29 March 2019

Newsletter Articles

A Note from the Principal

Over my long career in education I have built a strong belief and conceptual framework of what constitutes effective teaching and learning. In leading Butler Primary School I have been able to apply that knowledge and utilise my experience to influence and impact on our continuous improvement agenda by establishing clear expectations for staff and students; creating the conditions that enable everyone to perform at their best; and working collaboratively to strengthen our accountability processes so that we can demonstrate our effectiveness.

Throughout 2019 Butler Primary School Staff are continuing to build on and strengthen our culture of high performance and high care. In response to ongoing self-assessment findings our improvement planning will focus on:

• developing and embedding an explicit school wide approach to teaching literacy and numeracy
• strengthening our approach to student health and well being
• strengthening our approach to positive behaviour
• implementing opportunity for students to participate in academic extension and challenge programs

The level of care and commitment of the staff at our school is second to none and I am proud to work with people of their quality.

A love of learning is evident throughout the school and in week ten I will be privileged to have lunch with six outstanding students who display respect, responsibility, integrity, community and aspiration every day.

I wish everybody a safe, restful and happy vacation break.

Mrs Julie Woodhouse
Principal

School Calendar

Notices for all Families

Be You Day

Anzac Ceremony

Butler Primary School is holding its 2019 ANZAC Ceremony on Thursday, 11 April at 9:30am in the Undercover Area. Parents and community members are most welcome to attend. We hope that you can be part of this important commemorative event.

Kindy 2020 Applications Open

Applications for Kindergarten in 2020 are now being accepted. If your child is born between 1 July 2015 and 30 June 2016 they are eligible to start kindy in 2020.

Please find more information about Kindy at Butler Primary School on our website

If your child is due to start Kindy next year you may also like to find out about our Pre-Kindy program running this year. Information is also available on our website below or by phoning 9562 1804. There is also an article in this newsletter.

The Kindy Application form is attached or can be collected from the school office. Please return your application form by Friday, 26 July.

Academic Extension

Year 5 and 6 students participating in the Academic Extension Science program at Butler College participated in a special tutorial on the science and technology used to build traditional Aboriginal tools. The session was led by Jason Barrow, Cultural Awareness Officer, from Edith Cowan University. Students learnt about the components needed to make tools including how to make glue from naturally occurring materials including the sap from grass trees.

WA Police Pipe Band

On Friday 8th March we were extremely lucky to have the Western Australia Police Pipe Band visit our school. They entertained the whole school with their fantastic music. They gave an explanation of each instrument and the names of the various parts of their uniform. They even had some staff members entertain us doing the Hokey Pokey. The students and staff thoroughly enjoyed this incursion and what a great way to promote positive relations between the community and the Western Australia Police.

Old Ways New Ways Program, Edith Cowan University

Butler Primary School is proud to be involved in a partnership with Edith Cowan University to participate in the ‘Old Ways New Ways Program’.

Old Ways, New Ways is a multi-award winning outreach initiative which links Aboriginal cultural competency and the ‘Old Ways’ of Aboriginal science with the current or ‘New Ways’ of scientific knowledge.

Creative, hands-on science activities are at the core of the program. Students are taken on a journey of scientific exploration, where traditional methods of Aboriginal toolmaking and ancient techniques for bushland survival are celebrated, shared and linked to practical, current scientific methodology and enquiry. The practical nature of the workshops strongly engages the students, giving them a fresh vision into educational possibilities for their future. There is an emphasis on capacity-building and raising aspirations for higher education attainment and participation. This hands-on approach seeks to motivate students to study science at high school and beyond, and to improve understanding of Traditional knowledge and it is complementary to current scientific methodologies.

The program team comprises both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal staff, and models strong cross-cultural partnerships. The initiative brings together ECU staff from Kurongkurl Katitjin and the School of Science.

