’s Creek School Board now comprises of the

members listed below. We anticipate introducing

them to our school community through ongoing

newsletters and assemblies.

Our current members are:

Community: John Lally (Chairman), Darren Goff,

Brad Goes,

Parents; Kylie Sanders, Adz Neilsen, Angela

McDonald, Kathryn Heaton.

Staff: Shiona Hobart (Principal), Janet Gethin, Kristy

Fitzpatrick.

Shiona Hobart

Principal

EDITION 1 – 23 February 2017

EXCELLENCE IN TEACHING AND LEARNING

SAFE AND SUPPORTIVE LEARNING ENVIRONMENT

Burrup Bouncer Team 2017

The Burrup Bouncer try outs for 2017 were held last

week with many keen students turning up to be

involved. Congratulations to the following students

who made the 2017 team:

Arya Pandey, Jake Mertens, Chloe Hornhardt

Amber Nielsen, Jye Sander , Tate David, Zane

Goes, Milly D’Amico, Lauryn Ieremia, Chloe Bern,

Karina Peachy, Mila Jenkins, Ted Andrijasevich

and Kendall Sherrard

There was a huge interest from all of the students at

Peg’s Creek and these students demonstrated

outstanding skipping skills in two try-outs for

selection to the 2017 team.

Welcome to some of the previous members of the

2016 team but a HUGE welcome to our new faces.

We hope you enjoy and most of all, become the

Pilbara’s best skippers! Bring on 2017!

Behaviour Focus

In 2017 one of our main focus areas is to continue

to develop our policy and procedures in the area of

Student Behaviour. Staff discussed our four

Behaviour Expectations: Safety, Respect,

Responsibility and Excellence.

Our Behaviour Vouchers are a new initiative this

year to maintain focus. These are linked to factions

and will contribute to the end of year shield.

We are seeking consistency across the school in

understanding, language and consequences.

Staff developed a common understanding of our

green, blue, orange, red card communication

system.

Attendance

At our school we are aiming to have 65% or more attending attending on a regular basis. This is the blue section of the graph. We are continuing to work with families to help address the many reasons

work with families to help address the many reasons for children not coming to school. It is important that you reply to any request from the school to provide reasons for your child’s absence. This may come from any staff member at the school., eg. class teacher, AIEO, Front Office. It may be a phone call, note home or through the SMS system. We continue to appreciate parents/carers

who maintain communication with the school.

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LEADERSHIP

Prefects and Faction Leaders

Our new Prefects and Faction Leaders were

presented with their new Badges at assembly last

week. We look forward to their initiatives and

leadership throughout the coming year. The

Prefects led their first assembly, presented an item

and managed their new responsibilities with ease.

TA11 Jaiden - In Maths we are adding and

subtracting big numbers. In English we are learning

about persuasive texts. In Science we are talking

about solids, liquids and gasses. We made portraits

of ourselves and made predictions for our futures

and wrote a little bit about ourselves.

TA10 Tate - In Writing we are learning about

persuasive texts and we have also been learning

about P.E.E.L which is Purpose, Exploration,

Evidence and Link which helps us to organise our

ideas.

TA15 Chloe - Some people have moved from our

class. In Maths we have been timing ourselves with

cards and putting them into biggest to smallest.

Classroom Representatives

We had our first Classroom Representative Meeting

last week. The reps all have their new badges and

are ready to lead their classes.

TA2 Justin – We have been learning the school

and classroom rules. We are also learning how to

rule up our books and how to write on the lines.

TA5 Max - I like the book corner and the puzzle

corner. We have a super hero chair, and I had a go

on it. It was good!

TA3 Phoenix & Will - We have been making hot air

balloons out of paper mache. For fitness we are

doing Jump Jam and we play Happy Cake. We have

also been reading Flip Flop which is a story about

penguins, and we are also making penguins.

TA9 Nikki - In Maths we are playing math games,

learning our multiplication and measuring length.

We wrote some poems and played boggle – which

is a game with letters that we have to make words

with. We moved to our new class this week and

everyone is happy.

TA16 Anna - We are all reading the Map Maker

Chronicle for our class novel. In Maths we are

learning lots of different strategies like

compensating, and front loading. In writing we are

learning to recite a story called “The Emperor’s New

Clothes”. Everything is going well.

You Can Do It

We are continuing with the You Can Do It program in 2017 and starting with the Organisation key. Some things that your child can do to show their organisation skills are:

Take care of their things

Use time to finish chores or getting their work done before they play

Listen to what adults would like them to do

Every class has You Can Do It lessons planned during the fortnight. There will be two whole school activities where classes are buddied together for an activity that is linked to our key for success. The second of these is planned for Week 8, Monday, 20 March.

PARTNERSHIPS

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Newsletter Update

This will be our last hard copy we send home of the newsletter; all corespondence will be sent out via our

new tiqbiz app. This is to make our communication processes more contemporary, efficient and

effective. All newsletters and notes/letters will also be available from our new look website. This is an

action the school is taking to reduce our carbon footprint by gradually reducing the amount of paperwork

being generated. Please see the information about our new website and tiqbiz app sent home with this

newsletter. If you do not have access to a computer, ipad or internet etc please let us know in the office

so we can continue to make sure you receive a copy of the newsletter and important notes.

I would like to request a hard copy of the Newsletter for my child _________________________________

who is in TA ______ . Signed _____________________________ Date___________________