7 April 2016

Newsletter Articles

Principal's Message

Term 1 is drawing to a close and much has already been achieved at Butler Primary School. Those of you who attended our recent parent meetings will certainly agree with this. Teachers have worked hard to establish work and homework routines, set expectations and ensure that the students feel safe and settled.

Voluntary Contributions

I would like to thank our parents who have paid their $30.00 voluntary contributions this term. If you have yet to pay, it is not too late. I would urge you to contribute as your child will directly benefit from the extra literacy and mathematics resources our school can purchase. You can pay directly at the office or by Direct Deposit.

Direct Deposit Details are:

BSB 016338
A/C 110391487
Please reference your child's name and description.

School Hat for Term 2

Students are required to wear the navy broad brimmed school hat from Term 2. Caps will no longer be accepted. This policy change has been endorsed by the school board.

Arrival Time for Students

Families are reminded that students' arrival time is 8:20am and the first siren goes at 8:35 am. Students are being actively discouraged from arriving at the school earlier than this time. All students arriving late must receive a late note from the office before going to class.

Personal Sports Equipment

Students are discouraged from bringing their personal sport equipment to school. Personal items can often get damaged or lost. Each class has a supply of safe, sport equipment for students to use at recess and lunch breaks.

ANZAC DAY

This week, we have been preparing for our annual ANZAC assembly where students and staff reflect on what ANZAC DAY means to them. Anzac Day goes beyond the anniversary of the landing on Gallipoli in 1915. It is the day on which we remember all Australians who served and died in war and on operational service. The spirit of Anzac, with its qualities of courage, mateship, and sacrifice, continues to have meaning and relevance for our sense of national identity. April 25th is the official date for ANZAC Day and is a national holiday for all of us to reflect on those past events that have shaped our own identity.

Finally, I would like to thank all of our wonderful students, families and teaching staff for making Term 1 a blockbuster term! We all worked very hard and achieved a lot. I would like to wish you all a happy and safe holiday, and enjoy this time with your family and friends.

Mrs Julie Woodhouse
Principal

Free Dress Day – Go Blue for Autism

Students can wear free dress on the last day of term – Friday 8 April. The theme is wearing blue in support of 'Go Blue for Autism.' Please bring a gold coin donation to support Autism WA.

Parent Parking

Parents are reminded that parking is not permitted on grassed kerbside areas around the Pre-primary car park and along Tollesbury Avenue, as well as the bricked median strip in Cambourne Parkway or across any footpaths. Please consider the safety of all other road users and pedestrians when parking and leaving schools grounds.

All usual road and parking rules apply around the school and parking fines are issued by visiting rangers to those not adhering to the road rules. Please download the map below for parent parking information.

It is great to see that more families are walking their children to and from school or parking in the community centre car park and walking their children from there, helping to ease traffic congestion around the school.

2017 Kindy Applications Now Open

If you child was born between 1 July 2012 and 30 June 2013 then they are eligible to attend Kindergarten in 2017. Families who would like to enrol their child in Kindy next year will need to submit an application to the school before 31st July, 2016. An application form is available below or from the school office.

When submitting your application we are required to sight your child's birth certificate, immunisation details, proof of residence in Butler and any visa's the child may have.

Kindy PP5 Green Group – Teddies and Chickens

This term the Kindy children of PP5 Green Group have been learning letter sounds and maths principles through exploring the theme of Teddies. During the term each child chose material to make their own teddy. They chose the size of the teddy that they wanted, drew around it onto material and helped Mrs Johnston to sew their bear on the sewing machine. Then they stuffed the bear to make it cuddly. Each child has also used the teddy to measure and make the right sized quilt for it. The children also weighed their teddies to see what was heavier and lighter than them. The class is now planning a picnic to take the teddies on in week 10.

During the week of Easter we had a surprise visit from six Easter chickens. We discussed other things that come from eggs. We even hatched a purple egg in a jar of water and surprisingly, out hatched a little bunny! You never know what might happen at Kindy!

Mrs Alison Johnston

Kindy PP5 Purple Group – Bear Hunt

Kindy is going on a bear hunt! This term the children have been very busy learning about Teddies and Bears. We have sewn our own Teddies and we were involved in many creative hands on experiences. We read the story "We're Going on a Bear Hunt" and went on our own sensory experience, walking through damp soil, dried leaves, freezing cold ice water, soft cotton wool, long wavy grass and found a Teddy Bear in a cave. What a fun sensory experience our feet had!!!