• Mr Jason Barrow
• Ms Caroline Bishop
• Dr Kristina Lemson
• Dr Magda Wajrak

Term 1 saw our Year 5/6 Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal students participate in traditional Aboriginal games and forms of messaging, as well as digital coding using traditional signs and symbols.

2019 Cricket Club

On Friday, 22 March Butler Primary participated in the annual Super 8’s Cricket Competition at Butler College. Ten Year 6 students represented the school in a competition featuring East Butler, Quinns Beach and Merriwa. Butler entered the contest as reigning champions having brought home the trophy in 2017 and 2018. Led by Ben Aresti, Josh Whent, and Stephanie Potgieter Butler faced a strong Quinns Beach side first up that won comprehensively. Not giving in, Butler bounced back with great fighting spirit and teamwork to win our next two games against East Butler and Merriwa and qualify for the Grand Final against Quinns Beach. Bowling first with the wind, Butler took early wickets and got off to a great start. Batting proved more difficult and ultimately the game became a nail biter- with Butler needing 5 runs off the last over. Unfortunately we couldn’t quite get over the line and Quinns stole the victory. A big thankyou to the small contingent of parents for coming down and showing their support. The High Performance cricket coordinator, Luke Edwards from Butler College, has once again organised a thoroughly enjoyable and WACA endorsed competition this year. Butler will be back again in 2020 to try and reclaim the trophy!

Keith Milner
Physical Education Teacher

Student Achievements

Week 4 Honour Certificate Recipients:

Week 4 CLIC Certificate Recipients

Week 8 Honour Certificate Recipients

Week 8 CLIC Certificate Recipients

Week 8 Literacy Pro Certificate Recipients

Class Assemblies in Review

Room 8 – 21 February

In Week 1 the students of Room 8 learnt about The Catastrophe Scale. The catastrophe scale helps us to put bad events into perspective, allowing us to bounce back and move on rather than overreacting to events.

Room 8’s performance was incredible considering the time they had to prepare. Students came up with the ideas for the scenes in groups and were always keen to rehearse their parts. Their dedication and persistence allowed them to perform the play well. Well done Room 8!

Mr Riley
Class Teacher

Room 2 – 28 February

To start 2019 off with a bang… The Year 1’s in Room 2 decided to present the first Junior Assembly of the year. Our theme was “Everyone is special” – We are smart, strong, brave, musical, and special.

All the students worked hard at learning their lines, telling everyone how special we are. Some great examples were:

“I can do 10 push ups with one hand” – Makuei
“I can build shelves with my Dad” – Stella
“I can ride my bike” – Noah
“I can do front flips on the grass” – Mason
“I can run super fast” – Lincoln

We performed an amazing song called ‘What I Am’. It was great to sing and dance in front of the audience. After merit certificates, we surprised everyone by doing the ‘Twist and Shout’. It was great to see everyone join in with us.

Mrs Buhner
Class Teacher

WHAT’S ON IN…

Pre-Kindy

The Pre Kindy Group has been meeting fortnightly on a in the PP5 Kindy room. The children and their parents have been making new friends, enjoying stories and participating in lots of activities to help develop fine motor, social and listening skills. If you would like to know more about this group and would like to join us next term please enquire at the School Office.

Mrs Johnston

Kindy

PP4

This term in Kindy Purple PP4 we have been focussing on the Early Years Framework of Being, Becoming and Belonging. We have provided lots of opportunity for the children to become socially responsible and show respect for our environment. Sustainability and care for the environment has featured daily in our discussions so we chose to investigate and create our own garden. In our garden we chose to plant not only edible items, but to also plant flowers that respond positively to the full sun they will receive.

We spent quite a bit of time preparing the soil by weeding and turning the soil over. Then we planted sunflowers, nasturtiums, tomatoes, lettuce, basil and parsley.

Every day we water and watch carefully to see if any of our plants have started growing.

We are observing and reflecting on the changes we see depending on the sunlight, temperature, clouds and rain.

When you are walking by the garden beds please take a look and talk with your child about what they expect will happen and how long it might take.

