13 September 2019

Newsletter Articles

A Note from the Principal

Butler Primary School is a busy vibrant place and we love it!

The staff work tirelessly to ensure that our students have every opportunity to learn new things, participate in in-school events, and go out of the school to visit places and experience for those once in a life time opportunities. They work collaboratively planning activities, checking that their assessment of student work is fair and consistent, developing an in-depth shared understanding of the WA Curriculum and they are constantly watching over our students to make sure they are growing and developing into happy well adjusted individuals.

In the last month the students at Butler Primary School have participated in our Athletics Carnival, the State Cross Country Competition and the One Big Voice Festival which was held at the Perth Arena. They have also participated in and celebrated National Science Week and Book Week. Throughout this week the students had the opportunity to be immersed in innovative activities that link to the Indonesian culture. The learnings from these activities connect beautifully to the Nusantara Indonesian Festival which is being held at our school on Sunday, 15 September. I encourage everyone to make the effort and come along to enjoy the music, dance, food and friendship.

To ensure that our broader community is a fun, respectful and safe place to be a part of, Butler Primary School is working in partnership with the Western Australian Police to keep kids in school. The program provides a framework for schools to work with local businesses to send a united message to the community regarding school attendance. This program actively discourages students from accessing shopping centres during school hours.

A big thank you and congratulations to staff, students and parents for the collective contribution to ensuring our school is a huge success. It is a privilege to be part of this fantastic school community.

Mrs Julie Woodhouse
Principal

School Calendar

TERM 3

Term 4

PROFESSIONAL SCHOOL DEVELOPMENT DAYS 2019 (PUPIL FREE):

14 October
20 December

Notices for all Families

Kindy 2020 Applications Open

Kindergarten places are still available for 2020. 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 below or phone 9562 1804.

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.

The Kindy Application form is attached or can be collected from the school office. Please return your application as soon as possible.

Nusantara Indonesian Festival is this Sunday!

Butler Primary invites the community to visit the school this Sunday from 11am to 4pm for the Nusantara Indonesian Festival. Family, friends and community members all welcome!

Please find below the program of events plus classrooms will be open for viewing at the following times:

Butler Primary School students will also be on the stage at the following times:

Butler Indonesian Dance Club perform the 'Tari Piring' at 2:25pm

Butler Choir perform 'Kicir Kicir' at 3:00pm

Student artworks will be on display in classrooms and can be purchased with the money raised being donated to drought affected Tullamore Central School.

Along with entertainment and food stalls there will be raffles and prizes drawn on the day (including 2 nights’ accommodation at a Lombok Resort and a dinner voucher for an Indonesian Fusion restaurant in Ellenbrook).

Student Achievements

Week 6 Merit Certificate Recipients:

Week 6 CLIC Certificate Recipients:

Week 6 Literacy Pro Certificate Recipients:

Week 6 Values Badge Award Recipients:

Week 7 Merit Certificate Recipients:

Week 7 CLIC Certificate Recipients:

Week 7 Reading Eggs Certificate Recipients:

Week 8 Merit Certificate Recipients:

Week 8 CLIC Certificate Recipients:

Week 6 Literacy Pro Certificate Recipients:

Week 8 Values Badge Award Recipients:

Class Assemblies in Review

Rm 14

Each year schools across Australia celebrate Book Week. Book Week is a celebration of reading and great literature. Room 14 had their assembly the following week. It was based of variations of the classic fairy tales Cinderella and The 3 Little Pigs.

As a class we adapted the fairy tales for a modern twist, where the wolf was the victim and was just after a cup of sugar. We also adapted Cinderella so that it was Prince Cinders and the three hairy brothers.

The students did a fantastic job and loved practicing for the assembly.

Mr Carpenter
Teacher

Whats On In…

Science / Technology Week

This term we had science and technology week. Each year a theme is picked for all activities to focus around. The theme for 2019 was “Destination Moon". This theme is a way for teachers and their students to discover past missions to the Moon and space programs that have solved some of the seemingly unsolvable problems—and current and future space programs, operations and missions. Many of these use big picture thinking in science to solve problems, and technology, engineering and mathematics to design new solutions. This will help forge our future paths in the areas of space operations, space science, Earth observations, positioning systems and communications.

Students from Pre- Primary to year 6 engaged in a day full of science and technology activities. All classes competed in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) challenges and winners from each year group were awarded certificates and prizes. Students created solutions to problems that may encounter in space.

Creating an astronaut.

Students coding Bee bots to collect the materials needed for things to grow.

“Coding” other students, similar to coding the bee bots.

Year 4– Creating a moon terrain to be navigated by Sphero’s.

Year 2— Students created a moon buggy for the moon’s surface.

Year 6 - Students in year 6 completed their STEM challenge based on Forced Perspective Photography

Year 4—Students in Year 4 designed a space bridge from the Airlock to a space station. This had to support weight and be fully enclosed.

Students in year 6 constructed a Space station making sure it had all necessities for survival.

Physical Education 2019

It’s been another massive year for Physical Education in 2019 at Butler Primary School! Following the senior Summer and Winter Sports Carnivals it was straight into Interschool and State Cross Country this term. Interschool Cross Country was held at Quinns Beach Primary School for Years 4-6. All distances were 1500m and with six boy and girl representatives for each year level, Butler Primary School finished third overall with six schools participating. Dedicated weekly running club participants showed some great individual results with Mia Haast finishing 3rd in Year 5 girls, Lucas Masterman finishing 2nd for Year 5 boys, Dean Smythe finishing 2nd for Year 6 boys, and Ashleigh Whiteman finishing 1st for Year 6 girls!