Mrs Jenny Malone

PP5 Purple on a sensory experience.

Kindy PP6 - Having Fun While We Learn!

Do you like our houses? In our kindy class, it is very important to all of us to have lots of opportunity to learn, whilst we are creating and having fun. These houses were created with simple shapes. We are able to describe the places we live in, whilst learning about the concepts and names of circle, triangle and square.

Do you like our face plates? We have a strong sense of who we are in our Kindy classroom and we are beginning to describe ourselves through art.

Do you like my name writing? It is very important to me to have lots of opportunity to recognise and write my name in school and at home.

These are the important things that I can practise:

1. Sitting up comfortably on my seat at the table.
2. Holding my pencil with the pincer grip and not a palmer grip.
3. Remember a capital letter at the beginning of my name.
4. Begin at the top of the letter, working down the letter.
5. Counting how many letters are in my name.

Mrs Elizabeth Saunders

Room 14 Assembly, Week 8.

Room 14 recently performed their assembly item based on Harmony Week.

Harmony Week is an opportunity for all Western Australians to celebrate our vibrant multicultural State.

The week runs from 15 to 21 March every year and encourages everyone to experience, explore and appreciate WA's wealth of cultural, religious, linguistic and ethnic diversity. Our assembly item introduced Butler Primary School to Bruce. Bruce is a dinky di Aussie who goes on an adventure; he meets many people from a range of different cultural backgrounds. Bruce learns to say "G'day" to all the people that he meets. In addition to introducing Bruce to the school, Room 14 invited the assembly to join them in singing a popular song for Harmony Week "Straya". In keeping with our Harmony week theme, we also gave many interesting facts about multi-culturalism and diversity in Australia.

Mr Keelan Carpenter

Room 14 Assembly.

Room 16 Assembly, Week 6.

"5 stars!"
"Awesome!"
"The best assembly ever!"
"Ten out of ten!"
"Amazing!"

These are just some of the comments from the audience at Room 16's assembly. This term, students in Room 16 have been learning about taking care of their body and how to stay healthy.

We ran a healthy lunch box challenge, aiming to bring only healthy, unprocessed food to school for crunch & sip, recess and lunch. At the beginning of the challenge we had 95 unhealthy foods in classroom and only 32 healthy foods. On the best day of our challenge we had 152 healthy foods.

In our assembly, the stars of Room 16 presented what they have learned about healthy eating and being active, and the results of our challenge.

Everyone spoke beautifully, showed confidence and looked like they had a lot of fun dancing to 'Turn up the Bass'.

Well done, Room 16! You were absolutely awesome!

Ms Racheal Tighe

Merit Certificates

Week 6 Merit Certificate recipients:

Week 8 Merit Certificate recipients:

Harmony Week 2016

In Week 7, we celebrated yet another fantastic Harmony Week. The theme this year was 'Our Diversity is Our Strength'. Our students enjoyed many exciting and fun activities, including writing competitions, poster competitions, cooking a range of dishes from around the world and a fun buddy class/family picnic. On the final day we had a fantastic cultural dress up day and a wonderful whole school assembly. We sang our school community song; 'Voice of Harmony' and the choir sang a beautiful rendition of 'Imagine'. We finished off with two very energetic Jump Jam songs.

Library News

We are so excited to welcome Kindy classes to the Library next term. Kindy will visit the Library every week and as they do for every student, the following library rules will apply:

• Books can only be borrowed during the class library session
• Books are borrowed for 1 week and must be returned before another book can be borrowed
• A replacement fee is charged for lost or irreparably damaged books
• Children must have a library bag to be able to borrow. A simple plastic shopping bag is perfect; it's waterproof and free.

We wish you a safe holiday and please encourage your children to continue reading. If you are looking for a free excursion during the holiday break, why not visit your local public library? Clarkson Library opens at 9:00am, Monday to Saturday.

Mrs Doris Pengelly

Casual Cleaners Required

We are seeking casual cleaners to be available for relief work at Butler Primary School. Cleaning shifts are the morning from 5.00am to 8.00am and/or the afternoon from 2.30pm to 5.30pm. Please drop your resumes in at the School Office or email to butler.ps@education.wa.edu.au with all your contact information, availability and a brief overview of your working history along with your valid screening number and your valid Working with Children card.