We look forward to extending their knowledge and enthusiasm by utilising the herbs and vegetables in our cooking. Stay tuned.

Mrs Davidson

PP5

In the PP 5 Kindy class this week we have been very busy exploring Michael Rosen’s story “We’re Going on a Bear Hunt”. After listening to the story and creating their own story maps the children took turns to act out the story in our home corner. We experienced the texture of the long wavy grass and the feeling of the water and mud on our feet. The swirling, whirling snow storm was a favourite with many. Our hunt finished inside the cave where we found several friendly bears.

Mrs Johnston

PP6

Throughout this term PP6 have been exploring the exciting concept of ‘Me’ and ‘the Family’. This has been an excellent way of getting to know each child individually. Our classroom has many wonderful pieces of work which have been created by the children in PP6. Here are a few examples for you to enjoy.

Mrs Saunders

Pre-Primary

PP1

In PP1 the students always have fun engaging in hands-on Mathematics activities. On this occasion they have been practising number recognition whilst fishing and playing bingo. They have been matching numbers to quantities with cookie jars and on the interactive whiteboard. Some of the students have mastered numbers 1-10 already and will be moving on to larger numbers and quantities in our differentiated program.

Mrs Sukiennik

PP2

Wow! What a term! We have read exciting books, like Mrs. Wishy-washy and are discovering how combinations of sounds make different words.

During Maths we have been looking at counting and extending our Maths vocabulary by investigating length and recording data. We have looked at words like longer, shorter, more than, less than, least and most.

We have also been answering questions such as 'Do you like strawberry ice-cream?' and recording everyone’s answers. We even created a bar graph based on the data collected. Wow! Our Pre-Primary students are cleaver.

Ms Irving

PP3

We started the year meeting up with some old Kindy friends and we made new ones too. We have been discussing various ways to show kindness, friendliness, honesty and respect both in and out of the classroom. Last week we began learning Indonesian and our parent roster started. Some parents came in to help with activities like woodwork, making of kites, art and craft, all of which was integrated with our maths and literacy program. We have been learning how to double numbers and sound out letters to make words, we even had a go at writing. Finally we celebrated Harmony Day.

Mrs Rowlinson

Chaplain’s Corner

Hi Everyone,

I hope this term is going well for you all. The celebration of Harmony Day in week 7 was a great reminder of our diversity and that we all belong.

Working together to create a harmonious school environment is a key area of focus for Butler Primary School. To assist everyone achieve this I encourage you to pause and think before you act. Proceed if your words and actions will be kind and positive.

As the end of term is nearly here I wish everyone safe and restful holidays.

Kind regards

Milda Nortje
School Chaplain

P&C News

Next P&C Meeting: Wednesday, 15 May 2019 at 6pm in the Staffroom. All are welcome to attend.

P&C AGM

The P&C AGM was held on Wednesday, 20 March and the new office bearers for 2019 are:

P&C Fundrasing

TERM 1

EASTER RAFFLE

Our annual Easter raffle runs from Tuesday March 26th - Friday April 5th and will be drawn at line up on April 8th.

Tickets can be dropped into the P&C Drop Box in the front office, where you can also find extra sheets of tickets.

Tickets are $2 each, 4 for $7 or a sheet of 8 for $12.

Last year we had over 20 awesome prizes so please dig deep for your P&C and increase your chances of winning! :)

ALL DONATIONS are GREATLY APPRECIATED and can be delivered to the blue basket in the front office.

TERM 1 & 2

ENTERTAINMENT BOOK MEMBERSHIPS

Digital and hardcopy Entertainment memberships are available for pre-order now.

Digital memberships launch April 1st and pre-ordered books will be delivered April 15th!

Please order here:

TERM 2

MOTHERS DAY STALL & RAFFLE

Please keep an eye out for our Annual Mother’s Day Stall (week 2) and Raffle which will be drawn Friday, May 10th.

DISCO
Stay tuned!