State Cross Country was held at UWA park in Mt Claremont and was done on a much larger scale with longer distances and a combination of 59 public and private schools. Butler Primary School held its own finishing an admirable 29th overall. Our students were well trained for the longer distances of 2000m (Year 4) and 2500m (Year5/6) and some individual brilliance must be acknowledged from Dean Smythe and Jayden Stone who finished 20th and 21st respectively, out of 269 competitors!

Our faction sports carnival was bigger and better this year with the addition of a separate half day Jumps, Throws and 800m Carnival for Years 4-6 along with our whole day Athletics Carnival for every student. Faction and individual championship points were accumulated across both events culminating in a close victory to Alkimos! This year a Butler Primary School athletic records perpetual shield has been created for the 100m, 400m, 800m, 2000m, Jumps, and Throws events. The following new records will be recorded on the shield:

100m

Zoe Hammond 15.38sec
Isaiah Bropho 14.18sec

400m

Ashleigh Whiteman 1.05m
Dean Smythe 1.07m

800m

Ashleigh Whiteman 2.44m
Lucas Masterman 2.28m

2000m

Mia Haast 7.39m
Lucas Masterman 8.38m

Long Jump

Zoe Hammond 3.90m
Dean Smythe 4.15m

Throws

Ashleigh Whiteman 27.40m
Haylen Pokere 39.13m

Congratulations to all the record holders and the following Runner Up and Champion girls and boys for 2019:

Year 4

Year 5

Year 6

Thank you to all parents, teachers, staff members, and Year 6 Sports Captains for your ongoing support and assistance with every sporting event, without your help it would not be possible to create these opportunities for our students at Butler Primary School. Bring on the Interschool Athletics Carnival in Week 9!

Keith Milner
Physical Education

State Cross Country Photos

Jumps, Throws, 800m Photos

Faction Carnival Photos

Music News!

2019

Friday, 30th August saw the arrival of the much anticipated One Big Voice Festival at the RAC Arena. This year saw 6000 students from 110 schools come together for the first time to rehearse their part of different songs. Our choir practised each song and its choreography many times until they were mastered. It wasn’t until we arrived at the RAC Arena that afternoon that we had our first and only rehearsal as the One Big Voice Choir. Shortly after, their much loved family and friends arrived in the audience to witness an EPIC concert!

Songs chosen by the OBV Committee and OBV Director, Donna Marwick-O’Brien are songs that empower us and have a positive message. The One Big Voice Choir entertained us with 11 songs!

1. One Big Voice
2. Platypus
3. Words of Peace
4. Rain
5. A Tisket, A Tasket
6. High Hopes
7. We Believe in Music
8. Like a Bird
9. Can You Hear the Children Marching?
10. A Million Dreams
11. Unbreakable

A massive congratulations to each and every one of you from the school choir, for the way you represented Butler Primary School and your extraordinary performance of each and every song. I am one pretty proud and lucky music teacher!

And to our comperes Rori (Room 6) & Lottie (Room 8), and soloists Imogen (Room 8) & Sophie (Room 16) - you were superb! You amazed me with your exuberant speaking and beautiful singing. Nice one!

And lastly, thank you to our wonderful parent helpers Mrs Padley, Mrs Joubert and Mrs Masterman for giving us their time to assist with the day. Also, a huge shout-out and thank you to Ms Botma for being an amazing help to not only myself but the choir too. We couldn’t do any of it without any of you.

To buy the 20th Anniversary DVD or to purchase any other OBV merchandise click on the following link:

Professional photos can all be purchased at the link below.

Thank you and I look forward to OBV 2020!

Miss Jurgowiak
Music Teacher

From the Library

The library has been very busy during this term with student borrowing, class timetables and Book Week. The Pre-Primary and Kindy classes enjoyed their story time during book week with the book “Winston the Book Wolf’ being read to them by Winston himself!

These are some of the books we have recently purchased through our Book Request Box in the library. Students are invited to complete one of the request forms which we use to help us in our purchasing decision. Students who have requested books are the first to borrow them when they come in.

A gentle reminder for all students to return/renew their library books on their classroom library day. If students fail to return books, an invoice will be sent home for the replacement cost and they are unable to borrow until the book/s have been returned, replaced or the replacement costs paid for.

Mrs Dowrick & Mrs Pengelly

P&C News

25% OFF PERTH ROYAL SHOW TICKETS!!!

Right now, when you purchase tickets to the Perth Royal Show you can save 25% on your tickets! Plus, the P&C receive a portion of the proceeds towards our fundraising!

Don’t queue at the gate, buy and save online now at and enter our unique ONLINE CODE: Royalshow20108 to receive the offer!

Father’s Day Raffle

Congratulations to Cooper from D6 who won our Father’s Day Raffle! Thank you to all who supported our Father’s Day fundraising efforts.

Entertainment Books 2019/2020

Entertainment books are available in hard copy or digital. Purchasing a copy of the Entertainment book contributes to our fundraising. To order your copy, please follow this link below.

School Banking

School Banking is on Wednesdays. If you wish to find out more about school banking and join the program, please click on the link below.

Colgate Community Challenge – Help win a Community Garden for our School

Butler PS P&C is now collecting oral care waste to recycle through Terracycle. You can drop your old toothbrushes, empty floss containers plus empty toothpaste tubes and packaging in to a box that will be available in the undercover area every Wednesday. Points will be received for each piece collected. Further points can be available through voting for our school please click on this link for more information and voting:

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.

Please see below for the program of events for the September/October school holidays.

Kind regards
YCMA

YMCA FLYER

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

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 News

Little Athletics Program

Registrations for Little Athletics opened on Saturday 7th September and will open for seniors on Tuesday 1st October.

Maritime Day - Saturday, 2 November 2019

Wildcats Holiday Program

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