Applicants must have a valid Working with Children Check and a Department of Education National Police Check (screening number). If you don't have these documents but are interested in this work, the documents to apply for these checks can be obtained from the School Office. For more information please call 9562 1804.

Three Year Old Pre-Kindy Playgroup Registration

Mrs Alison Johnston and Mrs Lisa Wilson will be running the Three Year Old playgroup beginning in Term 2.

The playgroup will commence in Week 2 of Term 2 and run on each Tuesday for 6 weeks of each term. Mrs Alison Johnston and Mrs Lisa Wilson, both experienced and well loved early childhood teachers, will run the program, taking turns on alternate weeks. Both teachers are giving up their own time to run the sessions, in an unpaid capacity.

Parents will stay with their child from 9.30-11.30 each Tuesday. A fee of $ 60.00 per term is payable at the school front office and must be paid before the commencement of the playgroup each term. Part of this fee goes towards being registered in Playgroup WA and covers insurance.

Parents are required to complete a registration form at the front office, and they will receive play group guidelines. To be eligible to attend the playgroup, children need to be turning three before June 30 this year. Siblings are not allowed to attend unless they are babies who are not yet crawling. It is advisable for potential parents to secure their child's position, with payment, as soon as possible as places are limited.

Emergency Contact Details – are yours up to date?

Do we have your correct contact details including:
(if applicable)

• current mobile phone number
• home number
• work phone number
• home address
• email address

Are the emergency contacts for your children up to date?

In case of an emergency it is very important that the school your current and correct contact details.

If you are unsure and would like to check or if your details require updating please call the school on 9562 1804 or email butler.ps@education.wa.edu.au .

National Assessment Program Literacy and Numeracy

Year 3 and Year 5 students will participate in National Literacy and Numeracy Testing in May (Week 3, Term 2) and the specific dates are in the NAPLAN INFORMATION FOR PARENTS link. All students throughout Australia are expected to participate in the testing. They will be assessed in language conventions (spelling, grammar and punctuation), writing, reading and numeracy. Your child's NAPLAN report will be issued through your school at a later date.

Although we encourage all students to participate in the testing, parents have the right to withdraw their child. If you wish to withdraw your child from the tests, you will need to sign a parent/carer withdrawal consent form before 2.4.2016. Please contact Deputy Principal, Deb Hamblin on 95621804 for further information. Parents can also access the NAPLAN website:

Visiting Butler Primary during School Hours

Access to the school during school hours is available through the pedestrian gate at the front of the school, located on Tollesbury Avenue. Parking is available in front of the school. This gate is closed but is unlocked during school hours. All other gates along with the main gates are locked during school hours for security purposes.

Chaplain's Corner

HELLO Everyone,

I trust that you enjoyed the Easter break, and I hope that it was a restful one for you.

This brings us to the last week of Term 1. Wow, how quickly it has flown by! Congratulations everyone on all your hard work and thank you for your commitment to our school community.

The holiday brings rest and a time to have a break from our usual busy schedule. It is also a time to look back on all you have achieved during the term, and the hard work it took.

Our VALUES for Term 1 have been Friendliness, Respect & Inclusion.

Let's remember our Values and be demonstrating these at school and also when we are out and about in our communities.

Have a safe and happy holiday everyone!

Look forward to seeing you in Term 2.
Kind regards,
Mrs Hunter

Canteen Corner

Please find attached the new winter menu. The Summer Menu is no longer available in Term 2.

The canteen also does lunches for KINDY students everyday.

Also a reminder to parents using online ordering, to please update your child's classroom number from last year to this year's class number.

Mrs Shelly Siakia
Canteen Manager

BUTLER OUT OF HOURS SCHOOL CARE

Butler's YMCA provides affordable care before and after school every Monday to Friday.

Attendance - Everyday Counts

For students to succeed in academic achievement, attendance at school is of paramount importance. Our motto for attendance is 'Everyday Counts'. Once a child is enrolled in school, it is a legal requirement for them to attend. It is also a legal requirement for schools to record any form of absence.

If your child is unable to attend school for any reason, please contact the school at your earliest possible convenience. If you are withdrawing your child from school for a holiday, you must put your intentions in writing addressed to the principal.

School Siren Times for 2016

The School Advisory Board has endorsed the following siren changes for 2016. Please note the earlier school start and finish time.

