Newsletter No. 1 Published Fortnightly Term 1 February, 2010
Westfield Park Primary School Motto: Share, Care and Learn
School Website: http://members.iinet.net.au/~westps
Principal’s Pen We have had a wonderfully smooth start to 2010 – thank you to everyone; parents, students and staff for helping make this happen. It has been great to welcome back all of our students, and also I extend a big welcome to all of our new students and their families. With a full pre-primary class of 25 students and 20 new students across the rest of our school there are plenty of wonderful new smiling, if a bit nervous, faces around our school. Welcome to you all! I also welcome one new teacher to our school, Ms Robert Hansen. Ms Hansen has come from Thornlie PS, however she is not new to our school, having completed one of her teaching practicums at our school a few years ago. Our school structure for 2010 is:
Mrs McWhirter will also be working with the junior students and Mr Burns with the senior students. I would like to congratulate Ms VanTrigt on recently completing her teaching degree which she has been working towards over the past 2 years. We wish her well with her teaching career. This year we are looking to simplify our school rules for our students. All our rules will come under three broad headings – BE SAFE, BE RESPONSIBLE and BE RESPECTFUL. All classes will be using these three umbrella rules to guide all student behaviour. Wednesday 17 February we have Parent Information Sessions for each class. Please see the timeline elsewhere in this newsletter. This is an opportunity to hear about classroom routines, behaviour and work expectations, including homework. Please come along. Finally, I wish everyone a great year. I hope that we as a school community can build the great achievements of last year. Best Wishes and Keep Smiling Mr Tim Sewell
Quote of the Week “Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire.” W. B. Yeats PARENT INFORMATION AFTERNOON Year Class Teachers, Parent Information Afternoon will take place on Wednesday 17th February,
2010.
Rm 1 (PP)
2.30pm – 2.50pm (Mrs Cardy)
Thank you very much for your co-operation.
We welcome our new Year 7 School Leaders for 2010 Faith Porteous, Rose Mitchell, Jaydon Stewart,Rebecca Flynn and Hayley Rawlins We look forward to working closely with them across the year.
Sun Smart Fundraising Don’t forget to purchase your 50ml SPF 30 sunscreen tubes complete with handy clips to clip to your school bag. Available from the school office for $7.00. Funds raised will be used to purchase every child a school hat in 2010 Please make sure your children have a hat to wear at school. Remember no hat no play. Thank you |
P & C AGM
Thursday 18th February at 1.30pm in the conference room. All Welcome. Uniform Shop Hours: Monday/Friday 8.30-9.00am MESSAGE FROM THE SCHOOL CHAPLAIN Welcome back everyone to a wonderful, exciting year. Our first value that we are looking at this year is SELF RESPECT. The Good Book says we are to “love others as we love ourselves” Loving ourselves is not always an easy task but having a healthy sense of who we are is vitally important to how we get along together. Remember a smile is something we can give away to others that doesn’t cost anything. Friends of Westfield Park –
Parkerville Children and Youth Care (Inc) SCHOOL BASED SUPPORT SERVICES
We provide informal counseling, support and referrals to local agencies to parents, guardians and children. This service is free and confidential For referrals please contact Ariana on
 We are always looking for assistance with many aspects of this project. If you think you (or your company /work) are able to assist in any way, please contact Mr Burns. Help with construction of the kitchen and / or gardens and then maintenance of the gardens and assistance with the cooking program will be required. Remember this is one of the ways you can earn reward points through our Parent Passport Program. Legacy Trees Part of our Kitchen Garden project includes the planting of various fruiting trees. As a school community member you are able to purchase a tree for the project that will include a bollard and stainless steel plaque with your name on it permanently attached. The cost of purchasing a “Legacy Tree” is $70 and includes the purchase of the tree, plaque, bollard, reticulation where required and appropriate fertilisers and soil conditioners. To date we have started planting out the orchard and we have orders
for four of these trees. We need to increase this number to ten before
we can purchase the stainless steel plaques so please think about whether
your family or business is willing to purchase a tree. Order forms
are available from the front office.
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