P&C Facebook Group

Click on the link to join our Facebook page BPS P&C Association:

Canteen Information

Online ordering will close at 9.00am.

Any orders placed after this time will not be processed for that day. The order will go through the following day. Please ensure orders are placed on time. Late orders can be placed by calling Quick direct on 1300 11 66 37.

All Snack items on the menu will only be available at the canteen window at recess. The canteen will be closed at lunch time for the supply of pre-ordered lunches only.

Please do not hesitate to contact me via a call 9561 4255 (Butler College Canteen) if you have any queries.

Thank you
Carla Andretta

The online ordering system is available via the link below. Please refer to the above menu link:

Butler Out of Hours School Care

Please feel free to drop into the centre or contact us on 0403 347 952 or butler.oshc@ymcawaa.org.au for any queries. Information is also available at the school office.

Kind regards

YCMA

Information for Families

School Payment Options Available

• Payment methods for charges and contributions can now be made via:
• Eftpos
• Cash or Cheque (please use the school money envelopes and place the sealed envelope in the black letter boxes. The boxes are located in the wet areas of each of the blocks and the office)
• Direct Deposit (reference student name and payment description.)
  BSB: 066040
  Acc: 19904285

*Please note this bank account information is NEW, please delete the old bank account information.

Absentee Messaging Service

Please send absentee messages through to 0419 091 075 by 10.00am with all of the following details so we can correctly update student records:

• Full name of your child/children
• Explanation for absence
• Date of absence

Absences can also be phoned through to the office on 9562 1804, emailed via the website or a message sent via the Absentee tile in the School App.

As per Department of Education policy, it is the parent’s responsibility to notify the school of the reason for your child’s absence/s within three days of the absence. Failure to do this will mean that the absence will be marked as “unacceptable reason” affecting your child’s education and attendance record.

Update Student Contact Information

If you have recently changed mobile numbers or moved address, it is important you update your contact information with the office. Please also advise if there is a change to any of your emergency contact information.

Siren Times

2019 Siren Times

School Security

Please call School Watch Security on 1800 177 777, or the Police on 131 444, if you see any suspicious behaviour around the school.

Donating Uniforms

Butler Primary School is seeking donations of uniforms, including polo shirts, dresses and suitable navy bottoms. If you are able to assist please drop the clean clothing at the front office.

Community Notices

Kinross College Open Night

Joondalup Festival 5-7 April

Explore the Galaxy at the Joondalup Festival 2019.

Enjoy a fun-packed three days of live entertainment and alfresco eating and drinking at Joondalup Festival. Featuring oversized and interactive art installations, circus, music, comedy, children’s shows and more, there is something to tickle everyone’s fancy.

There are so many things to discover at Joondalup Festival!

All events within the festival are free and family friendly.

Busy Bees at Wanneroo Regional Museum

Join us for some unbee-lievable kid’s activities at the Wanneroo Regional Museum this April School Holidays.

Date: 13th April 2019 - 28th April 2019
Every day
Location: Wanneroo Museum, Wanneroo Library and Cultural Centre, 3 Rocca Way, Wanneroo
Cost: Free

Arty Easter – Get Creative at Clarkson / Yanchep (age 6+)

Get creative and try out fun art techniques and different materials to make Easter baskets and decorations.

Participants will be shown how to use paint and use collage materials to make egg baskets and assorted decorations. All materials supplied.

Parents are welcome to participate with their children.

Date: 16th April 2019
Location: Clarkson Library, Cnr Ebb Way & Ocean Keys Blvd, Clarkson
Cost: Free (Bookings required)

BMX, Scooter and Skateboard workshop (ages 9 to 18)

Come and improve your skate park tricks.

Date: 23rd April 2019
Location: Banksia Grove Skate Park , Parking off Splendens Ave or Joseph Banks Blvd
Time: 13:00 - 16:30
Cost: $12

Visit the Events section of the City of Wanneroo and City of Joondalup websites for more school holiday ideas.

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