P&C News

MEETINGS:

P&C AGM – quick meeting.

Thursday 28 April from 3.00 to 3.15pm in the staffroom.

P&C General Meeting

Wednesday 4 May, 6.30pm in the staffroom.

Get involved in the School Banking program

Butler Primary School P&C is excited to offer the Commonwealth Bank School Banking program to all students.

The School Banking program provides children with an opportunity to deposit money into their Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account at school each week. The program is about how often your child makes deposits, not how much they deposit.

School Banking is also a great fundraiser for our school. Our school receives $5 when a student makes their first ever School Banking deposit and 5% on every deposit made through the school (to a maximum of $10 per individual deposit).

Getting involved in School Banking is easy!

You can get involved in the School Banking program by opening a Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account at your local branch. All you need to bring is your current identification as well as your child's birth certificate. If you are an existing Commonwealth Bank customer and have NetBank, you can open an account online.

If your child has an existing Commonwealth Bank Youthsaver account they can start banking straight away. They just need to bring their deposit in every week on School Banking day using their Dollarmites deposit wallet.

School Banking day will be Thursday, beginning in Term 2. More information about School Banking will be sent home with students.

Entertainment Book Fundraiser.

We're very excited to be fundraising with Entertainmentâ„¢ this year. Order your NEW 2016 | 2017 Entertainmentâ„¢ Books and Entertainmentâ„¢ Digital Memberships from us today, and 20% of the proceeds contribute towards our School!

Order your new Entertainmentâ„¢ Book or Entertainmentâ„¢ Digital Membership before 4 May 2016 and you will receive up to $230 worth of additional offers that you can use right away! NEW this year, when you purchase a Perth Entertainmentâ„¢ Membership, you will now have access to more than 30 of the best restaurants, attractions and accommodation that Bali has to offer! Available as a traditional Entertainment Book - or - Digital Membership on your smartphone, your Membership gives you over $20,000 worth of valuable offers valid through to 1 June 2017!

Order via https://www.entertainmentbook.com.au/orderbooks/87684a

Andrea Brennen
P&C President

Community Events

City of Wanneroo – FREE TICKETED EVENT Saturday 9 April 4-9pm, Liddell Park Girrawheen.

Global Beats & Eats is back! Have you got your tickets yet?

On Saturday, 9 April 2016, Liddell Park in Girrawheen will be turned into a mecca for foodies and music lovers with beats and eats from all over the world on offer. The free City of Wanneroo event Global Beats & Eats presented by LiveLighter will be headlined by multi-ARIA award winner Dan Sultan. Entertainment will start from 4pm with French group Mambo Chic, eight-piece pop, R&B, reggae band Phoenix King, plus Kim Churchill set to take to the stage. Roving entertainment includes Chinese lion dancers, samba drummers and carnival performers to get your feet tapping and hips swinging throughout the evening. Joining the array of cultural acts will be a mouth-watering selection of food from around the world. Sample some traditional Indian cuisine with a modern twist at Guru Bites, or head to La Fuente for some fresh and healthy Chilean street food.

FAMILY ENTERTAINMENT

Wasamba – Loud Rio-Style percussion, bright costumes, crazy lights and big smiles! These carnival drummers are not to be missed.

Fanfarra – These vibrant ladies will be bringing the energy and colour of Rio alive in a spectacular roving dance set. Get your hips moving and shake along with them.

Chinese Lion Dancers - Bringing good fortune, prosperity and longevity the Lion Dance is a parade of colour and live percussion.

There will be more activities running throughout the event ensuring all ages will be kept entertained!

Jump around to the sounds at the bouncy castle, be creative at the imagination playground or get your drumming on at Wasamba's musical workshop.

Children can make their own miniature African drum to take home and keep the beats going! Please note numbers are limited for this activity and will be run in sessions so we advise you arrive early to avoid disappointment.

Tickets to Global Beats & Eats are free but essential, visit

Multicultural Girls Leadership ad AFL Program

At the Edmund Rice Centre we run a Leadership and AFL program for young girls and women from culturally and linguistically diverse (CaLD) backgrounds on Friday afternoons at the Butler Community Centre. The program provides leadership training and uses AFL as a medium to provide life skills training and personal development. It also improves integration and enhances cross cultural understanding, as these girls are taking enthusiastically to Australia's game. They are provided regular training and many weekend opportunities:

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